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MANY ROTARIANS
WITH WIVES PLAN
TO MEET. MANTEO
25+h Anniversary Of The Manteo
Club to Be Observed Tues
day. January 23rd

aI
Many Rotarians, with their wives,
plan to attend from other clubs in
the area to celebrate with Manteo
Rotarians, the 25th anniversary of
their charter, when a dinner will
be held on Tuesday, the 23rd of
January in the Manteo School. AT
this time Edmund Harding the
noted Washington, N. C. after din
ner speaker will be the principal
attraction. Additional entertain
ment will be musical numbers pro-
vided by local talent.
The entire membership of the
Engelhard Club plans to attend
with Manteo. Some seven couples
ire expected from Plymouth, a lar
ger number from Hartford, as well
as from Columbia
Jim Rea is president of the Man
5eo Club, and Linwood Cuthrell
Secretary.
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The third volume of "a New
Geography of North Carolina" by
Bill Sharpe, publisher and editor Of
THE STATE Magazine, is off the
press.
Containing 565 pages, and pro-
fusely illustrated, feature of ths
volume thorough and department.
allied index, making the contents
readily available when used for ref
erence. 1t is published by the
Sharpe Publishing Co., Inc. of Raj
eigh at $500.
Although titled ga geography
this work, like the preceding ones,
actually is a description Of 26 North
Carolina counties, and included also
history, current development, and
most of each county's best known
anecdotes, folklore and legends.
Sharpe commenced work on "A
New Geography" in September OF
1851, and in 10 years has almost
reached the three quarter mark to-
ward covering the whole state. The
current volume brings to 72 the
number of counties treated, and
Volume w, with % counties, will
conclude the series. Sharpe says he
hopes to have this ready within
the next three or four years. Com
pletion Of the work, he thinks, will
See SHARPE. Page Four
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DARE BOYS INJURED
AS BUS OvERTuRlls

Five of 80 draftees en- route to
Raleigh for pre-induction physical
examinations were injured Wednes-
day morning when a Carolina Trail
ways bus slxidded into ditch and
turned over on its side.
The draftees were from Elizabeth
City Manteo area. After a delay
Of few hours the group continued
on the way to Raleigh.
The patrol said the bus skidded
on us. 264 and went into a ditch
on the left side. The accident oc-
Cured about mile and half
west Of Wilson.
The injured were identified as
William G. Biggs, Manteo, tract
ured right hand; Robert Odell
Dudley, Manteo, minor fracture
of the ribs; Willie Overton, Eliza
beth City, injured ribs; Ernie Til
lett, Frisco, bruises on the head
and shoulders; and Lawrence Grain,
East Lake, decorations Of the right
wrist.
Others from Dare County in the
group were as follows: Andrew
Malhovich, Mays Head; Randy O
Neal, Jr., Wanchese; Robert Scar
borough, Kitty Hawk; Ralph Cart
wright, Mays Head; Robert Mason
K{fkw Hnxrl
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NATIONAL SEASHORE
NINTH ANNIVERSARY;
FIRST IN COUNTRY
Organization Has Become INTEGRAL
Part Of Economy; $4,000
Visitors in 1851


NOTE: The following ertiele was supplied
tor our readers by the headquarters OF the
Cope hotteros National Seoshore, end In.
sIvdes port OF the remarks made BY NPS
Director Conrd Wirth on December Is, lost, OF
the ss'e6rotion y honor Of Lindsay Warren
Next week we hope 10 CORY further In.
fe!motion concerning economic ond other ben.
eflfs from this project. os we'll as editorial
comment on some.
Nine years ago today, on jan
uary IL, 1853, the first National
Seashore was established. This was
the result of a long campaign in
which It must have often seemed
that the outcome would be uncer-
tain.
Possibly a reader Of these lines
knows who originated the idea of a
seashore park on this coast. Hun
tington Cairnes, Bruce Etheridge
Victor Meekins, Frank Stick, w,
Q. Saunders, and Lindsay Warren
were among those involved in the
early stages of the project. Other
public men, including various Ma
tlonal Park Service officials, be-
came interested in the idea about
1884. Three years later, bill was
introduced in Congress by Lindsay
Warren to provide for the estab-
lishment of the area. 1t passed, and
was signed by Franklin D. Roose-
Welt on August II, 1887. Lindsay
Warren announced its approval al
the Virginia Dare Day ceremonies
at Fort Raleigh the next day. Ii
due time, the State created the
North Carolina Cape Hattera.
Seashore Commission to aid in buy.
ing the land.
World War II interviewed before
much could be done toward es-
tablishing the National Seashore
Late in the war, prospecting fol-
oil began on Hatteras Island, anG
the Seashore movement did not gee
started again until late 1948. Early
in 1949, newspaper articles favor
able to the proposal National Sea-
shore on the local economy fol
lowed during the next three years
In 1852, further efforts were
made by various men, including
Conrad L. Wirth, now director Of
the National Park Service. The re.
suit was that $618,00O in State
funds was allocated to match a like
amount from private donors. These
were the Avalon and Old Dominion
See PARK. Page Four
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CIVIL TERM OF
SUPERIOR COURT
IN DARE MONDAY

When the civil term of Superior
Court opens in Dare County on
Monday, Judge Chester Morris who
will preside will apparently have
a full session with 80 cases on the
docket. Expected to be called on
Tuesday is the case brought by Mr..
and Mrs. Palmer S. Midget against
the executors of the estate of the
late c. p. Midget of Mays Head,
who with the late Mrs. Midget,
operated the First Colony Inn.
The Midgetts, who are represent
ed by Attorney J. III. Leroy OF
Elizabeth City, are seeking APP
p-oximateiy $4,000 which they
claim is due them for services per-
formed in operation of the hotel.
The executors-Martin Kellogg of
Manteo and Fentress Homer OF
Elizabeth City-are represented by
John H. Hall, also of Elizabeth
City. Original papers in the matter
were filed over a year ago, but due
to crowded term last January, it
was not brought to trial.
Numerous divorce actions and
claims will also be heard, Monday
being scheduled heavily with cases
Of this nature.
Another case of unusual interest
is brought by Edwin G. Moore II of
Washington, D. c., operator Of the
former Parkerson Hotel, against
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Parkerson Of
Manteo, who sold the hotel to
Moore two seasons ago. In the ac-
ton Moore is seeking monies which
he alleges is due from Mrs. Par
kerson, who operated the facility
for one season under arrangement
with Mr.. Moore after the sale. A
prior case involved funds sought by
Mrs. Parkerson, claiming them due
under terms of the sale contract.
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KITTY HAWK MAN DIES
SUDDENLY IN ELF. CITY

Herman Atwood Tillett, 81, Of
Kitty Hawk, died Wednesday night
in the Albemarle Hospital, Eliza
beth City, after an illness of only
a few hours, having collapsed while
ON business in Elizabeth City.
Mr.. Tillett was a native of Mays
Head, the son of the late Isaac
Erbes Tillett and Maggie Saunders
Tillett, and had lived in Kitty
Hawk for "a years. He retired from
the U. s. Coast Guard in 1884 after
seven years service, and was self
employed at the time Of his death.
,lHe is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hines Tillett; one son,
Radford B. Tillett of Kitty Hawk;
two brothers, Boone d. Tillett Of
Arlington, Va, and John T. Til
lett Of New Jersey; and four sis
Aars, Mrs. Easter Beacham and
!. Mrs. Aurelia Taranola, both Of Ar
Engton, Va; Mrs. Virginia Austin
Of Corolla and Mrs. Elizze Harris
OF Kitty Hawk.
Mr.. Tillett was q member OF
Wanchese Lodge No. 521 A M a
+ III, the Scottish Rites in New
Bern, a Shriner and member Of
Sudan Temple.
The body was removed to Twi-
ford Funeral Home, Manteo, pend
ing funeral arrangements.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION
MEETS IN MANTEO JAN. 8


The Dare County Board of Edu.
cation, meeting January 8, was adj
vised by Mrs Mary L. Evans, coun-
Fty superintendent of the following
In-Service Training program for
Dare County teachers, and financed
by the State Board of Education.
Cape Hatteras School: course in
Constitutional Government, taught
by 1t. Robert Palermo on Wednes-
day night, beginning January 10.
All other schools: course in Func-
tional Grammar, taught by DR..
John Ebbs Of East Carolina College
on Wednesday nights, beginning
January 10.
Each course will include is hours
Of class work.
Also at the board meeting, the
following were appointed 10 serve
on the Dare County Citizens Conn
mittee for Better Schools: Mrs. Carl
Gard, Colington; Mrs. Francis
Meekins, Manteo; and Mrs. Harry
Baum, Wanchese.
The board approved the election
|of Mrs. Sally Whitehead as 9Th
grade teacher at Cape Hatteras,
In place Of Mrs. Mary Stamey, re-
signed They also approved Mrs.
Dorothy Boasley AZ substitute
teacher for the Kitty Hawk School.
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DARE MINISTER'S GROUP
MET IN MANTEO THIS WEEK

Six Dare County ministers at
tended the meeting of the Dare
County Ministerial Association held
at the Manteo Methodist Church
Monday of this week. The business
meeting was followed by a lunch
con at the Manteo Motel. Attending
were Rev. H. J. Leatherman of the
Manteo Methodist Church, Rev. M
]. Davis of the Manteo Baptist
Church, Rev. C. w. Goodwin Of the
Roanoke Island Baptist Church.
Rev. Van E. Cash, of the Hatteras
Methodist Churches, Rev. Frank
Dinwiddle of the Mays Head Bap-
fist Church, and Rev. H. ]. McLaur-
in of the Kitty Hawk Methodist
Church.
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WINTER WONDERLAND"
ON FABULOUS RESORT
AREA-THE DARE COAST

The "semi-tropical" coast Of
Dare. usually blessed with warn
temperatures and sunny skie.
throughout winter months, took 9
sudden drop in prestige along with
other parts Of. the country this
week, and is currently displaying a
white blanket of snow. All Of the
county, except Hatteras Island
south of Rodanthe, participated in
the winter show.
Hatteras Island, where tempera.
lures often range Is degrees above
Norfolk readings due to the Gull
Streams influence, had only a mod
crate snowfall, and reports indicate
that it melted on contact. At any
rate, the Cape Hatteras High
School in Buxton was the only one
operating in the county Thursday
others having been dismissed
. around noon Wednesday as the
storm intensified.
Mrs. Mary L. Evans, superinten-
dent of schools, asks parents and
students to listen for radio reports
from Elizabeth City Friday morn
ing, as to whether or not there
will be school on that day. This will
depend on road conditions Friday
) morning.
Aside from the novelty appear
ance, few adults are enjoying the
unusual sight in the county, but
youngsters are "having a ball''
(snowbail that is) and snowmen,
sIeds and the like are in vogue.
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NEW MANAGER FOR
LOST COLONY TO BE
NAMED JANUARY Is

A new manager for the Silver
Anniversary season of Paul Green's
symphonic drama The Lost Colony
is expected to be named at mid
winter meeting of the Roanoke Is
land Historical Association Board
of Directors in Raleigh next Mon
day, January Is.
The board meeting will be the
first held since Mrs. Fred Morrison
of Washington, D. c., was named
chairman and president of the as
ISOLATION succeeding Mrs. o. Max
Gardner of Shelby. She was APP
pointed at the late November meet
ing of the Board held during Gull
ture Week in Raleigh.
! It was during that meeting that
J. Sib Dorton Jr., of the University
of North Carolina resigned as gem
eral manager Of the drama. He had
been general manager for two sea-
sons.
Upon his resignation Dorton was
named vice-chair1aan Of the spon-
soring Roanoke Island Historical
Association.
The meeting in Raleigh on Mon
day will be held at The Sir Walter
Hotel at noon.
The Lost Colony which celebrates
its 18th anniversary this year is
scheduled to begin its season on
July / with performances through
August and until Sunday night,
September q, it was announced re-
Gently by Dorton.
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POLITICAL FIRES
STARTED BY RACE
FOR RECORDER
Jim vannote First to Announce for
JudgeshiP; Others contem-
plating the Race

The 1862 political battlefires were
I lighted this week when Jim Van
note, the Dare County Veterans
Service officer, stated he would be
a candidate for the nomination for
Recorders Judge to replace Judge
Washington F. Baum who has held
the job without much trouble for
some 80 years, ever since the Of
fee was established by a special
act of the Legislature. Mr.. Vannote
said he had first ascertained from
Judge Baum himself that he would
not again be a candidate. The Judge
is 81 years old.
The present salary for this job
is SIPS per month. More than $15,-
600 q year in court fines, beside
costs, is paid into the school fund
and the office has been highly
profitable to Dare County as the
result of the activities of highway
patrolmen who bring nearly all the
cases to court, particularly during
the summer months.
Other candidates are expected to
seek the judgeship. Among names
mentioned as considering this race
are Dan L. Cannady, a former
Manteo police chief; M. C. Mitchell,
who retired last year as Manteo
police chief; r. H. Cook, former
mayor of Kill Devil Hills. Stanford
White of Manns Harbor, who was
appointed as assistant recorders
Judge in event the Judge should
be sick, or wish to disqualify HIM
self, Is expected to announce for
this office soon. Mr.. White has
! never been sworn in, not having
been called on to serve since he
was appointed.
Lively races are expected for
the office of County Commissioner
from several townships, where
many pople express the hope that
the present "one-man" Board Of
Commissioners be abolished. The
point is raised that there is no
sense in having Board of Com.
nissioners that will allow itself to
See POLITICS, Page Four
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PIRATES JAMBOREE
OFFICERS ELECTED;
EVENTS PLANNED
Ralph Swain and Julian Onefo
co-chairmen; Mrs. Geneva
Harrell. Secrefary-Treas.

The eighth annual Dare Coast
Pirates Jamboree, an event which
will officially kickoff the 1862 va
cation season is now in the planning
stages.
At meeting Of residents from
all sections of the county held here
Sunday afternoon Ralph Swain,
Manteo, and Julian Oneto, Mays
Head, were elected co-chairmen OF
the Jamboree and Mrs. Geneva Har-
rel; Kitty Hawk was named sec
rotary treasurer.
It is tentatively planned to CO.
Operate in staging the Lindsay c.
Warren bridge celebration along
with the Southern Albemarle AS
ISOLATION as principal sponsor on
April 26, with the official first day
or opening of the vacation season
launcher on Friday, the following
day, on Hatteras Island.
Pirate King Dock Austin, whose
famous black beard he grows to
play the part of king of the pirates,
attended the meeting and stated
that the residents of Hatteras
would cooperate in every way pos
IDLE, as they had done in the past.
High spots of the Hatteras phase
of the celebration will be the
worlds biggest free fish dinner, a
beach buggy race and also fish
erman's dory race through the
surf. There will also be costume
contests and pre-Jamboree events
at Hatteras.
Lawrence Swain, q member of the
Dare County Board of Commission
ers was appointed to serve as liai-
son between the Jamboree and the
Southern Albemarle Association in
the sponsoring of the bridge cele-
bration. The bridge celebration will
be held in Columbia. capital of Tyr
rell County. The new bridge, span
ming Alligator River between Sandy
Point and East Lake has been COM
|pleted and is expected to be open to
traffic by early February, but the
actual dedication has been post
|poned until Spring weather would
assure better attendance at THE de-
dication.
Planned as new attraction for
See JAMBOREE, Page Four
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81, 900 TYRRELL COUNTY ACRES
PROPOSED In ESTABLISHING
AN AIR FORCE BOMBING RANGE
Heavy Timber-Producing Lands Of West Va. Pulp
and Paper Co. Suggested AS Substitute for
Lands in Mattamuskeet Area: Thousands Of
Protests Received in Connection with HYDE
County Proposition

The concerted efforts of several
companies developing timberlands
throughout coastland counties may
be seriously hampered if a propo-
sal by the U. S. Corps of Engineers
bears fruit, in which event bomb
ing range embracing $4,000 acres
in Tyrrell County would be estab-
lished. The proposed facility, a
second choice to lands in Hyde
County which have become an un-
likely and unpopular location for
the site, would be principally on
holdings of West Virginia Pulp
and Paper Co. which has invested
hundreds of thousands of dollars
to establish the acreage as profit
bearing holdings.
Fred Claridge, N. c. State For
ester, has stated that if a bombing
range is established in Tyrrell
County, the state might be forced
to give up fire protection efforts
in the area. Such an abandonment
would be considered a great eco
nomic loss in the section which
has strived for years to void the
reputation for fires, which was gain
ed over the years through lack Of
control and inadequate financial in
terests.
The site is in the Kilkenny Sec
ton of Tyrrell County. The total
area involved is $4,000 acres, q
tract five by ten miles, which in
cludes $500 acres of unmanaged
timberland not owned by the COM
pany. This site is being offered as
a substitute for one previously pro-
posed near Lake Mattamuskeet in
Hyde County.
The paper company land pro-
posed as a bombing range site con-
ltains healthy, growing forest,
developed through ten years of in
tensive management and a heavy
dollar investment. Until forest man
Iagment was introduced ten years
|ago, the land was a vast, inacces-
Isible wilderness. Uncontrolled fires
swept the area regularly, destroy
ling standing timber and prevent
ing new growth. One popularity
Of this section is that a very dense
underground, estimated at about
80 tons per acre, provides fuel for
forest fires.
To combat the fire menace, which
constantly threatened adjoining
lands, and to aid in the manage
ment of the area as tree farm,
several hundred miles of roads and
drainage canals have been con-
|structed by the paper company.
In addition to West Virginia's
holdings in Tyrrell County, several
other companies control substantial
acreage and have participated in
the general overall program Of de-
veloping thse lands, and controlling
fires. They are, with acreages con-
trolled by them, as follows: GINS.
Co. (Grace Steamship Line inter-
Iests) 5000 acres; Butler Lumber
Co., 10000 acres; Kent Timber
lands, $4,000 acres; Lake Phelps
Farms, 5000 acres; Nylen, 5000
acres. There are, Of course, many
smaller landowners who have i'm
vested heavily in promoting acre
age for farming of one sort or
See RANGE Page Four
Evening star., 1962-08-20
8 Shell Plants
Closed by Strike

WOOD RIVER, Ill, Aug. 19
(AP).-A strike by three union
groups in contract disputes
forced a shutdown over the
week end of Shell Oil Co. re-
finerieS at Wood River, Hous-
ton, Tex, and Norco, La.
Some 5000 employees were af-
fected at Wood River, the larg-
est of six Shell refineries in
the United States, and about
1850 at Houston. Pickets were
up at all three plants.
On strike were the Interna-
tional Association of Machin-
lists, the Operating Engineers
and the Oil Workers Council.
The walkout at Wood River
began Saturday night when
negotiatorS reached an impaSse
and broke off the talks. The
unions were seeking a 6 per
cent wage increase and fringe
benefits. The plants pay scale
under the old contract ranged
from $2.57 to 1881 per hour.
The issues varied somewhat
in the different plants.
Evening star., 1962-08-20
New Blue Cross Plan
For Aged Likely in '63

pitalization plan has been
abandoned, Mr.. Rawlings said.
Some had felt that such a
uniform plan would have per-
mitted the Federal government
to SubSidize the premiums of
low-income persons as an al
tentative to the King-Anderson
bill which sought to link hospi-
tai care to the social security
system. The King-Anderson bill
has been defeated, but it may
be reintroduced in future ses-
SionS of Congress.
Blue Cross found health
problems and costs so radically
different in various parts Of
the Nation that it abandoned
the uniform scheme.
But an official has said that
80 per cent of the II local plans
have indicated their willing
ness to try to provide aged
benefits with many common
features.
Evening star., 1962-08-20
Revised Old estoment
WiIIHoveNo Nonsense

ably or possibly Of the first
century B. c."
Prof Driver said the new
wording will give the Old Test
ament a wholly new idiom and
rhythm. Passages of poetry will
be redone in verse, affecting
nearly all the Books Of the
Prophets and particularly Is
aiah.
The word virgin will be re-
placed in Isaiah's behold a
virgin shall conceive :" and
other passages because the
original Hebrew word means
only a marriageable young
woman. whether virgin or not"
he said.
Jehovah" disappears be-
cause IT was a deviation pro-
duced in 1920, and "leprosy"
goes since in Biblical times it
meant a skin disease now called
psoriasis.
Also out are such archaic
words as thou, thee, doth and
saith except where characters
speak to God. But in the pro-
logue to job Satan will address
God as you because Satan is
the Devil and is allowed to be
bumptious," said Prof. Driver.
Nonsense" passages are get
ting a thorough reworking.
$50 much of the Old Testa-
ment makes no sense as con-
ventionally translated" he said.
II teach Provers myself and I
find some of it quite incom-
prehensible.'
Evening star., 1962-08-20

A new Blue Cross plan of
disqualification insurance for
the aged may be offered here,
beginning the first of next year.
1t probably would be paired
with a companion Blue Shield
plan with surgical or surgical
and medical benefits.
F. P. Rawlings, jr.. president
of the local Blue Cross plan,
Group disqualification, Inc,
said in an interview that it's
experts are drafting such a
plan for consideration by the
organizations board next
month.
The national Blue Cross or
ganization in Chicago has
recommended that each Of the
II local organizations set up
aged plans within a recon-
mended framework with GER
tain common features.
An earlier plan for a single,
nationally uniform aged hos