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Wk) \ / Jl --r ■-'•-/v’.^Yr^, ■-vvai ^ Weekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches—Foremost Summer Resort, Fishing and Hunting Haven )^PL. 1; NO. 6 NAGS HEAD, N. C., JULY 6, 1939 MY WEEK By BOB BOWERS Drt reams almost set Paul Green '^reaming- in his bed last week, ttending rehearsals every night reworking the show set his iiid in a turmoil of fret and fury; touch so that he dreamed all °rts of things had happened to the th Colony. In one dream _ ® time was the opening night of ® show. With everything in ®adiness; light, costumes, scenery ^J'd all of the expectations in the 'orld, six people showed up. Not toy that but it began to rain and NAGS HEAD COTTAGE LINE WILBUR WRIGHT HAS CAPACITY CROWD FOR 4th POSTMASTER the '’ast dis: SIX lonesome patrons lost in the amphitheatre sat in solemn ^ ®ust. One dream of that kind asn’t dream enough. Another ision came to haunt him and make 'to skeptical of renewed success his dream. This time a ship ailed Up into the sound straight "to the stage structure and tore I j,^ay the whole theatre waking; f’ Green from a sound sleep '• ^ 'th the feeling that it was all ^er. There being no medium about .ho could interpret his hallucina- 1 our playwright lived in a orrible state of apprehension un- d opening night when a good towd came and went away welt P eased. Even the first lady of the ®"d came to add her stamp of ap- ""'"'al to the Lost Colony. * 4: -■^^ready with more .history than sne ■ ■ '2^ V. y - V-*" » i ,%■ *1 ^ -aS*S^. THIS AERIAL PHOTO, taken two years ago. the Arlington Hotel. shows the old Nags Head cottage line looking north from e'v Weeks ago. A book reviewer New York Times, and prob- a provincial New Yorker who ^pesn’t know much about the out- pde World, wrote in a Review of , ""1 Green’s latest volume of plays, ,, "t of the South,” which contains , Lost Colony, that the great '■"toa was being pre.sented each "tomer “down in Virginia.” Now, ^nat do you think of that? That . as reason enough for DELAPIDATED AUTOMOBILE IS PRIDE OF PAPER BOYS Each morning when Virginia j celebra.te, Virginia was Transportation Co. bus driver S '^eti credit for the Lost Colony a week they’re going to take the Sea shore News around to all the cot tages each Thursday morning. Asked how many daily papers they deliver, the boys estimated that Sam Midgett pulls into Nags Head with his load of mail and passen- ^ gers three boys from up Kitty i Hawk way are on hand to meet !him. Sam .heads on .... j ■ • .. i, ■ Manteo these same boys pile into' had in the past is not being able to .. _ _ _ . *... Ty-wT* their delapidated and TRIP TO VISIT MRS. ROOSEVELT NETS RESULTS If a good beginning has anything to do with it the new Wilbur Wright Hotel up at Kill Devil Hills will prove to be a prosperous en terprise for Captain and Mrs. T. A. Baum. "Work on the Wilbur Wright was begun less than two .months ago, but Saturday the Baum’s threw open their doors and announced to the general public that the Wilbur Wright Hotel was ready for busi ness. Saturday night all thirty of the Wilbur Wright’s rooms were taken, ..and again Sunday and Mon- (day night the Baum’s had a full I house. \ Mrs. B.aum, who is personally su pervising the management of the new hotel, said yesterday that the week end’s business exceeded the hopes of the .management for the opening. S.fie said also that there are still a number of things which they did" not have time to complete before last Saturday, which will be finished during the next couple of weeks. The Wilbur V/right is located on the ocean front directly opposite the Kill Devil Hills National Mon ument. It is finished on the outside with the popular white asbestos shingles, which have so greatly im proved the appearance of new Please turn to Page 4) CROWDS FLOCK TO BEACH THEN FLIT BACK HO^IE AGAIN An estimated 5,000 persons from over half of the states of the nation and at least five foreign countries visited the developed Dare County beaches and Roanoke Island over the week end and July 4th, it was reported yesterday. The largest crowds of the sea son were on hand to inspect the Wright Brothers’ great national monument atop Kill Devil Hills, ac cording to custodian Horace Dough; and over at Fort Raleigh all exist ing attendance records for this period of the year were smashed. The new Wilbur Wright Hotel up at Kill Devil Hills, the Nags Head er Hotel, The Croatan Inn, Par- .kerson’s Hotel, the First Colony Inn, and the Arlington Hotel were all filled over the four day holiday, and boarding .houses and tourist I homes along the 14 miles of beach- MRS. E. C. TWIFORD, the popular porL" elceLnt'rsteess''’""^ Postmaster up at Kill Devil Hills. The usually acute feeding prob- She is the daughter of Captain and igjjj „„ Roanoke Island was eased Mrs. W. H. Lewark of the Kill considerably this week by the Devil Hills Coast Guard Station, opening of the new Community and a hard working and conscien- lining hall in Manteo, and Roanoke tious postal representative. Mr. Historical Association offi- and Mrs. Twiford own and operate cials said that the addition of a the Kill Devil Hills Service Sta- number of new ro'oming houses has tion, which is one of the most at tractive establishments on the beach. The First Lady of the land came down Saturday night to see the' third season’s opening of the Lost Colony, and Sunday morning the CRITIC COMPARES LOST COLONY WITH FAMOUS PASSION PLAY Considering the stoort time the fro: secession ^ 'to the Union, but the old North fate kept her head, Virginia made they were handling about a hundred I nf fVig Seashore News piled ^ at present, but they hastened to j ^ borrowed Automobile .and j company has been in rehearsal. And a couple of minutes after! add that business is picking up all j Goose\fng Club, where ;sam Selden has done a remarkable down the line toward | tliet'me. The mam trouble they ye j ghe was reported 4 have spent the, Colonial evening. We haft intentions of . , , . j • Model A P’ord I locate a place where orders for the | cornering Mrs. Roosevelt and hoti'^^y®- lay mind, this pres- ' 1 ® lent cast is far and aw.ay the best balanced and most talented group begin delivering daily papers' delivery of daily papers could be boxing her with pertinent along 1 left, but we’ve solved that problem. Gons Dare I for them by offering to take paper orders here in the Seashore News to the cottages and hotels the 14 miles of developed County beaches. . The boys are Martin Jennings, ! olbce. a fpn, ''",“''1 Ashby Browii and Glover Grice,! No tip „ V. her press,_ bail from Elizabeth Brown, Jennings and Grice would v„ settled m a Jennings and Brown are the i be complete without some mention '’ay gentlemanly manner. ^ ,.,p«7=r,PTipr- He- - ■ • -J 4. boss men m this newspaper ae Many people have the idea that^j.^^^y business, and Grice has sort ques- deluing with her impressions story concerning Messrs. of this section. After an almost! ^his capable director has uneventful journey over the sand.^^d t" work with to date, and be- ‘ fore many days have passed, it is our belief that Mr. Selden and Mr. had one minor flat tire) we rived at the .club at 10:47 on dot, only to learn that Mrs. Roose- and smooth .of a hard time being the only hire ling for both of them, but he turn ed the tables on the other fellows not so many days back and started a business of his own. He delivers Coca Cola anywhere on the beach for *. 'I is history, it happened in Vir. Stoia; and if it is corn liquor it was ‘‘de in North Carolina; but not fi com liquor was made in North “^folina and not all history was toade in Virginia. There is no .arthe^mte"of "six” bottles that f quarter and his business is sudden-1 proven had realized that they ^ ^ow Grice is the toarkp product and put business and Jennings that^!^®.f ^ 1 ' and Brown are his assistants in the WnP.‘'a I I enterprise, which sort of evens ^'■ rn I things up in this business of who /oad that just two miles north. Norfolk of their automobile. It’s a model A Ford (year undetermined) which the boys have painted yellow, red and green. When it approaches on the highway there is a perceptible shimmey in the front wheels, but on mentioning this fact to the boys they claimed it was .an optical illu- way. And we feel that it’s siiOn. That it will pull in sand was | better not to be able to get .any this morning when they farther than the back door when running a histrionic velt had left Tor Washington ;t' P™du®tion as has appeared eight o’clock. That left us at a Broadway this season. The second definite disadvantage at the out- set. the thought that we last Sunday, but we quickly comforted our-'^‘'^® ""a^ked both improved staging selves with probobly couldn’t have gotten any farther than the back door any- i lot (Contnued from Page 3) (Goiitnued from Page 3) nd the sober sincerity of the play ers. (We give you the word sober in its most literal interpretation.) With scarcely an exception we believe the newcomers in the cast to be better qualified to portray their parts than were their prede cessors of a year and two years greatly improved the local hous ing situation, resulting from a sud den influx of Lost Colony visitors. No serious accidents were re ported eithTer on the beach or on itoanoke Island, which is some thing of a record for Fourth of July vacation periods. The traffic ago. This belief, notwithstanding situation was kept well under oon- some criticism heard at random. 1-""^ hy the ever watchful group of The new historian, Henry Buckler State patrolmen stationed in this reads his lines with resonance .and section, and no disturbances from feeling, and does much to carry the fireworks were reported, spirit of the play. Beatrice Hen- The Nags Head Beach Club, the dricks, as the queen, has voice, car- Nags Head Casino, filling stations riage and personality, and the ar- and other amusement centers along tistic qualifications to portray her the beach reported execllent busi- part faithfully. If her acting in ne;s. Although the new fishing the beginning has been marked pier down at the southern turn of perhaps by too great reserve, yet the beach high^^ay has not as yet it was noticeable for that certain been opened to public use the dignity one would expect in a builders announced that a ’large queen. Undoubtedly, as she gains number of tourists inspected the in confidence. Miss Hendricks will new project. deliver her lines throughout with Around three thousand nersons greater feeling. The difficulties including Mrs. Franklin D Roose- embodied in an outdoor production ^ number of other cele- such as this, are not generally un- ^ derstood by the public. A voice, indications point to good business for instance, that would carry ^ ^ uusmcss beautifully in an indoor theatre, be lost entirely here. It is here General Buckshot tied his and then rush off to find out .^tout this peculiar phenomenon. Th act of I does the hiring. The boys deliver the Ledger Dispatch, Norfolk Virginian Pilot and Raleigh News and Ob- ■ i server each morning, the Elizabeth ® ® becomes an oc-. Advance each afternoon, toon for open-mouthed wonder, i o' _ - True, this whole territory was called Virginia. With that in ^ "Us the simple every day i j and the Philadelphia Inquirer on i Sundays. And beginning next CATHOLIC CHAPEL IS CROWDED FOR DEDICATION 'toJ, the soreback state might ‘ake legal claim to Carolina’s east Oast. 'PRg niodern way to take ^ Would be to flood this section 'to Virginians, hold a plebiscite in ® best Hitlerian manner and take i n,',being impossible, why not | ^nd white Cath- thp ® Virginia? Let.gjjg Chapel, resting almost at the states Rjjgg gf (.Rg memorial to the Kam border in a checker j^j-ight Brothers up at Kill Devil coida ■ Governor of Virginia rjrr overflowing Sun- Thp T Williamsburg against ^jgR Catholic officials sol- sra Colony. Such measures | proceeded through the color- necessary, however, since. .ogj-emonies of dedication, a sr already admitted with | Although the official dedication , to&h that The Lost Colony is notigf (.he chapel, which h4s been: those"-'" Virginia,” but belonp named the Church of the Most Holy] THE PARAGUAY IN HER BETTER DAYS ii .iwf*’- .1 coming week. may be lost entirely nere. it is Todaj, though, the beach was necessary therefore, for ea.oh mem- ° ' ® regular sum- br of the cast to discover or to be f Preparation for a taught an entirely different pitchi^wo month- season that should be fen: than they have been accustomed to. The scene in the palace, upon the return of Governor White, was outstanding, and here Miss Hen dricks really lives her part. Robert Lowes as Sir Walter Ral eigh and Russell Collins as John Borden offer ample testimony as to their abilities, and we are happy to note that Bill Shakespeare has ma tured from a country bumpkin to what, without under exercise of the imagination, one might conceive of as a prototype of the illustrious one of the most prosperous in local ■history. CONGRESSMAN WARREN RENTS DEWEY COTTAGE FOR THE SUMMER This newspaper is happy to re port that Dare County’s favorite adopted son. Congressman Lindsay C. Warren, has taken the Dewey cottage at Nags Head Shores for the summer. Mrs. Warren, as pleasant and attractive as evei’, has bard. However. Item. Is the in-: "’"e®dy moved in with her cbarm- troduction of the great poet into | daughter and two boys. Con- the very heart of this fine drama'Warren returns^ from in any way essential to it ?, Ocracoke this week and will be ■Would Shakespeare himself have ^’'th us for several days before he yielded to the possible significance t .'.'shington.^ of a questionable casual acquain-! everyone in this section, we tance between two men, even.""® afraid, is fully aware of the though they were of some historic | ®f Congress- importance, so far ai to project'fan Warren s love for Dare Coun- the figure of one of them enisodi- M-y .to"*? ^"'®"*^®Bip for our people, cally into a play in the action of I'yBich have been evidenced through which he takes no part jvhatso S'ood-for-nothing Tar Heels. R0j00^0j’^ was not held until this; Rawls Here J. L. Rawls and narty are 1 "^tog at the Croatan Hotel for two Weeks. 0 o o At Croatan Dr. Frederick H. Koch and Bob of the University of North Q f'Olina and Dr. Arthur Hobson "ton of the University of Pennsyl- "toa were at the Croatan this »Obd. They also attended ® Lost Colony. n o 0 A't the Croatan AtU Mrs. William Hayden of _ “bta, Georgia, .are staying at the "oatan for two weeks. UqIU fUava rlnT-ino- the month COAST GUARD DID A GOOD JOB RESCUING PARAGUAY’S CREW Wrecked Oil Tanker Up at Kill Devil Hills Was Pride of Sun Oil Company’s Fleet been held there during the month of June. The sermon Sunday was de livered by the Rev. John J. Scally of New York, who was instru mental in having the little chapel erected. The service was .a Pontifi-1 cal high mass, with Bishop Eugene Twelve years ago there occurred ; „ "Rev ion the coast between Kill Devil J. McGumness pontificating B®^:jjrr ^itty Hawk Coast Guard Scallv served as Ue/con oi xne Mass; and Rev. Vincent Jeffers of .stations a ship wreck which might New York served as Sub-deacon. turned out to be a major dis- Rev. Denis F. Lynch of Raleigh aster but for the highly efficien served as arch-priest, and Rev. and heroic work of three Cpast Francis Kelly of New York and Guard crews. The wreck i^ms that Gross of Edentontof the Paraguay, an oil Tanker. Rev Mich- shown in a picture elsewhere in (ever? We doubt he would have I done so, even to establish a m.oot I point in history. Governor John White and P' mon Fernando, as played by Bob Bowers and Sam Hirseh, respec tively, are notable portrayals. And are glad to hear sounds other Because of the bad weather con ditions and poor visibility, her plight was not discovered until around nine o’clock that morning, at which time the crews from thej.^g Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and: the falsetto chirpings of im- Bell '^®Ln Bell visited friends in * ly Hawk Saturday. Rev. Edward "L. were deacons of honor, ael A. Carey of Elizabeth City, v/no will serve as_rector of the Church of tKe Most Holy Redeemer, was master of ceremonies. Attending' also was Mrs. H. C. Lawrence .of New Bern, a frequent: as being perhaps the outstanding visitor to this section, who donated, tanker then in operation. She was Allie Walls is”Uavms- at Nags!the land on which the chapel washable to make the trip from Galves- thirweek! [built. |ton, Texas, to Philadelphia in five Nags Head into action. stations were called and a half days with 1,000,000 gal Ions of crude oil as cargo. The' By that time the Paraguay was Sun people sold the Paraguay tojm.abad way. Waves breaking the Costa ^ydia & Co., of Alex-j over her sides poured water into andria, Egypt, a Greek oil concern, j her hold and put out her fires. The While enroute from Seville, I storm-driven waves swept the life Spain, to New York City with | boats from their davits, leaving the $75,000 forth of crude oil in her; crew of 28 men at the mercy of 0 0 0 Walls is today’s paper as she looked when she was the pride of the Sun Oil Company’s tanker fleet. When the above picture was ta- ! ken, the Paraguay was considered hold, the Paraguay sprang a leak in a gale off the Virginia Capes on the elements, with no hope of be ing saved unless the Coast Guard; December 2, 1927. Listing badly could work a miracle and save and driven steadily down the coast and off her course by a northeast storm, the tanker finally went aground early on the morning of December 4, about 300 yards off shore from a point about halfway between the_ Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard stations. them. The Coast Guards didn’t work any miracle, but they did turn in a heroic performance and a lot of hard worlc and managed to save all the crew except four men who were (Please turn to Page Two) mature youth, emanating from the bosoms of sentimental number one and of sentimental number two. Rumble on thou men of might. Perhaps we are inclined to cleave too strictly to the literal, but, considering the fact that this was to be a permanent embarka-1 tion; that they were journeying into a wilderness where entire de pendence must be placed upon their own ingenuity, it seems to us that the colonists left the fort rather lightly burdened. It is somewhat the period of his incumbency in of fice. They range through legisla tive labors necessary to drafting .and passage of the Wright Me morial enactment, dozens of bills of prime importance to our Coast Guard service, WPA, CWA, U. S. Army engineering projects, to a ■culmination in the enactment of the National Seashore enabling bill. A comprehensive description of them all would fill this newspaper. One of these days, perhaps, the citizenry of Dare and the other South of the Albem.p.rle counties, will get together to show their ap preciation of Mr. Warren’s labors in their behalf in a practical way. Miss HANNA ACCEPTS POSITION WITH TSIEM’S Miss Margaret Hanna of Eliza beth City, has replaced Mrs. Harold of Tn'oirDa^ C^nVy rasTom; per;,G"^^^^ as office manager for the haps, for we ourselves have travel- Seashore News. Miss Hanna has led to distant points, on several oc-l^ad considerble experience m this casions, with pro,minent citizens of (Please tarn to Page Two) sort of work and has snent much time in this section during the past few years. .''■11 fi 1
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