WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1957
Manteo Native:
yosephus Berry, A Veteran Fisherman, j
Captains Cruiser Named For Daughter j
PT Hn. ' BARBER
MANTEO—Josephus Berrv. bet
ter known around Dare County,
Roanoke island and the Oregon
Inlet, dap -,pa fishing center ar«’a
»■: Capr Joe Brr.y, ft ft year,-,
old, having been born in Manteo
O-'oher 14. 1901. W«ll built, in
r ando five fp.t eleven and weighs
one hundred eichtv six pounds -
S' ■: w and muscle, wrll equipped
for Its daily battle with 'he deni -
ren', o r the deep.
I first met foe Berry on board
1 r cruiser Phvllis Mae. Captain
B fv r.\ >? the owner of the cruiser,
bm-d at. the Oregon Inlet Center,
and is generally found aboard
<• • naff out in the middle of
t v Chilf Stream carrying a fish
ing pars on thr hunt for Uv bine
X' ‘ift. the white marlin and the
tr
.11:s Ife read: h.:-;*- a a
!•: too sea h« and all hi* fun -
k o; • ,e ■ ,ino
G.n mu : tl:s er-indfa! o
or, Bconrdtng to him was 3 full
blooded CmaMn Indian, "and so"
- *he contain "you can see
••'mere rrtv love for fishing' and
r ’ho conics from." This
. i.’-e ::r:;;idfat-hei was a pioneer
-eher nr? The Island fas Roa*
■ I"f ond and Manteo is known
" • r,d was one of the found*
M Ihe Haven Creek Church,
/re’,, ‘he oldest Negro Bap
ii Church in the area. This, in
is another story. AH of
fir- F rivs. belong to the Haven
Creefc Church.
Caotmri Berry’s brother and his
father were both Coast Guards*
in,.i atr-ttoned at the now deac
tivated Pea Island Coast Guard
fe’Mtw Before it? deactivation.
I er t Island on the Outer Bank'-,
was the or’v all Negro manned
C Guard Station in the Ttnit*
ed St&tps.
The brother was in command
and ’he fat he? was second in
command. The captain and his
wife Martha «.nee TiUeiJ. also a
I '.a ••.ri, •. h •• been n: ■:
fk. 192 C T’ is r'r.c {•■•••'
.marriage '"or both They have
three sons and one daughter. The
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CRUISER PHYLLIS MAE.owned and skippered by C spi. Joe |;.-rn of Manteo nn lv \>grn-owner
and operator of a charter boat in the Oregon Inlet Fishing Center fleet, is one of ibe m «s7 ixaptjl ,r
craft in lire large fishing fleet at she Cape Hattrras fishing facility.
A, Phillip Randolph Awardsd
Elks’ Coveted Lovejoy Medal
j
“Captain Smith ?s tied
if > * ,up right now, but
\ | he’ll be free to talk in
J fj o few moments'*
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puts* you In touch, Fast nr
Pocahontas saved the head of Tnhn Smith.
Why worry your head off when you’re
separated from someone? Quick! You're j
touch by Long Distance. It’s so easy,
so low in cost, especially when you call
# station-to-station. That’s when you call a
telephone number instead of a particular
person at the number.
H's Twice as Fart io Call by Numbe r
Southern 801 l „ ?
1 ,
i sops. Joseph McKlnlev (elde-t'
• . married to Cora Lee Golden,
a member ot another native -
. ] land family The other two.
1 Wheeler c and Bradford E., mu
-1 r; d two islets from Klirab :'i
' City. Ethel arid Doroth', Mullen
-1 . All three son? have followed t.V.e
Island tradition and etc now t 1-
v reer men In the Coast Guard. The
Berry daughter, Phyllis Mae. is
1 12-year-old. anti :• is from lip:
■ I hat. the o uiser Ph.v!lta Mar gets
its name.
I Ire Berry has never followed
1 l any occupation tin! connected
. 1 with the sea. When he was about
. . 16-vears-old. he began fishing in
1 the Croat an and Roanoke Sounds
f off Manteo and Roanoke Island.
• . Ke took his first riayin/r fishui
parties out sound fishing between
> Manteo arid Nags Heed •>n the
i Roanoke Bound' be ; ' ,rc World
I ' War 1 Tins was when bo*h
• , Nags Head and Roanoke Island
i. were accessible by rater and!
- j when there were only five re*
• * friges on the now fabulous Nags
' | Head beach.
> 1 Tire, only VRV one could roach
i Manteo in those days 1 depend by.'
?; on whether he were nearest Cur*
• • rituok or Elizabeth City? war. by;
- the sfe.imerr Anus L Van Scar*
I I boroueh 'Currituck and Trer.-
-■ton • Elizabeth City). To reach
. : Nags Head one then had to hire
• : a. boat such as one then owned
1 bv Copt Berry : In those dm;:
f he had a 27 fool, .-had bon:.'. Tire;
i .rportr fisherman of that day war
. n hardy soul
During World Wa: T Joe Berry.
- ! a young stalwart, shipped on the
•'battleship tender IJ. S S. K< •; -
1: more as a civilian able sc.iiv.an in
.•the Naval Auxiliary Service 'now
. the Naval Reserve'.
1 After the war he returned to
- 1 his shad boat and again began
i carrying fishing parties out into
i the sound.
1 Not lone afterwards a noup of
these seafarers around in the ok* a
1 began to venture out. They
-•had always fished < for them
t selves! on the outer shores of 'he
? Outer Banks and as anyone in tlv»
area knows, this is dangerous, foi
an underwater ■-nd shelf forms
the tieachiTOtts Diamond Shoals
off Cape Haltmas Combine this
with rkv wind and tide and one ;
loali.Tv why this most dangerous l
area of the Atlantic has St ■nt ;
, hundreds of ship.'- to the bottom,
more than any other area in the
seafaring world, making its nick- j
name "Graveyard of the Atlan
tic" most appropriate.
Accordin'.’ to Berry, he was one
iof those 110 about :.t) years asc. i
lust he.an carrying parties of,
'outside'' sports fishermen ti.e., I
pn.vnv. fishing parlies composed
of people front elsewhere) on the:
ocean -rle of the Outer Banks;
through Oregon Inlet.
This was corroborated by an
other "oid sal; " c.ipt Lee
Doud'i r-hitr who said "My eld-:
! est brother Horace Dough, was
;hc tirst. man to entry a paying
ii imie party outside the Inlet.
| This ’.'.is about 30 years age and
they fished for channel bass.
“After thi.-. my broil',cr and I 1
and one other began taking par
ties out through the Inlet into
the Atlantic Ocean. Joe Berry •
also carried paying parties out I
and w.is right along there witn |
the fir'd, of us 29 years ago "
Copt I»; ary also chalked up op.*
o;liei first. He says he was one,
ol the first two to venture in .0
the Gulf Stream, the famous
playground of the bine marlin,
with pa" nr guests. The other
, ■’ . ■ r;. 1
About 17 ".Mrs aco. near the
same time his baby daughter was,
born. Capt. Deny felt the need
1 new. r craft He found cue ,
in his present crni-ei winch ire
purchased at Edctuon. and named 1
the Phyllis Mue ir. honor of his :
baby daughter It is a tnm 3f>:
foot. 8 ton craft, well eQuippcd;
wirn a 200 horsepower Gray ma
rine rr.ofoi. martin outriggers, two,
"ay radio, and rdi tire modem |
fuhing equipment needed by the
deep sea fishinc sportsman: but
ibe tics' equipment, that Joe Ber
ry has on board is his vast exp--j
rienc-a end his long acoiiaintanc.r
with 'hr sen. T.ie sea is his home. ’
By .1. B. HARKEN
PHILADELPHIA -An overs low
audience of 1.700 jammed the
1 South Philadelphia High School
auditorium lest week for the an- i
! nuat civil liberties program of the j
Improved Benevolent Protective j
Order of Elks of the World
; IBPOEWu
Judge Hobson R. Roy wil’d*
oi Phila., grand dirertor of (lie
f ik‘.’ department of civil lib
‘••'tie?,, presided over the prn
gr.uo The principal speaker
"a- A. Phillip Randolph, vice
president of the AH, < tO and
, president of the Brotherhood i
of Sleeping far Porters. Ran
dolph r, as awarded the l ove
! jov Medal, which presented
! carh ear by the !BFOE\v, for 1
I outstanding achievements in
| human relations. i
I Other participant? on the civil!
J liberties program weie: Judge!
i I'homas Eagan, Councilman Ray-1
j mood Pace Alexander. Dr. Fob
;m H. Johnson, of Phila., grand!
exalted ruin of IBPOEW; Fpv
M. Smith, minister of New
England Baptist Church: William
Hamilton. City Councilman; Fos
lor Dunlap. city controller; ,
churl's; King. Liberian delegate to •
the Hinted Nations.
Mu. or Richardson Di I s worth
'"'’d ih- civj) liberties’ audience
ih-.t the situation at Levittewn
was an embarrassing one
i "This situation, r am sure,
j cause: horse laughs by the south
j f:rn segregationists in the deep
1 .youth, but. this does not represent
i the true brotherhood m tins ciiy
jot brotherly love.’” the mar or a :
! ''•?*
*' rt'de)ph who a d/I »■ ,»*, ;ed ;
t? d’ 1 (i tii himjp n fter r«c<»iv-
In thi t.nvejD.v Medal. /Irrlar
?'■- Hrat <he Negro bad plaved i
a Brrmflr.mf part In the dr
vclnpmmH r.f America since
b's first ancestors first laud
ed here .is slaves.
'But stirred by the great ytrug- !
i Si 3 traditions and ideals or the!
{Abolitionists, the Negro masses;
; ore on the march toward co n- 1
j plot.e equality.” j
Randolph g'/ve much credit to
' ihs Supreme Court decision which.!
h* said -vat a, monumental
I achievement of the naACP." |
THE CAROLINIAN
C ITT. ICE BERRY, right and hi« mate. Billy Brown, of Manfre
display a large amher.iack taken aboard his eruiser Phyitis Mae in
tie Gulf Slrram off Oregon Inlet.
Randolph lauded the leadership; <
iof Rov Wilkin? Thurgood Mar
;hall. 'he late Walter White and!'
W E P Dubois, alone with that |.
u! the laic J Finley Wilson and ■
Dr. Robert H John -on present'
grand exalted ruler of IBPOEW! :
for their part in bringing about G
• his “new era” of thinking re* j •
yarding human rights and equal- j:
it.y for all people. ! j
Mr. Randolph also praised the l
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civil rights—in cooperation w 1 tr?
the NAACP’s civil right? fight.
The veteran labor leader, who,
himself, went through many
weary years in his endeavor to
organize the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters more than s
score of years ago—before he fi
nally achieved in the face of;
great, odds—noted that the strug
gle for freedom now going on in
the deep south since the famous
Montgomery bus boycott led by
the Revs. M, L King, Jr , Ralph
Abernathy and others,
Randolph continued.' “Now
at this hour, a great battle
it now in prog res? in Congress
in the interest of a civil rights
bi!!. Efforts arc heme rnid' 1
to emasculate the measure h>
all sorts of crippling arnenri
merits, such as the jury trial
Roth political parties are nrorp
concerned about political cap
ital out of the fie bit for the
civil rights bill than the se
curing of a sound, bona-fide
i civil rights law.
, “Out ol t.hp struggle, some br- -v
. benefits will emerge, even it no
! civil rights bill is enacted," the
! AFT-CIO vice proxy said Ban
j dolph said that "the rivalry be
tween the two political parties ;n|
secure credit, for effort,, in beha.it' l
of civil rights is an evidence ot
the recognition of the political !
power of the Negro, (and) politi
cians, regardless of which puny!
they are in, are not unaware of'
the fact that, 450 thousand Novo,
votes in New York. 350 thousand
in Illinois and 385 thousand in
Pennsylvania, to sav nothin
about, the growing political
Strength of Negroes in strategic 1
states, such as Ohio. Michigan.
California, New Jersey, and Mis
souri, can he decisive in any pro--
I idential campaign."
“Thus." Randolph rcar-nnd
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PAGE NINE
■ ■ s, it is quit® fvidep: that the
rrewmi political enn er of the
"egrn > changing their minds,"
iic con'.'udfci