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PUBLISHED ON TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS IN THE INTEREST OF
THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OUTER BANKS AREAS OF NORTH CAROLINA
Mr. She rri lie E ,
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District Court
Docket To Be
Large Nov. 30
A criminal court calendar
bearing the names of more than
50 defendants is scheduled for
disposition at the Nov. 30 term
of District Court.
A backlog of cases was built
up because there has been no
session of weekly court sinke
Nov. 9. The sessions were
skipped because the courtroom
was used for a term of civil
District Court and a term of
criminal Superior Court.
In addition to the con
siderable number of defendants
for court hearing, an even
larger group of wrongdoers
submitted to the clerk of the
court and to magistrates and .
paid nominal fines and costs.
Recent submissions include:
Maurice Lee Quidley, Avon,
inspection violation, $16; Roger
Alston Shepherd, Portsmouth,
Va., littering, $16; Edward Ross
Tolson, Frisco, defective
muffler, $16; Dana C. Aultman,
Hornell, N.Y., 70-55 mph zone,
$26; Jack Burrus, Manteo,
failing to secure load, $16.
Shere Williams, Buxton, 65-55
mph zone, $21; John Arnce,
Manteo, breach of peace, $16;
Frank Benedict Orben, Kill
Devil Hills, public drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, $19;
Horace Grady Aycock, Lit
tleton, 50-35 mph zone, $26;
Samuel David Hicks, Manteo,
72-60 mph zone, $26.
John Jay Douglas, Edenton,
registration violation, $16;
Dixie Walker Daniels, Wan
chese, 71-60 mph zone, $26;
Matilda Lizabeth Baum, Kitty
Hawk, failing to yield right-of-way,
$16; Stephen Wayne
Daniels, Manteo, improper
parking, $26; Charlie Vinson
McClease, Manteo, driving
without a license, $41.
Jerome Parker, Battleboro,
driving without a license, $41;
Robert Ray Maloney, Norfolk,
Va., 65-55 mph zone, $21; Walter
Thomas Martin, Denton, 35-25
mph zone, $21; John Phillip
Dorsett, Arrey, N.M., 70-55 mph
zone, $26; James Ronald Evans,
Charlotte, inspection violation,
$16.
James William King, Homer
City, Pa., 50-35 mph zone, $26;
Dennis Patrick Shevilon,
Norfolk, 75-60 $26; Gerald
Wampler Stump, Waynesboro,
Va., 35-25 mph zone, $21;
Carroll M. Constance, Buxton,
hunting violation, $26; Stephen
V. Schroll, Havana, 111., boating
Violation, $16.
Aubrey Cavenaugh Kitchen,
Virginia Beach, Va., 70-55 mph
zone, $26; Joyce Ward
Philbrick, Chesapeake, Va., 70
55 mph zone, $26; Frances
Margaret Hurley, Reston, Va.,
67-55 mph zone, $26; Richard
Reed Evans, Alexandria, Va.,
70-55 mph zone, $26; Harry Earl
Forehand, Hopewell, Va., 65-55
mph zone, $21.
Jeffrey Wilson Boone, Bux
ton, registration violation, $16;
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Dietrich Appointed
To Water Authority
William G. Dietrich, former
member of the Kill Devil Hills
town board, has been appointed
to serve as a member of the
Dare Beaches Water and Sewer
Authority by the Dare County
Board of Commissioners.
Dietrich will represent the
Kitty Hawk area and fills the
vacancy on the six-man
Authority board created when
Arthur V. Peterson, Southern
Shores, left at the end of his two
year appointment.
Alva F. Rollins, newly elected
chairman of the Water
Authority, in making the an
nouncement of the ap
pointment, noted that Dietrich
had been a member of the
original Dare Beaches Water
Study Group. This group
recommended the establish
ment of the present Authority.
Dietrich is owner-operator of
the Lamplighter Cottages in
Kill Devil Hills where he
presently resides. He is building
a home in Southern Shores,
however, and expects to be a
resident of Kitty Hawk early
next year. His move from KDH
to Kitty Hawk was the reason he
did not seek re-election to the
KDH town board.
"Dietrich's background as a
businessman and former Kill
Devil Hills commissioner along
with his past and present in
terest in the water and sewage
problems of the area make him
eminently qualified to work
with and assist the Dare
Beaches Water and Sewer
Authority," Rollins said.
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LE1GHTON LINWOOD GIBBS of Wanchcse has spent his life on
the water and working with lumber, and there is about his still
sturdy figure and his clear ruddy complexion .something that
brings to mind the salt breeze and the good clean redolence of
freshly cut wood. . . '
In spite of the approach of his HOth birthday next year, he is a
man constantly busy.
Out in his side yard is Dare County's only saw mill. Gibbs built
it himself and operates it when he can get proper help. He said
somewhat ruefully that the only man he trusts to work with him
"couldn't stay away from drink" and got himself a jail sentence.
But he's due to be released soon, and stacked up is a load of logs
waiting to be cut.
Then there's his house. After
his supposed retirement, Gibbs
and his wife Evelyn bought the
old Capt. Charlie Hugh house in
Wanchese near the water. It
hadn't been occupied for 15
years and was in such hopeless
disrepair that Mrs. Gibbs said,
"I cried when I saw it." But
together they have restored the
big spacious rooms and the
white clapboard exterior. Gibbs
did all the plumbing repairs and
rewiring even put in a second
bath.
Hard work and starting from
scratch are nothing new to
Gibbs, however, and he comes
from a family whose men were
used to fending for themselves
and making their way without
help.
Gibbs tells the story of his
great-grandfather, Samuel
Dudley, who settled on Ports
mouth Island just off Ocracoke
early in the 19th century. He
was one of three brothers who
were raised in London and who
all became doctors.
At that time, Portsmouth
Island was a busy and
flourishing port by reason of its
deep inlet, the only one along
this part of the coast. About a
Sheriff's Department Armed
Latest Equipment
Law enforcement operations
are coming of age in Dare
County with the use of some of
the latest equipment available
in non-metropolitan and rural
areas.
The Sheriff's Department
here is hooked into the Police
Information Network (PIN)
which stores traffic information
in a "computer brain."
An operator has only to punch
on a keyboard the license plate
number of any vehicle
registered in the United States.
In a matter of seconds, the
name and address of the owner
of the vehicle will appear in
green letters on a small black
screen in front of the keyboard.
A driving record may be
obtained by punching a driver's
license number into the com
pujter. Sheriff Frank M. Cahoon said
that PIN now is being
programmed so as to provide a
store of stolen item information
which can be drawn on by
punching the serial number of
any item on the computer hook
up. This will enable officials to
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half mile from the main island,
was a smaller one since
washed away where big boats
could draw right alongside to
unload. Then smaller vessels
would pick up the cargoes and
deliver them to the ports on the
sounds and rivers.
Dr. Dudley built a hospital
the first in eastern North
Carolina on Portsmouth and
operated it himself until the
Civil War. Then the government
took it over and hired Dr.
Dudley to run it.
"During the time the hospital
was in operation, there were as
many as 25(H) people living on
the island." Gibbs said. But the
opening of the Dismal Swamp
and Chesapeake-Albemarle
Canals provided readier access
for the big ships to the river
towns and the numbers coming
to Portsmouth dwindled and the
people left.
No one lives on the island
today. Among the last to go
some three years ago was an
old Negro man. a descendant of
Dr. Dudley's slaves.
Dr. Dudley's son Augustus,
Gibbs' grandfather, became a
See GIBBS. Page 3A
store numbers of stolen items
reported to them.
The rental charge of a
computer hook-up with
keyboard is $1800 a year of
which the county pays 25 per
cent, Cahoon said.
The Dare Sheriff's Depart
ment also operates two radar
units for clocking motorists'
speed at various points in the
county. The newest radar unit
acquired can be carried by an
officer who might "look like
Aycock Brown with his camera
rig," Cahoon said. It can be
operated from inside buildings,
behind trees or poles, and other
concealing locations.
A storehouse of radio
equipment keeps the sheriff's
department in contact with the
Civil Defense agency, boats
operating on the citizen's band
frequency, the State Highway
Patrol, and local police.
An emergency band radio at
the department is tuned in at all
times and can pick up
frequencies as far north as
Kitty Hawk, south to Oregon
See LAW. Page 7A
MANTEO. N. C. 27954. THURSDAY, NOV. W. 1973
HPS Director
Favors Land
Acquisition
Director Ronald Walker of the
National Park Service last week
advocated the acquisition of
private property on Hatteras
Island as the best course of
action for the Federal govern
ment. Beach nourishment and other
erosion control methods such as
groins and jetties do not work,
he said. "If we find there are
some alternatives that we've
missed, we'll look at them, but
that possibility is limited."
The NPS contends that to
continue beach nourishment
projects is a waste of taxpayers'
money because the sand
pumped in to build up beaches
under the costly beach nourish
ment projects is washed away
with each storm.
"I personally would like to see
the federal government
acquire, for a fee. the properties
down there." Walker said. "We
can no longer pour money into
dredging sand into Buxton
without seeing the end of the
tunnel. And we see none."
"The thing that sold me was
that strip the whole area is
probably one of the most
energetic coastal areas we
have. The warm southern
waters mix with the cold,
northern seas and produce
terrific forces on the Outer
Hanks." he said.
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Xmas Lights Wiii
Shine For Parade
Manteo's new Christmas
lights will come on for the first
time Friday night when they
light up the town for the annual
Christmas parade. Manteo
Woman's Club treasurer Linda
Midgett said. ti
(The lights were purt-hascd
this year with SKmhi from the
town. $."hi from the Manteo
Woman's Club. S.ioo from the
Manteo Lions Club, and the
remainder of the Sii'ino donated
by Manteo businesses and in
dividuals. In addition to the Manteo
High School band and Santa
Claus. the parade will feature
the Coast Guard LARC. Smokey
the Bear and Slate Forestry
Service representatives i unless
they are called to fight fires i.
the Camellia Cow. the Girl
Scouts, an Outer Banks
Woman's (Tub float depicting a
theme related to the Outer
Banks Health Center, a float
sponsored by the Duchess of
Dare Restaurant and ten
tatively a float sponsored by the
Manteo High School Science
Club.
Beginning at 7 p.m. at the
Manteo Elementary School, the
parade will proceed south on
t'.S: ii-4 and 264. turn onto Sir
Walter Raleigh Street, make a
U-turn around the courthouse,
and proceed down Budleigh
Street. The paraders will
disperse at the Manteo
Elementary School.
The Woman's Club requests
motorists not to park on Sir
Walter Raleigh and Budleigh
Streets during the parade.
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NORTH CAROLINA HANG GLIDER SOCIETY members are slated to gather at the Wright Memorial
in Kill Devil Hills on Sunday, Dec. 16, eve of the First Flight celebration "This will be a big meet so
bring kites and friends. We will drop Sunday morning at 9 a.m.," said Tommy Thompson of 104 Wright
Street, Lewisville, N. C, spokesman for the organization. This photo by Aycock Brown was made
during the summer as members of the organization and others were participating in the sport from
atop Jockey's Ridge in Nags Head.
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JIML. DUNNING, new ly appointed Superintendent of the Cape Hatteras Seashore, sits in his office at
Fort Raleigh before a loo-year-old seascape by Thomas Moran. The painting of the storm tossed waves
appropriately points up the challenges which the National Park Service official faces in his new post,
Commenting that Outer Banks beach erosion problems were "very complex," Dunning admitted
that his first two weeks in office had been devoted to reading and conferring with officials, researchers
and residents on the subject.
Dunning assumed duties at Fort Raleigh as superintendent Nov. 11. He comes to his new post from
Denver w here he w as State Director of National Park Service in Colorado. Before moving to Denver,
Dunning was Superintendent of Rocky Mountain National Park. Colorado, and Dinosaur National
Monument.
He succeeds Robert D. Barbee who transferred in Sentember to the NPS Western Recinrml Offirp
in San Francisco.
Dunning is a native Calif ornian a "fourth generation"
civil engineering degree from Fresno State University.
I ve been doing a lot of
reading." Dunning said "You
might say I'm in the learning
process."
In order to apply what he
reads to the actual siiuation,
Dunning said that he had been
lo Hatteras and talked to sur
veyors and to Robert Dolan who
is under contract to monitor the
action of the ocean on the sand
which was pumped around
Mux'oi. .
"Dolan indicated that the
sand is retreating again."
Dunning said. He added that all
the data almut the sand pum
ping operation was being added
lo the information already
collected about erosion
problems.
"Jerry Wright and Ted Mew
have the monumental task of
bringing together all the expert
knowledge gathered over the
years." he said. "From this, we
can make intelligent con
clusions." Dunning said that a report on
the broad situation was due by
March I. 15174. and shuddered at
the thought of synthesizing
"lifetimes" of work in such a
short period.
"We haven't changed any
policy toward the Outer
Banks." he said. "There are no
plans between now and March
I."
Asked about the recent talk of
buying property threatened by
erosion. Dunning said that this
was only one alternative which
was being considered. "It is
only a consideration now," he
said, indicating that it was one
among many.
Dunning met with Dare
County manager Jack Cahoon,
county commissioner William
See DI NNING. Page 7A
Plan December
Cape Hatteras Seashore
native
Red Cross Plans Swimming
Classes For Outer Banks
Red Cross swimming in
struction will be offered free in
Dare County beginning in
January. Dr. Ed North. Dare
County Coordinator for Water
Safety, announced Tuesday.
Lynnane Butcher, who has
volunteered four nights a week
to teach the courses, em
phatically said. "It is so im
portant to learn to swim.
Warrant Sworn In
Stabbing Case
A warrant sworn out by Mrs.
Lloyd Meekins, Jr.. Manteo,
charged Otis Pledger, also of
Manteo. with felonious assault
w ith intent to kill Mrs. Meekins'
husband, according to the Dare
County Clerk of Court office.
Mrs. Meekins charged in the
warrant that Pledger assaulted
Lloyd Meekins,' Jr. with "a
knife with intent to kill,
resulting in serious bodily in
jury." The warrant said that
Meekins was stabbed after
being struck on the head with a
pool cue stick.
Meekins was taken in serious
condition to Norfolk General
Hospital where "he seems to be
doing some better," Mrs.
Meekins said.
Police said the incident oc
curred in Luvada's Place in
Manteo.
Sheriff's deputies have served
the warrant on Pledger who has
posted bond for $3,000, the
Clerk's office said. A hearing
has been set for Dec. 14.
Participation
of the state, he said and holds a
especially in this area. The
ocean is treacherous. People
need to know how to swim in the
ocean. There is a way to swim in
rip tides and currents, and
people ought to know it."
If enough interest is shown
through enrollment in the
courses. Miss Butcher said that
she will give instructions for
beginners, advanced beginners,
intermediate swimmers,
swimmers, Junior Life Saving,
Senior Life Saving, diving,
survival swimming, water
ballet, water exercises, and for
the handicapped.
Each course except the
Junior and Senior Life Saving,
will be held two nights a week
for four weeks. Junior and
Senior Life Saving will last
eight weeks.
Miss Butcher said she would
teach persons of all ages. The
youngest one she has instructed
in swimming was only three
months old, and the oldest was
85.
"I was so proud of her," Miss
Butcher said of her 85-year-old
student. "It took nine months
but she learned to swim, and
she received a special com
mendation for effort. She was so
proud."
The beginner courses are for
See RED CROSS, Pagei
Republican Dinner Draws 150
Party Members To Hatteras
One of the largest political
gatherings to be held in Dare
County took place Tuesday
night, Nov. 27, in Hatteras when
more than 150 GOP party faith
ful attended a dinner at the
Cape Point Restaurant.
Featured speaker was at
torney John Wilkinson of
Washington, N.C. Dr. W.W.
Harvey, Jr., also addressed the
group.
The meeting was chaired by
Gage Williams, Dare County
Republican Party chief.
GOP precinct chairmen were
recognized. They were listed
as: Goodrich Williams, Manteo,
precinct; Weldon Craddock,
Manns Harbor precinct;
Seymour Gray, Avon precinct;
Bennie Barnett, Frisco
precinct; Vernon Gaskill,
Wanchese precinct, and
Dorothy Gaskill, Nags Head
precinct.
Robert McWilliams was duly
elected Nags Head precinct
chairman recently. He was also
duly elected an alternate to the
state convention. McWilliams
said that he had not been
notified of the dinner. It was
also pointed out at the dinner
that a precinct chairman was
needed for Kill Devil Hills and
Nags Head.
Special recognition was given
at the dinner to Vernon Gaskill.
I G. Scarborough, and Orville
Scarborough for their out
standing work.
Wilkinson spoke on
Republican philosophy, terming
Single Copy I Of
Dore Library
Board Hears
Well Problem
Water for the library was the
chief concern of the Dare
County Library Board of
Trustees meeting which was
held Nov. 26.
Well points in the shallow well
which has supplied the building
since it was built have become
clogged. There is no way to
reach the well to remedy the
situation since the Harwood
Room was built directly over
the water source, cementing it
in.
Library Board chairman
Vera Evans told members that
there is not enough room on the
property to sink another well.
Hook-up with Manteo water is,
therefore, necessary..
Negotiations are under way to
complete running pipes to the
library from existing mains.
Meanwhile, a hose has been run
from the house next door into
minimum water
Dare librarian Lida Olmstead
reported to the board on ac-
tivities in the library for the
quarter. Activities included
story hours, club meetings,
films, exhibits, and celebration
of National Children's Book
Week.
Mrs. Olmstead noted that
book circulation from the
library increased in each month
of the quarter except Sep
tember over circulation in 1972.
Bookmobile circulation fell
below 1972 figures, however.
Ann Sanders, Albemarle
Regional librarian reported
that she had taped interviews
with 16 Dare County elementary
school children as a part of
Nation Children's Book Week.
The interviews were broadcast
over radio station WOBR.
Mrs. Sanders also in
terviewed Huntington Cairns,
Southern Shores, for station
WOBR. That broadcast will be
heard Dec. 3 at 10: 15 a.m., Mrs.
Sanders said. She said she
discussed with Cairns the rapid
growth of Dare County and the
pleasures of the area besides
fishing and swimming.
In addition, an hour long
cassette taped interview with
Cairns was made for the library
collection.
Mrs. Olmstead told the board
that in the interest of con
serving energy, the Book
mobile's schedule had been
condensed from five to four
days the first week of each
month. She said that other
measures included setting back
the thermostat and using only
necessary lights.
The board voted to amend the
by-laws providing for a change
in the meeting times of the
board. According to the new
schedule, meetings will be held
in January, April, July and
October, the day has been
changed from Monday to
Thursday and the hour from 3
p.m. to 10 a.m.
the party "the real party of the
people." He said that the
Democratic party had aban
doned the wishes of the people.
He commented on the fact that
the Democrats had been in
power at the outset of every war
except the Spanish-American
war and that GOP ad
ministrations had ended the
See GOP, Page 7A
Golf Tournament
Proceeds Go To
0B Health Center
Golfers may support the
Outer Banks Health Center as
they golf this weekend at Duck
Woods and Sea Scape Golf
Courses by entering the Outer
Banks Woman's Club sponsored
tournament.
The $5-green fees for tour
nament participants at Duck
Woods Dec. 1 and at Sea Scape
Dec. 2 will be given to the Outer
Banks Woman's Club as part of
its $3500 pledge to the Health
Center.
A luncheon will be available
and prizes to winners will be
awarded on Dec. 2. according to
the Woman's Club.
Categories for entrants in
clude Men's. Indies. Mixed
Scotch Foursome, First-time,
and Juniors. Reservations may
Ik- made by calling Duck Woods
at 441-5.n;i. Sea Scape at 441
5528. or simply by registering nt
the club during the weekend