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/ / ^ Weekly Newspaper Published in the Interests of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches—Foremost Summer Resort, Fishing and Hunting Haven VoL. I; NO. 8 NAGS HEAD, N. C., JULY 20, 1939 MY WEEK By BOB BOWERS j, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Christy 'lathewson, Indian Joe Bender and *hree-Finger Mordecai, illustrious they may be in the annals of . ^seball, are about to be crowded V'to one corner of baseball’s hall of tame. The whole of the great Am- pastime’s history will be Scrapped; for the game has entered hito a new era. The Lost Colony *^ast has taken to the diamond. It' all began with a challenge ttoni the choir to a softball game “tt at the Fishbowl. Now, a popu- idea is that those engaged in arts are not supposed to know ^hything about or be .able to play ®tiy sports, but after the initial Same in which the singers walloped ‘ae cast, the actors came back and chorus began to chant a differ- ^•'t tune and it wasn’t Justin. Ihe Lost Colony cast began to hit. million dollar outfield went into Action. Harry Davis, associate di- ?',®'=tor, pitched the ball up with a 'Shtning speed, and the rest w’as ®®’Sy. The best little ball team that missed a pop fly wms a-bornin’, , Bedford Thurman,, otherwise ktiown as Preacher Martin in the I^ost Colony, looked like a presti digitator the way he snagged those “^lls on third base. Fred Howard all of his skill as a dancer CASINO TO HOLD FREE TEA DANCE 1 EACH AFTERNOON I Every afternoon from 3:30 until i 5 o’clock for the remainder of the! summer the Nags Head Casino will j hold free tea dances in their up-j stairs ball room, manager “Eas” Wescott announced yesterday. First in the series of free dances will be held Friday afternoon, and at 3:30 every afternoon for the re mainder of the summer the man agement will provide an hour and a half of costless dancing. Westcott said that his nickle- odeon is stocked with records of t’ne most popular numbers, played by the nation’s outstanding orches tras, and the dancers will be allo'W’- ed to choo.se any of the records they wish to have played. Fr8e music and ball room space for an hour "rvd a half each after noon is something that few dancin' enthusiasts w'ould care to miss, and Westcott said everyone is invited to attend the tea dances. Although the Beach Club and the Casino generally hold free concerts or tea dances Sunday afternoons, this will be the first time in the his tory of the Dare County beach re sorts that free dances have been held every afternoon. LOOKING DOWN CELEBRATION IDEA IS CATCHING ON; DARE YACHT CLUB PLANNING RACES 1 .‘J-'- HARD ROW FOR J«pping_ around shortstop to make ^ jLURg TO SHOW position impregnable. On sec- base, Howard Bailey looked the reincarnation of Frankie f'^isch. On first base, Martin Kel- ®gg covered the diamond like the And in left field, Wanchese ^osenburg, bent double to prevent the ball from passing between his slightly arched shanks. Because of the name, softball 't}ay sound easy, an innocuous pas- t'hie to be indulged in by the portly ^embers of the Rotary Club or the ^Bvanis. But battered heads, stub bed fingers, sore legs and charlie I'hi'ses among the members of the Colony prove otherwise. Minor disabilities haven’t slowed the show dp at all, but there are some pained depressions and groans whenever ^hftieone has to kneel on stage. Backstage, little groups are gathered in every dark corner dis- dhssing the chances for the next ®dme, and the actors have all lost Ih«ir identity as characters. So- ^hd-so is no longer Sir Walter kaleigh or Governor White or Bssex; he is a “dead left field hit- or a “sucker for an inside Even the cries of the colon- have been affected by the new fd; for at the Queen’s entrance a lew 1 _ ' ■ lied save our Queen”, a shrill voice '•dPie out with “Slide you sonofa- ®PP slide.” . B the attendance at these friend- ^ games continues, it is rumored the management is seriously Considering dropping The Lost '-olony and backing the cast team dgainst all comers. It is a cer- tainty that from now on when try- oats are held for the choice of act- ^*■8 each year, the first query will ?ot be, “How many .and what plays ??''e you been in,” but what the historical Association wants to know is “Can you hit?” yyOMEN’S COMMITTEE, ^gPTO BE AT BEACH WEEK END Women’s Committee of the hginia Electric and Power Com- of the Norfolk, Portsmouth Suffolk offices, will entertain ,, “ Week end party to be held at J® Kags Header Hotel, at Kitty ^''k Beach. , Inose attending wdll be: Mrs. ^gnes Rose, Mrs. Elsie Browm, Dorothy Whitehurst,. Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Ruth Kane, M.?.bel Bibb, Mrs. Pattie “hite, Mrs. Clara Vaughan, Mrs. ydi'othy White, Mrs. E. M. Jesse, phs. Mary Cook, Misses Mildred Margaret Shoop, Campie Martha Gra- CAFE’S RATING Motor and Sail Boat Races May Be Held on August 19th and 20th VIRGIE PERRY ■ Most of us are accustomed t() looking up at the great Wright Memorial on top of the grass covered Kill Devil Hills, but few' of us have had the opportunity to look down on the monument from above. This photo shows how Kill Devil Hills looks to the many aviators who circle the monument, in passing along the coast. FIELDS & MEEKINS PROMOTE FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE Operators of restaurants and other puublic eating places who fall to cooperate with the Public, as re- Colonist Inn Is Scene of quired by Chapter 186 of the Pub lie Laws of 1921, as amended, and refuse to prominently display their rating cards will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, it was announced by Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State Health Officer. “Of course, w'e had rather not re sort to the more drastic procedure of having offenBers arrested and brought into court,” Dr. Reynolds went on, “but if it takes that— well, it will have to be that w'ay. Those who are called upon to suffer the consequences will have only themselves to blame. “I have just received a report from M. M. Melvin, one of our dis- _ trict sanitarians, who secured the I the citizenry. arrest of Chris Gallos, manager of! Milgrom’s band wull be returning the Presto Luuch, in Winston- Affair; Milgrom’s Band To Play Friday night when the Lost Col ony actors finish their grand march and the audience begins to slowly file out of the amphitheatre, across the street in the Co'onist Inn, Count Milgrorn will strike up .his band, and the big dance will be on. Wheeler Fields and Bill Meekins, promoters of the Friday night af fair, say they are planning to hold a series of dances in the Colonist Inn during the remainder of the summer if the one tomorrow night meets with the popular approval of M USIN’S A series of boat races lasting over two full days may be held late in August in conjunction with the proposed centennial celebration for the Dare County Beach resorts, it was learned yesterday. Backers of the centennial cele bration idea, in conference wdth of fices of the newdy formed Dare Yacht Club, unofficially agreed to hold power and sail boat races, probably in Shallowbag Bay, over a two day period during the height of the centennial celebration. Original plans for the celebra-} tion, announced in this newspaper' last week, called for boat races of some sort; but it was not until of-1 fleers of the Yacht Club announced ^ their plan for holding races late in August that .heads of the two! groups unofficially decided to holdi the races and the celebration at thej^IBB VIRGIE PERRY, of Kitty same time. * Hawk, who this summer is co-.man- The Dare Yacht Club, was first j ager of the Sea View Inn, located organized several years ago, but' opposite the Beach Club at Nags w.as disbanded in 1937. The reor- j Head Shores, ganized club was formed last week AUGUST 18, 19, 20 TENTATIVELY SET FOR BIG DdiNCS summer 'to this section after a week on the Salem. He was fined $60 and costs, but the fine was suspended on con dition that he abide bv the iniblic health jaw for a period of three years. “Fnieimg any public eating place,” Dr. Reynolds pointed out, “a patron has the right to a full viev' of the rating card of that place. If it is not in sight, he shouhi demr nd to see it, and if the proprietor or manager cannot or will not produce it, then the patron, who is entitled to the protection of the law, should feel obligated to report the incident. ••'I'he law plainly pays that the proprietor cr manager of any hotel or restaur:trt, immediately upon re-| ceipt of his certificate of rating, shall post it where it m.ay be easily observed by guests, that is, in a. conspicuous place. [ “This law must be enforced; our; people must be protected!” | Brown , Staying at the Frank Brown cot- j tage at Kitty Hawk are Capt. Wal-1 ton Stevens, Mrs. Walton Stevens; and son, W. Eugene Stevens, fromj Baltimore, Md.. and nephew' Ross D. j Stevens from Indianapolis, Ind. Be fore coming to Nags Head, Rossj Stevens toured the country with, his parents, taking in the fair atj San Francisco. ' road, and a large number of the beach visitors are expected to be on hand for the return engagemnt. The Colonist Inn, located directly opposite the Fort on the north end of Ro.anoke Island has been the scene of many gay dances in the past. Admission for the affair will be $1.00 per couple, and the danc ing will begin as soon as the Lost Colony is finished. Members of the Lost Colony cast say they are planning to go to the Please turn to Page 4) owei..g_ Ella Chase, P 'b, Alma Jakeman, Eva Fishbeck, . ®'b"gie Darden, Anita Minter, Mil- T.hatch, Jeanie Graham, Eu- Dickinson, Bessie Ives, Julie ,'*Wnson, Barbara Jarvis, Alice Tu- rp'"’' Mary Virginia Clark, Mary' kylor, Alice Hodges, Jeanette Edith Neville, Dolly Har- j-D, Bessie Fisher, Nancy Boyce, ®®tui Shank, of Richmond. ^ Staying at the F. Brown cottage atiH 1 k to-Claude Winston, Mrs. W. jjj all of Raleigh; Dr. and Mo^.’ William Kemp of St. Louis, g,.'> and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. ^®rnates of Elizabeth City SOFT BALL LEAGUE Representatives of the Nags Head, Lost Colony Cast, Lost Colony Choir, CCC camp, .and WPA camp softball teams will meet in the court house at Man- teo Monday night at 8 o’clock for the purpose of forming a regular softball league. The meeting w'ill be taken up with the election of league of ficers, the drawing up of a schedule, and the naming of the proposed league. All teams are urged to send representatives, since the future of the league depends entirely on the results of this meeting. Billy Watts invited Carlton Lis ter to the clambake he and a couple of his colleagues were putting on, the other night. Carlton graciously declined the invitation; saying, “I don’t like clams.” Billy was over come with surprise. Said he— “Who ever heard of anybody serv ing clams at a Nags Head clam bake.” * Funniest sight of the w'eek— Oscar Owens, Jr., and Tommy Nash pushing Oscar’s new car along the beach highway at 12 o’clock Mon day night, with the aforementioned gentlemen both garbed in white suits, city shoes, and straw hats. * ♦ * Woodrow Price, the Elizabeth City Daily Advance’s ace news hawk, has agreed to write a column for us in the near future. It was Woodrow who last summer so thor oughly debated the question as to w'.hether the natives started going bare footed because they saw the visitors running around without shoes or vice versa. It all ended up like that “Which came first—the egg or the hen” riddle, with visitors claiming they' started the fad, and natives also sticking up for their rights in the matter. » * * Marshmallow and weiner roasts are losing out in this matter of pop- 'ular beach pastimes. Time was; when a fella could count half a; i dozen bonfires on the beach most i ' any clear night, but nowadays, folks seem to be getting too lazy to gather the wood, get the marsh-j mallows and weiners, and start a fire blazing. At Cfoatan under the guidance of John Booth, ARMOR ADDED TO MUSEUM DISPLAY i channel will greatly enhance the Manteo section as a stopping off place for passing yachts. Officers, elected at the meeting were Jim Vannote, commodore: Lee Hassell, vice-commodare; Willis Pearce, purser; and Lawrence Swain, assistant purser and secre tary. A committee composed of Lee Hassell, John Booth, and Ralph Davis was named to taxe charge of preliminary plans for the boat races, which are tentatively sched uled to be .held August 19 and 20. O. J. Jones, T. S. Meekins, Dave Driskill, Clyde Hassell, M. L. Dan iels, John Booth and Ralph Davis were selected as a board of gover nors for the club. Membership in the organization •will not be limited to year around residents but 'will be open to summer visitors on the Is land and the beaches, as well. An official decision regarding the merger of the Yacht Club and the Centennial Celebration committee for the purpose of .holding the boat races in the latter part of August, will not be made until meetings of both organiz.ations are held. Beach businessmen and residents this week wholeheartedly endorsed plans for holding a large centennial celebration for the Dare County Beach resorts late in Au gust. Proprietors of the beach hotels, filling station and store operators, and managers of the Casino and Beach Club all expressed the opin ion that such^a celebration would be appropriate at this time. Every cottage owner consulted by this newspaper was definitely in favor of the idea, and many offered to give their full backing to the proj ect. Plans are already being formed for holding a series of boat races, lasting for two full days, in Shal- lowbag Bay, and tentative plans for a mammouth centennial celebra tion ball are also being m.ade. The suggestion that a beauty contest, to determine the most beautiful young lady in this section, be held is fast catching the public fancy, and it is expected that this part of the cele bration will prove to be one of the highlights of the two or three day AT FOUT RALEIGH I The celebration will probably be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Displays of the Fort Raleigh Mu seum are being considerably aug mented by several loans of prints and Indian relics, according to Mrs. Caroline Stringfield, museum cura- tor. ^ Four new steel pieces used by j the foot soldiers at the time of Sir! Walter Raleigh’s attempted coloni zation of Roanoke Island in the 1580’s arrived recently from Eng land. The four pieces are a steel breastplate, dated 1580; two Hal berds or spears, 16th century; and one Morion or steel helmet, 16th century. Indian relics were loaned this summer by Mr. A. D. Capehart, of Oxford, N. C. The collection in cludes an Indian paint pot, three excellent pipes, several rough cache blades, and a varied group of arrowheads, spear and bird points and were arranged by Joffre Coe. The University of North Caro- (Please turn to Page Four) August 18, 19, and 20. August 18 will, be Virg’inia Dare day at Fort Raleigh, and a large number of periodical visitors to this section are expected to return at that time. EASTERN INDIANS LIVED IN HOUSES Only Westerners Used Conical Wigwam NINETY-NINE PER CENT OF SOCALLED POISONOUS SNAKES WON’T EVEN BITE Harmless Hog Nose Snoke Is Only One Found on Beach; Poisonous Varieties Can’t Live Here Snakes, be they ever so harmless, are always news. Each year about this time, begins to appear in the public print, wild and improbable yarns concerning these humble creatures, which are generally more notable for an entire lack of know ledge concerning the subject, than ■ " ' We don’t The Lost Colony drama has been worked out with such careful atten tion to detail, generally, that the few incongruities w.hich do exist are particularly noticeable. One which has been particularly e-vi- denced to this writer is the use of the tepee or pole wigwam in a couple of the scenes. The conical wigwam is peculiar only to the Indians of the Western plains, and was developed as a re sult of the distinct requirements of I that territory. In the old days it was made entirely of buffalo hides, ! supported by long poles, w.hich, because of the scarcity of lumber, j were highly treasured and used j also as travels poles when the tribe I was traveling. It was not only ! quite different in structure from 1 those used at Fort Raleigh, but the ' smallest this writer has ever seen , was at least five times the size of I those referred to . The housing of the Eastern In- Among the guests at the Croatan Hotel this week were Eugene C. ■ for adherence to fact. _ Bouton of Arlington, Va.; Mrs. Suppose that there is a single mem- Oliver G. Taylor; Albert L. Good, her of the entire animal kingdom of Washington, D. C.; Mr. and so little understood and so univer- jMrs. L. E. Dowling of Petersburg, i s“lly and unjustly maligned as io 'Va.; Mrs. R. L. Lambeth of Greens-! this rarely^ dangerous, generally boro, N. C.; Mrs. Rose Lambeth of, beneficial wild creature. Of course Greensboro, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs.'the thing all began \\ rounds recently, and it appears that | the old bugaboo D again rearing its was an entirelv different ugly head. High time, seems like, He was less of a nomad to go a dragon .hunting. ' Now, we are quite certain that these so called “sand adders,” “spreading vipers,” “beach mocca-i;~J orGovernorWhHe’s sins or whatever one chooses to name ’em, were they conscious of and lived most of his life in fixed villages. The type of dwelling used at that period is well shown in draw ings and quite fully described in his writings and in letters sent out all the fear and excitement thei Harriott, Captain John Smith are responsible for, would laugh 2nd others. KILL DEVIL HILLS COAST GUARD George Brasfield and family of Eve, which seems like a mightj Petersburg, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. F. R. long time for abvsmal ignorance of Conklin and child of Kingsport, common and easily Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. Cromwell and facts, to persist in the son of Norfolk, Va.; Dr. and Mrs.; mind. , A. D. Morgan of Norfolk, Va.; Mr.| These somewhat primary thougnts and Mrs W. J. Sugler of Mount come to us as the resu o Airy, N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. M. T. severalincidents whichhaye.occur- Walker and son of Hartville, Ohio;: red recently. Just the other ay Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Greer of , a very nice lady approached us in Thomasville, N. C.; Carrie S. John-' considerable perturbation, -ft'ith the son of Lynchburg, Va.; Mrs. Fran- information that she had come cis Carter Scruggs of Lynchburg,' upon a ferocious appearing sna e Va ■ and Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Shaw, which had flattened its head, opened ' wide a fang infested mouth, and hissed at her in a most terrifying . , , .... f These were quite lit- themselves into that condition of -houses”, oblong in shape, somno ence which virtua ly their; normal state. For the truai of the P ... length sometimes with .'ith Adam and | known by .all these hoi rifle names, rooms, and con- of Garret Park, Md. 0 0 0 Fuller Guests manner. She added the infdrma- Mrs. J. E. Creech, Mary Anna tion that a native had assured .her Newland, Miss Dorothy Creech,! that the snake in ouestion was a Miss Helen Cunningham, Mr. and snnd adder. Mrs. John Love, Jr., .and Bryant, tain death. Manguni, all of Durham, N. C., are guests of Mrs. R. E. Fuller at Kitty Hawk Beach 0 0 0 Dr. Harvey Shipp of Little Rock, Ark., is, spending some time with his family at the M. G. Morrisette cottage. whose bite meant cer- Another Nags Header informed us the day following that not one but two of these same coiled at her very doorstep, since which time she had forbidden either of her children to set foot outside the cottage. These are but two of several snake stories which have gone the is just about as dangerous as a humming bird or a butterfly, and no more likely to attack a human being. In fact, were he to be over come by some sudden madness and his torpid nature aroused to mali cious action, his power to injure would be found absolutely nill, for he has no fangs, only the most im perceptible of teeth, too short even to pierce the skin. The proper name for this muc’ maligned little fellow is the hog nosed snake. His natural habitat is warm, sandy areas, and he is, in fact the only reptile of this terri tory able to exist for any length of time close to the seashore. Rattlesnakes, moccasins, copper- .heads, the only poisonous sn.’vkes found in the Carolinas, .are unable to withstand the direct rays of the snn, and would expire in a very short time in environments W'hi' spell home to their smaller cousin. Not only need no one become ex cited or perturbed over the proxim ity of these little beach snakes, but (Please turn to Page Two) structed of bent over saplin,gs, covered with anything from birch bark, in the north, to grass mats and deer skins in the South. UNIVERSITY RELEASES PLAY’S THIRD EDITION The University of North Carolina Press today announced that a third edition of Paul Green’s symphonic drama The Lost Colony, would be released within the next few days. Because of the popular appeal of the dra.ma the price has been reduc ed to $1 the copy. The new edition will contain all'the revisions made by the famous'North Carolina play wright during the past two years. Keith’s Kamp Staying at Keith’s Komp at Kitty Hawk this week are Mr. and Mrs. W. Paul Allen and Doug Koontz of Raleigh; Priscilla Lambeth and James Idol of High Point; Hoke Shore and George W. Flynt. Jr., of Winston-Salem; and Virginia Mose ley of Kinston. liii
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