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iiiJ THE DARE COUNTY TIMES tl , ' »Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of More Than 30,000 People of the Four Southern Albemarle Counties IV; NO. 190 MANTEO, N. C., FEBRUARY 17. 1939 Single Copy & OAST GUARD AT ITS BEST RESCUE OF WELLS CREW OFF OCRACOKE SEPT. 1914 THESE CHILDREN ATTEND THE SMALLEST SCHOOL IN NORTH CAROLINA. I drilling Story of a Rescue That Made His- For the Service; Women and Little J^hildren Rescued, Along With a St Bernard Story Told by an Eye-Witness to the ene, and Former Coast Guardsman BARNETT (U. S. C. G.), Buxton, N. C. Scf »te: 'ks is LINDSAY WARREN NOT TO BE A CANDIDATE IN 1940 FOR GOVERNOR OF STATE Appreciates High Honor in Being Urged to Run, But Says His Ambitions Are to Serve His District in Congress; Appears in Ral eigh This Week in Interest bf Cape Hatterasr National Seashore CAPT. HOMER STYRON WAS IN WELLS RESCUE A recent request in this ?er for stories about ship- in the old days along the Coast, has brought us interesting items, but none interesting than this tale of ^eck of the Geo. W. Wells, , y Thos. Barnett of Buxton, a Coast Guard, who as a boy 5n eye-witness of the scene in his father took a leading ' *t that time being Keeper of • *^8 Inlet Station. Capt. Bar- y^ife also assisted in caring nescued people, and was ®nded for her services. ■;4 ^iging on a hall on the second .f the Marine Hospital at Va., is one of the finest of a six mast schooner ®yer sailed the Atlantic coast; sail set in a moderate sea 6ood breeze blowing, and all ■ hearing a good “full,”— Would catch the mariner’s j’.ke that scene. In fact it is L ‘1 contrast to the last voyage ® ship in September, 1914. of wind from the north- ®oming on around east south ,jj'slly getting to the west, this same schooner, “The TYRRELL SCHOOL HEAD RECOVERING AT HOME X'' The smallest school in North Carolina is at Mashoes in Dare County. Miss Carrie Mae Lowe can certainly check up when one of her pupils is absent. Here she is shown with her students; Top row, Miss Lowe, Iva Dale Wescott, daughter of C. W. Wescott; Ira Spencer, Jr., son of Ira Spencer; Clyde P. Twiford, Jr., son of Clyde P. Twifiord; bottom row, Carol and Mila Wescott,. children of C. W. Wescott; , Wilford Midgette, son of Tom R. Midgette, and Boyd Basnight, son of S. C. Basnight. Boyd is holding his dog, “Briar.” Wells” after she had '^ston. Mass., for Femandina, t® load railroad ties. This ^^Ught the boat in its death a more gallant fight could have been made for its life ‘he ship made. It struck the passed the Diamond Shoal ‘P it was logging 18 miles under “bare poles.” To lubber this means no sails imagine a ship making ~ miles per .hour with no “Urely there was a high sea H but all was well. Con- loift towards its destination having to shift over a top- ' ‘rim a sheet until they pass- Lookout Lightship, the ^®thwest, but being under the - of a gallant seaman by ‘ri ha- nave to say goodbye to the i_‘‘er Wells, which was his CAPT. HOMER STYRON of Hat- teras, one of the old time Coast Guard keepers, who assisted Capt. Dave Barnett in the rescue of the crew of the Geo. W. Wells, told, ' about elsewhere in this paper to-1 By MARGARET NOWELL day. Capt. Styron, now long past; Editor’s Note: This article was four-score, resides at Hatteras, his|^j.jtten by Margaret Nowell who is old home, where he has been re-'g feature writer for the Washing- tird for several years. For a long star and is now living on Roan- while he was the champion checker island. Nearly a year ago she player of Hatteras, until failing gg„,e to Dare County and fell WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO DARE TEN YEARS FROM NOW? Shall We Simply Have Hot Dog Stands, or a Thing of Beauty and Joy Forever? 1®ri;h of Cape Hatteras and eyesight slowed up his pastime. in love with its people and its at- to live in, to play in—it belongs no longer to the ones who love it best. Fifteen years ago I went to live in Santa Ee, New Me.tic-i At the same time the First Colony on Roanoke was struggling for ex istence the Spaniards were pushing OFFICERS ARREST MEN WITH LOAD OF BOOTLEG WHISKEY 279 Gallons East Lake “Corn' Taken Off Truck at Coin jock; Two Men Arrested About 275 gallons of East Lake corn will never reacn its intended destination because of the s.mootniy working machine of the Federal PROF. R. H. BACHMAN, beloved and efficient superintendent of the Tyrrell County schools, is at his home in Columbia, recovering from a serious automobile accident which occurred during the Christ mas holidays when he and Mrs. Bachman were riding along high way 64 en route home. His many friends will be glad to know that he will effect a complete recovery. He spent g good part of his time in a hospital. Mrs. Bachman was also hurt but is recovered. r— r' in love witn its people aiiu iva av- their way north from Mexico City ^ o 4. i j ' i CaMtr \a/itu r'l i d d iti ir'ir Other men now living who took mosphere. By invitation, she has to found the city of Santa Fe in Saturday, and William H. Cui-, CAMt WITH CURRITUCK Alcohol Tax Unit in this territory | MANTEO BEATS IN '’^nd the wind shifting to ® of York, he yet did not part in that rescue were Roscoe written for us on a timely and Burrus, Ed. Burrus, Jim Henry helpful subject. Garrish and several others, all of^ whom are retired, or otherwise out ■ i wonder what will have happen- of the service. Capt. Homer Sty-, ed to Dare County ten years from non, one of the best loved men in now? .his community can tell many a true' it would be very easy to speak tale of hardship in the Coast Guard long and glowingly of the charm service. i and beauty of Roanoke, but you I have all heard it said better than j I might ever do—and I, being an DOG FROM SHIP WON BY THEO. MEEKINS ON A BET, “old timer” of ten months now purchase and re-equipment of the! hoi Tax Unit (take it for granted, boo. I came • - Citizens of Manteo well remem-! spring looking for a place , 4, j T 4.1. 1. 04. to take my family for the summer ber the dog, Jerry, the huge St. Bernard owned by Theo. S. Meek- and joy. So he began to scud ijj Or direction, which was n,, ® liim nearer the shore and , ® came on line of the steam- ® decided to anchor until the “ over. i^''''dered both anchors let go time with all the out to them, but when .® end he decided to snub the a bit; but the first halt the chains, both chains it,. *ke a stick of candy, also in ‘^6 bow loose. ‘tout . any anchors or chains, blowing him towards hig^'dreaded Diamond Shoals, ‘^’^d the newest sails hoisted b.,' ■ 1 to keep the vessel into the [fig "’^at off by the wind. By J--.^^tum to page eight) >• Disease found ts fast as the sails went I'HEap SHAVING BRUSH .i^trni, 1? u'tg against the use of j|i2J”'ashes labeled “Imperial, Japan, 332,” of which • or rru„ where they coiild enjoy the — ms, some 25 years ago. -The dog by board walks, ^ ^ —1 A ns rvll FnA weighed 175 pounds and is xeieri.u to in the story about the wreck of ,ic,ip1 «„mmer the Geo. W. Wells. paraphernalia of the usual summer resort. We found just what we Mr. Meekins saw the dog at Hat- wanted and spent seven delightful teras while it was owned by Ed. here. Part of the joy of Burrus, Coastguardsman to whom weeks came from our spot he was given when rescued from beach, but as we became ac- the wreck. At that time Miss ■ Manteo, explored the Maude O’Neal was seeking the of-,jj^gijg Roanoke .Jo Ocracoke, fice of postmistress at Hatteras. i ^g^. g^gj. being astounded at the Her half-brother, Ed Burrus was fj-jendliness and cordiality of the telling Mr. Meekins she had no pggpjg of Dare County, we realized chance of getting the office, now ^g jg^^j jj^^gb more than that Woodrow Wilson was Presi-j^ place to spend the summer—for dent, and Miss O’Neal being a Re- here were friends and contentment publican. But Miss O’Neal had would bcome a definite part strong Democratic friends, and lives. thi have been receiv- United States and sold or here, is contained in a tiojj ''®®eived by Dr. Carl V. ’ North Carolina State Illficer, from Dr. , Thomas hj’>5’^.^geon general and head ri(.j *"164 State Public Health dj ®rion is tbe result of a Jj^’^Ihrax traced bo one of “having brushes, and Iv wed to di. disease No ; aving event the spread '* rough their fur- ijj nieiilion was made of 1^5 manufactured hair I®oth brushes in Dr. \ ®.'h>tice. li),, riatigjj of this shaving Dr. Pr I’s notice, "hra ■ ' -'hich a case supposed to have been 'thef ? “fs well as a number 4®®'ring brushes bearing .’nr. j ‘mde -,iark has resulted all tk anthrax bacilli had : brushes so far ex- several laboratories.” Mr. Meekins bet Mr. Burrus a sum | game time that I am grate- of money against the dog that Miss ^gj. j.be quiet and friendliness O’Neal would get the office. She .g^e, I am aware that there are did, and Mr. Burrus paid his bet. | gyer-increasing thousands who live The dog created quite a sensation the tense life of cities who need around Manteo. It had a huge ju^gt what we found here. In time head compared to the size of the they will discover that this place is body. It faithfully watched the accessible and with the arrival of Meekins children while they were those thousands tranquility will small. Reaching old age it died. I disappear—unless the people of Mr. Meekins recalled that the pare County plan very carefully, ship wa.s burned up by some per-j jjy great-grandfather was a sea sons unknown, shortly after it was'gaptain and trader out from Nan- brought by a group of local men.(tucket Island in the days when Some rivalry had developed be- ghipg went round the horn. As tween opposing bidders, as valu- g youngster I spent many happy able ships and cargoes are often (days there and at that time it was bought for a song, even though j uiuch as Roanoke was before the they are much sought after, and it bridge was built—though more iso- was thought an unsuccessful bid-jiated. The native sons lived by der had started the fire. fishing, whaling or trading up and (down the coast. They were hard 1607. Santa Fe has always been Kaieigh, o9 yeais old, andi -4. 1 r> t n/r v great trading center as well as the-Michael V. \oung of Norfoix, ap- The Curritimk Potato Mashers Capital. In 1925 it was known for 'Parently some 10 years younger,' were no match for the terrific its delightful .climate, congenial mow are awaiting trial at the Manfeo Croatans in Sunday s foot- people," its art colony and its Fiesta March 27 term of Federal Court in ball game at the Manteo Ball Park, which lasted for four days each Elizabeth City. jin fact the CurrRuckers were wal- fall. It was not long before all of. Operating on a tip that a truck 4.), *^4= ^1 this was “discovered.” The man-1 and two automobiles Ld just cipss ager of a great chain of hotels saw] ed the Manns Harbor ferry Satur- ' Sunday”s game will be played be- possibilities there. His company j day which might be loaded with tween the two Manteo teams, the invested two million dollars in thej^ast Lake moonshine liquor, Alco-1 ^g^jd^^^^Ede bette'r^competiriom purchase and re-equipment of the | bgi Tax Unit investigators with hotel which faced the plaza, and a g^gte Highway Patrolmen Louis transportation service which, g^d Clyde Gibson kept a brought tourists from the ’*adway|gjj^ lookout on the highway from j Dare through Currituck and around forty miles away to the town. Within six months we all knew 6 o’clock identified the truck they some^ing had happened and it was,^^^^ watching for, time to make a move unless thej ^ town was to be ruined. ^ j v 4. -i t-u Looking back on these experi- ences and looking ahead ten years I am wondering what will happen to Roanoke. Like Nantucket it is a quiet village winch offers peace to a tired world. Like Santa Fe A FEW BIG MARINE DISASTERS ON THE CAROLINA COAST The loaded truck was finally est in shipwricks. The Carolina jock at a filling station on the west Cgggi country is so saturated with side of the highway, after the of-. ^-bg atmosphere of shipwreck and ficers had followed it on a 12-mile j-ggeue and heroism that we want chase, during which the truck had gp the stories -we can get about run several cars off the highway shipwrecks, whether actual ac- it has attractions that bring thou- and nearly killed a pedestrian, counts, or personal reminiscences sands of visitors each year. In ad- The truck, the liquor, and Young ^ gj those who took part, or heard dition to that it has ,many natural were taken. I the stories from old people. Here features combined with residents' The two cars in the caravan are a few of the larger .marine whose intelligence, cordiality and rolled up in a few minutes. The disasters off the coast of North gracious welcome to strangers is driver of the front car stopped, Carolina: surpassed only by their love of backed up a bit to slacken his tow^ Steamboat Home, lost off Ocra- their home county. i rope, and then shot forward, break- coke, bound from New York to When the road goes down the ing the tow rope and leaving Cul- Charleston, 100 lost, Oct. 9, 1837. banks will you locate it so that it lorn, who was driving the second Pulaski, blew up off N. C. coast, will not destroy the quiet beauty car, and Young to face the charges. Savannah to Baltimore, 140 lost, of the shore, so that your children Highway Patrolmen Lane and Gib- Jan. 14, 1838. and mine, twenty years from now j ggn gave chase until the liquor car Str. Kensington, collided with may see miles of golden sand, birds, turned off the pavement on the bark Templar, off Hatteras, both and blue sea as I saw it last sum-;-pgUg Creek road. (wrecked, 150 lost, January 27, 1871. mer from Hatteras Light Tower?! Young claimed the liquor and Emily B. Souder, lost off Cape Or will you dot it with hot dog j absolved Cullom from any connec-: Hatteras, 38 lost, Dec. 10, 1878. Lindsay Warren says he will not be a candidate in 1940 for Gover nor of North Carolina, despite ef forts of his friends and adminis tration leaders to get him to run. He admits it is the highest honor that can come to a North Carolin ian in his lifetime, but considers his present post as Congressman from the First District of North Carolina as his first duty to the state. Mr. Warren wrote this news paper this week saying he was pro foundly grateful for the confidence and esteem shown him by the peo ple of his state, but with the finan cial and other responsibilities upon him with respect to educating three children, he was not in position to run for Governor of the State, Mr. Warren was in Raleigh this week in the interest of a proposed bill for State cooperation in Cape Hatteras Seashore, which will be come a national park upon acquisi tion of the necessary acreage, and flatly denied that he has any inten tion of becoming a candidate for Governor in 1940. “Of course, I would like to be Governor; who would not,” declared Mr. Warren, who has been fre quently mentioned as a prospec tive candidate in 1940. “It is the greatest thing that 'could come to any North Carolinian and there is a wonderful opportun ity for constructive service,” he continued. “However, 1 have a mortgage on my ho.me and three children to educate. For that rea son, I have never given the matter a real serious thought, nor have I thought about any position other *^han the one I now hold from the neop'e of the First Cangressional District.” Mr. Warren, who has previously declined to make any statement on the .subject, repeated the substance of the above to scores who inquired privatly concerning his intentions w.hile he was here. Mr. Warren conferred with R. Bruce Etheridge, Director of the Department of Conservation and Development concerning the bill to create a North Carolina Cape Hat teras Seashore Commission, which will be introduced in the General Assembly by Senator D. B. Fearing of Dare. The bill calls for a commission of nine, to be composed of the Direc tor of Conservation and Develop ment as chairman, three members of the board of that department and five members to be named by the Governor, of whom two men may be non residents of the State. 'The bill carries an appropriation of $20,000 and gives title to the United Slates of the 1,100 acres of the Hatteras State Park and such other land in the area as the State may be disclosed to own through new surveys. The commissions \yill receive gifts of land. Under the act of Congress, the park may be opened when 10,000 acres have been ac quired in addition to the 7,000 now owned by the Federal government. The ultimate size of the park will be 100,000 acres. Mr. Warren declined to discuss stands and cheap summer shacks; Hon with it, but Commissioner J.j Metropolis, Currituck Beach, 140 national issues, other than to pre for the few hundreds of dollars it;c_ Munden of Elizabeth City, who lost, January 31, 1878. will bring for a sea.son or two. It] presided at the hearing in his of-| U. S. Sloop of War “Huron,’ TWO DARE COUNTY BOYS jworking, happy, intelligent people CHOSEN TO NYA SCHOOL for the most part whose well- . ; rounded education came from their Two Dare County bnvs, Marvin contact with people and ships from Mann of Manteo and Willie Ether- all over the world. In these last idge. Jr., of Wanc.hese reported ^twenty years Nantucket has been Monday to the State NYA training (“taken over” bv wealthy business center in Raleigh where they will 1 men from New York who wanted a begin courses in electrical engi-jqmet place to spent the neering can be done wisely but it should bei jige in the Postoffice building there,; Nags Head. 100 men, Nov. 24, 1877. planned now. j judged from the evidence that Cul-1 Dutch Str. Prins Mauritz, of When commercial developments ^ igjn was .more involved in bootleg Cape Hatteras, 59 lost, April 3, come—as they are bound to come ging than Young. Cullom, it was, 1915. _ to serve the increasing number of; (jjgdosed, has a record in Johnson] Line SS. Santiago, off visitors, will it be the people of, County for having been appre-; Cape ^'atteras, 15 lost, March 11, i Dare County, standing together bended at a still and placed under 1924. _ | a $5,000 bond which .he skipped; Se'd any information or stories] but was later picked up in Raleigh.! about ihese wrecks to The Dare, He is being held in Elizabeth City County Times, P. O. Box 55, Man- under a $7,000 bond and Young teo, N. C. under a $3,000 bond, who will make the recom,menda- tions for the futore—or some wealthy outside enterprise who may permit the young people of Manto to work for them? I shall have to come back often to see what will happen. diet that Congress will be in ses sion until August. His bill for re organization of the Federal gov ernment, for which he has person ally secured the support of 60 of the 76 Democrats now in Congress who voted against the measure last year, will be introduced next Mon day and he expects it to be passed. DR. ANDERSON REPLACES CAMP WRIGHT PHYSICIAN WPA GROUP COMPLETES COURSE IN FIRST AID ’AM AUSTIN summer.! Dr. Emory H. Anderson has join ed the staff of Camp Of course their trade means so.me- Chosen through ann'ication by. thing to the local merchants, but it •Tohn Lang, State" NYA director, j takes comparatively few shops and to take the c.our“>s offered at the, fishermen to supply the demand, training center, Mann and Ether-. As the years roll on the sons .“nd Hvo out of 33-5 bovs so-] daughters of the native Islanders lected over the entire state to re- ^.g ,qway to school and to make a eaive training. The schooling will living. Though Nantucket is ^ last from six months to a year. lightfnl in every way, to look at, on a hospital staff in the mid-west, the first aid- course. Wright as chief medical officer. Dr. Ander son came here from Waycross, Ga., where he has been serving as chief surgeon at the hospital there. He is a nalive of Richmond. Va. He replaces Dr. W. T. T orirnayg Thirty-two WPA foremen squad leaders in this vicinity re quired to possess first aid certifi cates completed the necessarv 20 hours’ training this week. Gaston Meekins, who received his instruc tion at Greenville, N. C., has been conducting the classes here. Ho also hn'fls v'igi;)-..,. .. ’v.-q .i-b, Hirar '.ustin. aged 82, a beloved i charactci of Hatteras, died Wed nesday. He will be greatly missed and 1-^,^, )T;,any friends as he v^ag one of the old “stand-bys” o-p ihnt con- munitv. Burial services were held ( Thursufiv ‘eras. He is sur vived hvi lie . 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