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I A Weekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches—Foremost Summer Resort, Fishing and Hunting Haven '/OL. I; NO. 7 NAGS HEAD, N. C., JULY 13, 1939 CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FOR LOCAL RESORTS »AY BE HELD IN AUGUST BEGINNERS LUCK NETS 28 BASS Out of Staters Do Them selves Up in Royal Fashion DESERTED VILLAGE ON DARE MAINLAND ONCE AGAIN A PROSPEROUS MILL TOWN WHAT HAPPENS TWICE—MAYBE — Over on the Dare County main-1 businessmen Back Idea to Celebrate Nags head’s 100th Birthday in Conjunction With ' irginia Dare Anniversarj^ . If the idea meets with the popu- approval of local businessmen cottagers a lavish centennial Celebration for the Dare County 5®ch resorts will be held here some 'tt’g in August. Uie first large beach hotel in ACTORS WHO LIVE PARTS LOST CHORDS The proverbial beck of the begin-1 land on the banks of one of the ^ ner was amply exemplified one day Alligator River last week, when d party of out of | , , , .. , . state anglers, fishing as guests of! there huddles today the .almogt de- Father Ulicliael A. Carey, made a catch of channel bass which stands C. C. DUVALL I Publicist Is Fed Up on Radio ! Programs; So Is Most Every- ione Else I By FRED HOWARD 100 ®re County was built in 1838, and years ago the sound side set- Bearded Cents Are Fright ful to Look Upon jement at Old Nags Heau was a hriving summer colony. There is a possibility that the p^ntennial celebration may be tied With the 352nd anniversary of the birth of Virginia Dare on Roan- Island, which will be celebrated old Fort Raleigh August 18. Tentative plans for the celebra tion call for boat races, a beauty 1 contest, swimming races, some sort[ Parade with floats depicting the Srowth of the local summer colony, a grand celebration ball to top the grand doings. The celebration win be the first its kind ever held on the de- ^oloped beaches of Dare County, is expected to attract large ^owds, especially from Tidewater '^iTginia and the Albemarle section jif North Carolina. The only simi- affairs that this section has known have been connected directly odher wdth the Lost Colony or with The Wright Brothers’ first flight. the residents of Nags Head, ^itty Hawk, and Kill Devil Hills enthusiastic about the centen nial celebration idea, a committee for arrangements will probably be ®®lected within the next few days. Although the beaches of Kitty Nawk and Kill Devil Hills are com paratively new, as far as well popu- iated summer resorts go, the settle ment of Nags Head is one of the nldest beach resorts along the Al- Jantic coast. Time was, almost a hundred years ago, when folks nfnni all over north eastern North Carolina sailed to the sound side Nagg Head for their summer va cations. And more recently the ^feamer Trenton served as the most Popular means of transportation from Elizabeth City and points horth to Nags Head. The celebration, though, would hot be limited to Nags Head, Imt ^ould include Kill Devil Hills and Nitty Hawk as well. If has been suggested that some hort of a homecoming be tied in "'ith the centennial celebration, but hothing definite in this regard has hoen announced as yet. , A number of beach businessmen ■^'’0 already pledged their help in ho event that the celebration plans hre carried through, and quite a cottage owners have expressed ^hthusiasm over the idea, further developments in plans for he celebration will be published in h's newspaper at an early date. colony movie tO appear here soon The stranger, unsteeped in the lore of Dare County, who visits Roanoke Island for the first time, is pretty apt to see some unusual and astonishing sights before his stay has lasted many hours. There are the ox drawn carts, fishing craft of modern and ancient vintage, reed thatched log structures and dozens of other spots of greater or lesser (Please turn to Page Two) IS a near record jfor summer fish ing. The party, consisting of Mr. and defeated Mrs. Alan M. Moses, of Forest Hills, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Pey ton Moss, and their son, Peyton, scene, now remain but a’dozen or Jr., of Roanoke, Virginia, Pati-ic’k|so tenantable buddings, with their Cahill of Pittsburgh, and their host, than two score permanent in- Carey, took twenty-eight The LC choir again the cast Tuesday afternoon at base ball. The cast threw the game away on errors after it was in the bag. Having arrived too late to get into the line-up, I sat in the Father stands and wondered whether I ’ large channel bass Tuesday after- would have played as wild as my | noon. The fish ranged in size from team-mates. That reflection kepti twelve pounds up to thirty-eight serted village of Buffalo City, N. C. Where once a hundred and more families of mill worked in then modern cottages and boarding i houses gave at least the outward appearance of prosperity to the ii#’’ me from being too .hard on them with my sideline chatter. Monday Rietta Bailey’s family and Gib Lee’sTolks and a few oth ers of us went inlet fishing with Ken Ward just in time to get caught in the squall that came (Please turn to Page two) pounds, and were all captured by casting into the shoals. Herbert Perry, their guide, and mentor, states that in all his years of fish ing he has never seen a greater number of fish of this species in a single day, and he gave it as his (Please turn to page twio) '*1 MAY BE BROUGHT BACK habitants. In years past Buffalo City was a thriving lumber mill town, with carefully layed out streets lined by well kept one, two, and three story buildings, all painted a rich red in keeping with the lumber company’s color scheme. But not so many years ago the lumber company was disbanded, and the majority of Buffalo City’s buildings were abandoned and left Duvall, who runs Buffalo City’s ... T, r'.-f,,' only store, is also owner of the Fort In more recent times Buffalo City , has been termed by the casual visit- Raleigh Hotel in Manteo. or, ‘’a dead village.” Yet one who | possesses sufficient interest to look integrity of purpose of the Duvall beneath surface appearances, knows Brothers, who own and manage the that here exists a purposeful com-: small lumber mill and store; the munity, and one far more import- only commercial enterprises re ant in the economic and social maining active in that territory, scheme of things, than that mus.h- Y'et in that small mill are produced room city, founded so many years two items, which somewhat sub- ago on the basis of falsification and stantiate the old adage concerning wildcat speculation. j the production of mouse traps. Today, as for many years past, Here is manufactured what are the economic security of the inhabi-, probably the best juniper singles to tants of this village has been as- j sured by the energy, ability, and' (Please turn to Page Two) The old steamer Trenton, shown here landing at the old Nags Head sound side wharf, may be brought back to this section for the centennial celebration. MR. AND MRS. CAIRNS EXTENDED THEIR VISIT TO MONTH THIS YEAR Washingtonians Seem to Like the Section; Keep Coming Back For More BEACH ROMEO SAYS HE WOOED MOVIE STAR—THEN LEFT HER MISS JIMMIE GRIGGS IS ROYALLY ENTERTAINED When a country boy falls in love with a movie star it’s hardly worth mentioning, but when the movie star asks the country boy for a date, that’s news. Bernice Atkinson, beach trouble shooter for the VEPCO, yesterday told a representative of this news paper, that last fall he had a couple of dates with Bette Davis, consider ed by many to be the queen of film- dom, but because she seemed to be “just a country girl” and because he didn’t especially like her “long honky talk” he wasn’t too much im pressed with her. According to Bernice “she was right nice looking, and her seven passenger Lincoln car was a beau ty,” which should sort of square things up. The date came last fall when Bernice was called to Worcester, M.ass., at the time that Florida hur ricane got off its course and raised havoc in the New England states. Bernice was working about 20 miles out of Worcester one morning w.hen he was called to a huge man sion to fix the lights. When he had finished the job he asked for the lady of the'house and was escorted to Miss Davis, who seemed mighty pleased to have .her lights fixed, es pecially since she was giving a party that night. She invited Ber nice to the party, an invitation that no young man would rightly refuse, and after the party Bernice and (Please turn to Page Two) Mr. and Mrs. I-Iuntington Cairns of Washington, D. C., are spending this month at the First Colony Inn Mr. Cairns is Assistant Chief At torney of the United States Treas ury Department, and in addition is lone of the outstanding boo'k and ! theatrical critics of this country. . ' He has over 8,000 volumes in his That Miss Jimmie Griggs has a private library, for years .has read host of friends .all over this section!an average of a book a day, and is was evidenced Tuesday night when the author of fwo books on law, the she was given a gala birthday party second of which is scheduled to be at the Beach Club. Jimmie’s friends presented to the public within a few from all over the beach were given weeks. considerable support by a Lost Con- j Mr. and Mrs. Cairns have • been only and Manteo delegation in put- ^ visiting Dare County for several ting the party across. | years and have become so attached 1 Folk.s in this vicinity eagerly dialed their radios to one of the I Columbia networks’ many stations I June 27 to listen to a scheduled j half hour program dealing with j Paul Green’s symphonic drama the Lost Colony. Rehearsal difficulties at that time caused postponement of the sched- ! uled program, and put a definite ! cramp in the style of LC’s energetic I publicist, Tony Butitta. But little Tony came back the next week with news releases galore, in w.hich he announced that the improved ver sion of the radio program would be presented over all of the stations in the Columbia chain at 3:30 o’clock. Eastern daylight saving time, on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 11. So Tuesday of this week, which was July 11, people in a majority of local homes once again sat down beside their radios and prepared to listen to a half .hour’s program about their favorite play. But at 3:30 that afternoon every station in the Columbia network was broad casting the All Star baseball game, which actually was a mighty inter esting ball game, even though we were pulling for the Nationals, but which didn’t have much bearing on Roanoke Island or the Lost Colony. Biggest mystery in this section at present, is not what happened to the Lost Colony (the historians have gotten a good start toward clearing that matter up for us). Folks, instead, are looking for the lost Lost Colony radio program, and some have even gone so far as to venture the suggestion that the ! whole thing was ballyhoo anyway, j But this scribe just came from the ! office of the Roanoke Island His- I torical Association in the Court ! House at Manteo, where he has I been engaged for the past few min- I utes in a most serious conference shots, the article is considerably i with ace publicist Tony Batitta. different from the general run of i The information that Tony gave out reviews and criticisms that have i this time, and so help me on my gone out about the play. Cairns i word of honor it’s the truth, that rakes up much of his article with 1 unless another All Star baseball :he communal aspect of the pre- game is played off, the program sentation, and shows ably where will definitely be presented over Paul Green has succeeded and the Columbia network next Tuesday Jimmie was feasted royally on cake and other niceties. Miss Edith . to the section that they have each season extended their stay. Dubold, the Beach Club orchestra’s i Among the numerous magazine uuoiu, uie articles written by Mr. Caims dur ing the winter, was one on the Lost Colony, which appeared in the De- new featured singer, sang a num ber especially for her, and the party, as a whole, was a very sump tuous and elegant affair. Highlight of the evening’s enter tainment was a special dance by Jimmie and the Lost Colony’s big chief Wanchese, Don Rosenberg. Jimmie, as special guest, was oblig- (Please turn to Page Two) cmeber issue of the highbrow Magazine of Art. His article, called. Experiment with Music— The Lost Colony, is one of the best pieces we’ve seen printed about Paul Green’s symphonic drama. Profusely illustrated with the best of the Lost Colony publicity where he has failed in attempting to “first write an historical drama —secondly write a play would capture the interest of an isolated fishing community, which would be adopted to the acting abilities of a native -cast and sus ceptible ultimately of complete pro duction by the community. . . . and, he has attempted finally to write what he terms a symphonic drama.” He says that “Music is an inte gral part of the play and repre sents a definite experiment on Mr. Green’s part to further its use in the drama. It is not his first ex periment with music, although it is probably his most ambitious one. . . The music adds immeasurably to the effectiveness of the Lost Colony and assists in large part in the pby’s creation of the atmosphere of the period.” ftemoon. I got the information straight from Tony, and he got it which from James H. Passett, of Colum bia’s music department. And this Mr. Fassett, in case you haven’t been reading Tony’s releases, is in charge of the thrice scheduled pro gram, which by next Tuesday af ternoon should be worked into a top notch affair—we hope. KILL DEVIL HILLS BELLES TAKE MOVIES OF SUNRISE CAPE HATTERAS AND THE BUXTON WOODS ^^ramount newsreel pictures of Lost Colony drama and Roan- Island are scheduled to be shown during fhe coming week at Pioneer Theatre in Manieo. Al- ready seen by millions of theatre goers in large cities, the movie is ®^Pected to be viewed by more than sixty million throughout the Ration before the pictures are wilh- ui'awn from circulation. Cameramen Hugo Johnson and O’Eath were assigned the job photographing scenes from the Cost Colony and spent a pleasant "eek end in Manteo. POSTMASTERS SEE PLAY and TAKE OCEAN DIPS Yihen postmasters from all over Aorth Carolina met in Elizabeth City this week, they topped off heir convention with a trip to Dare County. The majority of them saw i^he Lost Colony that nig’it and quite a few stopped over on the heach, took a dip in the ocean, and attended one of the dances after the drama. Burgess Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Sanchin and children Robert, Bruce, and Carolyn # .^u®^iugton, D. C., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Burgess. It isn’t news on the Dare County beaches for folks to stay up all night and watch the sun rise the next morning. But it is nows when some of the cottagers get up early enough in the morning, after a good night’s sleep, to watch old Sol ascent over the eastern horizon. A couple of the girls up at Kill Devil were reported to have risen at 4 o’clock one morning recently in order to get out in time to take moving pitcure shots of the sun coming up out of the ocean. Whet’s the beach coming to I nowadays ? TOWN BOARD ENFORCES 25 MILE SPEED LIMIT I ‘.'C.b: ■ 1 'Warning Given That 'lantoo Speed- I ing Ordinance Will Become I ' .Effective I Warning that tbe 25 miles an hour speed limit within the town of Manteo will be enforced more rigid ly w.as given out yesterday iiy Woodson Fearing, member of the Town Board. The ordinance,, in effect for several years, ha.s been enforced only laxly since it was pa.ssed. A charge of reckless driving will be entered against any person thought to be -driving dangerously fast throufrh the Manteo business section. The town limits begin at highway street. BEN DIXON MacNEILL took his camera down the banks a while back and returned with these two interesting scenes of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The aerial photo on the left, taken from Dave Driskill’s plane, shows the famous Cape, and the picture on the right is of the trail which winds its way through the beautiful Buxton woods. . , Edlina Staying at Edlina cottage this week are Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Hedgepeth from Roxboro, N. C.; Mrs. P. H. Stem from Stem, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Smith from Rocky Mount. N C.; and Helen L, Smith of Baltimore, Maryland.
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