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David Stick: Kitty Hawk, N.C, 27949 8-21-^63 ? V = SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS ^rteen Pages in Two Sections COASTLAND 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 CAROLLINA MAIL SHOULD BE ' • ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C, 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS’ Pages One through Eight VOLUME XXXIII — NO. 13 MANTEO. N. C. 27954, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER; 29, 1967 Single Copy lOfi .DUVALL ABANDONS POLICE JOB. NO SUCCESSOR HIRED fl Three Applicants File, Including Uncle of' Police Com missioner ■ X i C. C. Duvall quit as Manteo’s town policeman Tuesday night and shipped out as an able sea man, according, to Mayor Sam , E. Midgett. , A successor had not been hired by late Thursday. Sher iff’s deputies were fulfilling to\vn police duties in the in terim. I Midgett said Duval quit for ' “money ■ reasons.” He said Ou- Vair could make more money at sca'in si.x months than he could imake here in a year. The Man- teo police job pays $90 per week. 'The mayor said Duvall had informed town officials about two weeks ago that he was looking for a better-paying job. Even with the advance notice, Midgett indicated, Duvall’s cle- pai:ture was abrupt. , Midgett said he asked Dare County Sheriff Frank Cahoon to “look out for us until wo can hire' someone.” He said the sheriff agreed to the request. Midgett said hiring Duvall’s replacement would bo up - to McCoy Tillett, the town board member designated as police commissioner. ’ “I 'c.\pect the whole board will discuss the matter, how ever,” Midgett .said, “and then agree' on a successor.” He said he had told Tillett “to get together with the other commissioners and decide on someone.” The other board members are Woodson B. Fear ing II, street commissioner, and Carlisle N. Davis, water com missioner. Midgett said three persons had filed applications for the police job with Town Clerk Juanita Parker. Mrs. Parker said the appli cants were Jack Burrus, Ken Whittington, and Roger Shan- "non. She identified Whittington as a former Manteo policeman. She said Burrus and Shannon had . no experience in police work. Burrus, she said,-was a broth er of Tillctt’s mother. She said Shannon worked for a local dairy. PLANS SCHOOL L. W. LONGAKER NOW PLANNING MARINE SCHOOL Summer' Marine Institute far HS Students Planned for Summer 1963 LO.XvJARER WIFE'S CHARGES AGAINST OFT-SUED MATE BACKFIRE Plea'for More Support Money Ignored, Payments Order ed-Reduced • TWO DAYS LEFT IN MEMBERSHIP CHAMBER DRIVE ■ t Nearly $12,000 Collected Through Wednesday With Many Remaining The Greater Nags Head , Chamber of 'Commeiice’s $16,000 ' drive is nearing the top. Through Wednesday, $11,806.50 had been collected with many of those contacted expected to join be fore the ■week’s end. Two more days remain dur ing which interested citizens and business operators may join for 1967-08, After the October 1, cutoff date, chamber directors have advised that memberships will not benefit by listing in the accommodation directory, nor will they receive the inquiry list. G. W. Jones, co-chairman of the drive which is deemed suc cessful in many rcsjjecls, said that the canvass of wholesale ■suppliers had been postponed. “We’ve been so busy making the local contacts that we have been unable to visit Elizabeth City, Norfolk and other points as an nounced. As soon as those as pects of the campaign arc wrapped up, we will, work on the out-of-county interests,” said Jones. He indicated that solicitation in those areas might be accom plished .within the next two weeks.' Mrs. Callie Scarborough'.s most recent legal action against her husband, Lewis M. Sc.nr- borough, had a surprise ending —for her—in district court Fri day. The Scarboroughs, residents pt CoHngloii, ai'c estranged. Under a sepai-ation agreement, he allotted to her monthly all but .$21.20 of hi.s Coast Guard retirement chock of $234. This was supposed to pay monthly mortgage charges of $72.80 and provide $140 support for 'Mrs. Scarborough and their two chil dren. She had complained in court earlier this year that he had cut her allotment. He countered that sometimes one of the chil dren—and sometimes both— would leave their mother’s house and stay with his mother. Scarboi’ough .said when that oc curred, he paid their share of the support money to his moth er. This matter waa adjudicated in May. ' ' Mrs. Scarborough later charged her hu.shand and a girl friend with’ fornication and adultery. Ho appeared in court twice to an.swer the charges. Once Mrs. Scarborough didn’t show up and at neither time did she produce necessary wit- ncssc.s. By this time, the patience of Judge Fentress IHonier and So licitor Wilton Walker had grown thin. The case was tossed out of court. Friday Scarborough again was in court to answer a charge of insufficient support. Mrs. Sr.arborough did not show up. Attomey Wallace R. Gray pointed out that the couple’s teon-aged daughter had got married and was not now a de pendent of her father. Gmy asked that A former Now Jersey i-c'-i- dent Los'ic W. Long'ikcr, li:is been selected .as project direc tor for Title III ESEA in Dare County. Purpose of the newly- filled position is to plan a sum mer marine institute for high school .students to begin in the sumojor of 1908. This project has long been sought by many Dare officials and interested ritizens, notably Dr. W. W. IHa-vey, Jr. of Manteo. The now director gradun’o in 1961 from Cranford High School, N. .T. and attended Al legheny College, Mcadviiie, Pa, He received B.A. degree from Syracuse Univer.sily in 1965, :md did post graduate work at SU. Following that he had a year’s g i- a d u a I o study in oceanography at New York University. At that time he was employed as assistant research scientist to Dr. Williard J. Piei-sbn under U. S. Naval grant to study computerized ocean wave predictions. Longaker is married to the former Nikki Nagorka of Schc- ne-ctady, N. Y. who lias a B.A. in Engli-sh from Syracuse Uni versity. They have a daughter, Jennifer, 6 months old. The newcomers reside in Manteo. THEY WERE FEATURED AT GUIDES' ASS'N. BANQUET DCTB CHAIRMAN FIRE DAMAGE TO BRIDGES HOUSE UP FROM $1500 A fire believed started from old chimney s\vept through the upper story of the Paul Bridges house on the north end of Roa noke Island about midnight Saturday. Estimates of damage by fire department officials and Bridges ranged upwai-d from $1,600. Holes XMeJbumcd in the roof and ‘ the'side Tiexl to the chim ney. Floors in the upper part of the house were damaged and several pieces of furniture were charred. Smoke damage was believed considerable. Bridges said he and his wife were wnlching television when a neighbor stopped and told them their house appeared to bo on fire. Bridges got a hos-o and kept the blaze down until the Manteo fire truck could get there. Assistant Fire Chief Jack Wilson said the fire was “tough to handle.” It was located in a area of the liouse difficult to reach with equipment, he said. l¥l m SITTING AT- THE HEAD,’.TABLE in the Dogwood Room of The Carolinian Saturday night for the annual banquet ofr'the Oregon Inlet Guides’ Association meeting were those shown in photo. From right to left, Capt. Chick Craddock, president of the group and Mrs. Craddock; Capt. VVarren O’Neal, vice-president and scheduled to become president soon, and Mrs. O’Neal; and Bodie Island District NPS Ranger Balfour Baum, (a former charter boat skipper) and Mrs. Baum. Representing the National Park Service superintendent at the gathering, Baum, a talented speaker gave an interesting talk. Capt. Craddock, a gifted speaker, gave some very interesting remarks during the banquet. After the banquet the group went to the hotel’s anchor room for fun and dancing. (Aycock Brown photo) ; ■ WESTVACO OPENING 300,000 ACRES ON MAINLAND FOR PUBLIC HUNTING GLEE CLUB ORGANIZED THE TRAVELLING KEYS MYSTERY; SANS DRIVER How do car keys travel from home to work and back again? P":? Usually in' the car switch. This ‘ week 'Mns. Lyna Har bour .of: MontM drove her car to work, parked it and went about the matters at hand— not leaving her place of em ploy until lunch time. She then diacovered the absence of keys." A' search bore no find ao she dispatched a fellow worker, to her home for a sec ond oet.'' ' ' Upon enterhif'the home the firat object the dispatched na-. maritan saw was the much- acarched-for set of keys on the kitchen table. The unsolved mystery: How Z' did the keys get back to the * '■'lady’s^ home 'if she used, them to drive her car to work? monthly support payment bo cut onc-thii^. Hor.^er agreed to the request and directed that JIrs. Scarbor ough pay the court costs her suit. The case itself was tossed out of court. Russell Gone Simmons, Man- tco, pled guilty to traveling at excessive speed. The speed re sulted in an accident and dam age lii.s car to the extent of $700. Thei'c wore no personal injuries. Horner ordered him to pav' court costs. Clyde Foobcc, Powells Point, pled guilty to charge of reck- -le-ss driving and oncrating a car without a driver's license. He was finc1 a total of $75 and costs. Eddie Corey Connor, Auland- er, pled guilty to a charge of reckless driving. Judgment v.-as suspended on' cQndition he pay a fine of $25 and costs and si»r- ronder his driver’s license for CO days. A charge ' against Diane Elaine Payne, Stumpy Point, of not h.aving a driver’s license was dismissed when she found it tucked away at. home. Norman Lawrence Holmes pled guilty to a charge of car inspection vioilation, but said the violation had been absolved. Ho was let off with court costs. Demnsoy Thomas PeiTy, Jr., Kitty Hawk, was not in court when ho was called to''ansaver a charge of not having a driver’s license. He skewed up later said he thought- the case was set for Oct. 6, and that ho wouldn't have any money until his Social Securitv check ar rived about Oct. 3. The judge said he didn’t want to take his Social Security money and told him to stay out of the driver’s scat until he' got a license. Neither Benjamin Branch nor Cora Ellis Branch appeared in a non-.support case she filed against him. They were believed See COURT, Page Four Some twenty students, mostly girls, have joined the newly Scarborough’s | organized glee club at the Man teo High school. Mrs. Jack Cahoon and Mrs. Millie Brown, both of Manteo arc donating their talents for an hour each school day to woik with the group. School principal Roberson stated Wednesday that it was “hoped” that more stud.aits would participate, particularly boys. ' • . ‘ West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company is opening its 300,000 acre North Carolina Woodlands to hunters for the 1967 season. Quentin Bell of Manteo, man ager for Westvaco, said -the open areas are located in Dare, Tyrrell, Washington and Hyde counties. A small fee is charged to help offset administrative costs, Mr. Bell said; $1 to residents of the three counties and $6 for all others. Licenses as required by law must be in the hunter’s pos-^ session when on the property, and all applicable game laws arc enforced, Bell emphasized. The permit will be accom panied this year by a “Wostva- co Outdoors Courtesy Card,” wliich Mr. Beil said is part of an information pamphlet con taining tips on safety, outdoors courtesy, conservation and fire prevention. “Westvaco Outdoors Courtesy Cards” and hunting permits may be obtained' from North Carolina Woodlands at Manteo or from many stores in the Woodlands area, but the permit must be obtained in person. Bell said. No mail orders can be ac cepted. ■ Most of the open areas are heavy woods and swamps, with deer .end bear the largest game. A 260-milc road network has been built by Westvaco to move its equipment, and these roads will be available to hunters as work schedules and weather permits. Commenting on the “Westva co Outdoors’ themes. Bell stated: “Our primary goal is timber production, but our over all resource management plan'5 include an effort to provide as many outdoors opportunities as our operations will allow.” Bell explained that these op portunities would have to be limited in some areas during certain times of the year. “Fire hazards often become critical in the fall and winter,” he. said, “and our operations must con tinue year-around to insure proper maintenance and devel opment of our woodlands.” Emphasizing that efficiency and minimuip waste are vital to profitable woods operations. Bell said that Westvaco uses a “block cutting” technique, in which all types of marketable timber ara removed from X site. This site is then replanW mechanically or by hand.'^ 'ITie seedlings used are from care fully selected parent trees, chosen for their superior char acteristics. Nortli Carolina Woodlands is also the site of a Westvaco Forest Research Center, where parent-trae seed orchards are being developed by grafting and jKillination. Seed from such superior trees are planted each year in North Carolina Wood lands’ nursery to supply the seedlings for reforestation after harvests from the woodlands. GRACE HOMECOMING SET FOR OCTOBER 1ST Grace Methodist Church at Duck will have its annual home- coming services Sunday, Oct ober 1. Ricky Pinner, layman, of the Manns Harbor Cliurch will bring the message at the 11 o’clock service. A picnic style dinner on the grounds will precede an afternoon sing- spiration. WESTVACO'S DARE COUNTY DISTRICT GETS NEW BUILDING IN MANNS HARBOR '':y— '-V- I .JUf. WEST "VIRGINIA PULP AND PAPER COMPANY’S new Manna Ha^V office and shop is open for business. The Dare County District headquarters has bcen'I^tcd across Highway 64- 264 since the company moved here 15 years ago, ’The $24,000 steel buO^ng was completed this summer, and. includes office space and equipment maintenance areas. Thirteen Westvaco per- Eohcl are'assigned to this location, under District Forester George • Henderson. The' Dare , and Tyrrell districts make up the 300,000 acres of Westvaco’s North Carolina Woodlands, headquar tered in Manteo. The company manages diversified land resources from Pcnn.sylvania to Georgia. Wo~tvaco is a major producer of woodpulp and chemicals, and papers for packaging and com munications. (Aycock Brown photo) . BUS SERVICE TO ENGELHARD FROM MANTEO TO START QUEN'riN BELL, manager. N. C. Woodlands Division, West ■Virginia Pulp and Paper Com pany, was elected chairman of Dare County Tourist Bureau at the autumn meeting of the Board of Directors held in Man teo this week. Serving with him as first and second vice presi dents will be John Fox, man ager of The Lost Colony and Mrs. Josephine Oden, Sea Gull motel operator, Hatteras. Mrs. Elnora Preston was re-elected secretary-treasurer. Aycock Brown will continue as manager and news director, assisted by Mrs. Sarah Owens. Virginia Dare Transportation Be ginning New Run On Wednesday A new bus service will be heralded next Wednesday, when Virginia Dare Transportation Co. begins daily trip to Engel hard from its Manteo opera tions base. J The firm was g;ranted author- ay about two months ago to bl^in the. sendee. Its departure from Manteo will assure con nections from Norfolk in ’ the' morning as well as ' almost-di- r^ct connection with northbound bus from, Miinfeo at 4:36 p.m. The new schedule will depart Manteo at 9:20 a.m., arriving in Stumpy Point at 9:66 where it will dispatch mail, load and un load passengers. It will then continue westward, arriving in Engelhard at 10:45. Return trip will leave Engel hard at 2:40, raach Stumpy Point at 3:15 and Manteo at 4:00 P.M. The run is about fifty miles. Engelhard-Washington Bus Co. operates betAveen Engelhard and Washington, serving points along U. S. 264 in IHyde and Beaufort counties. ., SUNDAY BEGINS NEV/ YEAR FOR MANTEO BAPTIST Sunday, October 1 is the beginning of a new church year at Manteo Baptist Church. This date is chosen to coincide with the date set by the Southern Baptist Convention. 'Two important events are scheduled for Sunday. In the morning worship service, the pastor, Wm. S. Brown will con duct installation service for persons elected to serve in the church and its organizations during the year. There will be a roll call of these persons. Following this service, Mrs. Hilda Francis, general superin tendent of the Sunday &hool, has announced there will be a Sunday School picnic. Members are urged to bring a picnic basket of food and to be pre sent for this occasion. BOYS RIDING DOUBLE ON BIKE IGNORE STOP SIGN, INJURED SERIOUSLY Two small boys who police said were riding double on a bicycle were injured seriously Sunday when struck by an auto mobile at a Manteo street in tersection. An accident report filed by C. C. Duvall, Manteo policeman, with the sherifFs department showed that Ray Abbott, 10, and Gordon Willis, 9, were struck by a car driven by Robert Allen Booth, 20, All live on Roanoke Island. 'Gordon . Buffered a crashed hip, a broken leg, and a con cussion. Ray received shoulder braises and an injured ankle. Both wera taken by ambuli^e to Albemarle Hospital at Eliza beth City. Relatives said Gordon is expected to be hospitalized about three months. Ray u ex- See INJURY, Page Few OLD MANTEO SCHOOL . BUILDING DAMAGED BY VANDALS TUESDAY MANTEO GRANTED $49,000 BY STATE BUT WITH STRING Vandals, believed by inves tigators to be teen-agers, broke into the old Manteo Elementary School Tuesday night, breaking 12 window panes, and doing considerable damage to the in- •side. A large glassed bulletin board display case was broken by the vandals, who used dis carded paint cans and old door knobs to break the glass. An overhead light in the hall was knocked,^ loose from the %iliiig. by similar' objMts; - A 'pane in the locked office door of supervisor of teachers Tliomas 'White, whose office is housed in the building was broken out, and a large filing cabinet in the hall outside his office was overturned. It ap peared that a piece of wood torn from the cabinet had been used to break the door pane. Trash that had been swept and piled in the hall for re moval the next day was strewn throughout the hall and ad- j.Tcent rooms. Bricks, pieces of stone and parts 'of an old leg wore found inside the building beneath the windows which were broken, obviously thrown from the outside. A can. of white paint was thrown against the front of the building, defacing the brick. The unkown vandals also pushed off several-articles-of scenery that were on the stage of the old school into the audi torium. A large bag of grass seed, stored at one end of the hall, was torn open and its con tents emptied in, the floor. The building had been cleaned in some sections by staff mem bers of tile Roanoke Island Child Development Center, and members of the center’s par ents’ league, which will occupy the building until East Carolina University takes it over in the summer. Also occupying the old build ing will be staff members of the Community A'rtion Agency, who had also done a consider able' amount of work in the building. Investigating officer, Dare County SherifFs Deputy Ralph “Swede” Johnson, siud a thorough itivestigation is under way, Johnson visited the scene fol lowing the incident, which has been placed as occurring be tween-5:45 and 7:15 p.m. Tues day night.- Johnson took the artacles usM in the breakage, as well as had pictures taken of the damage. Sweral good leads have been found in con nection with the vandalism. Center director Mrs. Pat Feariiig' said the vandals’ act has put the moving of the cen ter into its new quarters from the old Coa-st Guard Station at lUlI Devil Hills about two days behind aehi^ule. She also omphasiied the fact that allp bolta and latches have been placed on the inside of all the entrance doors, some - of which did. not close and lock properiy. It is believed that the vandals entered the building through one of the faulty-clos ing doon. A BOOZIN’ PAROLEE MIGHT THINK TWICE BEFORE NEXT ANTIC Action Must Be Approved By Federal Agency Before... Money Possed Mayor Sam E. Midgett said Thursday the state department of water resources at Raleigh had approved a grant of $49,- 000 to Manteo for use in con struction of a sewage ti-eat- ment plant in Shallowbag Bay. Midgett told a reporter ‘ he “hoped” this action drew a lit tle closer to reality devclopmoht of Manteo’s waterfront and harbor improvement, 'i’here is a string to tlie grant. “There is nothing definite about getting the money,” Mid gett said. An application now must be forwarded to the federal wate.r pollution control administration for final approval of the grant, he said. “There is a lot of paper work we have to do,” Midgett said. He said the next step is to sell municipal bonds of $130,000 approved in an election about 18 months ago. Also, he said the town would seek a federal grant for extending the town’s water lines. He said the Department of Housing and Urban Develop ment would guarantee sale of the bonds. Midgett and several other local officials met Wednesday with representatives of the Economic Development Agency and the Department of North Carolina Water Resources con cerning state and federal aid for the town’s harbor improve ment project. They included Charles Ed wards of EDA; Fred Armstrong of the state water resources de partment; W. W. Harvey, Jr.'i Dare County Commissioner; Woodson B. Fearing II, mem ber of the Manteo to'wn board; Martin Kellogg, Jr., town at torney; William Goode, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Fos ter Forbes, state Fish and Wildlife, .Commis.'rion; Preston Biddeli, assistant superinten dent of the Cape Hatteras Na-. tional Seashore; and A. HE Ward, chairman of the Oregon Inlet project The EDA is a'federal agency. who.se aim is to aid develop- . ■ment in communities through providing additional jobs. Willie Wooten, 25-ycar old negro parolee assigned to Dap^ County and employed at Nags Head, is back in the cooler. Wil-' lie, like more of the skunks' who are sent to Dare .through the paroles policy of shipping such subjects to “new” areas, is charged with trespass and attempted breaking and cnteiv ing of Midway Pure early Sunj day morning. He had driven there is a vehicle belonging to Sea Oatel, his place of employ ment ■He was picked up by Deputies Willie E. Daniels and R. E. (Swede) Johnson shortly after attempt to enter the building about 2:20 a.m. He fled on foot but in his intoxicated state, Stumbled and was easily cap tured. He has been in the Dare County jailhouse, awaiting hearing set for October 6. At that time, it’s possible that in formation as to who his com panions were might became available. There were three subjects who Ded, two making escape through the bushes and brambles. Philip Quidley, Midway pro prietor, stated that damage to the window sash would ran about $26. He said that Wooten. in the company of some kindred companions, had earlier that evening been in the station'in the guise of customers, but ap^ parently were "casing the joint.” MANTEO HIGH NAMES tT-CS CLASS OFFICERS ‘srl a| ■A'ii Election of officers for the ' ■ four grades of Manteo H|gh. was completed this week. They ■ are Ninth Grade: President,, Wanda Perry; Vice President.,.) Connie Doug^; Secretary, Sha^, ", on Hooper; ’Treasurer, Joann Baum; Tenth Grade: President; ' Waiter Daniels; Vice President', Dean Fearing; Secretary, Chrik Midgett; Treasurer, Anna Mae , ;- Baum; Eleventh Grade: 'Preai- dent, Mike Beachasn; ’ Vtoa- ^ Preaident, Celia, Evana; tary, Karen Kradall; Treasuntr^i; Warren, Spencer; Twelft’hi^ Grade: President, Justin Tilr§^; lett; 'Vice Prerident, (Paul ' Leary; Secretary, Annette'Mid-' gett; ’Treasurer, Ruby Dariieto. ^ '.'■Cj '^1
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