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THE TYRRELL
FX)R GREATER PROGRESS OF THE LAKE PHELPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION FELLOWSHIf^ WITH OtJR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES
BY NONRESIDENTS
TO AIRPORT FUND
!Total of $15,000 Required to
I Get Land For $404,000
CAA Project
>^OL. II; NO. 42
MEW YORiTWAN PLANS ”
300-ROOM HOTEL AND
MANY BEACH COTTAGES
] In their initial efforts to get a
Sags Head May Have Great Improvement in ^
® ji -^.T 1 JL land necessary to build on Roanoke
fHCllltlBS by Anotn0r 103,1*5 L)0V0lOplTl'0Ilt island, a modem paved airport and
Would Provide High Class Homes, With seaplane base costing $404,ooo the
_ “ , _ 1 i • Ti airport committee, headed by John
Most Modern Hotel Accommodations; It Ferebee of Manteo has had pledges
Would Be Nearest Manteo of Any Large
Beach Hotel — ■ dents 'are nevertheless inter-
i ■ I ested in the progress of Dare
County.
David L. Lindo.uist of New York,
owner of Bodie Island, stated Tues-
COLUMBIA, IM. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941
$3,000 ADVANCED,manteo OLDEST MAN CREDIT FOR DARE
Single Copy 5a
85 SEPTEMBER 17
TY RRELL RECORDS
That a New York man, owner of ^
>uch property on the beach near
tanteo, plans the erection of a HUNTING GROUND
lodern 300-room hotel between A T day he wmulct abvance $1,000 to the
J-iLN X O r*5mQ/i onrl $9 000 ia KctiTao* c»/t_
tanteo, and Nags Head, and fur-
ter, several modern cottages, is a '
tirly definite probability, accord- Registers of Deeds Gets Fre-
ig to reliable sources.
The hotel would be nearest i
tanteo of any large beach hotel, j
tid would have rooms wdth all I
lodern conveniences ,and a large >
quent Visits From Fam
ily Tree Seekers
cause, and $2,000 is being ad
vanced by a well-knowm citizen in
a nearby town, w^ho has ahvays
been a consistent and generous
MEN IN SERVICE | PLANS GOING FORWARD FOR
CUT DRAFT QUOTA ALBEMARLE MEET
Only 18 Men Have Been In
ducted Through Selec
tive Service Channels
mm
wk
Call No. 18 from selective ser
vice headquarters for draftees for
AT ENGELHARD, OCTOBER 9
the army doesn’t have any' requir- ( Comptroller General Lindsav Warren Invited
to Attend and Make Principal Address; Im
portant Developments in Section’s Road
Program to Be Presented by Daniels; Offi
cers to Be Elected For Ensuing Year; 200
Delegates Expected to Attend
ments for Dare county and,
chances are, there won’t be any
Dare draftees for a long, long
time because the county' has been
given credit against its draft quota i
for more than 400 of its sons now |
in the Coast Guard as well as for;
boys in other branches of the ser
vice.
According to a letter from state
selective .services headquarters in
Raleigh, Dare county’s quota of
draftees on a pro-rate basis with
the other counties in the state
would have been 402 men. But the
county was given credit for 441
men who are now in the Coast
CAPT. THOS P. MIDGETT, a re
plrehpf°cS ^clnvaL^fRp markable character w'ho combines Guard, the nW,'the Marines and
“A family tree is often shady.” peonle of Roanoke Island and vi- H unique, resource- the regular Army plus credit for
This admonition, tacked to the cinity, seeking- advances of $100 thrifty among the sturdy 1° already inducted. So the
ining room suited to large enter-j walls of Registrar of Deeds Sarah to Sl.OOO in order to find the money God-fearing men of the North j ® 459 and
SHERIFF COHOON
REPORTS RECORD
TAX CO^ECTIONS
Better Than 86 Per Cent of
1940 Levy Has Been
Collected
Plans for the seventh annual
meeting of the Southern Albemarle
Association, which is to be held in
Engelhard, October 9, are rapidly
going forward, according to O. L.
Williams, vice president of the or
ganization in Hyde County. Comp
troller General Lindsay Warren
has been invited to attend the
Sheriff B. Ray Cohoon reported ' principal ad-
to the county commissioners last | n j, i
week that 86.23 per cent of the! X."® features of the
1940 tax levy of $52,442.34 has, ^he election of offi-
linments, conventions, balls, etc. IL. Taft’s office, apparently go^s to take advantage of options now Carolina coast, was 85 Wednesday, n r r. -i -
The cottage development would mnheeded For rarely a week goes held on the necessary land. Sept. 17. He is hale, hearty and ^"w ™eri^/S ouota'^ forthrst.t^collected, a high ’percentage'!®®^® *1^® ®«fmg year. Present
i near it, and would offer eplu- by that the Registrar doesn’t re- The creation of an airport of the vigorous Since he has been four Ts lot on ^ ^ ^ collections for any North Caro- ®^^®®®® y®= Daniels, Man-
ve types of homes for people of ceive letters or visitors, all on the size that is contemplated promises He nas oeen lour is set un. _ tpo. nrAsiHpnf- n t
eans. The probable date of con- trail of someone’s ancestors. Roanoke Island and Dare County ®core, he has been sued as a home Of the total of 18 calls for men
ruction has not been announced j The records in “Miss Sadie’s” of- the best imaginable facility for any wrecker, but he always kept on top. ®mce the draft was estab-
it may begin early in the spring, j fice go back to 1728 when the first seacoast recreational area It will i He studies his Bible reguarly almost a year ago. Dare has
The need for a large hotel that' deed was recorded in the regis- have an airport second to none on anb he sees Bible prophecy coming “®® seven of collections came to $872 86
m accommodate large conven-1 trar’s office. The ancestor-seekers, the Atlantic Coast. I will be the to pass these days. His message Call no. 1 last November rpmn'TiH f *£in 1921
ons and other groups has been professional or amateur, come to only airport open to commercial on his 85th birthday to our readers i?®*® ®P® Call no. 2 in | if!™ ™ j ^ ’
mowing more apparent in this sec-, search through the old deed books, use to accommodate both seaplanes is as follows: .December took three white men, i ^^®®®
an, since the Dare beaches have'trying to trace their family con- and land planes. | “Thp p-roat riav of Pod’s wrath ! ®®' ^ February took three j salt certificates. The list of
icome well advertised and fast in- nections as far back as possible. | Only by virtue of the fact that on earth has come white men, call no. 6 in March taxes, as accepted by
easing thousands of people de-1 According to Miss Sadie, the ma- the area appeals both to the navy i «Ae,. .. ' i, ' °®^ white men, call no. 7 in *^® commissioners, totalled $872.-
ce to spend their vacations in this jority of her inquiries are from and the army for defense purposes,' ai. ® ™®^®,®® saw an- March took three white men, and I
ction. j professional genealogists, who, for was this small area fortunate to’ „ “PL i® April and May took one I Dog Taxes
The past tourist season in Dare .a fee, will trace your family right get such a large grant. weaven having great power Md white and three colored men for A total of $364.50 in dog taxes
so impressed the need for more i o® back to Adam and the garden of Airminded people estimate the i® ®®"® lighted with his a total of 20 men to be called of was collected by Sheriff Cohoon,
'tel facilities in this section. 'The Eden. Others are plain every-day possible eventual investment bv ^ ®®'y *^® ^®®® rejected at representing the taxes
lina county. president; 0. L. Williams,
The actual ammount collected, ■ v^^^ee^thfpresident; D.
not including the accumulated in-'j" p p’-ri ^p i P’’®?'*
terest, was $42,307.80. Interest 5
^ ’ vice president; W. L. Whitley, Ply
mouth, vice president; and Roy
Parramour of Plymouth, recording'
secretary.
'hiand for rooms and baths at all folk with a bit of leisure time on the Government, will run to a mil- ^ strong voice saying, Babylon the the Fort Bragg induction station,
'tels is becoming more and more tbeir hands, curious about their ijon dollars. I *® fallen, is fallen Md the hold The July registration of men
ident. Tourists these days de-, forebears and anxious to establish while government activities are ' ®''®’"^ , P? f Pi® ^ ’^’^® reached their 21st birth-
and the same kind of accommo- some sort of continuous history of carried on at the airport, it wiilir®PP® P” P® hateful bird; ^ day since last October 16 brought
tions they get at other high class' fbeir family from the days when mean many new people employed ■ ^ nations have drunk of tne the total number of Dare men reg-
ices. |fbe southern Albemarle was first who will become citizens and '''*®® .,®f wrath of fornication istered for the draft to 663.
It is likely that several large, settled. ^ whose payroll would
fiventions, including the Junior; Indicating the distances to which thoussands of dollars. This will
'der, the Association of County fbe descendants of Tyrrell’s first give Dare County a tremendous in-
mmissioners, may meet in Dare sellers have spread are the state crease in year-i-ound business
xt summer. I from which inquiries are received. But the greatest of benefits is “‘7 7"'“'
providing Norh and South Carolina are most in making the Dare Countv section PPT"®.®® I®®®®®* viu an oe put in- bouisc
available +1,.., fo chains and imnrisoned for the board.
into *'.^® ®f *^^® ^®'"® Selective
. committeed fornication with her Dare
service officials in
With other resorts „ _ ^ ocwu,.
iple modern accommodations for frequently represented with most available to thousands and thou-
are Horace H. Dough, chair-
and the Lord Cod has forsaken her man of the local board; Walter j
forever.’ Such will be the end of C. Caskill, board member: I. P.:
Hitler and Moussolini, and the Davis, appeal agent; and Mrs. i
■will an he put in- Louise M. Meekins, clerk ’ to the i
One board member is vet to
on 426
males and 101 females. The sheriff
also collected $7 from taxes on
pickups, or dogs not listed for tax
es. The commissioners accepted
$13 in insolvent dor taxes, repre
senting dog owners that had moved
out of the county, dogs that had
died, etc.
STATE NYA HEAD
PLANS TO SPEAK
Important developments in the
Southern Albemarle’s road and
bridge program will be presented
to the members of the association
by President Melvin R. Daniels of
Manteo at the Engelhard meeting.
President Daniels is quite enthu
siastic over the recent strides made
by the association toward the com
pletion of this program of county
seat to county seat highways for
Hyde, Washington, Dare and Tyr
rell and ■ of bridges or “free and
adequate ferries” over Alligator
river and Croatan Sound.
He points out that the fact that
no mention was made of freeing
the ferries over Alligator and Cro-
atan when Governor Broughton re
moved the tolls from the Oregon
■ge conventions, it becomes diffi- ,®f^1ke Southern sates running sec- sands of airplane tourists in years J*,®'®®®® of time. ^ When G^d brings be appointed to replace "Jake Dan-
the middle and far
t for any place to attract them p®4 ^od occasional inquiries com- to come,
the group must be split up in ins' in from - ■ ” ’ -
rious hotels or rooming houses, ''’®®t-
He distance apart,
rhe news of a large hotel ample
any probable convention will
an much to the people of this
tlon , and is particularly inter-
ing because it indicates the
th with which outsiders view
possibilities of this region,
iome amazement might prevail
What started out ai a hearing
on abandonment and non-support
in Tyrrell Recorder’s court Wed-
>n review'ing conditions on the; nesday morning gave promise of
iches fifteen years ago, when ' developing into a charge of bigamy :
isibly two score cottages existed, I against the prosecuting witness Enthusiasm Does Not Ap-
more. Had anyone then,when Ida Wood, former South Car- proach That of Revivals
in the Old Days
More interest and more enthu-
There are still a lot of red faces
the county v/hen the game limit
' was set at three geese per week.
n another 15 years, there will
even greater development on the
ches. Early construction of the
Iges connecting the beaches
the south and ■west -would
in several hotels would be re-
red.
OWLER IS FINED
BY COLUMBIA MAYOR
iooker T. Williams, Columbia
ro was fined $12 by Mayor W.
Laughinghouse in mayor’s
' the wars to _ a close and Roosevelt iels who recently resigned.
TYRRELL JUDGE
FINDS NEGRESS
• HAS TWO MATES
The early construction of Croa- J” IT ,,
tan Sound bridge and connecting *^® ^® ®®
roads and bridges is seen as a re ^ ™ l ^ i n’ ®® I
suits of the construction of his air-1 Tol'T i® *
port. This would make it possible! ®f R®'’elation
for visitors to Columbia, Engel-1 ^^® ^ ®^ Babylon,
hard and other places to take ad-!
vantage of the airport.
MORE GEESE
Following a conference with Sec
retary of Interior Icfces Thursday
morning. Congressman Herbert C.
PREACHER SAYS
INTEREST BETTER
IN NEGRO REVIVAL
BEAR HUNTERS IN
MANNS HARBOR
EMBARRASSED
Bonner wyred Sheriff Victor Meek-
BEFORE CLUBMENj^fi/-,T-®®%-^
John A. Lang, state director of J®f contemplating brid-
the National Youth Administration ^® „ J^® ,f®^®. ®xpen-
has accepted an invitation to ad-1,7® i!®®/®""™® t^'® "'’®r ®®d
dress the Columbia Men’s clubl Tiav,;.,io V r ..i. ^ ..i
next Wednesdav nis-ht I ^^®i®^® believes that the depart-
The club’s regular'^m;eting nightbuild both
was changed from Tuesday to' ®®® be con-
'n oruer to ®®®‘?™^''®bed. However,
ins that the bag limit for geese iii it possible for Mr. Lang to attend, ri^®,?*’®®®”*^ shortage of steel, due
Hyde County had been changed! According to President Roy L. j®7® ®®oimous demands of the
from three geese a week to six , Litchfield, Mr. Lang will outline, j..-,,. ® ,^^® ®^®®^ ^®"
the work the NYA is now doing postponed
'Phesied the vast development j olina negro, testified that, she
1 business that exists today, he -w'asn’t sure her first husband was
uld have been laughed at. dead.
^■et those w'hose horizons a'-e | Ida was testifing again her pre- siasm than for the past few years over in Manns Harbor over the- jyjy Atkinson
ad and w'hose vision was proj-]Sent husband, Jolern Wood, whom was manifest at the five day series bear hunt that took place there last Sundav night in Norfolk
ed in . the future, well knew she claimed had driven her away of all day rerivals at the Free Will Monday night. ! with Lt. and Mrs D F Lithgow
at would hanpen. (from their Tyrrell county home and Christian Negro church at Bum- Buster Card, Trell Craddock" Joe ,
had made no provisions^ t(^ support side last week says the Rev. Wil-! Arlo and some more fellows were j '
Quarry Treed in
Turns Out Not to Be a
Bear Cub
geese a week.
Hinton James wag also present
^be conference... Citizens of
uutnouse jjyde County had protested that
Wednesday aight in order to make
in the state, both for school chil
dren and youth above school age.
geese hunters would not come to i Js’YA OFFICER WANTS
their as yet unborn child. Question- Ham Keys, pastor, but the revival Passing the time aw'ay after sup-
ing by Defense Attorney Nat didn’t measure up to the ones he P®® in Carl Mann’s store when an ™-pscott i= visiting Lor
Meekins brought out the admission remembers from his childhood.
any action by the department.
“The governor has promised us
free ferries,” Daniels said, “and if
this ^bridge proposition seems too
far in the future the association
"'iii see if the Southern Albemarle
Mrs. Ma'-v Francis Fearing of'^®”’^ ?®\ temporarily
Elizabeth City, NYA nersonnel in- ® ®® ®bout the ferries.
WORKERS FOR SHOPS
temiew officer, will be in the re
cen'^ion room of the community
building at 10 a. m. Davlight sav
ing time, FridaV morning to in-
to-vlew any applicants for outside
aid.
Boys and o-lrls tfi vonrs old and
over are elegible for NYA work.
automfibile slammed on its brakes
that she only “had heard” her first Two visiting preachers, the Rev. (outside the store and someone .
husband, whom she married and Noah Boston of Martin county and ®^®i® rushing in to announce that, a rnis weex.
was separated from in South Car- the Rev. W. G. Vincent of Belha- there was a bear cub out in the'
olina, was dead. ven, both powerful exhorters, wereAuud. |T\^UU|PI I A II Tl ID A I
Recorder W. W. Sawyer stopped here to preach for the series of' Tbe boys didn’t waste any time. - | | MvillVULI UllML
the proceedings and ordered the meeting which began last Wednes- Someone was sent down to Odell j
trial continued until Clerk of day and concluded Sunday night. ‘ Ti'l®tt’s for his dogs and a hunting, P A 11^ A AlP
Court Clarence Chaplin could as- Each day began with a prayer P^rty was organized. After sniD | |iAIM V* An|^ I ||i■|f|■V V||U|iZ
certain whether the first husband meeting followed by reaching at fing around a bit, one of the young-! ■ ■ IbFAB-Ai# I Im A/I «W
was alive or not. The second hus- n o’clock and dinner on the ®r picked up a trail and pret-'
rt last Monday night for prow-j hand took the stand to claim that grounds of the church immediately soon the w’hole pack was tangled , Yllfill Ro oi-. 4- J
: on private premises and for (jda left him and that further more after. Another service was held in "’i^b something out in Carl’s gar- " tHi VV 111 136 xl'ClQ Oil L/OUIlTy Ijiarag'e YfrOUIlClS
at Columbia the Week of October 31; Cash
Prizes Will Be OfiPered For Best Farm Prod
ucts; Contests and Speakers Will Feature
ig drunk and disorderly. I he had seen letters from the first the afternoon and the big meeting den,
he Mayor issued a capias for i husband since their marriage. He of each day was tht night service.' The men came up to the dogs
k Spencer, Tyrrell white man, | .^yas released under a $25 bond. | Around 200 to 300 people turn- ®®d by the light of several flash-
> failed to appear in court to j. q. Cohoon, Columbia mer- ,ed out each night for the service, lights they were able to see a
wer to a charge of being druik | chant, pled not guilty to a charge the pastor said, but somehow the creature about the general size and
disorderly. j of operating a meat market with- meetings seemed to lack the reli- ®hape of a bear cub snarling and
TT ' out the proper facilities required gious fervor he remembers from spitting and cuffing the dogs
Irs. Men Duvall Daniels came health but the big camp meetings he attended around.
Some 200 delegates are expected
to attend this year’s meeting, in
addition to the people of he gener
al public who care to attend the all
day fiesta. The delegates are se
lected by the county commissioners
of their respective county, and in
turn every four years becomes host
to the four-county delegation.
The association was first enter
tained in Tyrrell Countv in 1935
with Dare, Hyde and Washington
following in that order as hosts
before Tyrrell again entertained in
1939 and sponsored a large gen
eral nicnlc for the entire assem
bly of delegates and guests. Wash
ington County was host for the
1940 meeting.
Two Big Days of Fair
rom Edenton to spend Tuesday
it in Manteo.
Favorable progress toward Ty- ing, hog-calling, animal-mocking
iss Dorothy Meekins left Mon-
to enter the freshman class at i
Woman’s College in Greens-
• She was accompanied to
ensboro by her mother, Mrs-
est Meekins.
Recorder Sawyer^ found the op- as a child. He has been pastor of; Before the party could take any jj-ell County’s Agricultural Fair, and other contests will also be held
posite and fined him $10 and costs, the Christian church here for four action, the supposed hear broke ^ week of October 31 was by the entertainment committee.
Mr. Cohoon noted an appeal to the years. laway and dashed for the outhouse, j iv- i i, I Prizes
superior court and bond was set at ^ “But spiritually and financially followed by the dogs. When the r®Ported t®is week by County
j $50. , the revival was
E.
BASMICiHT AND CRAV
get c. g. transfers
Steve Basnight in Charge of Kill
Devil HilLs and Homer S.
Gray at Ocracoke
SALES OF THE BOOK
“Fessenden, Builder of
Tomorrows”
nil Help the Association
limited number of copies of
story of the life of Prof. Fes-
len, radio pioneer, is in the
ed Mr. Cohoon’s place of business down on Burnside to be baptised,
Road street and found pork a sad contrast to the old days
Stephen G. Basnight. for several
years in command of Ocracoke
^ Coast Guard station, and rated a
_ .. . TT TT TT • -J i, r A list of premiums and rules and' Chief Boatswain’s Mate has been
, the revival was a success,” he Parf" caught up again, the quarry Agent H. H. Hams, president of regulations for exhibitors has been! transferred to the command of
L. Dudley and W. J. High- added. j ®®d the dogs had disappeared the fair association. I completed by the committe on ex-'Kill Devil Hills station. Homer 9^
smith, state board of health in-j Sunday afternoon, a half-dozen' through the seat of the privj'.' The fair will be the equal of any hibits. Cash prizes will be offered Crav, of Avon, an-d acting Chief
specters, testified that they visit-’ converts waded out into the water sounds coming^ up indicated of the fairs planned for the Albe- in the livestock and county activi- Boatswain’s Mate who has been at
bell was going on below. marie region if present indications ties division, and cash prizes or, Kill Devil Hills, will assume com-
D®®ll w®® I'be only one of the are born out, Mr. Harris said, and merchandise in the poultry and mand of Ocracoke station v'hrih
loins and other fresh meat in the when as many as 50 to 60 people, ®'®®. "'®®ri®i? boots and he was should be the biggest thing of its egg division. First, second and has a largo new unit, "one of the
store and that Mr. Cohoon did not would be baptized at one time at i nominated by the others to stomp kind ever held in the county. | third place ribbons will be awarded largest on the coast,
have health cards for his workers one revival. Interest in salvation I I'bo bear to death. He bent over,' Site in all divisions. I Baznight’s home i"! at Manteo
nor a sink with hot and cold run- was at high pitch among the color- i flashing the light down on the The fair site will center in and According to Mr. Harris, a good and Gray’s home being at 4von'
ning water as is requn-ed by^ law ed people all over the island and bounds, and straightened up again around the county garage on the percentage of the farmers he has both m.en aro more convenieni-'v
^ of disgust. Fort Landing road at the edge of talked to have indicated that,located with their now onmmanria
‘Whv hell boys, it’s onlv a cot!” Columbia. A contract for a week- they intend to exhibit and there I Basnio-ht waa eniiate^ hv Chiof
And it was a cat. Carl Mann’s long carnival and midway, to be should be some real competition! Roatowain Walter i^theridge aho-rf.
h'g eight-vear-old Mack tom cat operated by the Crecent Amuse-j for prizes in the farm products di-1 Iv after tho wovM „-aT- and La!
that, according to him, hasn’t a ment company of Charlotte, has , vision. The countv activities divi- ma^ie a o-ccd record In fLo so-tHco
white hair on its hodv. Several been let by the Columbia Vounteer sion, which includes the Future Iv'+h regular ''romo+lnna 0^’,^
vears ago the cat had ita tail Ion- Fire Department, sponsors of the Farmers, the Four H clubs, the I who m oro o® th" meat noneia!
ned off in a steel tran. thus fur- fair. j Home Demonstration clubs, the ! men m +l;s area, has been steadilv
thering +hp hear resemblance, es-! Plans were made this week by j NYA and the WPA. also shoula (promoted.
ppcmlly in the dark. the entertainment commitee to re-1 produce striking exhibits. I
The cal' was rescued in good con.
for a meat market. Mr. Cohoon practically all other activities in
contention was that the meat was volving the negroes were at a
. for “a special customer” and that standstill until the revival was
Is of the Fessenden Memorial i He did not operate a meat market, over.
ociation, Inc., and the pro- in the third case heard before, Officers of the Free Will Chris-
!s from the sales of the book .the Recorder, Bonnie Sykes, negro, tlan church are Luther Mann,
go to the general purposes of was found guilty of hitting Tube Ephrain Daniels and Josephus Doz-
Association. The price is $3 1 Holmes, another negro, with a pon ier, deacons, and Mrs. Noah Jones,
15c for postage and insurance bottle in front of Wade Owen’s, clerk,
mailing. Address cafe Saturday night. The judge
FESSENDEN gave Bonnie a six month’s road
^^TlONAL MEMORIAL, Inc. sentence, suspended upon the pay-
Manteo, N. C. ment of costs.
I TTie nation’s sixth largest Army
Post is Fort Jackson, S. C., where
41,000 troops are in training.
cure speakers for Friday and Sat- | A complete list of premiums ano ( Mms ■^TpplT^T^!
d'+inn with only about six of its urday, October 30-31, the two big ^ exhibits rules will be carried in .’'To-.-Ip,. night from a week’s visit
nine lives gone. days of the fair. Greased pig catch-, next week’s TRIBUNE. i in Durham.