The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1961-07-14
JULY ~
|OF KITTY HAWKS
! NEW POSTOFFICE
Mas Established SO Years Ago;
Three Tates and Three Baums
Have Held Postmastership.

Kitty Hawks new post office
Fill be dedicated at 500 pm. on
/ uly 10, 1861, Postmaster Kathryn
|. Perry announced yesterday. The
ew facility, located in Kitty Hawk
|iilage, is part of the Post Office
apartments unique commercial
Easing plan, she explained. Under
J his program, investment financing
S used to obtain needed facilities
Which remain under private owner
hip, pay local taxes and are leased
o the Federal Government. "a
Ian to give Manteo an improved
ostoffice was defeated three years
go, when public spirited citizens
He'd petition opposing it).
At the same time, the need for
Prge OUTLAWS of money from the
federal Treasury for construction
imposes is eliminated.
The new local post office, Incl
entally, is part of a program OF
federated postal construction and
determination ordered by president
ennedy, to stimulate the nations
economy and to assist Postmaster
General J. Edward Day in his pro-
rams to provide the nation with
be finest postal service in its his
Pry. Mrs. Perry pointed out. 1t
las built under lease by NJ. K.
earring of Manteo. This program
I new post office status of which
he local post office is a part--to-
ether with modernization of exist
be- postal facilities over the nation
will provide about $270,000, 900
new construction for the country
) be started in the approximate
p-month period between Feb. Is
nd Dec. 81, 1861. Included in the
rogram will be more than 1000
ew post offices. Meanwhile, for
ne local postal dedication, the
postmaster announced that Hon.
!. Jack Williams, Field Services
fficer, will be present. Congress
an Herbert C. Bonner is expect
D to take part in the ceremony.
"Our patrons will derive more en-
pyment from doing business here,
heir mail will be handled more eff
Gently and this building and its
p-to-date equipment will enable
ur postal employees to work under
he best conditions" the Post
laster commented.
'tThe new facility, she added,
will be a link with a postal sys-
IN that today has over $4,000 post
ffices. This system serves more
han Is million persons and handles
yer two-thirds of the worlds mail.
ur $50, 900 postal employees are
andling about IS billion pieces of
hail a year, including over bill
on parcels" the Postmaster ad-
ed.
"National population increases
i'll add nearly 100000 people to
he population in the next II
lonths, with about one and a half
billion marriages and the estab-
shment of 663 900 new households.
his will be reflected in increasing
emands for more postal services"
The Kitty Hawk Post Office was
Established on November II, 1878
nd was located on the water at the
cad of Kitty Hawk Bay. The loca-
on Of the Post Office has changed
bout four. times since then, but has
ways remained in the village.
following is a list of the post
asters who held office here and
he dates of their appointments:
[rs. Sophia D. Tate November II,
B7s; Joseph NJ. Baum November
;, 1879; William J. Tate January
1892: Addie NJ. Tate February 8,
beg; Elijah w. Baum January 10,
b14; Hettie NJ. Baum (Acting)
february IA, 1929; (Permanent)
une z, 1929; Kathryn H. Perry
Acting) January 1. 1854. (Perma-
ent) March "a, 1866.