D^vl4 StlcS: Kitty 8-21-^^ 63 - 0, SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS THE COASTLAND TIMES MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO. N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS 12 Pages In 2 Sections 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 Page I through 6 VOLUME XXVIII — NO. 38 MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 22. 1963. Single Copy 7^ ACTIVE CHARTER MEMBERS PUSHING MANTEO ROTARIANS OFFERING McCOWN FOR DIST. GOVERNOR VOTERS AT NAGS HEAD TO REGISTER CLIPPING LATE IN LIFE A REBER FAMILY TRAIT Manteo Rotarians, who for' the first time are offering a oandidate for District Governor of District 771, including clubs from Manteo to Burlington and Yanceyvi lie in the West, were inspired to a “March to Wilson’’ Jlonday Night, when all of the active charter members of the Jlanteo iCub pledged their sup port for Wallace H. JIcCowan for the post, and attendance at the Conference, {March 24 and ,2.5th together with practically | J00% of the Manteo Club, 'riioi charter membei’s are Martin i Kellogg, Jr., Dr. W. W. John.s-| ton; John Ferebee; D. Victor Meekins; Finest K. Meekins; I.j 1*. Davis (first president of the, Manteo Club) and C. S. Meekins. President George Whitfielil announced that Rotarians, tak ing their Rotary Anns are as follows: Wally and Sue McCown, Lawrence and Ollie Bell Swain; Ralph and Virginia .Swain; Wal lace and Margaret Gray; Ray and Helen Rundell; Linwood and Kdna Cuthrell; Willis and Jlellie Pearce; George and Klizabeth Whitfield; Stanford and Grace White. Other Rotar ians attending will be Rev. •Harold I.eatherman; R. S. (Bob) Smith; Julian Oneto; Harold Glynn, Ray Jones, Archie Bur- rus, R. D. Sawyer A Caravan leaving early .Sun day morning will arrive in Wil son for a luncheon, and register for the Conference during the afternoon at the Wilson Recre ation Park Community Center, conference headquarters. The .Manteo Rotarians are planning a number of special events for the Conference in their big effort to elect a candidate for District Governor, the election will take place Mon day afternoon, and the Governor inominee will be officially elected along with 270 other District Governors from all over the world, at the Rotary’s Interna tional Convention in St. Louis, Mi.ssouri. Representatives from 38 other Rotary Clubs from North Cen tral and North Eastern North Carolina will bo in attendance at the Conference. The meeting is designed, according to Presi dent George Whitfied, to review Rotary .activities of the year, and make jilans for increasing the effectiveness of Rotary sendee during the coming year. President of Rotary Inter national, Nitish C. L.aharry, of Calcutta India, will be presented 'at the conference by Gends S. Bratiy of Canton, Ohio. Sunday night speakers will include also Sam Rundy, noted humorist of Farmville. Monday’s program will fea ture a Rotary Foundation Fol low, Garaddon Rowlands, from England, studying at a college within the District. Following the elections on Monday Afternoon, present Governor C. B. Martin, of the Tarboro Club will preside at the Govemor’s Banquet, his last of ficial function of a highly suc cessful year in the District. Edmund Harding, of Washing ton, N. C., the Tarhe.al Humor ist, Past District Governor of • Rotary, and familiar friend in the Outer Banks area, will be featured speaker Monday eve ning. Harding, incidentally, was the speaker at Mantco’s Charter Night, January 11, 1037, and its Candidates for Town Commis sioner Posts Also To File By April 1st yis w ' 1 .# Despite the bill which has been entered in the Legislature to amend election provisions of the charter of the Town of Nags Head, the governing board of the town in late session Thursday afternoon, began prep arations to follow instructions as had been establi.shed in the original bill which created the town in lOGl. WALLACE ll. .McCOWN 25111 Anniver.sar.v dinner held la.«t .vear, and of cour.se will be i a particularly enjoyable part of the program for those attend ing from JIanteo. DRIVE UNDERWAY FOR MEMBERSHIP IN WATER GROUP There had been considerable speculation whether the town board would follow provisions of the origin.al act, in view of the bill at present in the Lcgi.‘>la- turo which would provide a more usual method of filing, regis tration and actual balloting. In view of the many queries regarding the election machin ery as originally established, we aie reprinting, verbatim, the section of the charier dealing with this phase of the town. We quote: liLick Etheridge of Wanches?, who is .soliciting for niember- .sliip in the Dai-c County Water ways Improvement Committee, announced that only twenty-four hoiir.s after he had begun col lecting momber.ships he obtained twenty supporters in the Wan- chese area. The mcmber-sliip drive is a step toward obtaining the new depth of twenty-one feet the Committee is asking for the channels leading to Wanchese and across the bar to Manteo. The cost of membership in the organization is $2 for individ uals and $10 for businosse.s. Etheridge says that he expects a total exceeding 75 area mem bers, and that he sees no reason why the movement will not spread just as rapidy through out the entii'o county. “People who subscribe to the Daiv County Tourist Bureau ought to be just as enthusiastic about the Improvement Com mittee.’’ Etheridge said. “Al though I am a staunch support er of the Tourist Bureau, I real ize that the fishing industry c.an he equally or more improtant in the future.’’ He pointed out that, the smallest of fishing boats is worth $20,000 and that some ex ceeded $80,000. He drew a par allel with some of the motels on the beach that ai-e worth com- panible sums, .and said, that when some forty valuable ves sels arc docked in local harbors, the boost to business would be tremendous. “Sec. 4. In the last week of May, 1903, and biennially there after, the Governor of the State of North Carolina .shall appoint five cominissioner.s for the Town of Nags Head, who shall be sworn in as such commis sioners as soon after such ap pointment as is possible, by any person authorized to administer oaths, and shall take ollice on June 1st, the date upon which their respective terms begin; provided, the Governor shall con- i sider for appointment to fill said offices those persons who shall be recommended to him and shall be selected as follows: NO, THIS ISN’T A FUTURE BEAUTY QUEEN gelling her locks clipped. It’s a boy, the throo-yoar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Rebel- of Wancho.se, getting his first haircut. The stoic look you see on his face is no act. After some preliminary qualms, the little fellow submitted quietly to the unaccustomed shears. His name is David Bradford Roller, or “Braddy,” and like most of the Rebel- men, he is receiving his first clipping late in life. His father and bis twenty-one-year-old brother both wore their long curls until the age of five. Braddy’s nephew, slightly older Christopher Reher, received his first haircut only a few days earlier. Tlie tonsoi-ial arti.st is Tom Rii.s.sell of Manteo, who has been at the busine.ss of making men better groomed for thirty- odd years. Braddy’s mother is shown in the ibackground. TIMES HAVE CHANGED. BUT AUTO'S ADVENT SEEMS RECENT TO WANCHESE OCTOGENARIAN SAND FENCE CONTRACT AWARDED N. Y. FIRM AT C. H. NAT’L PARK Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner announced today that he has been advised by the National Park Service of the Department of Interior that a contract in the amount of $214162.82 has been awarded to Buffalo Fence Company, Inc., Kenmore 17, Now York, for sand fence for Cape Hatteras Seashore Park. MANY PEOPLE PONDER HOW TO TRAVEL WESTWARD IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION Following last week’s publi cation regarding the new one way street system in Manteo, many citizens have wondered how to travel westward in an easterly direction. This, need less to say, would be a difficult task. The correct information is as •follows: both County and Main Streets will run eastward from the highway into town. County Street will continue as far as Bay Street, where it v/ill re sume as a two-way artery, while Main Street will connect with Water Street. An an nouncement of the date of the now system will follow the next Manteo Town mteting. The congestion problem in Manteo is a growing pain, and news of the town’s plans has been received with some degree of jubilation. It is hoped that .no injurious mishaps occur due ' io the situation, while prepara tions are being made for the remedy. HEALTH CLINICS FOR HYDE PRE-SCHOOLERS Hyde County’s annual pre school health clinic will be held at the Swan Quarter Health De partment on the following .dates: We.st Hyde, March 26th; ,0. A. Peay, April 2nd; East Hyde, April 9th; Davis, April 23rd and 30th. Parents are asked to bring the child’s birth certificate and complete im munization recoi-d. EAST HYDE SENIORS TO PRESENT PLAY ON 29TH The senior class of East Hyde High School in Engelhard will hold one perfoi-mance of its class play {March 29th, at 7:30 'PM. 'hic play is entitled “This Ghost Business’*. Admission is fifty cents for adults and twenty-five cents for students. This is the only per formance that will be given. “(a) On or before the first day of April, 1963, and biennial ly thereafter, any qualified vot er or nonresident freeholder de siring to become a candidate for Commis.sionor of the Town of Nags Head .shall file with the clerk of said town their peti tion for such office, signed by at least three freeholders or legal residents of said town. “(b) All qualified voters and all nonresident freeholders, in order to be eligible to cast a ballot in the municipal election, must be registered in the Town of Nags Head. Registration books shall be open for registra tion of voters on the last two | Saturdays of March each year. “(c) On or before the 15th day of April, 1963, and bien nially thereafter, there shall be forwai-dcd by the Clerk of the Town of Nags Head, a ballot to every registered nonresident freeholder at their last known address and to registered legal residents of said town, said bal lot containing the names of the persons so filing for the above- stated offices. The ballots shall be properly marked as designat ed, and notarized by any person authorized to administer oaths and returned to the Chairman of the County Board of Elec tions of Dare County in a sealed envelope not later than six o’clock P.M. on the Tuesday fol lowing tlie first Monday in May, 1963, and biennially thereafter, said ballots to be then opened and tabulated at seven thirty o’clock P.M., on said Tuesday, in the office of the Clerk of the Town of Nags Head by the Chairman of the Dare County Hoard of Elections, said open ing being public. The five per sons receiving the highest num ber of votes for the office of commissioner shall be recom mended for said office and upon appointment .shall seiwe for a term of four years, or until their successors are duly ap pointed and qualified; provided, however, that at the Municipal election to be held in May, 1963, the thive commi.ssioncrs appoint ed who received the largest number of votes shall serve for a term of four years and the other two commissiners appoint ed shall ser%'e for a term of two years. Thereafter, all com missioners duly appointed shall serve for a term of two yeare, until their successors are duly ajipointed and qualified. “Such commissioners shall elect from among their number one person to be mayor, who shall serve for a term of two years, or until his successor is duly appointed and qualified. “When the ballots have been opened and tabulated as herein above provided, the Clerk of the Town of Nags Head and the Chairman of the Dare County Board of Elections shall imme diately forward to the Governor of the State of North Carolina the result of said balloting Sec ELECTION. Page Four Most of us can’t remember how things were on the island before the invention of automo biles, telephones and electric lights. A look at how things have changed was given us by Mrs. Eloazor Tillott of Wan chese. Mrs. Tillelt, at eighty- eight, is the oldest lady in Wan chese. after dark. Mrs. Tillott has lived through the years when more technical progress was made by human beings than in all the centurie.s before. But peope are still the same, aren’t they Mrs. Tillott? And may you still be with us at the end of eigkty-eight more. Bom in 1875, .she spent her first .six years on Roanoke Is land, then moving to Bodie Is land, where her father, Peter Gallop, was the lighthouse keep er. Mr.s. Tillett recalls that in tliose days tlic beacon was kept burning by neither electricity nor kemsene, but a kind of cnide lard oil. Two years were spent there, while the tutoring of her sisters and herself was done by a traveling teacher from the is land. When she was eight, her family returned to Wanchese, where she has lived ever since. In 1896 she was marricfl to a local fi.sherman, Charles Tillett. He worked in the area until his death in 1941. The couple had eight children, four sons and four daughters. The Tilletts owned the first telephone in Wanchese, and Mrs. 'Tillett re members when lightning struck the wires and crackled down in side the house, scaring everyone, but without damage. Her cousins owned the first automobile in the area, and whon asked if she remembered when they were first invented, she laughed and said, “That doesn’t seem very long ago at all.” She remcmhor.s especially well when the sound froze over one winter, and she and several others Walked to the beach over the ice. There were no bridges in those days, and a trip to Elizabeth City and back took a period of days. With no roads and not even an automobile to drive if there were, a trip to the mainland was quite an adven ture. One of the unforgctable moments in her life was a ship wreck that oceuiTcd when she was a child at the lightliouse NEARLY $500 FOR ELIZ. CITY BAND RAISED IN DARE Token O'f Appreciation for In valuable Services Rendered at Dare Functions OPPOSITION TO NEW P. O. SITE MOUNTS Southern Nags Head Interests Begin Campaign to Change New Building Site Mounting opposition to the location cho.«en for the new Nags Head Post Office is ap parent among residents of the soiithein portion of Nag.s Head, and at a meeting Wednesday afternoon, forces were being organized to block, at least temporarily, postal o f f c i a 1 s’ plans to go ahead with con.stnic- tion at tlie Hollowel! Avenue site. Aivhie Burru.s, .spokesman for the group, stated that tho.se at tending the meeting were “in full accord’’ in the proposal to! got further attf/ntion paid their | requests for a more central loca- ENTERPRISE” LEAVES SITE OF BUXTON INLET; PROGRESS BEING MADE IN ROAD WORK Second Dredge Expected to Depart Next Week at Completion of Fill Work; High way Promised by Easter Week End; Work Underway Already on Road Bed; Island Accommodations Expected to Experience Favorable Patronage. SEN. MIDGETT OFFERS REDISTRICTING BILL Mrs. M. K. Fearing, Jr. of Jlantco has announced that her .soliciting for the Elizabeth City High School Band had resulted in a total of $494.70. Mrs. Fear ing had been aiding the Band to sponsor a trip to St. Peters burg, Florida, to participate in the Festival of States, Tuesday, March 26. The Elizabeth City group was chosen to represent North Carolina in the p.qgcant, which will include bands from every state. JIrs. Fearing said that Jliles Clark of Elizabeth City usually financed the group’s road trips, but that this year, .she thought Dare County should contribute to show gratitude for the timc.s they appeared in the Lost Colo ny and the Pirates Jainhoree. Local teenagers held a dance last Saturday night for fund raising, and added $49.70 to the total Contributions were made by local businesses and individ uals. Although the Virginian- Pilot published a statement that the Dare County Commissioners had donated $250, the actual amount was $25. Other major contributors were the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce, the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society, and tlie Dare Coast Pirates Jamhorama. tion. Biirriis indicated that legal J; counsel will he retained, and that “only a fair hearing and reasonable treatment” is ex pected in the matter. Until now, there has been no public hearng on the proposal for a new build ing, and the only official ap proval has been in the form of a nod from the Nags Head Town Board. | While the opposition foices were being organized, a news reIoa.se dated March 6, apparent ly withheld until last week’s town board go-ahead signal, was sent from the Greensboro real e.statc division of the Po.st Of fice Department, .stating that the department sought competi tive bids to build and lease the new facility, at the Hollowell Avenue location. Deadline for .submission of bids is 2 p m. .April 8. It is apparent from the bid ding information submit ted, that plans of the department may extend into the future some 30' years in respect to the next new building for Nags Head. Till' basic lease agreement would be for ten years, with four 5- yoar renewal options. At the meeting on Wednc.stlay, it was pointed out that the Hol lowell Avenue location is only 2-1/10 miles from the Kill Devil Hills town line, and just 3-5/10 miles south of the present Kill Devil Hills po.st office. From the proposed site to the south ern extremities of Nags Head, it is 9-0/10 miles. In addition to Burriis, attend- Scc I’. O., Page Six $322,000 LOAN IS APPROVED FOR EMC AT CAPE HATTERAS with her father. Tlie “Success” was the ship, from which the Captain and mate emerged un hurt to stay with them at tlie lighthouse. Although this office has no record of such a ship, the vessels barometer still exists. Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner announced today that he has been advised that an REA Loan in tlie amount of $322,000 has been approved for the Cape Hat teras Electric Membership Cor poration of Buxton. The President of this Corpor ation is Mr. E. P. White, and the Acting Manager is Mr. Zane Gray. Congressman Bonner stated that tills loan will be used to install 1150 KW Diesel Generat ing Unit and related f.ncilities; to constrtict 20 miles of distribu tion line to sert’e 150 new rural consuniei’s and to finance gen eral improvements and to con struct a new headquarters build ing. MANTEO SENIORS TO BEGIN TRIP APRIL 11 SPECIAL SERVICES AT EAST LAKE SUN. P.M. The public has been cordially invited to attend special serv- ice.s Sunday afternoon at East Lake Methodi.st Church, begin- ' ning at 3 p.m., when choirs from and bears the name “Success • on Roanoke Island and Mrs. Tillett lives in her own Manns Harbor have been invited home with her daughter, Mrs. to participate Dora Hay man. From her mar riage have come not only her children, but thirteen grand children, thirty-six great-grand- Rev. L. A. Smith.son, pastor, welcomes all, nienibera, visitors and friends to attend Sunday afternoon, when iMantco Meth- Clai-ence Butler, Principal of Manteo High School, has an nounced that the annual senior trip will begin April 11th and continue through April 15th. About thirty students will make the trip to Washington, D. C., and New York City, where they will stay in hotels. Some expected activities in elude visits to the Smithsonian Institute and the U. S. Captiol Building in Washington, and the United Nations Building in New York. c aiicmooTif wnun children, and two great-great- North End Baptist and grandchildren. When asked how Harbor Methodi.st church she felt about the raising of Q].oirs have been invited to par- MANTEO P.T.A. TO MEET NEXT MONDAY NIGHT such a whopping big family, she snorted and said, “Children weren’t raised this way back then. We had to scrub clothes over washboards, and work at chores when I graw up.” Mrs. Tillett is fond of recall ing the days when no one had ever heard of a laivn mower, days when horses in the yaid were sufficient to trim the grass. And a radio? Books were the evening’s entertainment, if anyone even felt like sitting up ticipatc in a special song festi val. VET OFFICE TO CHANGE HOURS APRIL 1ST The Dare County Veteran’s Service Office announces a change in office hours to become effective Monday, April 1st. ’The change will be from the present afternoon hours to morning hours, 9:30 to 12:30. The Manteo Schools P.T.A will meet Monday night March 25, at eight o’clock in the au ditorium of the Manteo Elemen tary School. The program “Teenagers” will be in panel dis cussion form. Composing the panel will be two representa tives from each grade from the eighth through high school. An adult will sen’e as moderator. PTA president, Mrs. Edward Wc.scott, extends a cordial in vitation to all parents and teen agers. Rerfreshments will be served after the meeting. SENATOR P. D. MIDGETT of Engelhard, Hyde County, intro duced a bill in the Sl:Ue Senate Tue.^day which would give con- •sideration to area a.s well as population in the di.stribution of Congre.s.smen in the State Legis lature. The redistneting pro gram would he carried out with out the necessity of an amend ment to the Constitution, he an nounced. Jlidgctt noted that his bill would give no more than two senators to any one county, nor would it include more than five counties in a single district, thus considering area in the distri bution. The counties with two senators would be Mecklenburg, Forsyth, and Guilford. The bill sets iq) a number of one-county districts, increasing the number of Senate districts by eight, to 41. The.so one-coun ty districts would be: Cumber land, Wake, Onslow, Robeson, Durham, Alamance, Davidson, Gaston, and Buncombe. Another bill to redistribute the representation in both houses was introduced by Sens. David Clark of Lincoln and Wilbur Jolly of Franklin. Their pro posed bill would model the Leg islature after the Federal Con gress. Under the bill the House membersliip would be cut from 120 to 100, one representative from each county. The Senate would be raised from 50 to 80, based strictly upon population. The bill wuld assure that the population of each new district could not vary more than 25''/r from l/80lh of the total popu lation, after new district lines had been drawn. These lines would prevent the possibility of less than 45% of the state’s population falling within the areas entitled to elect a ma jority of the senators. If the Legishiture failed to I'capportion after a federal cen sus, a committee composed of the Senate President, two citi zens chosen by him, and two members named by the Gover nor would carry out the task. The Senate cnvi.sioned by Clark and Jolly would give five senators to Slccklenburg, five to Guilford, three to Forsyth, three to Wake, two to Durham, two to Buncombe, and two to Gas ton. Although the bill would call for the statewide vote at the next general election, Clark said he hoped for an early vote to sot up the program for the 1964 election. In support of his program. Sen. Clark said, “I just can’t conceive that the Supreme Court would throw out something bas ed on the principal that the Federal Congress has used all these years.” Several other bills which would also call for a constitu tional amendment were offered. One would raise the Senate membership from 50 to 60, an other from 50 to 55. SEA HAGS TO MEET The sand-sppwing Dredge “Enterprise,” on the iiroject at Buxton Inlet for tlie past .si‘v- eral weeks, departed e:trly tlu.s week It had ai-eomiili.shed its part ill the eldsiire of the .'\.sh Wedne.sday Stoi in-ci eated gash and i.s now on its way to a de- layeil jirojeet in Wilmington Harbor Col. J. S. Grygiol, Wil mington District, Corps of En gineers, some two weeks ago had promised that the dredge would not be removed from the jiroject until completion of ils work, and unle.s.s an emergency in Wilmington Harbor develojied. .According to information relay ed by Park Service Superintend ent James B. Myera, the “En terprise” departed on Tue.sday, been furni.shed Mr. 11 1 the completion and departure schedule having been furnished Mr. Myers by Mr. Olierjohann, Chief, Construction, U. .S. Aimy Engiiioeis, at the Buxton project site. Col. Grygiel had negotiated with the Atkinson Dredging Co. to divert the dredge “Enter prise” from the poiject in Wil- inmgtoii Harboi- to tin* Bu:lon Inlet subsequent to the storm in late November which widen ed the inlet dangerously. Buxton Inlet wa.s originally cut by tin* .March, ]'.)(>2 storm and was about 600 feci wide at the time. The office of Emer gency Planning furnished the Corps of Engineer.' $225,000 to close the iniet to relieve tlie emergency conditions it had created in the local communi ties. A contract was awarded to the Atkinson Dredging Co. to do the work, and their dradge “Hampton Roads” started the work early in November, 1962. Severe storms hit the area late in Novemher and widened the inlet to 1400 feet. Severe erosion was experienced, imme diately adjacent to the inlet, 2000 foot on the north and 3000 feet on the south. Those weakened .sections were considered for all practical pur poses part of the inlet. The Of fice of Emergency Planning furnished an additional $475,000 to effect the closure of the en larged inlet, to include the re pair of the eroded sections. Several coordinating meetings were lield among representatives of the Corps of Engineers, Wil mington District, U. S. National Park Ser\’icc, and the State Highway Commission to ensure, the closure of the inlet and the construction of a road across the clo.sure at the earliest pos sible date. Adverse weather conditions in January greatly liampercd the progress being made by the •‘Hampton Roads.” Colonel Gry‘- giel negotiated witli the Atkin son Dretiging Co. to divert the latter’s dredge “Enterprise” from the project in Wilmington Harbor to the inlet project. Mr. Atkinson cooperatively agreed. The “Enterprise’’ began pump ing on February 17, and the flow of water through the inlet was stopiied 3 days later. Meanwhile the local citizens, on their own initiative, heroical ly undertook efforts of their own to retard the erosion which was taking place at and near the inlet, by phicing thousands of sandbags and dumping hun dreds of junked automobiles in the affected areas. They received splendid voluntary support from the local U. S. Naval and LL S. Coast Guard facilitie.s. Camp Lejeuno, the State High way Commission, and the Na tional Park Serx’ice. Colonel Grygiel stated that these efforts definitely aided the closure of the inlet. Superintendent Mvers stated that the National Park Service share of costs to strengthen the dike fill north and south of the inlet for long range protection will amount to approximately $112,000. On a recent inspection. Colo nel G’'vgicl stated that the en tire fill should be completed by the end of -March, but indica- The Sea Hags Surf Fishing ^re now that the work Club will meet at the Sea completed several days Hag Port on the beach on Mon day evening, March 25th. at 8:30 P.M. prior to the 31st. ’The State Hiehwav Coramls- Sce DREDGES, Page Six