The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-09-11

Tuesday 20 1914
Wednesday 80 O:41 1:2O
In the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of
North Carolina, Elizabeth City Di-
vision, Civil Action No. 262, Unit
ed States of America, Plaintiff, VS..
Southerly Portion of Bodie Island,
Mays Head Township, Dare Coun-
ty, State of North Carolina, w. A.
Worth ct al, and Unknown Own
ers, Defendants. NOTICE to Fred
erick w. Lewis and wife, if any, c..
Thurston Woodford and wife, Eve
Ign L. Woodford, Muriel Dow
O'Toole and husband,
O'Toole, Carolyn Lewis Hazlett
and husband, Donald Hazlett,
Greenvale Hills Corporation, and
the following firms, corporations
and/or persons and their respective
spouses, if living; if dead, their
surviving spouses, unknown heirs,
personal representatives, creditors,
successors and/or assigns, if any,
whose names and addresses are
not known: C.S.L.A. Taylor, T. A.
Dough, 7. S. Meekins, M. B. Simp-
son, Jr., Jean S. Sharp, John H.
Hall, Louval Realty Company, Inc,
C. Clifton Lewis, Albert A. Lewis,
Sadie Leggett Harrill, Matte B,
Reese, John M. Wise, Warren Bur-
CESS, Christopher E. Hooper, E.
Drinkwater, Jesse B. Etheridge
Soloman Mann, C. B. Bliven, Har.
riett A. Berry, G. W. Moore
Trustee, w. G. Gather, Trustee
First and Citizens National Banl
of Elizabeth City, Gilbert B. Fer
ris, Trustee, and F. T. Horner,
Trustee, James ]. Cunningham,
and Unknown Owners: You are
hereby notified that a complaint
and an amended complaint in con-
demnation have heretofore been
filed in the office of the clerk of
the above named court in an ac-
ton to condemn for public use for
the establishment of Cape Hatteras
National Seashore Recreational
Area an estate in fee simple, to-
gether with all appurtenances in
the land described in the revised
and corrected Exhibit-A attached
to said amended complaint, sub
ject, however, to existing public
roads, highways, and easements
for public utilities, if any, and SUBJ
ject also to the rights of the State
of North Carolina in and to the
ferry slip located on the lands, said
amended description also made a
part of the Amended Notice of
Lis Pendens dated July 9, 1868
and filed among the records of
Dare County, to which reference
is hereby made for the said des-
cription. The authorities for the
taking are as follows: Act of Au-
gust l, 1888 as amended (62 Stat.
986; 40 use. 25T; Act approved
February 26, 1881 GAG Stat. 1921;
40 use. ESSAY and acts supple
mentary thereto and amendatory
thereof; and the Act of August II,
1887 $50 Stat. 669) as amended by
the Act of June 20, 1910 (54 Stat.
TOP; 16 use. 459-459a-3). You
are further notified that if you
have any objection or defense to
the taking you are required to
serve upon plaintiffs attorney at
the address herein designated,
within twenty days after the date
of the last publication of this no
tice, an answer identifying the
property which you claim to have
an interest in, stating the nature
and extent of the interest claimed
and stating all your objections and
defenses to the taking of your
property. A failure so to serve an
answer shall constitute a consent
to the taking and to the authority
of the court to proceed to hear the
action and to fix the just COM
pensation and shall constitute a
waiver of all defenses and objec-
tons not so presented. You are
further notified that if you have
no objection or defense to the tax
ing, you may serve upon plain
tiff's attorney a notice of appear
ance designating the property in
which you claim to be interested,
and thereafter you shall receive
notice of all proceedings affecting
the said property. You are further
notified that a trial of the issue of
just compensation by a jury has
been demanded and that at such
trial, whether or not you have an
swered or served a notice of ap-
pearance, you may present evil
dence as to the amount of the COM
pensation to be paid for the prop
erty in which you have any inter-
est and you may share in the dis
tribution of the award of such COM
pensation. You are further mott
fled that Declarations of Taking
and Order and Judgment thereon
have been filed in this proceeding
against Tracts Nos. 8, 10, II, and
IL, which tracts, with others, are
included in this proceeding, and
estimated compensation deposited
in the Registry of the Court, by
Write of which, title to the said
four tracts passed to the United
States; reference is made to said
Order and Judgment of record in
Dare County in Book AT at page
365 for a metes and bounds des-
cription of each of the said four
tracts. This the 18th dav of July,
1853. CHARLES P. GREEN, u. S.
Attorney; CLYDE E. Gooch, Trial
ATTORNEY IT. & Dapartment of Jus-