North Carolina Newspapers

! David Stick Kitty Hawk, N,.C4 8-21-^6S 27949 SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX .428 MANTEO. N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Sixteen Paget in Two Sections 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 CAROLINA Pages One through Eight VOLUME XXXIV — NO. !0 MANTEO. N. C. 27954, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 6. 1968 Single Copy 10^ KDH OFFICIAL GETS SUSPENDED ROADS SENTENCE Curies Angers Court; 10 Sent ■ To Jail After Theft Convictions _ A Kill Devil Hills town board nienibur was convicted in Dis trict Court Friday of a charge of cai-eless and reckless driving and was given a basic but su spended sentence of 90 days on the roads.. Commissioner Ernest . Elvin Rogei-s, 36, also was fined $100 and costs and was ordered to sui-render his driver’s license for CO days. Judge Fentress T. Horner de creed that an appeal to Superior Couit would requii-o the fisher man-commissioner ,to post a bond of $300. Horner also .sentenced 10 youths to jail without the .al- ♦ternativc of fines. The youths were jailed on various uncon nected theft charges on the Dare beaches. Horner showed anger at what he called an attempt to hood wink the court and put a heavy fine and an even heavier appeal bond on Major Curies of Man- teo. Curies, a former deputy sheriff, was convicted on charges of si>eeding 90 miles per hour in a 55-inile ?.one and of care less and reckless driving. Hor ner levied a fine of $500 on •Curies and set tin appeal bond of $1,000, » Tnere was the usual crop of speedei-s and drunken drivers gracing the crowded, pre-holi day docket. Rogers was charged Aug. 21 with careless and reckless driv ing after his vehicle was in volved in an accident on high way 158 with an autonibiio driv- .n by Glonnwood Gray Lawing, .8, of Martinsville, Va. State Trooper Larry Thames vcstified damage to Lawing'.s car ummounted to about .$800. He said Rogers’ vehicle also damaged severely. Prior to Thames’ testimony, ihrac persons told of Rogers’ activity in the Kitty Hawk trail er Couil. Donald Elli.s, operator of the court, said Rogers drove ».i-o the court, spun the wheels of his vehicle, slowed, then ac celerated, and repeated this pro cedure several times. He said Rogers then left the court and a few seconds later thei-e was the sound of a crash. Eliis said he hurried to the scene and found Rogers hud ran into another car. He said Rogers was “belligerent,” and quoted him as saying “he knew the authorities hcra and could Io as Ihe pleaseil.” Ellis wife, Mary Ruth Ellis, said she confronted Rogers at the scene of the accident and told him “you came through tho trailer like a maniac.” She said Rogers roplied, “you are a damned liar.” Vernon Ellis of Hopewell, Va., (no kin to the Donald Ellises) gave a corroborative account. He added that the trailer was well-lighted and that thero was no doubt about the identification of Rogers. Rogers said he had not been drinking. He said that after “I had been issued a ticket for •something I was not guilty of, L,,did use some stvang lan guage." Solicitor .Wilton Walker read Roger’s court record for the past 10 yeara. It was Innicd with such reports as caroless and reckless driving, creating a dis turbance, using profane lan guage, and failure to report an accident. Horner brushed aside an at tempt to cloud the identification of the defendant. He said that “the woman (Mrs. Ellis) would remember the face of a man who called her a damned liar.” Charles T, Griffin, recently See COURT, Page Four BUXTON YOUTH VICTIM OF VIETNAM WAR FOREST SERVICE NOT INTERESTED IN BASE OF PLANE IN MANTEO The Dare County commission- , ers were told Tuesday that tho N. C. Forestry Sendee docs not plan to base a fire-fighting plane at JIanteo Airport. Tho hoard, for ■•ome lime under the imnression that the Forestry Service had plans for stationing a plane locally, decided to hold in abeyance the request for a deed from the county for 3.7 acres of the airport land. The only immediate interest is in erecting a small shed for storage of fire-fighting chem- , Forestry officials said, water bombers will con- to base at Fairfield in jUyde County and at the Coasd Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City, ! .-^a icals, TTie tinuc LANCE CORPORAL LEO MILLER JENNETTE of Buxton, who died August 23 as re.sull of ho.stile rifle fire while on pairol in Quang Xain Province, South Vietnam, had been in the Marine Corps 11 months. He was a son of Clarence B. Jenuette and the late Mrs. Juanita IVele .rcnncttc. He was a 19C7 graduate of, Capo Hatteras High School, en tered llio Jiarinc Corps last October and was assigned to Parris Island, S. C. Ho wa.s later transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., and -subsequently aiTivcd in Vietnam in Marcii. A funeral service with militaiy honors will be conducted Sun day at 2 p.ni. in Buxton Pentecostal Church by tlie Rev. Carroll Daniels, Burial will follow in the Jenuette family cemetery. In addition to his father, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Ruby Good of Buxton; two brothers, Wayland .Tennette of Buxton and Clarence B. Jennetie, Jr. of Norfolk; and his matcraal grand mother, Mrs. Loo Pcclo cf Hattci'as, AYDI ETT COUPLE CHARGED AFTER BRIDGE INCIDENT Meredith Lee O’Neal, 21, and Oswald Vance Aydlett, 42, arc schedule to appear in District Court Friday to answer charges stemming from an incident Sept. 3 on tlic Washington Baum briilge across Roanoke Sound. Tile woman was chaivjed with public di'unkcnnc.ss and the man witli driving while under the in fluence. Hero’s the way tho stoiy of the couple's troubles unfolded in the sheriff’s department: The woman, who carried a drivers license denoting her name as MereIitli Lee O’Neal and her nddrcs.s as. Poplar Branch, said she' didn’t know Aydlett, wlio lives in Aydlett in Cun-ituck county. The she told deimties that, yes, she did, loo, know" Aydlett, that in fact she was inarrieti to him. STU^^PY POINT FOLKS RCOIIP.5T SHC IMPROVE SHOULDERS ALONG 264 A nettition calling for prompt action in correcting wh.nt was descrihcfl • nv a continuing >n2‘>rdous situation on U. S. Rt. 264 between Stumnv Point and M.nnns Harbor was pre sented to tho Dare County Board of Commissioners this week. About 76 citizens of the vil lage of SUmrny Point reauested the • 'board to take whatever action feasible in correcting the “soft shoulders’’ and a drop of “six to twelve inches" in some areas. As time went on, she disclosed, that she iind Aydlett bed been doing Some chinking and some arguing. She said she got so annoyed that she hopped out of their automobile and began walking and clog-trotling across the stractiire. Pedestrians aren’t usually found on the nine-tenths mile long bridge. But that's where State Troop ers S. H. Lassiter and H. S. Banks' found Iicr and charged lier. During the pickup process, her hu.sband came along in' tlic car and stopped and was ar rested and charged. Slieriff’s deputies said Mrs. Aydlett disclaimed knowledge of Aydlett for quite some time. MANTEO BAPTISTS WILL HONOR PASTOR SUNDAY Williem S. Brown cl-iv will he nbseraed Snndav. S»DteT>’hnr 8, bv' mpnih‘'i’s of the Man+oo Itontrqt of whp’b Mr. Pronm hnq he'’,n o'^'cto^r for a, morlior of vonrq. He and T'fra. Brown will soon move to Grif fon where he will pastor th# Baptist Chnreh. A,covered dish dinner will Ih! scived on the grounds after the morning worshin service, .ond all friends are invited to brine picnic lunches and join the chureh members in the nnpreci- nh'on gathering for Mr. and Mrs. Brown, who have taken part in m.onv wori.hv com munity projects during their stay on Roanoke Island. The shoulders referred to are built up of soft .sand, used following repaving of the route lust year. - . The petition set forth concern of village citizens particularly as annlies to bus transportation of children to school in Manteo, and called attention to the dual hazai-d of canals which parallel the highway. Board Chairman 'W. S. 'White was to contact State Highway Commission officials, hopeful of early action. MAINTENANCE WORK GOES ON AT AIRPORT DARE TAX BILLS SENT LAST WEEK NEARLY $700,000 Many Talcing Advantage of ' Discount Period; Prepay ments $58,000 Owners of pronerly in Dai’o County within rthe past week have been receiving tax bili.s for ri.sc.al 1908-60. A record $682.- 740.79 hilling has been mailed, up about $100,000 from last year. The amount includes special district levies over and above the basic county rate of $1.47 per $100 of a.s.sc.sscd valuation. in addition to the ha.sic rate, the, following special di.slTiet taxes are a.ssos.sed, which does not include other applicable municipal taxes in Nags Head, Manteo and Kill Devil Hills: Nags Head (within garbage district): .20. Kitty Hawk (within garbage di.strict); .13. Roanoke Island; Fire .15; garbage .14; and in Wanchese, community center .05. Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo (com munity center) .05. Of the levy which approached $700,000, about $48,000 wa.s pre paid with a discount of 2% prior to the new fiscal year and an additional amount of some $10,000 had been paid before tax bills went in the mail. They were a discounted IVs or 1%, depending on whether paid in July or August. Those prepaying taxes luim- hered some I.’IO, with Vepco, Norfolk & Carolina Telephone and Telegraph, and West Vir ginia Pulp and Paper tho prin cipals. JOLLY BOAT CLASSIC HARRASSED BY LACK OF WIND •DISASTER' PLAN TO BE AIRED AT BUXTON SEPT. 11 At Tuesday’s meeting of the Dare ' -County commissioners, hoard members were told of work underwaj'- at Sfanteo Air port, and advised of further repairs that call for early at tention. Dr. W. W. Harvey said that mowing of the approaches had been completed on one runway and was underway on other areas. He nl.so said that I’cpairs would need to be made soon to the roofs of a storage shwl, main building, and doors to the hang ar building. Several thousand dollars will be requiied to ac complish the work.. The county presently has about $22,000 in the airport fund, raised through rentals of building, lease of dockage area, etc. BLOODMOBIL6 AT SCHOOL The Red Cross hloodmohile will pay its annual visit to the Sfattamuskeet School Sept, 10 and will be open for business from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. The quota for next Tuesday’s npijcarance, at the school is 76 pints. The hloodmohile visit is spon sored by the Mattamuskeet Jay- ce«s. ■■ Repre.sentatives of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore advisory hoard. National Park Service, Coast Guai-d and. Navy plus private citizens are slat’c«l to as.scmhlc ne.xt Wednesday moraing for a session primarily planned to outline a “disaster plan of action.” The plan would pi'csumably bo effected follow ing a hurricane. The session, to begin at 10 a.m., in Cape HSxUeras Anglers Club building at Buxton. Preston Riddle, assistant superintendent of Cape Hat- terns National Seashore, ap peared before the Dare commis- .sioners Wcdne.sd.ny, explaining that NPS was lrafting a plan to be followed in event of disaster. The disa.ster most of ten referred to as likelihood is in certain areas of Buxton See PLAN, Page Tlirec HOPPER DREDGE ’HYDE’ DUE SEPTEMBER 9TH Oregon Inlet and its related channel.s are .slated for mainte nance dreilging next week. The Coiqis of Engineers’ hopper tU'edge “Hyde" is scheduled to arrive Monday, Sept, 9 to pre pare the authorized wateiways for the forthcoming trawl fill ing season during which many hundreds of vessels use the inlet from ports of Wanchese, Stum py Point, Engelhard and other areas. THE WORLD CHAiMPIONSHIP JOLLY BOAT CHAMPIONSHIP RACES on CroaLan Sound this week were harrassod foi- lack of the spanking breeze necessary for speed and the excitement re sulting from same. Following an almost windlass Wednesday, the colorful event in wliicii 18 vessels are participating from the USA and four foreign countries,‘^vas again, harrassed for lack of wind on Thursday morning. A reported cold front lieaded Dare Coastward may arrive in time for f.avorable sailing winds before the event, spon.sored by the Outer Banks Sailing Asso ciation. is concluded tlii.s week end. Some of tiie participating Jolly Bo.its arc shown in photo made Wednesday. WETLANDS GROUP MET WEDNESDAY WITH DARE BOARD Tlic Dare County Board of Commissioners Wednesday heard suggestions and discus sions from “Wetlnhds and Es- luarios for Tomorrow,” a state wide consei^ration group. The. grouii and the hoard discussifd the advantages of mosquito control impoundments ns op posed to mosquito control ditchi ing. C. J. McCotter, sanitarian of Pamlico County made comments and e-xiilained to the gi'oup pro cedures which;are followed in mosquito control imiiound- ments. The. group' met with the Dare County Board of Coimnissioners in order that both the consen’a- tion grouj) ami the boaril could better understand the other’s goals and cooper.ate on mos quito control projects whenever possible. Both grqujis expressed a de.sire that techniques could he worked out to control mos quitos without damaging water fowl habitat. .•\flor Boanl Chairman Stan ford White and Commissioner Dr. W. W. Harvey explained to the group the mosquito control projects which the county has either completed or has under way, Wetlands representatives urged the board to consider nio.sqiiito control impoundments for future projects whenever practical. The, commissionei-s rei>ortcd that they hope to he able to construct mosquito control im- Sfc GROUP, Page Six WANCHESE MAN FINISHES CAPE MAY C. G. COURSE JOHN H. DANIELS, USCG, seaman ' apprentice'18/ son' of Mri and 'Mrs. Joe T. Daniels of Wanchese, was graduated from basic training at the ' Coast Giiani ' Recruit Training Cen ter, C-ape May,.N. J. recently. . Under guidance of ex perienced Coast Guard -petty officers, he successfully com- ideted a rigid eight-week training program de.signcd to transfonn him from a civilian into a trained Coast Guards man. As a graduate he may apply, if eligible, for advanced train ing in one of the many occu)w- tional fields requir^l by the Coast Guard, or he may l>e a.s- signed to a Coast Guaixl unit operating in the United State.s S«* COURSE, Page Eight DARE’S MILFOIL PROBLEM MAY BE TREATED IN 1969 •CHOPPER' MADE EMERGENCY LANDING IN EAST LAKE TUESDAY A problem which originated in Currituck County waters and which has spread to Dare County, may be treated if pre sent plans are fulfilled in 1969. The nuisance is milfoil, un ac- quiitic growth which fir.st came fo prominence concerning upner Currituck Sound and Back B.ny in Virginia more than a year ago. ’ On Wednesday of la.st week a number of federal, state and local officials plus interested citizenry, ns-scmbled in Kilty Hawk, discussing specifically tho 'iirohlem in Gingnite Bay (-.Martin's Point Creek) in the Southera Shores area. The group inspected the. bay whicli is largely infested with the obno.vious growtii, and discussed that and otlier nearby areas. Included among tho.se attend ing were Otis H. Johnson, di.s- trict agronomist, U, S. Army Engineers, Wilmington; John Steenis, and C. Larry Mothers- liead, ■'U. S. Fish & Wildlife .Seiviee, Pautuxent Research Center, Laurel, 5Id.; Don Baker. Supervisor of Fisheries and Lawn-enco Kears'on, d’i strict biologist, both of Wildlife Re sources Commission, Raleigh. Penne.1 A. Tillett of the Dare County Boai-d of Commission-, ers; 'C. William Wilkerson and David. Frohman, Kill . Devil Hills; A. W. Fletcher and Darid Stick, representing Kitty Hawk Land Co. Following inspection of Gin- guite Creek, Steenis and Baker discussed the problem as per tains to Chesapeake Bay, simi lar in problems to Dare County. They statcKl that the only gen erally effective method of con trol found £0 far was covering tlie affected area with chemical fertilizer esi»ecially developed for the purpose by a Pennsyl vania firm, commonly called “Aquaklccn" and formerly dc- Sec MILFOIL. Page Six THIS NAVY HELICOPTER flying from’ Jacksonville, originallyfdestined for Norfolk, made an emergency landing as it was about out of gas Tuesday afternoon in East Lake. There were three men on boai-d. No Injury to the craft or occupants was reported. The pilot once con- „ . sidcred trying for Elizabeth Ci^ but as fuel ran low even considered the bridge spanning AlH- no attendance there, hwever, ^ ” The boycott was reportedly or ganized by Golden Frinks of the gator River as a landing site. Almost the entire, )>opulation of the community of .Ea^ LnI'o report^ly turned out for the event which was beside U. S. Rt.'C4. Shortely after the craft went down, a.search plane and another helicopter were dispatched from Elizabeth City, and fortunately found the', craft un harm^. (Photo by Tom Jackson, courtesy Wildlife Resouieea (knnmission) PAMLICO RIVER BRIDGE TERMED GREATEST NEED SAA Cites Industrial Develop ment In Plea; Scott Attends The quarterly meeting of ex ecutive committee members of Southern Albemarle A.ssocialion held at Engelhard Thursday, was occupied rvith road and bridge improvements i-eqiicsts, pi-imary among them a proposed bridge spanning Pamlico Rive?-. The crossing would link north and .souUi Beaufoj-t County and replace a ferry which lias oper ated for several ye.irs. The association, wliich has a long-standing re.solution of cn- dor.semcnt for early action - in bridging in Hatteras Inlet,-on Tluirsday, calleil for ilio Pamlico River project as “most important to the economic development of the area.” The resolutions, received by' the association, ondoi-sed by Hyde, Dare, Tyrrell, Washing ton, Beaufort and Martin boards of commissionet-s, were as fol lows: “WHEREAS, a bi-idge acro.s.s the eastern part of the Pai'nlico River has long been recognized ns ncces.«ary for tlie development and gi’owth of tlie Southern Albemarle area, and ' “WHEREAS, a bridge has .be come neccssarj’ to provide ade quate transportation for the phosphate, limber, puipwood, seafood, agricultural, and tourist industries of the area, .and “WHEREAS, tlie Southern Al- Iicmarle -Association lias desig nated the construction oC .such a briiige as its primary ob jective and as the highway pro ject most important to the eco nomic development of the area; now therefore be it “RESOLVED, by the Com- niissioiiei-s of County: “(1): that the Commissioners cndor.se the immediate construc tion of the bridge across the eastern part of the Pamlico River. (2): that the Commissioners go on record as design.ating the construction of said bridge as the highway project most im-. portant to the Southern' Albe marle area. “(3): that copies of this-re.s- olution be sent to tlie'Soiithqrn Albemarle As.sociation for'.sub- Sec BRIDGE. Page Six BAY STREET IN MANTEO TALKED AT TUES. MEET BOYCOn OF HYDE SCHOOLS REPORTED Hyde County negroes on Tues day liegan what was believed a county-wide boycott in pur- poi-ted protest of transfer of ne gro pupils to white school with out reciprocation The principal of Mattamuskeet consolidate!! school, Braest Cut ler, .said that only about 25 of an eni-ollcd 220 nego pupils showed up Tuesday. Mattamu skeet is the pr^minantly white school in Hyde. Fred Simons, principal of O. A. Peay school, said 'Tuesday that he "no comment” and "no reason for .not commenting” on whether pupils. attended' Tues day’s classes. Other sources re liably reported that there was Manteo’s Bay Street which lies partly within municipal lim its, partly outside, and which is Uie remaining unpaved sft-ect in town, came up for diwus- sion Tuesday when the D.tre board met. , Cliaii-man W, S. White .said lie would like to sec the. pro ject “get moving again” so it could be removed from the agen da. The prehlem o’f its “in-and^; out” location was cause for !le- lay, followed by easement- re fusals, In two cases, property ■ owners have failed to gi'ant necessarj’ right-of-way which lias been reduced to forty feet. Those involved were Mrs. Tracy JVard whose garage would be within the 40 feet, and Charlie Midgctt, whose front yard would virtually be taken. White appointed Commission-' ers Dr. W. W. Haiwey and Ron- dal K. Tillett to communicate with the affected property own ers. The board then hopes to prevail upon the State High- - w.iy Commission to accept a lesser width than 40 feet. , In the meantime, someone has filled in holes with what npnenrs to be Iicach sand, and there have been instances this week of vehicles stuck in the soft fill. on SCLC Monday. Some stu dents, according to reports, at tended the Peay school later in the week. AIRPORT HEARING SET FOR SEPT, -r The matter of zoning certain areas of the Manteo Aii-port and adjoining lands will be aired at a nublic hearing Sept. 16. 10 a.m. in the courthouse in Man teo. The meeting is for the pni^ pose of hearing parties ..who own land or otherwise would be concerned with location ; and height of structures in ..and around the properties. ■yf ■4 •V . f- ■ 'i BOARD TO MEET SEPT. 8 The Nags Head town InmuM' postponed for'a smk’ita'SeiK tembef meeting because ^of; the Labor day holiday. t^The which; normally first'Monday ci the-mimth,’wlll:'f^^^ convene St^ •