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
IV; NO. 195
MANTEO, N. C.. MARCH 24, 1939
^imS FORMER RESIDENTS
Single Copy 5c '
OF SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE
COMING IN TO COMMITTEE
Sends Most Names to Date; Many Dis-
^^ng-uished People in the List; Names Are
gcattered All Over the Country, Some in
foreign Countries
I'^es of people who lived in the
Albemarle county and
' now far from home, con-
to pour in the hands of the
^ *^ittee arranging for the South-
L -Albemarle Homecoming in
Among the first lists re-
W? from Cape Hatteras,
^ Carolina’s far east, whose
residents are scattered all
Hi, world, and in every state
iiiia ® Union. Among them we find
'ia p'^dresses as Florida, Califor-
Iti’l utiama, Mississippi and New
points. Hyde county is
lij ‘''S the record for sending in
1, •*'ost names,
lists
and this week
“Sts from Swan Quarter, En-
New Holland and Lake
NEW FISHERIES PATROL BOAT CROATAN STATIONED AT MANTEO
TAR HEELS ON NEEDY LIST
Named in honor of the Sound that separates Roanoke Lsland from the mainland, the new cabin cruiser
Croatan of which Assistant Fisheries Oommissioner Thos. A. Basnight is master, is now stationed at
Manteo, for patrol duty in the adjacent waters. It was recently built in New Bern at a cost of $10,000,
is 40 ft. long and has a top speed of 16 miles an hour. Instead of wine, a bottle of clam juice was
broken by Miss Catherine O’Bryan of Beaufort, over the vessel’s prow when launched, and as Aycock
Brown will have it, “Catherine of Carteret Christened Carolina’s Crack Cabin Cruiser Croatan with
Clamjuice.”
'ig. Lists are being received
^ counties of Tyrrell
Washington.
Jlvi
k person who will do so, is
to obtain blanks from their
(i, Postmaster or teachers, and
are not available in your
Sometimes when I go into the
homes along the North Carolina
Coastland and find people low ini
health or spirits or who are cheer
less because of economic pressure,]
I become depressed and discourag
ed myself. One can have the bur
dens of others fall upon him until
the reaction tends to unfit .him for
enthusiastic effort.
BATTLE BETWEEN WOMEN
AT NAGS HEAD CREATED
SENSATION IN DARE COURT
But the remedy is readily found Mrs. Edgar Williams Exhibits Badly Swollen
t(j)jP'*aity, the committee urges a
tu P of citizens like the Parent-
or similar organization to
^ a Committee and obtain every
C .that may be known to any
*0 the community, and for-
, them to the committee,
j * may be obtained from the
jfj^tary of the Southern Albe
do ® Homecoming, Post Office
“0. 55^ Manteo, North Caro-
• And now for the names—
upon seeking out and visiting the i
oldest people of the neighborhood. I
You will find these folk in every j
hamlet; old people with gentle eyes,
and quavering voices, but living j
towers of strength and courage who j
radiate light and hope and inspira-,
tion as sure and certain as
Face, Cuts About the Head, and Two Black
Eyes; Mrs. Stella Whitehurst Bound Over to
Superior Court; Edgar Williams Appeals
m 11.WV
*^hem you will recognize
L “Id friends and the committee
ou will write them too,
of the big time this
r-'nier;
IjUnon—Mr. and Mrs. Otis L.
I*’ Montauk, N. Y.; Mr. and
i.w. H. Barnett, Southport, N.
• and Mrs. W. R. Jennette,
N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Paul
lill^^er, Lasker, N. C.; G. D.
and family. New Smyrna,
and Mrs. Jarvis Midgett,
fei^^yrna, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs.
Vi>,“ayes, Monrovia, Cal.; Mr.
Dicksey, Vallejo,
Vlt J ■ Carlos Peele,
Iwountain, N. C.; Mrs. Dez-
^er, Ocracoke, N. C.; Mr.
J. B. Jennette, New Bern,
’n ts- Carl Bartley and Coral,
The age-old triangle, which has ]
the brought so much grief in the world ‘
light that beams from Cape Look- since the first triangle was invent-1
out or Hatteras. There is Aunt ed—whenever that was—was in-
Rosa Gray, 91, at Avon, or Aunt.jected into a long, threshed-out
Courtney Gaskill, 93, at Hatteras, case in Recorder’s Court Tuesday
still doing her own housework, or ‘ afternoon. Mrs. Stella Whitehurst,
lively boys of 82 like Captain Tom comely thirty-five year old mother
Midgett at Manteo, and a younger of four children, was bound to Su-
lad of 78 like Uncle Cyrus Gray of perior Court charged with assault
Salvo, or many others I can name, with a deadly weapon, with intent
and if you do not believm what I to kill, after Judge Baum had
shall hereinafter set forth, I want heard the testimony of Mrs. Janie
you to make it a point to ask some Williams, thirty-eight year old
old relation of yours, or a resident wife of Edgar Williams of Nags i
of your community about the dis- Head, who testified that
Fishing
and all
Out Doors
—By-
Aycock Brown
Authority on Fishing Ne^s
EXPECT BURNED
SHIP TO YIELD
100 TONS OFIROIn
Scrap Iron Bolts in Wreck
at Gull Shoal Worth
$800.00
GOT $2,328,494.97 FROM^
OLD AGE FUND LAST YEAR
Counties and State Each Pay One-Fourth;
Federal Government Half; Widows and
Negro Servants of Confederate Veterans
Removed to Public Assistance Program
MEET OUR DISTRICT
ENGINEER AND FRIEND
N. C.; Mr. and Mrs. M.
It,. ®''" Elizabeth City, N. C.;
J,}^'''^Mrs. F. E. Miller, Ahos-
%;,■ Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Jt. Monmouth Beach, N. J.;
Ns M Miller, High-
V, J.; L. E. Miller, Brooklyn,
and Mrs. Ross Goodwin,
]llt, y ’ Lionel Casey, Nor-
\ v'’ Hilda Spruill, New
flli.'y • C.; Murray Casey, Nor-
Roland Casey, Norfolk,
Q, Sadie Peele, Pamlico, N.
1 a.^?,Miller, Wantagh, N. Y.;
^ Mrs. Ray Jones, Gulfport,
tliPifarvis S. Seeley, Sr., Eliza-
•Hily C.; Frazier Miller and
•i- ’ Eli'yoU ..i-T.. /^li. XT
Within ten days I hope to have
Mrs.reports of the first Channel Bass
couragements of your day and \yhitehurst had assaulted her with] (red drum to some of you), caught
those of their early life. a heavy weapon on Saturday night, along the coast this year. More
Just a few days ago when T jiarch 11 and left her unconscious than likely the first catch of the
visited Stumpy Point and heard the an automobile at a filling station season will be made either at Ore-
discouragenlents of its fishermen, qj, ^jje beach highway. She told g-on Inlet by some early Spring
the regrets of the many who .had court that she was unable to boat fisherman or at Drum Inlet by
been ill and unable to complete remember much that was said. i a surf ca.ster. Still on the other
with satisfaction the pressing du- Mrs. Williams’ testimony was hand the initial catch of the season
ties of an exacting season, I began supported by her husband and other may be made down at Hatteras this
to feel discouraged too. But I can witnesses, but there was no one week end where Bill Sharpe of the
assure one that a visit to^ the admitted seeing the blows State New Bureau, Johnny Mock,
house of Aunt Mary Wise, 85 and passed except Stapp Wise, yoang of the Pittsburgh Press, Hammond
who is the oldest citizen on Stumpy ^lan of Nags Head, who substan- Brown of the Baltimore News-Post
Point, is a sure cure for the blues; tiated Mrs. Whitehurst’s story of and two or three other out of State
it will lift one out of the doldrums; encounter.. Boiled down to the anglers Will try the surf casting,
it will revive your confidence; it substantial facts as testified in the Personally I hope this party
will engender patience and courage Mrs. Williams had received makes the initial catch of the sea-
and will inspire hope. ! severe blows on her head and son any they will stand a good
For Aunt Mary can sit by the scratches on her legs that resulted chance down at Hatteras because
window and can contemplate in serious condition, which Dr. J. host to the party will be Tom Ea-
retrospect from afar off the ups
and downs of three-quarters of a
centurv. “We don’t know any,
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Weeks testified threatened criti-
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ton, who knows his Carolina coast
game fishing as well as the next
one—as a matter of fact much bet
ter than the next one. If they get
MRS. CLARA K. BINDER IN
MANTEO OVER WEEK END
SEA REST TOURIST HOME
HAS EXCELLENT PROSPECTS channel bass at Hatteras, North
i Carolina’s coast will come in for a
One hundred tons of scrap iron
bolts is the expected yield from the
ashes of the schooner Geo. A.'
Kohler wrecked on Gull Shoal
Beach in August, 1933. The vessel
was burned up Saturday by Leon
ard Hooper, of Salvo, owner, who
is picking up the bolts, and expects
to sell them in Norfolk at 40 cents
a hundred weight.
Although the yield may run to
$80,0, it will cost nearly half of it
to freight it to Norfolk.
Mr. Hooper set fire to the wreck
with the wind northeast, but it
quickly shifted to southwest. The
fire was still burning on Wednesday
while Mr. Hooper was raking bolts
from the ashe'j. The stumps of
two masts were standing, and many
of the ribs of the vessel had not
completed burning. The bottom,
and a large part of the sides re
mained imbedded in the sand and
water, and could not burn.
Huge piles of bolts, many of
them three feet long, and one inch
in diameter have been piled safely
beyond high water mark.
The Kohler was a four-ma.st
schooner, built in 1918. She was
300 feet long, and stranded light,
causing her to land high on the
beach.
MAJOR GEO. W. GILLETTE, a
distinguished Army officer, and a
native of Onslow County is in
charge of the Wilmihgton District
office of' the War Department,
army engineers, which has jurisdic
tion over all the waterways of
North Carolina. Formerly mo.st of
Dare and adjoining counties were
with the Norfolk office, but were
recently transferred to Major Gil
lette’s district. Major Gillette is a
young man, and those who will
meet him when ,he comes to this
section wdl be imnressed and de
lighted with his charming manner
and friendliness.
.—Beaufort News Photo.
SWEEPSTAKE TICKET
BRINGS $475 FOR $2.50
Three Men at Rodanthe Cash
on Irish Sweepstakes
Ticket
LUMBER CO. LOSES
MILLS., EQUIPMENT
IN $75,000 FIRE
Three Fire Companies Fight
Flames at Columbia; Loss
Partly Covered by
Insurance
Two firemen were injured and
between $60,000 and $75,000 esti
mated lost in the raging fire at
Columbia which destroyed Tyrrell
County Lumber Company’s planing
mill, two dry kilns, and all the mill
, , . batch of publicity, because most of, .’ ^ a a ’ ft- tv,
The new tourist home of Mr. and afternoon. The
people Le® Midgett being built at the conduct columns simi-
, nT*oo*r>Ti In f^t , .
|ay;’j5fi2abeth City, N. C.; Boyd wh^o'^had^lost^teack^^of'^hL!’ and HSav'°with tlTe Virginia Da^e ''eading
it, thought she might be dead, was to have^ excellent “ newspapers which reach
prospects. Whether bound to or " "
of Mrs Clara S. Binder, who for Manteo, or Hatteras, the fish-
merly lived many years on Roan-
blazing inferno was finally brought
cl(l(.’°Holk, Va.; Miss Eleanor
p”’Newton, N. C.; Mr. and
* San Diego, Cal.;
‘'Istjil ,,^Hs. George McNabb,
H. L. Jennette,
Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Ray-
jti,. ij asnett, Newport Port,
H’ and Mrs. Billie Gray,
». Hj mountain, N. C.; Mr. and
. C,| Folb, Winston-Salem,
|N, and Mrs. Evans Mid-
■•Utu^abeth City, N. C.; Priv-
C, 2 f*" Williams, Panama Can-,
Taylor Williams. Hamp-
Sf n. Cal.; Mr. and Mrs. Ida
Netj.’ arco, N. C.; Mrs. Lorena
I“Hadley Beach, N. J.; C.
.1,.,. ®> Port Oxford, Oregon;
oke Island, and left here some 12 tiandv
or 15 >iears ago. Mrs Binder, who > g ” ^ tourist Home
well toward four-!
now IS going
score, was remarkably well pre
served and seemed not a day older
than when she left Roanoke Island,
to make her home with her brother,
Charles R. Shimer, who now .ope
rates the Orton Hotel in Wilming
ton, N. C., where they make their
home.
is the
name of the new place, which will
be open for business within a few
weeks. It has 15 bed rooms and a
large dining room. It is near the
ocean, and as an overnight stop-
the out-
thousands of persons who are in
terested in angling, and new places
to go after fish.
Before Bill Sharpe and party
cross Pamlico Sound from Engel
hard to Hatteras aboard the freight
boat owned by Eaton, they will try
a bit of fresh water casting in the
famous Mattamuskeet Lake of
Hyde County. .4 week later and
fresh water fishing would be pro-
under control through the combined
efforts of Columbia, Plymouth, and
Edenton fire departments.
Jerry Davenport and J. W. Col
Two dollars and a half paid large
dividends for Shelly Merritt,
Rhedie Knighton and Russell Mor
gan in the Park Service camp at
Rodanthe. These men recently in
vested in a sweepstake ticket on a
partnership basis, and on Tuesday
received a cable from Dublin, Ire
land, informing them they held a
winning ticket which paid one hun
dred pounds sterling. After being
divided three ways, this still leaves
a tidy sum for the lucky holders,
as one hundred pounds sterling is
equivalent to around four hundred
and seventy-five dollars in good
old American money.
CARL MANN HAS CLOCK
OVER 100 YEARS OLD
We have been learning things
about old clocks in Dare, but Carl
Mann former Commissioner from
Manns Harbor has the oldest one
lins were the two Columbia fire-'we have heard about yet, it having
fighters who suffered minor injur-1 been owned by a grandfather .of
Asbell, Windsor, N. C.
"oeii, vvjiiusor, I'l
'^Tyrrell—Judge I. M.
N ’Elizabeth City, N. C.;
E Jones, Elizabeth City,
turn to Page Eight)
Mrs. Binder came from Philadel
phia to Eoanoke Island many years
ago, and bought a home on
west side, where the Z. V. Brinkley
place is Located. Mrs. Binder sold
the place to Mr. B’-inkley. Her
home with its valuable painting and
heirlooms was burned one night,
ping place 'k’ill ,^“'1 'CT hibited, because the season close
landers. And on the route to the
.Oregon lulet, it wi tamuskeet bass fishing is attract- .o’clock Sunday afternoon.
b3,S© for nSnBrrn©!!^ W l __ I i-nrr off/an + ii-kn onrl ir» Lo. 1 fivn rlortnvfLT'nnO'Vlt.
les. Davenport was treated at the
Columbia hospital for a head
wound but was later allowed to go
home. Collins received minor cuts
and bruises and a shoulder injury
when .struck by falling lumber. . t -.ai
kiln was made in Connecticut, about lOu
A hot box in the dry
thought to have started
which was discovered
the late Alexander Midgett of Nags
Head, and was bought three years
ago by Carl Mann at the vendue of
the effects of the late John Jones
of Manns Harbor.
The clo.ek is said to .have been
the fire i years ago, and is about two feet
at 12:45^ high. It has kept time for three
Three' generations. The late John Jones
I was a splendid upright man
who
1 1 W Ha Was "-ide attention and in May be-1 fire departments brought the con-l'vas a sp.enuiu . -a
wanting an early start for Hatteras ca,=aa ci-avf= T floA-yatiAA nnrlov/.Ant-rnl .alimit 3:301 used it during his lifetime. Hi.-,
will find it convenient for their
purposes.
wi’JJthrjslTf beds. \®thTbatL that bas.s in Mattamuskeet are
on two of its three floors,
other modern conveniences
fore the summer season starts I flagration under control about 3:30
I hope to get over there myself for o’clock, but it was Sunday night, riiorl
a try at the bass fishing. They tell] before the Plymouth and Edenton; three years ag
wife died about six ye-Ti's ago, and
and
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J 1 t, -li it, v „ , question now is to get a good cook,
and she built the house now owned believe they have done.
by the Brinkleys. While living Oregon Inlet fishing
here her husband, the late Clarence coming on, they look forward
K. Binder, a retired Lutheran mm- ^ business. The Midgetts’
istr of great ability and prominence ^ operated Goose Win?,
in the North, moved here and died gpgrts-
about 18 years ago. _
Coming from a long line of an- ‘
cestry and culture, Mrs. Binder had
traveled extensively, and ivas an GLENN DOl GH LEFT F
artist of note. She lived the life PANAMA JOB THIS WEEK
of a countrV pjentlewoman on]
Roanoke Island, and was greatly,| Glenn C. Dough of Manteo, who
loved and .admired bv those who has been emploved during the past
55, Manteo, N. C.
knew her goodness of heart, and year in a Norfolk shipyard left this
her thoughtful generosity. j week for Panama where he is to
“I loved living here.’’ Mrs. Bin-'(ake a job with the Civil Service as
der a 'id. “But I haven’t wanted a ship carpenter at the Panama
to come back, s’neo the Island I Canal. Carl B. Meekins, another
Lnew hos cho,n"e4 ,bo much, and Roanoke Islander, has been em-
1" o T^Aople I kne'v be~t have mostly ployed in a similar iob at the canal
,d ’’ locks for several years.
as thick, almost, as sardines in a
can and to get the bag limit is only
a .matter of a very short time.
Pickard of the Governor’s Hospi
tality Committee has released ten
tative plans for the First Annual
North Carolina Surf Casting Tour
nament which will take in the en-
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BRIDGE CLUB MEETS
WITH MRS. VERNON DAVIS
Mrs. Vernon Davis was hostess
to her bridge club Wednesday even
ing. High score was w'on by Mrs.
Webb Etheridge. Bingo prize
went to Mrs. Frank White, Th.
hostess served a delicious salad
course with hot tea. Guests were
Mrs. Elmer Midgett, Mrs. Frank
White, Mrs. Webb Etheridge, Mrs.
W. M. .Tnl'iff. Miss Deln.oy Burras,
"irs. McCov'Tillett. Mrs. Ravmond
Wescott and Mrs. Albert Q. Bell.
te-«gh,er, fell it ,va. pop, jiEETS
The loss is onlj’ partially covered] WITH MRS. HOLLOW ELL
bv insurance it is .said. The iriill! ^ ^ • i
had been operating for four years; James Hollov ell enter.ainei
cutting pine lumber and had em- A^ ^ lovely party at e ap.jr men
ployed between 50 and 60 men'Thursday evening, gues s mUo
when operating full time. Mr. members of er ® ^ , .
Wood, vice-president of the com- Ubles were arranged for budge m
pany, stated Sunday night that ^ the living room, m which bog Is of
^ yellow daffodils formed t'e cmet
I decoration. Dainty Imrid made
i score cards and tallies bore em-
! blems of St. Patrick’s D ly, with a
! color scheme of green and black.
Representatives of the Va., Dare *Refreshments consisted of ice
Lodge No. 3 of the I. O. O. '’i' took cream and individual gdiite-iced
(From a radio address by Na
than H. Yelton Director of the Di
vision of Public Assistance over
WPTF February 28.)
Public assistance in North Caro
lina now faces a new era. In plac
ing Confederate widows and Negro
servants of Confederate veterans
under this program, the General
Assembly has made it possible for
the state to obtain a half million
dollars more of Federal money.
Through midnight February 28,
North Carolina has spent during
this fiscal year since the first of
last July, a total of $2,328,494.77
to aid the needy old people of the
state.
For February alone, 32,430 Tar
heels over 65 years of age received
an average of nine dollars and a
half each to bring the monthly ex
penditure in this field to $308,161.-
16.
Two hundred and sixty'-six new
cases went on the old age assis
tance rolls during the month and
the February average pay'ment was
up six cents from the $9.44 average
grant paid last month.
In one year North Carolina’s
average payment to the aged has
climbed seven cents for the $9.37
paid in February of last year g'hen
24,330 needy old people received a
total of $228,070.99. Thus it is
that, in .comparison with the same
date a year ago. North Carolina’s
public as.sistance obligation in this
field has climbed $80,090.17.
Of this two million, three hun
dred-odd thousand dollars spent
since the firs^ of last July, the state
itself has footed only one-fourth
of the cost. Every county in North
Carolina has contributed its share
insofar as it g'.as able, g'hile some
of the poorer counties have been
aided by the state equalizing fund
when they could not meet the ob
ligations of their own indigent
residents.
For aid to dependent children,
one-third, and for old age assist
ance, one half of the payments is
met by a direct grant from the
Federal government which matches
every appropriation of the State
and counties for this purpose.
Greater emphasis up to this point
has been placed on old age assist
ance than on aid to North Caro
lina’s dependent .children because
of a much smaller state appropria
tion for the children.
Since the first of last July and
through midnight February 28, we
have spent ,a total of $922,003.26
on dependent children. Of this fig
ure, the State has met only one-
third of the total obligation, with
the Federal government and the
State’s 100 counties making up the
remainder in equal parts.
For the poorer counties, there
has been a equalizing fund operat
ing in this field just as there has
been in the old age assistance pro
gram.
in February, 1938, North Caro
lina aided the parents of 15,246
children at an average of $5.36 to
each child to bring the total money
spent in this month to $84,836.
One year later the average pay'-
ment had climbed to $5.78 when
$122,480.82 went to teke care of
21,203 dependent children in the
month closing today.
So you s.oe th.at, little by little.
North Carolina has been e.xpanding
its p~ogr;i’n; taking more on the
rolls when resources are available
and, whenever possible, rai.sing the
aver■ go grant.
The government is not taking
the whole re.uionsibility of these
two age gro-.m.s-^ver 65 ,.and under
1*6—but is atteinpting to give both
financial assi,stance and ca^e work
the legTiI
requirements including the item of
iieel.
In each case, therefore, your Id-
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was too early to say whether the
mill would be rebuilt or not.
I. O. O. F. CANDIDATES
eight candidates to Norfolk Friday cakes decorated with green sham-
night to have the largest Norfolk rocks. H'gh score was held by
1. O. O. F. I.odge confer work upon Mrs. H. B. Hoyle and Mrs. E. K.
the local candidates. Ij”ther Dan- Richardson won low score prize,
iels, A. D. Barco, Fred Howard, Ike Guests were Mrs. Hoyle, Mrs. Rich-
Davis, Jr., J. A. Krider, Robert nrdson, Miss Bonnybel Evans, Miss
Ball.ance, and A. G. Toler. Robert Helen Evans, Miss Lottie McCar-
Midgett of Manteo reported na en- tpr, I'Trs. E. L. Bell and Mrs. Wil-
joyable time. BridgefcHh.
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