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"0'''''''44 I 1:1 -4 it It Ire 4 0 ip 1 II 1 Ct' :4 4 lr X'' 4 14 A ze t' i -4 4 IX 4 4 1- )4'" 4'''' li iit i t'' ') 11 i r-- 4g-Tz: i''' '41 4 tv gy I 4- Lt1 1 by vi4441t 4 --t 1' '1V 4 4 -tiA I 0 1 1 fo 44' 'I i t' 0- gi'Vlf4 -pit it f' '4 COUNCIL itCTION Approval By Court Is Awaited Code's Might Will Get Test Monday OCRACOKE The docking of the ferry "Sea Level" ha this one of the world's most picturesque and storied little harbors came with the setting of the sun From Atlantic at the end of the mainland it plied the choppy and bitterly cold Pa mlic Sound for four hours with seven cars and 20 people aboard Precisely as it touched the dock the huge red ball of sun at its back met the horizon flooding it with molten gold The harbor of Silver Lake was rimmed with white fishing vessels their picketed masts gleaming in the final burst of day The yellow-and-w hite-painted houses of this ancient fishing village cast their first shadows as the light became softly pink then purple and the deep chill suddenly plunged through layers of clothing in quest of bones willed to heirs who now a scattered throughout the Published notices public hearings and registered I tters sent to persons thought to be the owners have yielded no response By DOUGLAS CONNAll JR Observer Staff Writer City councilmen will get their first chance Monday to show that they meant business when they vowed to put muscle in the housing code they passed last Jan 8 The council will be asked to order nine houses torn wn They have been found by Building Inspection Supt William Jamison to be unfit for people to live in Passengers scurried then for the dock If sunset in Ocracoke's Silver Lake seemed less than celestial it was only so in the eyes of a pair of tourist ladies eyes that had seen the bottom of many martini glasses and that inquired about the possibility of more on the island Ocracoke has seen change but not that much Hyde County continues to vote dry with this village of 500 men women and children always providing the majority MIMS Observer Photos by Don Once-Fine Morehead Mansion Now Abandoned As Residence Sturkev The housing code one of the city's tools in its fight to get rid of slums was passed last year after about a year and a half of drafting Councilmen vowed to uphold it The code gives the superintendent of building inspection the authority to declare houses unfit to be lived in and council the power to order such houses torn down if the property owners aren't willing to have them torn down By PORTER MUNN Observer Staff Writer I The reorganization plan for the Charlotte Motor Speedway finally received approval from unsecured creditors Friday making it possible to put the plan into effect Jack Hamilton attorney for the speedway stockholders committee said "Friday morning I 'obtained from John Lippard his approval of the plan" Lippard a landscape architect who helped design the raceway is an unsecured creditor His vote provided the two-thirds majority approval from the unsecured creditors required by law "Now we have approval from a majority of the stocliholders and from a two-t hir ds majority of the unsecured creditors" Robert Robinson speedway trustee ald "The approval from these groups does much to clear the way for reorganizing the speedway corporation" Judge Craven Jr will hold a hearing Jan 25 in West! ern District Federal Court to confirm the reorganization plan i Robinson said Confirmation by the court will lead to appointment of a new I board of directors for the speed- way The new board will take over the company and operate it as a private business for the stockholders The houses are the first to be brought before the council Up to now all houses found unfit or below code's minimum standards have been voluntarily torn down or repaired by the property owners Morehead Mansion Is Quiet For First Time in A Centurv The houses are 422 State St 625-627 Waco St 634 Waco St 619 Rayon St 621 Rayon St 511 Davidson St 726 Snowball St 730 Snowball St and 813 Burton St Code enforcement began in earnest last May after city hired Chief Housing In spector Thomas Lackey and a staff of inspectors Cliancre Finally Conies-Phones TV But there have been changes most of them in little more than a decade with the isolation being broken by daily ferries to north and south by telephones and TV Its physical charm and native warmth remain undiluted but the Elizabethan dialect its most distinctive quality has been brought to the brink of extinction by contact with the outside There are also those such as Dallas Williams who brought more than a home-hungry heart as he stepped from the ferry on home ground for the first time in three years The last 18 in the Navy have taken him to all parts of the world and his speech now is plain "United States" 1 All are vacant and several In the eight months through have been vandalized or used Dec 31 according to a recent as shelter from time to time report to the City Council 373 by drunks and wanderers living units were demolished The owners either cannot be and 1448 were repaired found or are unwilling to ad- The housing inspectors made mit that they have anything to 6443 inspections and found 2- do with the houses In me 626 units below the code's cases ownership has been standards By PORTER MUNN Observer Staff Writer For the first time in more than 100 years the Morehead mansion at 814 College St has given up its function as a home to members of the prominent Charlotte and North Carolina family Last fall the old house was boarded up after Mrs A Morson moved out Construction was begun the mansion before the Civil War by Col John Morehead Building stopped during the war years but was resumed after Appomattox The home developed into one of the finest in the area There are some brave souls like Floyd Styron a part-time carpenter who finally rejected the convenience of a telephone The I ederal court took charge of the speedway Nov 3 1961 at the request of the speedway management to prevent creditors from selling the race track at public auction to satisfy claims of $900- 000 in debts Breath Test Foils Man's Jail Plans 4rit JrA4Na4kwdtzti A let 4 7 -71-ivi1 esj t'- 45 4101:41 4 44 l'N1 44 A4 40'44 fit --v- 44ti lisoatr Avtt 114: :1 1 i 4 2 -41'4 44 i'P147'pe'' --Te- sf lt r9 tfo- t4k) 4t 1 14ZIA'414 4i dhi '''4 AAA i 11 11-1 Ego s' "A' i cl 0 --iii '42'-'- o' 4 44(1 t' i 0 4' ''7! '4'' ''t Iii'' A14 '-e4 '3- i''(A4k'' i x- 4 4 '1 ''ev ar it 5 A ipr---- -'1 -114 -l "li--0- 04 ft -Ft 11 'St i 4" ttio! I 4 4 i'4' -7' -1': 7 t'f- -Z4-37e''--t '''i 4 1z4 1: -N '7 --vez1( 4 4 4 i 4- tt 11 "'4 I r1 l': i '1 1 4 A cew 41 The house originally faced South Tryon Street in center of a tract bounded by Tryon East Morehead East Vance and the Southern Rail way tracks "I had it took out" he explained "when it come to me that in 10 minutes I could go see anybody on the island" But he keeps TV In Ocracoke time is measured by the tides and fortune by the winds When a northeaster blows and the weather is too bad for work TV reception is at its best "But when it's a nor-wester" he said "we see nothin'" By CIRRLES ROBSON Observer Staff Writer A Charlotte a facing three charges of public drunkenness showed up in City Recorder's Court Friday morning fortified against the prison sentence he had carefully planned Jess Franklin Lee 42 of 417 Church St arrived promptly at 8:30 am but he created a disturbance in court and had to be taken to the jail and locked up until his case could be heard Craven named Robinson trusback the next day on the tee with the job of working out same charge a plan to pay off the creditors The trustee submitted a plan He was let go again this icalling for use of a longterm time on a $200 bond and was of $345000 a $400000 stock back in jail New Year's Eve and $200000 in profits to on third drunkenness pay creditors and provide opcharge lerating capital for the company He couldn make ake bail The speedway puts on two car third time and was held in races a year at its track on jail for trial on Wednesday He 29 north of Charlotte in told the judge that he had Cabarrus County his plans made then but his case was continued until Fri- ay so all three cases could rse heported be tried at the same time lie was let out again on another mown At Club $50 bond In later years College Street was opened behind the house The columns and porch were built on the rear and the house was made to front on College In the post-Civil War period the estate consisted of main house barns a dairy carriage hou se servants quarters orchards and landscaped grounds Col Morehead's daughter married Dr Simmons Jones and the Jones family lived in the home for many years Mrs Morson is a daughter a Morehead Jones of 1816 Winthrop Ave is a son Food Didn't Chancre-It's Delicious The food hasn't changed It's the same Delicious Elsewhere on the coast you ask for a seafood platter and you get it even out-of-season from a frozen package Not so at Doward Brue's Island Inn "Don't order" smiled the waitress "Ask what we got!" Workmanship Evident In Glass Globe Over Front Door When his turn came Lee told Judge William Grist that he had talked to his employer Simpson owner of a service station at 1613 Statesville Ave and to the supervisor of the prison camp in Iluntersville A purse containing jewelry and other valuables worth more than $350 was stolen from the Amity Country Club New Year's Eve police learned Friday The owner of the purse Mrs Leon Greenberg of 1226 Andover 'Road told police she waited before telling them to be sure the purse was actually missing She tells you You order it and it's fresh from the sea You can bet on it Friday he was taken to county jail to spend the weekend and will be tried Monday on all five drunkenness charges Scarborough said The drunkenness arrest Friday was about the 50th for Lee over a period of 10 years Unit Begins Local Heart A itach1 ot Wreck 'Annexati on Survey CausedDeath He had a work-release plan all figured out he said and produced a note from Simpson In prove it Under the work release plan a prisoner works during the day but spends his nights in the prison camp The changes have brought regimentation Only Owen Gaskill's fish house and a couple of stores can sell fresh seafood You can't buy directly from the boat anymore That's because to sell fish a man must have a license The Ocracokers don't like it but that's the way it is Owen had to put running water in his fish house first and when all your water is rain water it isn't easy The job of Deputy Sheriff John Gallup hasn't changed much Ocracoke hasn't had a killing in 100 years Last summer though some of the village boys and outsiders had a "roight good foight!" Deputy Gallup does collect taxes Observer Nantes Reporter City County Planning I vey's goal is to help the city Department has begun a survey this process as much as A 62-year-old Charlotte rnan in advance who died after an automobile to determine what areas beyond the city limits should be an-1 The long range annexation accident Thursday as the vic planning would include a five- tim of a heart attack and not flexed and when the city should i of injuries received in the wreck Coroner WM Summerville ruled take in these areas of injuries received in the wreck Coroner WM Summerville ruled year projection to be used along with the city's continuing five-year capital improvements budget to help plan future obligations The 1959 law allows the city to annex adjacent developed areas without a vote of the peo year projection to be used along with the city's continuing five- Friday Julian Desay McLeod of Eagle Lake Road died in an ambulance en route to Memorial Hospital after the panel truck he was driving struck a fence at 3308 Tuckaseegee Road "He is honest and has been ccri)itat working with me for five years" Simpson's note said Solicitor William 11 Scarborough told Lee he thought Jack Claiborne 31-year-old he was drunk again and re- native of Charlotte has been fused to try him appointed Washington corresponLee told Scarborough he dent for The Observer Editor hadn't been drinking A McKnight announced Fri-'day Claiborne already has joined the six-man Knight Newspapel Washington bureau headed by prize-winning reporter Edwin A Liey and will begin reporting from the national capital next week Capilal The annexation study is expected to take several months and will cleat with both immediate and long-range planning Charlotte's Iast major an- Ple living either inside or out- side the city limits nexation was Jan 1 1960 when "I tell you what we'll do Jesse" Scarborough said "We give you a Breathalyzer test and if it shows you haven't been drinking this morning I'll nol pros (not prosecute) all three of these cases "I tell you what well do Jesse" Scarborough said "We give you a Itreathaly- zer test and if it shows you haven't been drinking this morning I'll no! pros (lint prosecu(e) all three of these Another Chancre Illaybe-Tourism Other changes are coming John Ivey Wells is going to college John Ivey tall blond and clear-eyed is the only boy in the senior class of four members There are 70 in the entire school Not many Ocracokers go to college Money is scarce But they know the sea and usually join the Coast Guard or the Navy But this too may change First there must be money It may eventually come with tourism "This oils very definitely a heart attak" said Summerville "Nicleod had no in except a little bruise on his left knee" If 4A 104:: -'-intvoitNr 7't :00100 ('' 114 the city increased its size by However it requires not 32 square miles and its the city he aide to give pen tion by 41000 people pie in the area to be annexed the same standard of city services such as police and fire protection garbage collection and water and sewer service as it gives existing city residents "But if it shows you're drunk I'm going to have the jailer swear out another warrant and indict you as a habitual drunk myself" City police had asked Summerville to investigate after Traffic Patrolman Bohhy Brooks found McLeod suffering from an attack when he arrived A 1959 state law however makes it unlikely that city will ever do such large-scale annexing again Instead the law encourages piecemeal annexation letting the city take in outlying areas as they become urbanized I I lilt mi 5 IL: become urbanized take in outlying areas as they Since Claiborne first went to work for The Observer in 1953 while he was still a student at the University of North Carolina he has been a reporter on both the sports and news staffs and distinguished himself as a specialist in education reporting foinn tibiereisi tchene "I le a v1la sa- ig)-p-aesaptinetgi Vhen Lee took the test he that tl 1 It also sets up specific stand- to he strangling" Brooks two beers" hut th breath said told police he'd had "about ars a ouying are as must meet to assure that they are part of tilt' truck and the fence was slight Ile said damage to both the analysis indi Annexation is thus expected cated a level of cL ready to become 32 per cent of alcohol the to become almost a continuous city The standards involve such totaling less than $230 equivalent of 10 to l'2 beers process and the current sur-H things as population density n7l i nov in his blood 'land use Speed Watch Set Much of Mecklenburg Comity OIL I II This level is considered high develonment in the last Ricky Putm enough to put some men into an son of Mrs I a but Lee was moving This level is considered high enough to put some men into a coma but Lee was moving But this winter in Ocracoke has been and is a hard one the bitterest in years Most mornings the boats are ice-locked in the creeks and there's no chance to pick up a little off-season money by "oyster-in' or netting a bit of fish In other years the children have gone barefooted and wading at Christmas This one has only brought storm after storm bitter cold and continued erosion of the island from the sound side Yet the worries have not cost the Ocracokers their pride or their sense of humor And George Jackson barber and ferry hand on alternate weeks can look at a stranger and welcome him with "You're from the States eyen't you?" At the time of his assignment to Washington Claiborne was JACK CLAIBORNE serving as assistant Carolinas editor of The Observer versity of Chicago While in Chi- Ile spent two years in the cag() he worked part-time for The Chicago Daily News Army 1953-55 part of that time as editor of the camp newspaper! Claibornes wife the former at Ft Jackson SC Margaret Watkins of Charlotte In 1958 he was granted a resigned recently as woman's leave of absence from editor of The Charlotte News The Observer to get a expects to join him in in English at the Uni-lington in the spring under his own power and was more or less coherent Lee had first been arrested Dec 28 He was released on $50 bond but was City police will operate a speed years has been outside the city 1-': iiiiim of 500 Bradford watch at Brandywine and West- limits and there are several Drive vill receive the 13 such as the Montclaire Scout God and Country Award field Roads today They will also and Starmount subdivisions in Ian 13 at the Camp Greene' watch traffic at all other inter- the south that are considered Church of God lie is a mein-' I sections around the city ripe for annexation I ber of Scout Troop 13 i City Police will Operate a soced years has been outside the city nab!) of 500 Bradford a- A A.