THE TYRRELL
TRIBUNE
DR GREATER PROGRESS OF THE LAKE PHf.LPS AND PETTIGREW PARK REGION AND F ;LL0VVSHIP WITH OUR NEIGHBOR COUNTIES
VOL. II; NO. 47
UN SLOWLY COMING UP
ON SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE
PROGRAM SAYS DANIELS
Association Will Never Lay Down Its Arms
Until Every Foot of Road in Program Is
Completed and Every Bridge Is Built” Re
tiring President States in Outlining Future
Program of SAA
By MELVIN R. DANIELS
President,
outhern Albemarle Association
tt has been the goal of the
^thern Albemarle Association,
*iposed of the counties of Dare,
'de, Washington and Tyrrell, to
* the county seats of these coun-
s connected by hard surface
'ds and bridges.
ils the retiring president of the
Sociation I have not done very
'ch in getting this done, yet with
■ help of the people in the four
*nties above mentioned and be-
“fting with the organization of
* Association in Columbia, N. C.
the year 1935, with C. Wallace
tern as its first president, we
come a long ways toward
“ching our destination.
Ve intend to keep the Southern
'emarle before the people of this
iat State of North Carolina and
i of the good days we will see
' dream come true. We intend
keep the good work going and
* that this section of the State
placed where it rightfully be-
:s.
No Good Reason
1 our opinion there is no good
On why we should not have
I surface from county seat to
ity seat and bridges across the
?ator river and Croatan Sound,
ey tell us that the darkest part
he night is just before day.
that may apply to the South-
Albemarle for in our opinion
night is dark enough but we
V that the sun is slowly com-
Up and some time in the neai'
re we are going to see our pro-
n completed. We have never
i to hasty about asking for the
pletion of our program but
- alwavs worked along ihe
s of that old adage that the
tant dropping of water will
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COLUMBIA, N. C.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1941
HERE THIS WEEK END
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COT WOUNDED IN WAR
WON MEDALS AT 15
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JESSE L. NEWMAN of Manteo,
who as a lad of 15, joined the Army
during the World War and was
wounded twice, won many medals,
captured trophies and was twice
wounded before he was 16. He
has served in France, Germany,
Siberia and Hawaii and today owns
a Tourist Colony on Roanoke Is
land. The picture is during his
service at the age of 15, and many
recruiting officer with a conscience
would have known he wasn’t old
enough to be in the Army, but
Jess Newman proved that he was.
To my mind, this is one of the
best clippings run across recently.
It was written by Violet Alleyn
Storey in the Christian Science
Monitor;
W’hat Is “The American Way?”
Not long ago, I was approched
by a young girl picket on a Man
hattan sidewalk.
“Please, madam.” she advised,
“do not patronize this store. Help
us to maintain an American wav
of life.”
“Just how,” I m.ade bold to ask
her, “do you define an American
wav of life?”
Her answer cam° unhesitatinglv
.—even defiantly: “As the right to
have the things that, as Americans,
we are entitled to!”
Her words echoed in my ears.
“The right . . . .things ... .as
Americans.” ....
“My father and mother C’me to
this country.” the girl picket con
tinued. “so we would have the
things Americans have a right to
and—” ]
“Rut iust what things do you
moan.” I interrupted.
“Wpi! .(.Q begin with ” she re-1
nlied. “bigger pav and shorter
hours. Once we get these, we’ll
have the money and the time to get
what we want out of living—be
able to dress better and get our
hair done and go to movies when
we want and have a new radio and
an electric icebox and a car, may
be.”
“But, in a little while, everybody
may have to do without such
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DAILY NORFOLK-BEAUFORT
AIRLINE VIA MANTEO IS
PROPOSED BY R. S. WAHAB
1 Would Run From Norfolk to Beaufort via
j Manteo, Hatteras, Ocracoke and Atlaiitic if
I Communities Will Build Up Airports to
j CAA Specifications; Financial Backing Is
I Already Assured, Wahab Reveals at Ocra-
I coke Meeting'
BONNER TO ADDRESS
I BELHAVEN LIONS MEET
a
AMBASSADOR JOSEPHUS DANIELS is spending Friday and Friday
night on Roanoke Island, his first visit here since the Roanoke Island
homecoming back in 1933. Friday night he will be the guest of honor
at a banquet at Fearing’s Cafe. He came here from Raleigh yesterday
by way of Hyde County, where he addressed the annual meeting of
the Southern Albemarle Association, and by Ocracoke Island and
Hatteras.
CONGRESSMAN H. BONNER
I will be the chief speaker at the
Tri-Zone meeting .of Lions Clubs
in this area .at Bel haven next
Thursday, October 30.
Benefit Bridge
A benefit bridge, sponsored by
the Dare Woman’s Club, will be
held at the home of Mrs. Rennie
Williamson on Tuesday night. Oc
tober 28, at 8:30. The public is
invited to attend.
;SS NEWMAN, WOUNDED
M15, AND IN 5 BATTLES
KNOWS HORRORS OF WAR
^nteo Man Owns Many Medals, and Rich
Trophies, Captured While a Mere Lad in
Trance; Served Later in Siberia and Hono-
jlulu; Now Assistant Superintendent of
^each Erosion Project
BOOTLEGGERS
INACTIVE DESPITE
MORE ABC TAXES
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Increased Cost of Le2:al Li
quor Hasn’t Brought
Stills Back—Yet
'Se L. Newman, proprietor of
Virginia Dare Tourist Colony
Manteo, and assistant super-
dent of the Beaph Erosion
^t of the National Park Ser-
knows all about the horrors
This modest and quiet
Who is now under forty ran
from his home in Reading,
Ss and by fibbing a little about
ge, enlisted in the army h"eb-
’ 4, 1918, at the age of 15. He
^orn November 20, 1902.
ay, in his cabin near Fort
ih, he keeps a raft of medals,
aber of swords and epaulets
■■ed from German officers, and
laneous foreign coins and pa-
aioney, including German
’ once valued at $20,000 but
Worth less than the cost of
Saw three days of hot fight-
' the Champaigne-Marne sec-
wo weeks in the Aisne-Marne,
our hard weeks in the Oise-
; He got wounded twice,
'a the hand, and once under
ft eye, which left a big scar
's day. Jess has grown fat-
'aund the middle, and his job
laager of men hasn’t made
'Unkles in his face, but the
*_of war will go to his grave
^im.
i^erdun, France, he won a
from the French Govern-
faa the week in hell he spent
Pew lads of 15 sung today
'f school classes are anxiou.s
aiuch excitement as was this
j® lad who says he didn’t get
Chateau Theirry, Newman
Wo weeks in battle and an-
three weeks in the Meuse-
He was on the defensive
4t the close of the war, all
which is enumerated in bronze on
his Victory medal and his honor
able discharge.
Uncle Sam kept Newman in Eu
rope with the army of occupation
at Coblenz, Germany, following
the war, until July 2, 1919. He
wasn’t 16 when the war ended. On
his return to the United States, he
re-enlisted and was promptly sent
to Siberia, and from there to Hono
lulu where he served out his enlist
ment, a term of three years.
During his battles he took a
German bayonet, and brought back
as souvenirs the epaulets from a
German Captain’s uniform. He
has bronze medals from both the
Belgian and the French Govern
ments for his services with their
armies.
After coming out of the army he
was laid up with arthritis a long
time in government hospitals. In
1930 he went with government
project in Phoenix, Arizona, as
labor foreman, and finally to Fort
Eustis, Va., where the Beach Ero
sion program started, coming to
Roanoke Island in 1936.
Today, he is manager of men for
the government, and has been a
trouble shooter for five T^ears or
more, smoothing out difficulties
and investigating cases arising out
of the protect, which has had as
high as 5,000 men engaged in the
various work originally begun with
the Transient Camps.
He married Miss Mary Love
Smith of Manteo about four \mars
ago. and is well known and liked
by the native citizens of Roanoke
Island. His Tourist Colony has en-
ioved a successful business and
Mr. Newman has probably be
come established for life. And
probably he would be ready for
another war if needed.
MELVTN R. DANIELS of Manteo,
president of the Southern Albe
marle Association for the past two
years, presided over the annual
meeting Thursday.
ANNUAL FALL FESTIVAL
IN ELIZABETH CITY
4-H Members to Be Guests of Fes
tival Management on Wed
nesday
The annual Volunteer Firemen’s
Fall Festival in Elizabeth city wilt
be held next week, beginning Octo
ber 27 and running through No
vember 1. The chief attraction
I for the occasion will be the Art
! Lewis Shows “World’s Largest
Midway,” which has exhibited at
practically all the leading exposi
tions and fairs along the Atlantic
Seaboard.
On the mile long midway at the
Old Show Grounds here will be 20
' monster riding devices many of
I them new thrillers being shown in
this area for the first time and
I there will be 18 huge modernized
: and streamlined tented theatre
shows featuring stars of stage.
screen and radio.
Wednesday will be All-Albemarle
. and 4-H Club day when all the
j county school children and 4-H
members from far and wide will be
j the guests of the festival manage-
I ment. On Thursday night some
blushing young girl and a hand-
I some youn,g man will be legally j
and publicly married in the holy |
I bonds of matrimony in a “Skv- j
^ High Wedding” some 75 feet in |
I the heavens in full view of the j
I natrons. 'Friday will be National j
I Defense and Coast Guard Day with
i a noted national speaker on hand
or the festivities and all Coast,
Guardsmen, soldiers. Marines in j
uniforms or Veterans with naid un i
membership cards will be admitted.
free at the main entrance. 1
The new Federal tax on legal
iciuor has been in effect about a
month now but Dare ABC Officer
4.sa White reports that the shin-
'ng opportunity to undersell the '
ABC store hasn’t Jjrought any j
bootleggers out into the open as ,
yet. i
Federal Officers Smith and
Hardshaw of Elizabeth City re
cently subjected the wooded areas
of the county to an extensive
search but failed to come across
any mash, thump-kegs or worms.
The last time a rig was discovered
operating in the county was back
in the early spring.
However, Officer White is of the
opinion that some of the boys are
fully cognizant of the fact that
they can retail a home-made prod
uct considerably under the ABC
store price but he says they’re
biding their time. With all the
hunters stomping through the
woods at present on hunts for bear
and deer, it would be foolhardy to
try to set up a still.
, The new tax is an increase of
$1 on a gallon of 100 proof liquor,
making a total Federal tax of $4
on the 100 proof gallon. Most of
the distilleries have slapped a flat
increase of $1 on their products to
absorb the price which, plus the 50
per cent “mark-up” system the
state ABC stores operated under,
has brought about an average in
crease to the consumer of 20 cents
a pint and 35 cents a quart, de
pending upon the proof of the
product he favors. Thus, for in
stance, a 100 proof pint that was
formerly 85 cents is now $1.05 and
a 100 proof quart has increased
from $1.30 to $1.70. When boot
leg liquor was more promiscuous
in the county, the price was 50
cents the price of a little under 50
per cent less than the ABC store
product.
The fact that most people un
derstand the necessity of increased
taxes to pay for the mounting cost
of national defense and the fact
that good-salaried jobs are more
plentiful now than they used to be
have reduced kicks on the increased
price of liauor to practically nil.
Conntv ABC store offlcials esti
mate that the increased prices
haven’t reduced their volume of
sales one bit.
L. WILLIAMS TO
HEAD DISTRICT BAR
0. L. Williams, well known .Swan
Quarter attorney, was elected
president of the First District bar,
at a meeting in Edentcn Friday!
' Former Congressman, John H.
Small of Washiington was named
'■ice^ president, and Jonn Gr.aham
of Edenton secretary.
Mr. Williams has long be'-n
.o on n as a leading attorney jp tJiis
section. He is at present county
aLorney for HyU, and i.s a former
member of the House of Repi’esen-
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By AYCOCK BROWN
Manteo, Hatteras, Ocracoke and
Atlantic will soon have scheduled
air line service daily if plans dis
cussed extensively in Wahab Vil
lage Hotel on Ocracoke Island last
Saturday night materialize. In ad
dition to the communities mention
ed, the daily service would origi
nate in Norfolk where it would
connect with Penn Central and ter
minate at the outset in Beaufort-
Morehead City, later extending on
to Wilmington and Charleston,
connecting at the latter plsce with
Eastern Air Lanes.
Until the meeting on Saturday,
there had been talk from time to
time relative to the establishment
of an airline via the Outer Banks,
but no organization steps had been
taken other than that on the part
of Ocracoke-Manteo Transporta
tion Company, offlcials and finan
cial backers. On Saturday howl
ever, prominent citizens from
many of the communities to be
served were present at a dinner
meeting as the guests of R. Stanley
Wahab in his beautiful island hotel,
and they were told that the service
would begin, that ample financial
backing was already available and
that all that would be required of
the communities along the route
would be to maintan the existing
runwa.ys of their landing fields or
establish new runways which would
meet with CAA 'specifications foi
the establishment of the line.
Mr. Wahab, host to those attend
ing the meeting had representa
tives of not only the communities
to be served, but also legal and fin
ancial representatives. George
Shriver, investment banker of Bal-
t:moe was present. Briefly he stat
ed that ample financial backing
for the enterpirse \yould be avail
able. Also present was Carroll
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C. WALLACE TATEM of Colum
bia, who headed the SAA during
its first four years of existence,
gave a talk on the meaning of the
SAA Thursday.
KEITH SAUNDERS TO EDIT
PAPER IN OXFORD, N. C.
(From Elizabeth City Independent)
Friends of W. Keith Saunders, j
who was for many years associat
ed with his father, W. 0. Saunders,
in publishing and editing The Inde
pendent, will be interested to learn
that he has accepted a position as
managing editor of the Oxford
Public Ledger and will go to work
in that capacity next week. 1
A born newspaper man, with a
father who was recognized all over
the country as one of the best
newspaper editors in the United
States, Keith worked for a year on
the Raleigh Times after leaving
Elizabeth City in 1937.- He later
accepted a position as public rela
tions man with the Safety Division
of the State Highwav and Public
Works Commission, working under
Ronald Hocutt. j
But once a newspaper man, al
ways a newspaper man, as the old
saying goes, and Keith had it in
his-blood. He just wasn’t entirely
satisfied out of the game. So la.st
week he resigned his position with
the Safety Division of the highwav
department, and accepted the
editor.shin of the Oxford paper a
snrv^ semi-weekly which was estab- i
lished in 1S81. an4 which is publish
ed by A. N. Critcher. j
Commenting on his new job
Keith expressed himself as being
“glad to get back in the newspaper
gcrne, and out from under the poll-;
t'cal influence” that is prevalent in
all State departments.
AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES
FINE GROUP MEETING IN
HYDE COUNTY THURSDAY
Arrived in Manteo by Plane Thursday After
noon, and Will Be Guest of Honor at a
Banquet in Manteo Friday Evening; Visits
Many Old Friends and Acquaintances
Josephus Daniels, grandson of
Hyde and great-grandson of Dare, I
as toastmaster.
Yesterday afternoon aftorded Mr.
after tumultuous welcome into the | Daniels his first opportunity to
'■"t «.ch of Ih. Hat.
ter that began with his arrival on
the banks of Smith Creek Wednes-
teras National Seashore and he de
clared, on arriving here, that in all
day afternoon, came to Roanoke his life he had not had
Island Thursday afternoon after
addressing the sixth annual meet
ing of the Southern Albemarle As
sociation earlier in the day.
Enroute from Hyde to Roanoke,
Mr. Daniels was passenger aboard
a big Grumman amphibian placed
at his disposal by Capt. T. L. Chal-
ker, acting commandant of the
United States Coast Guard, and
piloted by Lieut. R. W. Blouin of
the Elizabeth City Coast Guard
Air Base. He was landed in Shal-
lowbag Bay, where he was taken j fnend, the late 'capr John AHen
aboard a Coast Guard patrol boat Midgett. He recalled* again the
by Capt. Paul Midgett, keeper of
the Nags Head station.
Landing at the fish house dock,
the Ambassador was greeted by
pretty nearly everybody in town,
lacking only the score or so who
went to Hyde County to greet him
there and to attend the meeting of
^ a greater
thrill than the flight here brought
him. He followed the course from
Ocracoke closely, checking off
points of interest on the chart, and
many times Lieutenant Blouin
circled back to give him a better
view of points of interest.
Especially interesting to the Am
bassador Vere Ocracoke, the point
of Cape Hatteras and Chicama-
comico Coast Guard station and the
red roof of the big house there
that was the home of his close
again
heroic rescue of the crew of the
Mirlo when it was torpedoed off
that station in 1918. Ocracoke es
pecially interested him, and he re
called that he and his mother spent
several weeks there in the early
70’s, and that on the way down
they had stopped with h''s mother’s
Large
Cholera !
Action to prevent the spread of
hog cholera following the report-,
ing of two outbreaks in Bertie
Countv has been taken savs As
sistant Farm Agent R. D. Smith.
In order to promote greater safe-
tv among drivers of its vehicles,
the Fourth Corps Area Quarter
master office is perfecting a plan
for keeping records on the individ
ual onerator. Those driving a
specified number of miles during a
given period, without an accident,
will be given an award.
At+endanne at reorg^ni^-atmu
meetings of 4-H Clubs in Granville
Countv have h°en unnsimllv large,
reports W. B. Jones, assistant farm
agent.
the Southern Albemarle Associa-1 friends, the Wahabs in SlaHesville.
tion. Mr. Daniels was welcomed Approaching the Island, Lienten-
officially by Bradford Fearing and]ant Blouin swung out over Croa-
taken to the Fort Raleigh Hotel. J tan Sound, and with Mr. Daniels
Before going to his room he visited j sitting on the right side of the
Fort Raleigh and was shown'cabin, the flight afforded him a
around the grounds by Robert At-jperi’ect view of the entire Island,
kinson and Mrs. Atkinson. .which was circled before the land-
During the day today Mr. Dan-1 ing. Evervwhece he exnrerseri
iels visited informally around theikeen delight. Flight is nothing
Island, spending some time at Fortjnew to the Ambassador. He psu-
Mrs. Malcolm T.eu^ls o-^^ Ma'*'ietta.
Ga., is visiting friends in Manteo.
Raleigh, calling on A. W. Drink-
water. Cant. John T. Daniels and
Sheriff Victor Meekins, who is con
fined to his home by illness. To
night he will be guest of all the
Daniels tribe on Roanoke and in
Dare Countv at a dinner at Fear
ing’s with Melvin Daniels acting
allv makes the trin h°*'wc^n jjic.
home in Raleigh and the Mexican
capital bv air. He was He fii-se
man of cabinet rank in +hp wc-M
to flv. He flew v-i'-h t .Tohn
H. Towers from Washington to
Anpaoolis in 1913. and n—q neorj-
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