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' ’ . SECTION ro^iE v;
' EIGHT PXgES
SPORTFISHING BRINGS ISRE
$50^000 A MONTH IN SEIION;
RIVALS eONMEROIAt PISHING
&_Countif*8 Mos€ Iriiportaht Means of Liveli-
^ ^ .t »Tijr Ct ’'jkr ±* -
, Its ^Protection:; 'Entire SeHion’FanteMfoir-
- Fine Fishing and. Large Variety , ,. ‘
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By FRANK STICK
% - f'I£ better .port with rod and rwi
jj’ t'^can be had jinywhere'ih this coun-
■'try-than is to be discovered here
in'our coastal county, then this
scribe, concedes ills iimitatlons as
. y'i^i 'inVestlSdtor of matters pisca-
f'l'torlnl. For a good many years
■ s^iiow I liave pottered up and down
.-/’the coait frotn Maine to Florida,
' ' have dabbled my various lures and ,
/IbaiLs in mid-Western and Wes-
- 'vtern waters, and have yet to locate
' a tcrrltoi-y where game fishes,
'"abound in greater numbers or in I
more .satisfying variety. Yet this
sport is in itj infancy in
Ci.iGn, both in regard to'
employed, territory to be i
,4i-fished and vpiletlcs. to be sought,
fiv' vvithln?the pist'ttoec years the
numbers^of arigiersjSiWho visited
^'Oare^County has incfea:.ed at leasts
a thousand percent' andTlt'is. jiist'
beginning, v „
■ Back in inso and. thereabouts.
;it w.os.mqst unusual to tcb.-more
' 'tliaa,;tlirec' or fouf boats plying
;outr'of Oregon Inlet during the
spring and early summer run of
cliaimcl bass and bluefUhj ‘'lUid
' rarely, would ^hcre..^^inj^^ than
ONBiCiF TYRKECE’S
,'£A1»pted sons
Discovery of Soaiiake IslitiKl
A’maday and-.Baviow Forgotten Men in History
t 'k:. IJv FRANK STICK
Proof Enough of Finest Fishing;
randC
rcoaimlMion ’ that'rday;^;?Ih' fact;
1?.^
» i
Oregon ]^iet is now funoua'thru-
f out tire land, and for two, months
^ of tlic year probably attracts more
salt water anglers than any re
sort In the East. Yet they limit
themselves practically to two va-
■ , 'rietics of fish and employ but the
■ ' one method of angling—namely,
.trolling. ,,
iFoity Foim'Bass in Three Hoars
, ‘ The use' of artificial, lures Is to
*4bo commended for specific Reasons
;^and for certain varieties of fish,
>'. but it has its disadvantages, par-
'■ ■tlcularly under some conditions.
There is no doubt at all that if
' our guides were to resort more to
- -sUU’flshlng, particularly wh*'i the
? state of’the water precludes troll-
• ^Ihg to advantage, far better catch-
. ,cs .would be made, and the schools
would-be less harassed. Unques-
f 'tlonabiy the average results would
bc.bctter and the sportsmen them-
, .selves better satisfied. I remem
ber- fcveral years ago, my good
friend and mentor in the ways of
ch^hel bass, George Mann, now
tiecewed, with myself and two
companions, In three hours fishing
with floating cut bait, landed 44
.bass ranging up to 56 pounds Iri
lyeiglit. wlillc the best catch among
trdlle'rs that day, was but 9 fish.
i might add that only five of our
ftsli were killed, the remainder be
ing released from the hook with-
^^out removing them fr'-m the wat-
"cr. I am not deprecating the use
iSbf artificial lures, by any means,
'or I was one of the pioneers-In.
•ir
!l ^^tillzlnz metal gadgets for channel
-' 'pass and trout. In thls^-section.
T^ut it Is far over-done, and the
-■';v&itimate results may prove-ex-
''&edingly harmful. ' ■ - -■ ;
Personally I like to , fish with
plenty of elbow room;: and-there-
irc, most of my fishing for chan-
il bass is done late in the sea-
* . when our waters -are . less
wded, and at si time when the
•icat schools have broken up and
scattered up. and down our coast!
Compared with records made at
ether points in Virginia and the
Carc^as, tlic results hereabouts-
ly phenomenal. I have,
of over six hundred large
bass to be taken in one
he neighborhood of Orer
New Inlets. Comiwe
the results at Wacha-.
.yi'l-are;
kno
, 'chai
> ■ > ■ day
Jttev^;'j.|gon
j preagu^nd Chincoteaguc In Vlr-
■-'■■'■''.Vv'' '- .'fflnia and at. Mnrnhpflrt whprp
. '^ginla and at Morchcad, where frk-
^qucntly'lhc total recorded for the
y entire season will be far less than
.'''■’this number.
Large Olucfisii Catches
■' .;\s.iK--;'BluofisTi^tlic past several years
°° page. twoV?.
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J. ERNEST NORRIS, Mayor of
the Town of Columbia, although a
hatlvc of Wake. County Is one' of
the Southern Albemarle’s biggest
boosters^ He tried practising law
rut.,in 1022 later
yw^'slncei'.enjoying'^a
lucntlye-law ^^Uee. 'He has .been,
mayor'bf''bis’town 1 since ' 1935;
chairman of ’Tyrrcll-County’s wel
fare board; chair^n of the coun;
ty board jof elections; adjutant in
the American -teglori post and
superintendent of tlic Baptist
Sunday school. (Photo by Frlsby)
No ’acttiei'emenl in the entire
history ollhe American continent
has been more oitls.landihs frorn
the' standpoint • of romr.ntic._^glam'r
our and .licer drama than the
Ralcigli colonization of Roanoke
'liland in the years 1534-87. Yet,
Trom a standpoint of historical
importance and in its effect upon
the-.subsequent economic and soc
ial development of our nation, the
actual attempt at the establish
ment of a permanent .colony Is
overshadowed by the earlier act of
discovery and Ijorrtlorlal acquisi
tion. Notwilh.tnnding its mo
mentous significance, lilstorlans
in general hdvo deigned to give
but, little credit to those staunch
mariners, Philip Amadas and Ar
thur narlo.w, who. under the pa-
Ironage’of Sir Walter Raleigh, and
armed with, letters patent from
' Queen Elizabeth, entered. Trinity
Harbor and- look, possesslon'of .this
land ot. Jie 18th day of July,' 1584.
• The names of these two shipmast-
[ ers are missing from both the
I monument within the Fort Ral-
igh reservation and from the gate
posts erected by the United. States
government at the entrance. - Tlie
latter, in artistic 'and^ incon^'U-,
ous though they arc,' do,' at least;
serve to suggest tedera) acquisence
in our efforts toward the peniet-,
uation of this historic spot.
Amadas and Barlow Actual
Discoverers
Amadas and Barlow ivcrc not
only the actual discoverers, but
they also explored and mapped
the surrounding- region and- lo-
HE TOOK COBH’S
ADVICE
'il’r A,| ‘
•
DRAIA T@
FRGM
RING THRONGS
@VER THE NATiiSi
Greatept ^^ebrathmoffiUie^ Yegri?Ngtirai^
... wJdeXffi ScqpeMjit^^ 'Ikuhtier'gM
Tqfake!'PldceioiyRadnpk^I^^^
and: AugustyMangyNptalile^^^
sent; Prepdratidnsyor PageanPCdtls^f^i^
'HivgeP rografttf diid Fiiepardtidnd 'M^v^
Forward Rapidly: ^ Six
CHEAPER LIGHT
FOR ROANOKE ID
NOW IN EFFECT
New Rate Established April 1,
Enables People to Enjoy
More Current
flwtSmiey,.,.-
good witl’brt^^ahciniHnMl-lhl-.-,..
tahts; and It. max-be-‘add^',' th'at
R. BRUCE THERIDOE, a Dare
County man, as head of the De
partment of Conservation and De-.
velopment of tills state must havp.
gotten > tired faf hearing the out^
worn expressiori “North Carolina
Needs .a press agent,” attributed
to' Irvin S. Cobb some years ago.
'At any rate, last year, Mr. Ethe
ridge got busy and started a cam
paign for a quarter million dollar
appropration bo advertise North
Carolina, and this stasion of tlie
liCgLslatyse. made the,.oppropri?-,
tion'for'the' next bijennlum; It
d .Jinit. tho^jfilr'cctioa
m
CELEBRATION
DYNAMIC FIGURE
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sir-*
By WOODROW. PRICE
Drama‘s so ‘thrilling’ 'it surpe^Ma;
the'>imag{hntloti’'of‘ writers of fl6;S
lion, adyenturMuJt'a.’iierdy coli^i
ial group’.on-jiHkih 'a'snatiomAv'akl
built, tragethr-''»b ’ terrible tliat’iig
has gone dowin history as'one;
of the greatest unexplained myi
tcries of all time—.such'te,.the hcrli^J
tage of iilstorlcal lore that Is 'Roa-f
noke Island’s, the hcrltage"'tliat
surrounds reconstructc'* Port^lMl'
eigh on the island’s north, eiWrV^j;
To tliat shrine of a nation, acenc]
I of the first English scttlementa liiA;
America, -^11 flock hundreds, nfii
{thousands of ^Americans and..Ion^;'
clgners .this summer to a huge cel-
ebratlon commemorating the 350th;:'^^
HERE'S the proof of good fishing ThLs catch is one landed, at Ore
gon Inlet, near Rodanche, Because cf the splendid.fishiiig'nt the
■'Dare County Inlets, the fine surf casting, and other forms of fishing
■that provide the best of sport, the region becomes 'more popular
each year, and'guides have.-developed a large business. Channel
bass, shown abovi; as v;cU as Rock or striped bass, blueflsh, and
trout arc found all through,, the season. The fishing season has
Just opened and reservations’are pouring In,
anniversary of tliose first Eng^^i
itsh settlements end also the bi,rth’^!J|l
1 of Virginia Dare, Amerlta'Ss;OnS3;^|^
! white child bom of Englislicpac.^’
cnts,,^klng the affair^agidiiM^'l
celebration.
Planned by.;arcpop^ttM;|hMd>
cd by D. B. Peail^Vi^halnBih^i^l^
the, Roanoke A-ColonFj
. (Continued 'on page- four) •
'yKe Entrance to Fort Raleigh
New rates for lights and power
on Roanoke Island, put in effect
by the Roanoke. Utilities'Company,
assures the people more enjoyment'
of electric current. Under the new
rates wh -i will make possible re
ductions up to forty per cent, peo
ple will begin making use of many
electrical conveniences not hither
to enjoyed.
Household appliances, as well as
machinery, will in time come into _
more gcr sral use once the savings j
become evident to t'fie p^Mple. The
rate is expected to create a large
increase Jn business among' the
pwple' of.^Manteo and Wanchese.
PROM the highway, one enters this gateway to Fort Raleiglj:i
the first Englisli colony. The Memorial gateway was obtaiii’i
the Federal Government through the efforts of Lindsay
Congressman. Just back of the gateway will be seen tlie bl
type entrances to the Fort grounds. The beautiful brick
stone columns arc noyv hid, because some CWAPAERA or
The Wrights Honored With a $250,000 Pylon
■ /.’-A'
k.
The Old Sea Captain, hold his
[Usual weekly meeting,;,with the,
Drummer, ot the Store' bn."the
Cape. Tlie old Captain was a'Ceus-
tomed to pass the time of day‘and
’enter Into argument with, his
[friend, the Drummer who went up
wd down the '’coastlBiid. taking
orders for the stores. •
K’^Vell, my^lioy,-i.w’lidt news do
you brlng?”'wa's,,.lils*;gi-ceUng‘ this
;iliy. ^ .
know no*good news',” said the
Dhuhmer. “It'-looks'llke .the shad
■fishermen'arc’'l-iavlng a dull sea-
MUt. and that- makes hard times,
-■rae folks are beginning' to think
the uhad are played out.’l
ifJ'You must not take it so ijiuch
■0 Ijiisrt my boy.” said the .Old Sea
Captain. "When you have passed,
'your three .score and tori, you will
tear ntliat nothing that happens.
In one year or two years can mat
ter much. Every no'w, .and then
sliice I was a boy, there have been
■jaUures in the fishingbualneiss,,
blit folks all Uvedr and fish, did
come again.” / 4.
‘•‘But this time It hits thc'^folks
aid,” said the Drummer. No.big
igfuishings have been made in Iwo or
* .^iTifce years.” ‘
P^^MADFDR^.-rreXKlNp'lte’-the
moving spirit jiiit' theSbig^ccl'elSra-,
'tkm-to.be licltlbn Rqapoke Island
this summer. Credit for the'-in
itiative and enterprise wiiicli. -a’cnt
Into the first-plans for tilts great'
.event goes to ' this dynamic andl
friendly personality, Only„.ajraa4
of fdrcslglTt, and vision capja'.do.
Justice to sue* an undertaking;;p7
B, Fearing, wdlh.'h&j brbad.'idea's;
his enthusiasm kn'd .leneV^' Is' Uic,-
onc/man; who''’.could'*'lauhch, into
.Contin’jed'. on- page eljjht)
% One of the Most Beautiful of Coins
. .. ^
underway ,on th'e.'mornlng pfrJu’ly^isi*
Fourth*..vrhlch-this. v»«r fil'l'K''niiiis-’y:
Fourth,, iwhlch’this, year Ialls.''bd-,:,fs,
Sunday, -V..,..
' Far suipassing-ih 'niagnltude^ku'^S
previous celebrations wlflchShav^^^
been held at Port Ralai*h,-?>l^*;-’g
affair will stretcli oyer;[a' peric)cl ”
o ftwo niontlis, reaching, its climax
August 18, birth date^of’ Virginia ’
parc,.^and. ending on Labor’ Day.
'September-C. 3.
ft
, 'Paul. .Green,'*" nationally-known-
playwright' from Chapel.^Hlll Is
including all the drama '6l those
early settlements In Ills play “Tlie i
Lost Colony,” wlilch is going to bo ’
produced here this summer-as.thc
ouUstanding featuix! of -tlie[-cclc- A
bration.
HUNDREDS of-orders each week pour in for the beautiful Memor
ial Coins, stinck imhonor of the 350th anhlvcrsarj’ of the Golohlzs^
tlon of North Carolina, will soon"make'this Interesting memento
unayallablb ,to%collMtcirs. Tlie coin has been characterized by many
collectors as the. most beautiful yet minted by any.Government.
of endeavpr-.feel the invigorating
in^flu'chce.pf this new fishing bus
ihess.”",', . •
i'“Suppose the sportflslilng should
play. out?" -asked the Drummer.
, "ph'wbll, something would turh
itp'maybe. But the people should
not'rely bn^faith altogether. Tliey
THOUSANDS FOR
MEMORIAL COINS
"BEFORE MINTING
Based on the -ircsiery* 'of*'6lr
Walter Raletgli’s colony wlilcSlsct-
I tied on Roanoke-Island'm 'J587 .' ■
and 'tragically dtsappeafed while
Its 'loader, Gpvernoi; Jolin White, •
wa.s detained’in EnglatwUby. war -.5-7
! with Spam, the play wlll”iiave-as-i-
Its general theme the bUflifling^f
a new nation Uirouglifth'e ext^-'j " -
Sion of the Engllsh.emplre ou aii
idep first expounded by'sir JVal-^.';
vast colonial dotnairis.
‘•My explanation -of '^'a^bc- - •
came of the Lost Cblbi^;'wnn’t-«‘V
fallen line with .the generally'ac-
cepted thcorj' of Uie Croatan'lnw >7;'
dians,” the playwriglit ‘•jevealed’^
on a recent ylalt'to lioanokS" Is-’
land. The theory to wlilch hp''j;ei'f'’''S;
ferred is that* the colonlsts'eltliec '
went to live with IricndiV.clroataiitf'/J.
tribes on tlic mainland. bF,werc!?^ \
massacred by hostile jhuwv^S
Mrs. Hallie Plannagan'inatWiali' -i
director of the Pcderai^TlMiat:^^;;?*"
has promised the support .oK'that’v'.'S
I' ‘.‘Vou are wrong my boy. Thei-e must'Icarn'to take care of what
^have.bcen some men who ma.de they have. If everybody had been'
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IfX!
5 CONGRESSMAN Lindsay Warren put o ver the Job of getting Uncle Sam
a $250,000 granite marker on Kill.Devi 1 Hill as a memorial to-the.ioundi
aviation. Here Wilbur and Orville Wrl glit in 1903 flew Uie.-firit'l^lahe.
(•
a'hall million dollars in all liave b^n-s-pent
.'.J ,. I,-,.:-. . • ■ - ■ ‘-fMO-.'.'t'i*-.-VsiiS*-:
'money during the pa-st two or
■tliree years," said the old Sea
;fcaptaln, "And you will notice that
Siljen one thing falls, something
if.- [turns up to take its place.;,
^Sow we are getting lots of bus.-
i^l«'fr'om sp’ortsmen. .year , after
yeaf^mpre and more guides', get
j^'/(}bring the sp'ortifishing sea-'
'son?.'/ .
SJipwV. everybody can’t, go, sport A'
[fishin^i-all of them don’t have the'
rrigWJclhd of boats,”, said the
prifekniner; - "
ill;,.It,wouldn't be right‘td
hayE-ie.veryboiay doing the same
i^thiiig, or wc ivou'd have no
‘iu.at.all,”'sai(l the Old Sea
money,the simr,-
‘^‘^fnlHcs' get [ wllCvbe'; sj^nf
^;qf the folks win get paid
I -T-*4ic: guides. Build-
7li^[*BSai't6urist trade' will "make
^QcomB.for many‘.people besides
‘eu)i$|N'‘Filling.‘i stations, rcstau^
antf-ktares.. andcikU .other lines
saving 'arid used foresight. they
•would 'nbCb’cT; bothered’ by .Ifard-
tlmes.’‘.‘(’’''",-,;;;i'.'*- ;
“Nobody use.s forethought and
save's money now,” said'the Drum-
;incr.'4‘It ,te contrary,'to, all custom
to this'-nation'.”,.^ -.f:' - = V;:A'fIf
“You’re •'mighty rigiiti'- ^iid;
mgUity rlght.t’i-said,, the Old Sea
Captain. -ii
Aloney- Poured-In From .Coin
“ Collectors Everywhere -,
‘ Mo^nths -Ahead . - *4
powerful theatrical '■groupjJ'ahdUb/^,"?
dozen or more ‘pro[es£lotikl »etiaa^‘
win. be supplied. from^e,^ita#es\‘it,
of New York. Chlcag(>1«i(f^^'|^
large- cities to take major'rbles'iln^'^'i.
the. pageant; ^ ■■ [3*'
- Under the ^tieral kul^nliiibn '’■{’Yv
of Professor Prederlck.,K.}.KdcH.-ibf,‘;vi^-
'..The North [Cwblina 'fetkte Pair
win be'ii'eldftlijs year'from Octob
er 11 tlirough October 16, accord
ing to ,ah announcement by S: 8.
Itorton,‘jniana8er. Mr. Dorton has
said that, “new emphasis will be
T-toced.om.the agriculttu-al, Indus
trial-.'ahdXeducational features of
the fair-and if Is the hope of the
fair management and' the Depart-
miint -of Agriculture that» every
phase of educational endeavor will
. be reprsLeated.*,’ - -- - ! -
■rf Sales of the Sir.Waiter Baielgh-
yirgmia Dare Memorial corns ..is
sued to comimembrate ,thc[:.'350th
annivensary of ‘the first Englisli
settlements on Roanoke -.[Island
Tvere'nearing th’c 20.9OO niark 'by
the middle of March. vCpiri orders
were coming in ..at'tiie.-'-ratc of
about $100 a day. '[
Possibly tlie largest demahd>ori'.
record for a cemmomorativc c'piri'
was created when news that tlic
issue had been authorized was
published late last summer.
Even before these 25,000 gleam
ing half dollars came off the'utot
at Philadelphia more than enough
had been sold from the offices' of
the. Roanoke Colony Memorial
Association at Manteo to pay for
’ iv.-. - (ConUnusd on page elgnO
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nas been built amld'a.riat'tin^^eti'j;^
ting in an open alr''^pl^**^»--‘?‘^
on tiie sound shore atvPtortf Ralzfj^
elgh;. yo ^ be s'-p iue^^^-scyB^al^'??!'
times each week dUrlng^ili^iiwbv^^bS
months of -the 'celcbratloh’^tSiSjlriti^
have a total cast” of''ikq.VacWrs&VJjii
taking 175 paris^ '’[Mb^txf'th^UlX^^sit
cnt-is.'to be supplied
■* The Ppirt'.Rdiiint^fi
Reconstructed -in. iiU '■lti/eafly"-;;?|
day glory, Port Ral^h'8ti«;wbbd-/'^^.J
ed acres now-toiduaea» rude-idi;^
buildkngs.and-four othenkwlll'2iei->ll’4^
add^' befobT ,t2ieSceJel>r»tloii*'bei-'>’‘AS
tetos.Uwo f/t tficm.dweUlags along'-^-'.v
the clrculai. urivcv/ay whlch^lemds-.-’'
around the Interior of the log pall-, >, "*
sade and tliaioth'cr two bullf-near
(Conttousd.on pag“ j section 4)
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