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SUFFOLK MINORS
. PAY HEAVILY FOR
COTTAGE BREAKIN
No Probable Cause Found For
Manslaughter Charge
After Accident
A couple of Suffoik, Va.,
topn-aRffs paid heavily in Dis
trict Co'jit Th'iday for the
privilege of spending 22 hours
^''ith their .i^irl friends i-i the J.
R. Waj-d cottago at Avalon
Beach.
JiKl^e ^rntress Horner sen
tenced Jlichael Allen Cumm-
5nsrs, 19, and Jpny Lee White,
19, to iri.v months in j.nil sus
pended upon pa>nnent rif a fine
of .$300 each and court costs on
their pleas of g-uiR t.j non-
burglaiy hreakinp and entorin?
charges. Jfarion Chrisliu'' Park
er, 17, and Paula Jean Beilly,
18, both of Suffolk, were
ordei-ed to pay daiv.ages of $25
and costs each.
Homer was stem in handing
down the sentences.
"You brought these girls
down nei-e and got them in
trouble,” he said. Jliss Reilly
appeared upset through'ut the
trial. Miss Parker was com
posed and showed litt'o or no
emotion.
"We didn’t trj' to hid.' noth
ing,” one of the boys lestified.
‘‘We thought it would jp all
right and would let Ward (the
cottage owner) know when wo
got back.”
The youngsters a d mitt c. d
they had mmoved a screen
from a 'vindow in order t; got
into the cottage..
Homer found no probable
cause in vhe manslaughter
charge against Riciianl Rmei^
son McDonald in the loath on
the highway of Tero.sa Clenn
Midgett, 14.
State Trooper A. G. Wright
5nvestig.ived the June 8 accident
near Salvo in which .M;«s Mid
gett was killed .ind a com
panion, y'Jberta Mae f.lidgett,
15, was painfully injured when
See COURT, Page Six
Manns harbor man
RETURNS FROM VIETNAM
MAJOR INCREASES
IN DARE'S LONG
DISTANCE LINES
■COLONY’ ENTERTAINS AT MANTEO FOR 28TH SEASON
Effective June 30, Cepacify to
Be Increase KDH,
. Halteras Island
SGT. MAJOR CARL J. IvIANN,
arrived m the Unite.! States
last week after a j'ear in Qui
Nhon, Vietnam. JIann, who has
had 25 years of seiwice wRh the
U. S. Army, jdans to retire in
two years.
He is a .son of Mr. and Mrs.
Carl D. Mann of Manns Har
bor. Sgt. Major .Mann ha.s a
son, Carl Stanley Mann, with
the Sea lines also in Hup, Viet
nam; and a son-in-law, Sgt.
Ray Johnson, whe returned
from Vietnam in April.
Mrs. Mann made her homo in
ElPaso, Te.xas while her hu.s-
band was in V'ie.tnam, and ia
here with him on a two weeks
leave, after which they will go
to Kansas City, Mo., where he
will be stationed.
KITTY HAWK’S
RESIDENTS GET
FIRE QUESTIONS
Replies to Be Returned to Com
missioner Fennel Tillott "
- Promptly
BUDGET SESSION
FOR DARE BOARD
AGAIN ON MON.
Dare County Board of Com
missioners will meet June 24
for further study of budgetary
requests, according to Chairman
W.'S. White. Many of the Coun
ty ’departments have ip'esentcd
preliminary figures for the
board's considemtion, but ‘ none
have been adopted. ^
White said that tlie tax super
visor was cun-cntly tabulating
available taxable property for
the coming ye.ar. He said that
county officials were hopful of
' haying tho.se figures for all the
couhty’s township.s in order to
properly consider all depart
mental requests, at early date.
Notable among increases is
the school budget request for
fG6,003.77 moi-e than last year
when 198,840,01 was budgeted
to, be derived from ad valorem
tax sources.
The total school reque.st for
the coming year is $250,847.54,
the balance of some $85,000 ex
pected to be derived from sour
ces such as book fees, intangi
bles tax, interest, N.C.E.A.,
E.S.E.A., court fines and various
other miscellaneous niean.s.
Another department expected
to be considereil for a sizeable
increase is the sheriff’s depart
ment which has been assigned
responsibility for maintaining
ambulance service.
Further information will be
published in succeeding is.sucs
regarding departmental fund re
quests compared to prioi- ycar.s.
CAHOON TAKES OVER AS
HEAD LION FOR 1968-69
The Manteo Lions Club con
ducted a double-barreled pro
gram Tuesday nigh'—club mem
bers entertained their ladies
with a dinner and officeivs for
the 1968-i9 year were installed.
Jerry Gaboon was installed a.s
president for the new year.
Other oficers installed were:
Carlisle Davis, first vice presi
dent; Steve Basniglit,- Jr., sec
ond vice president; Manning
Gray, third vice presuleent; Mar
vin Clark, secretary; Roger Mi-
hovch, assistant secretAvy; Dean
Harrellson, treasurer; Ralph
Jones, tail twister: St. Clair Bas-
night, assistant tail twister; Roy
Gray, lion tamer; Jeffrey Mid
gett and Melvin Jackson, one-
ycar directors; Hughes Tillett
and Heitert Bliven, two year
dii'cctors; Loui.s Midgcttc, im
mediate past president.
Jack Tjllctt, a past president,
wai tnaster of ceremonies at the
installation.
Some 300 re.^ident taxpayers
of Atlantic Township e.xccpting
Kill Devil Hills have recently
received a questionaire 'H'^dcr
•sponsor.shop of the Dare .Coun
ty Board of Conuni.ssione.j-s re
garding e.stablishnient of ‘a fire
company. The quc.stion of e.stab-
lishing the depaitment has been
of more concern .since the Town
of Kill Devil Hills recently
served notice that the depart
ment there would not be able
to continue answering calls out-
sitle the town limits.
The questionaire calls for
opinions on three matters:
(1) Will or will not vote for
bond issue (to raise funds for
establishment); will or will not
vote apin-oval of tax not to ex
ceed 10 cents per $100 valua
tion to .support said department?
(2) District coverage, to in
clude Duck, Southern Shores,
Kitty Hawk Village, Kitty
Hawk Beach, Kilty Hawk
Woods, Colington Lsland?
(3) Will or will not join vol
unteer fire-fighting company?
The sun-ey forms are to be
returned to Pcnnel A. Tillett,
commissioner ' from Atlantic
Township, in Kitty Hawk. While
no return date was specified,
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Effective June 30. long dis-
'anc'". circuits available'in mainr
summe- .voi)ula*'on areas of the
Outer Banks wi'l Iv gi-.it!v in-
crna.sed. .■Additionally, loiprove-
ments have been made in other
facilities of the, comp.nny sci-v-
ing the Dare County areas.
On .lune 30 the nunilier of
long-distance ch'cuits ii''-iilable
through the Kill Devil Hills ex
change .vill increase bv fifty
peicent. 'ip twelve from the ex
isting 24, to a new total of 3(1.
Buxton exchange .it Cape
Hatteras, presently ritb 12,
will Lnereaso by 19, makimr a
total of 3l LD. circui!.'- Addi
tionally, :n Hatt('ras Island, six
new circuits will be available
through ihe W.nvos exchange
which w.ns made ojicraiivo just
this we.ek.
I'his new structure 'c seawc
northern Hatteras Island is
virtual’.y '■■torm-proof, .'i-cr;ni-ding
to L. .S. Blades, Jr., president of
Norfolk & Carolina Telephone
and Tdegixiph Co. The now
facility', under constniction for
about twdve months, opened
•lune IG. U scn’cs Rod.onthe,
Waves and Salvo.
In the tri-eoinnumity area,
seiwice i.s presently limited to
10-party sei-vice, but Blades
said that '.he. eornpauy has
scheduled installation of addi
tional linos which will provide
1-, 2- and 4-party service, in
the fall of this year.
The new long-distanc' con
nections .are made available
microwave, towers whien tie to
the ovorill N&C sy.sto'n. Taiea-
tions are at Buxton, Waves,
Manteo, Kill Devil Hills. Mamie,
Coinjerk .ind Elizabeth City in
that order enabling b’lig-dis-
tunce calling.
, In laige part due to the na-
tionwiiH “after-hours” d'nding
at low-rates, the sy.stc,n .jerv-
ing Dare County, as in other
ai-eas, has been taxed beyond
its limits.. The ailduional cir-
eifjtV coinc at opportune'lime.
NEW POWER LINE
PLANNED BETWEEN
ISLAND AND BEACH
Vepco Seeks Permit to Con
struct Line Similar to
Currituck Crossing
•show the
a veitical
feet above
across the
in Roanok(“
PAUL GREEN’S EPIC SY.AIPIIONIC HISTORICAL DRAMA is i
Jlanteo. Scones from “The Lost Colony” and a view of the Water
I'lie .Miow is staged by Joe Lay'ton of Broadway, TV .and Holly
through .August 25, with special showings on Sunday nights of ,A
by .Aycock Brown)
58 PERFORMANCES SCHEDULED
'LOST COLONY' BEGINS
28TH PRODUCTION YEAR
n its 28th sea.son on the Fort Raleigh National Hi.atoric Site near
.side Theatre on the Dare Coast-Outer Banks are shown above,
wood fame. Performances are given evei-y night except .Sunday
ugust 18 (Virginia Dare’s birthday) and closing night. (Photo.s
Virginia Electric and Power
Company has made aiiplication
for a permit to con.stnict an
overhead powerline across Roa
noke Sound ju.-^t north of U. S.
.No. 2(>4 Highway bridge ne.nr
iMnntco.
Plans submitted
cable will provide
clearance of 101.8
mean high water
navigation channel
Sound and siipjiorting jioles will
he placed 400 feel a)inrt. The
existing o\erhead powerline
crossing Roanoke Sound is to be
removed upon completion of the
new cro.ssiiig.
The determination as to
whether a iicrmit will be issued
will he based on an evaluatio.n of
all relevant factor.s including the
effect of the projio.se'd work on
navigation, fish and wildlife,
consen-ation, pollution, and the
general iniblic intere.st. Com
ments on these factors will he
!icce|)ted and made part of the
record and will be con.siilerod in
determining whether it would be
111 the best public intere.st to
grant a permit. In cases of con
flicting property rights, tjie
Corps of Engineers cannot un
dertake to adjudicate rival
claims. Written comments perti
nent to the proposed work, as
outlined above, will be received
in the office of the Coips of
Engineers, Wilmington, until
4:45 p.m., July 17.
NEW MENTAL HEALTH
PSYCHIATRIC WORKER
FINAL DATA FOR .
' bREGON INLET
‘ PJT. UNDER WAY
Alvah Hj. Ward, Jr., local
chairman 61^ the Oregon Inlet
project, said' the Corps of Engi
neers has begun to assemble
and correlate final data on the
project before-, it is presented
to,'the budget bureau prior to
aski^ congressional authoriza
tion for the $11 million plan.
Tom Swain,- representative of
the. Wilmington office of the
Coi-ps of Engineers, met here
Monday night with local boat
owners to collect technical infor
mation' needed ihy the chief of
army engineers. This informa
tion, Ward said, included the
intent of local boat ownera
towani e.xpanding their fi.shing
and towing opcralion.s.
Ward said the chief’s office
must know the e.xtent of indus
trial growth in the area and the
prospects of continued growth.
Sec INLET, Page Six
Director Joei Layton’s fifth
production -if Paul Green
p 1 o n o o r outdoor symnhonic
drama, "The Lo.st Ceinny”
kicks ■off a scheduled 5P-per-
fonnanee so-ison Fndav night
in Waterside Theatre, Rf.anoko
Icl.'iiul. It will be the 2^111 pro
duction year of the hirtorical
.spcJtacular since it w.is first
presented on the Fort Ralpigh
National Historic Site in 1937,
The show was su.suende'd for
four veal’s during Woi'ld AVar
II.
The 1968 perfonnances are
scheduled Monday' thri’.i.Th Sa
turday .at 8:30 p.m. (EDT).
with special Sunday night
showings on August 18, the an-
nivei-sai’y of the birth of Vir
ginia Dare—first child of En
glish parents bom in .-Vrierica—
and on closing night, .August
25.
Director Layton is a widely
acclaimed stager of in>i'iri.als
on Bi-oad’.vay, TV and in Holly-
woofl. lll.s current New Y-i'-k hit
is “Gciorge M”, the ste.":' of
George M. Cohan, starring Joel
Grey.
Among those playing impor
tant roles ’n this year’s ‘'Colo
ny' are: Thomas Hull of Dur-
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A SERMON IN GLASS is the name given the six panels of stained glas.s windows recently
dedicated in Kitty Hawk Methodist Chureh, according to the Rev. Hank Wilkinson, jiastor. The
windows were a-rproject of childran of the church. The cross in center was fashioned from old
.shipwreck timbers and built by retired Coast Guardsmen who are communicants of tlie church.
(‘Aycock’ Broum photo) " '
ham, “Old Tom;" Pat K“lly
Gilbro.at.h of Green-ilior.i. “Ele
anor Dare;" .Alarjaiene 7 homae
of Elizabeth City, “Oueen
Eliz.-ibeth;” John L. Walker of
Burlington and Now A'o-k City,
“Upncwuo;” Ira D.ivid W^od of
Raleigh, “Sir Walter Raleigh;”
Woodson B. Feanng, II of Tdan-
tco. “Gnvnnior White;” Gordon
A. MLnard of Green.sbore, “John
Ronlon;’* Steve L. I’re>.-ndl of
Tennessee, ‘‘The !Hi.-*>irian;”
Christopher G. Coan of Wins-
ton-Salsm, “Father Jlaitin;”
.John Dornb-'rgor of Blowing
Rock, ’‘.Aimnias Dare;” .M'ehaol
Kirby of Chapel Hill, “.'timon
Fernando;” Charles A, Jfartin
of Winston-Salem, “Chi’f Man-
teo;” Diane Brown Moort: of
Granite Falls, “Dnmo C-dman;”
and Doh,j Cochrane of Ciiapol
Hill, “Wanchesc.”
DRAMA CRITICS
PRESS MEMBERS
AHENDING SHOW
Drama critics from lerding
Bo.«tcn. Philadelphia and Wash
ington, D. C, newspai’.e’s—in
addition to representatives of
the press of North Carolina and
Virginia — arc attending and
reviewing the opening o- “The
Lost Colony” outdoor drama
here Fri lay nighi.
S^m Hirsi’h of i-he Boston
H-’-nld-’l’ravcIer is a femier
cart ••'nd rtnff member of Paul
Green’s ;>’i o n c e r sj aiphonic
dia-ma. He is returnin'' for the
finst time i'ince he played the
vole of ‘F’lthc.'- Martin in 1949.
In 1937, the fir.«t yc.nr of the
sliow, he was an as.-=istr.nt stage
manager and played the roles
of “Simon Fcmandi” and
“Master of the Queen’s Cere
monies.” He conlinued ns .'m
assi.stant stage maiiagnr
through 1939, playin.r “The M.
C.” in 193S and “Simen" in
1939. In 1940, the last reason
b'fore thft play wa.s suspended
during Worhl War 11, he played
tlis two roles without the stage-
mansging dutie.s.
Others coming here for open
ing of the 28th production sea
son are: Richard Cop cf the
Washington (D. C.) Pn.st ^d
Jerry Gaghan of the Phila-
dc'nltia (Pa.) Daily News.
Representing the Raleigh
(N. C.) .News and Obso’ver ifl
Charles Wheeler and from the
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot is Mai
Vincent. Reviewing for tk Nor
folk Ledgor-Star is Dr. Ernest
Rhodes, l^cd Haney of the
Elizabeth City Daily Advance
and Mrs. D. Victor Me-tkins of
The Coastland Times ar.* other
press representatives. FVqnk
Roberts of., the Eastern North
Carolina, staff of the Vi’-glnian
Pilot is also covering the (rvent.
FORESTERSMEET
TO INSPECT WOOD
PRODUCTS USE
3 AUTOS STOLEN
IN DARE-TYRRELL
THEFTS. SUNDAY
CHARLES R. FRANKLIN. JR.,
a native of Kinston, ';-eccntly'
joined the staff of lh(!';TIdeland j
Mental Health CentOT ’.ocatod |
at 418 West Second Street,
Washington, as supon’isor/- of
the social work dciiartmcnl. He
will be rospoii.siblc Tor deilvei-j-
of social casework services,
working in conjunction with the
other profe.ssion.al staff which
includes p.iychiatrists, psychia
tric nurse and clinical psvcholo-
gist, .-Additionally, Mr. Frank
lin will •lavelop the .“iocial work
and he will act as conrultant
for community ugcncie.s includ
ing health, welfare, piilicc de-
imrtmenls and courts, m well
as providing tlirect sen’ice.s.
Franklin grew up in Kinston
and graduated fixim Gramger
H’igh School in IJCO lb; at
tended East Cnixiliria Lniver-
See MENTAL, l**gc Five
Outer Banks Section of SAF
Tour WoodeiJ Area of
Hyde, Tyrrell
Members of the Society of
-American Forester’^ ai’o making
an inspection tour of the Outer
Banks wood products imlustr’y
today .as a ’highlight of the
group’.s -Appalachian Section
meeting.
Between 80 and 100 members
of S.AF have registered for the
meeting sponsored by the socie
ty’s Albemarle chapter. John
Clenient of the Weyorhaeu.sei’
Co. at Plymouth is chairman of
the group.
The SAF members will be
shown fore.st and farm opera
tions of West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Co. in Dare and Tyrrell
counties, and wood chip manu
facturing at Georgia Timber-
lands’ new mill near Engelhard.
The group will he transported
by buses.
The We.stavaco segment of the
tour includes pine regeneration
and research, a joint forest fire
control demonstration by the
North Carolina Forest Scivice
and Wcstvaco on the Air Force
bombing range, pumping and
other drainage efforts to im
prove woodlands productivity,
aiui experimental farm opera
tions where the company is con
verting marginal tiinbcrlands to
more productive usw?.
Rounding out the full days
lour is a visit to Georgia Tim-
berlands” new chip mill in Hyde
County. The highly nipciianized
facility — centrally controlled
with the use of closed-circuit
television — can prtnluce 75 tons
of pulpwood chip.s per hour for
shipment by barge to pulp and
See FORli.STER.S, Page Four
WESTAVACO officials welcome NEW FORESTER
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MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF'AMERICAN FORESTERS
inspect juniper stand seen in tour of Albemarle section of group.
From left to right, Don Smith, newly appointed Dare Forester
of the N. C. Forest 'Sen'ice; and George Henderson and (Quentin
Bell of Westavaco.
Alvy C. Knott, 23, Chicago,
and George T, Slattery, 21,
Washington. D. C., are sched
uled to apiicar in District Court
Friday in connection with the
theft of two automobiles Sunday
fi-om the R. D. Sawyer .Motor
Co.
Knott and Slattery ha\‘e been
ill the Dare county jail in lieu
of $25,000 bond eacli since
their capture at Columbia Sun
day. They also face .auto theft
fhai’ge.s at Columbia.
Deputy Sheriff C. C. Duvall
said the men, who may bo using
aliases, broke into .Sawyer’s Ford
agency early Sunday. They se
lected a white, four-door, 1960
Ford and used it as a battering
ram to force oiien the gate to
the. agency. .After forcing the
gate, Duvall said, they abandon
ed the car in a ditch and re
turned to the lot and drove away
in a black, two-door 1908 Ford.
The sheriff’s department was
alerted almost immediately and
roadblocks were set up. Duvall ■
hurried to the end of the beach
road in hopes the thieves had
taken that route and were
trapped.
About tliat time, Duvall said,
a radio call from Elizabeth City
said the thieves had been spotted
at Columbia, scat of Tja-rcll
county. The deputy, accompanied
by Saw>’cr, headed in that di
rection.
Columbia’s night policeman,
W. W. Sawyer, was on the look
out for the stolen Ford fram
Manteo. He spoted it and chased
it up a dead-end street. As he
closed in, he found the c.ai’
abondoned behind the home of
I. R. Swain. The tliievcs were
gone. . -
.A.s Columbia Police Chief
Juli.ru L. Poston was hun-ying
to Sawyer’.s aid, a call went out
to State Trooper J. H. Withers
and Tyrrell County Sheriff
Thomas K. Yerby, Jr., that'a
1968 Chr>'sler had been stolen
from the home of George G.
Stewart and was headed cast.
The officers. took off like
hungi-j' hounds after a fox. Dep
uty Sheriff Walter Peal ■ of
Creswell joined the chase.
In the nujantimo, Duvall and
See TIIEFr, Page Four
.AIAKINE WALKER NOW HAS
A NEW OVERSEAS ADDRESS
A new address has been re
ceived in this office for a ser
viceman who has just gone.to
Vietnam. It is printed herewith;
Wallace J. Walker, HMl, USN/
5945097, Marine Air Based Sqd.
12 Medical, Marine Air Grnuii
12, 1st Marine Air Wing, FPO,
San Francisco, Cal.' 96602. ’Mr.
Walker is a 1st class nayql
medical corpsman. He is :tlte /
husband of the former Nancy
Pearl Midgett, daughter of JSrJ '
and Mrs. Leonard Midgett ofv
Manteo. .Mrs. - Walker is, a nurse
at the Albemarle Ho9pltal'^wi;|^^
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Elizabeth City.