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GRIFFIN MAYOR
OF K. D. HILLS;
WOOD RESIGNS
Two Vacancies Exist on Five-
Member Board; Selection
Expected Next Week
Commissioner Charles T.
GWffin was elected mayor of
Kill Devil Hills IHiesday nieht
bv the town board after Ted
Wood, major pro-tem, resigned
as both mayor and as a. com
missioner.
Wood had been serving as in
terim mavor since the. i*esi{ma-
tion of Thomas H. Bri^g^s sev
eral weeks ago due to I'casons
of health. Briprgs, a hotel oper
ator, seia’cd for several yeaia
as mayor of the beach . com
munity. f
, Wood told the board that his
resignation was two-fold: “I am
not inte.restcl in the mayor-
ship and my future plans take
me away three months during
the year.”
He has seia’ed six years on
the board, but said he had no
plans'to run again. “I feoL it
only fair to resign now and al
low' our board to elect a mayor
pro-tern and a commissioner
who will be available in case of
•an emergency.” His re.signat'ion
was effective immediately.
Griffin has been on the board
since 1955i' Before his rctire-
^,ment almost two years ago, he
managed the Outer Bonks
Trading Post, in Kill Devil Hills.
■■‘His son,^ -Charles,' Jr.; 'runs
Trading Post No. 2 In Nags
Wead. ;■ -
Before moving to Kill' Devil
' Hills almost nine ;years ago,
Griffin lived in Edenton where
he was general manager of a
saw mill.
Two vacancies still remain on
the town boaixl. but Griffin said
the commissioners ho|>e to meet
' the first of next week to ap
point people to fill these' seats.
Wood asked the boanl to con
sider salary" increases in their
' coming meetings. - -
: ”If you • raise Uie • mayor’s
salary, fines" he ’ said. you
don’t, then the man’s an idiot
; to .accept as I’ll tell you from
my short experience.’’
'■ Other Business
Rev. Hank Wilkinson of Kit-,
ty,-, .Hawk 'Methodist Church
presented a thrae-point plan, to
the board conceniing the circus
tent on the highway, sponsored
by the Dare County Ministerial
’ As.sociation.
He requested (1) another
permit to operate the tent for
a ye.ar; (2) a building permit
to develop a permanent .struc
ture; and (.3) a p(MTn.anent
jHsrmit to conduct the type of
entertainment that is being of
fered at the tent. \ •'
See GRIFFIN, Page Seven
DARE TEACHERS
OFFERED 5-DAY
^ FREE WORKSHOP
A reading workshop for the
benefit of elementary school
teachers of Dare county will be
offered Aug. lb-23 by the Iboard
of education through the s|)on-
. sorship of the Elementary and
Secondaiy Education Act
(ESEA).
’• The voluntarj' and free five-
tay workshop will lie held at
the Mantco Elementary School
from P a.m. to noon daily, ac-
'f, cording to Steve Uasniglit, Jr.,
director of tlie ESEA program
here.-
The workshop has been ap
proved by the .state department
of .public instruction. Although
the course is voluntary, feacliers
completing the workshop will re
ceive one unit credit towanl
certification. All teacliei's in the
state are required to renew their
certificates cver>’ five years.
' James Marlowe Sawyer, li-
rector of reading nctivities at
the Learning Institute of Nortli
Carolina, will conduct the work
shop.-
Sawyer has B. S. and M. A.
degrees from Appalachian State
Teacher College at Boone. He
has done post graduate work at
George Washington University
and the University of Florida.
Sawyer organixed and dlrect-
, ed a .high school remedial and
» developmental reading program
at Osbuni High School in Ma-
nossos, Va., from 1958 through
1961. From 1961-66 he directed
a developmental reading pro
gram for freshmen at Appala
chian College where he was an
assistant professor of education.
Basnight said Dare County
is "extremely fortunate to have
such an experienced, qualified,
and dymnamic per.son to con
duct our reading workshop. His
enthusiasm and dedication to his
. work w >ell as , his knowledge
of reading will make the work
shop enjoyable and enriching for
,1 the Dare county teachers.”
OATS ADMIRED BY VISITING VIRGINIAN
CHILD MOLESTORS
REPORTED ACTIVE
HERE RECENTLY
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Ti'h'i ..'fT-
r'-n
Police Chief'Urges Parents To
Keep VVatch. ,On „
. ..Youngsters-
Keii Whittington, Mantoo po
lice'chief, renewed an age-old
request Thur.sday to parent.'! to
keep clo.se watch on their chil
dren. Ho al.S!) asked wrong
way parkers to stop such pj-ac-
ticie or suffer receipt of a $15’
citation. He .said the bulk of
wrong-way parking occurs at
and-in the vicinity of the Po.st
Office. . , : "
Whittington-.said ho had re
ceived several reports in recent
weeks of : unident ifed persoius
attempting to pick up children
on Manteo streets. -
‘ Tlic chief saitt uh eldorly nmn
driving a high-priced -sports citr
bearing Virginia tags attempted
to pick up two young girls and
a small boy 'a few days ago. He
Mid tlie youngsters reported the
man asked them . during -mid-
afternooh- if ' they "wanted a
ride.” He said tho.chlldreu re
fused. ,
About two weeks ago,. Whit:
tington '.said, a ear bearing
Georgia tags circled an area on
the north part of town and asked
at least one young girl to ac
company him. Whittington quot
ed Uie child as saying he offer
ed to treat her to ice cream.^
The girl refused to enter, the"
car. He said the incident oc
curred about 5 p.m.
Officers checked the town
and Nags Heail foi- automobiles
See CHIEF, Page Five
SPECKLED TROUT RUN BEGINS
OLD OFFENDER ON
PAROLE GIVEN
MORE ROAD TIME
Colington Youth May Have 10
Months Added To Existing':
' Sentence ■
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50 EXPECTED
TO COMPETE IN
SHARK RACING
JEAN SMITH, Vienna, Va., makes a lovely added attraction to
the .sea oats on Nags Head which she was admiring when 'this
pictuixs was inside Wednesday while'she was vacationing on the
Dare Coa.st with her parents, (Aycock' Brown photo)
EIC OFFICIAL unable TO
 V i piSeUSS:$477;3l I GRANT
August 28-30 Event Will Be
Succeeded by Jollyboats =
aiid Regatta
Peter J. McNair, new area
coordinator for the Economic
Improvement Council (EIC) ap
peared hesitant wlien asked
about a .?477,3ll govei-nmcnt
appropriation for a. 10-county
area, including Dare County, j
"Pd rather not answer that
question,” he said after first
reaching for papers in his
briefcase. “1 feel it would be
out of My authority.”
The money is to finance the
following anti-|K)vci'ty programs
for a year: Ailininistrution,
Multi-Purpose Centers, Family
Planning, ani Full Year Head
Start, according to a prc.ss re
lease from the Governor’s office
in Kalcigh.
It will serve low-income people
of Camden, Chowan, Currituck,
Dure, Gates, Hyde, Perquimans,
Pasquotank, Tyrrell and Wash
ington counties, said the • re
lease from Kalcigh.
The organization responsible
for the administration of the
funds i.s the EIC, with which
McNair is associated.
'McNair was in Manteo for a
meeting of officials of the EfC
and tile Cliiid De\'elopnient Cen
ter (Head Start) Tuesday to
work cut communication prob
lems arising between their off
ices.
IToy Lowe, executive director
of EIC, called after the meeting
had started and said he would
be unable to attend. McNair was
the only EIC official present,
Mrs. Woodson B. Fearing, II,
Head Start director, told Mc
Nair a problem existed in decid
ing where the power of the child
guidance program lay. He and
the group agreed that the Poli
cy Advisoi-y Committee was the
ruling forec for the Head Start
program and ail decisions had
to lie channeled through it.
He said the ultimate right to
run the program come from
.his group with recommenda
tions from the parents and the
.-ounty council board.
“We are concerned with the
ack of communication between
our progiam and the EIC,” Mrs.
Fearing said. “We have asked
for communication in written
form. We have seldom received
it.
“We arc concerned with one
'hing—the cliild development
enter and the children who are
nrollcd in it. But we have not
ecn allowed to do our ..work
•ccause of other people’s inter
ferences with progrea.s," -
The discussion then veered
Sec OFFICIAL^ Page Seven
FREE TICKETS ARE
STILL AVAILABLE
TO 'LOST COLONY*
Special Sunday 'Dare County
Night' On Virginia Dare's
Birthday
Dai'c Coimty residents (tax-
pnyere) and their families have
been.besieging "The Lo.'St Colo
ny” offices for free tickets to
the .c|iecial Sunday “Dare Coun
ty Night” performance of Paul
Grecn’.s outdoor drama.
"We have already passed out
more than half of the 1,000
tickets set aside for the August
18 performance,” reports Gen
eral Manager John W. Fox,
"and they will continue-to -be
given free to Dare Cnuntians
on a first-asked-for; firat-
serx'ed basis.”.
Sec TICKE'i'S, Page Seven
Sailora and their sleek rac
ing .rraCti.from at leaat- five
voiintrie.s will conmete f'lvibntli
national and world honora ' in
two iniiiortant s.ailing events
scheduled in Augii.efc and-'Sep-
tember on Croalan Sound."
An e.stimalt'd 50 Sluirk-cln.ss
boats from throughout the U.
S. will vie for the Amorio.'in
Shark .A.ssociation ch.-uiipionship
.August 28-.30. R a c o .s ,ai-c
scheduled at 10 a.m. and 2 p.mi
daily from the launch ramp at
Mantco Aiiiioi-t. located on tho
east sliore of historic Roanoke
Island.
S’lilJnp crews from Australia,
New Zealand. Canada, England
and the U. S. will compete for
the World's Jollj'boat Cham-
iiionshin on September 4-6.
More than 25 of the fa.st-;inov-
ing boat.s are expected to par-,
ticipate in the event, with race.s
scheduled for 10:30 a.m. and 2
p.m. daily. I'he champion.ship
was lost held in North Carolina
in 1961.
A thinl event — the Outer
Banks Sailing Regatta—^will he
hold September 14-15 and i''
expected to attract .sailing
aaft from throughout the
co.a.st:il region of Eastern
Sec RACES, Page Seven
SPECKLED TROUT were being cauglit in Roanoke Sound this week, and among the anglera
wlio were tliere to get them wore Roiulal Lewark and Carson Creef of Manteo who caught 21
in . the Uivee-quavler to, one-iiound class with .ijiiektail lures before breakfast on. JIonday near the
Wa.shington Baum Bridge. (Aycock Brown photo) .. . ‘ ...a '
NAVY MAN RETIRES AND
BRINGS HOME A BRIDE
ENGELHARD WATER SYSTEM ^
STILL SHORT 27 MEMBERS
CAPPAIN ELLl^B.Y C. ' JIID-
GET3’, a retired Navy C,nptain
and mastc.r mariner return.s to
the land of hi.s first lovo tn re
tire after more than 40 yoare'
cireumnavigating llic globe. He
say.s that every m.nster who
ivi.shcs to hove a moi-e enjoy
able life and to keep tho .ship
running smoothly needs a, good
first male. Tlioj-efore. he brings
along a now bride, the former
JTis.« Loraino Katherine. Word,
daughter of Mrs. Albert Ed
ward Ward of Rodcvillc Centre,
New York. 'I'hey were ma"rried
in Henip-'te.'id, New ‘l’'ork, ;.on
August 10. Mi.ss Ward i-e.signed
from a jiosilion a.s"’ executive
secretary in tho New York C'tv
branch office of Scars, Roetjuck
and Co. Tlie couple .ire now
honeymooning on their yfcht
Loi-ainc in North Carolina
water.s. 'I'hey ivill make their
iieimanent home , on ^ Mother
Vineyard Road, Jlanlco.
.There will be 116 Engelhard
water sy.stem imles.s 27 are.a cit
izens change-their 3;minds and
sign up for tho service by Sept.
1.
Thus far, 197 bends of house
holds have sighed up. A mimi-
mum' of 224 will have to sign
before tho Fanner’.s Home Ad-
ministi-atiiin will . release tho
necessary funds.
- Roydon Clarke, chairman of
the F.ngclhard Water ' .Associa
tion, said la.st week th:it "...
unless we linve the required
Aumber.-of subscribers by the
first of September, then .it i«
the feeling of this hoard th.it
wc would iirohablj'.have,to give_
up the idea of puvsuriiig this.”
Clark invites area citizens to
ch:ingc. theiv. minds: “.Anybody
who has boon .contacted and. at
the time he was contacted, didn’t
wish to become a .subscriber, is
invited to contact myself or any
member of the board.”
Tho other board members are:
.lohn L. Mann, Tommy Ethe-
ritlgc, Horace G. Gibbs and
Robert L. Bryant. - ,
A $122,400 federal loan was
approved in June, subject to a
number of conditions—one of
Uio.se conditions being that a
minimum of 224 Engelhard .area
citizens .signed up for Uie ser
vice. Tlie Economic Development
Administration had jireviously
ok.ayed a .$183,000 grant for
this’purpose.
Of Uic 280 households in this
area, 197 signed up for the ser
vice and the re.st ; stated that
they did not want it. All of them
have been contacted.
Thus Engelhard stands to lose
,a total of $300,000 if " the'addi
tional 27 signatures ■ arc ■ not
forthcoming.
Cl.'irk, cxeculivejvice-prcsident
of ihc' East Carolina Bank in
Engelhard, said the'co.st to the
.average liomo owner will bo ,$20.
This includes a .$10 membership
fee. in Uie association .which is
a corporation),'a $5 lap-on fee,
and a -*,3 meter deposit.
Receipts from memhers pav
ing water bills would he used to
retire the $122, 400'loan. This
loan would he paid back over
a jjeriod of 40 yoara.
INSTANT ACTION ON THEATRE STAGE
NAGS HEAD C OF C
OPENS MEMBERSHIP
CAMPAIGN TODAY
The Greater Nags Head
Cliainbor of Commerce launclies
its" memhersiiiii drive today
with hones of toijping the
record 1967 collections;.
In .a lettei’ .signol by R. E.
Parker. .Ir., chamlier president,
•and Mi.ss Jewel Gr.aves, mem-
ber.ship committee chaiinnan.
businesses arc askodj, for. 100
pe.i* cent participation.
Collections ro.se from $5,984
ill .1.%'6 to .$14,168 hast year
when a pejanarient year-round
office and an information cen
ter manned by .a secrcl.ai-j' werq
crtablished.
, j Advt rti.sing receives all funds
over the budgeted amount
which are collected. A program
to' reach' cities which fumi.sh
the bulk of the chamberis mail
patronage lias been started by
Wayne , Jlolchor of Chesapeake
Advonising Agency.
. Of the 4,897 'inquires to the
chamber .officer to .date, 2,970
.are' a re.sult of this chamber’s
new advertising progr.am. In tho
enUre fiscal year 1966-67 only.
3.581 inquiries wci-e received.
In 'addition to the 100 per
cent poriicipntion of the busi
ness, the rli.amlicr hopes to in
crease participation of boosters
and non-rc.«ident members and
eonsolid.atc its g.ains.
Je.sse Royce Poiry of CoHrig- ' ;'
ion , appeal's headed for moi'e ' v:
lime on the road unless he can
produce bond of S.'iOO pending
:in appeal of convictions de
signed to deprive him of liberty '
for six, :ind ])erhaps ten, months.-
PeiTy was convicted in Dis
trict, Court Friday of consoli
dated' charges of careless and .
reckle.ss driving and damage to"
town property in Kill Devil Hills. -
and to another set of con.sql- -
idated charges of .speeding ' 70
miles per hour in a 55-mile zone
and driving.without a ■v:ilid.li-
cense. -' •
He got si.x months- on,, the
ro.ads on the fir.sl set of cliargoa
and notice that an appeal ,to ,
.Superior Court would necessitate ■'
a bond of $.500! On the second
sot of charges, he w.as sentenccil
to four months on the roads, ■
sus)iended on payment of a fine ;
of $100 and.cost.s.. The. second ..
term was ordered to start at the_'
expiration of the first.
Pen-y 'has Jiiade more, than'
isolated appearances' in the ,
courts. Presently' ho is out of,
jail on parole. When he was, ar-
rc.sted on the current charges'a ''
warrant for arrest bocau.seof
parole violation i^was ordoredi;;-'4
Parole authorities, however,'-'
withdrew this, warrant.' This ac;;;. ■
tion will permit him to get out-
of jail:on bond to await trial
in Superior Court if ho can -
raise the bond. ' ; ' '
Perry’.s case was tbe last '.
of the relatively short court'"'
docket Friday, compared with
llio.se in recent weeks during the
resort Season. Most of the other
cases involved drank driving?
and speeding witli some charges '
of .shoplifting, minor traffic vio
lations, and trespass thrown in..
Judge W. S. Privott of Eden- '
ton conducteil court in the ab- •
sence of Chief Judge Fentress
T. Honior. Horner, who lives at
Nags Head during the .summer,
was asked by tbe state’s chief
ju.stice to sit at, Newton in the
west-central area for 'a'.. couple"'-
of weeks to help clear up,, a..
clogged docket. Ho is due bacK'
here Aug. 23.
Jolinnio Perry, bi'othcr .* of 'i
Royce Peiry, pled guilty to tres
passing at Hie recreation con-'
- See COURT, Page Sevrn-«->
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LIMITS FOR FIRE
DISTRICT SET BY
PLANNING BOARD
GOP GUBERNATORIAL
ASPIRANT TO VISIT
DARE CO. NEXT WEEK
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THIS AVAILABLE-LIGHT SHOT of the opening Indian dance scene in Tlie Lost Colony is unusual.-Insofar as known, no one
ever before has been successful in getting the scene at the half second instant of tho flash of flame at the base of the live totem
pole. This exciting phase of the colorful scene occurs as if by magic on the command of Uppowoc the Medicine Man, a sensational
dance role played by Johnny Walker of The Lost.Colony Cast. (Aycock Brown photo)
Rep. Jim Gardner of Rocky
Mount, gubernatorial aspirant
who face.s Bob Scott in the
November general election, is
schcdiilel to visit parts of Dare
County next .week.- He will be
accompanied by Bill Nogle,
state campaign manager.
According to V, G. Williams
of Wnnehese- chaiimian of the
local Republican committee.
Gardner will fly into Manteo
Airport where he will be met
by local dignitaries of the GOP.
A breakfast session will bcgpn
at 8:45 at Spencer's, Manns
Harbor, following by a precinct
workers’ meeting there. A ques-
tion-and-answer periol will oc
cur.
In addition to Williams, other
Dare Republicans expected to
accompany Gardner are E. A.
Gammage of Buxton, Elroy
Gard of Manns Harbor and Vic
tor Daniels of Wanchese, all
executive committee officials.
A tour of the Manteo busi
ness district is scheduled to be
gin at 10 a.m. Later in the day
the candidate will travel to
Elizabeth City where he wj]!
' address a groap that eTeniag.
Limits for .a proposed fire,
distrirt for,-Kilty Hawk r^si-
dent.s were .set at a public
meeting of the Dare County j
Planning Boanl Tuosdav at KrU
ty Hawk Elementary School. '■
Ml'S. Elizabeth Smith, board
secretai-j' who prasided at the
meeting, said the jictition for
Kitty Hawk set the lioundaries
at the Kill Deril Hills line
north to the. northern boundary
line of Southern Shores. It .ex
tends from the Atlantic Oe'eah
on the east to Currituck and
Albemarle Sounds an the west.
Mrs. Smith explained that
Duck and Colington wore not -
included in the'^district, but
sep.arate petitions 'would be
drawn up for‘each of-these
areas.
About 45 iKople attended the
meeting, but there wa.s very
little representation from Duck
or Colington.
Kitty Hawk was served by
the Kill Devil Hills fire departo
ment until July 30, when -the
department informed K i ttry
Hawk residents of suspension
of seivico. “1?
Mrs. Smith cxpalined that'the
fire district would necessitittf
an additional tax, the sCit*
maximum being 15 cents per
$100. A survey done by the
commissioners showed that 60
people vvho answered were in
favor of the tax. However, over
300 qucstionaircs were sent out.
If the petitions receive the
required 15 per cent of signa-:
tures of residents freeholders
—licrsons who reside, vote, aiM
omi property in the area—^thay
will be presented to the
missioners. - :J
Mrs. Smith said.the plaiuiiag
board hopes this can be com
pleted by the comminrioner^
September meeting so that'll
vote can be held during the
general election in Novembe.K’/
If this passed, then three fire
commissioners would be '#p-'
pointed by the county board‘ ib
manage the fire districts.
Circulating the petitions aire:
in Kitty Hawk, Mra." Kathyin;
Perry; in Duck, Fred Scarii^
ough; and ia.Coliagton, Shis^
aid Ward. •
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