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Smyrna times., 1959-10-01
State Youngsters
Compete At Show

Delaware All Club youngst-
ers will compete against teams
from l3 other states at the giant
three-day exposition of the
Northeastern Poultry Producers
Council (NEPPCO) in Harris
burg, Pennsylvania, October g.
778, according to DR.. Samuel H.
Gwinn, state All leader.
Delaware will be represented
in the poultry judging contests
by Wayne Morris, Hou S o n;
Clarence Murphy, Seaford, and
Fred Wiebel, Hartly. All three
youngsters were sele C t e d in
statewide competition.
In the demonstration division,
Nancy Pearson, Dover, will re-
present the state with a All
poultry foods presentation, It'll
ed "Eggnog with Variations"
Clarence Murphy, remaining
team member, will give a pro-
duction presentation on chick
rearing, titled Start En- Right. +"
DR.. Gwinn said young poul-
try farmers competing in ex-
position events are slated to ar
rive in Harrisburg on October
5. The first afternoon will con-
sist of registration, followed by
a tour of the nearby Gettys-
burg Battlefield. Contests will
begin October 6 with the pre-
sentation of awards at special
youth banquet in the Penn Har-
ris Hotel that evening.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01
Vegetable Crops
Suffer Decrease
Over SO Harvest

Indications are that Della
wares 1859 production of field
and fruit crops will, for the
most part, be greater than that
of 1858, although production of
vegetables will fall below last
years level, notes the Delaware
State Development Department.
Basing its observations on re-
Gently released reports from the
United States Department of
Agriculture and other sources,
the state information agency ad-
vises that there is apparently
reason to expect the 1859 Della
ware corn crop to reach $780,
900 bushels-l3 percent above
the 1858 crop and less than l
percent below the record 1856
crop of 9,750,OO0 bushels. How
ever, the estimated yield of 600
bushels per acre is so bushels
under the $50 bushels per acre
yield of last year.
Soybeans, which are forging
forward as one of Delaware's
principal field crops, are, ac-
cording to information CLEANED
by the Development Depart
ment, headed towards a new re-
cord, indications being that the
1859 yield will be 3,674,000
bushels or approximately | per-
cent greater than the old record
set in 1858.
In 1859 fruit production, ap-
pies, totaling an estimated $780,
900 bushels, are running approx
imately % percent above the
1858 yield, while peaches, tot
aling $4,000 bushels, are run
ming 10000 bushels below 1858
production.
Delaware's early summer po-
tato crop, estimated at 100000
cwt. is about 9 percent below
the record 1858 crop but is larg-
er than any other crop on re-
cord notes the Development De-
partment.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01

vices will track the hens use
of "hot" calcium. A Geiger
counter will be operating to
show just how fast she's work
ing. Experts from the univer-
sity will be on hand to field the
questions people always ask
about radioactive isotopes."
Prof. o. F. Johndrew, Jr., Cor
nell poultry specialist, will be in
charge of the giant display. The
latter will be much more than
an eye-catching demonstration,
for it has opened up a whole
new area of research into the
problem of thin egg shells which
annually cost the poultry in
dustry millions of dollars in the
form of farm and market break
age.
Some 5000 poultrymen from
a l4-state area are expected to
attend the three-day exposi-
ton. Other special features in
clude the selection of north
eastern poultry princess" and
the Star Poultry Farmer of the
Northeast.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01

will crack during the thrashing.
Cylinder speed on the COM
bine should be very slow, Spring
er said. Even as slow as 500
R.P.M.'s may be necessary to
reduce cracking. Cylinder speed
should be checked two or three
times day as the beans dry
out during the day.
You should stop and make
needed adjustments regardless
of the time pressure, Springer
said. If you look behind the
combine and find four beans per
square foot you are losing one
bushel per acre. If you find
that many beans on the ground,
either you are going too fast
or the combine is out of ad-
justment.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01
1859 Farm Census
Starts This Month

It's not too early for farm
families to get ready for the
nationwide farm census that be-
gins this month.
Miss M. Katharine Jones, ex-
tension demonstration agent in
New Castle County, suggests
that wives assist in getting rec
ords ready of poultry and live
stock production, numbers of
birds and animals sold, fruits
and vegetables harvested for
home use and for sale.
Other information the census
enumerator will want includes
acres of farm land owned, rent
ed, or leased from others; acres
of cropland and woodland; in
come from off-farm work and
from other sources; and farm
operating costs, such as hired
labor, feed and fertilizer bought.
The enumerator also will ask
about equipment, such as trac-
tors, on the farm and if the
farm has a telephone, home
milk cooler.
All census information is con-
fidential, and enumerators will
be under oath. With advance
preparation, farm families can
contribute to the speed and ac-
curacy of the enumerator's job,
as well as saving themselves a
lot of rushing around, Miss
Jones said.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01

Wyoming poultry and dairy
farmer. He is president of the
Saddle and Crate Chapter FLA,
Camden-Wyoming, and a state
executive officer. A senior at
Caesar Rodney High School, he
is also a member of the stud
ent council, and belongs to the
band and glee clubs. Wayne
holds the state Farmers De-
gree and is an officer in the
local Grange.
The young poultryman raises
l,500 broilers on contract. They
are his complete responsibility
and he receives all income pro-
duced. He also raises several
cows and heifers each year and
plants corn and soybeans. AT
ter high school, Wayne plans
to attend college, then return
to the family farm for his life's
work.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01
Mosquito Salad Please

Flies and mosquitoes in the
form of paste are a delicacy a.
mong African natives. Their
chewing gum is termite mounds
which they enjoy nearly as much
as the fly and mosquito paste.
Smyrna times., 1959-10-01

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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

State of North Carolina as enacted
by the Legislature, and by the in
depreciation of those laws as pre-
scented in the decisions of the Su-
preme Court of the State of North
Carolina.
The County Board of Commits
sioners, in almost all instances, is
responsible for those phases of
government which have been dele
gated to the county by the State;
and individual members of the
Board are subject to fine or i'm
prisonment for failure to carry
out certain directives from the
State.
The County Board of Commits
sioners, therefore, is an administra-
tive body rather than a law MAX
ing body, and the general rules
governing what t he Board is re-
ouired to do on the one hand, and
what it is not allowed to do on the
other hand, are contained in the
laws of the State.
Probably the most important
function which has been delegated
to the counties by the State is the
collection of money Ordinarily
through a system of property
taxes) and the spending of this
money for services within the
county.
Originally, as set out in the con-
stitution, it was intended that ali
expenses of county government, in
GLIDING the various operations in
the courthouse, law enforcement,
road building and maintenance, the
operation of the courts and the
Jail, and aid to paupers and the
poor, was to be financed out OF
a tax not to exceed twenty cents
on each one hundred. dollars of
property valuation. In the constitu-
ton two exceptions were made to
this, the first providing that an
additional tax could be levied for
a special purpose, providing the
Legislature gave special approval;
the second that an additional tax
should be levied for the mainte-
ance of the public schools for the
constitutional school term.
Thus, at the beginning, with she
exception of school expenses, the
county was allowed to collect only
twenty cents on each one hundred
dollars of property valuation, in
order to carry on all county
functions. The income realized
from this twenty cent tax is called
the General County Fund" or the
General Fund.-" and all of the
normal functions of the county
government must still come from
this source.
Through the years, however, the
State Legislature has passed nu-
merous laws authorizing counties
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

to levy special taxes for specia
purposes. Some of these specia
taxes are authorized in all coun
ties, others in only a few. Thos;
which can apply to Dare Count!
include the following:
A ten cent tax ION the one hun
dred dollars of property valuation)
for operating, equipping and main
tanning hospitals.
A five cent tax for repair oil
county buildings.
A five cent tax for maintenance
of the poor.
A five cent tax for aid to the
permanently and totally disabled
A five cent tax to finance the
quadrennial revaluation of proper
ty.
An unlimited tax for old age as
sistance and aid to dependent chill
dren.
An unlimited tax for aid to The
needy blind.
An unlimitd tax for public
health.
An unlimited tax for local gov.
eminent employees retirement sys'
tenn.
An unlimited tax for workmen's
compensation insurance.
An unlimited tax for rural fire
protection.
An unlimited tax for Civilian
Defense activities.
An unlimited tax for paying
principal and interest on approved
bonds and notes.
An unlimited tax for school cur
rent expenses, capital outlay and
debt service.
An unlimited tax for administra-
tive expenses in the aid to the
needy blind program.
An unlimited tax for houses OF
correction.
An unlimited tax for salary and
expenses of county accountant
and county Farm Agent.
An unlimited tax for expenses OF
sick and afflicted poor people al
hospitals and institutions.
In addition to the above specif-
ic authorizations for special taxes,
North Carolina counties can levy
certain other taxes, providing they
are authorized at special referen-
ums of, the voters. These include
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
COUNTY
REPORT
DAVID 's1lck
By DAVID STICK
Dare County Commissioner.
Atomic township

AS a newly elected County Com
missioner l have had a lot of trou-
BILE understanding just where the
authority and responsibility of the
county governing body begins anc
ends.
/ soon learned that there is ne
single guidebook which answers
this question, so shortly after the
primary last spring I bought more
than 40 books, pamphlets and
handbooks on various phases OF
county government, and began tc
study them.
Many of these, unfortunately
proved to be semi-technical and
very hard to wade through, with
the result that this preliminary
research took much longer than
had anticipated.
At the same time l began asking
a lot of questions, of county Off
Gals, not only in Dare but in other
counties, so that l could compare
this first-hand information with
the other printed material.
Here, in brief, is a summary of
what learned:
In North Carolina the county is
nothing more or less than an IN
strument of the State, to which the
State has delegated certain re-
sponsibilities and power And the
State, through its Legislature, can
abolish, enlarge, abridge or modify
at any time the powers it has del
egated to any of its 100 counties
Thus the obligations and re-
sponsibilities of county govern
ment have been determined not by
any prior action within the county
but by the wording of the consti-
tuition of the State of North Caro-
lima, by the laws or statutes of the
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

taxes to supplement the State
supported school term; to build
hospitals; to build and support Ii
braries; to establish recreational
facilities and a recreation system;
to construct airports; to construct
auditoriums, civic centers and sta
diums; and to encourage local de-
velopment.
All of the above taxes, many of
which obviously are not applied in
Dare County, are taxes on prop
erty. In addition the State author
ICES the counties to collect addi-
tional special taxes, including a
poll tax, dog taxes, privilege Ii
cense taxes, and marriage license
taxes, and in most cases the State
tells the county exactly how this
added income is to be spent.
The counties are also author
lied to receive income from GER
tain non-tax sources, including pen
alties, interest and costs for fail
ure to pay taxes; court costs and
fees; fines, forfeitures and penal
ties; income from the operation OF
institutions and certain other ia
cilities; net profits from ABC
stores; donations, rent of county
owned buildings; interest on in
|vestments; and from surplus funds.
Again, the State specifies just
where this money can be spent by
the county.
A final source of revenue for
the county is in the form of direct
grants or payments from the State
and Federal governments. These
include two general sources of rev.
enue, the first from the State in
Itangibles tax, and the second from
the State beer and wine taxes. 1t
includes several specific types of
grants, the most important of
which are the State and Federal
government shares in operating
county welfare programs, health
programs and libraries, and in
State aid to county schools.
For each of the above sources of
income there are detailed laws and
directions on just what the county,
through the Board of Commits
sioners can and cannot do with the
money, and ever since taking office
our new Board of Commissioners
has been devoting a great deal Of
time meeting with various depart
ment heads in determining whether
these various funds are being spent
in Dare County in the manner pre-
scribed by law.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
Gil M P S E S
Til E P A S T
By CAROLYN LLOYD

lit isn't exactly news that col
lege boys gamble; but it is news
that they can get UP game with
stakes as high as $500. Even back
in the depression days college
boys were known to shoot craps or
play poker-penny poker, that is
but the boys who had $500 at
one time were pluto-crats indeed.
We at girls school knew about
such activities from hearsay only,
of course, and what we heard we
did not always take for the Cos
pei truth. The boys thought we
would be impressed by tales of
wild life at their schools and that
their wickedness made them ire
sistible. They were right to a
certain extent, since nothing
makes a girl feel as noble as the
chance to be a good influence on
a hayward boy.
There may be that same ele-
ment of braggadocia in the news
that fraternity members at the
University of North Carolina have
been gambling for stakes as high
as $25OO.O0. Maybe the boys got
caught in a little game and de-
cided that they might as well
make it a good story. 1t does
seem, though, that Carolina must
be drawing a good many sons of
the rich, or else some professional
gamblers are seeking culture in
the hallowed halls.
For some time there have been
news items about the lack of
parking space for students auto
mobiles at the colleges; and, that
too, is a new note. Time was,
when a few stripped-down jalopies
marked the college elite, and ev-
erybody who rode Clipped in to
buy the gas. Not that college stu
dents wouldn't have liked having
automobiles; it was just that
things were different then and
most of them did well to pay their
tuition.
Gambling, automobiles, panty
raids and such are only part of
the picture of course. There are
still numbers of students who
work their way through college
and can't even risk nickel
matching for cokes. There have al
ways been those who go to col
lege only for the social life and
the prestige; and since they are
the ones who make the headlines,
it is unfair to conclude that Car
DINA has turned into a second
Monte Carlo.
The extremes of an era are al
ways exaggerated anyhow. Very
few students of the roaring
twenties" actually wore raccoon
coats, the symbol of the times. A
former Duke student suggested
that the coats were pretty much
confined to the campuses of the
Ivy League colleges. However, if
one took stories and television
shows about the era seriously, he
would conclude that all college
students went around looking like
over-stuffed bears and stopped do
ing the Charleston only long
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
WANCHEsE PERSONALS

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Sutton ant
daughters, Linda and Ethel, o.
New Hope were guests of the Ar
mold Danielses.
Mrs. Steve Tillett and daugh
ter, Ola, were in Elizabeth City
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin Daniels, Jr
and children and Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Voshelle and son of Norfolk spen
the week end as guests of Mr.. ano
Mrs. M. R. Daniels.
Laura Joan Daniels of Norfolk
spent the week end here with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Dan
iels. y
Mrs. Pearl Scharff of Kinstor
visited her sister, Mrs. Dallas Til
lett.
Mrs. George H. DUDLEY ant
mother, Mrs. George Baum spent
the week end at Atlantic with Mrs
Quidley's son, Rev. and Mrs. Phillip
DUDLEY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Howard OF
Norfolk We're week end guests OF
Mrs. Towards mother, Mrs. Dora
Davis who returned home with
them.
Rowena Midget and Mrs. Pear
Scharff were week end guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Murray ir
Hampton, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Sanderlir
and Mrs. Hattie Gray visited Mr.
ISanderlin's mother, Mrs. Lila San
derlin a patient in the Albemarle
Hospital, Elizabeth City.
Twenty members of the NJ. Y. F
of Bethany Methodist Church at
tended Sub District meeting held
at the Kitty Hawk Church Monday
night.
Charlie Crank is visiting rela-
tives in Duck.
Rev. C. L. Warren left Monday
to visit relatives at Ash and Gin
ton,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

or to the old folks at home. For
tunately, they usually outgrow it
and live to exaggerate tales of
wild college days.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

All service ranks the same with
God. There is no last or first.
Robert Browning
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23

The teacher must know the
truth himself, He must live it and
love it, or he cannot impart it to
others. Mary Baker Eddy
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
Virginia Dare Transporfaficn Co.
DAILY SCHEDULES

Manteo TO Elizabeth City and Norfolk
Lv. Manteo 500 A.M.-II:3o AM.-5:oo PM
Ar. E. City 755 AM I:35 P.M.-6:I5 PM
Lv. E. City 800 AM lao P.M.-6:2o PM.
Az. Norfolk 9:2o AM 2:o5 P.M.-S:2o PM.
Norfolk TO Elizabeth City and Man+eo
Lv. Norfolk 1880 A.M.-l2:I5 PM.-5:oo PM.
Ar. E. City = I:35 P.M-6:I5 PM.
k. E. City SEQ AM lao P.M.-6:2o PM.
Ar. Manteo 1910 AM 1888 PM-s:lo PM.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-01-23
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The Republican., 1959-04-09
PAGE NINE

it's execution. After the war he
lived in Oakland for about 25
years.
There are several Oaklanders
who remember him and his out
standing family. He was lawyer,
hotel owner, a very polemic news
paper columnist He was Editor If
the Mountain Democrat for several
years. He was one of Oakland's
much-loved citizens. Upon leaving
Garrett County he entered the
service of the Federal Government
as a land agent.
There have been many conflict
ing versions of this capture writ
ten during the past ninety odd
years. This story is derived from
Continued On Page Twelvel
The Republican., 1959-04-09

least expected, and always re-
sourceful in the face of danger.
Twice the Rangers entered Garrett
County In April 1863 they were
part Of force of 500 to 1900 mount
ed troops detached by Confederate
General William f. Jones to des-
troy the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road bridge across the Yough
River, and to collect horses and
cattle enroutc. This bit of regular
and irregular cavalry was com
manded by Colonel Harman, Gen
Drawing by Barbara Moon
eral Jones meanwhile proceeding
with his main force along the
Northwestern Turnpike towards
Clarksburg and Fairmont
During the following year the
Rangers destroyed much railroad
property at Piedmont, w. Va. They
then attempted to blow up the rail
road bridge at Bloomington, a
mile upstream. Stronger Union
forces from Keyser arrived in
time to drive the Dixie men away.
The Rangers most spectacular
exploit was the capture of Union
Generals Benjamin F. Kelly and
George Crook in the heart of
Cumberland, then garrisoned by
six thousand Union soldiers. This
daring raid was planned by John
Baptist Fay, who also took part in
The Republican., 1959-04-09
Felix G. Robinson

Garrett County mud got on the
shoes of soldiers in the first and
last wars fought on United States
soil Washington and Braddock
marched their troops through the
northern end of the county and
both saw defeat in the two sue
ceeding Julys of 1854 and 1855. In
the southern end of the county
there was heard on few occasions
the tramp of the Blue and the
Grey between 1851 and 1865. One
of the most spectacular episodes of
a very spectacular war was the
kidnapping of two Union Generals.
Amony the kidnapers were nine
derring-dos from Oakland and vi
cinity who were later to be neigh
bors of their victims.
During this war many stalwart
from the area, now Garrett County,
served in the Union army. A quar-
ter century after the conflict Crook
Post, Grand Army of The Re-
public, named for the famous
General George Crook. numbered
at least sixty. Also living in the
| County were a lesser number who
had fought bravely for the lost
cause of the South. Whether they
wore the Blue or the Grey they
now lived together in amity, har-
boring no malice, each enjoying a
merited esteem For among those
who had drawn the sword for Dixie
were a hand-picked platoon of adj
venturers who belonged to the
free-lance organization known as
McNeill's Partisan Rangers, led by
Captain John Hanson McNeill Its
operations were mostly in the val
ley Of the South Branch of the
| Potomac.
The total number of this Spar
tan band was not more than two
hundred of which thirty were
Marylanders Nine of these thirty
either were native Garrett Coun-
tians or lived there after the wars
end. They were: Charles James
Daley w. Wallace Chisholm, Ed
ward R. Browning, William d.
Hoye, James w Mason, Henry w.
Ridder, John L. Harvey, William
H. Poole, and John Baptist Fay.
These Rangers rarely mustered
more than IS riders for any single
operation during their two years
of existence. Between planned
raids they often returned to their
homes except those who lived be-
hind the Federal lines as in the
case of the Garrett Countains. Nc
Neill's Rangers inflicted an i'm
The Republican., 1959-04-09
IA Farm Families
Enroll In Program

Seventy-four Garrett County
farm families have already enroll
ed in the 1859 Farming For Better
Living contest John II. Garter
Chairman of the Garrett County
Farming For Better Living Coun-
Gil, sponsor of the program, an
nounced this week we hope to
wind up our enrolment by April
15" he said
Those who have enrolled are:
Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Beachy, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Bentz, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray E. Doerr, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
o. Glotfelty, Mr. and Mrs. Carl J.
Haenftling, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
c. Hanft, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mar
CROFT Mr. and Mrs. r. Dale Rush,
Mr.. and Mrs. Kermit Glotfelty and
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett McClintock,
Accident; Mr.. and Mrs. Marvin
Bethel Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Brenneman, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
D. Bucket, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira O.
waste and Mr. and Mrs. Harley