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r THE DARE COUNTY TIMES Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of More Than 30,000 People of the Four Southern Albemarle Counties '/OL. IV; NO. 184 MANTEO, N. C.. JANUARY 6. 1939 local business leaders EXPECTING IMPROVEMENT DURING THE COMING YEAR Single Copy 5c HALF OF DARE’S PEOPLE EATING GOV’T “VITTLES” OFF TO LEGISLATURE Tons of Free Food Being Given to 2,600 Persons in County Twice Monthly ^jority Report Good Business During 1938 and Say They Are Looking Forward to an Increase During 1939; Optimism Prevailing Generally , That business during 1938 was ^irly good and that the prospects 1939 are even better is the con- ®tsus of opinion among Manteo 'isiness leaders interviewed by a ^Pr^entative of this newspaper 'thin the past few days. Business in my store was very Kood during 1938, and I am look- , ^ forward to better business dur- 8 1939,” said Carson W. Davis, ,'l^B-known department store head. Christmas business was the est I evgr j certainly ^ft’t complain about the rest ofj .P® year. I confidently expect an I crease during the coming twelve I P'onths.” ^ell pleased with his store’s 1938 Usiness and highly optimistic over jP® prospects for 1939 was Frank ^echini, manager of the A. J. Le- sUm furniture store. We came to Manteo a bit skep- P^l as to whether there were , PP^h business here to justify the , tablishment of a well-stocked rP'fPre store in the town,” Fac- ^ 'PI said this week, "and our busi- j^ess has exceeded our fondest have been good and lections have been good, so much o’ 'P fpet) that we had to enlarge Out before the year was And now we are planning to 1939*'^ our sales territory during an ■’ P years there will be H '^proved road from Manns roadto Engelhard, an improved „ P to Hatteras and bridges tor°n^- ^roatan Sound and Alliga- j,oo,^''"®r, and when that day L P® Manteo will be a busy trad- ^.ppoter. That’s why we are so P"®tio about the future of our havp "Pro. We eventually will ®tor fhe finest furniture rig.,®® ip Eastern North Carolina look 'P Manteo. Yes, 1939 fm, P Sood to me, in fact the while "^re looks bright.” er.j' (Uncle Dick) Evans, vet- Ptprehant and head of the husio!! ®pppiy Co., is another local a !„:P.®® loan who enters 1939 with “j of optimism. 1939 Piiove that business during than he better, if anything, “My '^^P® during 1938,” he said, husin enjoyed a fairly good Or a w.P year, as good as 1937 itunm^^ p better, and I expect some jlj P^ement during 1939.” ownen ■ Tianiels, department store as his’f''^P® PPP QoiPe ®o optimistic tot ri). merchants, but he did Sai(j k ony slump during 1939. a nini. ' can’t see much hope for REPRESENTING HYDE IN THE LEGISLATURE ONE OF THE youngest members of North Carolina’s General As semply for the session which open ed this week is George T. Davis, 27-year-old Representative from Hyde County.’ Davis, a rising young attorney of Swan Quarter, is following in the footsteps of his fa ther, George E. Davis, who was Hyde’s Representative in the 1937 Legislature. DARE MAINLAND HAS OWN SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY Fairfield in Hyde Also to Supplied by January Fifteenth Be cau55g T*^? business this year, be-, and its "bole i^Ppheve that the people as a someti about fh*P®^ P little confidence ing ^},PP future and are not spend- , ly as Piuuey they have as free- it. p P®y normally should spend Sensed^ ®®yeral months''now I have striutt ^ lightening of the purse Or huv people who have money Seetu A ^'ibstantial incomes. They believ ^p ^Puud. However, i 'be coalition of conservative emocrats i"'bhcan • .‘-—.r —— bring Congress this year will larly i^ ®ouie reforms, particu- Jiess '"Utter of taxes on busi- iP'e&su tend to ease the der, gQ ^iubui- business has been un- in 194a .at things should pick up 0, j’ "ub this year.” and Manteo wholesaler Ulan nrs i® another business ter y^”P thinks 1939 will be a bet- “1 H ’',than its predecessor, any t believe things will be PUght r P''*t they certainly One thi° better,” he said. “For ®®eras *be country as a whole it bas be more optimistic than and thi two or three years busineo ''®''ully results in improved Wag puuditions. The year 1938 Bare p guod .a business year in the us 1937 was, due to that the fishermen of the and newlv-elected Re- Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point both on the Dare mainland, are now supplied with electricity from the power tine of the Pamlico Ice & Light Company at Engelhard. The Manns Harbor line was ener gized December 23rd, and the Stumpy Point line December 30th. The company expects to complete its Fairfield hook-up January 15th, thereby completing a $60,000 proj ect constructed with lightning speed during November and De cember. The Engelhard plant, managed by P. D. Midgett, Jr., a native of Wanchese, has in three years been a tremendous force in the development of Hyde County, its lines have been extended sometime ago, to Swan Quarter and intervening points. The com pany now has more than 100 miles of power lines, and is serving a rapidly growing list of patrons. The startling fact that fully half j the people in Dare County are get-i ting most of their food from the! WPA commodity warehouse was i brought out at the monthly meet-1 ing of the board of county commis- j sioners on Tuesday of this week. ' I. P. Davis, County Superinten-I dent of Welfare, appearing before! the commissioners to ask for a truck with which to distribute the' commodities, made the amazing! disclosure that upwards of 2,600 individuals, or at least half the population of Dare County, are re ceiving butter, flour, potatoes, beans, rice and other substantial foods from the WPA commodity warehouse in Manteo twice month ly- Mr. Davis pointed out to the commissioners that literally tons of surplus commodities purchased by the Federal government to relieve the glutting of markets are being shipped into Dare County twice each month for distribution to needy or professedlv-needy famil ies. Getting these commodities out to families in such scattered com munities as Duck, Collington, Ma- shoes. Stumpy Point, and Hatteras has been a perpetual headache for Ike Davis, who has continually hadj to beg or hire someone to distribute them to the relief families in the! County. Frequently, because of de lay in getting the commodities dis tributed, potatoes, cabbages and other commodities have rotted or spoiled before leaving the ware- DARE COUNTY is unusually well represented in the 1939 General Assembly of North Carolina, which convened Wednesday, wfth Roy L. Davis, left above, serving his fourth term as Dare’s Representative in the House, and D. Bradford Fearing, right above, entering the Senate as Dare’s first representative in that branch of the Legislature in 30 years. Messrs. Davis and Fearing left here Monday as as to be on hand in ample time for the caucuses and other preliminaries to the opening of the General Assembly. Representative Davis will stay at the Sir Walter Hotel while in Raleigh, and Senator Fearing, who was accompanied by his wife, will occupy an apartment on Polk street. ABC SALES RUN $5,000 AHEAD OF LAST YEAR Davis Reports on Sales For First Half 1938-39 Fis cal Year BETTER BUSINESS IS INDICATED BY REGISTRATIONS TWO IN TYRRELL COUNTY CONTEND THEY RIGHTFULLY HOLD OFFICE OF SHERIFF Unusual Situation Develops When Robert Swain Refuses to Surrender Office to Re publican Ray Cohoon, Leader by Six Votes, According to Board of Elections HE IS REPRESENTING WASHINGTON COUNTY Horace Dough Says Registra tions at Wright Memorial Are Business Barometer That business is definitely on the upswing is the opinion of Horace Dough, custodian of the Kill Devil Hills National Monument, who says that he has found registrations at the monument to be a reliable busi ness index. “I have noticed,” Mr. Dough said Sales in Dare County’s ABC stores house or before reaching the fam-1 during the six months of the 1938- ilies for whom they were intended, j 39 fiscal year ran nearly $6,000 And even so it has been costing the > ahead of sales for the correspond- County from $30 to $40 a month 'ing period of the 1937-38 fiscal to get them distributed. j year, according to figures released The remedy to this situation,! by Roy L. Davis, Dare County ABC Superintendent Davis pointed out, supervisor. ®a^e® f"' the two stores fori this week, “that the registrations second-hand truck for $.300 to $500 j six-months period ending De-1 ®t the Wright Memorial are for use m distnbuting the com- amounted to $30,-1 tremely sensitive to business con- modities some five or six ckp each g^[gg j ^ j ditions. A stock market break is month and for use on WPA proj-j g^j^ nroc oi, V, +V, f r ’ j 191.96. Unit sales for the last six was shown that elimination of pres-1 jjjg^ths of 1938 totaled 30,511, as Zi A against 27,192 for the same period pay for the truck in a year or less,’^^ ^ while the amount the County, as a Breaking the total down, it is sponsoring agency, would be al- ’ lowed for use of the truck on WPA projects would save the County quite a lot of money. It was moved and carried that Commissioner John Ferebee make arrangements for the purchase of WASHINGTON COUNTY is ably represented in the 1939 General Assembly, which convened yester day, by Wilbur M. (Pet) Darden, Plymouth attorney, who won the Democratic nomination by an im pressive majority and was without opposition in the general election. a truck and the financing of the deal. invariably reflected in a decrease in registrations for several weeks thereafter. Conversely, when the stock market picks up, registra tions show an increase. I have studied this for several years and shown that most of the increase Bave found it to be a reliable indi- was at store No. 1, in Manteo, al- of business conditions.” ATTORNEY RUSSELL TELLS HICKORY ABOUT MANTEO TYRRELL COUNTY LOSES OUTSTANDING WOMAN A recent issue of the Hickory Daily Record gives an account of some kind words for Dare by At torney D. L. Russell, who was a visitor during the holidays at a meeting of the town council of Hickory, his old home. The article is as follows: D. L. Russell, former local attor ney and the first judge of Hickory Municipal court, who moved to Manteo some time ago, was a visit or at the council meeting. He made a talk to the aldermen describing the North Carolina coastal section though the store at Nags Head Head showed a slight gain. In Store No. 1, a total of_ 17,810 bot tles of spiritous beverages were dispensed from July 1, 1938, through December 31, 1938, with the gross receipts amounting to $16,123.53, against receipts of $11,- 699.60 for the 13,483 bottles sold from July 1, 1937, through Decem ber 31,1937. The Nags Head store, during the final six months of 1938, sold 12,- 701 units and took in $14,788.20, while during the same period of the preceding year the same store sold 13,709 units for a total of $14,- 492.45. Receipts of the two stores for the 1938 calendar year barely fell short of $50,000, the 52,214 units sold bringing in $49,541.53. The Man teo store sold 31,908 units for $27,- 640.63 during the calendar year, while the beach store sold 20,306 units for $21,900.90. The first audit of the Dare Coun- DAVIS-FEARING COMMITTED TO NO LEGISLATION Representative and Senator Have No Bills in Mind When They Leave Here Noting that registrations at the Neither Davis Rperesentative Roy L. nor Senator D. Bradford monument during December were' Fearing had drafted or even been per cent ahead of the! "PP""®eBed about any local legis- December, Custodian I'^tion up to the time of their de- nearly 400 previous Dough stated that this could only mean that business is improving. Registrations for the calendar year 1938, according to Mr. Dough’s records, totaled 82,383. Reflecting the drawing power of “The Lost Tyrrell County taxpayers aren’t paying any taxes, because they don’t know who to pay to, and of course many glad of an excuse to not pay, don’t pay. Likewise, the County is saving something like $200 a month, because the Com missioners don’t knojsf which man to pay the salary of Sheriff. Robert L. Swain, incumbent by appointment, and Democratic can didate, winner over two others, re fuses to give up the office to B. Ray Cohoon, Republican nominee, leader November 8th by six votes. Mr. Swain contends he has not been lawfully defeated by Mr. Cohoon, and he keeps the keys to the office serves papers, and has filed his bond. Mr. Cohoon, while having no office, has also filed bond, and serves papers. Somebody seeking a divorce may find himself or herself living in adultery, if the wrong sheriff serves the papers. Likewise, other ■court actions may fall down for the same reason. The Board of Elections, composed of Chairman M. A. Davenport, and Joe Cohoon, Democrats, and Floyd E. Cohoon, Republican, in certify ing the candidates elected Novem ber 8th, noted the fact that Mr. Swain had contested Mr. Cohoon’s majority of eight votes. Floyd E. Cohoon is a brother of B. Ray Co hoon. B. Ray Cohoon is a former postmaster, head of the local Am erican Legion Post, former G-Man, and an ex-lieutenant of the World War period. Sheriff Swain is a farmer boy from down on the Creeks, and a brother of H. L. Swain, Williams- ton attorney and former senator from the Second District. He was new in politics when appointed to fill the vacant Sheriff’s office in 1937. But he made a hard fight in the primary, and won over two candidates for the Democratic nomination. B. Ray Cohoon, a popular .citizen, often called Columbia’s best dress ed man, and so pqjite and precise ■as to border on circumlocution, is one of the best known citizens of Tyrrell. He has powerful family connections and before this time Tyrrell County lost a useful wo man, and one whose dignity, gen tility and devotion to her church commanded the universal love and esteem of the people o^the South ern Albemarle, in the death of Mrs. Ella. G. Tatem last Friday. She Iy®"'® Be spent in Hickory, had been 4;he faithful wife of C., ^^senbed the section around Man- Wallace Tatem of Columbia for 431 *'®® ®"® filled with promise for years, and she was 66 years old in i Pi’p.sperity for the future.” He August. She was a Wynne beforethere is already a big increase and commending Hickory on the:ty ABC Board, covering the 1937-38 many fine improvements” made fiscal year, showed a net return to since his departure to live at Man- the County of $3,495.83 from the teo. At the suggestion of City At-1 operation of the two stores, while council made 5356.43 was set aside for enforce official record in the minutes of Mr. Russell’s visit. The attorney, after mentioning his “fond recollections” of the ment purposes. her marriage, and beside her hus band is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Alma Disosway, of Columbia, Mrs. J. M. Arps of Plymouth, and Misses Helen and Pauline Tatem of Columbia, in real estate activity at the seaside resorts and much new construc tion. Mr. Russell expressed the opinion Nags Head “some day will be a second Atlantic City.” Questioned by a member of the Other near relatives who sur-! board about the liquor traffic in the vive her are her brother, S. D. Eastern counties, Mr. Russell de- Wynne and .her sister, Mrs. M. M. Davis of Columbia, and her grand- daugter. Miss Evelyn Arps of Plymouth. Columbia has seldom witnessed so lavish a wealth of flowers as was l938.^yB^Jn’t make any money in Ta- ^ lot cf ^ believe there will beri„„ „f„„ ^ J'®"'^ construction during dared he was convinced conditions in Manteo are mudi better since the establishment of ABC stores. He said he voted for county control of liquor in the election there. “In my opinion,” he said, “the ABC stores system is preferable to tern when she was interred Sun- l-be old ‘blind tiger’ liquor traffic. DAVIS SAYS WPA IS SAFE UNTIL JULY 1, IN 1939 (iiti^^^b will make business con- ^tter in the county.” ^ Mrs ®T®UCK by AUTO ."let Belanga of Caffeys broken leg and arm she St-- " jl' Saturday night when *be patK ^ ® truck and into Twifo-j ^ car driven by Earl langa ?' Eitty Hawk. Mrs. Be- husband is a Coast at Caffeys Inlet Sta-! this week. day. The services were conducted 1 which cannot be controlled.” by Rev. W. Hardy, the Rector of| -■ ■ ■ her Church, St. Andrews Episcopal, RAISES CAIN AT HATTERAS and assisted by Rev. Mr. Matthews of Washington. The pall bearers were C. Earl Cohoon, P. E. Cohoon, E. L. Moseley, W. H. ''McCleese, Donald Selby and E. P. Cahoon, Jr. The present Congress may or may not abolish the WPA in its present form, but regardless of what action is taken it is extremely unlikely, in the opinion of L- P. Davis, Dare County WPA adminis trator, that anything serious will happen to the WPA before July 1, 1939. “It is my opinion,” Mr. Davis said this week, “that not even the most conservatiove Democrats, nor even the Republican members of Congress, will dare to abolish work relief. They may change its name and its form, but some combina tion of relief and public works is here to stay. “I believe the new Congress will immediately pass an efnergency ap propriation to carry the WPA pro gram on in a restricted form until Homer Rollinson, ran amuck at Hatteras Wednesday, entered the! July 1 and will then concentrate on home of his brother Nye, and tore | some substitute for it. Vice-Presi- out the windows and' otherwise dent Gamer’s plan to make the tion was taken to Albemarle Hos-1 raised a great disturbance, accord- PWA semi-permanent now appears pital in Elizabeth City, w.here her ing to reports sent in to officers.! to be the most likely substitute condition was described as good Policeman Dave O’Neal of Avon plan, although several others are was sent to the scene. being considered.” parture for Raleigh Monday to represent this County and district, respectively. “I am going to Raleigh with an open mind and without any com mitments of any nature,” said Sen- Colony,” registrations during Julyl^tor Fearing before leaving here., and August accounted for more | “I am 'a new hand at this business, j has made spectacular political runs than half of the year’s total. The and I don’t intend to be made a | in what is normally Democratic registrations by months were as' goat on the floor of the Senate if [ country. So when he went into the follows: January, 440; February, I can help it. I’m just going to sit race this time, either by accident or 510; March, 1,669; April, 2,248; tight and listen and work quietly May, 3,072; June, 4,157; July, 16,-j for any legislation which I think 738; August, 35,875; September, 1 will be beneficial to my district.” 13,319; October, 1,609; November,! Representative Davis, who is 7,605, and December, 1,140. (serving his fourth consecutive term Registrations for the National in the Legislature and who is re- Park Service’s Travel Year, which garded as a staunch administration ended September 30, totaled 80,911. supporter, says he has not been j election. The Board called a hear- asked to introduce any local legisla-1 ing. It developed Mr. Cohoon had PA\/iMr Pon ipr'T MniAi effecting Dare County, but^been particularly active in sick rAVllMU rKUJtU I INIUW fig intends to utilize some of j votes and other absentees to a total VIRTUALLY ASSURED his time while in Raleigh in work-|of some 60 or more, the larger part I ing for the Cape Hatteras National of them being people who were in Street paving and concrete side-: Seashore Park and for the pro-; Tyrrell County on the day of elec- walks and gutters for Main street P®®®^ bridges across Alligator j tion. Mr. wain himself had gotten and County street in Manteo ap- (Ki' er and Croatan Sound. .some 30 votes from absent voters, peared virtually certain this week ! With Roy Davis in the House, j but not having a force in the field as owners of abutting property be-; Fearing in the Senate and R. Bruce 1 eep® with Mr. Cohoon, he design, many of the leading Demo crats laid down on Bobby Swain and left him to battle for himself. The result was Mr. Cohoon was six votes ahead. Mr. Swain immediately lodged a protest against the results of the couldn’t get as many. Mr. Swain got suspicious when gan signing notes for their pro rata Etheridge at the head of the De share of the expense of the project, partment of Conservation and De- The WPA project for this work | velopment. Dare County will have neighbors came to tell him that one was approved some months ago,, more political influence and ability 1 voters who had voted ab- but work was never started on the ^ concentrated in Raleigh for the, settee sick ballots for his opponent, project because the Town of Man- i next two or three months than ever i b®fi been seen plowing in the rain teo lacked the sponsor’s part of the before in its history at any one election day. In another instance cost. Interested citizens finally time. be was informed one good Republi- figured out that the pr could! c®" lady, who was averse to going be started and carried t comple-| . ._ l,*. . oDtrAg'CD ' polls, had been served by tion if owners of abutting Toperty, '-toLlb. HALL SPEAKER would put up 66 cents uer fror AT ENGELHARD JAN. foot of their property. . .ccording-j ly, R. C. (Uncle Dick) Evans and| q. Leslie Hall, prominent Nor- messenger in behalf of his oppon ent. So Mr. Swain hired Sam Wood- ley, Columbia attorney, Martin ; Simpson of Elizabeth City, and his Moncie L. Daniels drafted petitions! folk merchant former state nresi ?“"P®°" ^nzanetn uity, ana nis and canvassed the nronertv ownersi a *■ e ,, P'®®' brother, Herbert, of Williamston, on the two streetfXre ' was v • ^he R®ta't Merchants of, demanded a show-down from on tne two streets vnere as. Virginia, and best known for his the Board of Elections The Board proposed to make the badly-needed 1 work as President of the Tidewater improvements. The property own- Automobile Association, has agreed neanng, ana wouna up d> ers cooperated splendidly, and ar-1 to address the Hyde County Cham- rangements were made for them to figr of Commerce in meeting Mon- sign notes at the Bank of Manteo, day night, January 9th', at Engel in the sums of th. ir proportio-ate i finrd nccordino- to p n Indications are that t. expense. notes will all be signed within an other week or so, in which event the project could be started by the end of the month. hard, according to President P. G Gallop of Swan Quarter. casting out four votes for each candidate, and certifying that Mr. Cohoon was six votes ahead. But Mr. Swain wasn’t satisfied, and appealed to the State Board of Elections, who threw the thing The address of welcome is to be back in the lap of the local Board, the ter Morris of Currituck. The En delivered by Mrs. Seth Gibbs of Engelhard. Responses by John W As soon as the present nroiect Columbia, Melvin Dan- As soon as the present project is Manteo, and Solicitor Ches- under way, a project c dling for| paving and sidewalks on all other streets in Manteo will filed with the WPA. ^ | tended Mayors of Edenton and ! Elizabeth City, and to J. C. Meek-1 “The Board had no right to do this, a year ins of Columbia Mens Club, as well Moreover, the Board allowed Floyd as other prominent citizens. ■ (Pleaae turn to Page Two) ‘ I gelhard Glee Club will sing. Spe ®icial invitations have also been ex- Sheriff Swain bases his iiction in refusing to give up the office largely on the following claims: “I didn’t have a legal hearing before the Board of Elections, be cause they took the witnesses sec retly into a room and examined them privately.” Mr. Swain says. Forty thousand couples are married in London. liii' 'lit' !i;! 'yf}that tiiiVick Iff a L
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