The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-02-07
RAW DEAL
Continued from Page One)

Dare County, the Highway Off
Gals met with the county board on
January %, 1858. Highway Com
mission records show the follow
ing people attended this meeting,
and in order named as follows:
Melvin R. Daniels, Clerk; C. G.
Duvall, Chairman; L. L. Swain,
Hallett Perry, E. P. White and
Newcomb Midget, Commissioners.
From the highway department w.
N. Spruill, Division engineer; Geo.
X. Mack, District Engineer, and
D. w. Patrick, Highway Engineer
III.
The memorandum of the high
way people shows them to be in
accord with the plan to spend 49,
060 on a bridge at Kitty Hawk
where the highway was cut in two
to satisfy the whims of those who
wanted a ditch running from end
to end of the area, and then comes
the mere sop of $4,000 handed out
to the whole of Hatteras Island
followed by the $63, 1000 to be spent
for Mr.. Duvall, the chairman of
the Board. These two projects are
marked in solid red, top priority,
and if it had been possible might
have been marked stop secret"
The meeting of the above-named
highway engineers with the Dare
County board is in line with the
policy of the newly re-vamped
highway commission to go about
the state and agree with the coun-
ty. commissioners on what roads
should be fixed. Governor Hodges
may have been sincere in his hopes
for his new scheme, but many peo-
pie believe it has given tremendous
opportunities for skullduggery, and
has taken the peoples road affairs
away from the people. Of course,
if there could always be assurance
that county officials would be fair
and due publicity would be given
to all these road projects, and the
people would be consulted and
called in to express their views,
and air out their needs, then some
good could come of it. But now
there is no highway commissioner
nearby to whom the people can
take their problems, there is no
one to go to but the Governor, and
it is not always easy and inexpen-
sive to reach the Governor when he
is in Raleigh. 1t takes lot of the
Governors time to make speeches
and to vacation in Florida, Ber-
muda, Hot Springs, ETC., and to tour
the north in hope of attracting
industries with his flute or his
lutte tuned to the new theme song
of tax favors for the big boys.
Verify it is getting to be ba6
time for the little fellow, and the
poor devil.
Some mighty interesting things
have turned up in this map in the
back room at the courthouse which
shows a purported plan for spend
ing nearly a quarter million dol
lars of Dare County's immediate
allotment of highway betterments
all of which have apparently beef
approved by the county board, bu
nothing appears on their recen
minutes about it.
Beside the bridge at Kitty Hawk
which is to cost $4,000, to priorit,
is given the following roads:
| A short road in the Village o
Avon of only two tenths of
mile to cost $4,000, project Nc
70.)
| A piece of road leading to the oil
abandoned Buffalo City, now on
of the best clay roads in the re
gion, 81 miles long, and to cos
SIXTY THREE THOUSAND DOL
LARS.
| Next in order to be improve
at some future date are the TO
lowing roads:
Leading to Skyco landing o
Roanoke Island, seven tenths Of
mile Of road to cost $21,OO