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Vv -r "i>v i- David Stick Kitty Hawkj N.C, 27949 8-21-67 SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N, C. 27954 NOT TO INDIVIDUALS 14 P«gK in 2 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 Six VOLUME XXXII — NO. 17 MANTEO. N. C. 27954, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1966 500 DARE ClfiZENS MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE FOOD STAMP PLAN SUPERIOR. COURT BEGINS MONDAY IN DARE COUNTY ONETO IS;NEW chamber PRESIDENT Judge Chester R. Morris of Currituck to Preside Over One-Week Term Plenty of Abuses Expected As Another Fed- ^ . eral Throw-Away Handout Scheme Is Yisit- ed Upon Us; It Looks Good on Surface But the Taxpayers Are Suckers Once Again for There Is No Such Thing As Something ' for Nothing. An estimated up to 500 of . Dare’s near 6000 (1960 census) ' year round population are eligi ble to participate in the Food T Stamp Program effective in the ' county November 15th according tO' facts revealed at the fool ■' Stamp instructional meeting held at the courthouse in Manteo Wednesday. ;' The objective of the program, Food Stamp Act of 1964, is. two national objectives: To strengthen the agricultural • economy; to help to achieve a fuller and more effective use of food abundances; to provide for • improved levels of nutrition among low-income houseiiold'3, - through a cooperative Federal-' - State program of food assis tance to be operated through ■ normal channels of trade; and for other purposes. ' , 2—Increasing the flow of foods from the Nation’s fanns through normal trade channels. The working plan of the pro gram in Dare County con.sti- tutes the welfare agency who certifies each eligible liousehcld, • (eligible persons include public assistance of which there 189 in - August of this year and non public persons); the local gov ernment, (Dare .appropriated 15000 ;> for - its part of the $40,000-150,000 program); local authorized wholesalers and groc ers and the U.S.D.A’s Agricul ture Marketing Scivice.j ‘ THIEVES TRY BUT FAIL AT ROBBERY EAST CAROLINA Engelhard Branch Building En tered Through Roof; Safa- Foils Robbers Whp Is Eligible ENGELHATtD ,— An attempt to rob the East Carolina Bank is this Hyde County Tideland com munity Friday night failed. Thieves cut a hole in the roof to enter the building but were unable to cut into the. safe. Mechanism on the valut door was toi-n up preventing an im mediate check *01 funds but bank officiaLs said there was no out ward evidencei that the vault had been 'entered. A state bureau of Investiga tion agent and Hyde county sheriff's officers were on the scene and FBI agents wc.re soon en route here. Photographs and fingerprints were taken. A vault expert from Greens boro was also called to open the safe. The break-in was discovered by Roy Clark, executive vice president and caishier, when he arrived early to open the bank .Saturday morning. The East Carolina bank, head quarters for a small chain hank serving Hyde, Tyrrell and East-.- era Washington counties, has been the object of thieves on two other occasions since it was driving; When Superior Court con venes Monday, October 24 in Dare “County courthouse, the' criminal term will have before it probably one of the greatest collections af a vai'iety of seri ous charges, ranging from drunk driving to murder. The first nine cases on the docket are for appearance to show good behavior, cosisting of the following: Marshall Ficilds Tillett, Jr., George C. Gray, Thomas B. Daniels, Earl Rosc,- man, Catherine Lnuvada Smith, Clarence Allen Thompson, Thomas Edwai-d Casey, Ronald Allen Keirn, David Jerry King. Other ca.ses include, but not necessarily in the order that they will be heard, nor in fact to state that they will come up. 'I'hey simply are on the docket: Jethro Midgett and Mary Mid- gott Gaskins, prejury. ■Earl Den.sinorc Voliva, drunk driving. Van Buren Twiford, entering dwelling with felony intent. Jame.s E. Outlaw, public drunkenness. - .: Martin Buren Twiford, ' dam age to personal proverty. Robert L. Payne, as.sault, with deadly weapon. , Robert Julius Muhlfelder (Rob the. Surfer) breaking and entering. Will C. Drake, traffic viola tion. Stanley Moore, breaking and entering. Will N. Midgett, public drunk enness. Royce Peny, breaking and en tering. _ ■ Dameron Collins, two charges of breaking, and. entering and one of resisting arrest. Audrey Lee Jackson, diomken no operator’s licenee JULIAN ONETO (left) of Nags Head is new president of the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce, succeeding David Stick (right) of Colington and Kitty Hawk who sei-ved as head of the organization, during the past two years. The photo was made Saturday night at the Carolinian where the chamber held its annual banquet meeting. (Aycock Brown photo) HUNTING DAYS ARE OVER FAST CHANGING WORLD TAKES TOLL OF BIG GAME k v-- Fpftd .coupons^ MX! issued., to. . families. determine , by public - welfare ogencim to be ih econb- - mic •> need of food assistance. Families receiving some type of ■ public or general assistance un- See GIVEAWAY, Page Five founded. AH failed. See COURT, Page Five CAPE HATTERAS TOURNEY BEGINS NOVEMBER I3RD OREGON INLET CONDITION SAID BEST YET; WARD Maintanance Work By Hopper Dredga Hyde Exceeds Spec ifications of Project "For the first time in its his tory, since the project was au thorized," Alvah H. Ward, Jr, said this week, “the channel through Oregon Inlet has been dredged to dept? exceeding specifications.” The hopper dredge “Hyde" within the last week completed its maintenance work, and the channel is eigh teen feet deep at minimum. In places, according to Waid, who is chairman of the projwt under auspices of the Dare County Waterways Committee, the depth i.s 20 or more feet. He cited the de)>arture a few days ago of the "R Dream," a Wan- chese sw'ordfishing vessel, which according to fatho:ncter lead ing, had eighteen fcot clearance beneath the hull. Thus, with the boat drawing about six feet, that portion of the channel was ■•24 feet deep. The Oregon Inlet channel has been authorized for fourteen feet and efforts have been un derway to increase thfe to ' twenty-one. -Such an authoriza tion will come only after a hard battle, the first round of which came in early 1965 when propon ents of deeper water presentei their case to the Engineers at a hearing in Manteo. Once such a case is instituted, the Corps of •' Engineers and other govern mental agencies act slowly, in vestigating every aspect before final approval is granted. Meantime, as long as tlic re cent drodginjg efforts are not ‘^disturbed, the value of a chan- i nel twenty feet as so deep may be noted in the inlet. One other ' problem area which has been ' noted recently, according to Ward, in an inside channel lead ing to Pamlico Sound. “Near the junction of Old House and Wanchese channel some areas are shoaled, with as little as six feet clearance. This affects traffic headed south and west in Pamlico Sound, but does not hamper that coming into Wanchese and Manteo,” Ward istatcd. The inside channels are authorized to a depth of 12 feet. No information is available ,at this time ralative to re-drcdging schedule which may be needed _at early date.' ^ , J Thirty-two fishing clubs have entered teams for the ninth an nual Cape Hatteras Anglers Club-sponnorcd to u rn a m e n ( scheduled for November .3, 4, 6, according to Ray Couch, secretary of the sponsoring club. “We expect a few more, teams to enter during the ne.xt few day.s,’’ he stated. Last year 36 teams in the tournament plus the individual anglers, landed 2,095 fish for a total of 6,949 points. This was the greatest number of fish ever taken in a surf tourney on the Atlantic coast, according to former president Jeff Paul of the club. Branswick (N. J. Surf Club won top honors last year and will br/ the challengers this year. Elizabeth City Surf Club and Merchantville (N. J.) Club team were runnerups in the 1965 classic. ROBERT V. OWENS IS NAMED MAGISTRATE FROM FIELD OF SIX The question of “who will be the magistrate?” has been answered. Superior Court Judge Walter W, Cohoon of Elizabeth City, resident presiding judge in the district, announcel late last week his selection for the seven counties. From the field of six as pub lished lust week for Daro County, Robert V. Owens cf Manteo was named the first magistrate for Dare .County un der the new court plan coming into effect in December. A second will be named in the spring. Others are as follows: CURRITUCK: H. Gilman Brumsey, Barco. CAMDDEN: H. A s h b u r n Leary, Camden. PASQUOTANK: Roland M. Sawyer ^md D, T.' Singleton, Elizabeth City. ' PERQUIMANS: Charles E. Johnson, Hertford. GATES. Gladstone Morris. Gatesvilie. CHOWAN: Raph E. Parrish, Edenton. “There were many fine candi dates among the list of names furnished me, and many.factors had to be taken into considera tion regarding the appoint ments, expecially since the Magiistrates will have to be available at night for the issu ance of w’arrants and fixing of bonds, etc., when the Clerks’ Of- flce.s will be clasetl. For this rea son, in the strictly rural coun ties without a sizeable town. See JOBS, Page Four HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL " WANCHESE NEXT FRIDAY' A' Hallowe’en carnival' is be-, ing planned by the community of Wanchese for mext' Friday night, (ictober 28,‘and .the public is invited to’attend.'-Beginning at six o’clock, there will be hot’ dogs, candy, ice cream and. drinks for sale.' There, will be a costume cont^t; with, a'prize for the best costume. Numerous Hallowe’en games will be' provided ifor an evening of en tertainment." ' ■ ' ' r By CARLTON MORRIS If you want to find out any thing about a man ju.st ask hils neighbors. And if the man hap pens to be Cleve Smithwick of the Ponzer community they’ll have a lot of answers for you. One will tell you. he’s a, great church man and Christian. An other may tell you'he’s a great farmer and family man and an other will tell .you 'l^e pillar of' the community and has b^n all these things, all his life. 'Yet the world has changed so fast'.of late, .few will think-.to tell you that he is probhbly the last‘of the great hunter^.’.of an other .era, an -era that\comes alive'as he recalls the’.ti'me of big timber and big and' bounti ful game. For once game was so plentiful he often had to shoot b^rs to keep them outV.of his coni' fields and he shipped game to Baltimore and even'-as far north .'as Philadelphia'", and no one-never dreamed the’ ■vast ao'eage where he hunted . would bb brought under cultivation and the i^me destroyed almost out of existence. Blit all these tilings and many more have happened during his 74 years of walking tall’ acrass COASTGUARDSMAN BAGS A 7-POINTER # LARGEST DEER killed on’the Dare-County mainland f.during the early days of the hunting season this year was the 7-p6inter killed near Manns Harbor this week by Bill Tolson of Manteo who is in the Coast Guard and is stationed at Virginia Beach. (Aycock Brown photo) . ^ . ^ , ,, j,.,.. . the vast back country of upper Hyde, hunting game in a rugged land that was so wild it often separated the men from the boys’. There were no game laws and none were needed in the early years of his life and recalling them is almost painful to him nowadays, for he worked hard and lived for the Saturday's when he and hiS older brother Ed, co^d het^ “in 'back” witii their puk of'hounds. ’Tfie two brothers hunted - as a perfect team,' with the elder taking the dogs into the tall timber and the younger selecting a likely spot to head off a wily buck. Ill those years appetites were never squeamish and venison steak was a choice dish all over the nation. Thus after Thanks giving, the two brothers often shipped deer and bear to com mission agents in the big cities. A buck with a big set of boms would bring as high as $35 and a big bear about the same amount, which was considerable money in those years. Smithwick and his brother EM often killed three on a single hunt and brought them out of the rough country in relays, canying two deer for a gooI distance and going back for the third deer and guns. “I almost always made my Christmas money like that,” he recalled. Two of the bucks would he shipped north and one kept at home for the family tables. There were, .no refrigeration carii in' those days. He said they s'jmply put a" tag on the buck and. put the carcas aboard a freight train at Belhaven. How- See HUNTING, Page Five Crusade Chairman, Mrs. H. O. Bridges of Wanchese hopes a slow beginning will make a good ending for the Annual Cancer Crusade now in progress in Dare County. To date the following figures have been reported: Nags Head, $80, Mrs. Gaston Mann, Jr., and Mrs. Hunnicutt volunteer works, ahead of previous yeara; KII Devil Hills, $85, Mrs. Eddie Mc'Ison, ahead of previous years (incomplete); Kitty Hawk, $34, Mrs. Jackson Twiford '(incom plete); Cclington, $8.75, Mrs. Charles Nuncmaker (incom plete); Manteo, (residents) $91.04, Mrs Nevin Wescott and Mrs. John Garrison; MantM business, $102, Earl Green (in complete); benefit card, $39. A total of ^39.79 has been report ed to date. , ' The volunteer workers are urged to try to contact the peo ple in their designated area u soon as possible. > If by chance you are not con tacted by a volunteer worker, please 'send your contribution to Mrs. H. O. Bridges, Wanchrise, and she will see that 'yotir com munity will get credit for the money received. Just remember the best way to fight Cancer is with a Check and a Check-Up Single Copy KB S. A. A. MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY IN BEAUFORT CO. Thirty-First Annual Meeting of Organization Set to Begm ' at 10 A.M. Allen D. Swindell of Pantego, president of Southern Albemarle Association, has urged a large attendance at the annual meet ing of the Southern Albemarle Association nc.xt Wednesday. 'The six-county association will meet at the Washington Moose Lodge, located on the Pactolus Highway, west of Washington at 10 a.m. Tlic asj.ocialion was organized in 1935 as a four-county organi zation—Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell anJ Washington—with its goal the building of roads and bridges to open up the teriitorj’ deniadAhe benefits other areas wore re ceiving. Later the counties of Beaufort and Martin were admitted to the association. Much progress has been made ami the major original projects have been completed. Still, there are new demands created as the urea expands and constantly calls for additional highways, ■bi'idges and ferry runs. One. example i.s the recently-created ferry seii'ice across Pamlico River, and which wltlihi short time will demand that a bridge be constraeted. Another is Hatteras Inlet, where a bridge would actually pay for itself within foun years, based on present operating cost of the ferries. The project has been endorsed by the association in several sessions. SUB-DIVISION REGULATIONS MEETING 2 P.M. A public hearing has been sqlieduled relative to proposed ckanges in sub-division regula- tjpiis m Dsu'e. County .;foi; today, Friday^ October 21., . The changes or amendments have been prepared by the Dare County Planning Board, and ac- coixiing to public notice, provide for “the orderly development of land by sub-division.” The hearing is to begin at 2 p.m. in the courtroom. Many real estate developers, and some other citizens, are expected to attend. INITIAL CUTOVER LEADING TO ‘ALBEMARLE METRO’ WAS MADE AT WEEKSVILLE SUN. Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph's Program of Expansion Outlined in Consid erable Detail; Firm Also Exploring the Needs of Norlhern Hatteras Island With Plans to Locate Exchange There to Serve the Rapidly Developing Tri-Community Area. DARE Y.D.C. TO SPONSOR RALLY SATURDAY, 29TH Congressman Jones Featured Speaker; Begins 7 P.M. af Manteo High School Under sponsorship of the Young Democrats but open to the older heads too, a rally Sat urday night, October 29 will feature Congre.ssman Walter B. Jones, who is. opposed in the November 8 genci'al election. Also scheduled to attend arc .Sen. Ashley 13. Futrcll of Wash ington, and Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr., Democratic nominr.o from Nags Head Township for com missioner. Invited but not yet accepting is Hon. 'J'had Eure, Secretary of State. Rep. Arehie Bumis of Dare and W. R. (Bill) Roberson of Washington, Beaufort County, the two Democratic nominee.'? for House of Represcntative.s. in the new Second District, will also bo present. They are also opposed in the Nov. 8 balloting. A buffet dinner will bo pre pared, featuring baked ham, deviled crab and baked turkey. Price of tickets is S3 per person. LITTLE BUSINESS IN DARE RECORDER COURT ON TUESDAY TWO MORE DAYS TO REGISTER FOR GENERAL ELECTION Those who are not currently registered to vote in the Novem ber 8 general election have" two more opportunities to do On Satuixlays, Oct 22 and 29, regis trars w‘U sit at the usual polling places. Those unable to visit the polling place may be registered by contacting the registrar at home. Challenge Day will be Novem-- bor 5. In Dare Rccotv'ei'’s Court Tuesday., aftc.nioon, a genei'ally liglit I'CF.sidn was noted, witli one defendant a frequent visitor once again handled -leniently. Assistant Judge John Evai.u, still presiding due to Judge ■Vannote’s illnes.?, told Ellis Ray Ilcrry of Manteo to st'-’v ■'o'*''.*. take a turn attending Alcoholics Ano'iymou.'! meetings at Nngs Head, and remain on'good be havior otherwise. Rerry had twice earlier, re cently, been before Evans, the fii.£t time given a suspoiulccl sentence, small fine and- court casts. The second time was handled about the same, with a stern wai-ning. Evans apparent ly noted this week that the youth is in need of more than punishment, and is hoping that AA can help with the situation. The judge did tell Berry that if he came back agal.n he would send him to the rehabilitation center at Cherry hospi'Cal, Golds boro. Berrv was even given addi- See BUSINESS, Page Five The first phase of a change in the operations of Norfolk '& Cai'olina Telephone & Telegraph Company, leading to an “Aroe- inarle Metro” with tcdl-frcc ser vice throughout seven counties, including. Dare, was made at Wee-ksvBlo Sunday. - Two more cut-overs in major exchanges will follow within the next few weeks, at which time six of tlie seven countie.s will jio under the “Metro” system. Only Dare will remain ineligible for Merto sei-vice within the N&C service territorj' for the present, but plans for a tie to the other counties are in the making. Al ready the company has -scliedul- ed extension of the microwave system from Manteo to Buxtoii ... in the coming year. Norfolk & Carolina’s general overall plan is outlined fully jn the second section of this week’s issue, in a two-i)age spread re printed from a summer 1966 is- •sup of “Tolepho:ie Engineer and Management,” denoted a.s the “tilephonc industry magazine. VVe recommend that our readers invest a few minutes time in reading on those pages what the telephone company plans for the future. Also a major consideration af fecting Dare County is -the need in the growing Rodanthe-Wa'ves- Salvo area, where limited sen'- icc has been available to sub scribers tlu'ough -tile Buxton ex change. !ln citing general im- pro'veJnehts''made by the-'com pany and plans for the future, ' it was announced Satuiday night at Nags Head Chamber of Commerce meeting tliat es tablishment of an e.xchangc to soi-vc the tri-viliage area was".’, being studied. This addition is t almost certain to prove a valti- * able move by the company, in ,. view of the rapid development ' on northern Hatteras Island and prospects for still greater in creases. The Waves area exchange, which is in the planning and design stages, is to be operative during 1967. 'Telephone compaiiy’' spokesman this week declined to state po.sitively when the eX- ' change would be completed,-but> indicated that it would likely ' in use by mid-summer. "' '> The microwave link to Bu.xtotrt ■ Sc ‘METRO’, Page Five LARGEST FLOUNDER FROM OCEAN SURF NAGS HEAD CHAMBER HELD ANNUAL DINNERS LAST SATURDAY NIGHT CANCER CRUSADE IN DARE OFF TO A SLOW START Climaxing the annual Nags Head Chamber of Commeree banquet held at the Carolinian: last Saturday evening was im, promtu gi'eeting by N. C. ’Govi' Dan K. Jloore who introduced- meinbers of the Honorary .Tar Heels, also convening at' thd' Nags Head resort. -iMoore lauded' these men for their contri butions in publicizing "our great state.” L. C. Bruce with the N. C. Ports Authority showed several' of color slides of coastal N. Ci and distributed brochures of the Coastal Historyland of North Carolina, Iro'.h of which include* the area and arc bring taken to Europe this month by ti-av'cr i promoters of the state. Mrs.' Violet Kcllam, a Nags Hea|cl' restaurateur, is among the graup. The following officers were presented and elected. Julian Oneto, president (step up frohl vicc-pres). Vice-president,- George Crocker (who will bd president two years hence); Elizabeth Smith, secretary; Ann* McGaw treasurer. ; President David Slick called for more financial participatioliV to pull the-chamber out of, ita- “15 year rut”, and to make Nags'^ Head a greater tourist 'mecca. He also askeil tlie group to think- m terms of a full tone .paid' managcr-^rctary, ■ , Heports tnade upped .the^num'- : 1- TED WOOD of Kill Devil Hills, fishing'the surf .using ah artifi cial lure, landed this 8-pound, 11-ounce flounder last week end. It is the largest flounder reported from the ocean surf so far this season (Aycock Brown photo) , , ber of inquiries in 'accomih^a-» tions, rentals arid job', seekersr.^ ‘,;;r Vnrious other reports cdhceriied ' -- -"^^ utilities,. tm»mitl»r8,'b«Suti£l^:.':.4^ E-tion Iimprovcmeht3.i!^3S^'‘' Geoi^e Crocker pi^ciit^rtlmi chambers new fall,.-winter aiid*'i' ' .' spring brochure which is done -: ' ■ ' stark black and whit*:’ ■ Approximately/66 attenShil.v.’
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