The Coastland Times, Manteo, N.C., published Friday, May 7,
1948
Politics Bring Kitty
Hawk Two Miles of Road...Commissioner Evans
Promises Long-Desired Hard Surface to Cemetery
The political stir-up in Dare County is already bearing
fruit—at least bringing promises. Highway Commissioner Merrill Evans came to
Kitty Hawk recently and gave assurance that the long-promised and much-needed
and desired two miles of hard surface road from the Baptist Church to Sound
Landing by way of Austin Cemetery would soon be built.
Commissioner Evans is said to have passed the word along as
he gave promise to build the road, that he hoped the folks who live on it would
vote for Charley Johnson for Governor. So this would seem to indicate not only
Governor Cherry’s Highway Commission is in politics for Johnson, but the latter
is the Administration choice.
The Kitty Hawk section of Dare County is a strong community,
with its people pulling together. United as never before, the threat of their
votes being cast against any candidate brings fear and trembling. It was this
community which started the ball rolling in Dare County against the so-called
ring, when they rose in their might and came to Manteo to the courthouse to
demand that their school be turned over to them last fall. There is no
mistaking what they mean, they speak up, and it was no wonder that they are now
getting their badly needed road promised them.
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