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David 3ticK ■ latty Hawk, N.C. 27949 ,8-21-^63 .. . SENDR&IEWAt .^^SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE expiration DATE ON ADDRESS TIMES MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Twtirty Pag«, Thrt# S«rti lom WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLANP OF NORTH CAROLINA Pages One ihrough Eight Single Copy I0|l DARE SHERIFF'S DEPT. EMPLOYEES GET PAY RAISES Approval Granted at Wednei* Night Dinner Meeting .of Dare Board Is a husky younjf deputy w-ith less than a year’s evperience to be preferred to a middle-ageil, experienced officer who has built up 15_ or more years of seniority with the sheriff’s de- , partment? . - And should he be- paid more, .or at least as much as the older officer? , , These |Were the questions that the county commissioners trietl to answer at a Wednesday night dinner meeting at Spencer’s .restaurant in Manns Hai faor. The commissionei's apparently decided youth is to be pi'el'erred to experience as evidenced by the fact that a young deputy (Sam " Pledger, who has been with the department less than a year) received a |1,U20 per year salary increase, while an older deputy (Raymond Basnett, who has approximately IS years experience) received a |232 sal ary increase. “If you were the sheriff and you had to send a deputy out on a petty tough case—would you send a 67-year-old man like me, or a deputy who was maybe •26 years- younger?’’ Board Chaiman Stanford White asked a reporter after the meeting. Then, answering his own question: “You know which one you’d lead: the younger one. And that’s what we were up against here tonight. We want to reward .seniority, and we re alize that experience counts. But .80 does youth.’’ ' “This' is the problem that we're up against—the salaries ill '.hn r.hcrifis department, and in our other departments too; are based on .seniority. This Sfc RAISES. Psge Pour, . VAST. CHANGES IN FISHERIES DURING HIS LIFETIME a'.' *• t''4s> CLARENCE L. cMIDGETT, tlie de:kn of Dare County fishermen, works on a net in front of liis Mann.s Harbor home. Midgett has been involved in coniniercinl fi.sliing since he quit school in the .seventh grade to go into fi.shing on a full-time basis.. “Pishing was right good dur ing the depre.tsioii,’’ Clarence Midgett .said rocently as he sat in his Mann’s Harbor home re calling his first half-century in the commercial business. “Actually, we. didn’t feel the dcprcMiion too much,’’ Midgett said. “Fishing was pretty good, •DARE COUNTY NIGHT' AUGUST 18; »EE LOST COLONY SEATS FOR 1000 “Dure' County Night” will be ' observed' at “The Lost Colony” outdoor dfama on Sunday. Au- gubt l&r-ihe 381st unniversao' oflithe birth, of Virginia Dare, finR child of England parentage born in- the '16th century New World. ‘ ’Geueral Manager John W. Fox anaoiiliciid t^ay that 1,000 seats will be ma^e available fi'ee, on a firrt-aalied-for first-served bMts, td.rosidcnts of Dare Coun- .ty. He. said the 1,000 tickets are (i how aytilable for distribution ' from tm business office of “The Lost Colony” in tlie Dare Coun ty Community Buildins. in Man- teg. A .' “^Ve would. suggest that a member of the Dare County fam ily come into the office and re- •Ihest the number of tickets re- guir^ for the immeiliate mem bers of the Dare Couhtty re.si- dents.” Fox said, “because when the 1,000. tickets are gone, there will be nb|more on a free basi.s.” “But,” he adilcd, “if there are any" leH on the night of the special |>erfoi niance—August 18 r^they will be distributed at the Waterside Theatre Box Of- i fiee on a first-come, first-served basis.^^ Him Juanita Mitchell, “Miss Dai« County" of^lOCe in the Jaycec-sponsured contest, will be oa hand at the timre on “Dare Ci^ty Night’’ to' help welcome tucsts. fox also said that Bar bara Dare.Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hariir.^|^ Thomas, will make ag ap|;cijme in the August li' pfrfgnnaace as the baby, “Vittihia’' Dare”. Bar bara’s, mo^er is Marjalenc Thoma^ the Queen Elizabeth of the 19M pr^ueUon of “The Loot Colony”, She is the former Uarjalene Midgett who was born irithia a .mile, or so of this theatre and has been in tho dragia alidost every year since ioSl. Harry. Thomas is principal of^'Ute Eliaabeth City high school. / Ahoilier feature of the tradi- ‘ tioB “D^'County week-end” at Eoi« Raleigh will be the sixth ■■■wl John White Art Show in the Lost Colony Building next to the Ellubethan Garden. Ad- mlasJon will be free to this event echcduled from 1 until 6 mJm. on Friday, Saturday and flmiilir, August 14-18. William 1. Long 11 la in charge of the art ahow, iaaugurated by the late Albert Q. "Skipper” Bell of Maiitco. “Dare CJounty Night" at “The Lost Colony” will precele hy one day the annual Daniels ’ i Family Reunion scheduled at I * Wiarhan Monday, August t# ' •MISS DARE COUNTY* JUANITA MITCHELL, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. “Ketl" Mitchell of Nag.s Head, will hel)) welcome guests for “Dare Coun ty Night” at “The Lost Colony” on August 18. She is “Miss Dare County of 19C8,” having won the honor in the Jaycee-spon- sored contest. and We fared much better than the famera in Hyde and Tyreell counties. - ^ . “Prices weren’t too good; but Lake it all the way around, we didn’t do top badly. Of course we didn’t get along as well a.s we did from 1918 until 1929. I think we did better then, all things considered,, than we arc .doing today. . ' “Prices were' alright during the 1940s” he continued, “but, by that time,'fish were beginning to get source. And this genera tion'today:., they don't like to pick bones/out. of -their fish. They’ve, got ^to h:ivc everyOiing push-button Inday. ■ ‘“Take shad, for instance.s: it has a .delicious flavor; but people don’t' want to. be botherod with picking the bonc.s out. So, they eat steak,, or something, in- steB«i.” Midgett, who ..was born in Mupns Harbor Oct; 7, 1894, quit school in the seventh grade to go into fishing full-time. He started out' with Willian: Frank lin, and then did some fishing with'one of -Ins old pals, Claude Smith. ' ' . . • Smith was killed in Fi-ancc in 1918 “in ihe hard fighting near the end .6f-the war", ;ind Mid gett started fishing with Frank lin ng:iin in 1918. “This jmrtncr- ship lusted until Bill died about five? or six years ago,” Midgett said.;.“Bill was a boat builder, a house bullde-j—he could do just about anything that came along.” i.Midgett, who operates his own private wildfowl refuge be hind his house, says, "rve done See JIIDGETT, Page Two TYRRELL BOARD DEFIES HEW ON MIXING PLAN Students, May Attend School Of Choice During J:. 1968-69 COLUMBIA — .S hool -lnl- dr“n in Tyrrell Counv mav at tend anv .oehee] of their choice during the lO^'S-fiO voar. aceoi'd- ing to S'lut. M. L. Bacnight. Ba’nir'ht said the Tvrrell board of educj’tion dcchled on a complete freedom of .choice af ter the Department of Health. Education, and Welf.-ire turned down the count.v’.s school plan for 10ti8-(i9, Biisnicht .s.-iid he reccivel a letter July 20 from Dr. Eloise Severinson. regional civil righl.« director for HEW, setting guidelines for T\Trell County schools. He suiI Dr. Severinson informed him that if the school system was to he in compliance with federal i-egulations all students and teachers in grades 1-4 might be assignel to one clomcntarjf school and all stu- ilenls and teachers in grades 5-8 to the other.. She said th:it- for 1909-70, all students in grades 7-12 .should be assigned to Columbia High School and all students in grade.s 1-0 assigned to Tyrrell School. Columbia High School is^.a predominatly white school and Tyrrell High School i.s pre dominantly Nogi-o. Basnight said the. letter c-ame as a supriso to the l>o:ird. He said that hvo repre.sentatives of HEW visited the schools in Tyn-ell coeinty June 12 and met with the board. Ho said th.a* while in session \vith tho board they rccomniendetl that the fii-st and .second, grades from Tj-rrell High School along with their teachers he assigned to Columbia High School for 19G8- 69, and that two white teachers be assigned to TyaTcU High School. Basnight said the HEW repV resentntives also recommend^ that the hoard , cohiplete the current building ?)rdgram and to plan for total integration for 1969-70. - . This plan was tip.sct by the Severinson decision. Basnight said the board, I'calizing the .amount of work nocessa>-j' and so little time re maining before tho oiMining of school to make a complete change in grades 1-8, lecided to operate on the freedom of choice system during the school year 1968-69. See MIXING, Page Seven SPECIAL PROGRAM BY "LOST COLONY CHOIR" 1 r'4 MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR of “The Lo.st Colony” outdoor drama, under diroction of Ronald Shirey, will pre.sent a 35-minute program of Bach’s "Magnificat” in the Lo.st Colony Building (ne.vt to^tlw K!iz.abethan Guillen) on the Fort Ralegh National Hi.storic Site Sunday, night at 8:30. Shirey is showai above conducting some of the talented singers in a “w;irm-up” for the drama backstage of the Waterside Theatre. Tho public is invUel to the Sunday night ))erformanco. Ad mission is free. (.Aycock Brown photo) AVON C. G. RETIRES ^ . . /-AiSi R t Xi55V! )?;'» K.";c rsaf K!«*“ is;*- r.‘- ; ' ' V-iWSS trsa ata •' f •*>!.»■ -.T.. RAY’MO-ND W. SCARBOR OUGH, boatswain’s mate fir.st clas.s, a resident of Avon, was retirod from the U. S. Coast Guaixl after completing over 20 years .active duty. lie served with the U. S. Co:ist Guard from .Tuly 23, 1948 to July 31, , See C.G., Page Seven DR. W. W. HARVEY DARE BOARD MEMBER SCORES PLANS TO ACQUIRE ESTUARIES A hill providing for State Condemnation and acquisition of Coastal e.stuarinc lanil and waters is being prepared for presentation to tho 1969 legi.^hi- ture, and at least one county commissioner doesn’t like it. At Monda.v’s meeting of the board, Dr. Wallace W. Harvey warned that .stateownership of this Dare County land could lead to the same tj-pe problems that federal ownership has APPRECIATION EXPRESSED TO MRS. MORRISON FOLLOWING SUNDAY NIGHT SHOW aiK SUSAN PALMER, «Uge manager, of The Lozt.Colony, presented on behalf of the drama’s com pany a'dozen long-atemmed rwl roses at the conclusion of Johnny WalkoFs and Rick Van Winkle's "An Evening of Dance” in the Educational Workshop Building backstage at Watereide Thcatro on Sunday evening. Lost Colony Production Coordinator Duncan Noble introduced Mi-s. Mo?-ri- son to the audience of more than 200 persons, attending the event after expressing aupreciation on behalf of the drama’s Company for the interest she and her husband Dr. Fred Morrison have shown in making The Lost Colony one of the greatest of all outdoor productions. Also introduced to the audience and receiving a gift of flowers was Sonya Ty\-en, a dance instructor of the N. C. School.of the Arta in .Winston-Salem under whom many of the Colony dancers have studied. She •fMst iut wMk end eii the Itara (^’asi (Aycock Brown photo) cre.ated ai-ound Buxton. Referring to a recent article in ‘Wildlife’ magazine, ’ Dr. Han'ey told the other commis- sione?-s that the author Ches ter D-Jvis of the Winston-Salem .Tournal-Sentinel) stales that this bill will he introduced dur ing the nc.xt session of tho Icgi-slature. “In this article,” Dr. Harvey continued, “we are being con demned left and right for just about everything we’ve done down here, including the way we run our mo.squito-control program.” The Mnnleo pliy.sician said the mag.arine ran picUircs of drainage ditches in Wanelie.se and over on the Dart; 'mainland, and .'tated that “the ditching and draining of our marshland in thr. name of mosquito control . . . sometimes alters beyond our ability to re.store the char acter of the land and water.” Dr. Harvey told the commis- .sioners that: “This article in- timetos that we in Daro County are hostile to fish and wildlife; Sec llOAltD, Page Five DARE BOARD MEMBERS PAID THEMSELVES OVER $2100.00 DURING JULY One more testimonial to the need for a competent county manager in Dare County is con tained in the records of expen ditures during .luly, for which county commissioners drew a total of $2110.63 for per diem, travel and meals. Tkis figure docs not include any other ex- l>enscs in connection with opera tic of that office. The hreakdowTi is as follows: W. S. White, chairman ... $710.46 Dr. W. W, Han'ey, v-ch . 111.25 Fennel A. Tillctt 432.05 .1. W. Scarborough 318.35 W. P. Dillon 185.46 Rondal K. Tillctt 363.07 TOTAL 12410.68 UNDER DIRECTION OF MISS REBECCA SWINDELL SCORES OF HYDE TEENAGERS AID IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH In recent months, 200 Hyde County tecnager.s . have been roaming the country.side in search of long-forgotten his torical tidbits. These junior" his torians have Wn looking for' old tomlrstones, family diaries •jnd record,®, wills and land /.eeds. ■ MisJT’^Rebecca Swin«iell of Fairfield, president of the Hyde County Historical A.ssociation, appeafs],to be the moving foreo behiiMT''the youthful e.xuberancc of;rtlie^ »yoiuig Hyde County historians.’ Or, more precisely, she'/^ms to be tho moving forcesbehind a number of local schboLtehchers who, in tuni, .arc the'-moving forces behind tho 200 yoiuig .stiKlent-historians. “The childi-en in the eighth through the eleventh gi-arlcsi were. given this :i.s an assign ment',” Mi-s. Swindell explained. “They did not have a choice, they (lid. “Some of them ' were under the impression tiie.v could do. or not do, this assignment, as they so chose. After they were told that they would flunk if they didn’t get to work, they decided to ‘acccjrt’ Uiis as.sigh- menL” What sort of work have the.se reluctant researchers Ireen do ing? “Well, in ..the • fhst place.," Mr.s, .Swindell e.vplains, “nio.st of the.se students ‘ Have been very enthusia.stic ' about t this project. Some of .. them - kejrl light on working on it even aft er .scliool was out for tlie .sum mer. ' ' “They ai-c not getting paid for it either, except for Mi.ss Lyn Harris (an l-'CU business major and a native of Engel- hai-d) who is paid through PACE, a' federally-sponsored program. See RESEAKCH. Page Three though some of them thought STRIVING TO.DOCUMENT HYDE HISTORY A' •Cl'*' -i -’yj '',‘1V MISS REBECCA SWINDELL of Fairfield and MUs Lyn Harris of Engelhard examine one of the many historical documents that they, have handled in recent weeks. They are trying to sort, file and'claasify a number of such documents which they hope will be readily available to posterity. Their research into the history of Hyde, County has been aided by the efforts of a number of school tacchers, students, and members of the Hyde County Historical Asaocintion. , SHEPHARD FREED AFTER ADMITTING WITNESS' CHARGE Lawyer Claims Teacher Inno cent Because ''Not Ex- ' posed To Sight" Briico G. Shepard, a .school teachor. wa.s freed in District Court Friday of a charg(>, of indecent exposure although ho> admitted the act which led -to hi.® arrest. ; Judge Fentress T. Horaer foiuid Shephard not guilty after ' defense attoniey ; Fon-est V. Dunstan cite.d a Ma.s.sachu(jtt.s decKsion in a similar ease which held the defendant innocent . bec3U.se parts of his body were “not e.xposed to .®ight.” It was testified that Shciihard "turned his h.ack” (luring (he act 'lead ing to the charge- Horner agi-eed that according to the evidence Shephard’s' private parts had not been “ex- ao.sed to sight” and that tho defendant should be freeil. Later, it was found that a North Carolina decision in an exposure case had held the op- Do.s'ite view. But by that tihia Shephard had been found not guilty.' After Shonhard was freed, Ca.sper Meekins, whoso wifo was tho prosecuting' w’tness, asked to lie hoard. In open court . and' from the audience section of the'courtroom, Meekins sa'id Shepliard had comniitte.-l p.i similar- expo.siire act two years ago on a public highway in public view. - "This man is a sclioed teacli'^' or—leaching our young,” Meek ins said. “He ought to be fired,” Horn er said. '■ Sbei>barel taught biology and ., physical education. He was em ployed in tha Weeksville school in Pasquotank county two years , ago and in the Wind.®or school in Bertie county last year. iRe-' ports indicate he has a teach ing job in California for the coming school year. The courtroom was crowdel as Horner and Solicitor Wilton Walker began plowing through the la:'ge.st docket of the year. There were more coses than in the long se.ssion of July 19,-but they were disposed of more quickly. Two Norfolk youths' were sent to the roads for 12 months *ach after Horner accu.sed one of them of lying .about a forc ible trespass charge. The' iiulge also ordered the owner of' a i-cslaurant building which he had leased to R. M. (kiltrainc to stay out of tho stnicture unle.ss he had a proper court oi-der. There were other cases of trespass and the u.sual run of traffic violations, Mrs. Helen Meekins was the only witness to appear again.st Shephard. She said a girl who lived at the motel she and her See COURT, Page Six DANIELS REUNION MONDAY. AUG. 19. BETHANY CHURCH Melvin R, Daniels has an nounced that the Daniels family reunion will be held Monday, •Aug. 19 at the Wanchese Beth any SIcthodist Chhrch. ,, , Rep. W. R. Robci'Son of Beaur fort County will be the sjieaker at the 4 p.m. gathering, “We’re asking all those who would like to join witli us to come on down,” Register of Deeds ^Iclvin Daniels said. “Ju.st bring along a little picnic bas ket, that’s all. ‘■tVe’ll furni.sh'thc benches and,, tables, and the ice-cream and ice water. And we got the chuich,, air-conditloncd about thi-eo months ago, so I think it will fc, a little more comforatble this year. , This (reunion) \v.as started by the honorable Josephus Daniels of Raleigh in 1943, and it’s been an annual affair ever since. “Y’ou know, the Daniels first came down here from Mas sachusetts in 1740. My grand- dady bought about half the i»- • land down here, but the Daniels inter-married with the Payneg, the Midgetts and evei-ybcKly elae'. so that it’s all been pretty well di-.'ided up now.” - WAVES. AYDLEH POST OFFICES REMAIN OPEN;. MANTEO ALSO ON SAT. ( I ' f-ffl A memorandum from the Poet Office Departments regional of* - fice in Atlanta hu rescindcd'IW’ > earlier decision to close the port ... offices at Waves and ;AydIett. The memorandum also an earlier, order which would “ have required the Manteo Port - Office to have cloied on' Satr urdaya. - ' "
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