- 4 StlcS: Kitty gawk, lu c. 8-21-^ 63 . SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS 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 VOLUME XXVIII — NO. 33 WATER BOND REGISTRANTS FOR K.D.H. 119 MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1963 Single Copy 7^ Challenge Day Is February 16; $765,000 Bond Election on 23rd There will be 119 persons eli gible to vote in the forthcoming bond election in Kill Devil Hills, the Registrar, Mrs. Jean Perry Beacham, reports. Through last Saturday, which was the la.st day of a special 4-week regis tration peiiod, that many inter ested persons came forth to pre sent themselves as qualified vot ers for the election to be held February 23, to e.xercise their opinions on the propo.sed $705,- 000 water system. There are ap j)roximatcly twenty-one others who cauld have qualified them selves, but who did not, accord ing to the registrar. Speculation was that approxi mately 125 would come forth to register for this special election. Through the pi-evious week, 82 persons had come forth, which indicates that 37 persons, or bet ter than average for the preced ing three weeks, chose to regis ter during the last week. Chal lenge Day will be Feb. 1C. The election on February 23rd will answer the question pro posed by the Commissioners of the Town of Kill Devil Hills as to whether the public water system will be constructed and linancedfi according to plans. Proponents of the system point to the advantages avail able to the public through a mu nicipal water supply, and the resultant benefits available through fire insurance rate re ductions. •'BUCCANEER/' SECOND SEAL, DIES FRIDAY The .second of two seals which came ashore on the Dare Coast died Friday night of last week in the trunk of James Knowlton’s car in Raleigh. Knowlton, animal lover, had picked up the seal last Wednes day fi’om a Kitty Hawk motel swimming pool, and taken it to Chapel Hill, where it was placed in the care of a veterinarian. Knowlton had earlier taken the first seal along the same ])ath, but that one-Strangcr- died from multiple causes. Buccaneer had been pronounc ed in fair physical condition up on its arrival in Chapel Hill, where Dr. L. L. Vine treatecl the animal for lice, administered a shot for vitamin deficiency, and dclferrcd tratment for heart worms. THIS FACE WILL BE MISSING IN SUMMER WHEN THE LOST COLONY REOPENS FRAFFIC LIGHT TO BE PLACED AT TROUBLE SPOT NO VALUE SEEN IN EXTENSION OF OYSTER SEASON CLIFTON BRITTON, 52, long time director of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony at Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Lsland, died Sun day, February 10, in a Gold.sboro rest home, following a lingering mu.scular disease. Mr. Britton became associated with The Lost Colony in 1947 a.s .stage manager, when the show was being dircctecl by Dr. Samuel Selden. He later became associate director and in 1966 full-time director, which position he held continuously except for one year when he was in Hollywood studying drama writing. In the summer of 1962 he obtained a leave of absence because of illness. A graduate of East Carolina College where he received both B.A. and M.A. degrees, Mr. Britton has been head of the drama department in Goldsboro High School since 1942, and has taught and directed The Gold- masquers, Goldsboro High School drama group which has time after time won top na tional honors in the drama field. For a number of years he di rected his own play, “The Shep herd’s Song,’’ given in Golds boro each year at Christmas time, and which attracted thou sands of visitors from all over the country. He had written many other plays, among them “Unto the Least of These.’’ writ ten for and about the Shriners and performed for them and dedicated to them last year by the Goldmasqucrs when the Shriners held their convention See BRITTON, Page Four IN DARE RECORDER'S COURT SPEEDING, THEFT. ASSAULT. NON-SUPPORT CASES TUESDAY Teen-age driving infractions were a major issue in Dare County Recorder’s Court Tues day, when Ben Midgctt, 17-year- old Wanchesc youth, was found guilty of driving 90 m.p.h. in a 55 zone on two offenses. Mid- gett had been charged along with three other area teen-age «1 rivers of exceeding the speed limit by substantial amounts and/or careless and reckless driving. The case grew out of arrests on the night of February 9th, by State Highway Patrolman H. W. Pridgen. Young Midgett was one of the drivers in a car avan of four automobiles .seen traveling at a high rate of speed in south Nags Head, and accord ing to testimony by Pridgen, the autos were brought to a halt near Whalebone intersec tion. Traveling with Pridgen was Dare Deputy George Frank who assisted, and while two of the drivers were being questioned, Midgctt and the driver of an other car, James Bernard Baker, backed away from the scene and proceeded north on By-Pass 168, in an attempt to avoid involve ment. Deputy Frank remained at the intersection, while Pridgen gave chase to the other two vehicles and after attaining a speed of 90 m.p.h., making several turns, the other drivers were located, parked—lights out—and as Mid gett cxplaified to the court “in hopes that the patrolman would pass by.” The other three youths sub mitted and paid fines as fol lows: James Bernard Baker, 17, charged with speeding 90 m.p.h. in 65 zone, also careless and reckless driving, 1115 plus court cdBta of 111.20. This also brought revocation of drivel's li- ense for one year. Vernon Feryl Gallop, 18, speeding 70 m.p.h., $16 and court costs of $8.70. Joe Franklin Love, 16, speed ing 70 m.p.h., $15 and court costs. Midgctt, who was also charg ed with careless and reckless driving, was fined $100 on the speeding charge and had license revoked for one year. Other charges against him were drop- See COUItT, Page Four Approximately 100 Attend Meeting At Mannt Har bor Friday Approximately 100 commercial fishermen gathered in Manns Harbor Friday to discuss prob lems facing various phases of the industry in general and the oyster industry in particular. Robert L. Stallings, Jr., di rector of the Department of Con servation and Development, Com mercial Fisheries Committee Chairman Eric Rodgers and members Lorimer Midgctt and Warnie Gurkin; and an indus try advisory committee compos ed of Garland Fulcher, Oriental, Clyde Potter, Belhavcn, and Ralph Meekins, Wanchese, con ducted the meeting. When asked if the oystermen would like an extension of the season due to unfavorable wea ther that has hampered tonging and dredging for the bivalves this winter, Haivey Best of Stumpy Point said, “We have not had an oyster season this year—not because of weather but because,’’ and he emphasized the fact, “our oystei's are gone.” He was one of several oyster- men present who claimed that the big need was to plant shells to create new oyster beds on oyster rocks that have become depleted. Carson Hooper, Wallace Gray, Melvin R. Daniels, Milton Hoop er, Jesse Etheridge and several See MEET, Page Four JAMBORAMA PLANS ARE SHAPING FOR APRIL-MAY Events Mhodulcil for three „tt,„eied of four Dare Const Pirate Jam- thousands of persons to the borama week ends planned for world’s biggest free salt water April 20, May 4 and May 11 fish fry, buccaneer dances, were announced at a meeting of Coast Guard demonstrations, committees headei by Lionel beach buggy race.9 and fishing Edwards, but nothing definite contests. Mrs. Ormond Fuller of was brought forth for April 27, Buxton, and Stockton Midgett which previously had been stat- of Hatteras have been named to ed, would include the Hatteras plan for the island phases of the Island phases of the 1963 vaca-' tion launching. Due to the current transpor tation facilities available result ing from the Ash Wednesday Storm Inlet problems, the resi dents of lower Hatteras Island have not yet indicated whether John Mitchell Succeeds R. L. Payne As Night Policeman; Street Paving Considered The Town Commissioners of the Town of Manteo, meeting Monday, voted to erect two large signs of Welcome, one at the northern boundai-y and one at the southern boundary of the town, the signs to be in place in time to greet summer visitors. The board also di.scussed hard- sui'facing all unpaved streets in the town. After the meeting adjounied, figures were received from George Mack, highway engineer for the N. C. Highway Commi.ssion on grading, shaping and draining same. Only 1.56 miles of unpaved streets remain in the town, according to figures realea.sed by Mrs. Juanita Park er, clerk to the board. Action will be taken on this matter later, as the estimates arrived too late for the meeting. Of prime impoi-tance to im proving the safety of the driv ing and walking public is the move to install a traffic signal at the interesection of Lodge Street and highways 64 and 264. This has been needed for many months, and Mrs. Parker was instructed by the board to write to the N. C. Highway Depart ment and request the installa tion. * S. C. Basnight was authorized to deliver 50 loads of dirt and grade same in place on First Street. John Mitchell was appointed night policeman, to replace Ro bert L. Payne, resigned. All members of the board were present, in addition Mayor G. T. Wescott and attorney Jlar- tin Kellogg, Jr. NEED FOR C. G. FACILITIES V IN BELHAVEN TOLD Present Plans Would Consoli date Hobucken, New Bern and Belhaven Approximately 100 persons gathered in the John A. Wilkin son School auditorium in Bel haven last Wednesday evening to publicly make an appeal to Coast Guard officials to retain its facility at Belhaven. Slayor James Younce presided over the meeting and presented Cmdr. C. H. Jurgens, Chief of Aids to Navigation service and Cmdr. Ward R. Turner repre senting the Coast Guard. Cmdr. Jurgens said the pur pose of consolidating Hobucken, New Bern and Belhaven stations was to save money. The Com mander stated that he felt the people had not utilized the heli copter seivice out of Elizabeth City in the past. However he was impressed with the local meetings and would take local views to the Admiral. Dr. W. T. Ralph, speaking on behalf of the delegation, said his thinking was based on 15 or 20 years actual experience with the Coast Guard where hundi'cds of boats of varied sizes pass through the Inland Waterway each month. He also pointed out that we have one of the largest crabbing operations on the East coast, and that North Carolina licensed 600 shrimping boats in Pamlico Sound last year. Dr. Ralph pointed out the services rendered by the Coast Guard during hur ricanes, which from time to time have brushed our shores, is most valuable, and that a unit placed at a greater distance would be of little value as com munications are so poor that a message could not be gotten through. Dr. E. G. Winstead and other speakers pointed out that Coast Guard seivice west of Washing See NEED, Page Four DIST. GOV. CANDIDATE HEADS ROTARY GROUP WRIGHT INDICTED FOR $27,585.66 BY FED. GRAND JURY Former Manleo Bank Teller Ex- peefed to be Tried At May Term in Elizabeth City John Roboi't Wright, former note teller with the Bank of Manteo (now Plantei-s National Bank & Trust Co.) was indicted on an embezzlement charge by a Federal grand jury in Raleigh Tuesday. According to the indictment, Wright embezzled amounts from $400 to $1800 on 26 different oc- ca.sions in 1901 and 1902. The 27th count charges Wright with making false entries totaling .$27,585.00. Wright, former Marine and a native of Texas, was charged in mid-September with making LIQUOR-MAKING OPERATION BROUGHT TO A STANDSTILL IN HYDE COUNTY THIS WEEK Apparently Managed By Dare County Inter ests, Four Men Found on Scene; Arrests Made and Whiskey Still Destroyed; One Hundred and Fifty Gallons of "Whife Lightning" On Hand. The supply of bootleg hootch is going to be curtailed in some quarters, at least temporarily, as I'fc.sult of a raid by Federal ATU, State and local officers in the evening hours of Tueslay, Feb. 12. A distillery operation, which reportedly had been going on for some time, and untler WALLACE II. McCOWN fraudulent entries in the bank’s!observation for several weeks, Rotarians from Manteo to Murphy in North Carolina, seven other states, and seven teen foreign lands, paid tribute to their President, Nitish C. La- harry, of Calcutta, India, and welcomed him to North Carolina on Monday night, February 11th, at a banquet held at the records to the extent of $16,615,'was rudely bi'oken up in an all and embezzlement of $1,100 at that time. He was arraigned before U S. Commissioner Thomas Gallop in Elizabeth City, at which time night act by agents at a site approximately a mile west of Long Shoal River between Stumpy Point and Engelhard. Arrested near the scene was he waived preliminary hearingi William Gray, 49, of Stumpy and was placed under .$750 bond.'Point, and a 17-year old youth The new figure of $27,585.66 who fled at a high rate of speed was concluded after a thorough, in a mid fifty model Cadillac, Winston-Salem Coliseum, wi t h investigation of records by bank, and was apprehended near En- fourteen hundred Rotarians and adies in attendance. The four Rotary Districts of North Carolina, joined together for the finst “all-North Caro lina” Rotary meeting ever held in the State. “Pat” Gilchri.st, a Director of Rotary Intel-national for Zone 4, .southea.stern United States, was the Master of Ceremonies, for a program which included music by the Salem College Choir, remarks by Past Presi dent of Rotary International, “Buzz” Tennett of Asheville, North Carolina, and a stirring introduction of President La- harry by Secretary of Com merce, Luther Hodges, himself examiners and FBI personnel, gelhard. The Cadillac, according The bank lost no money, how ever, .since insurance carried re paid the losses. The case is expected to be heard in Federal court at the May term, in Elizabeth City, with Fir.st District Judge John D, Larkins, Jr. presiding. NEW LOST COLONY MGR. LOOKS TO SHOW OPENING Mr. and Mrs. John W. Fox of Raleigh are in Manteo this week, making advance preparations for the 1963 opening of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony at Wat erside Theatre on Roanoke Is land. Mr. Fox is the newly ap- a former Di.strict Governor, and j pointed manager of the drama. Director of Rotary Intemation- and is trying to become nc- quainted with as many local peo ple as possible. He and Mrs. Fox plan to move to Roanoke Island in the near future. al. President Laharry spoke to a rapt audience, as he wove his See ROTARY, Page Four BEGINS MARCH 3 JAMES B. MYERS TO BE NEW PARK SERVICE HEAD Jatnborama this year. Tentative plans include the following: April 20—Selection of new king and queen; buffet dinner with all participants in pirates or colonial costumes and the they would able to participate, m the events of the April-May Manteo, are co-chairmen Jamborama. KITTY HAWK BOY SCOUTS PREPARING CAMPSITE “If the inlet is refilled and if the State builds a highway in time to have traffic moving to Buxton and Hatteras by April, of this first week end of events. May 4—Colorful events for this week end will include the pirate landing and battle, in Manteo hai-bor; Costume judg- it is believed the phases of the jng and treasure hunts for chil- Jamborama originally planned d,.cn and a teen-age Dagger for the island on April 27, will Dance at the Dare County be staged as in past years," Ed- shrine Club, Joe Pool, Manteo wards said. Hie Hatteniai phases of Pirate and Mrs. Margaret Davis, Kitty Bee EVENTS, Page Faw ’The Kitty Hawk Boy Scout Troop, under the leadership of Scoutmaster Shelby Hines, is busy preparing a campsite on Colington Island, with hopes of using it in the near future and of also having it in shape to offer visiting Scouts as a camp site. Mr. Hines has been offered assistance from the men of Navy Duck, who have taken an interest in the Scouts and their projects. The main goal of the Scouts for the next month will be working to achieve the various classes of scouting. Approxi mately 20 boys belong to the troop, and they plan a camping trip sometime in early March. The appointment of James B. Myers as superintendent of Capo Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, was announced today by the Department of the Interior. Myers, who will report to his new post March 3, comes to Cape 'Hatteras from Gettys burg, Pennsylvania, where he has served as superintendent of the Gettysburg National Mili tary Park since 1958. He suc ceeds N. Reese Smith, recently appointed Chief Engineer for the Park Service’s Eastern Of fice of Design and Construction at Philadelphia. A native of Mount Sidney, Augusta County, Ya., Myers holds an A. B. degree from Bridgewater College, Bridge- water, Va. and has also complet ed graduate work at the Univer sity of Virginia. His Park Serv ice career began in 1937 as a clerk in the Southeast Regional Office in the accounting and payroll sections. From 1942 to 1946 Myers was on active duty with the U. S. Navy winning a Bronze Star Medal for his sen’ices directing naval gunfire in support of the Seventh Infantry Division dur ing World W.ir II operations at Okinawa. Returning to the Park Service afer the war, he ad vanced to property and equip ment supervisor before he was appointed in 1948 as custodian and later superintendent of Ma- nasscs National Battlefield Park at Manna.s.sus, Va., where he served until his promotion and transfer to superintendent of the House of Franklin D. Robscvclt & Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Sites, Wyde, Park, N. Y. in 1956. KITTY HAWK PTA WILL MEET ON FEBRUARY 21 The Kitty Hawk PTA will meet in the school auditorium at eight o’clock Thursday night, February 21, and all mcmbei's are urged to attend. A Founders Day program will be presented NEW NATURALIST ASSUMES DUTIES AT C.H. SEASHORE Bruce Black, a veteran of some 20 years work with Na tional Park Sei-viee installations in various parts of the country, arrived recently to assume dut ies as Naturalist for Cape Hat teras National Seashore. Hej comes to the Outer Banks from Crater Lakes National Park, in south-central Oregon, at the crest of Cascade Mountains. Black is a native of Baker- field, Calif., and his wife, the former Barbara Birch, is from Whittier, Calif. They have four children, three of whom entered Manteo Schools this week. ’The Blacks arc residing at Bodie Is land in one of the Park Service personnel houses. In this regard, Black noted this week their surprise at being located so near the surf. “They told us we would be close to the ocean, but we didn’t realize the breakers would be at our door,” he ex claimed. 'He began p.art-timc work with Park Sei-viee install.ntions in the early forties, and has been con- tinuou.sly employed since 1948. For a while he was a.ssigned to duties at Joshua Tree National Monument in the Mohave Des ert, but for the past seven years Sec SEASHORE, Page Four to reports, had its motor burned up by the time it reached En gelhard, some 12 miles from the site of the -still, 0(ricer.s began their raid around sunset Tuesday after noon, and observed four persons active in the whiskey making operation. Whereabouts of the other two had not been ascer tained at this report, but inves tigating officers believe they fled into the swamp woodsland sur rounding the distillery operation. Little did the average motor ist concern himself when pass ing through this desolate stretch between Engelhard in Hyde County and Stumpy Point in Dare, but could have, for the manufacturing was being done just a scant hundred yards or so from U. S. Highway 264. One hundred and eighty gal lons of merchandise was pre pared, ready for shipment, and reports indicate that the fluid had been bringing upwards of twelve dollars a gallon, with ready markets available in east ern Virginia. Only token amounts of “moonshine” have been noted in the Hyde and Dare County arca.s recently, but it i.s believed that the source was the now-disrupted operation. Unconfirmed rumors say that the liquor was of good quality. Participating in the raid were four Federal ATU officers, from several eastern N. C. of fices; 1 roving state ABC agent; and Donovan Twyne, Dare County ABC officer, who was called to aid the Federal agents, since it was believed that Dave I County connections existed. William Gray was ai'rested at approximately 6 a.m. Wednesday morning, and the younger man somewhat later following Uie flight westward. The still was in full operation during Tuesday evening, according to investigat ing offiers. Charges have been made against Gray, and he was given a preliminai-y hearing in Wash ington Wednesday befora U- S. Commissioner Jennette H. At- more. He was bound over to U. S. Eastern District Court under $500 bond, and later released, on charges of illegal possession and operating a still illegally. The still discovered Tuesday night was described as a 100- gallon steam rig with 300 gal lon boiler, six 400-gallon mash vats, four 00-gallon mash bar rels, and with 1300 gallons of mash at the site. Mash capacity was estimated at 2500 gallons. A dynamiting operation was performed about 3 p.m. Wodnes- Scc LIQUOR, Page Four BOTTLE COMES ASHORE LONELY HEARTS MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE THIS ITEM There are many messages | is the notation “I am received via the ocean’s strength.now Norfolk 1962 Sept.” during the year along the coast, | Nici, by his expression in let- but one retriewed this week ter form, may offer some pros- from the surf on the northern of the lonely heart club, and the information herewith is furnish ed to accelerate this effort. Any INLET SAID TO BE HOLDING AT lOO-FOOT WIDTH Park Service Relieves Volunteer Efforts to Stabilize South Shore extremities of Dare, may pro vide unusual results. It had apparently been tossed further information will be sup- overboard by a handsome Greek by this newspaper, as it and plans will be presented and youth, Scarlotos Nici, who gave | becomes available. ^ The letter plans will be announced for a his home address as 18 Samou photo are on display at our barbecue dinner to be held Street, AYO Dafni, A thenesji^f^'^teo office. March 2 from 6:30 until eight Greece, and Nici, employed by I ’The message came ariiore o’clock. The price will be $1 per the Triton Shipping Co. of 26 near Caffeys Inlet and was re- The problem of combatting erosion has .apparently been solved at the Buxton inlet, and the project is termed generally as “holding its own” while awaiting the sen’ices of the sec ond dredge “Enterpi'ise” which is digging its channel into the scene. The National Park Service early in the week relieved the volunteer workers who had la bored under difficult weather conditions in the sandbagging operation designed to halt ero sion on tile .south shore. D. S. Gardner, chief of op erations for the Army Engineers in Wilmington, was in Dare County Wednesday doing ad vance recoiinaisance on how the dredges will be positioned after the Entei’iirise reaches the site. -Mr. Gardner expressed himself as pleased with the work done by the volunteers in the matter of erosion. The Entei’iirise, Mr. Gardner explained, should be in position about Sunday and be gin pumping Monday or Tues day. Accompanying Mr. Gardner to the scene were Ray Rundell, acting superintendent of Cape Hatteras National Seashore; Dennis AIcGinnls, the park’s su pervisory enginoering techni cian; and Edward Nash, park engineer. Also present W’ere W. S. Winslow, State Highway Com mission bridge engineer special ist; Bill Bragg of the State Highway Commission; and other State officials. County Commis sioner George Fuller was also there. FOX HUNT GETS GOOD START ON THURS. MORNING Several excellent run.s plus two kills were made during the opening hour of the i6th annual Nags Head Valentine Season Fox Hunt, Thursday morning as many jeeps, trucks and autos loaded with hunters trailotl the hounds that were trailing the foxes. The hounds and the liuntera came from Oxford, Greenville, Suffolk and other sectors of eastern North Carolina and Vir ginia. First Kills, and inital runs were made in the Wlialebone Junction area of lower Nags Head w’here there have been re ports of foxes being caught by inuski-at and otter trappers re cently. The w’cather was perfect for the beginning of the hunt, a situation which in past years has not always been perfect. Of the hundreds or more hunters thei'e arc many women in the group ivho are seasoned followers of the chase. Heading the group is Chand ler Watkins of Oxford who be- Sec HUNT, Page Four DRIVE NEARS $1(M)0 GOAL FOR ROANOKE ISLAND M.D. plate, and takc-out orders can be filled. Other plans for the evening are in the offing. Broadway Street, New York, 4, covered from its bottle contain- N. Y., wants to correspond with er by 12-year-old Ronnie Beach- an American girl. On back of the am of Kill Devil Hills, son of photogi'aph accompanying the Mrs. Jean Perry Beacham. A total of $963.48 has been turned in to the 1963 March of Dimes fund by Mrs. Abe Sobel, Roanoke Island chairman. Mrs. Sobel expresses herself as high ly appreciative of the hard work which has been done by her co workers in raising this amount. Donors not previously listed ore as follows; R. D. Sawyer Motor Co., $10; Roaonke Island Gardens, $10; Dare County Shrine Club $50; Pioneer Thea tre, $5; Alda’s Beauty Shop, $1;. Roanoke Laundry, $3; Burrus Self-Service Food Center, $5.' Additional Mothers’ March collectors have turned in the fol lowing: Mrs. R. D. Sawyer,'Jr., $35.50; Mrs. Rose Smzadja, $17. 46; Mrs. George Creef, $3.05; Ml’S. Caleb Goodwin, $11.77; Mrs. John B. Etheridge and Mrs. Reuben Etheridge, $S.15; Mrs. Joe Dowdy, $6.60; and Mra.' Ivey M. Evans, $16J20. ‘ ,

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