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David Stick ' ^ Kitty Hawk, H.C. 8-21-67 „ SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION before expiration DATE ON ADDRESS Fourfeen Pages in Two Sections TIMES MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO. N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AhO HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA Piges One through Eight VOLUME XXXII ~ NO. 43 MANTEO. N. C. 27914, FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 1967 Single Copy 10* BUSY day; IN dare DiSTRICr COURT FRIDAY Judge Privott Presides; Spring time Business On Usual Upswing ’ • Last Friday’s district court in ■Care County Courthouse, was more lengthy than u.sual, ond- iiiff around 3 30. Judge \V. S I rivott of Edenton presided, hearing ca.scs from di-unken driving to thievery. Lewis M. Scarborough wa"' back in court, charged by wife, Callic with failing to provide, adequate support for .self and their children. Scarborough told the court that his attorney, Wal lace iR; Gray, failed to !ip])cnr to. represent him, and iotiur.5'cd co.ntinuancc for two weeks. JIr,s. Scarborough had retained For rest V. Dunstan as ))rivate pro secutor, and he was there. '1 he matter actually involved whether Scarborough was c-cm- plying with an earlier court order, and Judge Privott rr.- quested the parties involved to chock up on their booklteeping and perhaps settle the matter before, nc.xt court. Scarborough explained that the .children were not residing with their mother and in fact she “ran the children out with a broom.’’ Id 3 ■further staled that ho was mak ing house payments and provu’i iiig other means of sup))ort not contained in the c.a'rlier. court order. Coy Andrew Heckwith, a cot tage owner at Kitty Hawk, charged with driving under the influence, was convicted but ap- ^ pealr.'l to Superior Court. He ^ was charged by State Trooner S. H. Lassiter on April 2 after ho had pulled into his garage following a fishing trip to East Lake. Lassiter, who had been called to the .‘•c'"!" by Deputy T,. W. See COUIIT, Page Seven DARE GETS $7850 WATER PLANNING GRANT:FROM FHA SIX CANDIDATES SEEK SEATS ON MANTEO BOARD NEW ASSIGNMENT WITH FFA FOR ARVIN BASNIGHT Three Political Newcomers Join Incumbents and One Who Withdrew in 1965 TOURIST BUREAU ^ ; DIUECIOKS TO MEET The Dare County Touri.-'t Bu- a'cau Board of Directors will .meet on Wodne.sday, April 2tith. 10 a.ni. at the. Community Build ing in Mantoo. All Directors are W. STANFORD WHITE and JOHN M. “.SKP’ HUDERWITZ ars shown receiving a Farmers Home Administration check for .fTSSO from Philip E. House, FHA county supervisor Wednesday in' the Dare-County Courthouse. i White is chaiiTiia,a of the commissioners; Hudeiavitz cliairman of the planning board.]The cheek is in payment of a commitment several m jnths ago from FHA to cover preparation of an overall coimlywide water-utilization program. IMoorc, Gardner & Associatc.s, engineers, have com pleted phasc.s 1 and 2 of the project which covers background study of needs and preparation of maps for the projects. Of the total fund, 45is committed for work already done, the bal ance to apply on the latter two plia.ses which include preparation of working plans for the systems. The study was a necn.ssary preliminary to construction of Cape Hatleras Water Associ ation’,? facility wliich wlien'cbini)lcted will serve Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras vdlages. The As sociation is to open bid.s for construction Thursday, April 27 at the Anglers Club building in Buxton. Barring unforsoen delay, the tri-village system to cost in excess of $1,000,000 will be operative by sumtnei- of 10G8. Of the total contemplated construction cost, a Federal grant of aproximately 4.5''o has been approved. The balance will be repaid over a 40-year period. When Manteo voters go to the poll.s .May 2, they w-ii at least ha\e seme choice. Six have filed for throe seals on ihc board of commissioner. Incumbents W'. B, Fearing, it and Carlisle Davis are joined and opposed by McCoy Tillett, Jr., Willis Wise, Joo Pool and Guy Midgc.tl. The latter filed in the. 1965 race but later with drew. Mayor Sam E. .Midgett is unopposed. Riegistration bocks vvill con tinue open for supplemental en- trie.s through Friday, A|)ril 21. Challenge day is on Saturday the 22nd. The candidate.? come from a wide, field of employ and pro fession. Fearing is one of the owners of the largo store in downtown Manteo bearing that name. Davis is an insurance agent. Wise ts a well-known grocer and active in many com munity affairs, including the town’s volunteer fire depart ment. Pool is a school teacher, oper ator of a dry cleaning business Sec BOARD, Page Seven BLOODMOBILE TO SEEK 135 PINTS WEDNESDAY Thci Red Cross bloodmohilo v.'Lll bo at Manteo iKigh Schocr' Wednc-sday, April 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 pm. 'If you are between 18 and CO years of age and in reasonably good health, you .n’o eligible to donate a pint of blood. Your gift will be ap))rcci.'itc..I. Hoi'ace A. Dough, chairman of the blocd program for the Dare County chapter of the Red Crosf?, .said Wood i.s urgently urged to nttend as imp.'rlanl matters will he brought before 1 needed throughout the Tidc-va- tho board at that time. or area of ■southeastern Virginia VISIT THE GARDEN NOW DOGWOOD TIME BRINGS SPECIAL BEAUTY TO AREA. AZALEAS BLOOM Dogwood time in Dare is per haps the most beautiful season of the. year. Almost at their .peak, but needing rain, the dog- woods are now spreading their white flowers over woods anti roadsides, in places making a thick arch overhea'i. 'I'he sattd- ] hills on Roanoke Island arc. lined I with them, and the Kitty H.awk ! and Duck woods arc bonntifnlly ' blessed with them. Azaleas a'so ' blooming at this sca'jon lend a necessary spot of color to the white of the flowering tiT.->s. ’ A visit to the Elizaheihan Garden on Roanoke Island should he made this week or next, while the Garden flowei-s | at at thdr peak. Thciisaiu'.y of | azaleas line the walkways and; spread undonicath the trues of t the virgin forest left in the ^Garden. One of the mo.st spr.c- tacular is the Red Wing aznioa, j a brilliant red. .Mixed with a I pure white azalea, there is at j least one hod in the Gardwi . I which has nothing but the red i and wdiitc blosioms. * 'Die camellias, which hove i been blooming since early Fall,! have almost reached the end of I their flowciing season, although j a few ]iaticnt latecomers con- j tinuo to open. I'he pansy bods j are thick with blooms cf cveiy i color, and numf.’-ou-s rmnll cnv-‘r [ and border plants are flowering, j One of the newest additions to the Garden is the wildficwcr . area, where dozens of ferns, i grasso.», wild orchids, wld iris j and niimf’ous other plants aro j fast fining the avail.ahle space. Many of the wild flowers have been moved from nearby fiold.s and swamps, others arc still r in their native habitat, and somo | hhvc br.an acquired from other , parts of the country. One point of special interest, is the herb garden, located just | inside the gate house. Dozens of j herb plants can be sc,an and their uses explained by Louis • Midgett, carctak“r and girdener extraordinaire, who treats every plant in the Gardwi with tender, loving care, and who has in the nursery thousands of young plants ready for setting out at the proper time. The Elizabethan Garden, oucrated by the Garden Club of -Korth Carolina, is open to the public for a very r’tnall ciilranco fee, and it is well worth the while of flower lovers to visit the spot and take their families. and northeastern North Caro lina. The bloodmobile’s visit Wednesday will bo the third and last attempt this fH’cal year to meet Dare County’s blood dona tion quota of 294 pints. If the fiscal 1967 quota is met, 135 jjints wM.I have, to be collected Wednesday. In two previous visits to the' county—one each at Manteo and Bn.xton—the bloodmobile collected 159 pints. Dough said the Dave County quota was set at 294 pints be cause that wiis the avorage number used during each of the past two fiscal years. He said that if the total of 688 pints us ed in the two years had been purchased by the pcoplo who re ceived it, the tab would have been $14,700. Donating blood to keep the .See BLOOD, I'agc Seven NOW ITS DOGWOOD TIME ON THE DARE COAST DOGWOOD BLOSSOM TIME '«A^the Dare Coast this'year came late due to finicky weather, but'now the yaixls and woodlands arc splotched with the state flowoi-s from Southern Shoi-cs and Roanoke Island to Buxton and Frisco on Hatteras Island. Libby Creef of ‘JIanteo was framed in dogwood blossoms at the home of the Aycock Browns when this photo was'made .last Sunday. This week end will be the peak blossom time for Dare Coast dogwood and other flowers. ' TRIO CHARGED IN THEFT OF FEDERAL WIRE FIRST DISTRICT POSTMASTERS MET SATURDAY Approximately 140 Postmasters and Many Visiting Dig nitaries Present First Congressional district postmasters met in Washington last Saturday. Russell Johnson of Bclhavc.n president of the North Carolina chapter of the National As sociation of Postmasters, told the group “our association has a lot to offer pastmasler.s; it helps them do n better jcb.’’ Sidnejr- Hofler, • Washington postmastor, and director, pre- FBI Arrest Kill Devil Hills and Powells Point Youths Last Thursday 7’wo Dare County youths and one fronj, CuiTiluck wevo^arrewt- ed last ■'Thursday by FBI agents from the Elizabeth City office, charged with theft of copper wire valued at several hundred dollars. Phillip E. Leary, 24, Carl Alonzo Beacham, Jr., 19, of Kill Devil Hills and Charles E. Younts, Jr., 19, of Powells Point aro charged with stealing the fence wire from Pea Island Wildlife Refuge on Hatlceas Is land and Wright Brothers Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. Estimates of value have been placed at $300 minimum, and the youths are alleged to have old the wire in Norfolk at Ecitip price. They wore aiTaigned before U. S. Coirmissioncr L. Tliemas house of Columbia, Gallop in Elizabeth City the day of arrest and released on recog nizance bond for appear-incc, in U. S. District Court. The thefts occurred several weeks ago. Release of informa tion concerning the arrests was made by Rabort M. Mutq’liy of Charlotte, special agent in charge cf the district office. ARVIN 0 BASNIGHT, Manteo native, has brr*n named to an other high post in the Fcdi’ral Aviation Administration. This was announred as F.‘\A made public changes in three lop-li;vel executive po.'sitmns. Joseph H. Tiiipet.s, currently Director of FAA.’s tVestern Region with he.adquartr,.-.s in Lo.s Angeles, was named Asscci- ate Administrator for personnel and Training in Washington. Tippe's rcjil.aces Robevt H. Wil ley who i.s leaving the agency to become Director of the De partment of the Navy’s newly organized Office of Civilian Manpower Management. Filling Tippets’ foimer post is Basnight, since 1965 Associate Adminislralcr for Programs in FAA’s Wartiington headquar ters. Replacing Basnight as Associ ate Administrator for Programs 3 George S. Moore, Basnight’s deputy for the past year. All three reassignment.? are part of the FAA’s continuing program to effortively use the exiierienre and ability of its career employees. I As Associate AdminislraloT for Personnel and Training, Tip- :ijcts -will direct the agency’s worldwide personnel system HYDE AND DARE COUNTIES WILL BENEFIT AS INDUSTRY PLANS REVEALED FOR AREA Land Development In Hyde Will Involve Up wards of 75,COO Acres, with Chipping Mill To Be Built; Dare's Canvas Fabricating Firm Tentatively Assured of Government Contract Award- DARE BOARD OF EDUCATION ASKS LEGISLATION Would Enable Transfer of Cer tain Properties; 5-Year Lease on Ofher Under term.'! of legi.-ilation rc- que.'?ted to he introduced by R'rji. Archie Burrus, the Dare County ILoaid of Education would ob tain , adUtln.iial authority over leases and transfers of its prop erly. One hill suggested would en-, lug Hyde County was released Announcp.ments of importance concerning establishment of in- ditstrics in Dare and Hyde coun ties this week i,? being received with mixed reaction. These coastal countir.s, long neglected by officials who were in nos-i- tion to do something about roads, bridges and ether im provements which would induce industry, are finally beginning to realize benefits from the links with the outer arc.as made wiihiiv the last five years or Icis. The most significant an nouncement to be made concern- able, the board to lease the old Manteo School gymnartum for liciiods up to five year.?. Under present staW law, the board is restricted to one-year lease. That regulation wa.s brought to light recently when- the boui-d con.siderc-d Ica.sing the propoi ty to Virginia Tent and Awning Co. and/or its subsidiary to be c-sUiblished in Dare County. The second piece of legisla tion rcqnn.sted would enable the local board to deed the Roanoke School and old Manteo elemen tary school properties to accept able agencies for educational purpc-ics, with reversion clause in event premises arc vacated. Such authority might be exercis ed by the Dare board, for in stance, should the East Caro lina College extension become a reality. In the ctise of the latter two bnlildings, .East Carolina might desire the properties on tempo rary basis ])endiiig establi.='hnioiit sided over the banquet held at'which sciwes some 43,000 oin-|of permanent buildings on other Blackboard’s Tavern, C. Banksi Gladden, Atlanta Regional director, told the group “we have the be.st postniastsi-. in the United States hero in our area.’’ He added “we handle more mail than any other re gion in the country.’’ Messrs. Johirson, Gladden and Hofler urged all postmasters to attend the Postmasters’ Semi nar in Raleigh on July 17-18. See BASNIGHT, Page .Seveji sites. HYDE STUDENTS COULD CHOOSE OWN SCHOOLS A former Hyde county supei*- intendent of schools said stu dents had complete freedom of choice of schools they allonded ST. CLAIRS AGREE TO PURCHASE DARE LANDS FOR $9100 Disoute^ Acreage Near Coling- ton Finally Going to Near by Devciepers At long last, it appears that Dare C'-iinty and Mr. and Mrs. Ed St. Clair of Kill Devil H'll.? have come to terms on the dis puted 76-3cre ti-act hark of Wright Memorial in Kill Devil Hills. Board Chairman W. Stanfonl White slated this week that ho had boon advised of acceptance of the $9100 figure for which the board had agrcr.'l to soil. In December the board bad pie- ceetiod with the transfer at a figure of some $700 represent ing back taxes, interest and penalties. But before the deed could bo executed. Nags Head Chamber of Commerce officiajs rcmiiulr.-l the board of an earlier request to set aside the properly for fu ture public use. Action was then delayed pending further investi gation. Meantime, an apprai.^’nl was made by outside intei-ests, and eventually the Dare Com missioners voted to sell the property for $9100, keeping good faitli with their commit- rnent. W. H. McCown, county at torney, was this week given the green light, to,, complete the transaction, executing a tax deed on the largely-marshy tract lying on Cotington Creek. [(luiiiig the time he was head of A. Thomas Stewart, mayor of U|,(> educational sy.^lem tin.re. Washington, welcomed the Sgu, Henderson, present group to the city. Mrs. ^ n a r o coiiiitv superintciulont, .Brown of Merritt responded to L.^j,, h,c Hyde county boar.t of the welconie. The spc.akcr j education “lionored cvfy re- iiilrodiiecd^ by Mrs. Eflie Buck- jor assignment to a par- tieiilar s.bool while I was U.tiers making remarks in- 'Hierc.’’ He was the Hyde super- ciiidml John Winbuni, PosLal year. Service officer, I aiil B. Osgood, Heiidc.fson spoke out iu con- Postal inspector, Thurman injection with hearings at Wa^h- SmRh, sccrclaiy-trcasurcr, and j„gto„ j,, ^vhieh government at- nary problems which would a'- postmaster of asked that federal a'd ! among any school group, whe 66 rcliirnod for the 19(!6-67 term. Hondcr-on said he had no per sonal knowledge of any of the. charges aired at the hearing sponsored by the Office of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Ho said ho knew there was a KKK unit in Hyde county “be cause I s^nw a cross burning in a field 11611 drove, by one night.’’ Henderson said the only ini- tegralion difficulties experienc ed during his tenure in Hyde slommed from “minor direip’.i Tuesday from Rali.’gh through Governor Dan K. Moore’s office. Groundwork for the operation has been undenvay for some time, but on Tuesday tlie con struction of a $l-niillion log ging, chipping and farming operation iiust-allation was'made official. The Governor stated llial the facility will be built ty Rainlieo, Inc., on a 75,000 acre tract in llie eastern part of the county. Tlie installation will provide timber for surrounding property owners and sell cliips to tVest Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. in Charle-ton, S. C. George Peake, .Ir., chairman of the board of Pamlico, liic., said the chipping operation will offer the entire area new markets tor forest pi-oducts. M’hile West Vii’ginia Pulp and Paper is also, an adjoining land- owner to the Pnmiico film’s ■area of operations, tiieir own forest products are not normally fhipjied to their plant in South Carolina. However, an intic.iieud- eiit contractor is cutting on Westvaco land now and shipping to otlier ijoiiits in Soutli Caro- .Seo INDUSTRY, Page Seven WEST VIRGINIA TAX VALUATION IN DARE DROPPED Final Meeting of Review Board Next Monday in Dare • Courthouse Raleigh, a visitor to the ban quet.. heth- jbe denied the Hyde county jer integrated or not.” Henry O’Neil of Aulander fcliooi system for failure Ir , ... 'comply witli fedfal law' and was chairman of the nominatingdcregration of committee. Raljili Stanley of 5^1,0015 Now Born is the new clmirmanf succeeding Mr. Hofler, and Tom Negroes to.etified they Umphlelt of Lewiston is the Hieir children in a ■„n«. vice chnirman. A. P. Fowlc previously all-whitr.'Hyde coun- new vice chairman. A. P. Fowlc of Ahoskie is sccrr.‘ary. The banquet on Saturday eve- ty scliool tills year desnite tel''- phone lliroats, loss of bitsiner ' .At in the be.uri*'': whether Hyde county scliools sh'dl rf'"''!vi'. ’’iiout 8130 000 in Sec SCHOOLS, Page Seven CHICKEN DINNER AT Kiri'Y HAWK SATURDAY The Kitty Hawk M^thn'Tst Cluircli wiM liuve a chicken din ning drew .about 140 poolo. Mary j^j^ra.k-si)u-nt by the Kti K'lix ^>>»r on April 22 f’'"n five r-j L. Mann of Gnfton had ‘•'“aitro , wirncsse-- said 8:30 pm. .spousovod by .the ^ seven of 28 Negro children WSCS. Charges will be- $1 2o per plate, and plates can bs taken out if anyone wishes. of _ Potts entertained the group ut attended the Mattamu''k the 'scliool in Swan Quarter in 1965- See MEETING, Page Seven 2 ON THE PROGRAM AT FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT POSTMASTERS MEET Action by tlie Dare County Boai-d of Conimissionprs tbis week will save West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. seme tax dollars on tiieir Dare' mainland holdings. Ropresontatives of ‘■7/',’" ithc fim? appeared before the hoard last week to request such action, but nothing formal was done at that time. Unde'' the revaluation pro gram, Westvaco’s Dare County holding.? were increased to a tax value of $2,999,765, about three times over the valuat''.'on which stood for years. Tlie. reduction allowed this week will cut the tax value to $2,593,285. up $770 above the amount sought due to an error in computing the vast acreage. On Monday of tliis week, the board reviewed a number of eomplaints, somo of which came by mail. Other cit'zens aiipear- ed in nsi-son. Hallelt Pen'y of Kitty Hawk entered a protest on behalf of Ids mother, Mrs. Beulah Pr.rry, stating that the vaUio was too high in vieav of tlie bndly-erodcil oceanfrontago. Clyde Hussel! protested in- cra.i-'ml value on his property in the 'Town of Manteo. Gc.argo Willoughby of Nags Head protr rted an increase in valuation of property belonging In h’o 'molhcr, Mrs. G. L. Wil loughby. W'-'lis Daniels ^requested the board’s attention to discrepancy in value vs. lot size in Wan- choscL No action was taken on those complaint':', other than to recog nize them and request the ta.x supervisor’s office to invejsH- g.atc. • Final 19G7 session of = the equalization and review board will >bo .held Monday, April 241 AMONG THOSE on the program when First Congressional District Postmasters met in Wash ington last Saturday were C. Banks Gladden of Atlanta, Ga., regional director for the Post of fice Department; Russell Johnston of Belliaven, president, N. C. Postmasters Ass’n.; Mrs. Effie Brickhousc of Columbia,^national vice in-csident. Southeastern area, National Association of Postmasters; Sidney Hofler, host postmaster and district chairman, and John Winburnj postal Service officer. (Photo courtesy Wasliington Daily News) SUPPER AT WANCHESE The' LadiesBible' classof Wan’chese Methodist' Church- is sponsoring a turkey or ham sup per on Saturday, April 22, start ing at 5:30, at Wahehese Com- mnnity Building.” Plates willVbei $1.00 each. Desserts will be ex tra. ^
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