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lA Weekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches—Foremost Summer Resort, Fishing and Hunting Haven 1; NO. 4 NAGS HEAD, N C. THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1939 COMPLETE COTTAGE AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY ON PAGES 2 AND 3 I MY WEEK I Note—Guest columnist this '®ek is Bob Bowers, who has been Nected to play the part of John 'J’hite in the current production of Lost Colony. Bob’s real name ^ Nachtmann, he is a graduate of ^6 University of North Carolina, ^nd during the Lost Colonys first ''’0 years he played the parts of ®hn White, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Borden. He and Fred Howard will take ’^rns keeping Seashore News read- Posted .on what goes on behind .•'e scenes up at Fort Raleigh, so for MY WEEK and LOST HORds in future issues of this newspaper. NEWEST COLUMNIST By BOB BOWERS Since my return to' Roanoke Is- ®tid for the third consecutive sum- with the third consecutive ^®nie there has been endless badin- thrust at me and the sundry aiPes which I have acquired. The Controversy having even reached jjn front page of the Seashore J^ews, some sort of justification is the readers of that wmrthy .lonrnal who may be under the er- ’’nneous impression that the sheriff Or financial difficulties .have forced j^oberts to be Nachtmann and 'nchtmann to become Bowers, k sheriff’s posse nor t ? Yigiiantes’ committee had any- *"ng to do with it. Rumor to the Contrary, Roberts never put poison n the well at the children’s picnic, od no Nachtmann .has ever been a norsethief. My change of handles merely been attempts to avoid “®*ng billed as Knockman, Wach- 'T’^n, Natchman, Kockem, Hachman ^nd a myriad of others, some even Worse. Hot only is here scripture for condition, but Shakespeare fiirnself gives me case. Did not Jacob become Israel? And did not Juliet inquire “What’s in a name? 4 rose by any other name would ^uiell as sweet.” Roberts was an admitted mistake, and Nachtmann, ^Hh all due respect to my worthy ^rbears, is nought but a ponderous teuton monnicker whereas Bowers uomes over one’s spirit like a sweet aouth breathing on a bed of violets; taking and giving odor. BOWERS! torsooth! Redolent of springtime, Prosperine and pansies, cowslip ®nd sweet eglantine. Monday marked the end of the first Week’s rehearsal of the Lost Colony;' a week different from the corresponding weeks of the past two seasons for its lack of extreme anxiety and harried looks The cast arrived by auto, bus, train and airplane and settled down with a minimum of flurry Sam Selden the Lost Colony’s globe trotting director looks as if he never set foot off Roanoke Island. • • • • . It took Don Rosenberg (Chief Wanchese, the villian) just two minutes to remove his shoes. He says they’re off till Ijabor Day By the by, he .holds a night ly jam session in Fearings’ drug store which anyone can enjoy. He swears there is no truth to the ru mor that he arrived in town with two aces glued back to back Fred Howard, the alternating columnist is now an authority on fishing He spent the winter work ing with Judge Washington Baum and his nets. Not onlv that but he is now numbered among Man- teo’s cafe society since he has be come a native. After spending a ■winter coping with science in its more complex forms, it is restful indeed to see a wide expanse of sky, feel the fresh air untainted with monoxide gas and the other fumes and odors pe culiar to a city and know that the roar of subways is miles over tl e horizon It’s going to be a great summer oh yes. . if the weather holds out. From Florida Mrs. Eloise Rickerson of Florida and Mrs. N. T. Aydlette of Eliza beth City have been staying at Kit ty Hawk Beach. 0 0 0 Pritchard Cottage Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Pritchard.} Phillip Pritchard, Cliff Pritchard, Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan, John Pritchard, and Gardiner Pritchard have been staying in the Pritchard cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach. Bob Bowers, alias Anthony Rob erts, alias Bob Nachtmann, who will do a column for the Seashore News every other week during the Lost Colony season. NEW BUS MAKES FIRST TRIP WATERMELON PARTY To Co Into Regular Service July First By Piscator The other afternoon a couple of youngsters of ,my acquaintance went a fishing with a much older man who claimed some knowledge of matters ichthyological. The boys toted only their sturdy cane poles and ample live bait, augmented by sundry rusty lures of ancient vint age and much usage. The older follower of the Waltonian art was outfitted with a light split bamboo bait casting rod, an expensive free running reel, and a small but modern assortment of artificial lures including Johnson’s weedless, Pfluegers Chum, a spinner or two, and pork rind. The bass were biting fairly well that evening, and the trio returned about sundown with reports of 16 nice largemouth being captured, and ample evidence to support their claim. Of course it is easy to guess who boated the most fish. Y ou are right. It was the exponent of modern methods. The boys caught only two fish the entire af ternoon. There is no belief more fallacious than that relating to the supremacy of the old cane pole over modem tackle, yet even today there are actions where the angler who is discovered equipped with fly rod or bait casting rod, is considered much in the light of a fadist, if not a plain sissy. There are times, of course, when still fishing for fresh water finny creatures, such as bass, trout, pike, etc., with a long pole and a gob of bait, will yield good results, but nineteen times in twen ty your bait or fly caster will pre vail. I can remember some years back, as a boy in my teens, fishing for blackbass for market with a ten foot fly rod, even though my line was attached to a tin can in the bottom of my skiff. I made pretty fair money at it too, for a boy. Enough to buy myself the first slide action repeating shotgun seen in our territory, at any rate. The same thing applies to salt water fishing. Many of us can re member when surf fishing, to a great many people, meant twirling a tarred line, from which depended a hunk of lead and a 10-0 ho'ok, round and round one’s head, to send it hurtling into the breakers. Some still practice it but few w.ho can af ford a surface rod and switch reel adhere to the ancient custom. The rod and reel surf fisherman will take two or three fish to the hand- liner’s one, day in and day out. In boat fishing for the larger game fish, the hand line has also had its day. What chance would a fisherman so equipped have with a sizeable tuna, marlin or tarpon. If disaster to the angler did not re sult, in the vast majority of cases, either the line would give way or the hook pull from the quarry s n outh. Zane Gray, perhaps the most famous living exponent of heavy tackle fishing, and with whom I have spent some pleasant days in the Gulf Stream, mentions fishing with a titled English wo man, whose renown as an angler Please turn to Page 4) With a 140 horse power Buick engine supplying the power, and with veteran bus driver Sam Mid- gett at the wheel, the newest ad dition to the Virginia Dare Trans portation Company’s fleet of buses will begin regular trips July 1. The new streamlined bus, which was brought to Manteo from Lou- donville, Ohio, this week by driver Midgett and Transportation Com pany manager, Guy Lennon, has already made several trips to Sligo, but it will not begin regular trips until the summer schedule goes into effect July 1. With seating room for 25 per sons the new bus is equipped with the most modern upholstery. It is painted in keeping with the Trans portation company’s green and cream color scheme. The new schedule, which calls for three round trips daily, will continue from July 1 until Labor Day. and will include a mid day I trip right into Elizabeth City. The Elizabeth City bus will leave Man teo at 10:30 in the morning, reach ing Elizabeth City at 12:45 and leaving again for Manteo at 1 p. m., arriving there at 3:15. LAWRENCE SWAIN BUYS SABOY CONFECTIONERY TRUNK HIGHWAY ALONG SOUND IS SUGGESTED MOYOCK MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK William Martin Poyner Was Fishing From Incompleted Pier When Stricken j Lawrence Swain, Manteo bank clerk and enterprising young busi- I ness man, announces in this issue j of The Seashore News the open- I ing of Swain’s Confectionery un- ; der his ownership and manage- j numt I Formerly operated as the Saboy i Confectionery and owned by bus- driver Sam Midgett, this popular Manteo meeting place this week , changed hands for the first time since it was opened a little less j than four years ago. Swain is a native of Plymouth, N. C. He has been working at the Bank of Manteo for several years, and his attractive wife runs the local beauty parlor next door to Swain’s Confectionery. SEEN HERE indulging in the favorite local summer pastime of eating watermelons on the beach, are a number of young guests at the Croatan Hotel. Reading left to right, back row—G. B. Butler and Mrs. G. B. Butler of Alexandria, Va. Ashby Hunter of Richmond, Va., Sally Lambe of Washington, D. C.: bottom row—Joanne Tucker of Washington, D. C., W. L. Northern of Moyock, Geraldine Chambles of Raleigh and Ann McCann of Hopewell, Va. A heart attack was fatal to Wil liam Martin Poyner of Moyock, Sunday, when he and companions were fishing from the new pier which W. H. Jeanette and Sons of Elizabeth City are building down at the southern turn of the beach highway. The prominent Moyock farmer was brought ashore shortly after the attack and a doctor from Man teo was summoned, but he died Two Lane Beach Boulevard Also A.rivocated The majority of people in this section w^ere pleased early this week to learn that the proposed WPA project for widening the 14 miles of Dare County beach high way had been approved, and that work would probably be begun on the actual widening of the road within a couple of months. In general the feeling seemed to be that a widened highway would tend to eliminate many uotor- ing hazards found on the beach section of the Virginia Dare Trail, but from two sources came entirely different views about the situation. Harry Cawthorne of Wilson, who soon after the doctor arrived. Poyner, who was 52 years old, been coming to this SMtion died at approximately 11:30 o’clock. The body was first placed in the Evans Funeral Parlor in Manteo, and then moved to Norfolk for preparation for burial. The fun eral was held in Moyock; NIGHTJAR CHILDREN’S MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE STIRS COLONISTS M U S I N ’S Morrisette House Party Mr. and Mrs. James Wood, of Rich Square, Miss Alice Cartwright of Elizabeth City, and Mack Mor risette, Jr„ have been staying in I the Morrisette cottage at Kitty ; Hawk Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Wil- I liam Hood also spent the week end ; in the Morrisette cottagpe. Mr. j Hood went from here to Baltimore, ' Md., and Mrs. Hood went to Texaco Beach to visit her parents. * 0 0 0 Edwards Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Edwards of Sunbury, spent Ihe week end in their cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach. 0 0 0 Pipken Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Pipken of Elizabeth City have moved into their cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach for the summer. 0 0 0 Has Returned Mrs. J. H. Wilkins has returned to her home in Elizabeth City after spending several weeks in her cot tage at Kitty Hawk Beach, o o o From Arlington Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Wine of Ar lington, Va., are staying at the Croatan. Twins born to Mr. and Mrs. Nightjar on Monday of last week, disappeared from, the humble home of their parents just three days later, and notwithstanding inten sive search, not a trace of them has been discovered. With its usual accuracy this newspaper predicted the birth of these children in our issue of last week but even our pro phetic vision could not foresee the tragic event which was so quickly to follow. Notwithstanding employment of the most modern methods of crime detection, the procedure followed in this abduction has not yet been de termined, nor is the motive behind the sinister deed yet apparent. Discolorations discovered at the scene of the crime, the nature of which is yet to be proven by analy sis, causes experts to believe mur der to be a possibility. The par ents, in the beginning overcome with grief, .have added to the mys tery by themselves disappearing from public ken, and whether this untoward occurrence is indicative of further tragedy, or whether the father and mother having them selves discovered some clue, are even now on the trail of the per petrators of the outrage, no one can say. Bloodhounds were quickly bro ught to the scene ,but possibly be cause of the fact that no articles of clothing belonging to the in fants were available, the use of these astute animals was without avail. Some encouragement was afforded upon their first arrival, when they appeared to pick up a scent, and with uplifted noses and excited baying, made off down the beach. Hope quickly gave way to despair, however, when the hounds were discovered by this scribe, at the kitchen door of the “Croatan Hotel,” from the inner portal.= • which emanated the delicious odor of succulent Southern fried chicken. And who could blame em’? Sheriff Meekins being called to the scene, immediately upon dis covery of the crime, looked the ground over and stated that in his opinion, the mystery was one which would require special talent to unravel. He gave it as his be lief that it was the work of a felis domesticus, and that a quali fied ornithologist be called. No one knowing the meaning of either the words felis domesticus or ornitholo gist, the sheriff’s advice was of lit tie value. Asa Toler, self appoint ed guardian of the beach, who was one of the earlier arrivals, and who may possibly have discovered evi dence which was later destroyed by the footprints of the thousands of spectators, avidly seeking the sensational, stated succintly that “a cat ’et ’em.” Possibly he is right. In any event this newspaper will keep its readers informed of any denoue ment. And in the meantime we are offering a reward of $10,000.00 for the return of these children to their parents and for the apprehen sion of the malefactor or malefac tors. Such crimes must be discouragei and we are determined to do our part. One of the most enthusiastic Nags Headers we know of is Jack Badham of Edenton, w.ho has been spending his every free moment on the beach for a number of sum mers. Jack, or Jackie as most folk.^ know him, is an ardent bowler and bather, and spends a good deal of his time at dances. At the Beach Club the other night he was asked whether he was enjoying himself, and like the true Nags Header that he is, he replied: “I always enjoy myself.” Which is sort of typical of his ways. Jackie hasn’t definitely decided whether he willTe here for the en tire summer, but He says if the right job turns up and things break the way he hopes they will he’ll be here until fall. ! :— TOM NIXON. JR., MARRIES MISS MARGARET HARWELL 1 Thomas Jones Nixon, III, better known to the majority of his beach friends as Tom Nixon, Jr., was married last week to Miss Mar garet Harwell of Coronado, Cali fornia. I Tom and his bride will make their home in Coronado. : Fuller ( Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Fuller of Raleigh are spending the summer in the Fuller cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach. I 0 0 0 j Visiting Mrs. Brown I Mrs. Everett Burgess and Mrs. I Wilburt Whitehurst are visiting : Mrs. Ruth Brown at Kitty Hawk Beach. Talk about embarrassing mo ments. A couple of other fellows and i were talking with a trio of beach belles the other morning when I made the slip of a lifetime. One of the young ladies asked me what time it was, so I proceeded to drag out my 12 ounce ticker and correctly answer her question. 0. K. so far. It so happened that I was wear ing a pair of these sloppy, loose THE TRENTON ■ V ■ ■ '■fin" ni.i i. since before the beach highway was constructed, advanced the theory that widening of the present road would be a dangerous step. It was his contention that the narrow ness of the road keeps motorists from speeding, and therefore is a boon, rather than a menace, to driv ing safety. Cawthorne suggests instead of adding a few feet to the present road which he says would bring about faster driving on the beach and consequently more serious wrecks, that a two lane highway should be built. It’s his idea to leave the sand asphalt highway as it is, and use it for north bound traffic entirely, and then build a similar road some two or three hundred yards to the west, which could be used exclusively for south bound traffic. Cawthorne contends that a two lane highway must eventually be built in this section to handle the steady influx of outside traffic, and it’s his idea to do the job right now, instead of letting the thing ride. From another source came a suggestion similar to Cawthorne’s, except it was suggested that the south bound lane be built parallel ing the standing road, and within fifty yards of the nirth bound lane. And from Brack Dawson, popu lar owner of tKe Nags Head Beach Club there came an entirely dif ferent idea. He advanced the hope that within a few years the high way department would see fit to clos^ the 14 mile stretch of beach highway to through traffic, and construct in its place along the shore of Kitty Hawk Bay and Roanoke Sound, and through the fitting slacks, which tend to hang all around a fellow’s belt, and Kitty Hawk and Nags Head'woods” ' ’ " " ■ a through highway for traffic to which also have mighty small pock ets. In attempting to put my watch back I missed the wate.h pocket and dropped it inside my pants instead. If you’ve ever stood, with three girls watching you, and traced the course of a watch as it slipped down inside your pants, from the waist, to the hip, to the tEigh, and then finally down the leg and out at the bot tom, you probably know how I felt. Miss Nita Newbold of Hertford •has been flitting around from house party to house party so much these ing of past few weeks we’ve been unable to keep up with her in our social columns. g'O we decided to write and from Roanoke Island. Daw son suggested that connecting links should be built at inter\mls of every mile or so, from the through high way on the back side, to the local road on the ocean front, or that cars should be kept away from the beach highway, and transportation •on the developed Dare County beaches limited to bicycles, and pull carriages. It’s his idea to build a resort patterned after Ber muda, where peonle could find rest and Quiet without the constant feel ing of hurry that surrounds so many other reports. If this sug gestion were followed, the oonnect- r" - The old steamer Trenton, which for many years was the foremost method of conveyance between Nags Head, Manteo, and Elizabeth City. Competition from modern trucks and buses put the Trenton out of service several years ago, and the last we heard of her she was being junked at New Bern, N. C. something special about her; any body who has enough of that cer tain something to be invited on a Davidson house party, a Carolina house party and a general .home town house party in the same week deserves to have something special written about her. ■We ran across Miss Newbold the beginning of last week playing tag with the hearts of half a dozen or so of those manly looking fellows who were down for the week from Davidson College. S.he wowed them, and it pjeased her no end. In fact it pleased everybody concerned except the fifteen girls who had been brought do^wn supposdly as the regular dates for those same Davidson youths. Next we saw her up at Kill Devil Hills again leading the procession —this time the boys were follow ing her, and naturally enough the ■)ther girls in the party were fol Please turn to Page 4) ing links would have large parking snaces on the ocean side, and the Roanoke Island and Lost Colony traffic would pass over the way fringing the bay. high- • Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Flovd Flet-her of Washington, D. C., visited Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Fletcher in the Good win cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach last week end. o o o Brown Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brown and family of Elizabeth City are stay ing in the Brown cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach. 0 0 0 ^ At Ludford’.s Mrs. Blanche Lamb is yi'^iting Mrs. Enoch Ludford in the Edlina cottage at Kitty Hawk Beach. 6 o o Holtz Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Holtz of Cleveland, Ohio, are staying at the Croatan.
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