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Davi Kill Devil Hills, N.C. 27948 ,8-21-67 1 SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO .BOX 428 , MANTEO, N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS - ‘Twelve Pages In Two Sections WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OP BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA Pages One through Six VOLUME XXXII — NO. 47 MANTEO. N. C. ,27954. FRIDAY. MAY 19, 1967 Single Copy I Of NEW MANTEO FIRM BIDS ON DEFENSE JOB WORTH $600,000 TO RESIDENTS ..Federal Contract of $3.8 Million For Manu facture of Tent Liners Would Provide 14 Months Employment to 140 persons; Most ' of Personnel Would Be Local Women; Some Executives to Be Imported. • Guests of the .Manteo Rotar- ians' Monday night, May 15,, were K. E. Moore, Jr., and C. A. Lindblad, Jr., of Norfolk, Vir- gina, officials of the new Man- teo Manufacturing Company, Inc., who gave an informative public discu.s.^ion of the plans and objections of the new firm. .> Moor© stated that the pay- * roll to come in to the Manteo area during' the period of production in the fulfillment of 'this contract would amount- to 1600,000.00. Approximately 140 persons would be employed in the operation, approximately ,,90% female and 10% male. The process involves the taking of .the cloth, sewing it togetlier in ^tions, joining it into the com plete tent liner, folding and packing for shipment. • No heavy equipment is in volved in the operation and it will not be a noisy or undcsir- •able type of manufacturig from the stand-point of local resi- * dents and the near-by schools, according to Moore’s explana- tino. *' . Some machine operators, foreman, plant managers w’ill come here from other opera tions of the company to head the local enterprise and train .additional personnel in various fields. All products and supplies .which would be used by the com pany and which could be pur chased locally here in Manteo, ■ would ,be. done to stmiulata the ;local economy, stated Moore. iV-.i^-Dontlhuing he avid that ahjp- .pients would take place once or twice a week and guards would be provided for the plant to be located in the former elemen- , tary school gryinnasium, which the- Dare County* Board of 'Education has leased for , .a period of one year to the firpi. Since government contracts are being carried bn in the buill- ing, no school children or no visitors could be permitted and this should minimize any pos sible interference with the op erations of the .school during their i)eriod of the year. Moore explained the back ground of his firms in Norfolk, , The Virginia Tent & Awning ■i. Company and the Ellsworth ’ Manufacturing Company, who, as/ the organizations of his father; K.- E. Jfoore, Sr., had been in the tent and awning manufacturing' business for morb than 60 years. There com pany manufactures tents and related products for government used.;by the Defense Depart ment ‘und manufactures com mercial Targe tents for fairs, circuses and other large tent users' along the Atlantic Sea board. Mainteo is located in an area which receives- certain designa tions by the United States De partment of Labor which make it receive special consideration \ in the determination of con tracts in this field. The com pany is one of the five largest contractors doing business 'in this field in the country. Early this spring a bid was placed for the production of liners for the See INDUSTRY, Page Two NAGS HEAD 5TORE ROBBED OF LARGE AMOUNT OF CASH Police Say Thief Apparently Knew Exactly Where to Look The Galleon, a sports\vear shop at Nags Head, was bur glarized of almost $6,000 in cash and check.s Sunday night, police reported. Nags Hoad Police Chief D. F. Twyne tem-)ed the theft “mighty ))eculiar.” He said the State Bureau of Investigation and the Dare County sheriff’s office are assisting in the in vestigation. Twyne said the amount stolen was slightly more thati $5,COD— “about $2,500 in check.s and $3,100 in ca.sh.’’ Ho said the money was insured. Twyne said the thief or thieves cnteied the stoi-e from the back by removing a board which lia«l been nailed over a hole used iii a previous burglar- ly. He .said the store “was not locked substantially.” After entrance, wlioevcr com mitted the robbery “went straight to the money,” Twyne said. “The money was in a box similar to a fishing tackle bi.x. A key was in the box and the boxr-'w-as in . a desk drawer. Looks like they knew exactly where to look.” Twyne said he found tracks and fingerprints he believes were left by the thief or thieves. _Twyne said officor.s patrolled the area near the Galleon seven times Sunday night. IHe said no ■ See THEFT, Pagf Six FISH COI^TROLf BILL CHANGED BY LEGISLATOR JUNIORS PRESENT PLAY TO SRO AUDIENCE FRIDAY ■; By Catherine D. Meekins The Junior class of Manteo High School last Friday night presented the three-act comedy "Cheaper by tlte Dozen”, the true-life saga of the Gilbrelh family, written by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., and Ernestine CJ- breth Carey. ' lD>c play, directed by Wayne > Gray, of the high school faculty, ^owed studentBi well drilled in their parts. The play moved ♦well, with fast action and con tinuity between scenes. The individual parts had been well learned and rehearsed, the stog- ■ ing and costuming were good. It was well reeeiv^ by the au- jience, which had standing room only. The production of a Junior play gives the rising Seniors some valuable experience before they put on their final produc tion next year. It has also point ed up the need for much more strict attention,to diction and to voice projection, which were the two weak points of the Fri day night performance. Ron. Arcliic Burms backed off this week from a fish regu lation bill to require commercial fishermen in Dare County to receive “written” permission to ca.ot their nets or seines in the Atlantic abutting private prop erty in certain beach areas. The legislature at Bumis’ request deleted the word "writ ten” in the proposed regulation bill. This would not disturb the present regulation requiring commeicial fishermen to get “oral” permission from owners of property abutting the ocean. The request for inclusion of the word "written” was made to Burms by the Town of Kill Devil Hills. Exclusion of the woid was a.skcd by commercial fishermen and membci-s of the Dare County Board. The legis lation as proposed would have affected all of Dare County and not the town of Kill Devil Hills alone. C. G. Brickie, Nags Head fisherman, said the original proposal “would be a step to- wani »t'oi)ping u.s from fi.~hing.” MONEY. CHILDREN AVOWAL OF LOVE ENLIVENS COURT Separation Agreement Upheld After VVifo Protests Cut in Cash Lewis M. Scarborough, a re tired Coast Guardsman living at Colington, was found guilty in District Court Friday of a charge of inadcqu.ate support of his estranged wife, Callie. Judge W. S. Privott’s verdict came after lengthy testimeny by both ..Scarboroughs over a separation, agreement, money, children, and the husband’s girl friend. , Mr.s. .Scarborough concluded with an avowal of love for the defendant and an invitation- tc him to come to her. “I’m not doing this to hurl him,” she .said in a voice .shak ing with emotion, “1 love him to death. All I ask is that he leave that other woman alone and come back to me and the chil dren. I’d take him back today if he’d come home and treat me right.” Scarborough stared impas- •sively at the court during hi.s wife’s statement. The Scarboroughs had entered into a separation agrcemei»t several jnonths ago under wh'ch he was to pay his wife $2.34 monthly for support. This was the full amount of his monthly retirement earned dur ing 20 years in the Coast Guanl. These monthly payments were made in January and Febnrary, boUr principals testi fied. Then in March Scarbor ough dropped the. amount' to $100 a month. Mrs. Scarborough testified she could not live on the i-educed amount. Scarborough testified their two children, a girl, 16 and a boy 14, had left their motlier’s home and lived w'ith their pa ternal gi’andmother. He said he began making., payments of $72.80 a month bn their house and paid to his mother support for the’ s'brf and ’daughter. He said he considered flOO a month was adequate fpr his wife. The court,took’a dim vie-w of this and, wondered out loud,,/’!! don’t see- why''-tiie .Mgreoment SeejCbUirr. Page Foury i;: MANTEO Bofcy/INS NEW'V H0N0R’.AT CAMPBELL MRS. GAYLORD FETED ON RETIREMENT MRS. BEULAH G.A.YLOID of Manteo, i.-s presented a sleiliiig silver bowl by Mrs. Elsie R. Whaley, dl.^triel president of the Northeastern District of Exten.iion Home Economi.sts, on behalf of the district home ceonomisl.s, as she (.Mis, Gaylord) retires after 17 years of service in this field. Mrs. Gaylord, who has been extension agent in Dare County for the last several years, is retiring because of ill health. The district agents honored her on May 10 with a luncheon in an Edenton restaurant. In addition to the silver bowl, she received a sterling silver slotted tablespoon. SAYS ENGINEERS' OFFICIAL OUTER BANKS WOULD BE INCLUDED IN SCENIC DRIVE A 279-milo stretch of road from tlio 'Virginia line along the Outer Banks to Wilmington is among the .scenic highway pro posals for North Carolina in a report of the Pre.sident’.s Coun cil on Recreation and Natural Beauty. This propo.scii .scenic highway apparently would start on the peninsula above Corolla and extend through Duck.; the beaches of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, and Nags Head; the Cape Hattcras National Seashore Recreational area in cluding the Pea Island Nation al Wildlife Refuge and all of Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands; and I’ortsmouth Island and Core Banks in the recently authorized Cape Lookout Na tional Seashore to Wilmington on the Cape Fear IRiver. The cost of this gigantic scenic .'highway was not cal culated:,'i' The .'plan 's sure to draw ob jection, expocially from those wljo want such places as Ports mouth. Island and Core Banks to remain roadless as a wild erness area. The Council also projiused a 178-milc Lower Cape Fear River Scenic Drive, a bill board-free Research I'rianglo Expressway, and suggested scenic drives along manmade lakes on the Roanoke River; sw.amp motor trails in Robeson County, the Croatan National Fore.st, and along the Dismal Swamp Canal; and drives around Civil War battlefields in ea.steni North Carolina. Other parts of the state were not neglected. The council sug gested scenic .status for areas around Durham, Burlington, Aslieboro, Cliaiiotte, the Pee Dee River drive in Richmond County, roads pai-alleling the Blue Ridge Parkway, and a road along the south shore of Fontana Lake. REHEARSALSTO START FOR LOST COLONY JUNE 5 Joe Layton Again To Direct and Choreograph Drama; Other Key Staff Mem- ■ bers Named ■ 27th Paul Rehearsals for ' the production season of Green’s original outdoor sym phonic drama, "The Lost Colo ny”, will .start ' in the Water side 3'heatre on the Fort Ra leigh National Historic Site on Monday, June 5. Gonerai ' Alanagnr John W. Fox announced this week that most membcr.s of the produc tion and technical staff.s will arrive on Roanoke Lsland in time to ftart prc-.scason work Friday, June 2. First regular performance i.- .scheduled for Friday, Juno 23. The season will continue for 57 scheduled performances through Sunday, August 27. Except for closing night, shows will be presented Monday ihrougli Saturday nights. “This year,” said Fox, “we have sot 8:45 p.m. (DST) as the starting time. “This , is 30 minutes later by the clock and 30 minutes earlier by the sun,” he explaiiied, “duo to daylight saving time which will be in effect ill this area for the first time this year.” Mrs. Fred W. MoitIsoii, chairman of the .spbnsoring Roanoke Island Jlistorical As sociation, is Producer of “The Lost Colony”. She has .arrang ed for dyn.amic young Joe liayton of New York City to direct, choreograph and stage the drama for the fourth .suc cessive season. Layton is a win ner of an EMSIY television award for staging a Barbra Streisand spectacular and a TONY award on Broadway for PROTESTS BRING CHANGE? IN CONTROVERSIAL NAME OF BUSINESS VENTURE Land Developers Decide +o Call Big Com mercial Enierprise "Kif+y Hawlc Woods" Instead "Town of Kitty Hawk" After Citi zens, Dare Board, Object; Company Asks Burrus to Amend Bill In Line with Local Wishes. A propo.sal by .a land devel opment company to. incorpoi'aie an area near the historic village of Kitty Hawk under the mame “Town of Kitty Hawk, Inc:,” has been shelved after a vej;i- tablo storm of jni.sunderstand; iiigs and prote-sts. The name, ‘ “Kitty Hawk Woods, Inc.,” will be used ih- Asiociation is appioaehing a ,,y Pro- MEMBERS BEING SOUGHT FOR THIS YEAR FOR RIHA A membcr.ship campaign for the Roanoke Island Hislcrical directing and choreographing a port of Richard 'Rodgers musical on UEHEAKSALS, Page Four DEEPWATER CHaImNEL WOULD NOT UPSET THE REGIMEN DARE MEN GOVERNORS AREA GOVERNORS NCMA DARRELL MIDGETTE of Man- tco has been elected president of the senior cla.ss of 1908 at Cam])hell College, Buies Creek. He has previously been prc.si- dent of the junior c!as.s, and vice-president of his sophomore cla-.-e. Darrell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Midgettc, J.r., of Manteo. , ' . , At the annual convention of the North Carolina Mote! As sociation recently, two Dare j County vacation operators were I named governor and alternate 'governor, respectively, for Area of the N.C.M.A. ulian Oneto, co-inanager of the Carolinian motor hotel, and Archie Burrus, proprietor of the Sea Oatel, were named and will serve wl-tli Mi.ss Dorothy Savage of Parni- ville who was named an area di rector. Mai-vin Stcphen.son of the Downtowner Motor Inn, Fay etteville, was named president of the organization. CHESAPEAKE ANGLERS CATCH OUTER BANKS BLUES A deepwater channel from the Pamlico River to the ocean is feasible and could ' he eoh- stimcted without upsetting the regimen of tlie river of the sound, an Army Corps of Engi neers official said Friday (May 12.) Such a channel would provide direct ocean access to the multi- million dollar phcjiphate mining operations in Beaufort County. Nels C. Magmison, assistant chief of the Wilmington Dis trict District of the Corps of Engineers, told a group of scientists and engineers at a Hydrology Symporium at N. C. State’s Faculty Club that there are currently six po.ssible routes for a such a channel. Before any of the six propos ed routes Could be determined to be the best, Mngnuson j'at- ed, it would be “dc.sirable and possibly necessary to make a model study to explore signifi cant aspects of such a project before it is conEtnirtcd.” As explained by Jlagnuscn, the six possible routes are from the Pa'inlico River to the ocean by way of Oregon Inlet, Hat- tcras Inlet, Ocracoke Inlet, Swash Inlet or two d'-.fferent apiKcaches to Ueatifort Inlet. According to the data pre sented by the Corps engineer the longest route would bo via Oregon ilnlct which would be 95 miles in length. The rhortest route rvould bo to the ocean through Swash Inlet, 46 miles. As currently envisioned, the deepwater channel would ren fi'om Lee Creek on tlie l^nnilico River to one of the above men tioned outleLs to the sea. “Infonnation in(licate.s,” Ma- gnuson said, “that a deep chan nel would not greatly affect the tidal prism or the average sa linity in the sounds. Dredging spoil would cover a relatively small area and would be spaced to permit ciiculation of water.” if r'''’grcc» authorizes lucii a project, Magnu.son said, ail mtctcsieJ agencies will be invit ed to present their views and findings. Among the items to be con sidered if such a project were authorized would be the layout, the stnictures for actual con struction and maintenance, shoaling patterns, location of MR. AND MRS. SKIPPER OLDS, Great Bridge, and .William Finck, Chesapeake, Vx, are shown with 32 big offshore. Outer Banks blues, plus several false albacore, they caught east of Nags Head on Monday. The fish, weighing from eight to 15 pounds each, were caught about 12 miles offshore near the first coastwise shipping lane from the cruiser Sportsman, skippered by Capt. Omie Tillett (1) of the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center-baaed fleet. Inshore on Monday anglers and skippers noted an improvement ii\ the size of inlet blues, and huiidr^s were caught trolling, some going to 16 inches in length, ^s compared to-much smaller blues taken during the early May run inshore. (Aycock Brown photo) OES BENEFIT DINNER The members of Hatteras Is land Chapter No. 303 are hav ing a fund raising dinner on Thursday, May 25, at the Ma sonic social hail at Buxton from 5 to 8 pan. ’The plates are |1.25 and the public is-invited. spoil. disposal area,' and changes in,^ tidal. prism and salinife.^'of the, sound and channel, The Hydrology Symposium’ was conducted by the cohsplir' dated Univereity of Nprlfi. Carelina’s Water Rc.sources Re? search Institute, which is hend- quartered at N .C. State Uhi- ver.sity, in cooperation with the NCSU Division of Continuing Education. climax, with June 1 as a “key date”. The Dare County campaign is being conducted by the .Manteo Woman’s Club, with Mrs. Jlerle Meekins, Jr. and Mrs. McCoy Tillett, Jr., as co-chairmen. Mr.s. William C. Friday of Chapel Hill is General Chair man and, througli campaign headquarters here, she today issued an appeal for prospective members and County Chairmen to turn in their membership ap plications by June 1. The Roanoke Island Historical Association produces Paul Green's immortal outdoor drama, "The Lo.st Colony” which will open it. 27th produc tion season in the Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island on Friday, June 23. Association members enrolled by Juno 1 will have their name.s listed in the 1967 Souvenir .Program of "The Lost. Colony”. "We urgently need the sup- Associalion member- hips,” Ml'S. Friday dcclaretl, adding "the" drama has never been entirely self-supporting from ‘the gate’ and has always had to depend upon member ships, concessions. Souvenir Program revenue, etc. to break even financially.” The Chairman urged those who have hot, as yet been con tacted directly or tli rough Coiinty Cliainnon to send their membership feo.s to “The Lost Colony”, P. 0. Box 68, Manteo, N; C. Regular memberships are ‘f5 aniuudiy, Sustaining mem berships are $10, and Snonsor- ing niomhcrships are $26. The Association also offers Corpor- See RIHA, Page Four PAPER COSTUMES TO BE MODELED JUNE I perlies in developing a 2,000- acre commercial enterprise to include building lots, a shoppirig center, and two golf courses. Tho area to be developed re- main.s the same—only the name has been changed. Thc change was made after protests by residents of the un incorporated village of Kitty Hawk, rumblings from the Dare County boai'd of cominissioner.s, and what may have been a mis understanding by Archie Bur rus, Dare’s representative in the General Assembly and County officials. - - '• The protc.'^ls began a -week ago after this newspaper re- ■ ported a bill had been, iiir troduced in the legislature to iiicor])orate the area to be developed as “Town of Kitty Hawk, Inc.” Members of the Dare board said the resolution tlie. group adopted ur-ginig the develop ment did NOT contain the name “Town of Kitty Hawk, Inc.,” for the prejcct. Citizens of the viHage of Kit ty Hawk promptly circulated a' petition objecting to use of the" * name of their historic little area for a commercial development. Kitty Hawk was the dateline ii?ed by the Wright Brothers when they flew tlie world’s first airplane. Burrus, appri.sed of tlie 'pro-^' tests, said he had introducc3 i 1 enabling legislation because he | believed the Dare board had .re- ccmnionded it unanimously— ' with one member absent. . The entire controversy seem ed to revolve around the name of the iiroposcd development .and how the name was applied. The minutes of the Dare County board «how that this resolution was adopted: , -« “Be it resolved by the Dare County board of commissioners that the request presented to the boanl by East Coast Proper-" ties, Inc., to introduce enabling legislation for the inclusion of, lands west of U. S. Highway, 158, By-Pass at Kitty Hawl^' North Carolina, excluding Kitty , iHawk village, the Kitty Hawk ■ Beach Area east of By-Pass 153 rid I:inds owned or being, developed by other persons, be endorsed that the draft of t'Ke legislation being submitted b« sponsored by our represent ative.” 1.' 3'lie resolution wa.s introduce; ed by Pennel T'illclt and second ed by R. K. Tillett. ■ : The resolution was introduce after the boanl received a let- * ter of request dated'-April 20 from Joseph W. Duffield,- vice prosiilent of East Coast Prop- evties, Inc. Neither the letter / nor ' the resolution contained the • name, “Town of Kitty Hawk; Inc." * • The bill introduced in the legislature May 1 by Buitub c o n ta i n e (1 the controversial name. Apparently it got into- the bill somewhere between thV( Dare Board and Burrus. Shelby- Hines, a Kitty HaiBlc Sec I'ROTE.STS, Page Four- EXPECT FIFTY ANGLERS FOR HATTERAS TOURNEY DRESSES AND PLAY SUITS similiar to the one Libby Creef was wearing when tJiis photo was .made Wednesday will he modeled by approximately 30 girls, representing school, civic clubs and other organizations when Southern Pulpwood Conser vation Association has its annual meeting on Thursday, June 1, at the Carolinian, Nags Head. A representation of the Association gave about 200 yards of gaily colored material to Home Econom ics , Teacher Margaret McConnick of Manteo High School, and she has supplied same to those who will compete in the fashion show of paper frocks and sportswear. Many have already com pleted their paper creations and are ready to compete for cash prizes. The dress Libby was wearing was manufactured and is one of a variety of paper things. to wear which are available at surpn'singly low prices at George Crocker’s Galleon bn Nags Head. (Aycock Brown photo) Big game anglers from Tex as, Ckmnecticut, New’ Jerrey, Virginia, North C a r o 1 i Georgia and other .states have indicated they would be in,Hat- tera,« for the annua] Hatteras Invitational Marlin Tournanrent on June 11-17,' according 'to Edison Meekins. Meekins is manager and tourney director for the spoh-. soring ITattcras Marlin Club. Thomas H. 'Wright, Jr., of Wil mington will be tournament chairman this year. ' • - s'” For the first time, game fish other than blue marlin vnll score in this tournament which Vi-ns established several yeai«. ago as strictly an intmmational blue marlin, tournament. Meek-' ins stated. '" ' ,» s: i i| I-- f I ■1} III 3 X,
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