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Ms s Aseneath Payrc Route 1, CQX COO L.ncolhord, N. C. 2762U U-9-70 I i SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS 1 MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 423 MANTEO, N. C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS ft Twelve Pages in Two Sections WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAYEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA Pages One through Six VOLUME XXXV NO. 29 MANTfiO, N. C. 27954, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1970 Single Copy 100 iz p rj f flth A HEWITT 'FALSE ARREST' SUIT VS COPS WITHDRAWN Attorney Promises New Action Against Twyne Within 30 Days The attornpy for Herman C. (Sonny) Hewitt voluntarily withdrew a suit for $15,000 damages Monday against Nags Head Police Chief Donovan F. Twyne, Police Officer Charles Edward Dail, and the town of Nags Head and announced a complaint citing "new evidence" would be filed within !i0 days. The action came as Hewitt's charge of false arrest against Twyne and Dail came up. before Judge Howard C. Hubbard in Superior Court. Hubbard indicated he was ready to hear a motion to dis miss. He said that under rules recently adopted by the state's Judicial Council, motions to dis miss henceforth would supplant motions to demur. The judge said that under a demurrer, if granted, a plaintiff still had the right to carry on the lega tion. I!ut under a motion to dis miss, he said, the granting of such stopped further court ac tion. Attorney Robert B. Lowry of Elizabeth City efuickly withdrew the, original suit charging "false imprisonment, false arrest, find unlawful detention." He said he had new evidence which he h:n; intended to add under a motion to amend the original '.oni plaint. In order to forestall the possibility that the. suit would be tossed out under a .motion of dismiss, he withdrew the original complaint and promised to renew it within 30 days. Hubbard said this was en tirely permissible and that the new action would constitute "an entirely new ball game." Lowry said he would not reveal his "new evidence" until filing of the new complaint with the clerk of the court. Hewitt, a restaurateur at Mags Head during the beach season, claimed that he was ar rested and impri oned during an imbroglio about erecting a fence. He said he was "charged by inference with a crime." He asked $10,000 for injury to his "good name and leputation" and $5,000 punitive damages for what he claimed was fab? ar rest and imprisonment. The Hewitt-Twvne cae was See SUIT, Page Two HARD FREEZE RECALLED BY CURRITUCK RESIDENTS AS 300TH YEAR BEGINS By CARLTON MORRIS This year Currituck County, will be 300 years old and in the dead of winter, it looks every single year of it. During a cur sory glance at a few of it's numerous byways and hedges, none of it's residents seemed overly enthused or even in terested in its age. In fact to a casual visitor, whose memories are mainly of green growing summerti. ne, lush ripe tomatoes and sweet pbtatoes that taste like the ones we used to grow on the farm back when the world was young. Currituck looks rather sad and lonely in the winter time. The big freeze of January 8 recalls to mind the 1917 freeze when Currituck Sound froza six inches deep. Harking back to. that great freeze recently with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Taylor of Currituck, j (to the uninitiated, there's a county of Currituck while the capital of the county bears the same name.) they said they re membered the great 1S17 freeze snd this last one probably ranked right next to it. Mrs. Taylor said as a girl she grew up on Church's Island and ice reached almost as far as she could see in that 1917 freeze. And it was at least six inches thick as she remembers it. During the several days that it stayed there, the wind blew rather mildly offshore until one night it shifted strongly and began to blow fiercely toward Church's Island. Mrs. Taylor said ice beg.n to piie up along the shore. Pretty soon it be an to push toward the homes. All dwellings were of single-story structure and the ice piled higher than their homes. If the wind and waves had continued, probably all homes on the. island would have been endangered or in many rases, even demolished. For tunately the wind fell out leav ing stacks of ice higher than the houses. She says she can still remember the sound the crack'ng, crashing ice as it piled high on the shores of Church's Island in 1917. OFFICIALS PROMISE r 'if v.j L-i. THE MONDAY MEETING which brought an exchange of views and suggestions between repre sentatives of the U. S. Coast Guard, local officials, boat owners and fishermen, over the matter of navigational aids at Oregon Inlet apparently will bear fruit. At conclusion of the session, Capt. Ernest H. Burt, Sr. Chief, operations division, Fifth Coast Guard District, said that: (1) an additional buoy would be installed; (2) The No. 6 buoy now on location would be changed to a lighted device; and (") that the Coast Guard would look into the feasibility of establishing moveable range markers on the Bonner bridge near the. high section over the channel. The gathering was inspired by concerned watermen following the recent sinking of the Oriental near Oregon Inlet. The skipper of that vessel, Capt. Elmo Lupton of Virginia Beach, had indicated that adequate lighting would have enabled him to find safe harbor to ride out the the storm. Pictured above: V. Stanford White, chairman, Dare County Board of Commissioners; Capt. Burt; Cdr. J. Dearden, Chief, Aids to Navigation Section; CBM M. H. Murphy, CO, Verbena; Carson M. Hooper, projects manager, AN office; Lt. L. M. Quidley, group commander, Cape Hatteras; and J. B. Dasnight, CBM, Oregon Inlet, who were in the session also attended by some dozen or more fishermen, boat owners and other interested persons. Fishermen attending were Gilbert Tillett, Philip Ruhle, William Daniels, Charles Dan iels, Hughes Tillett, and R. S. Meekins; Commissioners R. K. and Pennel Tillett; and W. P. Dillon, i . ,i Some of the comments of those in attendance concerning the inlet and related channels: the dredge Schweitzer did more har.m than good, filling in under the bridge; and in Old House Channel. pipeline dredging com panies "sock it to us" on bid ding because "they lose dredges and other equipment." Nova Scotian and other vessels unfamiliar with Oregon Inlet seek escort before at tempting to enter. Radar alone is not the sinswer to entering the inlet be cause, during periods of rough seas, instruments are inaccur See INLET, Page Two FORMER MANTEO MAN IS PROMOTED BY UNITED STATES COAST GUARD sK. in :;tW CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER (Weapons) Hudean R, O'Neal, USCG, of 1102 Washington Blvd., .North Cape . May is sworn in by Captain Bemhard R. Henry, USCG, Commanding Officer- of the U. S. Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May. ; Prior to receiving his commission as a Warrant Officer, O'Neal held the enlisted rate of Senior Chief Gunners Mate. He was the Senior Armorer and Chief Instructor at the Training Center's Ordinance Section. CWO O'Neal was the Eastern Area Pistol Champion "in 1968 and was a member of the All-Coast Guard Pistol Team in both 19r8 and 19G9. He also won the 1969 National Indoor Pistol Championship Postal Match. O'Neal is married to the former Jennie Lee Hayman of Pantego. The couple have five children: Jeannie Lynn, 13; Peggy E., 11; Randolph W., 8; Shannon E., 4; and Erin K., eight weeks. The new warrant officer joined the Coast Guard in August of 1952. The Manteo nati-e has been assigned to the Training Center here since March of 1967. He reports to Coast Guard Base Governor's Island, New York, later this month. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren R. O'Neal, Manteo. INCREASED NAVIGATIONAL A 50 YEARS AGO IN EAST LAKE: THE FLAPPERS WANTED SUGAR RUM; DARE MAINLAND By BOB L. BASNIGHT At 12:01 A.M., January 16, 1920, there would be no more legal whiskey sold in the Unit ed States; for, as of that 'mo ment, the Eighteenth Aemend ment was to . become - an- active law. The Rev. Billy Sunday, from his pulpit in Norfolk that night, said, ".We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into corncribs." Like most men of the sawdust trail he was given to spontaneous, emotion al predictions; for the act open ed the way for lore than twelve years of total disregard of an unpopular national law. Twelve years of fast', cars and speedboats loaded ', with ?!'i r ' If is AIDS AT OREGON INLET vi FOLKS SUPPLIED I -1 "lawbreakers "mnd pursued by more fast cars and speedboats filled with "federal men". (Al ways dressed in the standard uniform of dress suit with vest and straw hat of the skimmer type according to television.) Twelve years of flappers and speakeasies both supported by the "big spender." Anytime you see a picture of any of these persons they seem to be taking time-off, only for a moment, to have the photo graph taken, impatient to get back to the chase. Something like halting a Mack Sennett comedy for a brief instant to get a better look at the partici pantsthey loved it! One writer of the period said, "They had just fought awar to end all wars. Now, they were going to throw a party to end all par ties." And H. L. Mencken stated that the breaking of Prohibition laws did not seem to be a crime anymore but a national sport. " Motion pictures, television and books have said much about the mort colorful aspects of Prohibition, but little about the source from which came the product that made the festivi ties possible the man at the distiller'- " an.'', space was donated to him af.' it was gen er$ly in the form of jokes or cartoons. For here was strictly a business man, ont who had little time for raccoon coats and Stutz-Bearcats. The still operator was pla gued with all the inherited problems of any big business buying and selling. The plants (and I call them plants because that was exactly what they were, not funny little copper pots with a retort-like spout, but large buildings in which equipment was operated by steam boilers) were capable of producing whiskey twenty-four hours a day. This created labor and maintenance problems and constant dealing to ensure a supply of raw materials for the operation. It consumed large quantities of nugar, rye, coke, jugs and bottles. A heavy concentration of these plants were located in the East Lake section of Dare Coun ty. It was estimated by some agencies as being capable of producing 5,000 gallons of rye whiskey a week. The whiskey was also called sugar rum, in asmuch as sugar was its base ingredient Contrary to present, popular belief, it contained no corn. Milltail Creek was one of the chief arteries for transport ing the whiskey from the area, j The creek winds eastward in-1 to Dare County from the Alii- J gator River, through woods now owned by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, Se FLAPPERS, Page Three EROSION FUNDS PROBABLY SHOWN IN NIXON BUDGET Seashore Head Says Outer Banks' Problem Is Perilous A National Park Service of t'fcial said Wednesday the amount of money available to combat erosion of the Cape Hat teras National Seashore appar ently would not be known until President Nixon submits the fiscal 1971 budget to Congress. Kittridge A. Wing, superin- cient of the Seashore, said he had heard nothing of Rep. Walter B. Jones request to In terior Secretary Walter J. Hickel for adequate funds to combat erosion along a four mile stretch of the Outer Banks. The president's budget is ex pected to be released Jan. 26. Wing said the sea still is chewing away at Seashore beaches, most noticeably in the area south of the lighthouse on Hatteras Island. There also are troublesome areas on Ocracoke Island and Nags Head, Wing said. These include chipping ef forts at Coquina Beach and along the beaches of Bodie Is land. "The worst erosion problem is at the south end of the sand bags which protect an area just north of the Hatteras Light house,' Wing said. "There is a big arc cut into the beach. "The situation is right peri lous." Wing said the summer build up of sand was not as promis ing as normal. He said there were too many little storms to permit the normal volume of sand to wash ashore and in crease the beaches' stability. In fhort, the normal summer re suscitation simply was missing. Wing was dubious about per manent solution of the erosion problem along the Outer Banks. Wing is of the opinion there always will be a bad problem long las the sea keeps grind ing away with its ever-present tides. One solution would be a rise in the level of the Outer Banks. NAGS HEAD TO LOOK INTO PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT , . The Nags : Head town board agreed Monday to consider re commendations by its building inspector regarding the pro posed development of the Cam-O-Cove subdivision. The proposed s li b d i v i s ion would be located .on an area west of the bypass between the Phillips 66 station and Whale bone Junction. The inspector, George Reyn olds, offered recommendations for changes in the company's proposal that would deal par ticularly with entrances and exits along the highway. The board, meeting in special session with all members pre sent, approved hiring of a full time clerk in the town office. The job went to Effie Gray at $70 per week. The board ordered a 10 per See NAGS HEAD, Page Four i ICE ALONG CAUSEWAY BETWEEN MANTEO AND NAGS HEAD . i fit?. ; I P.a ...i..i'ya-tiV: -rm i ; KmZZ,.-Jit':. 1 SUBFREEZING WEATHER resulted in cold beauty when spray from Roanoke Sound blown ashore up t0 par tnis year Goose shoot covered the breakwater and beach grasses near the Little Bridge. It was the first time since ; jg ranged from fair to good 1958 that ice so heavily covered sounds in the Outer Banks area. (Aycock Brown photo) 1 along the Outer Banks. BANOUET SPEAKER 33 1 'A MIKE McGEE, ECU-Greenville, was guest speaker at the Red skins Boosters Club' football banquet last Saturday night. McGee, native of Elizabeth City and a graduate of the high school there and professional NFL player before turning roach, praised the team for their successes, more because of the "self discipline exercised which makes you .men." "The elation of being East fin 1-A state champions and the depression after defeat for See SPEAKER, Page Four FRIDAY MEETING WILL MAP PLANS FOR CENTENNIAL Tyrrell, Hyde, Currituck Expect ed to Send Representatives to Dare A meeting of the business interests of the Dare Coast Outer Banks will be held at the Carolinian at Nags Head Fri (ia.y night -to map plans for ci'ebratihg the 100th birtlfday ot Dare County and also fam ous Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Centennial organizational plans will be discussed during the dinner meeting. Special guests at the meeting will be representatives of the successful centennial staged in Rocky Mount, last year and also members of the Rogers Com pany of Fostoria, Ohio, a pro fessional organization that will help plan the celebration. The meeting has been set up by the Dare County Board of Commissioners and their com mittees appointed at a meeting in late 1969. The meeting which County Board Chairman W. S. White has indicated would be strictly for business with the area's I businessmen and women pre- j sent to take part in the discus sions will begin at 6 o'clock with a get acquainted hospi tality hour followed by the banquet and the discussions. V The actual celebration is ' hide equipment in conn-ction tentatively planned for a date j wjth his job as a mechanic to be announced during Autumn j working on ferry boats. Whe 1971). less said that unless Sapone One of the. features of the j had a driving permit, the de dual centennial would r - a his- ' f endant would lose his job. S.e 100TH, Page Four See COURT, Page Four DRILLER SAYS OIL AND GAS PRESENCE ABSOLUTE IN CASE OF STUMPY POINT WELL SITE More Extensive Exploration and Testing Af firmed by Firm Drilling for Rapp; "No Showing" at Other Sites in Currituck Coun ty, Roanoke Island. WITNESS FAILS TO APPEAR IN ABORTION CASE One Drunk Driver Pleads Guilty, Gets Restricted Permit A charge of performing an illegal abortion filed against Frederick Alfred Marks, 52, of Virginia Beach, Va., was dis missed Friday in District Court here because of lack of evi dence. The prosecuting witness, a 19-year-old Virginia Beach girl, did not appear. Judge William S. Privott thereupon dismissed the charge. The abortion allegedly was performed in late September at a motel in Nags Head. Other cases on the docket in cluded the usual humdrum of speeding, drunk driving, and trespass. Nicholas Francis Sapone of Manteo pled guilty to a charge of drunk driving early on Jan. 1. He admitted celebrating New Year's so lilx-rally that lie had only a vague and incom plete recollection of his actions. The state, represented by So licitor Wilton W. Walker, Jr., dismissed a charge of resisting arrest against .Sapone on grounds the resistance was not very substantial. Sapone ob jected briefly to arrest orders by Deputy Sheriffs William S. Brown, Jr., and Samuel 1'led- Ifjrer. Tf.- resistance b the slight ! Sapone aerainst the burly Brown and the lean and wiry Pledger seemed ludicrous to courtroom observers. Had Brown leaned against the defendant, thei-e ap peared little doubt that Sa pone's resistance would have faded rapidly. Brown said Sapone, emerges! from downtown Manteo and zigzagged south toward Wan- chese. The officer said he trailed Sapone ami clocked him at speeds up to 90 miles per hour. Brown stopped Sapone shortly after the Sapone car entered Wanchese. Brown said Sapone refused to take a breathalyzer test and objected profanely to instruc tions to take a standard physi cal sobriety test. The officer indicated Sapone flunked the physical tests he did take. Sapone s attorney, Dwiglit Wheless, asked the court to give the defendant a limited driving permit so that he could drive state-owned motor ve- The firm which is dri'.lirir the now-famous well at Stumpy Point just off Rt. 261 has rath ( r extensive further testing heduled at the Kite, a repre sentative confirmed Wednesday. Don Conner, tlie driller in i hui ye of the rig which is own ed by Ralph Drieling of New castle, Wyoming, and which is under contract to Rapp Oil Co., owner of the leases on several coastlund sites, said we "know that we have enough showing" to warrant further testing. Conner said there was "indi cation of production of both oil and gas," although he chose not to elaborate on which might be the most productive. The dril ler, who has extensive exper ience in locations throughout the country, said his crew would soon begin work at the site toward "swabbing fluid out of the hole," a procedure ex iiccted to take a few days, and that additional work by Ilali burton Testers of Charleston, West Va., yould follow. Just how long before actual production might be expected on a commercial scale, at least, could be anybody's gue.-.s. Conner did say that a nr Ti ber of other wells to be drilled for Rapp were planned over the next several months. He stated that the Mamie location, referred to as Kellogg No. 1. went to a depth of 51 42 feet; and the Roanoke Island site, Etheridge No. 1, terminated at a depth of 6052 feet. Both ea;-ed when the granite bed which lavs under the entire coltslii aiva v.'as sljvk. The driller said that wnile the granite was not impenetra ble, it was highly unlikely that i producing reservoir would be found beneath it. There was no showing at either Mamie or Roanoke Island, he said. While optimism seems to be the spirit at Stumpy Point and other locations including east ern Hyde County, state officials have been cautious, to say the least. Roy (i. Sowers, Jr., Direc tor, N. C. Depaitment of Con servation and Development, is sued th" following statement last we; k: ''During the past several days the oil and gas exploratory drilling being carried out by Rapp Oil Corporation at Stum py Point, Dare County, has re ceived considerable attention li-om the news media. Most of these reports speculate that natural gas has been discover ed. "The Depaitment of Con rervation and Development, throuffh the Oil and Gas Con servation Act of 1!M5, has been designated as the State agency with prime responsibility to control th exploration for, and regulate the production of nntural gas and petroleum in Nonh Carolina. 'Sine" Ranr. Oil Corporation began its exn!or:rory drilling program in October 1 the Division of Mineral Re ources See Oil. Page Four WILDFOWL SEASON JUST ENDED SAID EXCELLENT Except for the past week I when ice conditions had fouled up wildfowl hunting to sc ne ex tent, the migratory, duck and goose season ending this week was one jf the be.-t in recent years. Limit kills were reported con- j sistently by hunters, operators of hunting clubs and by ihe Na- tional Park Service. I The controlled wildfowl hunt ing at Bodie Island flats in low er Nags Head attracted hunters from N. C. as well as many other states. A spot check from time to ! time reflected that in spite of i deceased bag limits for black duck anil canvasbacks this year, the number of these two species i seemed to equal or was even better than in recent years. A1- I so plentiful were pintails and ' "adwi'ls. blackhead and shovel i lers. There wtre fewer redheads in the Bodie "gland and upper I Pamlico Sound creas, but they were plentiful in the Hatteras i and Ocracoke sectors where the ! Ki'oFit i.mit n rn qlurt ...I
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