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VOLUME XXII NO. 12 WANCHESE CHURCH COMPLETING NEW LARGE ADDITION Methodists Modernizing Plant With $25,000 All-Purpose Annex . Among many church building projects currently underway or re cently completed in Dare County is the splendid addition now near ing the finishing stage at the Wanchese Methodist Church. This $25,000 investment will make of their church \»ne of the most com plete units to be enjoyed by any rural church in northeastern North Carolina. This addition, which is being “built to conform in outward ap pearance with the rest of the 50- year-old structure will house sev eral class rooms on the second floor; two bathrooms, a kitchen, dining room, and utility rooms on the first floor* It has entrances from both sides, and an entrance from both the choir enclosure and the main auditorium of the church. In quality and general appearance, it is a credit to the church and to the community, and it speaks well of the leadership and devotion of the community to their church. Wanchese has a population of less than • 1,000 people. In recent years this community has gone ahead by leaps and bounds, particularly in construc tion of new, modern type homes, many of them of brick, and all of them completely up to date. Sev eral homes are now under con struction, and at least a score hvae been built in the past eight years. The Pentecostal congregation at Wanchese has shown singular de votion to their church, and have for several years occupied a large, splendid church building and a large two-story parsonage at the eastern end of the commu nity. . The Ruritan Club at Wanchese has taken the lead in working for many, community improvements, notable surfacing of neighborhood roads, and harbor improvements. The village now has finer roads on the whole than any community of similar size in the coastland, and extensive improvements to the harbor are currently being com pleted by the Corps of Engineers. DARE DEMOCRATS PLAN TO ATTEND SAM RAYBURN DINNER IN GREENVILLE Several Democrats from Dare County are planning to attend the Sam Rayburn dinner in Greenville, N. C. on the evening of Friday, September 28th, according to M. L. Daniels, county chairman, who re ports that $2lO worth of tickets at sls each had been sold Wed nesday. A much larger amount is expected to be raised during the coming week, since the object of the dinner is to raise funds to aid the Democratic national campaign this fall. Mr. Daniels says it is important for Dare County to make a good showing for this cause, since a Democratic victory offers more hope for North Caro lina, and our part of the state in fairer distribution of the bene fits and rights 'of government. He cites the achievements of the Democratic party in this state, and says “our people of the Coast lang. who have been favored with good roads and bridges, and expect still more, should be anxious to support the party from which greatest benefits may be expect ed.” REPORT OF RECORDERS COURT IN DARE THIS WEEK A thirty-day suspended sentence and a fine of $lO and costs were imposed on James E. Outlaw of Wanchese for driving his car with improper license plates and in vio lation of operator’s license require ments. His brother Luther Outlaw was charged with driving with im proper plates, and appealed from a fine of $5 and the costs. Mrs. Susie Briggs ot Kitty Hawk, who followed too close, and seriously damaged her car Friday of last week, when she ran in the back end of a school bus, paid a fine of $5 and costs. Wm. A. Fuller of Buxton paid a $5 fine, also for operating too close. Wm. W. Clark of Buxton charged with having no operator’s license, produced his li cense and was dismissed from court. William I. Twiddy of Manns Harbor had no operator’s license and was fined $25 and costs. Al vin O. Farrow of Buxton paid $lO and costs for speeding at 65 mph. Curtis E. Murphy for failing to give proper signals, paid $5 and costs. Francis M. Valentine also paid likewise. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA CALENDAR SALE. LADIES NIGHT, SET BY LIONS Manteo Lions met for their reg ular dinner and business session Tuesday night at the community building, and made plans for a canvass of residents in behalf of the “community birthday calen dar.” Present for the meeting were several members of the clubs of Weeksville, Elizabeth City and Camden. Plans Were made for a ladies night picnic October 2 at Coquina Beach, Bodie Island, the new de velopment of the Park Service. Members and their wives will as semble at the community building at 6:30 p.m. on this date and travel in a body, to the beach. The “community birthday cal endar” canvass is to begin im mediately and be worked on until about the middle of October. Sim ilar to the calendar of last year sponsored by the Lions, it is an unusual way of keeping one’s birthday posted for quick refer ence. Ages are not shown, which is a delight to the ladies. Money raised through the calendar proj ect will go to further club activi ties. After the regular session, a zone meeting was held by members of the above-mentioned clubs. Ways to further club work and general improvements were discussed. SUDDEN DEATH ON MONDAY FOR LEAPING DEER Not Out To Bag Them, Mrs. Roy Basnight Kills Two Bucks In Unusual Manner By AYCOCK BROWN Manns Harbor.—Two bucks, one a five pointer, the other a six point specimen, • were accidentally killed by two automobiles, each driven by the same person within a one hour period on Monday morning between East Lake and Manns Harbor on U. S. Highway 64. It was probably the first time in the history of man—or woman, as it was in this case, that such an unusual incident has ever hap pened. Mrs. Nina Basnight, wife of West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co. employee Roy Basnight, and her daughter Busan had left their home in East Lake community aboard the family Ford enroute to Manteo where she is employed in the school lunchroom and where her daughter is a student. About half way to Manns Harbor, Buck No. 1 darted from the canal bank on the side of the highway and as Mrs. Basnight at the wheel swerved to avoid hitting the ani-‘ mal, it dashed into the front of the Ford and was killed instantly. When a pulpwood company truck appeared on the scene the driver agreed to haul the deer into Manns Harbor, but in the meantime Mrs. Basnight returned home in the Ford with deer damage estimated at $l5O to the car, to get the other family automobile, a Chev rolet. Returning to the truck and lo cation of the first kill a few min utes later she told the pulp com pany employee she would drive ahead and notify Game Protector Stanford White in Manns Harbor how the deer was killed. Two miles up the road Buck No. 2 made a dash from the canal bank and crashed into the Chevrolet, killing itself immediately, but not damaging the auto. Minutes later the pulp company’s truck arrived on the scene and loaded No. 2 aboard. Both of the carcasses were then taken to the game protector who heard one of the most unus ual stories during the career of game protecting. Mrs. Basnight’s story was not questioned and she was given as surance by Game Protector White that she had. violated no law. The two bucks, however, automatically became public property and it was planned to dress the animals and turn the meat over to some public institution, in this case, probably to the school lunchroom where Mrs. Basnight is employed. Mrs. Basnight has been driving this route for more than a year, and has had many interesting days, but she hopes Monday morn ing of this week will remain the most remarkable of all of them, if she continues to drive for many years. It is a wonder that the heavy jolt given the car by the first deer which weighed an esti mated 200 pounds, and put the qar out of commission, did not result in serious personal injury to the passengers. It is remarkable that she did not lose control of the car during the surprise and the jolt. Mrs. Basnight arrived late on her job at the Manteo school, and she had a difficult day, due to the See DEER, Page Four NEW DISTRICT ENGINEER WILL VISIT DARE AND HYDE P' :; - ■ ' , • ' . . ' HF A VaR ' Ja'» ■t S' S ~ As ' I 9 & ! k ■' COL. H. C. ROWLAND, chief of the Wilmington office of the Corps of Engineers, under whose direction and control are the various rivers and harbors and the projects for their improvement, is expected to visit Dare and Hyde counties next week to observe the progress of waterway improvements and to discuss with many citizens their views about waterways. Col. Rowland will be accompanied by members of his office, and is expected here about the middle of the week. He came to this Assignment as of July 1, -the beginning of the new year, and he has succeeded a long line of popular and efficient district engineers in this ofSce. On his visit, Col. Rowland expects to observe the newly completed jobs at Hatteras, Stumpy Point and Engelhard. ANNUAL METHODIST RE-UNI AT EAST LAKE ON SEPT. 30 w Following the Sunday school and morning worship service, dinner will be served on the grounds at East Lake on September 30th, the occasion of the annual reunion which usually brings 500 people, many of them former residents who -have moved to nearby cities. Methodists have been active in East Lake for well over 70 years, although it was once a Primitive Baptist stronghold. The present church, of which Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson is pastor, has stood for 70 years, succeeding a smaller building that served the commu nity several years. John A. Twiddy of East Lake is the Superintendent of the Sunday school. Mrs. Grace Thomas of Norfolk is coming back home to serve as pianist at a special service fol lowing the picnic dinner, when two hours of group singing will be held. HEEDLESS DEER VICTIMS OF TWO CARS, SAME DRIVER, SAME DAY p-~. "9 ' W t «*■ - Hi Bl E>M MM* * Hm. >BnW M?*' .1 BF* MB# I B ■>< JEKZ ’ /mH MM z ♦ f .fl i ABSBI j I ' i B * Hr I B b-4 I ■ - i. a'■ ; j K. I I / *fe. M T r, -'Wn ■IH TWO BUCKS FROM THE FORESTS OF DARE’S MAINLAND after they leaped in the path of two auto mobiles driven' a short while apart by Mrs. Roy Basnight of East Lake, enroute to Manteo school, where she is employed in the lunch room. Shown, left to right, are game protector W. S. White of Manns Harbor; Mrs. Basnight and her daughter, Susan. See story elsewhere. (Aycock Brown photo) MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1956 MANTEO PTA WILL MEET TUESDAY, SEPT. 25 The Manteo P.T.A. will meet on Tuesday evening, September 25, at 8 p.m. in the school auditorium. All members and prospective, members are urged to attend as important business items, such as approval of the local association’s by-laws and planning for the Hal lowe’en carnival, will be discussed and acted upon. FORMER MANTEO BOY TEACHING AT STATE Robert Dough, formerly of Man teo, began teaching physics this fall as a member of the faculty of N. C. State College in Raleigh, where he taught part time last year while working for his Master of Science degree, which he re ceived last spring. During the summer Mr. Dough and his wife, the former Betty Krider of Man- and their two children lived in Portsmouth, Va. They moved to Raleigh last week. Outer Banks of North Carolina To Become All Year Round Resort By R. STANLEY WAHAB, President, All Seashore Highway Association On December 23, 1944 I drove from Baltimore, Maryland to Ocra coke, North Carolina, which is now the southernmost end of Cape Hat teras National Seashore Park. Driving was good and uneventful until arriving at Whalebone, about three miles south of Nags Head where the hard surface road termi nated. Stopping at Mrs. Neva Mid gett’s Service Station to deflate the tires on my Buick to fifteen pounds air pressure, I was advised not to attempt to drive farther as five automobiles had been .stuck before getting to Oregon In let. However, being a “Bank er” with some experience in sand driving and with more time than money, I started driving. The beach between Whale bone and Oregon Inlet was flooded from a heavy rainfall. Motor quit about one mile from Bodie Island Coast Guard Station to which I waded for assistance, which was promptly rendered, and I proceed ed to the 8-car ferry which landed on the south point of Oregon In let. I knew it would be futile to attempt to drive through the sand inside of the beach wash. Fortu nately, the tide was at low ebb so I could drive along the wash of the surf. Everything w’ent well un til about two miles from Cape Hatteras Coast Guard Station, when I ran into a bed of gravel sand, lost two hub caps and was stuck. I found a net stake on I which I tied a kimona belonging to my daughter who was along with me, placed this on top of the highest hill as a signal for assist ance to the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard Station. The wind was blowing from the S. W., the atmos phere hazy which made very little visibility. After waiting more than an hour, it was nearly dark with out any response to our improvised signal. The tide was rising and water washing under my automo bile. We decided it was time to adopt other means of attracting attention of the Coast Guard. The beach in this vicinity was strewn with wreckage and debris from ships which had been tor pedoed and sunk by the Germans. We picked up pieces of wreckage and piled on top of the hill where our signal was still flying unheed ed. Being aware of the fact that the Coast Guard was constantly on the alert for the sight of fire, I said to Lillian, my daughter, “This will bring ’em.” We had only three matches left. The wind blew my first and second match out in an attempt to set fire to the wood pile, so I decided to replenish with more newspapers. The fire started on the third match and so did the Coast Guard with their Power Wagon and a jeep, reaching us in short order and towing Us to Hat teras. I relate this as being one of the milder trips I have made along the Outer Banks during the past fifty years. I have walked many miles, ridden horseback, hitch hiked and recall one ride in an ox cart. Many times have I wondered, when traveling the Outer Banks between Kitty Hawk and my home on Ocracoke Island, what would eventually happen to this natu rally attractive stretch of sea coast. I could not begin to visual ize what has happened in the last three decades. Dare County has set the pace from isolation, obliv ion, and poverty in a quick and successful race to become one of the largest, most accessible, and attractive resorts on the Coast of North Carolina. Where only a few shacks existed, there are now modern hotels, motels, service sta tions, cottages, apartments, recrea tion places, first-class eating places, and many other improve ments too numerous to mention. What has been the dominating factor to make such rapid and progressive growth? There are many, but the main factor is, has been, and will continue to be, good highways. Good roads bring a lot of traffic. Traffic does not bring roads. Dare County, before the Curri tuck Sound Bridge and the high way along the beach were built was on the verge of bankruptcy. Its bonds were in default and bad repute in banking circles despite See WAHAB. Page ODDFELLOWS' GRANDMAST'R TO VISIT VIRGINIA DARE LODGE HERE SATURDAY Grandmaster of Oddfellows in North Carolina, Baxter H. Finch of Statesville, is to be the honor guest in Manteo Saturday night at the town hall, the occasion be ing the presentation of the charter to the recently re-organized Vir ginia Dare Lodge No. 3, IOOF, according to Dan Cannady, who has been active in making ar rangements. The hour will be 7:30. •Some 43 former members and eight prospective members will make up the new lodge which will launch a membership drive to dou ble its membership this year. On Saturday night of last week, the members held a fish fry at the town hall attended by about 50 people; and degree work was con ducted by a uniformed degree team of J 8 from Oakdale Lodge in South Norfolk. Candidates came from Elizabeth City to take the degrees in the Shrine Club near Nags Head. ! ARTIST WHO PAINTED IN MANTEO NOW IN LONDON DOING MURAL RESEARCH Francis Vandeveer Kugler, the distinguished artist who has been commissioned by the Knapp Foun dation to paint 13 murals that will be placed in the new Institute of Government building, Chapel Hill, is now in London doing historical research for more murals. To date he has completed two of the thirteen, the first he painted in Manteo last year, a work which depicted the landing of Governor Lane on Roanoke Island in 1585. Last winter he completed the sec ond mural of the thirteen in Wil liamsburgi Va. A story in London’s Daily Tele graph received from England re cently by Albert Q. Bell at whose Roanoke Gardens the first mural was painted. At the* time Mr. Bell assisted in the research for his torical data shown on the mural. The London newspaper’s story re ferring to the Roanoke Island scene and other panels yet to be completed stated: “The mural of 13 panels, each eight feet by 11, which the Amer ican artist, Francis Kugler, is painting must be one of the larg er artistic commissions. His fee for the work is $100,000.” “There have been, however, many larger sets of panels—John Banvard’s ‘Portrait of the Mississ ippi’ covered 414 acres.” BIG GAME PLENTIFUL ON MAINLAND OF DARE Despite the fact that earlier this year there was some alarm caused when a.few deer became weakened or died of malnutrition in the big woods of the Dare mainland, there are plenty of deer and they are in excellent condition now as the open season for hunting the ani mals approaches. Game Protector W. Stanford White of Manns Har bor, when asked this week What the prospects were for big game hunting during the season begin ning October 15, replied: “We know there are plenty of bear and also deer, and we know that the animals are in excellent condition. Food for bear and deer ha* been plentiful as result of no major forest fires this year.” Single Copy 70 SCHOOL FIGHT IN KITTY HAWK NOT TO BE APPEALED Little Hope Seen to Justify Ex pense of Taking Fight Over Students to Supreme Court Well-informed sources this week indicate that little hope is seen of getting a Supreme Court re versal of the decision of Judge Chester Morris Saturday, who rul ed at Currituck that the Dare County Board of Education was within its rights in assigning the high school pupils from the Kitty Hawk district to attend school in Manteo this year. The action had been brought by a number of patrons of the Kitty Hawk school, who disapproved a decision of the county board of education. While Judge Morris ex pressed sympathy with the efforts of Kitty Hawk citizens and their strong argument that their com munity would grow and dervand a high school, he stated that he could not rule with them in the present case, because he could not deny the discretionary powers of the county board. Some 50 students from Kitty Hawk were assigned to Manteo and about 37 of them attended, but parents of others refused to send their children and arranged for them to attend school in Poplar Branch in Currituck County or at Virginia Beach. Much bitterness and ill-feeling has prevailed for many months, following a long fight on the part of many Kitty Hawk citizens against the county board of education, because the board of education and the state school authorities would not ap prove the erection of a large high school at Kitty Hawk, on the ground that enrollment did not warrant the cost. Kitty Hawk patrons, being in censed toward Manteo, were fur ther disturbed when by board ac tion, the high school pupils were removed and no teachers assigned for Kitty Hawk this year. The Kitty Hawk school committee in the long fight had been led by Mrs. Susie Briggs of Kill Devil Hills, a woman of unusual energy and zeal, who in the meantime has become a member of the coun ty board of education and is con tinuing her support of the Kitty Hawk faction since getting on the county board. Citizens of Kitty Hawk have contributed funds to hire legal aid, and have carried the fight to the courts. It has been a mighty cost ly fight for those who have chipped in, and some of them express themselves as being tired of it. They are paying double, for from county taxes, the board of educa tion has to pay for legal aid to defend itself against the dissent ing element. In carrying on the fight, citi zens of Kitty Hawk have been taking turns seeking something wrong by which to make capital in the courts, by following the school bus which brings the chil dren to Manteo. Mrs. Briggs her self has been most active, and was heavily the loser last Friday when she followed the bus looking for some slip-up on the part of the driver, or of the schedule, and for got herself in that she followed too close to the bus to the point of ramming into its rear-end when it made a stop. She came into court, and voluntarily submitted to the charges made, and paid a $5 fine. While the bus was damaged but little, Mrs. Briggs’ car sus tained extensive damages. Children coming to Manteo to high school appear to be happy. They are well liked by other pupils at Manteo, and number many out standing students who have been elected to highest offices in class activities. Most folks now think that the fight has progressed to the point where the children have been forgotten, and it’s another case of the old folks being deter mined to carry their point at all odds. The high financial cost may prove the discouraging factor, for those of the dissenting faction who pay the bills are paying on both sides of the fight TOURIST BUREAU FUTURE TO BE DISCUSSED SEPT. 26 Dare County Tourist Bureau board members will meet in Man teo at the Community Building Wednesday morning, September 26, at 10 o’clock, it was announced today by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Baum, secretary-treasurer of the group. This will be the final meeting of the Bureau’s fiscal year which ends on September 30. Important mat ters pertaining to the future of the Tourist Bureau which serves as a clearing house for vacation information, public relations and publicity, will be discussed at the meeting. “It is most important that all board members attend this meeting," said Mrs. Baum.
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