The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-09-24
REPORT OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DARE COUNTY TOURIST BUREAU
1051.1o5I

DARE COUNTY TouRIsT BUREAU
The Board of Directors of the Dare County Tourist
Bureau is composed of representative each Town
ship in Dare County appointed by the County Commissioner
OF Commerce in the County, from each incorporated
Town In the County and each from the Roanoke Island
Society.
The Board of Directors at the annual meeting each
September selects President President Secretary
and Treasurer The Treasurer makes monthly reports of
Tourist Bureau activities to the Dare County Board of Com
missioners.
All Officers and Directors serve completely without
pay Provisions have been made in the annual budget for
to officers and directors travel
to and from Directors meetings. but in three years less
than $4,000 has been used for this purpose,
Each year the Board of Directors has employed News
Director and office assistant The News Director through
out the life of the Tourist Bureau has been Aycock Brown
and he has been employed completely impartial basis
Mr.. Brown has been compimented by other agencies
throughout the United States the truly significant
ice he is rendering to this county and his ByLne is
'epted universally as being st tops in his profession
l. the past three years an average of $4,000 news
stories has gone from the Tourist Bureau annually
newspapers and news photo services.
2. During the same period average of 2400 news
and feature pictures has gone out annually to newspapers
g. Thousands of special stories have been sent radio
and TV stations yearly.
Dare County information from magazines and magazine
writer's have been filled.
newspaper coumnsS and feature writers to Dare County
Full cooperation is given to them and to the State News
Bureau
g. A quarter of million Dare County Tourist Bureau
folders advertising and describing all parts of the county
have been printed and distributed during the past three
T. Approximately $4,000 of the special Tourist Bureau
Fishing Bulletins been distributed to potential visiting
and to sports coumnists throughout the nation
g. Large quantities of Wright Memorial Fort Raleigh
let's and brochures distributed by the Bureau
9. Almost thousand letters of inquiry month have
been received and answered and names of the persons max
ing inquiries for facilities have been distributed Tree OF
charge each week to all Dare County business
interested in following up with their own promotonal
material.
| 10 Numerous inquiries for information about Dare
County been received through personal visits to the
Tourist Bureau offices.
II The facilities of the Bureau have been made
available to all Dare County business establishments in
assisting with the preparation of promotonal material
Financing - The Key To The Operation
All investments in the Dare County Tourist Bureau
completely voluntary Solicitation OF pledges mas neen
in various parts of the county This phase OF the pro
gram alone has entaed an estimated 81 working Gays
YEARLY on the part the officers who have had to make
repeated trips to all parts of the County They call on
individual place of business for an average of half an hour
to the same place has become increasingly obvious that
this method of solicitation works undue hardship on few
to the extent that their own business acvtes are maze
suffer-
Therefore Directors have after months Of careful
study worked out procedure for the handling of pledges
and collections still completely voluntary basis but
with the work load considerably essened and more evenly
In the past ONE YEAR PLEDGES were distributed in
the late summer and early fall of each year. with the
suit that the Directors had to draw up PRELIMINARY
in September before they had idea how much would be
available pledges This year it has been decided that
the budget for the coming year will be based entirely on the
pledges on hand of the end of this fiscal year .
Further that it will not be necessary to revisit an
investors each year the pledge forms will be drawn with
the following in mind:
New Type Of Pledge
Your Pledge will be for the fiscal year beginning oco-
1854 and ending September 3d. 1855 and for all sue
ceedng years such time you decide that would
like to change your pledge.
Because the pledges of Dare County The Lost Colony
Tho IF
of the year essential that individual and business pied
ges be paid in the Therefore pledges will be