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
IV; NO. 200
MANTEO, N. C., APRIL 28, 1939
Single Copy 5c
ANCHESE SCHOOL FIRST
I^ITH COMMENCEMENTS IN
DARE COUNTY THIS TIME
(minent Speakers Deliver Addresses in
Schools of the County; Officials Look Back
a Successful Year; Buxton Calls on Ike
Wis for Commencement Speech; Manteo
29 High School Seniors
^^’'chese school children will get
start on other youngsters inj
in this matter of swim-
Parties, picnics and other
* of entertainment that eomr
Ihe beginning of summer va-
. Commencement exercises
^ ^anchese sohool will be held
at vhich time all of the
'embers of the 7th grade who
Passing grades will be gradu-
P'to high school.
* ^'anchese school commence-
,"'111 be held Thursday night
'clock, May 4th, in the Metho-
eliurch. The speaker for the
Pp will be Rev. M. W. Maness
'^abeth cTty. The operetta of
'*'ver grades will be given Fri‘
'^pril 28th.
* following night. May 5th, in
*0. Dr. Herbert DeBarker,
of Men and head of the De-
Jcfit of Athletics at East Caro-
Jcachers’ 'College, will deliver
J'tmencement address. Eligi-
graduation certificates at
‘'file are 19 members of the
^e and 29 Manteo high
Seniors.
jPfiiehcement exercises in the
Point school will also be
5th. No speaker has been
JPeed to deliver the address to
rfie seniors and five members
7th grade.
6th Dr. DeBarker will de-
jjfie commencerneiit address in
■'fty Hawk scliool. Superin-
Atkinson announced yes-
that 17 Kittv Hawk seniors
HIS COAST GUARD BILL
FAVORABLY REPORTED
7tH grade students are
P? for diplomas.
and Avon will both
commencement exercises the
of May 9th. Of special inter-
j-his regard is the fact that
^'11 be the first class in the
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CONGRESSM’N LINDSAY WAR
REN was gratified this week when
the Committee in Congress favor
ably reported the Coast Guard 20-
year-retirement bill as written and
sponsored by him. Other measures
with similar objectives had been
unable to run the gauntlet of the
committee and meet with Adminis
tration approval. Mr. Warren, a
stalwart Administration man, is
finding his measure meeting with
more success.
BEER LICENSE
DUE MAY FIRST
NEW LAWS ALSO
Yield to County Anticipated
At $1,000; Dealers Cau
tioned About May 15
The 1939-40 county license on
retail dealers of leer is due May
first, and is expected to yield the
county about $1,000, this season,
due to the increased number of
places of business on the beach and
in other parts of the county. Be
fore beer may be sold, the dealer
must file an application before the
Board of Commissioners, setting
forth his claim for operation.,
blanks for which may be obtained
from Melvin R. Daniels, Register
of Deeds.
Beer dealers who do not careful
ly watch the tops of the bottles
they buy, may be in for some bad
trouble on and after May first,
when the new tax crown law goes
into effect. The State of North
Carolina collects a tax per bottle,
and beer brought in from pther
states, or from anywhere, not hav
ing the State government seal on
the crowns, is subject to confisca
tion.
Persons selling beer after the
T5th of May, who have not filed
application to the board and paid
their license, will be prosecuted.
All old licenses, no matter at what
time they were bought, expire on
-April 30th.
WARREN ARRIVES IN DARE
BRINGING SEVEN MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS FOR FISHING
One Senator and Six Congressmen Quartered
at Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard Station With
Capt. Lewark; Virgil Chapman, Old Friend'
of Dare With Party, which Includes Herbert
Bonner and Senator Miller of Arkansas
DARE REPRESENTATIVE
IS ROTARY PRESIDENT
CASINO TO OPEN
NEXT WEEK END
AT NAGS HEAD
Fishing
and all
Out Doors
-By—
Aycock Brown
fifiity on Fishing News
'"creasing number of fishing
, "quipped with pulpits and
are making their ap-
iJ'" along the waterfront of
Carolina Coast oommuni-
"Ur or even three years
"raft carrying such equip-
ring in our fishing areas
. niuch attention locally.
before big-game fishing
(f " reality instead of a sort
w'?'' Many of the cruisers
'nto our North Carolina
jj^uipped for offshore fishing
Ras Wescott’s Casino to Be
i Completely Done Over and
Improvements Made
I Ras Wescott’s Casino is to have
j a grand opening next week end at
I Nags Head, when the social sea-
{son begins. The Casino has been
i refinished, and many improvements
[ made, and is still in the hands of
] contractor Robert Ballance, getting
everything ready for the season.
Mr. Wescott is adding rooms for
his employees and is making his
bowling alleys longer by buidling
an addition to the main building
Mr. Wescott looks forward to the
finest tourist season ever known on
the beach at Nags Head. The
Casino has always been a popular
place, and was successfully oper
ated last summer by Mr. Wescott.
As a popular dance retreat, it was
favored with a steady business
throughout the season, and gave
employment to 'many local young
people.
ideas to our local guides
("'‘obably remain here during
C’^er for the Gulf Stream
Ifi"® the Capes of Hatteras
L"kout if they could book
■ - Qftl - , w
(i p' ®bore at the Hundred Fa-
HER JOB is to make the women-j Carnival. Outfitted with an ultra
folks wear more cotton clothes—to : smart wardrobe jof all-cotton me-
make the country cotton consciou.=, | terials, she is modelling cotton gar-
to restore some profit to a farmer 1 ments at cotton fashion shows,
deserted by women who deserted talking cotton on the stage and
them for a worm, or what the worm ; over the air, making personal calls
gives them—silk clothes they think | and appearances in 22 cities plus
makes them prettier. the New York and San Francisco
She’s 19-year-old Alice Hall, the! world fairs. She will return to her
“Maid of Cotton,” flying ambassa-1 home in Memphis for the opening
dor of the National Cotton Council, of the South’.= great c Aton party
In major cities from coast to coast
she is spreading the story of Na
tional Cotton Week and the Cotton
there on May 9. Next to cotton
she is devoted to flying and ama
teur theatricals.
MORE IMPROVEMENTS BEGIN
ON FORT RALEIGH PROJECT
AT A COST OF OVER $13,000
BARNES PROMISES SOME
EXTRA MILES ON HYDE ROAD
In a letter to Congressman War
ren, D. Colling Barnes of Murfrees-
C Some of them, as a matter boro, district Highway Commis-
ij, "f" booking parties for the j sioner now assures Mr. Warren
of the fine fishing! that he plans not only to build the
* "anging from 30 to 50 road through the village of Stumpy
’ ^ Point, but to add a few extra miles
on the main highway toward En
gelhard. This he says, is due to the
prospect of some recently allotted
additional funds.
Mr. Barnes has not relented in
his refusal to join in making this
Work at making ready the Lost
Colony theatre Tor the opening of
the 1939 season 64 days hence, in
terrupted several weeks ago by a
clerical over-sight in the office of
the Works Progress Administra
tion in Washington, will be resumed
during the coming week, with a
double crew of men Superintended
by Dave Midgett and supervised by
Albert Bell.
Word that President Roosevelt
had signed the new project, put
through by Bradford Fearing and
Congressman Warren in the record
time of 18 days, was brought to the
Island late Wednesday might by
Mr. Fearing upon his return from
Raleigh, wjiere he has been under
going surgical treatment for the
past three weeks. Mr. Fearing’s
first stop on the Island was to ad
vise Mr. Bell that work ivould be
gin again Tuesday or Wednesday.
With an additional crew of men
and some relaxation of regulations
in work periods, Mr. Bell and Mr.
Fearing are confident that the nec
essary improvement and expansion
of the theatre plant can be com
pleted in ample time for the open
ing of the season on the night of
Saturday, July 1st, which is nine
weeks from tomorraw, and the bulk
of it out of the way before re-
.hearsals start in about six weeks.
Included in the project, which to
tals $13,223, are plans for doubl
ing the size of the dressing rooms
with the new quarters occupying
space paralleF to present quarters
and built on piling over the water,
adequate shower baths for the en
tire cast with hot and cold water,
a laundry and sewing room, and
complete toilet facilities within the
theatre enclosure for the patrons
of the show.
Some changes will be made in the
exterior ^f the theatre, with the
probability that the toilets in the
wings will be made to conform in
design and _ ^ize to the logged
switch control room, with storage
space beneath~”for about 1,000 seat
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BABY CONTEST TO COME
TO CLOSE NEXT MONDAY
Cleo Hope (Ba'hy Sister) Duvall
Leads in Contest Sponsored by
the Junior M’omans Club
I'** Contine.ntal Divide.
)iiijJ''®"ntime our wiser local
"quippi'ig their vessels
Liiiii,„'Sgers, and more power-
back through my fishing
L ^Aitten five and six years! a Federal aid project, as requested
.I'be High Point Enterprise: by the Commissioners of Hyde and
"ville Citizen I run across Dare. Dare is one county in the
statements
which I i State that has
^"'bes to equip for the off 1 cent of money
shing, because as I said j road.
never received a
n a Federal aid
DARE COUNTY SEASHORE TO
HAVE ITS OWN NEWSPAPER
Nags Head, Kill Devil and Kitty Hawk Beaches to Be
Featured in Full Size Paper to Reach Every
Visitor to the Beaches
rh 0
1(1 '
""Peat
-the real fu-
tbe sportfishing on the
tf^l^^^bna coast would not be
^be ocean’.s surf, or
i^^bore bays—but instead off
\a Stream. North
"ilia ^'fles if they want to get
! tof money, must prepare
Q, "^ing fishermen to the
S —because that is
I* lias* money in their busi-
rates for carrying
bass, and small game
^1 "'111 always be in the
T class, comparatively
"r kefwill be only a short
s
cn** majority of the
""munities will have lish-
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RUSSELL GRIGGS TOPPED
FISHERMEN LAST WEEK
Mr. Russell Griggs of Kill Devil
Hills turned back all opposition in
the matter of record channel bass
catches last week end.
Thursday a party fished by Mr.
Griggs caught 47 of the red war
riors of the deep. Sunday Mr.
Griggs’ group brought home 14
nice sized bass, and Monday his
party landed 12 of the finny backed
creatures, bringing his week end
total up to 73.
Sambo Tillett, Wanchese guide,
brought in 83 channel bass Friday
to top the catches for that day.
A full size newspaper to serve
the growing resorts of Nags Head,
Kill Devil and Kitty Hawk Beaches
will make its appearance during
May, and w’ill be published each
week during the Summer season.
The paper will give full publicity
to the doings both social and com
mercial on these beaches, and wull
tell of the coming and goings, the
parties, the fishing, and many other
things. It will also publish stories
reminiscent of the old days, and
will refiect fairly and squarely the
life and progress of the beaches.
■fhe paper will probably be
named “The Seashore News,” ac
cording to the Times Printing
Company, of Manteo, which also
prints the Dare County Times. The
new paper is purely for the beaches
and will reach every person who
comes to the seashore It will have
its own office at some central point
on the beach, and a competent staff
to serve the needs of the people,
beside handling job printing orders.
Announcement of the names of
the staff will be made in a few
days. It is stated that these will
be experienced newspaper people.
The paper will probably be pub
lished in conjunction with the Dare
County Times, giving advertisers
in the Seashore paper the benefit
of the larger circulation of the
Manteo paper, which goes into
other counties and several states.
Such advertising wdll really be
worth something to the people of
the beaches who are in business,
for it will help to attract people to
the resort.
The Seashore paper will deal es
pecially with the seashore, and its
affairs. It will be replete with pic
tures, and features that will make
it a sort of keepsake paper—one
that tourists will be glad to take
home with them.
In providing a newspaper for the
beaches, whose interests are in
many instances different from those
of other localities, a public service
will be rendered those who live
there and do business there.
Further details about the new
paper will be announced soon.
The Baby Contest sponsored by
the Junior Womans Club of Dare
County, proceeds to be used in buy
ing the lot directly back of the
Community building for a park and
playground, will come to a close at
exactly one o’clock Monday, May
the 1st. The winner of this con-
tes£ will receive a silver loving cup
as well as the title of Jr. Mascot
for the year 1939. On the streets
Monday there will be several mem
bers of the Club waiting to sell
votes on all babies entered until
one o’clock when the ballot will
close and the child having most
votes is proclaimed the winner.
There will be two parades, one be
ginning at twelve o’clock and one
immediately after the ballot boxes
close. The Rhythm Band of
Stumpy Point wdth about twenty
members has been asked to march
here with the contestants and
there will be a bevy of pretty girls
cavorting. There are to be, ac
cording to the meeting of the Jun
iors held Tuesday night at the
Community building, approximate
ly 10 beautifully decorated floats.
“Baby Sister” Duvall, now leading
in votes by 62, still has a hard job
ahead of her to win, as it is quite
easy for any' of the other contest
ants to catch up with her at the
last minute. There will be two
Blue Ribbon winners in the 2nd
and 3rd places. Miss Helen Du
vall, president of the Junior Wo
man’s Club, will present the silver
cup to the winner at approximately
one-thirty. The public is cordially
invited to see this parade and the
most beautiful babies on the Island.
Following is a list of contestants
and their present scores:
Baby Sister Duvall 62
Mary Bruce Lennon 20
Bubbles Wescott 20
Merle Jean Wescott 2V2
Coy Tillett, Jr 2"/2
Monde Lee Daniels 7
Ruby Creef 7''^
Francis Facchini 2I2
Jerry* Daniels 2V2
Donald Rhodes Blivins 2 ¥2
Edna Bruce Dowdy 2Y2
' George Wescott, Jr 2%
William James Wescott
Sally Alford
Sarah Alford
Roy Davis, Dare County repre-
Seven members of the United
Scates Congress and one of the bet
ter known hotel provisioners in the
capital, all shepherded by* Lindsay
Warren, arrived in Dare County
Thursday afternoon, and will spend
Friday and Saturday fishing off
Oregon Inlet with Capt. William
H. Lewark, acting unjier direct or
ders from Admiral R. R. Waesche,
performing the duties of guide-in
chief.
Most of the members of the party
are in Dare for their first time, but
among them is Virgil Chapman of
Kentucky, long known and always
warmly welcor-:ed by everybody in
the county. Mr. Chapman, one of
the most redoubtable fishermen of
the House, has long esteemed Ore
gon Inlet above all the fishing
grounds that he knows about.
Arrangements for their visit to
the county were made by* Admiral
Waesche, commandant of the Unit
ed States Coast Guard in telegrams
and telephone calls Wednesday af-
sentative and Manteo charter Ro- ternoon. During their stay here
tarian, w*as elected President of the
Manteo Rotary Club for the com
ing year at Monday night’s meet
ing.
Other officers elected to serve for
the new term, were Woodson Fear
ing, vice-president; W. R. Pierce,
secretary. C. S. MeeVins was re
tained as treasurer.
Outgoing officers are Dr. W. W.
Johnston, president; Roy Davis,
vice-president, and Robert Atkin
son, secretary. The new officers
will take the office July 1st.
they are quartered at the Kill Devil
Hills Coast Guard Station. Ray
Adams, the hotel provisioner, in
sisted in fetching down a variety
of provender, which Big Tom Baum
is fixing for them until they catch
some fish.
Members of the party include,
beside Congressman Warren and
his secretary Herbert Bonner, the
following:
Congressman Virgil Chapman
of Kentucky; Congressman Sam S.
Massengale, who has represented
Members of the newly elected ] the Seventh Oklahoma District for
board of directors were Dr. W. W.j three terms; Congressman Wall
Johnston, T. A. Baum, and C. C 1 Doxey, for twelve years the repre-
Perry.
The Rotarians selected Roy Davis
as the local club’s official delegate
to the district conference which
will be held in Roanoke, Virginia,
May 4 and 5. John Ferebee and
C. C. Overman were selected as al
ternate delegates to the confer-
A GOOD SEASON
OPENING EARLY
DARE BEACHES
Beach Hotels Report Pleas
antly Surprising Number
of Guests in April
21/2
Warm weather and good fishing
have been prime factors in bring
ing an early influx of visitors to the
Dare County beaches of Nags
Head, Kitty Hawk, and Kill Devil
Hills this spring.
Beach hotel owners report that
parties from New Hampshire, Ohio,
Indiana, and Iowa, not to mention
a number of groups from the n.a-
jority of the Middle Atlantic and
South Atlantic states, were on hand
last week end to take advantage
of the fine weather and good fish
ing.
According to Mr. L. S. Parker-
son, owner-manager, of Parkerson’s
Hotel at Nags Head, over 35 guests
were registered at his hostelry dur
ing the week end just past. Par
kerson’s has been open all spring,
Mrs. Jule Modlin, who opened her
largest crowd of the new season on
hand. Mr. Parkerson made the
sentative of the Second District of
Mississippi; W. Sterling Cole, 337th
District, New York, whose biog
raphy is next to the’ shortest in the
book, it saying merely “Republican
attorney, married”; Senator John
Miller of Arkansas, Congressman
Gharlesc 'k. Halleck, who has repre
sented the Republican Second Dis
trict of Indiana since 1933 when he
was named at a special election;
and Ray Adams, the provider of
vittles, and Louis Deschler, House
parliamentarian.
The party left Washington by
automobile at noon Thursday, ar
riving at Kill Devil in time for the
mighty supper Big Tom had fixed
for them. Their fishing is planned
for early Friday morning, with the
party divided evenly between Cap
tain Lewark’s boat and Capt,
Charlie Perry. Alpheus Drink-
water is a sort of taxi driver, ferry
ing the party by truck between the
.station and the Inlet.
Here two weeks ago. Congress
man Warren assured friends that
he would be back before the end
of the month for another try at
drum, of which fish he got 10 when
he was here. He said that he ex
pected a half dozen of his col
leagues in the House to accompany
him here, and here they are.
Virginia Faye Dough 2% comment that professional men and
Sam Burrus 2V2 city officials seem to congregate
Arvin Alexander Midgett 2%
Francis Warren Meekins 2%
LOW
Although the United States is
confronted with a cotton surplus
of more than 13,000,000 bales, it
has less than 2,000,000 bales avail
able for export during the
m'Onths ending August 1.
See America First
America has some fine old ruins.
They can be seen at most any
night club with their sweeties.
In Big Bill’s Regime
.MILO WINTER, JR., YOUNG
ARTIST LEAVES HATTERAS
the beaches at this time of the
spring. Among the visitors at .his
hotel over the week end were doc
tors, lawyers, postmasters, funeral
directors, and fown mayors.
Up at Kill Devil Hills Mrs. Rus
sell Griggs reports that over 30
guests were registered at the
Croatan last week end. According
to Mrs. Griggs this was by far the
largest number of guests she has
had during the three weeks the
Croatan has been open this spring,
but last week end saw by far the
Arlington Hotel for- the first time
this week, says that business has
been surprisingly good for so early
in the season.
The First Colony Inn was not
Nervous Chicago Gangster (sud- open last week end, but the owners
denly to body guard)—Gee, Sour- expect to be ready for business to-
face, have I been stabbed in the day or tomorrow. The Nags Head-
back—or is it that cursed lum- j er Hotel will be opened early in
bago? I May.
Milo Winter, Jr., young Chicago
artist, who .has been stopping at
Hatteras for the past several
months, spent several days in Ro
anoke Island this week, enroute to
the north, where he will teach for
a spell in Wells College, Aurora
on Cayuga, N. Y.
Prom there he will go to Maine
to do^some painting. He did some
beautiful paintings in the Hatteras
vicinity, and looked about Roanoke
Island in search of material for his
brush.
M. L. DANIELS AND SON
return from BALTIMORE
M. L. Daniels, Sr., and Jr., re
turned this week from Baltimore,
where they purchased large stocks
of summer merchandise, much of
which has already arrived and is
on display.
The Daniels store is better
stocked this year than at any time
in its history, and caters especially
to those who need sports and beach
wear, particularly those things that
appeal to womenfolk.
Caleb Brickhouse accompanied
them on their trip to Baltimore.
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