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David Stick Kitty. Hawk, N.C. '27949 ,-a-2i-^6g xf ' SEND RENEWAL OF'SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS THE COASTLAND TIMES MAIL SHOULD BE^ ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS . 16 Pages in Two Sections' VOLUME XXXIII — NO. 15 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 MANTEO, N. C. 27954, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1967 Pages One through EigM^ Single Copyi-IO^ PROMISING CONDITIONS AS SURF-FISHERS GET STARTED IN COMPETITION THURSDAY Women from New Jersey Take Early Lead in. Tournament; Team Competilion to Be Followed by Individual Sport; to Conclude with Banquet Saturday Night. ' The Woman's - Surf Pishing Club.. of Merchantsville, New Jersey was winner in the first of our sessions of the 17th an- ,nual Nags Head Surf Pishing Club’s. surf tournament which began Thureday morning. (‘ _ Casting at the ocean’s edge in the Southern Shores area of Kitty Hawk, members of this team landed 16 kingfish count ing 30 points during the morn- I c ‘ session. f'*,!'?'' Cape Hatteras Anglers Club, which on November 2-4 will sponsor its-annual surf tourna ment, came in second with eight ' fish. counting 30 points. West Philadelphia Surf Ang lers showed for third place dur ing the first session with seven fish that scored 29 points, while the She Devils of Elizabeth City, N. C., with seven smaller fish scored 28 points. jSurside Six, first place win ners in the Nags Head Surf Pishing Tournament last year, .. caught six fish for 22 points. This team, the challengers this year, is from Kill Devil Hills. There were 38 club teams starting in the tourney begin ning Thursday. Team competi tion ends Priday afternoon. On Saturday, open individual competition will mark the finale of the touinament, a surf classic that has lived longer than any similiar filing contest along the Atlantic.' ? ' Most of the fish taken dur ing the first session which ended shortly before the Coastland ^ . Times went to press were king- t locally better known. as “ ' ''-■'^^Twhiting or sea mullet. Other scoring fish include weakfish (sta-trout), croakers, - , bluefiah,' flounder,' channel bass and (Stuped bass. Tournament Director Joe Hume ^.pointed out that other game and'food salt water fish listed as such by Wise’s Pisher- man’s ■ Encyclopedia will be scored as tournament fish as per the touriiament rating sched ule. The sponsoring club was or ganized'17 years ago. Joe Hume Is presidient of the club and also tourney director. Vice-president is Ted' Wood pnd George Mc- Gnw & secretarytreasurer. Directoii of the sponsoring Vcclub arp W. A. Williams, Charles A Bailey; Skm Liverman Jr., Pritz " Boyden iuid',W. H. Smith Jr. Tournament headquarters is The Carolinian Hotel. Gilbert Love to Speak at Tourney Award Banquet Gilbert Love, an editorial ex ecutive of the Pittsburgh (Pa) Press will be master of cere monies and make remarks at the Tournament Awards Banquet Saturday night. Mr. nnd Mrs. Love have already arrived at Nags Head and will remain here through the week end. His travel column in.the Press has in recent years resulted in thou sands of people visiting Nags Head-Outer Banks region where STICK NAMED TO HEAD LIBRARY SUPPORT BODY TOWN HIRES NEW POLICEMAN, WILL SET CHIEF SOON Whittington Takes Oh ’.Dua Role for $75; Burrus . - Withdraws DAVID STICK, Kilty Hawk author and operator of a book shop bearing his name, has been appointed chairman of the legislative commission to study library . support by Govenwr Dan;-K. Moore, it was an- i.ounrad last week. He is author of “Graveyard of the Atlantic,’’ “TheSOuter Banks of North Carolina," and wrote the te.vt for “The Cape Hatteras Sea shore’’ which is illustrated with photos by Bruce Roberts. The cbrauthoi^ book was published in 1964. .'Stick is hend of the “North Cai-olinians , for Better Li braries” statewide c i t i z e u s group. He is also active in the real estate field, one' of the principals in development of Southern Shores. Ken Whittington wes sworn in as policeman of the town of Mantoo Thursday, succeeding C, C. Duvall who resigned Sept 26 to go to sea. Whittington, 28, was hired by the town board Wednesday'night for the jobs of assistant police chief and assistant, to the water superintendent. His primary du ty, however,, will be to fullfill the police job until the lioard hires a chief. .When that occurs, I Whittington will divide his time with the new’ chief and Water Supt. Seldon Midgolte. The board agreed to pay JVhit- tiiigton $76 a week for his dual jobs. Woodson B. Fearing II, street ' cemissioner, .said the new chief probably will be chosen from a , list of applicants on file with the town clerk. Those who have applied in clude Melvin G. Owens, Coinjock, a former sheriff of Perquimans county; Anson Knowles, Nor folk, now a policeman there; E. W. Farr, Jr., Norfolk, a police man there and former member of the Geor^a highway patrol; Richard L. ‘&mtorno, Manteo, former member, of the Colorado state patrol; 'Roger Shannon, Manteo; and Samuel Pledger, Wanchese. , Mrs. Juanita Parker, to\vn clerk, said Jack Burrus, Man teo, withdrew his application for the police post. The three-member town hoard approved unanimously Whitting ton’s selection. Dare County Sheriff Frank Gaboon assumed responsibility for policing the town during the interim between Duvall’s de parture and Whittington’s em ployment. Whittington was the_tpwn po liceman for seven mon^s inur ing 1965. He said he quit at that time for “money reason ot.ly." In taking on the dual jobs, .Whittington said he would forgo ids taxi business. DEER AND BEAR HUNTING SEASON UNDERWAY FRIDAY FALL SEASON’S FIRST FROM SURF ON OUTER BANKS DREDGING OF OREGON INLET MAY BE OUT FOR WINTER FISHING SEASON • —. Tilleff, O+hers Express View That Unless Work Gets Under Way Promptly, Area Economy Will Suffer Blockbuster Blow; Corps Says Will Do Best Possible. NEW DEPUTY TO DRIVE COUNTY'S GIFT AMBULANCE JUDGE JAMES C. GODWIN, Suffolk, Va., caught the first large channel bass from the Outer Banks surf during the recent Fall season. He landed the 43-pounder on 15-pound test line on the beach of the north side of Oregon Inlet Saturday. Mrs. Godwin (left) displays a couple of many bluefish they also caught. Saturday was the second day the Godwins had fished the surf, and in addition to the big channel bass, several blues and speckled trout caught on spinning tackle they had also on Friday reeled in several puppy drum, or baby channel bass. (Aycock Brown photo) , _ ■ HOMECOMING AT M.H.S. TO BEGIN FRIDAY AT 4:30 *aracle Through Town; (Pueens; New Field Dedication; Dance After Game ■ifi' Big game hunting in coastal Dare county begins on Friday with advai.ee reports that there will be good crop of deer in the big woods of the Dare main land. Reports indicate that there is either a scarcity of bear this year, or that these animals arc feeding far back from the net work of roads leading through the mainlai.d woods. The area on the mainland where hunting will be permit ted is the North Carolina Woodlands Division of West V' attends meetings of the Hon 7 orary Tar Heels, on vacations with Mrs. Love. She is owner of a Pittsburgh Travel Agency. SHORT SEASON ON DEER. SOME AREAS IN DARE COUNTY Atlantic and Hatteras Town ships Get Open Season Oct. 13-Nov. 11 POWER OUTAGE ON MONDAY AFFECTS BEACH, ROANOKE IS. Power failure early Monday morning as result of a burned feeder line resulted in an out age of about three hours, af fecting Roar.oke Island and parts of Nags Head. A 13,(KK)- ' volt line from the Nags Head sub-station, apparently salt- laden caught fire and burned, shortly before 6 a.m. The burnout occurred at « L^eside Avenue and U. S. 158 Bypass. The outage affected Nags Head as far north as the Carolinian and all of Roanoke ^’Island. A feeder .line of Oregon Irj- let and Hatteras Island was not suTfected, thus there was no dis ruption of service in the REA- served areas. NO SCHOOL IN DARE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20 Molt ‘popular vrith the stu dents, a school holiday u set for IWday, October 20, in all Oare County school units. The holiday will permit teachers to .^^vttend. the 45th Northeastern District.Convention of NCEA in Rocky Mount There is a short season in two areas of Dare County for the killing of doer this fall. Both areas are normally closed to that type of hunting—At lantic and Hatteras townships. There may be some confusion as result of the regulations as publislied by the Wildlife Re- .sources Commission concerning the areas in question. The Commission’s booklet shows for Dare County a de parture from the statewide reg ulations •e.vccpting the Outer Banks nnd Roanoke Island. Wildlife Protector Foster Forbes, Jr. has the feeling that some hunting enthusiasts may misinterpret what the Commis sion* should have spelled out more clearly. In Forbes’ language, the only area of Dare County governed by the general state regulations is the mainland. That provides for open season on males frem October 13 through January 1. There is no open season for females (does) in this area. For Atlantic ar.d Hatteras Townships, the season opens October 13 and closes Nov. 11. That includes; Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Colington and Duck areas in the former, and Bux ton, Frisco and Hatteras in the latter. Forbes is concerned that through misinterpretation that some hunters may wind up with citations and face court action and fine*. Virginia Pulp and Paper Com pany. To hunt in the area, in ad dition to the proper North Carolina license for local, state and nor.-residents, a hunter is required to purchase a permit from the Company. The cost of local resident permits is $1; for non-residents, $6. The permits are available at the company’s mainland head quarters building or the Croa- tan Sport Center. Both are located in Manns Harbor. This year there will be a short .season, (October 13-Nov- ember 11,) for deer irj Atlantic nnd Hatteras Townships of Dare County. There are only a limited number of deer in these two areas. Big game hunting season ir.> See HUNTING, Page Eight The M.mteo Redskins home coming game this Friday, OC' tober 13, when they take on arch-rival Camden Rebels at 8 p.m. at / the Manteo High ball field well be preceded, inter polated and followed with many festive activities. Preceding the game will .be .a parade. Beginning at 4:30 Fri day with departure from the high school, the procession with police escort will make a right turn at County Street going all the''-.way to the waterfront, makingia U-turn at the court house and come up Lodge (Highway)!'.. Street and back to the school. Included in the parade will be floats by 'each of the four grades of the high school, si.v candidates fpr homecoming queen and their escorts, a truck from the Roanoke. Island fire department, a bombardier HDll tractor and Smokey T.(he) Bear from the Fore.stry Sei-vicc and a color guard ftom the MHS band. Sponsored by the freshman class with homeroom teacher John Bone as chainnan, ..the parade offers much in Ecnqol spirit and participation. The best of the floats designed and. made by class members will be awarded a cash prize of $20 (each class paid $5 entry fee). ■While candidates for queen were nominated by their senior class members, the fin.il selection was determined by secret ballot of See PARADE Page Four MASHOES SHARES TOO WANCHESE, MANTEO. DUCK SET secondary ALLOTMENT With many areas of the coun ty crying for paved roads, some heavily traveled at that, three lightly-traveled public avenues in Dare County have been bless- eil to get the lion’s share of secondary road funds. The fourth project is Bay Street in (or out of) Manteo which has been slated for paving for some time. The fact that part of tte road lay in towr.*, another por tion outside the town limits, has delayed that work. Slated to receive almost half the allocation of $40,835.53 is a stretch of one mile on Rt. 12M, north of Duck, to be “grad^, drained and stablizetl" for $20,- 000. S.R. 1137, two-tenths of a mile at Wanchese, the Owens ship yard road, is pegged at $6,000 for “grading, draining nnd pav ing.’’ Another $6000 is allocated for “three barge loads" of stabilizing material on S.R. 1113. DARE A.B.C. SALES SHOW DIP DURING SEPTEMBER For the first time in many months, A.B.C. sales in Dnre County dipped below the cor responding period a year past. Total sales during September were $51,316.10 through the stores at Manteo and Nags He.id. The decrease amounts to 13345 35. . '^j^is.week a check was drawn fr^ the A.B.C. account, pay- ablA, to Dnre County general fund\for $23,111.48 represent ing pWfits during the quarter ended Sppteniber 30. the road from Manns Harbor to Mashoes. Bay Street, the thorny Man.- teo road whidi has dragged along for more than two years while other streets in Manteo were paved, will account for $8,835.53 to be held in abey ance as the county’s share 'when the job is done. ' The foregoing projects were Appitpygd. .in a seaion.^ q^.. the Dare County Board of Commit sioners last week at which time D.'-W. Patrick, division engineer, accompanied by Roy West, dis trict engineer; Glenn Carawan and Ernest Walker appeared be fore the board. Patrick, speaking for High way Commissioner Don Mat thews who was unable to attend, outlined the allocation available to Dare County as follows: reg ular secondary road funds $10- 545; road bonds $29,300; those figures were added to by un allocated balance from last year of $2,272,25 for a toUl of $42, 117.25. However, there was de ducted 10% which is retained as contingency and emergency funds. Many other road projects are on the priority lisL including Trell Payne Road, California Street, Scarboroughto\\'n Road, Poor Ridge Buffalo City, Burn side Loop plus numerous others. Problems in in securing right- of-way agreements, in addition to limited funds, are cited as reasons for inability to proceed with those projects. KING SIZE KING MACKEREL TAKEN AT RODANTHE TUE! AY NIGHT '.VI'S. ‘1. '1' V —A.' ;•> TRAILER COURT HEARING OCT. 23 AT NAGS HEAD DIXIE COLEMAN, Richmond, and Rudy Gray of Rbdanthe display three king macKerei lanoed from the pier Tuesday night—first of the species taken there this fall. Coleman’s two kings weighed 20 and 23 pounds each; Gray’s scaled at 16 pounds. While these ■were the first reported from the pier at Rodanthc, (where two channel bass along •with hundreds of smaller sp'cies of fish have been taken during past week) reports of king mackerel catches have also some from the piers at Avon and Friwo.' (Aycock Bro^ photo) Past Monday's Sauion Results in Withdrawal of Plans for Duplex Construction Monday morning’s hearing in Nags 'Head concerning applica tion for erection permit for duple.x rental houses iu South Nags Head resulted in the re quest being tabled. W. B. Harp er hod requested permission to construct the units in the lR-2 zoned area which calls for single-family units. Attorney Dewey Wells repre sented Harper, and announced toward end of the hearing that 'his client would •withdraw the application and submit revised plans for single units. Another hearing is expected to be called when the revision is preserved. Trailer Court Expansion A hearing last week resulted iii denial of proposed plans for construction of a trailer court in the causeway area of South Nags Head.' A similar hearing ie slated for October 23 at the town hall. ' Under consideration at that time will be an appeal by Mac Miller. Proposed is an extension or ani.ex to the present Nags Head .Trailer Cou^ . between Business-and Bypaae-lU. .The present court is located on the ocean side. - - 'The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. and all interested pwrtiee are urged to attend. Other Vehicle In Service Burns Out Bearing On First Trip Sheriff Frank Gaboon has hired a new deptuy whose pri mary duty will be to lnve Dare County’s one operating ambu lance. The new deputy sheriff is Claude Chester Tillett, 49, of Manns Harbor. Gaboon said Tillett was an ambulance driver during a four- year army hitch and later was a fisherman and an employe of the state in a shipyard at Manns Harbor. “If he can drive an ambu lance, that’s one headache I can' shift onto him,” Gaboon told a reporter. The sheriff’s department took over emergency ambulance ser vice for the county Oct. 1 when a group of funeral' homes in Elizabeth City abandoned the service because of state and federal regulations and require ments of the wage-hour law, Twiford’s Funeral Home of Elizabeth City and Manteo, among other places, gave the county two ambulances upon abandonment of the ambulance service by the homes. Gaboon said one of the am bulances broke down between Manteo and Wanchese Saturday on its first trip since his de partment acquired the vehicle. A bearing burned out, he said. .. Cahbon said he believed the ambulance, an Oldsmobile, w'as “not worU; mucli'.,’.«He said he did not know what the board of coupty commissiemers would do about getting it 'Repaired. Cahoon said Tillett would be on call 24 hours a day, “just like all other deputies.” He said the ambulance-driving job since Oct. I has been handled by de puties Ralph E. Johnson and L. W. Beasley. ANNUAL MEETING GF N. H. CHAMBER ON OCTOBER 28 Buffet Dinner fo.,,&eeede Elec tion of.Oirecfii'rs; Other - Butineif piar.s are being finalized for the annual meeting of Greater Nags Head Chamber of Com merce, set for October 28. It will ^gin at 7 p.m. at the Carolinian Hotel, Nags Head. A buffet dinner is ir.> store, preceding the business matters which include election of direc tors; voting on amendments to constitution and by-laws; re ports on progress and accom plishments over the past 12 months; and recommendations. Price for tickets is $4 each. ’They may be secured from Fearing’s Inc. in Manteo, Vir ginia Dare Hardware at Kitty Hawk, Outer Banks Trading Post, Kill Devil Hills, Miller’s Pharmacy or the chamber of fice in Nags Head. COURT ADJOURNS OUT OF RESPECT FOR LATE JUDGE WASHINGTON F. BAUM Dare County Commissioner Rondal K. Tillett said Thui’sday there is a possibility there will bo no deepwater dredging done in Oregon Inlet this winter.- Tillett told a reporter that “it doesn’t look .so now” that the big hopper dredge Lyman will be .ivailable to dig out the sand and form a 21-fcet deep, 400-feet wide channel across the bar at the inlet joining the Atlantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound. “We probably will have to wait for the dredge Hyde to get back from Vietnam in' the mid dle ■ of winter, probably about Jan. 1,” Tillett .said. “Even if it arrives by that time, the crew, which has been on duty for a year or more, will get some time off. This means the Hyde wouldn’t be ready for work until about Feb. 1. “By that time, the weather would be so bad that we prob^ ably would get no dredging done this winter.” Unless there is considerable dredging done, the channel across the bar deepened and widened, the chatJiel from the inlet to Wanchese deepened and cleaned out, the Wanchese har- bar basin extended, ai.d the passage from Manteo to the Albemarle deepened, there is" a possibility that- big fishing trawlers will avoid the area during the lush winter fishing season. Such avoidance would ' be a blockbuster to the area’s winter economy. "Unless the channel is deep- . ened and kept that way, boats can’t' gret ir.-,” said Dan Mid-' yette, assistant manager of the Wanchese Fish Co. “If they are in and the channel gets full of' sand ar.d they can’t get out, they will lose money.” Midyette said this reasoning applied to boats of the 75-feet to 100-feet plus long class and costing in the neighborhood, of $100,000 or more. Midyette said ho took a boat through the iti- let Thursday and had no trouble in 10 feet of water. But he sarid a new boat based at Wanchese draws 12 feet A 10-foot chan nel would tie up the new boat as ■well as trucks operated by Malcolm Daniels atd IHA' fish company he owns. Tillett said the small dredge , Merritt is at work now in the inlet. This dredge heretofore has been used to dig a pilot - channel for the Hyde. Tilled said the Merritt was limited in what it could do, that it was tiwt built for the heavy dredging necessary. ’Tillett said Col. B. C. Snow, Jr., of the Wilmington district of the Corps of Engineers, would be here Oct. 18 on his annual inspection tour. The commissioner said he hoped Snow at .that time could supply some information on the Lyman. ' , The Lyman primarily is*^ Great Lakes dr^ge and has . a crew from that area. Ordirjariiy it winters in its home area, and See DREDGING, Page Eight' Judge Fentress Horner con vened district court Priday but adjourned it immediately as a mark of respect for the late Washington P. Baum. In announcing .the adjourn ment, Horner noW that Baum had served as judge of record er’s court in Dare County for more than 30 yMrs. Thf re corder’s court here -was replaced by district court in 1966. Baum died Oct. 4. He was 91. Norner said cases scheduled to be heard Friday would be called at the next session. Submissione noted in the of fice of the court deik: Dwight Edwin Gzimm, Man teo, traveling 70 mph in a 66- mlle tone, $30; Saomel E. Brooks, Chesapeake, Va.,-public drunkenness, '|17; ^ndolph M. Coltraine, Oregon Inlet, failure to provide employer’s contri tion report, |36; L^on BiMton Cox, Fairfiaid, improper in«, »a). m '"81 COASTLANDERS VISIT IN MANY 1 DISTANT AREAS Postmasters from at least, four communities in the coiu|^ country have been attending the National convention in Juan, Puerto Rico during tlSi.. past week. W. W. Tarkingtbn;* postmaster of Manteo, departeld' Baltimore via jet last Tuesday and was scheduled to return ’Thursday of this week. Others, from the area attending wnre Mrs. Effic Brickhouse of ,0^: lumbia, Mrs. Iva Hampton’^of - Coinjock and Norris Austin’”ofj" |) Corolla. -• "•iwi" V'.IS' .Rfep. Archie Burrus of NaB*' -1 Head this week waa in Copenr - hagen, Denmark, one of severiii European points in a tour spaal. sored by Southern Travel Oi* rectors Council lasting ., util October 23. .. , ' Mr. and Mra. Joe Duffieldvjgif. Kitty Hawk are reported enjoying a Bemuda vacatlofllt;^ V Mr. and Mrs. Fred. BanUgW;^ of MantM attended Montreal recently, as -dM and Mrs. Chas. d’Amoura, alae.- of Manteo, who visited Ngw*' Scotaa and : other '' Caaadlair"'~^^^| points. - ' :'«?"■■■ fSfSSl
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