THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland-
-Devoted to the Counties of Currituck, Dare, T\ rrell and Hvde
VOLUME 111, NO. 155
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 17. 1938
Single Copy, 5c
Dare County Liquor
Stores Do A $40,000
Business In OneYear
Twenty Seven Wet Counties Agree to Set
Aside Five Per Cent to Finance Exhibit at
New York Worlds Fair; County’s Doni'tion
Will Be $2,500; Dare’s Business Expected
to Increase During 1938-1939.
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^^VICTOR. MEEKINS
“LOST COLONY’S’
SECOND LOT OF
ACTORS CHOSEN
David Somers Considered Ex
cellent Choice For Part Of
Old Tom; Many Local
Folk
THE CHALLENGE
According to figures recently
given out in North Carolina fol
lowing a confenence of the mana
gers of liquor stores in 27'Coun
ties, Dare Counties County’s anti
cipated gross sales of liquor dur
ing fiscal year is set at $50,00U.
At this conferenoe it was agreed
by all the representatives of the
■wet counties to set aside five per
cent of their sales to finance North
Carolina exhibit at the New York
Worlds fair in 1939. Dares quo
ta was $2,500.00.
On this basis it is fair to assume
that the sales for the current
passing year, which closes within
a few days, will run about $40,000.
Within a few Jajvs, the State ABC
board auditors will file their for-
anal nsport, and it may show the
iigure slightly higher.
The report may, when issued
•show the Dare County ABC Board
has made a net profit of $4,000
during the year of operation of the ■
•stores at Nags Head and JIanteo. |
This profit will most likely not be
represented in cash, but in stocks,
of liquor on hand. It will be re- ‘
membened that the liquor stores
began business without a dollar
on .hand. The stock was all bought
on time, and the Board was not
in position to take advantage of
very profitable discounts that
would have bean available had it
bought for cash
HONORED THIS WEEK BY
STATE’S POSTMASTERS
With the cast virtually complet
ed, and the first full-cojiipany re
hearsal staged with hopeful vigor
I Wednesday night, Kounoke Island
To a little boy, five years old ' jijjg \vcek settled down to an
this week: I have been somewhat' expectant two syeeks that inter-
puzzlcd to know what to give you j vene before the iinal dress rehear-
lor your birthday. Far some weeks sal on Saturday iiiglit, the second
young impatience .has of July, and then, on tlie follow
ing night, the opening
aiico of this years edition of Paul
Green’s “Lost Colony.”
BEACHCOMBER
-By-
BEN DI.XON
.MacNElLL
now your
anxiously inquired of me each day,
“how many days before my birtli-l
day. No doubt the memory of last 1
year’s pleasant event was sticking,
in your m;nd, and tasty things and' landers
Always there is some sort ot
compensation to balance life’s vile
ness, even such heathenish nec
essity as being up at C o'clock in
tile morning if you are going to
get any work done before the
perform-1 comes and more or less
} buiius a nest in your hair. But
even so it takes a good deal of
Forthe mosrparV Roanoke is-1 c«'»Pe''sa'f.on to balance the scoiv
nders have returned to their, >^0 at your typewriter
I faces have been introduced into
ments now. I wonder and I fear the company, in eacli of the three
for you and for myself. When I Helds from which the show draws
was five years old, my mother had its personnel. The Federal Thea-
taught me to read. There wasn’t' tre has new names and faces, and
much else to do. Now, if either i so the CaroUni Playmakers and
your mother or I had the time, we I the Islanders. ?
might teach you something wrong, Paul Green was the first of the
and something^ which would make company to arrive, coming down
it more difficult for you when you
do start to school.
.As you happened to be born in
June, you will start to school a
year earlier than if you had been
born in the September before. And
when that day comes, we must sur
render you to the commonwealth.
The commonwealth will take you
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last Thursday night and he will
remain until the show is under
way. Samuel Selden and his
staff, including Mrs. Selden ar
rived the following day and Sat
urday’night the' rousements were
put on at the Court House. Late
Sunday the professionals bgan ar
riving from New Y'ork and at the
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MRS. EFFIE A BRICKHOUSE,
popular and efficient postmistress
of Columbfa, was this week honor
ed by North Carolina Postmaster’s
Association in Greensboro, by be
ing elected one of the Vice-Presi-
dents of the Association. W. T.
Culpepper of Elizabeth Citj was
made president of the Association,
, which named Elizabeth as its next
Fishing wfluniing
ERNALB|MARLEj
The estimate of profits is based
on the recent allotment of profits
reported .in otlier counties, which
shows a net of ten per cent on
gross sales. On that basis, it is
fair to assume that Dare’s net pro
fit on $40,000 gross sales is $4,000.
The operation of the two liquor
stores in Dare County during the
past year makes it advisable to
keep both stores open all the year.
The tourist business of the County
demands it. O.dinarily. one store
would do. The stores each have a
man during the winter, and two
in the summer. At the present i
tinib Columbus Baum maitages the
Nags Head Store; Robert Midgett
and Jere Parker are in the Manteo
store.
The Board started off by carry
ing a stock of some $30,000 worth
of liquor, all of which had to be
bought on time- At tlie close of
the summer months this stock was
reduced to almost lialf volume.
In a matter of two and not over
three years, the profits accumula
ting should give the stores suffi
cient operating capital, and at the
end of which time they should .have
several thousands of dollars in net
proceeds to turn over to the coun
ty annually.
One disadvantage to Dare Coun
ty is that it has a slow turnover,
on many items of high priced
liquor. Dare County is visited by
many tourists during a year,
whose trade 'filemand a wide range
of liquors. In order to sati.sfy the
trade, the stores must stock many
high priced items, for which few
calls are made. This is somewhat
unprofitable expense, yet is neces
sary in a resort section catering
to nationwide travel.
The ABC board is composed of
M. L. Daniels Chairman, and Guy
H. Lennon of Manteo, and J. E.
Culoeper of Nags Head. It has
offices in the N. C. Fisheries
Building, as well as warehouse
space, supplemental to one room
in the county jail. The Board at
the beginning, obtained the ser
vices of Representative Roy Davis,
v;bo gives it practically his full
time, and undoubtedly receives
for his services, much less than
a man of like training and exper
ience could be picked up for any
where else. Miss Sybil Daniels of^
Wanchese is his secretary and
book-keeper. The job keeps both
pretty busy.
The foregoing figures were tvot
given out by the ABC board- but
are based on statements issued
from other sources which are con
sidered absolutely accurate. It is
understood at the present time that
an auditor’s report will be issued
in a few days which will be made
public and •will substantiate the
above figures, and show the ABC
year’s convention place.
sad
Laws and Money Both
Provide Means For
Highway Connecti*ns
I These foks ■sfho 'come down heie
- for a week-end of fishing nnd limit
their activities to trolling for
channel bass at Oregon Inlet are
missing a great portion of what
Dare County fishing waters havt
to offer.
Brief Prepared By C. W. Tatem, Shows That
Former Highway Commissions Had Full‘^°“"‘^
Authority, and Finally Sufficient Appropri
ations to Properly Connect Hyde, Tyrrell,
and Dare County as Originally Intended
The large catches fr^. i the sutf
near Cape Hatteras by sportsmen
like r. A. M’tchell Hedpes. G.
-Albert Lyon. Van Cami)en Heilne'*
and Harry Stelwagon attest to our
claim that no better surf fishing
is to be found anywhere along the
coast than right here in Dare
That sufficient authority and
money as well has been provided
to enable the State Highway
Commission to connect Dare, Hyde
and Tyrrell Counties by all weat-
her roads from county seat to
county seat was set forth in a re
cent brief made by C. W. Tatem,
President of the SouUiern Albe
marle -Association.
So many requests for publica
tion of the facts in this brief, as
presented by Mr. Tatem before
the State Highway and Pu'olic
Works Commission in Raleigh re
cently have come to this paper,
that today we are giving our
readers the most important things
under consideration:
In 1921, the Legislature Passed
the Following Law:
“The general purposes of this
article are for the State to lay out,
taKe over, establish and construe*,
and assume control of approxima
tely 6,600 miles of hard-surfaced
and other dependable highways
running to all county-seats, and to
all principal towns, State parks,
and principal State highways of
other States and with national
highways into national reserves
by the most practicable routes,
■with special view ot devel-Opment
of agriculture, commercial and na
tural resources ~f the State, and
for the further purpose of per
mitting the state to assume con
trol of the state highways, repair,
construct, and reconstruct and
maintain said highways at the ex
pense of the entire state, and to
relieve the counties and cities md
towns of the state of this burden.”
This Was Amplified as Follows:
“The purpose and intent of this
stores operating as a going con
cern.
neces-
Jeff
cow-
horn trumpet he—well, he says
he borrowed it up in Currituck
the other afternoon, but other re
ports are somewhat at variance
wifli that version. The man who
had the oow-liorn says it was just
taken, and other obseivers .say
cap’n Jeff swiped it. But Cap’n
Jeif says he Borrowed it.
Anyliow he practices blowing
the blasted thing at (i o’clock in
fhe morning, and being at work
here. I’m privileged to hear him.
It isn’t so mucli of a privilege to
hear .him; seeing him practice is
what compensates me for being up
at that hearthenish hour. It’s no
privile"e whatever to hear any
body not even Cap’n Jetf, prac
tice on a cow horn.
According to Paul Green,—Well,
there’s no particular point in in
volving Paul Green in the matter.
But’Cap'll Jeff went up to Curri
tuck with Mr. Green prospecting
Monday afternoon. They were
gone several times as long as they
said they’d be gone, and wlien
Cap’n Jeff descended to tlie earth,
he bad this horn slung over his
shoulder. He adjusted his teeth
placed the thing to his lips and
fetched a-couple of earth-shaking
blasts upon it.
Spectators were so startled for
a little they were not quite sure
whether Cap’n Jeft’s sk-ull had
exploded or not. He did have a
sort of vacant look about the eyes
and back of the ears, af if the con-,
tents o- his skull had been sacrifi
ced in tlie making of ghastly nois
es. He re-adjusted his teeth and
looked around pleasedly. He had.
indeed, achieved a notable mess of
so-Jnd. I
It is, very obviously, a very an-l
cient trumpet. The legend i-» that ■
its late owner in Currituck inheri-'
ted it from his grandfather. For
a great many years, now, the lady
who is married to the follow Cap’n
Jeff took or borrowed if from, has |
used it for summoningher hus-'
Fishing Pier Seems
Likely Prospect For
Beach This Season
Estimated Cost Would Be About $10,000 To'
$15,000 and Venture Would Have Large
Daily Income In Summer; Piers On Other
Beaches Highly Successful, Florida Resi
dent Sa3’^s; Some Municipally Owned
THE MAN WHOSE WIFE
CAN RUN HIS BUSINESS
article is to establish a system of
state highways for the state, hard-
surfacing said highways as rapid
ly as possible, and maintaining
the entire system of said highways I
n the most improved manner as
outlined in this article. Work on
the various links in the state high
way system shall be of such a
character as will lead to ultimate
hard surfaced construction as
rapidly as money, labor and mater
ials will permit, and to a state
system of durable hardsurfaceJ
all-weather roads, connecting the
various county-seats, principal
towns and cities.”
It also Specified:
“Fifty Five hundred, (5,500)
miles shall be the approximate
maximum limit of milage of the
state highway system.”
It is obvious from the reading
of these three sections, that it was
-A seven pound large mouthed
bass was exhibited up at Kill
Devil Hills Monday by three an-
glers who had been fishing over in' from‘the“more dVsfont reach-
Kitty Hawk Lsing spinners gg of their farm. When she want^
and pork chunks for bait they had come home to dinner, she
fished for about two hours in the' . ^low d few blasts upon it.
afternoon from a skiff with a net | jjg ^^guld come home to dinner.
result of four bass, including the
seven pounder. Two of these ar
dent fishermen, Donald Small and
Dr. C. K. Himmelsbock, went to
Oregon Inlet the following morn
ing and brought home 21 floun
ders.
A party from Rocky Slount re
ported several good catches of bass
Ir’-a the Fresh Pond this week.
Experienced fresh water fisher
men usually have little ti'ouble get
ting good catches in said Pond, but
the main drawback is that a license
is required for fishing there;
whereas in the bays and creeks to
the w'est one need not buy a li
cense.
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wright, Jr.,
and son Charles of Wendell visited
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Vogler Sat
urday and Sunday and all went
fishing Saturday and Sunday. The
the intent and purpose of the Leg- catch consisted of 14 blues, hvo
loiaiure, in creating a state wide
••'nrhtvav -stem, under a centra
lized control and investing the ad
ministrative power i.T the High
way Co.mmission, that approxi
mate 5,500 miles of road should
be the limit of the state highway
n-ofoni. until the same had been
finished to conform to the pro
visions 01 section 3.
The power to make changes and
additions granted to the Highway
Couunlssion by the Legislature of
1937, Chapter 46, Section 1, did
not.-c3ntempIate additions to the
original highway system in excess
of an amount of mileage which
would permit these gentlemen,
under practical working conditions,
to penfect the system which the
Legislature of 1921 had made .it
mandatory to construct connecting
all county seats with hil'd sur-
spanish mackerel and five sharks.
They expect to return in August
with other friends. They fished
^\ltl. Capt. f'laiide Wise.
Wheeler Fields has a nicely out
fitted cabin over on the west shore
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faced roads. '
To Connect all Counties
In other words, it was clearly
the intent and purpose of the Leg
islature, as expressed and reveal
ed in the original law and ail of
the amendments thereto, that a
system of state highways, consist
ing of hard surfaced roads, con
necting all county seats, should be
provided for the people of North
Carolina before the highway com-
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Anr’'>vheii Mr. Green and Cap’n
Jeif and others wished to see him,
Jionday afternoon, she took dov.m
the cow-horn and blew some
blasts upon if. Her husband came.
And Cap’n Jeff came away with
the cow-horn. "What he aims to do
with it noDody, not even himselt,
seems quite to know. But it 6
o'clock in the morning he walks
grandly up and down the avenues
of Fort Raleigh blowing enor-1
mous concussions of sound from
it—It may be that of the bones!
of any of the original Lost Colony
were interred thereabouts they I
will rise up some morning and pro-1
bably so terrify Cap’n Jeff that he
vill thereafter be utterly in
capable of further effort towani
disrupting the tranquillity of the
early morning.
After a season of contemplation
of the phenomenon of Bradford
Fearing, I’m disposed to the opin
ion that LiniLay Warren, intro-
Bucing Him the aternoon the Presi
dent was here last .August, got his
mechanics a trifle mixed. The
Congressman called him a human
dynamo, and that desenption seem
ed, an8 altogether reasonably,
quite apt at the time, which was
August.
But after further observation of
the subject, I think it shoull be am
ended to read “Diesel engine.”
My acquaintance with mechanics
is mostly casual, but I’m informed
that a Diesel engine is unable to
get started uhtil'''bndfrho08 pres'-l
sure is brought to bear upon its'
cylinder head or somewhere, and
after you get the pressure going,
it will start with power 'nough to
pull entire flocks of dynamos.
It has been my observation, of
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The great success of the R. J.
Ederer Net & Twine Company in
eastern North Carolina can be as
cribed largely to the versatility of
its salesmen. Take for instance
George C. Hall, who with his w.te
and baby have recently moved to
North Carolina, to look after the
firm’s business at close mnge
George liad an eye to his job. He
not only worked in nnd out of the
Baltimore office for more years
than he ivants to say, but he suc
ceeded in marrj’ing a charming
and capable young woman who had
worked in the office 14 years, and
now when folks call up George’s
house, Mrs. Hall answsr.s the
phone and takes their orders, in
fact she knows as much about the
ret business _as George does.
There is also a little George in the
family. George was mighty effici
ent in the net business, but he had
to leave Baltimore. Tliere are so
many George Hall’s litnng in Balti
more that no one h..ows how to
call him up when they get to towTi,
and finally all r phoning some 15
or 20 of them people gave up and
quit. So George came to North
Carolina where his friends will
more easily find him at the Reidj
Apartments on Bonner St. The’
photograph shotvs them on theiri
ho.ieymoon in Florida.
Tentative clans for a fishing
pier at Nags Head have been been,
considered now for several months.
There is wide demand for it, ana
i group of Elizabeth City men
been going over the situation, and
getting estimates on the cost.
Construe‘ion of a pier some 300
feet loqg anywhere along the Daro
County Coast would cost about
$10,UOU to $15,0U0. It would en
able fishermen to daily get some
of the rarest sport to be had, on
payig a nominal fee for the use
of the pier. Proof of the good
fishing to be found by fishing
from a pier was witnessed at
scene of wreck of the Paraguay at
Kill Devvil Hills. Hundreds of
pi-ople would go to Capt. Jack
Nelson's place and be set aboard
the wreck in a small boat. And
until thfe wreck finally settled in
the sands, it was a popular place
w.here the catch was always good.
Clarence D. Toler, Coast Guard
keeper of Flagler Beach, Fla., a
Dare County native, who was vis
iting here this week, says fishing
piers along the Florida coast are
a great success. He tells of one
such pier which could be duplicat
ed for $20,000 that is 600 feet
long, and which has an income
running up to $50 a day by charg
ing a foe of only So cents a day.
This pier is municipally owned,
built of wood, on piles ranging in
length from 30 to 60 feet, and
eight feet above mean high water.
Jlr. Toler has paid considerable
attention to the operation of these
picr.s, and believes that Dare
County would not only lind such
on enterprise financially profit
able, but an immense drawing
card, and .advertisement for the
county. Not even Virginia Beach
has such a pier, and that is the
beach nearest Dare County.
Plans Permanent
Furniture Store
In Dare County
Legttm's ow Doing Big Busi
ness; Manteo Store To Be
Enlarged
THEOCANl'S TILLETT, DIES
AT KITTY HAWK TUESD.AY
Theocanus Tillett, retired Coast
Guard, died Tuesday morning at
ihe age of 64, following a stroke.
His home was in Kitty Hawk, and I
he last served at Kill Detil Hills ’
Station, leaving in .August 1929.
He was a member of a large fant-
ily of Tilletts, was a member of
the M. E. Church. Interment was
made in the family cemetery at
Kitty Hawk, services being con
ducted by Rev. M. R. Gardner the
pastor, Wedne.sday.
He is survived by four sons.
Pennell of Rodanthe, Mehin of
K. tty Hawk, Vernon and Coulter
L. of Virginia Beach and two
daughters, Mrs. Gladys Midgett oi
Virginia Beach and Mrs. Esther
Beacham of Kitty Hawk.
“baseball SUNDAY
Manager" W. B. Midgett an
nounces he expects a big time Sun
day on the local Diamond when
his Manteo Ail Stare, will play-the
Blue Devily from Norfolk on the
local diamond at 3:30. A large
crowd is expected to see this game.
Bobby (in the presence of family
-inwa 4,nop i ‘ojj„—(wcqtspv pu«
na Idss Miss Long—she slapped
daddy for doing it."
Taking advantage of a business
opportunity that has existed in
Manteo a long time, .A. J. Legum
Funiiture Company will operate a
furniture store permanently in
Manteo, and their present «'ore in
the Baum building is to be en
larged, so the entire builH'ng will
be used for Hieir showroom, R. A.
Cogaii, manager of the company
stated this week.
The -A. J. I.«gum Furniture
Company calls itself the largest
home owned furniture business in
Norfolk. It has been in operation
less than 20 years, and has a
staff of nearly 30 people looking
after its interests. It has been
operating in Dare County more
than a year from its Norfolk
store.
Now tha't a store is to be es
tablished in Manteo, Legum’s will
be in position to push its trade
down into Hyde County, or over
into Tyrrell County, as well as to
the south along the Banks. Le
gum’s expects to serve a wide re
gion.
Incidentally, the operation of a
large active store n Manteo wll
cause the expenditure of consider
able money in Manteo, much of
which formerly went away to mail
order houses.
MORRISETTE DEM.4NDS TO
BE HEARD ON BEER LICENSE
A. H. Morrisette, whose place at
Duck has gained a bad reputation
for girls and whiskey selling, and
who was denied a license to sell
beer in Dare County by the Com
missioners last -week, hw served
notice on the board he demands a
hearing.
Complaint was made by officials
of the Karic Service camp. The
Commissioners decided Dare Coun
ty has all it needs, of busineesses
of this type without ' further cE-
couragpng Morrisette’s,