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r I. DARE F TIMES The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland- ^Devoted to the Counties of Currituck, Dare, Tyrrell and Hyde VOLUME III, NO. 154 MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938 Single Copy, 5c Final Casting For Lost Colony Is Set For Saturday Night Selection Of Cast To Be Made In Manteo Tomorrow Night With Over 100 Local People; Green And Sdden Coming For Rehearsals In Three Weeks; Choir Ex pected To Arrive Within Ten Days Final selection of the members of the company for the 1938 pro duction of “Lost Colony’’ will be made here Saturday night when Paul Green and Samuel Selden oome to Roanoke to begin r^ear- sals for the season’s opening sche* duled for three weeks from tomor row night. Professional members of this years cast, twelve or thirteen in number, will arrive from New York late Sunday night or early Mon day, and rehearsals are scheduled to get under way next Tuesday morning. Members of the com pany from the Carolina Playmak- ers, and from Duke University and the Woman’s College in Greens boro, will come to the Island dur ing the week-end. Thirty-six members of the West minister Choir who will come here to form this season’s Lost Colony Choir, will arrive in about ten days and full company rehearsals will begin as soon as they have familiarized themselves with their surroundings and with the musi cal score. Members of the technical staff have already .begun to arrive. First of tKem was Mrs. Ota Mae Davis, mistress of the wardrobe, who will also coach the cast in dancing this year. Other arri vals include Tommy McIntosh, last year’s assistant electrician, who came Saturday night and has b^n busy through the week installing new stage wiring. Final casting of the show by Mr. Green and Mr. Selden Satur day night is being anticipated with the liveliest interest. About 100 residents of the Island or the coun ty will be designated for places in the cast. Mr. Selden has request- .ad Bradford Fearing to invite all Islanders whose names have beer, listed, and any others who are willing to volunteer their services. For the most part the native cast will follow the roster of last year. The cast will be increased to some extent, since Mr. Selden expects to grivo a greater sense of -eality to the scenes that contain large numbers of people. These scenes will W subject of more con centrated effort this year. The intervening three weeks of rehearsal and preparation will bring back to the Island that sense of feverish anticipation that it ex perienced for the first time last summer wKen.opening of the cele bration of the 350th anniversar>' celebration was about to get un der way. More than 100 new peo ple will come to the Island over the week end to Vend a hand. This year the approach of the opening finds tGe Island (Please turn to page eight) HYDE COUNTY CHOSES A NEW LEGISLATOR WINNERS FOR JUDGE AND SOLICITOR ^SATURDAY HON. CHESTER R. MORRIS HON. C. BVERErr. THOMPSON - •r-r lliese two men were successful in the campaign for Jiwge and Solici tor of the First Judicial District in one of the mom hisrd fought campaigns in many jnsars. Judge Thompson udnning'Ahe nomination over Herbert R. Lrary, of E^enton by a majority of .about 270 votes. In losing to Judge Thompson by this small mar|in, Mr. Leary is shown as a politician of great ability. Mr.' IIorris, young Currituck attomesr, is a uatve of Gates County, but has been prac ticing law at Currituck for several years. Four years .bgo he ran for ticing law at Curriuck for several years. Fou year* ago he ran for solicitor, and while polling a good vote which entitled;1iim to run in a second primary, fe considerately refused to put tha taxpayers to this additional expense, and thereby won the good will of thousands of people. In Saturday’s primary he got more than\8^ votes. His nearest opponent, John B. McMullan of Elizabeth City'^got more than 6300 votes and proved himself a worthy foeman, and. one of the com ing political figures of the First District. But Mr. McMullan gra ciously refused to call for a second primary, and'the joffice goes to Chester Morris, a clean, capable, and popular man,'.toe first to win the office outside of the towns of Edenton, Elizabeth’City and Was-a ington in over 40 years. TOO MANY DOGS TNDARE COUNTY BOARD DECIDES GEO. T. DAVIS, Swan Quarter attorney is 27 years old, and has, dev--> ped a successful law prac tice since he c3une horn*- from school. He is unmarried, but building a new'homs, and evident ly looking ahead to the future. On Saturday, the people of' Hyde County decided to encourage young Mr. Davis in his endeavors and nominated him by a large ma jority to "fill Hyde’s 'seat in'the General Assembly, which was fill ed last term by Goo. E. Davis, his father. In selecting new blood and a young man, Hyde County is departing from its old customs of sending men of middle age. Mr. Davis says ba r going to Ra leigh and sU tight and get ac quainted. He says he has made no promises, and doesn’t expect to be active in passing local legisla tion. His desire is to do some thing of gene|oI value to the en tire district. The pictura shows him smiling over his successful venture into politics. FLOYD COHOON IS DISTRIBUTOR ESSOTANE GAS GUIDES GOING OUT TO SEA TO .FIND THRILLS Columbia Man To Make Cooking Easier in Five ' Counties Some 1^0 to 30'miles out to'sea is the next thing in the search for real sport in sea fishing, accord ing to Capt. Claude Wisa or Man teo. “I have a party coming next week to go far out to sea,” he ’Viys. “Unfavorable weather have left us so few goad days durieng moat ot this saason, that we have to do something to get some ex tra sport, and we know there is unusual fun farther offshore.” Capt. Wise reports tliat he re cently tlshed Willard Bowman of Philadelphia, Pa., who seems to be more or less of a champion angler. Mr. Bowman caught sev en channel bass before noon, hav-^ ing left Manteo for the fishing grounds at about seven o’clock I that morning. He sent his pic-1 ture down to Capt. Wise with the inscription: “To the whitest Cap tain that ever took me fishing. a good sized bucketsfull of small, but legal sized ai^ ^ible fish, as waU as the zatisjjc't^p 'pf.a.g!cbpp,, ofAlsitbrs -from^^giiboring: Ten nessee. An unindentified angler rentad a rowboat doam by the Roanoke Sound bridge Wednesday morning, and cama in several hours later a’ith the bottom of his skiff cov ered with fish. According to Capt. Eph Meekiris something like eight bluelish, four trout, four saa mullet, and a couple of mack- era! mada up the strangers catch. BEACHCOMBER -By- BEN DIXON MacNEILL Some little while ago Dudley Bagley, who almost belongs to Dara county, and who has put electricity into more country homes th.4m any man in America, and who is the only public official I ever hsard of who declined a raise in salary—some little time ago on account of all these things he got inVifed down to New Or leans with all expenses paid. Some notable body of electrical experts just wanted to look at a pl^n Currituck boy who did things like that. 'And so he set out, ac companied by his brother. Every body calls his bbrother “Runt’ but he IS a whale of a doctor and an even better photographer. They ■topped here and there to look at this and that, including all the dams they have been building in the Tennessee Valley. They looked at a lot of scenery and traversed a lot of geography, and finally they came to New Orleans and sampled that town. They took a lot of pictures, but of'course neglected to get the pic ture that b-jth of them would ra ther have than any they got. It was a pfeture of a po'iceman in Knoxville. Ive heard more about this policeman than I liave about the total bf New Orleans, and much more than about the speech that Dudlsy Bagley made In that fantastic town. I’m sorry they didn’t get'la picture of him. I’d like very :nufh to look at him. I think it would l>e nice to have a Tot of policemen like that. Thompson Wins In Primary; Reynolds/ Winborne and Davis Chester Morris Accorded Solicitorship With out Second Contest From McMullan; Fear ing Nominated For State Senate^ Ferebee And Hooper New Commissioners For Dare County Claude Wise an3 Herbert Pin ner Hired to Catch or Kill Unclaimed Stock Too malty dogs running loose untaxed, contrary to law. To much money Saving to be paid out for sheep and other animals killed by dogs. So said the Conunissioners this week and 'they passed an or der to name a d6g tax collector. Sam MITaett was the only appli cant' for the plaM. The Commissioner also appoint ed Claud_Wise of Manfeo, to catch or kill any unclaim^ livestock north of Oregon Inlet, and Herbert Pinner of East Lake to teke up the stncic in tharTerritorv. The stock will be soidjto nav Hie costs. It has been aflowi^TTo run out sev er"! monfhs, contrary to law. For the territory south of Ore gon Inlet, another man Is ^ he selected tHfs week from among the ' applicants Hiring 'there. Teeth are going to be nut Into Uie 3ogi law, and tEe livestock law. Floyd Cohooii'.---, well - known Standard Oil Distributor of Co lumbia, is going to mak'e .cooking p, lot easier in five countie3''of the Southern Albemarle Regrion. 'Mr. Cohoon has been named distribut tor for Essotae, a new form of li quefied gas, which will provide rural homes with a form of fuel, that is cheaper, safer, and as con venient as city gas. The counties in his territory in clude Dare, Hyde, Washington, Tyrrell, and parts of Beaufort and' Martin. He plans to put on a truck delivery that will serve cus tomers in the counties named, and to carry a complete lin-e of heaters and other equipment us ing such gas. “Into the farms and country place,” says Mr. Cohoon, this gas brings clean heat—better heat for the kitchen than' coal, wood or kerosene, and usually more practical than -electricity'. We believe this gas will prove far cheaper than electricity, priced at five cents a kilowatt.” Some of the uses of the new gas are interesting. It is used, not only for cooking and heating, i but for coffee roasting, ojperation' of stationery gasoline engines', op eration of Electrolux refigerators, heating incubators, etc. Mr. Cohpon expects within % vreelu to ‘ demonstrate Kht' new equipment in Dare and other coun ties. Manteo guide Ernest Saunders fished a party at Oregon Inie: Tuesday morning and came in that ^ternoon w'th —14 channel bass ranging up to 35 pounds. Over on the beach we learn-id about the party of New Yorkers who spent four days in this vi cinity during the stormy spell of a few weeks back, just waiting for good fishing weather. But on their first day out after the weather had cleared up they caught 14 channel bass and a half dozen blues; reward enough, they said, for the four day’s wait. Largest reported catch of the week was made by Russell Oox of Elizabbth City, and W. R. Deaton of Greensboro, Box and Deaton, caught 19 channel bass at Oregon Inlet'Tuesday. Down for a week’s stay they Have made sevveral other favorable expeditions to the One party from Kingsport,! Tenn., fished at Oregon Inlet for channel bass one of those rainy I days last week, and failing to I produce results there tried their! luck in the sound next day. Re sult of their change of tactics was I Although most of the boats down at the inlet in the near past have limited their activities to trolling, it's inteiestng to note that a good portion' of the target catches have been made still fish ing. Top catch aboard the Hatteras, state fish patrol boat, was a 300 pound shark off the Diamond Shoals, in the waters of the Gulf stream, some' 25 miles off Hat- teras. The party, caught one dol phin. Representative Roy Davis, Webb Williams of- the State Li quor Control Board,- Harry John son and Capt. Wal^ Etheridge of Elizabeth City, were in the party, which returned home Wedne.sday highly pleas-ed with Capt. Tom Basnight’s hospitality. MITCHELL HEDGES HURT BY UNTRUE HATTERAS YARNS English Exploder Who Lived Al Frisco Deplores Fea tures Printed in Wife’s Name A line of EngUzh rajahs has ruled the independent nation of Sarawak OB the coast ot Borneo. Feature stories being prineed in several newspapers of this country, purporting to be written by Mrs- Dorothy Mitchelt-Hedges about her experiences on a honeymoon with t^ explorer and writer, part of which deals with life at Hat teras, and are greatly deplored by her husband, from whom she is estranged, and who now lives in England. Mn. Mitchell-U'edges left her turned to America. Arriving in husband some months ago, and re- Newtv York, she was received with much interest by the ever-hungnr copy writers, and stories were printed that she.>'ould sue for mil lion dollars. And then she told a number of stories to-the feature sections of Hearst and other; papers. Done, no doubt, by a ghost writer, thev were highly colored to say the least. . 7 Mr.’ Mitchell-Hedges read them in England,' and.: he wrote this pappr asking that we mention that he in no vrise sanctioned such libel on the place* and the people. He loves Hattem, and the peo ple and might hkve been there to- dayi but his ^e di^ not like the place, and Aeir qmet Ufe .biW up. In his letter, he says: “Hatteras was very dear to me. I still feel it' was one of the mc^ delightful pla^ on earth. I long for its stretch of-, sandy beach and the wonderfnl surf-Hshing. And I (Please turn to page eight) It wasn’t that Dudley and Runt Bagley wens taken H iniquity. They were just two lost country boys in a strange, town and with fiEterly;hb''ldei'how:ito-‘g4t‘:^r;ed' where they intend^ fb’go’. '-The'y- were still a long ways from Non- Orleans, and the speech had to be .made. So they just hove to at the first spof that would contain their car, which, of course, was alongside » fire hydrant. And then up comes this police man. He looked at the Bagleys and perceived that they were country boys. He glanced at their license plates and discerned that they were from North Carolina. He saw algo that “Lost Colony” tag that Squirlie Gre,en so indus triously attaches to everything that has wheels on it. The po liceman smiled at that. They were a fairly lost colony them selves. Of course he saw at once that they were the sort of people they are. That is pretty remarkable, considering. Highway patrolmen so infrequently see people; they see hydrants with cars lawlessly parked beside them . . . 'Well, to shorten the story within such space as the editor may have for it, the Bagkys and the patrolman -visited together a little. He told them about Knoxville, and they told him about North ^rolina and about Lost Colony and about how they had to go on to New Or-, leans. _ > And then the fellow said if they’d wait a little until traffic thinned out a little, hs’d let them turn around right there in the street, which would save them a lot of confusing driving around to get headed oul the way they wanted to go, which was toward Birmingham. And so he did, with practically no inconvenience to traffic, and they continued to ward New Orleans, and nowhere in 3,000 mile's of driving did any thing happen to them that they remember so pleasantly as this patrolman. lacking clergical training, I’m pretty awkard at drawing conclu sions and pointing to the moral of stories, but it does seem to me that here is -something that The North Carolina Highway Patrol might ponder a little bo fteir own profit and to the general well be ing of the State,- and especially this Island", now that we are on the threshold of the busiest sum mer we’ve ever seen about here. . liie Bagley* had a great trip to New Orleans but mostly they re- ^mber a pleasant trifle in a they merely passed-thru. ... | -When I got hack bo The Island Sunday Drinkwater -was 'in bed with what looked, at fi^ glance, like an alarming haHucination. . (Please turn to page five) DARE’S FIRST SENATOR IN MORE THAN 30 YEARS In a surprising show of strength in Saturday’s primary, Chester Morris captured the high vote for Solicitor in the District, altho one of his opponents, Sam Blount of Beaufort carried Dare County, Judge Everette Thompson of Eli zabeth City carried Ihire County, and Bob Reynolds for Senator ""-f Winborne for Utilities Conuniit- sioner carried the county etrongijr. In Dare County, Daniels, Bng~ ers, Ferebee and Hooper u— over for Commissioner, altho Dtt- ' vail and Baum ran well. Boy Da vis won a smashing victory tar the legislative nomination. The Vote in Dare County for each of the candidates is as fol lows: For Judge Superior Court: Everette Thompson Herbert Leary F/Or Solicitor: Sam Blount Chester R. Morrih John B. McMullan J. C. Meekins For State Senator: D. B. Fearing DANIEL BRADFORD FEARING along with William B. Rodman of Washington, was nominated on the, w. B. Rodman ticket as Candidate for Senator of, Mrs. J. J. Purdy (he Second District, and this fall | For ^presentetive: will be elected Dare’s first Senator Roy L. Davis in 30 years, and the second one at D. L. Russell that. Without having so much as. R. F. Etheridge canvassed the District, Mr. Fear-j For County ing got a good vote, with his home A. J. Daniels county practically unanimous be- j. £. Ferebee bind,(,hiig.,.;^’ae;vpirtut^ A;.B. HoopeiL his'm'ost lecentj one; ^^^HiiHft rhow- El'TRogeri? „ he'is'm'ighty busy.m'ipians.'fipr.the ,C'C. Duvall- Lost Colony prodwtion> this; sum-,' mer. 96« 490 6y3 439 267 61 1,382 769 160 MAY PUT WPA WORKERS UNDER PARK SERVICE Paul D. Grady — m I ' ; t tv Citizens On Relief Jobs In County Would Be.Used On Sand Fixation A proposal -to \'put.^^.^ WPA workers in Dare County, 'outside of two projects on Roanoke Island under the Paric Service Work camp management now engai^S'n Sand fixation work along the -beac , is being fought by ,D. B. Fearing, Representative Itoy ..Davis, arid others, and a protest.-!'lias been sent to Raleigh to R. Bruec Ether- 1J)64 321 48 OouimsMicner: 862 693 . 723'r '“-•'--'’693.. ',642 T. A. Baum ‘ ■ * M8 For U. S. Senator; Robert R. Reynolds 1,161 Frank Hancock 290 For Utilitiee Commissioner: Stanley Winbonrj 1,077 216 Robert R. Reynolds cleaned up his opponent F^nk Hancock-for U. S. Senate, and Stanley Win borne, Murfreesboro man, again won his office, d-afeating Paul Grady. D. B. Fearing, Manteo man, ran high on the ticket for State Sen ate, carrying the large vote of 1,332. A. J. Daniels made the big gest run for County Commission er with 8C2 votes. C. C. Duvall came within 51 votes of the low est nominated Commissioner, and showed a ‘ surprising gain' in strength, over two years ago. A trump card was played by idge, requesting he use his influ ence against the plan. ! If the workers now engaged in Chester Morris six years ago when ditching and road work on the he-Yan for Solicitor. He refused South Banks were transfemd to to demand a second primary, altho the camp forces, the result would he had a good vote. In thereby re- be an early r^uction. in personnel fusing to burden the counties with and consequently loss in WPA in- extra cost he'strengthened himself- come to the county, while many John B. McMullan, one of the local neighborhood projects would coming political figures and law- be abandoned. FISHING.GUIDES— TAKE NOTICE The news of .your catches going out in this,’p,;iper each week will bringy-'^ious'more business week' utti^^'cek. We have many 'submu^rs in fishing circles whb^Wtake the paper to keep.up^Y^th Fishing in-this regioh^V-''! It is yo^-.'inteiestjw'-re port to us' your good di^es, with names and addre^^^ of the party,’ahd, othar-Kinfor- mation in/ which ’ fi^rmen might be Interested.-VXMA SOMETHING . We haC4'«''’^^ of .prating blanks we;lcaii7jgive,--^oa at 26 cents|y'thev0'b“n*w35v7 tractively'.t^^ npi'-fesT^ch' you can 'in!ski!yout;4!'det^fied list of the'catch of'-yddr'par ties. This is something they -want to take bade home with them. Every fish^” guide needs these blanks'. / If you ‘cooperate' with us, we ciif pveyon'f6d8''^^If- city and serve the fishermen too. ,-K 'i DARE COUNTY TIM^ Manteo, N.'C.- j yer as well of the eastern part of ' the state, also refuses to exercise his rig^ for a second primary, - even with chances far more , en- couragmg than Mr. Morris had be fore. .^d in 30 doing, fie has caused wide an?, favorable com ment about himself that -will add I to his prestj^ and be of service ' in years to come. SENATORIAL VOTE IN I SECOND DISTRICT RACE ' Below is the vote cast in the race for Senator of .the Second I District in Saturday’s primary, Mrs, J. J, Purdy, Pamlico County doctor’s.-wife, William 6. Rodman, j Washington, N. C. Attorney, and ‘ incumbent, and D. B. Faaring of I Manteo contested for the two places. (7 CminAes). Fearing Poidy Rodman Beaufort Dare 'Waqjiington 'Washington Hyde “Oh, Fred, Ute b:,oy ha8.BinAr.S>>^. lowed the matches. 'Wl^ ' shall" we do?” '• “Here, use my dgafette light- er.” . .... ; ■ ' ?l ifl ifl .. 2463 630 .4736 .1332 150- 769 .. 150,5 526 12474 .. 342 669 862 .. 571 140 679 .. 796 312 1230 .... 796 312 1239.,-'^ .. 502 240 1057 7601 2!^r ii1in ;
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