The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-10-05
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costs out Of the money granted.
But such was not the case. The
taxpayers of Dare County have
had to fork up the dough for this
and for some other things. Which
all goes to show there is no such
thing as completely free lunch.
Attorney Kellogg being an ex-
Dtremely busy man didn't see how
he could do all the work in the
short time allotted and in time for
the bulldozing to be done. In fact
the legal work hasn't been done
yet, but the project is about COM
plete, easements or no. So Attor-
ney Kellogg called on his neigh
Dor lawyers. The firm of McCown
& McCown was called in, along
with Attorney Wallace Gray. At
torney Tom Chears was invited to
participate, but he declined, plead
ing the press of much other work
at the time.
All this happened about two
months ago, and Attorney Kellogg
said he presumed the thing was a
matter of record on Mr.. Daniels
minute book. A scrutiny of the
minute books doesn't reveal any
entry of the kind. Commissioner
Lawrence Swain says he feels sure
it was a Board action and Mr.. KEEL
logg received instruction to go
ahead.
Somebody went ahead on some
thing, to the tune of some so or 60
dollars per day per lawyer, for le-
gal bills came before the Board
Tuesday amounting to more than
$1,000. McCown and McCown pre-
sented a bill for $3.50; Attorney
Gray had bill for 5000 or more.
and Mr.. Kellogg the same. 1t was
then Mr.. Daniels stood upon his
rights as a citizen and taxpayer.
He insisted his hatred of the Nc
Gowns had nothing to do with his
position.
In the meantime, the town of
Kill Devil Hills, which had a con-
siderable sum of similar money to
spend for sand fences within it's
borders, went right ahead and did
the job without asking the prop
erty owners anything. Some of
them don't want any sand fences
on their lands. They don't want
any changes made that may con-
f1ict with their own notions about
their own property. They pay no
attention to the claim of other land
owners, that one mans refusal to
have a sand-barrier built up may
endanger the value of the property
of his neighbors. Plans are being
made now by some of the recalci-
trant ones to bring suits against
the town of Kill Devil Hills. These
may drag along in the courts for
years, but our guess is Dare Coun-
ty will eventually pay the bills it
got this week. The taxpayers usu-
ally pay.
We would have been glad to give
our readers a more complete re-
port on the County Board meeting
Tuesday, but unfortunately it is
not always easy in a short time to
get the facts as to the doings of
our county officials. There are a
number of them who appear to be
determined not to let the public
know what they do. In fact some
of them take the viewpoint they
own the offices and not the public.
They use many means of conceal
ing their actions and the true facts
about them. They have not had an
audit completed of county affairs
in two years, and for seven years
they have refused to make public
the county audits are required by
law. When public officials persis-
tently continue this policy, we
think it is only reasonable to form
one conclusion why they are not
willing for the public to know how
the peoples affairs are run as a
result of their long tenure in Of
fee. Can it be they are ashamed
of their record?
ENGElAAPD pEPSONAI