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Lx. LaeitriUe UtUr 4-3-75 Rt. 1, Bx 89 Eingelhard. N. C. 27824 . . 11 InlE WATERSIDE THEATRE Roanoke Island near Manteo Site of The Lost Colony First 1 974 Performance June 2 1 PUBLISHED ON TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OUTER BANKS AREAS OF NORTH CAROLINA WRIGHT BROTHERS MEMO: . . . where flight began VOL. XXXX NO. 13 KILL DEVIL HILLS. N. C. 27948 Telephone 441-6363 MANTEO, N.C. 27954 Telephone 473-2105 10 TUESDAY AUGUST 13. 197 ky User Is Grounded For 2 Years, Fined Judge Fentress T. Horner sentenced two convicted violators of narcotics laws to jail in District Court Friday and levied a heavy fine on a third because of his youth. Horner also sentenced two admitted shoplifters to perform many hours of work for their victims in lieu of going to jail. Henry Steward Hassell, 32, with addresses in Virginia Beach, Va., Manns Harbor, and Austin, Texas, felt the court's wrath because of his attempts to make a mockery of the state's traffic laws, especially as they relate to use of alcohol. Several months ago, Hassell surfaced here after a sojourn in Austin. He was arrested on a charge of drunk driving. He refused to take a breathalyzer test which would have deter mined exactly his state of inebriation. For such refusal, he automatically lost his driving permit for six months. He was convicted in District Court and sentenced. He got the standard punishment, including an ad ditional 12 months' suspension of his driving permit. Hassell appealed to Superior Court, pled guilty, and received confirmation of his lower court punishment including loss of driving permit. He said in open court that he had mailed his Texas permit to the Texas department of motor vehicles. A few weeks later, Hassell was picked up and charged with driving while his license was revoked. He had a license from Virginia. Horner asked how he got the Virginia permit. "Why, I told the license people in Virginia Beach about my troubles here and said I needed a permit," Hassell said, "and they gave me one." "You lie," Horner said. "You lied when you got that license. The state of Virginia doesn't give out driving permits in face of convictions like yours." Horner sentenced Hassell to six months suspended for five years upon payment of a fine of $200 and costs and ordered him not to operate a motor vehicle for two years. Hassell appealed under $:!()0 bond. Records in the clerk of the court's office show that Hassell is under a second charge of driving while license revoked. Hichard Hush Furst, 19, Pt. Pleasant, Pa., pled guilty to a charge of shoplifting artificial bait valued at $1.56 from a fishing pier. He got 90 days suspended on condition he report daily to the pier and work from ft a.m. until 5 p.m. at any task assigned until Aug. 31. He was ordered to pay costs. Billy Wayne Gibson, 22, Williamston, pled guilty to a charge of shoplifting post cards valued at $3.08 from a fishing pier. He was sentenced to six months suspended upon con dition he report to the pier manager Oct. 16 and work daily at various assigned tasks for 30 days. He was ordered to pay costs and to stay sober. William Hartwell Cox, 16; Thomas Franklin Cox, 18; and Lee Allaby Rives Stott, 17, all of Bon Air, Va., pled guilty to possession of 12.5 grams of marijuana. The defendants really were small boys. Their baby faces .were framed by the prevailing long hair which made them look even younger than their years. The older Cox and Stott each was sentenced to six months in jail. William Cox, because of his age, got six months suspended for five years upon payment of a fine of $300 and costs and put on good behavior for five years. The older Cox and Stott ap pealed their jail sentences. Harry Edward Niser, 34, Manteo, pled guilty to a charge of failing to stop his boat at the order of state officer. William Biggs of the wildlife protection service said he saw Miser's boat running without lights in Roanoke Sound and challenged it. Biggs said the Niser boat slipped away and went under the Roanoke Sound bridge at a point the state boat could not follow. Shortly thereafter, Biggs said, he was able to apprehend Niser. The judge sentenced Niser to six months suspended upon payment of a fine of $200 and costs. llcrndon Hunt Riddle, 23, Nags Head, pled guilty to charges of speeding 50 miles per See COURT, Page t Her Book Is For Children JSTSlFSS Mill! t'.'I.t-l-r-T jOv"--''4 - . - i-rf - ANITA FLETCHER of Ocracoke is the artist-author of a new book expressly for children "A Coloring Book Guide To The Outer ' Banks." She is shown with her two daughters, Molly (1) and Lamarr to whom she has dedicated the book. The book is now on sale at Ocracoke gift shops and stores and those of other Outer Banks' towns and villages. Mrs. Fletcher started the book "because it was something that wasn't here." She thought it would be representative of the Outer Banks and something children would like. ( V. Evans photo The book contains book contains simple pictures of Outer Banks scenes of historical and general in terest which all children will relate to and enjoy coloring. Ocracoke ponies, a campsite, Blackbeard, the area lighthouses, feeding the gulls from a ferryboat are among the pictures which even the youngest child will recognize. Mrs. Fletcher, a native of Engelhard, and her husband, David, who hails from Edenton, first lived on Ocracoke when Fletcher was local ranger with the Park Service. When they were transferred from Ocracoke, they "missed it so much" that they determined to go back. Fletcher left the Park Service and now is employed by the N.C. Wildlife Commission on Ocracoke, Bodie and Hat teras Islands. "It's a fine place to live," Mrs. Fletcher said. Many of the pictures in the coloring book are of Ocracoke scenes and reflect her love for and interest in the area's beauty and history. ("A Coloring Book Guide to the Outer Banks," by Anita Flet cher. Times Printing Co. publishers. 16 pp., $1.25) (V. Evans photo) Cape Hatteras '-X iv ill. h ,:i 3li nl ?.w..-.. ...J I LAWRENCE D. ROUSH has recently taken up his duties as Chief Ranger for the Cape Hatteras Seashore. Roush conies to Roanoke Island from the National Park Service Regional office. Prior to that assignment, he served as superin tendent of a small park in Arizona and one in Alabama. He replaces Robert Cheesmun who h;i been assigned to Florida. As chief ranger, Roush is respond!:!" or the protection of the park's resources and the people who i-ii it "Forest fires, safety hazards, law enforcement - they a!'1 mine under the responsibility ol the chief ranger," he said. Roush is married and has two sons. l ;ind 4. The family resides al Fort Raleigh. (V. Evans photo) X - "j.'XI ? M - r W Governor Asks Aid To State's Shrimp Industry Governor Holshouser today issued the following statement: North Carolina's shrimp industry, the most valuable segment of our commercial fishing industry, is ex periencing unusual economic problems. A large inventory of frozen shrimp and an abundance of fresh shrimp, due to a good shrimping season. have depressed the value of shrimp in the market. The severely depressed dockside prices, coupled with an increased cost of fishing operations, affects the livelihood of several thousand fishermen, wholesalers, dealers and processors in every coastal county. This situation has resulted from a number of factors which are national and international in scope and which collectively See SHRIMP. Pane:. Chief Ranger i VP--'1-"' 7-' tr i-V r i Geologic Past Of Outer Banks Explored Editor's Note: This is the first in a series on the natural en vironment of the Outer Banks. Much in the news today, the environment will become in creasingly important in the future. This exploration of the geologic past of the Outer Banks will set the scene for future studies of the fish, birds, shells, plants and trees among others which go to make up the barrier islands. livllll l) V 1U KOWSKI Raw northeast winds began suddenly to whip the sea into furious waves. Under bleak skies, the air became per meated with icy salt spray blown from the frothy breakers. And snow began to fall. Without mercy, the sea assaulted the Outer Banks in mid-February 1973. Before the onslaught ended, a dozen cottages in Kitty Hawk fell victim to the sea; the 90-year-old Arlington Hotel in Nags Head suffered fatal in jury; and three motels in Buxton were licking their wounds. Lying beneath the in transigent ocean breakers were some l.ooo feet of broken asphalt from N. C. 12. the single highway linking the Hatteras Island villages w ith each other and with the rest of the world. Eleven years earlier the rampaging ocean had cut completely through Hatteras Island, forming a new ifflet. Despite the catastrophic nature of these recurrent events, they are an important part ol the continuing existence of the barrier island system, according to recent scientific studies. Hurricanes and nor' rasters rVgularly lash the island chain, eroding it in places, relocating sediment, cutting inlets, and closing others. "This process is not de structive, but constructive, if undisturbed by man." ecologist Paul J. Godrey said. "It is the means by which the ocean builds and moves thelarrier islands, and this movement is essential lor their continued survival." The drama of the massive process responsible for the lormatinn of barrier islands dwarfs the mightiest storms and hurricanes of today when viewed in terms of the geologic history of (he earth and the worldwide effects of these processes during "the ice age." I'nder great forces of the universe, the earth was born some live billion years ago. And after two billion years had passed, life began on earth. Nearly three billion more ears had passed when mysteriously things began to change. It was then only about 2.5 million years ago, that the earth became cooler and the first of four great glacial epochs began. This was the Pleistocene era. Scientists are still unable to explain the sudden cooling of the earth's climates which had previously been warmer and lacked the harsh contrasts between the arctic and the tropics. The last great glacier, the Wisconsin, is still having its elfects upon the earth. It began its invasion of the North American continent about 40,000 years ago. By 15.000 to 20,000 years ago it had reach ed its greatest penetration. The massive ice sheets had trapped enough sea water as they spread southward to lower sea level 300 feet from its present level. The shoreline of North Carolina and Virginia was then 50 to 100 miles east of today's coast. Formed during the melting of the Wisconsin Glacier was the barrier island chain which borders much of the east coast of the United States and in cludes the Outer Banks of North Carolina One widely accepted theory among scientists holds that the barriers formed about 4.000 to 5,000 years ago when the melting of the glacier slowed enough to permit sand dunes to form before the retreating coastline. When this happened, the rising ocean flooded the land behind the dunes separating them from the mainland. Another theory projects that the barriers were formed by the longshore current which gradually deposited sediment in projections, called spits, from See PAST. Piigc rr -ilfeiP --;-Sme.' ..ISTORIC BEACH APPARATUS DRILL is shown in an old photograph. A re-enactment of this drill will be presented on Wednesday. Aug. 14. at 2 p.m. near Coquina Beach by Cape Hat teras Seashore. In the foreground is the cart which carried the rope used in the, rescue operation. The man on the platform at left represents the sailor stranded on his boat at sea. The object dangling in midair is the breeches buoy, a pair of canvas pants Morgan To liv Daniels Day Speaker HON. ROBERT MORGAN, attorney general of North Carolina, is to be the featured speaker at the annual gathering of the Daniels clan on August 19 at 4:30 p m. The clan will meet al the Methodist Church ground at Wanchese, the home place of the clan. Morgan. Democratic nominee lor the United States Senate, will be presented to the clan by Melvin R. Daniels, Jr., son of the late Mr. Daniels, one of the founders of the annual gathering. "Daniels Day" as the gathering is now known, was started some 40 years ago by the late Josephius Daniels and the late Melvin R. Daniels. See DANIELS, Page 5 Water Authority To Apply For Grants The Dare Beaches Water and Sewer Authority, acting as agents for Dare County and the towns of Nags Head and Kill Devil Hills, has submitted a revised notification of intent to apply for assistance to the Office of Intergovernmental Relations (formerly the State Clearing House). t The notification indicated the county's desire to initiate a $5 million general obligation bond issue, leaving a total of $1,785,000 that must be obtained from state and federal grants to accomplish the authority's proposed water system. If a full 25 per cent grant under the state Clean Water Bond Act can be obtained, this will represent $1,571,000 ap plicable to the total grant need. The remaining $214,000 will be requested from the Farmer's Home Administration and the Coastal Plains Regional Commission. Al the Authority's regular meeting August 5, Chairman A. F. Rollins informed Authority members that his office is vigorously pursuing all possible funding sources for this im portant project. " 1 1 Park Service To Reenact I J . :J 'Living History' At Coquina Beach Wed., Aug. 14 Cape Hatteras National Seashore Superintendent J. L. Dunning announced today that a reenactment of the historic Beach Apparatus Drill will be presented Wednesday August 14 at 2:00 p.m. near the site of the Laura A Barnes shipwreck at Coquina Beach. The beach apparatus and techniques to be demonstrated were first used by the U.S. Lifesaving Service (1874-1915) and then by the U.S. Coast Guard until about 1954 to rescue sailors from their stranded vessels. The two most exciting elements of the beach ap paratus drill are the firing of the See HISTORY, Page 5 Free SCS IV wp ;" - r j & fc..-.V-v HENRIETTA LIST from the Dare County Soil Conservation Office delivers the first set of booklets, entitled "An Appraisal of the 1974 Potential for Outdoor Recreation in Dare County, North Carolina," to Times Printing, Inc. for binding. The publication was compiled in large part by personnel from the Soil Conservation office with assistance from various other governmental agencies and bodies. It provides a general analysis of development potential of various aspects of the county's recreation industry. The booklet is free upon request at the Soil Conservation office in Manteo. In classifying ten categories of development, the research ers took into consideration such elements as climate, scenery and scenic areas, natural areas, hisiocc areas, soils, water, fish and wildlife. Reach Apparatus attached to a pulley, into which the sailor climbed and was : across the waves to land. The rope which extended from land ship was shot by the famous lyle gun. Cape Hatteras Seashore is presenting this demonstrate i "living history" to aid the visitor in understanding the hit ' . the area and the lives of the men who served, many '. heroically, in the Life Saving Service and the Coast Guard i ' ' courtesy of National Park Service) Local Officials In Raleigh To Block Shipyard Move A report that the State Department of Transportation was considering moving the shipyard and maintenance operation from Manns Harbor to New Bern sent a delegation of county and party officials to Raleigh Thursday. The group met with Elizabeth Holmes, assistant to Troy Doby, Secretary of the DOT. Making the trip to Raleigh were: county commissioners Russ Langley, Rondal Tillett and Tom Gray, county manager Jack Cahoon, Gage Williams, chairman of the county Republican Party, Goodrich Williams, member of the Republican Party executive committee, and Hughes Tillett. The proposal to move the shipyard was made because it was believed that the Manns Booklet AAV 1 P -JSStr?. populations proximity and ownership, and of people, access, rural land use pat- terns The ten categories were classified as lo See SCS. Page I which high. --. ' Drill Harbor site did not have rrv for expansion to accomiiHK: i two new and larger ferrybo.n "They claimed that the ferries couldn't be hauled on Hi railways over there," G'''. Williams said. "We told t' i the rails situation could remedied by spend $2,300,000." "Ms. Holmes was very w"' informed on the area," Lat); t said. "But she was under H impression that we didn't li: the acreage for expansion.' Both Iangley and Calf' made statements at the mcei-i citing the disastrous effed removing a $363,000 ar' I payroll from the county and " fact that state operations (' the third of the county's en three industries. Langley and Williams -,. ! that Ms. Holmes was "vi"; sympathetic" and that thi ' ' the meeting was highly cessful. "Ms. Holmes assured ft committee that nothing -i : be done any time as soon its i jf as moving the facili Langley said. "She said thul wanted to know a lot more nl.i i . See SHIPYARD. Page Coast Guard RepotH Numerous Cases Coast Guard Group Cic Hatteras personnel were I 'it busy searching for, refloat w and towing vessels which v. . in distress during the m l I July 29 through August 4. Oregon Inlet crevvi-i' u reported nine cases. Five "I these vessels were disnM'v with engine trouble and ha ' be towed to safe moorings The coastguards!)"')! refloated the Michelle and H Sea Foam, both party Im;'',-.. which were taking on watoi v third vessel had to he refloat) ' and towed to safe mmwoc Passengers in an out bo." it motorboat which had cap; i. ul had to be carried to shore l the Coast Guard while a piiva' boat towed the capsized vcvi ! to safe mooring. Hatteras Inlet crewin'Mi towed the Ronny. whit I' was disabled with engine trouble. U safe mooring. They aise assisted in a search fr overdue craft which wis eventually located by other authorities. When the saillwat. Sea Witch, went aground, persomx-l troni the Light Attendant Station Coinjock rendered assist jik e and towed the vessel to safe mooring. They also pat Impaled in a search for an overdue outboard which llx-y located Ocracoke crewmen reflea'cd (lie Odax which was lot and aground. They towed to safe mooring the fishing vrsscls .'ud and Anneliese.
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