THE TYRRELL TRIBE
GREATER PROGRESS OF THE LAKE PHPLPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION AND FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES
COLUMBIA, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1941 'single Copy 5c
ll; NO. 29
JTHERN ALBEMARLE
OLKS MEASURE CHARTS |
AND HOPE FOR BRIDGES
\
ince Reveals Either Bridge Over Alligator
ver or Croatan Sound Would Be Shorter
lan Currituck Sound Bridge; Location at
oatan Sound Ferry Shortest Point in
und by Half a Mile }
FAMOUS PREACHER IS ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT DEFENSE SAVINGS MEET
COMING TO WANCHESE NORTH CAROLINA COAST SET FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
DARE WELFARE OFFICER
WINS LEGION PRIZE
ICAAC P. DA
VIS, County
Welfare Officer
for Dare County
has recently
been honored
with first prize
for his success-
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REV. IDA HANKINS, returned
ful work in the from the far East, the g'uest
early member- preacher at Wanchese, M. E. church
ship campaign beginning Sunday. Rev. J. W.
of the Ameri- gneeden, the pastor, says she is a
can Legion in Christian teacher of much experi-
le time approaches when
Df the Southern Albemarle
anticipate the carrying
rovernor Broughton’s prom-
:ree ferries, an impatient
5 is beginning to discuss
ings and a large portion of
e hopeful that bridges will
lutcome rather than ferries,
are bringing out dusty
nent charts and measuring
ance across the waters of
igator River and Croatan
to their amazement and
they now discover that the
: across Croatan Sound is
one-fourth mile shorter
e Wright Memorial Bridge Davis a check his co-pastor of the North Ward
^*a'^brid^™can be con-' week to cover the cost of a uniform church in Songdo, Korea. She is
: at far smaller cost than I for his rank as district comman- ordained minister of the Korean
i estimates, ranging up to Davis has been comman-, e o is c urc .
^ ' Sunday’s program follows; Sun-
of the first district for two ^ g
iMeekins general superintendent;
—— morning worship, 11 o’clock, ser-
FRED B. AUSTIN, SR., OF -mon by Rev. Ida Hankms; Young
HATTERAS DIED JUNE 8 Peoples Division meet (in audi-
itorium), 7:15 p. m.; children’s
„ , „ . , ii,. meeting (in chapel) 7:15; evening
Fred B Austin Sr., one of the 'g
leadmg citizens of Hatteps died Hankins.
North Carolina.
ence, and an enthusiastic preacher.
State Adju- 'j'fjg ^ev. Mrs. Hankins is prin-
tant J. M. Cald- cipal of the Mary Helm School
der
years.
)n dollars that have been
large circulation, to the
itriment of the project. In
ll excellent opportunities for
tation and unloading of
Is, experienced people con-
at Croatan Sound could be
for less than a half mil
iars, certainly not as much
Ing spent to reconstruct the June 8, in a Norfolk bos- ,
Memorial Bridge. The j^g interred the fol-j . p.TAl TO
f he sound shows compara- Tuesday in the family ceme- . I U
iths with that of Currituck jjafteras. He was the; NAGS HEAD CITIZEN
It point of construction, f^fj^g^ gf children,, who sur- ’
hard sand bottom all the ■ p ^ jr. Charlie Wood, Graham HoHowell, 30, Succumbs to
Pistol Wound; Burial Mon
day Afternoon
30,
the
'he locaion of the present Y[.^,;an Eliza, Virginia, Velma and
at the narrowest point of jgggjyn Austin. His wife Ruth ,
Id, being less than two and gfyj.gn Austin sundves him. He I
urth miles in width and ^ member of the Woodmen of . William Graham Hollowell
' mile narrower than at any the World camp at Hatteras. In dwd Saturday morning in
art of Croatan Sound, ac- early fifties he was recognized Elizabeth City hospital, the result
•to actual exact measure- ^ leading figure in the business of a pistol wound in his abdomen,
n Government charts. .. life of Hatteras, and for many
\lligator River apparently years had represented various at his father s home at Nags Head,
i less of a problem in that wholesale firms doing business He was an extremely popular
ot quite so wide and offers Hatteras merchants and young man and his death , was
nt opportunity for waterggPg].jjjgu_
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ISUS GAINS SHOWN
IN TYRRELL AND DARE;
CURRITUCK, HYDE LOSE
greatly mourned. He had recently
,been working in Norfolk, but had
come home to help his father, M.
G. Hollowell, Nags Head post
master, and one of Dare County's
(best known and highly respected
^ citizens.
I He is survived by his parents,
'Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Hollowell, and
by his wife, Mrs. Alva Wise Hollo
well.
The great number of people at
tending the funeral, some of them
from long distances, and the pro-
“Land of Sand” is the title of a
book recently published by Mrs.
Pocahontas Wight Edmunds of
Halifax, Virginia and it features
a large section of the North Caro
lina coast by its recital of history
and legend.
The writer of the book is the
wife of Richard Coles Edmunds
and is a native of Richmond, Vir
ginia and is well known in Vir
ginia as a teacher and student.
The book has received extremelji
favorable comment from reviewers
throug'hout the country.
Dr. Malcolm McDermott of Duke
University Law School: “That
North Carolina’s sandy shores are
impregnated with the aroma of ro
mance has been sensed for cen
turies. Memories of pirates, buried
treasure, tragedy and odd person
alities hover here. Now that in
cursions of sophisticated civiliza
tion are about to dispel that
aroma, it is well that the charm of
: this past be preserved for posterity.
[The author’s keen insight has en
abled her to feel and depict the
hidden quality of what may ap-
' pear to the transient observer as
an alogether barren land.”
j Dr. Benjamin Lacy, president of
'Union Theological Seminary;]
“These sketches give us interest- j
ing glimpses of some of the char
acters who have made the region
around Hatteras so fascinating.
Raleigh, Virginia Dare,-Theodosia
Burr and the Wright brothers are
among those whom Mrs. Edmunds
has made to live again in these
pages.”
, The. book sells for $1.00 and is
published by Garrett and Massie
of Richmond, Virginia.
W. R. PEARCE, chairman of Dare
County committee of the Defense
Savings staff, states that the organ-
izaion meeting of the committee
will be held Friday night in the
director’s room of the Bank of
Manteo. Mayor L. D. Tarkington
has been asked to ser\'e for the
town, and on the co.mmittee at
present are R. I. Leake, Z. V.
Brinkley, Monde Daniels, I. P.
Davis, Mrs. Ijouise Meekins, and
D. B. Fearing.
In' announcing his new program
the Honorable Henry Morgenthau,
Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, said
“Defense Savings Bonds and
Stamps give us all a way to take
direct part in building the defense
of our country—an American Way
to find the billions needed for Na
tional Defense. The United States
is today, as it has always been, the
best investment in the world.
This is an opportunity for each
citizen to buy a share in America.”
The Treasury has created State
committees in every State, and will
encourage the formation of simi
lar local comn\jttees reaching into
every part of the country. This
committee for Dare County is a
part of this nationwide organiza
tion. The all important task of
this and other like committees will
be to spread information about the
Defense Savings program among
130,000,000 Americans.
GAA TO SPONSOR ROAD
OPENING CELEBRATION;
SAA INVITED TAKE PART
Former Governor Clyde R. Hoey Has Already
Signified His Intention of Attending; Comp
troller General Warren to Be Invited; Di
rectors Also Pass Resolution to Cooperate
With SAA in Its Road Program For Section
HATTERAS GIRL RECENT
GRADUATE OF N. C. U.
MISS JOSEPHINE AUSTIN, the
smart and at;tractive daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Auistin, well
known Hatteras family. Miss
Austin is a recent graduate of the
University of Norh Carolina. Gov
ernor Broughton presented diplo
mas to a record class of 700 grad
uates.
AUDITIONS HELD
! FOR MINOR ROLES
j IN LOST COLONY
test Losses Shown in Communities Ne-J
Kited by State’s Roadbuilders Where George F. Hill, rector of Christ
loe Flourishing Coast Guard and
vernment Activities Have Been Cur
led; Swan Quarter, Columbia and Manteo
I Growing
in po'pulation for the coun-
Pyrrell and Hyde are shown
igures released by the Cen-
feau, in the 20 years be-
020 and 1940, while losses
lation are shown for Cur-
nd Hyde Counties,
is shown to have lost 526,
iri;ituck 559 people in 20
Tyrrell’s gain is 707 and
gain is 926. .An analysis
Igures reveals a substantial
citizenship that is 1^“*^ ^ fpWtPd
attributable to the curteil-[island will be selemed.^
f government activities in ,
:k, Hyde and Dare,
astance, the largest loss in
-k occurs in Poplar Branch
Episcopal church of Elizabeth
City, officiated at the funeral, held
at the Hollowell home, and con
cluded at the grave in the Dolly
cemetery, in the hills of Nags
Head wood.
Shall We Gather at the River,
Old Rugged Cross, Abide With Me
and God Be With You Till We
Meet Again were sung.
The casket was covered with a
pall of Easter lilies, carnations,
feverfew and gypsophelia. There
were numerous floral offerings and
the attendance was large.
Pallbearers were: Horatio Cul
pepper, Hal Culpepper, Charles M.
Thomas W. Howard, for 40 years Johnson, Edgar Williams, Frank
postmaster of Ooracoke, is retiring Qi-ice and Henry Beasley.
' ' officer for the ’ ' ,
POSTMASTER AT
OCRACOKE QUITS
AFTER 40 YEARS
Thomas W. Howard Had In
teresting Career as Island 5
Postmaster
A notice for publication relative
to the U. S. Civil Service examina
tion for the selection of the new
Land where wireless
PERFECTED IS ACQUIRED
A deed conveying a tract of land
postmaster has been received at containing the site of Fessenden’s
D llffiidL the vari-I Beaufort, where examination for experiments 'with the wireless
’ . . r ir-rn'i-iipk ubs job will be held. Applications telephone in 1902, was filed for rec-
mmunities on Currituck j^^^^ 27. this week.
During the 40 years that Mr., conveyed to the Fes-
Howard has served as postmaster, Memorial Asso-
he has had many tryuig" exi^ri heirs of the late
ences with the mails. It has otten p_ Meekins, who owned
been delayed due to storms. I the land for many years and from
During the big freeze Vn whom it was leased by Professor
out of touch with the a j
on
The Government has aban-
several Coast Guard sta-
•vhich sustained several
iilages now either aban-
f in process of disintegra-
lany of these citizens have
I to Dj-ife County, as well as
^aces.
County has suffered a loss
•ople on the island of Ocra-
excess of the normal gains
lation, which is largely due
'ilment of employment and
opportunities peculiar to
*'egions. But Hyde’s coun-
of Swan Quarter shows a
I 87 in population, and the
ownship shows a large in
while practically every
township shows losses,
ble is the loss in Fairfield
P> which was lost by the
• for lack of roads, when
■^ansportation ceased to be
llPe of this town and others
y situated.
*il>ia shows a gain of 352
Ocracoke was
mainland for 17 days.
rm, n 1- Reginald A. Fessenden and the
land tor 11 nays. e rs United States Weather Bureau in
mail Postmaster Howard sent en ■|^qq2. The land was occupied for
was carried by the maillmat P' ^ ® about two years and a yearly rent-
by Capt. Will Willisvia Cape Look- jj.
out to Beaufort, due to the ice ; . * • x- i
'""p^stoaste? Howard has the dis- will de dedicated as the Fessenden
tinction of sending the first sack It
of U S. mail from Ocracoke Island located the menvorial to the m-
,Vils tbrpp ventor. A service dedicating the
tearsTgm Th? plane flew to Kitty [fnd will probably be held during
XT ^ [August and may be a feature oc-
i. 1 Kio-K 5,f casion of The Lost Colony. At
thJ OcracSe Tffice. For many this time Col. Reginald K. Fessen-
vears Postmaster Howard says he fen son of the inventor is expected
averaged writing approximately to be present.
$36 000 annually in money orders. | In the meantime interest contin-
Much of this money went to mail ues to grow nationally in the Fes-
order houses, who.se catalogues are senden movement and many let-
tPaking it the largest town an institution in the homes of the ters pledging support are being re-
® - — ' . - . ceived.
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Dare People Crowd Court
house for Community
Night
A large crowd of Dare County
people crowded into the Dare
County courthouse Minc:a> night
for Community Night, the official
opening of The Lost Colony season
for Dare County folks.
The meeting which was held to
have preliminary auditions for
parts to be filled by natives wa^
officially described as the most en
thusiastic yet'in the five year his
tory of the drama.
! D. Bradford Fearing, president
of the Roanoke Island Historical
Association, who acted as master
of ceremonies told the group The
Lost Colony had “become some
thing that iz reaching out further
and further until it seems that we
have an attraction down here that
is different from anything in the
nation and we get more and more
proud of it every year.”
Mr. Fearing-told the'group that
the drama had been started on
nothing. In fact, he said, it was
started with a deficit of $16,000.
The president of the Associa
tion thanked the people of Dare
County for the support given in
the past and asked that it be con
tinued for the fifth sea,son.
■ Director Sam Selden also made
a brief talk. He expressed his
appreciation for the interest the
peonie of this section have shown
in he Lost Colony.
Selden introduced tho following
members of The Lost Cilony fam
ily who have returned for rehears
als which begin Wednesday morn
ing: Fred Howard, Uppowoc;
Henrv Buckler, the historian; Ri-
etta Bailey Howard, a dancer and
instructor; Ora Mae Davis, cos
tume director; Allan Frank, new
Simon Ferdinando. John lA. Walk
er, electrician; B6b Carroll new
stage director; Bob Bowers, plays
John Borden; Earl Wvnn, gives
the prologue; Joe Mackie, plays
Captain Arthur Barlow: Tom Fear
ing, a priest; Howard Bailev, plavs
Essex: Gregory Morton, nlays Sir
Walter Raleigh; Bedford Thur
man. plavs Father Martin; Helen
Bailev. nlays Joyce Archard; Ma
rion Tatum, plavs Dame Colman,
Robin Bosev, Mary Logan, Am-
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NATIVE WINE ON
SALE IN STATE
LIQUOR STORES
Dare County Stores First to
Stock Initial Output of
Mother Vineyard Scup-
pernong
For the fiist time in history, the
famed scuppernong wine, legally
bottled, and labeled, under strict
, Goyemment supervision, in a mod-
iern minery, now goes on the mar
ket, and this week the liquor stores
of North Carolina are stocking the
wine. The Dare Couny ABC
store was the first to put the wine
on sale, and the first case ordered,
went to J. L. Horne, well-known
, Rocky Mount citizen.
I Scuppernong wine is bottled by
Mother. Vineyard Inc., owners of
the “original” scuppernong vine,
and seedlings now brought
to bearing on Roanoke Island. The
present available sunply of wine
'will not exceed 25.000 gallons, but
new wine is being pressed each
year from the native grape cron.
Mother Vinevard is principillv
owned bv a group of Dare County
people, headed by Guy H. Lennon,
Their success with the venture in
dicates that the production of
grapes can be made a highly profit
able and major industry.
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CECIL RHODES LUPTON
TAKING BAND COURSE
Cecil Rhodes Lupton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. R. Lupton of -Swan
Quarter, is in Chapel Hill taking a
six week course which is being
given band students. Rhodes, who
is a member of the Hyde County
Band, did good work in that or
ganization last year. He is deeply
interested in music.
The Board of Directors of the
Greater Albemarle Association
meeting at the Virginia Dare Hotel
in Elizabeth City Thursday even
ing passed a resolution to sponsor
a road opening celebration for the
road across Mattamuskeet Lake,
when that road is ready to be
opened. The secretary was in
structed to invite the Southern Al
bemarle Associaion to co-sponsor
he celeb rati-in. President P. D.
Midgett stated that former Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey has already
signified his mentiion to attend the
I celebration providing a satisfactofy
I date can be arranged. He stateY
also that Comjitroller General and
former Congressman Lindsay C.
Warren would be invited to be
present. Those two men, he ex
plained, had much to do with get
ting the road across he lake and
the celebration would not be quite
complete without them attending,
- A resolution was also passed to
(Cooperate with the Southern Albe-
I marie Association in its road pro-
Igram for the section; the Greater
Albemarle Association’s road pro-
arram coincides with that of tbs'
Southern in those counties repre-
sened by the Southern,
President Melvin R. Daniels ex
pressed himself as well pleased at
I the unity of action on the matter,
iThe resoluions, beside asking for
1 early completion of Route 64 by
(bridges to Manteo, also favor
building from regular appropria
tions the following roads first:
Hyde and Dare counties: High
way U. S. 264 connecting the
county seats of the two counties,
Tyrrell Counv; N. C. 94, connect
ing Hyde and Tyrrell county seats,
Washington County: No. 97, con-
necting the county seat of Hyde
with he county seat of Washington.
SECOND REGISTRATION WILL
AFFECT FIFTY TYRRELL MEN
All Men Who Have Become 21 Since Last Oc
tober 16 Required to Register With Local
Draft Board on July 1; Instructions Given
by State Draft Director
NO MORE SCIENTISTS
FOR DARE COUNTY
Chapel Hill Editor Says They
Would Be Met With Brass
Band and Pressmen
YOUNG DEMOS
MEET NAGS HEAD
i FRIDAY, JUNE 28
Banquet First Colony Inn,
1 With Paul Liverman, Dis-
i trict President, Ralph
' Gardner, Speakers
A banquet at the First Colony
Inn, Nag;s Head, with Ralph Gard
ner, principal speaker, is to be held
'by the Young Democrats of the
First District on June 28 at 8 p. m.,
Paul Liverman, of Columbia, Dis-
rict president, said this week.
! Chief feature of -he rally will be
a dinner at the First Colony Inn
Saturday night, after which Gard
ner will sneak. The meeting will
be followed by dancing at the
Casino.
j Welcome
j Sheriff D. Victor Meekins will
extend the welcome to the assem
bled delegates, followed by a re-
soon.se by Miss Patsy Davenport,
district vice president. Gardner
will be introduced bv Hoover Taft,
state chairman on rallies.
I Invitations have been extended
to stae and disrict dignitaries to
.attend the rally.
I Reservations for the dinner
should be made by June 25, Chair
man Liverman urged.
The keen obser\-ation of Louis
Graves, well known publisher of
Chapel Hill, now points out to us
a mighty pertinent fact; The con
ditions that made for fame for
Dare County are going, and be-
j come a bar to future achievements,
in the opinion of Mr. Graves, who
jsavs that the isolation and phvai-
|Cal condition that met the needs
of scientists and invenors a few
years ago is so comoletely heinu
I wined out that no mo*’e will we
jhave outstanding achievements
[from similar sources.
I Mr. Graves, however, in his
newspaper The Chanel Hill Weekly
;paid an indirect tUbute to the en
terprise of Dare Couny people in
.making he most of their history.
The article bv Mr. Graves is here
with re-nrinted in full;
Fame Kills W’hat Caused Fame
Dare Countv, on the easferu
coast of North Carolina, is being
crowded with peonie now largely
because it was formerly so iin-
crowded that scientists could find
there he neace and ouiet hey need
ed for heir exntriments.
We are not forgettlno- that the
first of the events which were to
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Lose a Hook—Save a Life
( It is a horrl matter to release a
■ fish so skillfully that it will not die
j later. Once the tender, slim’i' o”ter
1 covering is iniured, the fish diet?
] He mav look friskv as a colt when
vou 'et him go—^but an unbeliev-
I ablv high nercentage of the fish you
handle die later.
j Cn.t rour snell or leader and ra-
I loase ttie fish with hook in him.
I Vn„ anlv lose a hook which can b°
I bought for a nickel a do7en, and
fwo or three inches of line. The
■hoeV vdii rradua11y disintegrate
inside the fish with no ill effects.
“Not more than 50” Tyrrell men.
will be affected by President Roose
velt’s proclamation of a second
registration day for selective ser
vice on July 1 for all men who
have reached the age of 21 since
last October 16, local draft board
officials estimated this week.
' Men re'mired to register in this
second registration are those who
were born on or between October
17, 1919 and July 1, 1920.
; Full instructions and the neces
sary supplies for the registration
have been received by the local
draft board office for Tyrrell Coun
ty on the second floor of the court
house. The registration will be
held there on July 1 and it is ex
pected that the work of registra-
ion can be carried out by the pres
ent personnel of the draft office.
I Penalty
' The law carries severe penal
ties, including im;prisonmeiit for
not more than five years or a fine
of not more than $10,000 or both,
: for mejj who are required to regis-
j ter and fail to do so.
Special arrangements will be
j made by the local board to register
Imen who cannot appear before the
i local board because of illness or in-
I capacity. Men who are away from
: home and cannot, except at great
j expense and inconvenience return
I to Tyrrell to register, may ap
pear before the nearest local board
land be registered there.
Caution
All registrants were cautioned
by General J. Van B. Metts, State
Director of Selective Service, to
be careful to give to the registrar
correct information as to the place
of their permanent residence. A
distinction is made between “per
manent address” 'and “mailing ad
dress” by new regulations. The
place of residence given as the
permanent address determines the
local board which will have juris
diction.
The new regulations provide
that the registrant shall be per
mitted to determine what place he
desires to give as his residence
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