DARE COUNTY TIMES
OF FINDING 25,000
FORMER RESIDENTS GETS
UNDERWAY THIS WEEK
^^uthern Albemarle Homecoming Committee
Wants Names and Addresses of Former
Residents During Past 30 Years; Work Be
gins in Four Counties of Dare, Hyde, Wash
ington and Tyrrell; Next August the Date
BOSWOOD STATES
HIS REASONS FOR
STOCK LAW BILL
Currituck Legislator Is Un
ashamed of Bill Petitioned
by Corolla Folks
The big task of gathering the
of some twenty-five thou-
people who once lived in the
‘'’’if wuntifs of the Southern Albe-
KITTY HAWK’S PASTOR
HAS PONE A REAL JOB
section got uilder way this
V and blanks for the purpose
Hr"
been put into the hands of
Postmasters, preachers and teach-
j''® through the various counties,
j is estimated that at least twen-
y-five thousand people whose pres-
j.Pi addresses are now known have
*''ed in the Southern Albemarle
Potion during the past
ypars.
thirty
ii- is the purpose of the commit-
s of the Southern Albemarle As-
^oiation to gather these names and
odresses in order that they may be
*Ppraised of the period of festivi-
I - Set aside in August, this year,
shared by all these people
return home next summer.
tvery
person who will do so, is
^ged to obtain from some mem-
i.Pa of the committee sufficient
apks and a return envelope with
_ aich to send such names as they
know, and to supply all the
Aaies and addresses possible. Care
* Urged, in getting the correct ad-
aown it may be left out and the
^tumittee will make every effort
obtain it from other sources,
launching the work for the
^offiecoming this summer, D. V.
Mr-’ • ....
Pekins, Secretary of the Associa-
'Pu issued the following state-
*PPat this week;
How It Can Help You.
The Southern Albemarle Home-
Pfiiing is planned for August, 1939,
P bring back to these delightful
^“Unties of the Coastland, thou-
j^ads of natives and other former
Pp'dents. By staging the event
auiltaneously in four counties,
STUMPY PT. FISHERMAN jNEW STATIONS
TRYS POl^Y RAISING.p^jjj COAST GUARD
IN THIS DISTRICT
Other Sourcea of Revenue Sought
By Citizens of Dare Main
land
Commander C. SuUivan An
nounces Authorfeation of
New Units at Ocracoke
In a letter to the editor of The
Daily Advance, Rep. Gid Boswood
of Currituck County gives his rea
sons for introducing the repeal of
the Currituck stock law in the
present session of the legislature.
Says Representative Boswood: “I
have no retraction to make. I in
troduced the bill in goiod faith, I
promised those folks in the cam
paign I would introduce the bill if
they would send me a petition re
questing me to do so, they sent me
the petition and so far as I know,
the petition wa§ signed by every
citizen living on Currituck beach.
“As I see it, they are fine people
living on Currituck beach, in fact
my mother lived there when she
was a young girl, and I am not
ashamed of Currituck beach.
“The way I see it, they have the
Atlantic ocean on one side of them
and Currituck Sound on the other,
and so far as I know, they cannot
even grow a vegetable of any kind
in that section, just simply a pile
of sand, and if those folks want a
milch cow, hogs, or sheep, I say let
them have what they want as long
as they are not divided in asking
for what they want and are willing
to ask or make known their wants
in the form of a petition and will
ing to sign same one hundred per
cent strong.
“These people set forth in their
Allen Osborne, well-known fish
erman of Stumpy Point has taken
up a sideline which he hopes to
make his principal source of in-
eome, according to C. W. Overman,)
county agent of "Dare , County. Mr. 1
Osborne has a broiler production Elizabeth City announces that two
proj'ect underway and has con-1 of the Coast Guard’s new super
structed a new brooder house to ] stations will be constructed in this
hold 500 chicks. Last week he put . district—one at Hogue Inlet aT\d
500 barred Plymouth Rock chicks!the otti® at Oeracoke, T'ney will
under his brooders and apparently be remodelled along similar lines
they are dioing nicely.
UNKNOWN THUG SLUGS
PEDESTRIAN; WOMAN’S
CAR SEARCHED LATER
® ^ill enable more people to re-
old associations, and to see the
of childhood days than
U’d ever be done in any other
’’’anner.
REV. MATT RANSOM GARDNER
has a record of achievement for his
three years of service on the Kitty
Hawk charge, where he preaches
to congregations at Nags Head,
Duck and Collington. Mr. Gard
ner is beloved by the people of his
charge. His is one of the most
notable achievements of a Metho
dist pastor in Dare County. As
leader of a group of loyal workers
in his church, he enlisted the whole
hearted cooperation of the com
munity, and many friends outside
and in 1938 completed a handsome
brick church nearly all paid for -and
costing over $8,000. The achieve
ment under Mr. Gardner’s leader
ship has won high praise in church
circles. He came to Kitty Hawk
fnom Wayne County.
On Wednesday last weeki T W,
Twifor^ ef Lake aoco,mpanied
Mr. OreTOan to Elizabeth City to
attend the swine meeting coil
tsd
sevenTSL?' J^al^artersTn Vmoeiit O’Brien of^ Camp \^ight Knocked
Out by Heavy Fist Near Roanoke Island
Baptist Church; Unknown Men
of Miss Drinkwatir Wednesday NiiRt*
Not Yet Apprehended
RS the $53,500 super station now
under erection at Fort Macon and
will make five new, modern Sta
tions in the Seventh District.
Th? new itatien at Cape Hat-
by H. W. Taylor, G. W. Falls, and
members of the State Department.
Mr. Twiford was well impressed by
teras is to be commissioned March
1, and has been two years under
construction. A second at Cape
the movies on Swine Sanitation and I Henry is almost completed and will
the lecture on raising swine. At a probably be occupied during the
meeting held for East Lake farm
ers on Saturday afternoon Mr.
Twiford told the group about the
summer. Commander Sullivan said
that orders authorizing occupancy
of the new Hatteras unit have come
swine meeting and urged his neigh-j through and that Chief Bos n (L)
bores to j'oin him in following up i George H. Meekins will be ordered
the recommended Swine Sanitation I into the station March 1.
Practices. 1 Bids on the building contracts
At the East Lake farmers’ meet-Tor the two new stations at Bogue
ing, held at East Lake School on | Inlet and Ocracoke will be adver-
Saturday afternoon, Mr. Overman, tised soon. Commander Sullivan
discussed with them the .subj‘ect| said the Construction and Repair
“Living at Home in 1939.” They | division of Coast Goard headquar-
discussed the importance of pro-. ters in Washington notified him
ducing a greater variety of vege- their construction had been author-
tables in the home garden and of, ized. When commissioned, the two
having a good year around garden, j new units will replace stations
The canning of sufficient vegeta-1 commissioned in 1905. They will
bles for use during the winter was be modern in every detail with the
also stressed. Emphasis was plac-, latest electrical devices and equip-
SOUGHT BY G-MEN FGR
THEFT; UNCAUGHT
petition that they were willing to importance of producing mnt
remove all their stock without
force or notice as soon as the State
of North Carolina or the WPA
were ready to* start building a
highway system in that section,
and to think at the present time,
these people have no roads what
ever, j'ust simply a pile of sand to
push through as best they can.
“Now, as the Bill in question,
when I introduced it I had no idea
JOHN JOSEPH STADLEMAN,
v/ho is the object of search by G-
a bountiful supply of poultry and Their erection will give the _ — „
and eggs, meat and dairy products Seventh 'District ^’^e new stations, | hiding out.
for home use; also the production located at Bogue Inlet, Ocracoke,]
of a bountiful supply of feed for Cape Hatteras, Cape Henry, and •
bulletin issued last week by the
the
a 1 imxuuuGBu the farm an asset and
State of North Carolina, the .
the livesto-ok on the farm. | Fort Macon to serve the northern
Lastly they discussed the con-, Carolina Coast.
.struction of simple, inexpensive' -vrT^TTir TT/^rptPT CJ
home conveniences, making neces- ^ XVw O NLW HDIFIjO
sary repairs to fences and build
ings, and building toward making
a better
, ^here is no event with greater
appeal, or to capture the hu-
fancy
than
® atmosphere
a homecoming,
and spirit of
WILLIS BAUM BUYS
“RED TOP” STATION
Willis Baum, the genial, jovial
and friendly proprietor of the fill-
D ®''^}iness. and fellowship that will station on the west side of the
®^ail -will enliven the heart, and
^nt.
^Ve many troubles of the pres-
^ Former residents as well as
^l^'^j'tless new-found friends of
J will come to these counties,
2 25,000 visitors are expected,
a® round of OTlertainment and
fei
j^^lj^ities, the bringing in of prom-
speakers, the interchange of
^ ideas, and the helpful sugges-
„^^^ease turn to page eight)
T’-MEn
CAPTURE MAN
and MOONSHINE HERE
ritz A. Marks of South Norfolk,
ihe ^ ^ bond, was in
itff , City jail after a hear-
C-^pnday before United States
w^'^’issioner J. C. Munden. Marks
iern '^^Pi'^^Fed late last Friday af-
by Federal agents as he
-P's off tiie Manns Harbor-Roan-
loj.^®iand ferry with a 110 gallon
Mth whiskey. He was charged
lav ’'^moving and concealing non
Md liquor and conspiracy to
the United States govem-
jfjj of liquor taxes, and tempor-
befj^hoid in the Dare County jail
0 being taken to Elizabeth
highway at Nags Head has con
cluded the purchase of the Red Top
Filling Station at Kitty Hawk
beach, and will open it for business
on March 1, with a complete line
of Texaco products and groceries
at cut rates.
Mr. Baum created something of
a sensation on the beach when he
established gasoline at 20c per
gallon, and sold beer at three for
25c. He says he is going to have
some surprises for the trade when
he puts in his big stock of grocer
ies. The Red Top place was built
by Will Perry of Kitty Hawk, and
later sold to L. W. Stetson of Col
lington, whose son, Harold, has
operated the business for the past
year and a half.
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times, MANTEO,
N. C.
“The Tobacco Tags,” a well-
known comedy team which broad
casts over WRVA in Richmond
every day except Sunday will ap
pear here in a comedy performance
at the Manteo High School tonight
at 8 o’clock. The entertainment is
spdtnsored by the Dare Woman’s
Club, and the proceeds over ex
penses will go towards the library
fun^.
“The Tobacco Tags” have made a
nur^er of recordings and are well
known by radio listeners.
Federal Government and
parts of Currituck County would
fight it, and with all that opposi
tion I predict that the Bill will
never come out of the committee
room alive. Yet as I said in the
beginning, my sympathy goes out
to those folks on Currituck Beach !
in that section known as “Corolla.” >
And from Corolla comes another,
letter bo the .same editor voicing the I
opinion of Lonnie F. Bowden of;
Currituck Beach: !
“In connection with the letter
signed by Bradley O’Neal published
in this column of the February 111
issue concerning the stock law, I
want to say that I agree with the
statements made by Mr. O’Neal and
want to further add that there
should be no reason why we can
not keep our stock until the road is
completed, for what stock that is
left on the banks use the back-
woods and marshes as their graz
ing grounds and are seldom ever
seen out of their range, while the
road will be run along the coastal
line.
“However, we will be perfectly
willing to take up our stock as soon
as a road is completed as this will
enable us to find some other source
of income.
“Mr. Boswood, our representa
tive, has been over here and he
realizes how badly we need what
income we get from our stock, so he
is doing all he can to help us. No
doubt he knows too that when the
stock is sold it will cut out a lot of
the taxes that are now going into
the Currituck County treasury.”
A. C. Stratton, superintendent of
the National Park Service work
camps, has made preparations to
abandon beach control work north
of 'the Dare-Currituck line if the
Boswood bill is passed. There is
no sense in planting grass to save
erosion, Mr. Stratton has pointed
out, if cattle are going to graze it
off before it gets started.
’ , place in which to live rather than ^
■a greater liability. The aim ofj
these farmers this year is “To|
Build.”
ARE BEING BUILT
ON BEACH ROAD
Department of Justice says Stadle-
Vincent O’Brien, an employee of
Camp Wright of the Beach erosion
project is laid up in the Cdmp
Wright hospital from bruises about
the head, sustained when an alleged
assailant, unknown to him, jumped
from a car near the Roanoke Island
Baptist Church Wednesday night
about ten-thirty o’clock and struck
him to the ground.
O’Brien, slim, dark, and in his
thirties, has been with the Park
Service camp for several years and
is a hospital attendant. He is
known more often as “Ramona” be
cause of his crimson lips and rosy
cheeks, as he associates with few
' people, and is not known by many.
His closest companions are young
boys in the local CCC camp.
About an hour later. Miss Doro
thy Drinkwater, returning from an
errand to the northend of the is
land, saw a car parked half-way
across the road, a few yards north
of the CCC camp, and slowed up
her car, thinking it .someone having
car trouble. She says two men
with pistols rushed out and inform
ed her they wanted to search her
car for liquor. One of them got in
the car and made a thorough
search but finding none, politely
got out and permitted her to go on.
man is wanted for the robbery of i She says this man wore a dark suit
some $500 from the Canteen at i ^ brown hat and was of heavy
Camp Hatteras. Camp Hatteras of j Neither of them, she says,
the Federal Beach Erosion project, i any impudence or violence,
Frisco, Dare County, in March, judged at the tinm they
1937. Stadleman quietly departed two of the numerous Federal
this county,' took a boat from Hat-' T-Men who have been watching
] teras to Engelhard and was out of i
the liquor traffic in this vicinity,
When the first United States cen
sus’was taken in 1790, the popula-
i t’on was only 3,929,214.
J 4. ! the wav before the theft was riis ^nd have recently captured several
under construe-j"^“1 oeiore tne tneit was ais , nut ef East Lake with
- ’ 'A'covered. His age is 45, he was!’^®’^ bound out ol East uaxe vitn
' born in New York City. Heavy' cargoes of moonshine. They
of Ger- their car from the road ana
man-American parentage, and ^Bo^ed .her to pass on.
DARE SURFMEN WITH
WALL ST. ADDRESSES
! Two hotels are
jtion along the beach highway,
new 15 room structure going up
lust south of Nags Head is being build, ruddy complexion
built by Leo Midgett of Manteo, man-American parentage:
owner of the Carter Apartments talks with an accent.
here. D. C. Tillma.n of Spot is
contractor for the work.
Farther up the beach highway
at Kitty Hawk shores Mrs. J. B.
Anderson is having constructed a Guardsmen Assigned to
14 room hotel which should be open,
for the public in April. The new j
.hotel is'situated between the high-^
way and ocean quite near the An-,
derson cottage. The building is of Post office clerks along the North
two story frame construction Carolina coast may have felt sorne
sheathed with shingles and has a amazement during the last few
spacious lobby on the first floor. It months, upon sending mail directed
is surrounded by a porch. Accord- to well-known Coast Guardsmen of
Guard Silver Being Shipped
West Point
Capt. Lev. Quidley came
into ing to Mr. Anderson, his wife will the Banks country to a Wall street
Dan Oden’s store at Hatteras the'run the hotel which will serve, address in New York CRy. The
other day. Upon being congratu-i “home folks” as well as the tounst reason of so many Coast CuaMs-
lated on his apparent full recoverj' trade. Ifjt proves practical, the'men having Wall streets addresses
from a very sLous illness, and hotel mayltay open all year r^nd. these days, is that a large number
asked if he hadn’t thought his time Mr. Midgett’s hotel near Nags of men were transferred from the
had come he said* have had Head is expected to be completed stations of this district and sent to
^^eT^stXih than^.”^ in time for th summer seas^. I New York as guards during ^
“When for instance’” he was The new building is situated on the transfer of many million doll^s
asked and before he could reply, inside of the curve of the beach worth of gold and silver bullion
someone said “Oh yes- you got up- highway as it turns eastward to- from the Treasury stronghold in
set in a boat’once, did’n’t you?” i ward the Whalebone filling station New York City ^^h^oveimment^
And the Captain’s mind went and the RoanoEe Sound bridge ap- new vaults at West Point, New
back to January 19, 1894, when he proach. Construction has already York. f n
and Filmore Gaskill coming from progressed as far as the second, A number of Coast Guardsmen
Juniper Bay in Hyde County with story, and workmen are sheathing have returned from this duty, but
f load of st^Lf i S ofd’ opeS the sides with large white com- several of them ar s ill m New
skiff sloop rigged upset in a gale position shingles. The new build- York; L. D. Midgett of Buxton,
S t^ nfrth northeast. W ing will have a front porch 10 by Calvin and Rudo^BM^gett of
mishap occurred at one o’clock of 36 feet. ^t^are in New York yet. Others
a Fnday afternoon. 'The two men BEAUFGRT who were sent to New York were
climbed onto the bottom of the droDUCTS Crowder Davis of Wanchese, Flora
boat, stuck the end of a stake in: IN RECEIPT PKUUUUIO i? T
the centerboard well, and hung on. 1 °
Miss Drinkwater, somewhat
frightened , hurried home and re
ported the incident to her father,
A. W. Drinkwater, who got night
policeman W. A, White to go to
the scene, but the car was gone,
and only the track of an old car
with small tires remained at the
vicinity.
CCC Boys Suspected
Vincent O’Brien told Sheriff D.
V. Meekins, who investigated the
two incidents Wednesday, neither
of which seems to bear any rela
tion to the other, that he had been
informed he was struck by a CCC
boy. He said he was momentarily
dazed when struck down in the
road, and bad to borrow a flash
light from a nearly home to find
his glasses, and then walked the
remaining two miles to the camp.
From the impression he got when
the car slowed up beside him and
(Please turn to page eight)
“UNCLE JEFF” HAYMAN
BURIES FAITHFUL DOG
MANTEO BOYS BOX
CCC CAMP
AT
TONIGHT
CHEVROLET RECORDS NEW
HIGH SALES DURING 1938
of
Rodanthe and R. T.
As the loneliness of night set in gurpiug, Commodities Help Many ^“'^‘^fhis^district are'men who have
upon them Pilra^ore GaskiU wanted, December, qlufied as expert marks- than he
to jump overboard. We can ^ AiYioMpan was the pet of ms last wite, Hattie
nevL make it,” he said. “So we, D^^e and Vicinity | men wffh nfles A^«can
might as well go now.” But with ■ ■ bullion from New York to before they were .married, and had
sterner will Capt. Quidley said: There were 518 cases represent- constant companion of
“Let’s hang on.” About ten o’clock ing 2,036 persons certified by Dare the safer Place a- West ^^>1.,^ faithfully as it
,h.l Cpt. Quidw h»,d , c„»ty «eH.rd ..thont... as d,*,. wh«h « »
Uncle Jeff Hayman is in mourn
ing again this week. He has just
given a decent, Christian burial in
a secluded comer of his garden to
the remains of Molly, his faithful
dog, which died at the ripe old age
of eleven years and two months.
She was the last effiminate thing
about the place, and the loneliness
that has overcome Uncle Jeff by
this bereavement may precipitate
blm into matrimony much earlier
heavy splash. Filmore had jumped ble to receive
surplus commodity stronghold at Fort Knox, Kentucky,
Detroit, Feb. 22.—More than half
of the 1938 passenger cars pur
chased by the 440 leading fleet op
erators in the nation were Chev-
rolets, according to official fleet
registration figures released here
today.
Of a total of 26,025 passenger
Boxing tonight at the CCC camp
will headline Gerald Wise and
Donne Twyne, two local boys, in . » , • i ,.00,.
the feature bout of the evening. I cars put into fleet seiwice last year.
The matches will begin at 8:30 and, the figure®
are being directed by Jerry Parker, tered 13,089, or 50.4%. The Chev
Besides the main bout eleven ] rolet total of 13,0^is nmre than
other matches are planned. Luther twice the number re«i%tered>by/the
Daniels vs. Fred Jones, “Tiger”,next most popular make.
Tillett vs. Sammy Kee, Dick Bur-j In the truck f
rus vs. Bill Williamson, and Clyde Chevrolet repstered 7,687 units.
Mann vs. P-ayson Berry are sched-, The next most popular make regis-
uled to fight. Dan Davis will alsoYered 6,370 units,
be in the ring if an opponent can j For the month, of l^em^r,
be found for him. Both Dan Davis, 1938, Chevrolet registered 1,768
and Donne Twyne gave good ac- passenger cam for fleet use out of
counts of themselves in last week s a total of 3,371 and 709 trucks out
fights. of 1,719.
into the raging water. But nothing ' products during January, 1939, Ar- but it
could be done to help him. thur E. Langston, State d'r^or of countries
Ca.pt. Quidley held on Friday' commodity distribution with I •
night, all day Saturday and Satur- State Board of Charlies and Public and is being a
day night, through the bitter cold, Welfare, announced his week. . metal , . ., • ■
his cloHie; wet. Surely help would i A .state-wide total of 197 083 per-1 A. solid truckload of^sdver.simi^
come on Sunday. After awhile the sons represented by 42.691 cases lar m surfman both front
numbness eased his pains, although were certified during the nionth,, guarded J machine guns
the intense thirst made him sup the Langston said. Seven hundred and . and rear, armed ^^h m^chme^ns
salt sea water -with avidity. But fifty-one school lunch rooms wer., and ps if is nracti-
Sunday, certified to care for 46,510 pupils other armed guards Jt is P^cti
olf.du’i™ Ih. month: . __ rTavil" A
of the silver is
worth approximately $175,000.00
stuck by its mistress.
MANTEG BEATS E. CITY
IN SUNDAY’S GRID GAME
there was no passing on
and he was just a few miles
Hatteras. Still cold and wet,
clung on through Sunday
he! Following is a list of persons and convoy so
night,leases certified in adjoining counties single truckload
and though the sea sprayed and and served together -with Dare
drenched him, the wind beat and county from the distribution store
battered him, the cold penetrated | room,
his frozen garments, he never gave County
up. He was alone, beyond the sight, Dare
of every one, and with no one in 1 Camden
his sight, the only sounds the roll- Currituck
ing sea, the whistling wind, the Tyrrell
screaming gulls waiting to pick his Hvde
eyes out had he lost consciousness. Washington
, (Please turn to Page Two) Beaufort
Cases
Persons
518
2,036
116
370
438
1,949
341
1,576
80
258
149
649
564
2,341
SUES FOR DIVORCE
Roydon Tillett of Wanchese has
filed suit in Dare Superior Court
against Mary V. Tillett for abso
lute divorce on the ground of two
years' separation. 'The suit will
be tried at the May term of Super
ior Court.
The Elizabeth City boys want an
other chance at the Manteo team
Sunday since Manteo again beat its
out-of-to-wn opponents with a score
of 13-6 against Elizabeth City in.
last Sunday’s football game. The
local boys started the game off
with a six point lead when Ernest
Meekins ran the ball back for a
touchdown after the opening kick-
oif; Elizabeth City blocked the at
tempt at conversion.
Elizabetb City then marched
down the field for a touchdown but
f ailed to make the extra point. In
the thftd quarter Manteo ag^n
scored when Gerald Wise earned
the ball over the goal line with
two tacklers at his heels. Ike
Davis, Jr., plunged into the line for
the extra point.
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