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David Stick Kill Devil Hills, N-C, 27948 8-21-67 SEND RENEWAL OP SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS THE MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Twelve Paget in Two Sectiont 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 One through Eight VOLUME XXXII — NO. 42 MANTEO, N. C. 27954, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1967 Single Copy 10» BOARD TO : EcT FOR EQUALIZATION AGAIN MONDAY Dare Commissioners Hear West Virginia's Request Reduc- ■ tion; Other Citizens Ap- pear The Dare County Board of ^ Commissioners will meet for the purpose of heai-ing complaints from property owners Mond’y, April 17 at 10 a.m. First i-ound in the annual statutory sessions ■was held Monday of this week, at- which time -several property owners appeared to protest ’•valuations. Dare. County’s largest prop erty owner, West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, protested the increase in valuation on its '.prime timberland. some 5,COO acres on the mainland. ' Under the increased as.scss- .> i ment, Westvaco’s overall valu ation for taxation, at 100% fac tor, is $2,999,765, up about three times what it was on the books ■,for previously. Quentin Bell, N. C. Wood lands manager. George Hendc.r- ,Bon and Jack W. Cahoon appear- '„ed on behalf of Westvaco to ask that timberlands be re«luccd to $125 per acre, thus dropping the taxable value to $2,592,515. The company is listed as owning 177,210 acres in Dare, and has holdings in Tyrrell, Washington and Uyde counties. ; As the increased assessment stands without change, Westva , cos tax bill from Da'^e County would be about .$24,000 annually • compared to $8000 currently.' Other Matters 1’ Mr. and Mrs. James S. Turn er of Buxton appeared to pro test increase of $2,762 in valua tion of their properties. Miss Claudia Sanderlin con tested the inereasrs in valua tion on propertifiS owned by herself and family members at Kitty Hawk. Miss Sanderlin cited the con.siderable erosion problems experienced at ‘ Kitty Hawk Beach in her request. ^ JH. L. Daniels, Jr. told the MRS. GAYLORD RETIRES AS EXTENSION AGENT W.S.'S' MANTEO RACES DEVELOPING FOR SEATS ON BOARD Four Filed Through Thursday and Several Others . Ru- morad; Cannady Withdraws t^rd that he thought adjust ments were in order* on a. tract See BOARD, Page Two FIRST QUARTER BOOZE SALES ALMOST $70,000 ■ Total sales by Dare County A.B.C. stores during Slarch, were $28,232.40. Total sales for the January, February, and March, were $69,643.00. The Dare County A.B.C. Board at the regular meeting hohl April 6, decider! that for the quarter just ended a pay ment of A.B.C. funds in the amount of ten percent of the gross sales is to be paid to the Dare County general fund im mediately after the end of each ■quarter. Upon completion of each quarterly audit any amount in excess of ten per cent net is to be paid to the General Fund. If the net profit for a given quarter is less than ten per cent, then the sum that has beeai overpaid is to be deducted from tl»e payment at end of the next quarter. . -The purpose, of this action is to make funds available im mediately after the completion of each quarter to the various ,participating units. The sum of $6934.30 for the precceding quarter was to be paid immediately to the Dare County General Fund. MRS. BEULAH GAYLORD is retiring as Dare County iH -me Agent, because of ill health but w’ill continue to make her home on Roanoke Irland near Mantoo. Mis. Gaylord has serv'cd in this position .'■ince 1959, having previously worked in Dare from June to September 1945. She Ir.ft the wife of William Vail Gaylord, now deceased. Graduating first from Cho wan High School and later from from East Carolina College with a B. S. degree, Mrs. Gaylord taught home economics foi three yeai-s in Union County and 14 years in Washington County. She has done graduate work at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; N. C. State University; and East Carolina College. She has one son, William Timothy Gaylord, U. S. Air Force, stationed in Thailand. Mrs. Gaylord is active in com munity affairs. She is a mem ber of Mount Olivet Methodist Church in Mautco, and on Tues day of this week was installed as president of the Elizabeth City- District of the Woman’s Society for Christian Service. She is a member of Manteo iRabekah Lodge and serves as chaplain of that .organization. She is also a "memter, of Order of Eastern Star, ^and serves as warder;' and of the" Order of Aramanth. Through Thursday morning, five candidates had filed for Manteo board of cemmi's’sioners seats, but one had withdrawn. Dan L. Cannady, who last week announced cadidacy, withdrew aft nr n race developed. Candidates are Woodson B. Fearing II, Carlisle N. Davis, iiicunibent!3, Guy Midgett and McCoy Tillett, Jr. Sam E. Mid- gett, mayor, is unopposed for that position. With a Saturday, April 15 filing deadline, and many candi dates rumored as cons'dering the voters of Manteo are expect- ei to have some wider choices whe'n balloting on May 2. One prominent businessman who has indicated interest is Willis Wise. A supplemental voter regis tration continues through April 21, and challenge day is April 22. METHOD OF PAYING HYDE OFFICIALS MAY BE CHANGED ALL INCUMBENTS IN NAGS HEAD SEEK RE-ELECTION Rling Fee Legislation at $10 Per Candidate Now In Effect The entire five-member gov erning board of Nags Head, four commissioners and mayor, have filed for re-election, plus one former commissioner. As of Thursday morning, those paying under the new $10 filing fee were Mayor Dewev L. ■Hayman, Commissioners Tom McKimmey, C. G. Brickie, Jess Newman and Carl Nunemaker, W. L. Edwards, a foi-mer board member, filed earlier and avoid-' ed the new fee system. Deadline for candidates to file is April 20 at 5 p.m. RALEIGH. — Legislation to change the method of fixing salaries of some Hyde County officials has been introduced in the General Assembly by Rep. Bill Roberson of Beaufoi't Coun ty. Roberson’s bill would author ize the Hyde County Board of Commissioners to set the monthly salaries of the Clerk of Superior Court and the coun ty registrar of deeds. Tlds would replace the pi-esent system w’hercby the officials depend upon fees collected by their of- fices. ' The bill would set the court clerk’s monthly salary at not less than, ,$335„ and not more than f43|f to hf* paid from the general''fund of 'Hyde county. The annual>aa|ary of tha regia-, trar of deedil"wqu)d be hot less' than $4,000'and not more than $5,20Q. -'l r The clerk.'and the registrar would continue to 'collect the fees,of theif’^offices, hut would pay them into the county’s gen eral fund. ' The proposed legMation also' would authorize members of the. board of commissioners and the board of,education to collect $25 a day each "While engaged in the duties of theli* office." PASSING SCENE ON OUTER BANKS .-•rye.-- vv- NINE CANDIDATES FOR BOARD RACE IN KILL DEVIL HILLS WELFARE COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK FRIDAY NIGHT Mayor Thomas H. Briggs and Mrs. Ruth Frank, Treas urer, Unopposed \ Nine eanditlalos will be elect- | 0(1 to five .'-■ec’.s on the K II ' D-v I Hills hoard (.f corn.*!' s- .'■'onprs, Jlay 2. Filing (k.adline at noon this part Saturday saw the list of candidates swell to ' include: Charles T. Griffin, j ,'I'hsodore Wood and Mrs. Diane. St. Clair, inrumbonts; and new comers E. V.' Nielson, .L-’mes ,Ashlt.y, C. Lane I’hdlips, Sam; j Ucger.s, C. A. York and P. J. M. |i tt-'l- Baynr. join the list of candi- datr.s. iiTr-k-on and York have servd on the baurd in yeais iia-jt. In 1965 Yolk was an unsucces.sful candidate for mayor, ojiposing Tlio.s. iH. Biigg.s. Briggs is imoppo;ed this year, " ns is Mrs. Ruth B. Frank, town trea.surer Registration oa- tinues through April 21 and challenge day is the 22nd. MANTEO’S LIMITS EXTENSION TALKED WEDNESDAY NIGHT Okay Loading Zones; Adopt Cross of St. Andrews, As, .Official Flag I REV. CLARKE WISEMAN 1 TO CONDUCT REVIVAL CAPTAIN CLAM STOWE, a charter boat skipper of Hatteras, straddled a hundred pound loggerhead turtle for this picture several years ago. It is a passing scene, however, as the giant sea reptiles will be protected from humans as a result of a bill introduced by Guilford County Itepresentativc James Exum has been passed and become law. The law will also protect other sea turtles from molestation when they come ashore during early summer to deposit their eggs in the warm sands of the beaches. In the old days the flesh of the loggerhead was one source of ik«8h meat for the coastal residents and sailing ship crews. (Aycock Brown photo) REP. WALTER JONES ■PROMISING’ OUTLOOK FOR MAHAMUSKEET REAPPRAISAL PLANNING BOABD WILL MEET WEDNESDAY, APR. 19 Tfife bare County' planning boalrcl wjll meet on Wednesday, April W. in the jury room of the bare County court house in Manteo at one p.m. The regular meeting date is the third Tuesday, but the meet ing lias been changed this time because of a conflict of interest in the membership. .^p. Walter B. Jones describ ed!'!’,as "promising” the outlook forr ' reappraisal and general improveihent of rules and reg ulation* at the Matlaimiskcct Wildlife'Refuge in Hyde Coun- yoneS predicted the reapprais al',and,"improvement would be effected 'soon. 'The; congressman’s comment was made after a meeting with John P. Davis, who will succeed Wijlie G, Cahoon as manager of th«^ Mattaniuskeet refuge. Ga boon will retire May 1 after 27 years as 'manager of the refuge. '..Davis’ appointment had been announced March 27 by Walter A'/.,Gre8h, southeastern regional director of the Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife. Jones ■immediately called for a con ference with Davis and others on the refuge's "overall pro gram . . . since it is felt that many changes should be made See OUTLOOK, Page Two THIS WAS GHOSTSHIP OF DIAMOND SHOALS KDH. NAGS HEAD BOAKUS PLAN SURFING CONTROL Tho Kill Devil Hills town board authorize 1 its attoniey Tuesday to work out a plan with the Nags Head town lawyer to control surfing near fishing piers and in swimming anias near hotels and motels. Mrs. RuUi B. Frank, trwn clerk of Kill Devil Hills, isaid a special meeting of the board will be. called soon to consider the joint plan for the adjacent re sort towns. Similar action wai taken by ths Nags H ad board at a meeting Friday. Nags Head Commissioner J. k Newman met with the Kill jcvil Hills groups and said both ' towns should enact companion ; ordinances to control surfing ^near the piers and the swimming lareas. The Kill Devil Hill? boaid 7^proved a plan for a develop- ent project on CoUngton la- llijmd to connect with the Kill |l|evil Hills water system. The relop&TS would be responsible installing -water lines. boa^ also appointed rlcs F. Bailey as member |he zoning board,and board Ijustment. iHe replaced Wil- yGard, resigned. HYDE ATTORNEY CLASHES WITH WOODROW PRICE Raleigh Columnist Says Con gressman Should Not Med dle In Appointments (Wa.riiington Daily News, Satui'dny, April 8) SWAN QUARTER.—A Hyde county lawyer has clashed witii one of the state’s best-known outdoor wTiters on the que.ition of how to woo C-anadian geese back to Mattamuskeet lake. Woodrow Price charged in his weakly "In The Open’’ column in the Raleigh News & ObsciVor last Sunday that Hyde county residents arc not inclined to listen to Bureau of Sneets Fisheries officials who Kster the lake. , He also hit action by Cen- grcssmaii Walter Jones in hav ing delayed the appointment of a new refuge manager to take over when Willie Gray C.ihoon retires next mon'h. Price wrote: "De.Tpit:'. the ur gent need to do .something Mattamuskeet this is no way to go nboiit it. A Con'''''0‘-s mao should not openly meddle in ^he appointment of a superintend ent for this n.fuge. This is an administrative mn'tor in thi first place, and the se'cction of the superintendent should be made on the b'is of hi.s prrfc?- •"■-nol qualifications not his po litics.” i.nt AUarnw George. Davis of See CLASH, Page Three THE REV. Cr.ARKE A. WISE MAN will conduct revival ser vices at the Manteo Ba.i)f.it Church beginning Jlonday, April 17, at 8:00 P.M.' The sendees will continue through Sunday, April 23. Jlr. Wiseman was horn in Pennsylvania. From the age. of five he was re.ared on a farm near Sluunton, Vn. During Woi'ld War II ho was a first sergeant in the U. S. Marino Corps and gained prominenc* .as a heavyweight bo.xer. Since, 1901 he has been Chaplain i(Captain) e>f the 3rd Automatic Weapons Battalion, 111th Ar- tilleo’, Virginia .Army Nation al Guard, Portsmouth, Va. His wife is the former Gi'ace Robin- fon of Portsmouth. They h.ivc one son, 11 years old. He is an honor graduate, of tJic Howard Payne University, Brownwnod, 'I’exas; a g aduale of Southeastern Baptist Semi:!- .oiT, Wake Fore.sl; and the admin- School of Pastoral Care of the N. C. Baptist Hospital. He has sei-vcd pastorates in Texas, North Carolina, and Virginia. He is now pastor of the South- side Bnplirt Church, West Che-ap''^ke. Va. See REVIVAIi, Page Two CLIFTO.N M. CRAIG, N. C. Cominis'ionr.’.' of Public Wel fare, will be the g'ae-^L speaker for the Interprotalion of Public V/elf'. re piogi.irn schoduhid foi Friday, April 14, at S.p’clok p m. ill the Cyiircss Room of the Carolinian Hotel. Mr. Craig, a 1939 .graduate of t'lif, Univer.rity of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill, earned a BS m Ccmmeice, He retired as a Colonel in the United States Marine Corps in J!)i‘2 after 22 years active duty. He assumed his prrrenl pciltion on Nov-am- ber 1, 1966, upon appointment by the North Carolina Board of Public Welfare with approval of Governor Dan K Moore. Comaii.ssionor Craig is mar ried to the former Gertrude Iredalo of Philadelphia, Pa. They have two childrcci, Clifton,- Jr. 8 and Karen 5. Invitations to Friday’.^ pro gram have been sunt to bus'.ncs.s and professional loaders throghout the county. Robert Ballancp of Manteo is a member ('f the Slate Welfare Board. Exten.sion of the. limits of the Tout] of Manteo was difcu.sred I informally by town officials at i the regular monthly session Wednesday night. Those in at tendance stated that they 'had he:ird more about the e.xlc.rision of limits "on the stroert” rather than anything official. “Fir.st you muH develop a plan,” Martin Kellogg, Jr., town eouii.sol, informed the boaid j membcr.s. “In that plan must be include.'! specific propcsTions, definite ainas, what 'seivices are propo-sed to be rendered, means of financing, and other factors,” the counsel said. 'Falk for .several wcieks among citizens has been hoard relative to exiiansioii of the town limits, likely first to the limits of wa ter and sewer lines, and c.ven- tunlly to other areas north, south west of the municipality. Prc.sently the limits end at Manteo elementary school on the. middle of U, S. 64 on the wc.st and at Mis. Tiacy Ward’s home on the south. Many out-of- town residents are connected to water lines, but pay a premiiun rale liowevor. Nor formal action was taken, but town officials indicated Uiat formulation of .such plan .See LIMITS, Page Two DARE EDUCATION BOARD VOTES TO LEASE BUILDING AHorneys Now Preparing Pa pers In Event Industry Materializes $50,000 ASKED FOR WORKSHOP NEAR FORT RALEIGH Roanoke Island Historical Ass'n. Would Bqncfit Through' Legislative Act PiTvided Irgislntinn iiitrcduc- od last week in the North Caro lina General A.sscmbly is cu- ,'ictpd. an r.diicalioiinl workshop will be constructed near Fort Raleigh. The Reanoke Island Historical Association would build the shojj near Waterside Theatre to train people in hand crafts, hobbies, drama, mu.sic and dance. The legislation was iiitreduc- od last Thurrdav by Reps. Archie Burrus of Dare and W. R. Roberson of Beaufort. National P.nrk Service has .nl- re-’dy g’von its ble.'.sihgs to the p-oposal, Iprovided the state doc.s grant t'iio iir.eded $50,000. The legislation rays the As sociation wants to ox'iand its rervicc to the people of the 'tate by esiabiishment of such a workshop. I In special call meeting last I Friday, Dare County Board of 1 Education voted to lease on one- j year term the old Manteo school I gymiiasi'uin. in a move to Incnte a canvas-fabricating indurti-y in Dai'C County. Local oil cialj were contacted la.it week and Daro County coninissioners agreed to aid Iccaticn of such a I'lant in any feasible manner. Without knowledge of tho potential location of Virginia Tent Co.’s sub.sidiary plant in Dare, Board of Education cf- ficiais earlier this year agreed to allow the. Manteo Lions Club to use thegymiiasiuni for fur therance of its Boys Club activi ties. No lease bad been formally completed, however, when the industry potential became known by local officials. Tho board of cd'ucatlon’.s ac tion Fi'iday paved the way for attorneys for beard of education' and the Virgina firm to draw" up the necessary agreeniMits.-' The board is bound by law to re- , strict such leases to one-year periods, but in event the firm Sac LEASE, Page Two HYDE OFFICIALS CONSIDER BAN ON HIGHWAY HUNTS MANTEO GIRL MAID OF HONOR IN MAY COURT MANY PROGRAMS CONSIDERED AT PLANNING MEET THE 6-MASTED SCHOONER CARROLL A. DEERINd. Bath, Malw-bullt vessel whose name sake died at the age of 84 in mid-March, liMkw) iike.thia in her early days. She foundered on the Outer Diamond of Diamond Shoala off Cape Batteraia in'.Janv^ 19S1, and when rescue crews arrived at the scene her sails were atill let, food was on the galley table, but there was not a soul aboard. Mysterious disappearenee of the enw was never solved although several agen cies of the governament investigate. After the craft, was blowii .Up-.eo she would not become a menace to n.avigation, part of the wreckage wenVashoi* oh laland and later, during a hurricane, floated over ■ to nearby Hatteras where Wheelcr Baliance ancient-like capstan and timbers ind displayed them in front t>f iiti^aareice statim, a reminder today on an unsolved mystery of the sea. (Photo copy by Aycock’Brown) Varied programs designcil to attract an increased -fhare cf the touiist dollar were consider ed last week at the second Dare Planning Seminar at Nags Head. Tho idea behind the two-day meeting was a broadening of Dare county’s economic ba'^e. Sponsoring groups were the Dare board of commissionori, .Junior Chamber of Commarce, Nags Head Chamber of Com- meree, and tho Dare Tourist Bu reau. Some of the programs dis cussed would take 10 years to complete, while others would have short-range goals. Complete specifics of the im provement programs will be published upon agreement of an agenda by the sponsoring groups. .SWAN QUARTER. — Hyde County Commissioners .'•'"e 'x-, pected to determine Monday - ivhethor to ask the legislaluie to impose a couiitywide ban on all hunting from highways. The board already h.ni ‘•anc- tionc.:l a bill which would re- ">t' 'ct hunting on a fivo-mi o . stretch of highway in what has been described rs a goad hunt ing area. Thi.'' bill now i*:' slalled in the General Assembly he- PICTURED ABOVE IS BETTY HOFLER, who will be Maid of Honor in the Louisburg College May Court, Satui-day,'May 6. Betty, a freshman, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hofler, Jr., of Manteo. . ■ - cause cf'opposition. Xc ‘•i-r. V>on>-' vot*'*! for a coun- tjuido ban, the action 'would be' sent to the Assembly. A x>ubl:c hc.niing in Swaii. Oii'irtcr lircught many rfqucits for a couiitywide ban with cp- ■ ponents urging that either the one strip of highway bs restrict ed or no restrictions br. allowed. Iluntiiig cf waterfowl from highways already is prohibited. Tho proposed ban would apply chiefly to deer hunting. Property owners testifying' said there have betui several '".".’cs of bullr-^i striking houses. They also cited clangor to read tra.vcl by schctl buses and the molcriiig public. The witiiossea ‘ noted there had been no re- Xioi'tcd injuries. " ‘ Board Chairman Leon Bal- lancc noted that those opposing the couiitywide ban felt that most huntens would agree to a ban on use of rifles rather thaif a complete cessation of hunting. Several of the opponents to' the proposed countywide ban said they would oppe-se vigor-1 ously such action by the board. ■ Baliance said the general feel=‘- ing he had encountered “favored ' the countywide ban.” - " ‘
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