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 *T mP * ml j i■; 4 t f t / r '>‘ y . . 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'* I w • J , IsiJIF / V V 11 Lomy Distance 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 n -icre,l irutlt moffc ft- 10?*. THE COCA COIA COMPANY -m dp/ * - CURRENT T s is DIVIDEND Th@ i‘% ©y *#* # HA * * q b®n®r fufyr# for you and your family I RALEIGH SAVINGS and ! LOAN ASSOCIATION j 219 FAYETTEVILLE ST. “Rs.ltigh's Oldfiht Financial Institution'' 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 —FRESH PRODUCE—' California Mellow BARTLETT PEARS - 15* Washington State Sweet PRESUMES -17. California Sweet - White Seedless II si lira i Am J L ”*■ Lit I SPECIAL! A&P’s Own Brand Crestmont SPECIAL! Jane Parker Spanish Bar CAKES 29' SPECIAL! Ann Page Delicious Sparkle GO ITIPt % -97* £L.i 1 ills 3 * | REDUCED! 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