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HORNER ORDERS
JAIL FOR ROAD
SIS N STEALERS
•ludge Also Gives 5*Day Sen
tence To Youth Who
Broke Probation
tv
Judge Penh-ess jlomor moved
Pi’iday to break up the practice
of stealing road signs by senten
cing four Currituck youths to
jail oji charges of petty larceny
in the Sea Crest. Village ai-ea
of the Southern Shores Develop
ment.
•‘I’m going to send them to
jail," Horner said in District
Court. “I’m going to break this
up. They are old enough to know
better."
The judge said David Stick,
area lieveloper, had been forcetl
to replace 85 sign.s within a
•short time because of vandalism.
The signs cost from |4.60 to
IC each.
Sentencing to jail for 30 days
each were Carroll Ray Merrell,
19; George tklwai-d Barnard, Jr.,
18; Donald Robert Vance, 19;
and Melvin Lee Dowdy, 17. They
appealed the jail teim and were
released on $200 bond each.
Stick and Roy Scarborough, a
bulldozer operator in Sea Crest
V illsge, testified the defendants
had stolen some .stop signs and
U3ei them as surf boards at
the adjoining beach.
Homer said he had been asked
to order the boys to stay away
from a Nags Head night spot
“where they have been causing
trouble."j He made no mention
of this in the .sentence.
Horner imposed a jail term
belateilly on Bi-antley Elton
Griggs, 22, Point Harboi-, upon
conviction of charges of public
drunkenness, resisting arrest,
and striking an officer.
Donovan F. Twyne, Nags
Head police chief, said he spot-
t«l Griggs in an intoxicated con
dition in a Nags Head night
spot. Griggs was accompanied
bjr his young wife and tWo-year-
. old ^ild. Twyne said that as he
’ attempted to lead Griggs outside
the youth hit him. 'fwyne said
he Teturhed’the blow.
Griggs said he was sitting
pfully in a twoth when
e'.came over and “told me
5?f|e‘ snatched me by the ann,"
G^|[g.sjiwid. “1 'got upset. I
tri^'.,tp-^4natch my arm away.
I didn’t'do nothing. I didn’t hit
nobody. I'hdd.about four beers.”
'^Heitor ’TViUon Walker ve-
CbllW that Grigg.s had been in
^rouble in Currituck and was on
probation and upder court order
not to use alcoholic bevetages
Tar.'two years.
Ifpmer remarkol that Griggs
•pp^luvd headed foi* the roads,
tplmupon 'Mrs. Griggs sobbed
fop'yie^'eral minute.s. Griggs, a
talli-miiMuIar youth without sox,
atiiirar^ uncomfortable,
r. llomer ordere«l him to ap-
Wir in Currituck district court
Monday where the judge rould
ednfer with the probation officer
there 'before passing sentence.
At the .Monday meeting, Ho)iier
Mntenced Griggs to five days in
jail which he already had served
after his arrest at the Nags
Head night spot. He also had to
pay $15 court cost.s.
Oscar T. Palmer, Buxton, pled
guilty to charges of speeding
90 miles per houe in .■» Sa-mile
See COURT, Page Pour
democratic nominee
RELAXING ON COAST
FEDERAL $122,400
LOAN FOR WATER
AT ENGELHARD
WILL REPRESENT MANTEO IN THE TIDEWATER SOAP BOX DERBY SATURDAY
is sft 4 V 5^
Community Granted $183,600
for Project Estimated at
$306,000 Total
ROBERT W. SCO'fT
HA'rTER.^S—Dr. Dan Bur
roughs reports that three Re
publicans, and no Democrats,
were on hantl to greet gu
bernatorial candidate Bob Scott
when he landed at the Billy
Mitchell Airport Monday.
The rather unorlljodox wel
coming committee consisted of
Dr. Burroughs, Jim Mullen, and
Hal Gray. "Jim may be register
ed as a Democr.at,” Dr. Bur
roughs explained, “so he c.an
vole in t.he primary. But the
real dyed-in-the-wool Democrats
like "Clam” Stowe, just weren’t
present.
"Olid don’t you think Clam
hasn’t taken n lot of kidding
about this. He’s pretty upset
about it, I think. Actually, I
don’t think the prc.ss or any
body was notifie,! ih.at Scott
was coming in. 1 bidieve lie iust
wanted to do a little fishing,
and forget about the campaign
for a while."
Dr. Biiri-oughs said he believed
Scott wo'.dd snend most of the
Week fishing at Ocracoke.
HAYMAX REUNION SET FOR
JULY 20, MAXNS HARBOR
The .annual Havmau reunion
will be held in Mnnn.s Harbor
on .Tuly 20. The gathering will
begin, at 10 o’clock in tlie morn
ing. directly across the road
frem thc-.Methwlist church. All
members of the Haymaii clan
ami all friends are invited.
Bring a picnic basket. Free cdld
soft drinks will be provided.
Officers are: Mrs. Oma Pearl
Tillett, president; Mrs. Frances
Caixl, vice-president: Miss Inez
Gibbs, secretary; Mrs. Shirley
Sjiencer, treasurer.
A .$122,400 federal loan has
been approved “subject to th
availability of fund.s” for the
cnnstniclion of .n .$300,000 water
distribution system for the En-
gelharil area.
The Economic Development
Administnition had previously
okayed a $183,000 grant for this
piirpo.so.
For tlie past two yoar.s, a
steering committee of five En-
gelharil citizens has been work
ing .sporadically toward its go:il
of establi.shing a water .sy.stem
for this area.
The chairman of this com
mittee, E. Royden Clark, Jr.
.says it will probably be at least
18 months befoj-e the water
coulil pos.sibIy be tumeil on. Thu
whole project will fall flat un
less the .steering committee can
get 226 subscribers. Thus far,
only 85 people have signed up
for the sen'ice.
Clarke who is executive vice-
pre.sidcnt of the East Carolina
Hank in Engelhai'd, .said the
cost to the average home oiimcr
M-ill be $20. This includes a $10
memliei-ship fee in the a.s.socia-
tion (which is a coiporation), .a
$5 lap-on fee, and a $5 meter
dppo.sit.
The corjjor.ation will be owpcd
by the membership, and there
will be an annual director’s
ineeting. Each member will be
eat it led to one vote.
,|Receipts frem members pay
ing their water bills woviUl be
used to retire the $122,400 lo.an.
This loan would be paiil back
over a period of 40 years.
CAMPS OVER CAPACITY
The. lone 4th of Julv holiday
period, 5 lays and 4 nights was
•a busy time for Cape Hattei-as
National Sea.shore. Ti-avel fig
ures for the period show 42.000
visitation .to the Seashore with
the .eey^n camp|p'ounds recoril-
ihg ^>150 cami^r de'ys. Cnmp-
ground"! use-'w^'-',67.%, above
ratefd .capacity,; and 'tn.xcd all
fecilities' to.th'e'rmixunum ‘avail
able limit.s: .prh’ate, boating was
much in ‘evidence-' during the
Dcriod wit^‘'580 small boats and
35 cabin cruisers.using Um Ore
gon Inlet facilities and cabin
ci-uisers .and 26 .hmnll boats
stopping at Ihes dock at Ocra-
cokbt'
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SAGA OF TERROR
ON SAND DUNES
SET FOR COURT
Lively Session Likely In Hearing
On Morals Charge,
Intimidation
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FREDRICK CATES. EDWARD I.EE MANN, PAUL CREEP AND ROBERT FUQUA pose by their nearly-completed soap box
raceis whicli they made and will run in the nth annual Tidewater Soap Box Derby. The event, with some 90 enti-ie.s, will begin
at 1 p.ni. .Saturday, July 13 at the Naval .Shipyard, Port.smoulh, Va. Fredrick, is sponsored by the Sand .Spur Motel, Nag.s Head;
Edward Lee by the Mantoo Lions Club as is Robert Fuqua, and Paul Creef is sponsored by the Roanoke Oil Company, .Manteo.
A fiftli Manteo entrant is Warren Meekin.s, spon.sored by the .Sea.shore .Sign System,
The Derby i.s sponsored by the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot a ml 'I'idewater Chevrolet dealers which include Hassell and Creef
Motor Co., Inc. of Manteo. .Saturday’s winnerj in addition to capturing many prizes, will compete in the nation.al derby in Akron,
Ohio in August. (Aycock Brown photo)
GARBAGE BIDS
TO BE REOPEMFD
ROAD ABANDONED
ST. ANDREW'S TO CELEBRATE WITH
SYMBOLIC MORTGAGE BURNING SUN.
COMMAND CHANGES
AT OREGON INLET.
HATTERAS STATIONS
Sw’eeping changes of com
mand are taking place at Coast
Gdaid stations from Oregon In
let to Hatteras.
CWO-2 Hope Bcacham. com
manding officer at the Oregon
Inlet Coast Guard Station, is
being transferred to the Coast
Giiaid Cutter “Unimack” out of
Cane May, N. J.
Beacham savs tentative plans
call for B.MC Hairy O'Neal of
Ocracoke to replace him. O’
Neal, who recently completed a
tour of duty in Vietnam, is now
on leave at his home in Ocra
coke.
BMI 'Edward Scarborough,
commanding officer at the Hat-
tens Inlet Coast Guard Sta
tion, is retiring and is exoected
to ta replaced by BMCM Lester
Scarborough, who is now on the
Coast Guard Cutter “Point ,Ar-
eha" out of Little Creek. Both
thtae men are from Hatteras
Island, Beacham said.
The change.s in command at
Hattens and Oregon Inlets are
expect to take place during
the first week in August.
The group commander for
this^area—Lt A. T. Miles—^was
recently transferred to , the
Coast Guard “Ingram”, which
is going to Vietnam. Beacham
sdJ4' Miles’ successor has hot
yet.been named.
The membershin of the St.
Andrew’s Bv-The-Sea Enisconal
Church will celebrate Sundav
by burning a mortgage and
dedicating a he.at-air condition
ing pump.
The mortgage is being liqui
dated in a remarkably short
length of time, and the heat
pump acquired ahead of schel-
ule.
The mortgage that will be
burned will not be the r*al
thing.A .sheet of paper repre
senting the actual recoi-d of in
debtedness will be burned by a
match held by Dewey L. Hay-
nmn. senior warden.
Standing by at the .sj-mbolic
destruction of the. mortgage
nlaster will be the rector, the
Rev. Kenneth L. Whitney. Also
prc.sent wll be the Rt. Rev.
Thomas H. Wright of Wilming
ton, bishop of the Diocese of
Exst Carolina.
Bishop Wright will preach the
.sermon after the mortgage
burning and the dedication of
the heat pump. After the ser
mon the Lost Colony choir will
sing the offertory anthem.
The symbolic buining will
mark off an indebtedness of
$22,500. The dedication of the
heat pump to be used for warm
ing purposes in the w^inter and
air conditioning in the summer
will represent an accelerated
pavout of $2,500.
St. Andrew’s became a sum
mer chapel at Nags Head bc-
rtveen Roanoke Sound and the
Atlantic Ocean in 1915 under
the tutelage of the Rev. Robert
Brent Drane. During the
stewardship of Drane’s son, the
Rev. Frederick Blount Drane,
St. Andrew’s became an or
ganized mission of the Episco
pal Diocese of East Carolina in
1955.
Minister followed minister
and St. Andrew’s became an
Aided Parish. In 1961, under
the leadership of the Rev.
Joseph P. Burroughs, the Parish
House iras built and plastered
with a mortgage of $15,000.
The mortgage had been
reduced to $9,000 in August,
1963, when a'plot of land with
summer buildings' just south of
the chuivh was offered at auc
tion. In’what'was described as
a “great leap, of faith," the
churclc bid in' the hind for
$13,500. This hiked the total
mortgage indebtedness to $22,-
500
See CHURCH, Page Four
New Irkls foi- Dare Cnuntv’s
garbaee. collection wilt be
oixmed July 10. as a result of
the present bid holder being
unable to meet the financhil
tenns of the' bill.
Loonius .Timiu.s .Icnnetto, .Tr.,
told the Darei Commus.sionors
that he is unable to operate at
the original $31,000 bid. The
commissioners agreed to reopen
bids and "to p.ay Jennette and
his staf4 in the meantime out
of the funds allotted for gar
bage collection.
A new contract will go into
effect July 22 with the hope
that an indiridual will take it
anil the county will not have to
go back into the garbage busi
ness as they did earlier this
month.
Other Matter
Tlie commissioncr.s held a
public hearing Wednesday on
abandonment of roads on Ea.st
Coast Properties’ land at Kitty
Hawk.
Lt. A?-lhtir V. Poter.son of
Arlington, Va.. appeared with
his lawyer, Dwight Wheloss,
and asked the commissioners to
leave the roads open so that he
could have nfce.s.s to his lami.
Ll. Peterson said that there
See BO.ARD, Page Four
CUCUMBERS DRAW
GOOD PRICES AT
SEASON CLOSING
TENTATIVELY-ADOPTED BUDGET FOR 1968-69
BREAKDOWN OF SPENDING
PROGRAMMED BY DARE BOARD
Other Hyde Crops Expected to
Command Good Yield, Prices
Next Few Weeks
Cucumbers are closing strong,|
but the price, rise came too late!
to help most of the fanners
around Engelh.artl,
That was the conclusion of
Leon Ballance, who grows and
bui'.s cucumbers. Late last
week, faiTpers in this area were
getting $2..60 a bu.shel for cu-
eumbers. At that time, the Bal-
lanee brothers in Nebraska had
purcha.soil about 23,000 biishel.s
from local farmers.
However, the fanners had
marketed most of their protluct
during the last 10 d.ty.s in June
wlion prires i-angod from $1 to
$1.75 for top-grade cucumbers.
The market opened .Tunc. 19
with area fanncr.s getting $1.60
for top-gi‘ade cucnmbor.s. The
price then went down to $1 be
fore rising, firat to $1.75 and
then to $2.50.
Leon and his brother Oiwillo
prelicted that the. market would
remain steady during the -last
week or ten days of the season.
“I don’t see any reason why
the prices sliould go down,”
Loon said. “I think the price
See PRICES. Page Four
SURFING EVENT HAMPERED BY CALM WATERS
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PARTICiPANTS IN THE COLORFUL SURFING EVENTS of the Hatteras Happcning.s July 4th
celebration were .harrassed with a calm ocean and hardly any breaker.? last Tliursday. The'event
attracted hundred of person just as the bench buggy races which followed. One obscn-cr said it
was the biggest crowd to, ever attend a celebration in Hatteras village. (Aycock Brown photo)
ITEM 1967-68
LGKNERAL FUND LIMITED
A. County Cummii-sioner.s
1. Secretary to Board • $ 4,3‘2(}.(Kl
' 2. Chairman of Board - 3;5CO.OO
3. BoanI Members 5,00l).00
4. Supplic-s, regular 500.00
6. Equipment, regular 500.00
6. Furniture ’.. . 50.00
7. Repairs to equipment 160.00
- 8. Postage 100.00
9. Tel. .and Tel 1,000.00
10. Travel .00
11. Adv. and Promotion 1,000.00
12. Dues and .sub.scriptions 500.00
13. Misc 500.00
TOTAL $ 17,120.00
B. Tax Supervisor
1. S.alary, Tax Siipcivisor t $ 5,484.00
2. .Salary, n.ssistnnt 4,320.00
3. Salary, tax lisieii 1. 1,000.00
4. Supplie.s, regular 1,000.00
5. Equipment, regular .00
C. Repairs to equipment 150.00
7, Postage 600.00
8. Tel. and tel 150.00
'9. Travel - supeivisor 400.00
10. Travel - tax listers .00
11. .Advertising 50.00
12. Contract services 2,300.00
13. Slisc 50.00
14. Building Inspector .00
I. 6. Building Inspector - travel .00
TOTAL $ 15,404.00
C. Tax Collector
1. Salary, tax collector $ 5,484.00
2. Salary, assistant 1,534.00
3. Supplies, regular 900.00
4. Equipment .00
5. Furniture , .00
6. Repairs to equipment 60.00
7. Po.stage 900.00
8. Tel. and tel 200.00
9. Travel, tax collector ‘200.00
10. Bond premium 200.00,
II. Advertising 150.00
12. Misc 100.00
TOTAL $ 9,728.00
I). County Treasurer
Salary — Planters Bank 300.00
E. County Attorney
1. Salai-y - county attorney $ 792.00
2. Special legal services 1,000.00
TOTAL $ 1,792.00
F. Register of Deeds
1. Salary - Register of Deeds $ 6,636.00
2. Salary, assistant 4,536.00
3. Supplies, regular 1,500.00
4. Equipment, regular 650.00
5. Furniture .00
6. Repair to fui'niture 75.00
7. Postage IM.OO
8. Tel. and tel. ...^ 35.00
9. Bond jiremiuth 10.00.
10. Contract Seiwices 1,500.00
11. Misc 150.00
TOTAL $ 15,242.00
G. Sheriff
1. Salary, .sheriff $ 6,630.00' ' $
2. Salary, office assistant 4^86.00
3. Salary, deputies 20,000.00
4. Salary, clerks (radio) 4,986.00
5. Salary, special off. ,, .00
6. Supplies, reg. « SOtt.OO
See SPEND! SPEND! SPEND!, P»g* ‘three
1968-69
, 3,767.40
3,600.00
5,000.00
600.00
600.00
50.00
150.00
loo.po
i.odo.po
.00
1,000.00
500.00
500.00
10,607.40
5,758.20
4,.636.00
3,494.00
1.000.00
.00
150.00
500.00
150.00
400.00
.00
50.00
2,300.00
50.00
1.500.00
1,000.00
20,888.20
5,758.20
1,794.00
600.00
.00
150.00
60.00
1,000.00
200.00
200.00
•200.00
100.00
100.00
10,062.‘20
SOO.OO
831.60
1,000.00
1,831.60
$ 6,967.80
4,762.80
1,000.00
100.00
. .00
6M.00
176.00
40.00
10.00
3,580.00
600.00
$ 17,785.60
$ 6,967.80
4,762.80
20,260.00
6,524J0
.00
100.00
Details of a terroristic atluclc
witli a liorsewhip and a threat
(if rapp of tourists exploring
the giant sand dune known as
Jockey’s Ridge arc .scheduled to
be aired in Di.strict in Di.strict
Court Friday.
Other ca.ses .set for court
hearings include a morals charge
involving a 31-year-old man and
a 13-.ve:ir-old boy; triple charges
of eareless and recltless ilriving,
littering, ami assault against a
local resident who intimidated a
tourist; :ind a chargi; of break
ing and entering against a youth
who crawled thraugli a third
floor window of a hotel and
got into tied with a innn and
his wife at 4:30 a.m.
.Michael Ray Woolard, 21,
Chesapeake, Va., was cha'rgeil
wilii using a hor.sewliip on Joe
Roberts, 25, throwing Christian
Barbato, 13, down a steep slope
of Jockey’s Ridge, and as.sault
with intent to rape of tinee
girls on the giant dune.
During Woolardl’s idleged in
timidating and terroristic foray
•Saturday on the big sand dune,
a major tourist attraction- in
Nags Head, he w.as accompaniml
by seven other youilis, all of
Chesapeake. kSve were arrested
after a sliort ch.ase, two es
caped.
Those arrested were Bobby
Lee Hartman, 21; Larry Wayne
Barnett, 19; Ernest Edwartl
.Smith, 19; William Harry Cut
ler, 22; and Johnny Edward
Hariniaii, 20. E.acli was charged
being an accessory to Wollani's
as.saults.
Woolard was held u n il e r
$5,000 bonil ami his companions’
bonds were set at $2,000 each.
• Donovan F. Twyne, Nag.s
Head police chief, said the fir.st
ceiiori.s of the attacks came
about 8 p.m. SaUuxlay. Roberta
told Twyne a youth lashed liini
with a horsewhip and threatened
to rajie hi.s wife. Other report.?
concerning Woolard and his com
panions followed quickly. Two
girl.s reported a youth threw
them on the sand and attempted.,
to tear off their clothes.
Twyne, Higliway I'atrolmen '
Jack Cuniwell, W. L. 'I’liam'e.s,
and H. .S. Banks, ami Dare Coun
ty deputy sheriffs Sam Pled
ger and (3. C. Duvall caught the
youths in a swamp off tlie iluno.
James .A. Camp, 31, Lake-
wood, Ohio, was jailed on a
morals charge brought by Are
thur .A. Bonhwicic of Breoklyn,
N. Y. The charge involved a
young boy and two equally
young witiiesse.s. Cam]) was un
der $5,000 bond.
William Chamber.s, 32, Man
teo and Wanchese, was ordered
.See S.AG.A, Page Five'"-
RUNAWAY PICKED
UP AFTER HOTEL.
SHOP PILFERED
-A 15-year-old boy who said
he ran away from home in
Greensboro is .scheduled to' ap--
pear in a closed session of di^;- •
trict court Friday on breaking
and entering and theft charges.
Ken Whittington, Manteo po
lice chief, said the juvenile s‘tole
$10 in cash from the barber
shop in the Fort Raleigh Hotel.,
and .$32.89 from a soft drink
vending machine .and a bubble
gum dispemser in the hotel lob
by. The thefts occurretl lietween
6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Tkiesday.
Whittington said he and
Charles Fearing, manager..of-
the hotel, found the money in
a teddy bear which the boy had ,
pickeil up in the lobby. He hail
removed the stuffing in the toy..
The boy was di.'Hrovered on a
couch in the hotel lobby about .9 '
p.m. the night of the thefts.
Whittington said it w‘as appar
ent he intended to a]>cnd the ,
night there.
The boy infonneil Whitting-,
ton and John Ragan, night
policeman, that he would run,
away if they did not lock him
up. Hesitant to put a juvenile
in jail, Ragan then put him in
the ]>atrol car and kept him .
there through the night.
The. boy’s parents picked him
up Wednesday and agreed'“'(o’
bring him to court Friday.
MISSING MEN POUND
•k
Three Plymouth men, reportedV
missing for 24 hours,' tuned-
up Wednesday alive and healthy!;. ' ^
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Dare County Deputy 'SherHfl .j
Chester Tillett said the
were found, near Galloway’a^?fM
Creek at East Uk*,aft*r|j^;f^v^
motor in their fcMt mvkc'down!';
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