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/ * ^'.-sV'V^’- ^ L THE DARE COUNTY TIMES tie Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of More Than 30,000 People of the Four Southern Albemarle Counties DL. IV; NO. 202 MANTEO, N. C., MAY 12, 1939 Single Copy 5c lORTHERN NEWSPAPERMEN GIVE DARE COUNTY MANY BREAKS IN NEWS RECENTLY MORE TELEPHONE LINES to SERVE US THIS SEASON [any Seasoned Veterans of the Press Come For Sport, and When Bad Weather Breaks in on Them, Prove They Are Good Sports; Fishing^ Better During Past Week End puring the past ten days to two^g^YS ENGELHARD FOLK seks, it seems that Dare County uir.WWAV TO HARF s been visited by more newspa-,HIGHWAY TO DAKt 'fnien seeking the fishing at' 'egon Inlet, than at any time in ‘ 'y recent year. Fred Fietcher, of, e New York News, Ray Trullin- •r, of the World-Telegram, Ray iinp of the New York Times, Burt illiams of. the Pittsburgh Sun- ■legraph, Bert Kline of the Home- ead, Pa., Messenger, and many j hers have been to Dare with their *rties. Some of them found good fishing, d others reached the county tiultaneously with the howling ^ ^rtheaster that blew down hard on ‘e county. And like the good lorts they were, the newspaper men smiled at their tough luck, and "ind other interesting things than ®hing to write about. Sunday night. Bill S.harpe of the ^te Advertising Bureau breezed 'to town, bringing with him Geo. I tmiams of New York a photograph-, ^ of parts. They went bo Hatteras 'Monday, looking over the local elor. ^lany of the fishermen went to ^tteras to look over the land and on some of the fishing there. Jtd as a result of all these visits, V County has figured plenty in ^6 fishing news this week. I Hatteras had more than 60 !^'>rtsmen during the week end. J^oy rooming houses took care of hotel. Two of the mast widely read Jj^ropolitan sports columnists *^>■6 in Dare County this week ^^fiiering news for their fishing L^red Fletcher, New York Daily fishing columnist, and an old- ^er as far as publicizing Dare ’'tty fishing goes, .spent four in the section and sent three *ins back to his metropolitan irntr that were chock full of build on local angling conditions. ^y trullinger, whose daily flsh- oolumn in the New York World **®gram is among the most wide- ''sad in the country, has been '"ding the week in Manteo and ^Heras. Trullinger was a ring- , or in publicizing this section as c'te fishing paradise when those 1 H kri/.] Vvinr W1M -PniiT* vPQrs Two complete additional tele phone circuits from Elizabeth City to Manteo are being installed this| i month by the Norfolk and Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company. According to R. M. Dewey, Gen eral Superintendent on the job, the new lines will be opened eai'ly in Jung^, and will be available for gen eral use during the summer season. The regular influx of summer visit ors to the Dare County Beaches, in addition to the large numbers of fishermen who come down about this time of the year, causes-a huge increase in the number of calls dur ing those seasons. The telephone company hopes by adding the new circuits to the three that arc al ready in use that they will be able to greatly improve the service be tween Dare County and Elizabeth City. A number of new telephone poles are being installed along the Roan oke Sound Bridge causeway, and on the beach a majority of the poles are being relocated. In ad dition a new set of cross arms, to carry the additional lines, are being installed along the entire route. The new poles on Roanoke Island have already been put in and the crew is at present putting the addi tional cross arms on the poles alongside the Roanoke Sound Bridge. According to Mr. Dewey, the work will be halted temporarily at the end of this week, but will be re sumed again in a few days. Fishing and all I Out Doors -By- Aycock Brown Authority on Fishing News CASINO OPENS AT NAGS HEAD SATURDAY NIGHT M. A. MATTHEWS, Cashier of Bank of Engelhard, and one of the most capable country bankers in the state was a visitor to Manteo, Sunday, enroute to Norfolk. Mr. Matthews stopped to that with his friends, and book a flight in Dave Driskill’s airplane, getting a bird's eye view of Roanoke Island and Nags Head. But Mr. Matthews was most keenly alive on the subject of roads. He feels greatly disappointed at the apparent indifference of the First Division’s Highway Commis sion, Mr. Barnes, to consider fully the road needs of Dare and Hyde. Hyde is in the district watched over by Commissioner E. V. Webb, of Kinston, and finds Mr. Webb sympathetic and helpful. The peo ple of Hyde are mighty anxious to I get to the seashore, Mr. Matthews says, and would like to be able to continue north to Norfolk for busi ness reasons, over the route lead ing through Manteo. They now feel greatly disappointed at the action of Mr. Barnes, which blocked Mr. Webb’s efforts. REV. MANESS ADDRE.SSED GRADUATES AT WANCHESE RECORD FISH ARE CAUGHT ON COAST An eleven-year-old boy, Kent Oglethorpe of Norfolk, may have already sewn up the 1939 channel bass record of America. Fishing with Lee Dough at Oregon Inlet, young Oglethorpe landed a channel bass which weighed 73 pounds and four ounces after it had been out of the water ten hours. The all- time record for channel bass to be landed by rod and reel was the 74' , . pounder which Charles Beckman landed .at Chincoteague, Va., on June 27, 1929. Hardly a week had passed from the Oglethorpe catch until a chan nel bass weighing 75 pounds, (weighed several hours after it was taken from water) was landed by Jamie Styron, well-known guide and commercial fisherman at Ocra- coke. The sad part of the story is that it was landed in a net. But at that, the channel bass equals the world record, for fish of this spe cies. According to authentic Field and Stream’s statistics, Jordan and Evermann reported a 75-pound channel bass in the ‘caught in any method’ class. The Ocracoke Channel Bass land ed by Styron Westcott’s Place Improved; Seven Bowling Alleys Regulation Size First dance of the season at Nags Head will be held Saturday night, when Ras. Westcott’s Casino opens full blast, after several weeks of alterations done by Contractor Rob ert Ballance. Seven regulation size bowling alleys have been com pleted. Last year, the place had but four short alleys. Many other improvements have been provided inside. The dance hall will be better. New living quarters for the force have been built. More parking accommoda tions are to be added during the season. Operated last summer under the of Ras Westcott for the first time, the Casino proved very popular, and enjoyed a splendid patronage. It gave employment to a number of poung people from Roanoke Island and Nags Head. Usually the place was crowded, and particularly on week ends, it soon became a favor ite meeting place for hundreds of young people. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYMEN BUSY MAPPING COAST OF HATTERAS SEASHORE Work of Making- Topographic Maps of Entire Region Will Require Six Months; Surveyors Making Homes in Manteo; PWA Allotment For the Work KEENEST OF THE KEEN - MacNEILL, ACE NEWSMAN BAILEY AND WAESCHE FISH AT OREGON INLET liad their big run four and has been a regular boost- Dare County’s fishing possi bles ever since. J]^etcher had this to say in his \.®orated column—“Nags Head, ^■—■The ocean, outside of Ore- Inlet within a few miles of this Rev. M. W. Maness, former Wan- chese minister delivered the ad dress, Thursday, April 4, for the Wanchese school commencement exercises. His address was fol lowed by the presentation of awards by Superintendent of Schools R. H. Atkinson and by the delivery of seventh grade certifi cates by Hon. Roy L. Davis. Harry Hayman, president of the graduating class, also addressed the audience of parents and friends. Others who took part in the exer cises were Jack Daniels, Sara Davis, Stanley Tillett, Edith Ether idge, Thomas G. Gaskill and Faye Baum. Miss Etheridge has the ex ceptional record of perfect attend ance during the entire seven years she has attended Wanche.se school. The Wanchese exercises were held ^ day earlier than those for Manteo, Principal L. E. Fairey said, has I so that those interested in attend- Admiral R. R. Waesche, com mandant of the United States Coast Guard, brought Senator Josiah William Bailey to fish in .home wa ters off Oregon Inlet Wednesday, was measured by native fish disdained the Sena- Fisherman-Sportsman Fred Sted-. tQj.>g man who spends the summers on ■£)]. sterling Ruffin of Washington ceen Is four engi- the United has .his ing both programs could do so. Other citizens of Hyde are of the'Mr. Fairey has left, with his fam- same opinion. One of the out-'ily, for his home in Brancheville, .standing men of Engelhard writes |S. C., and next fall will take up his I this newspaper to say he believes duties as principal in a seven-grade lot IHlease turn 'o page three) '-^INg SPEAKER REACHES Hatteras on schedule transportation methods a fast one on Father Time ij|, —y morning, when Dr. E. C. of the East Carolina Teach- tollege History Department ar il^ 'h Manteo and found it would Hj^Possible for him to drive down " Oanks to Hatteras and -reach L ^ time to deliver a scheduled before the Hatteras High 'tl^I graduating class at 11 years ago postponement H a have been the only course, "ot so in this modern time. ® ,Uriskiir was quickly sum- and an hour later Dr. Hol- safely arrived at Hatteras, a .hurried trip in Dave’s ‘*”0 plane. i*’ad we have too long been patient at neglect that has been shown us in highway matters. Mr. Matthews said “It is ridicu lous to say that any part of this region cannot be developed. Noth ing can be developed without roads,’’ he says. school near Rockingham, N. C. BEACH HOTELS GROWING FAST IN DARE COUNTY the island. The length was 53 in ches; girth 35% inches. Beckman’s world record baas measured 55 in ches in length and 34 inches around girth. The Jordan and Evermann bass reported several years ago measured five feet. Regardless of .how these measurements compare —the channel bass which passes 50 inches and is almost 3 feet around girth—is SOME FISH when it comes to classing these copper colored bull dogs of the surf. Neither of the foregoing fish will be eligible for entry in the North Carolina Surf Casting Tournament. Young Oglethorpe’s fish was taken before the tourney began—and Sty- (Please turn to page three) and Alexander Webb, of Raleigh, who were also guests of the Com mandant aboard the cutter “Bibb” anchored off the Inlet. trating sense of news values, a dis- Channel bass were biting for Dr. i cerning analyst of the workings of Ruffin and Mr. Webb, and when the human mind. Few men have been able to interpret human do ings as MacNeill can do. The brain behind that high forehead is and the Admiral took time off from visiting the surfmen in Coast Guard stations along the Outer B.2nks, they bit his hook as well. Senator Bailey is a noted angler for j pgj-gj^t indifference and aloofness is blue fish, and was not too discom- ■ armor he throws un to per- fited that no channel bass would! have to do with him. He neglected to take off his coat. DENTAL CLINICS ON SOUTH BANKS DURING NEXT MONTH Three stories high, and white and shiny with its asbestos shingles, “Hyde County has the 45-room hotel opposite the been kept bottled up, until its de- Wright Memorial, being built by velopment has been stifled. We Tilman Bros, for Capt. Tom Baum, find ourselves kept in this situation is making progress. It will be in by one who is without our district, j .service before July 1, and will make “If the officials would only | a great improvement to the beach, realize it,” Mr. Matthews continued. Hotel Wilbur Wright may be the “They would admit the importance [ name of this new structure. Capt. of completing the roads between ^ Hauni has several names in mind. GOOD FISHING I’^i'ty of four from Raleigh, 1X5^ J with Kitty Hawk guide Sht Perry, over the week end. IVi!-'' channel bass Saturday, more before noon Sunday. IK?"’' , were Dayid Cozart, Susan Sweet, and I til, 1^ Griggs has had parties day this week and re- ‘'niches of bass each day |Sb ^ from three and nine in Hyde and Dare. What these coun ties have to offer, constitute one of the greatest drawing cards to tour ists in the entire state. “I would like to see a dozen counties like Mr. Barnes’ bring 80,000 people in two months to visit them, yet I have seen roads tom up in Mr. Barnes’ county that i were as good as the roads m Hvde, . and Dare, and replaced by fine concrete paving. This, while w'e go without roads that can be used all the year. Dare doesn’t have a decent piece of road, while the only paved piece of road in Hyde was paid for in part by the county, way back in the beginning of the .high way work.” “Talk about development.” said Mr. Matthews, “Why Hyde County land is known everywhere as the richest in the section.. What does it avail without transportation. If we had access to markets, we could develop an enofmous strawberry business. We would find books MUST BE '^UGHT in IMMEDIATELY |H6ij’'.^I'’Ian Ryder, librarian, has \ all books be returned to public library imme- is being done at the the state, in order that 1^ inventory may be made. vfill be open ^ain at cf about two weeks. but both he and Mrs. Baum favor this one so far, more than any others. The name is considered a fine tribute to the deceased one of j the Wright Brothers, who made I aviation history nearby. It is easy I to remember, and it does away with ! the funereal sound connoted by The Snug Harbor Touri.st Home with 15 rooms is being built oppo site the Nags Header by W. F. Til lett and C. L. Midgett of Manns Harbor, and will be run by Mrs. J. ■V. Mann of Elizabeth City, their Sister-in-law. This is an attractive place to be operated at modest rates. CHICAGO COUPLE LAND 50 LB. DRUM TUESDAY Dr. Pringle, dentist sent out by the state health department to work in the schools, will be lo.cated on the South Banks for the next month. He will do dental work for all school children between the ages of six and 13, and is particularly anxious to have all children of pre school age take advantage of the clinic. Hours will be from nine in the morning until three in the af ternoon. Dr. Pringle will be at the schoolhouse at each place on the following dates: Rodanthe, May 15-19; Avon, May 22-26"; Buxton, May 29-June 2; Hatteras, June 5-9. TO ESTABLISH WATCH AT BODIE ISLAND STATION Announcement that a lookout watch will be re-established at the Bodie Island Coast Guard Station was received" here this week from the office of Representative Lind say Warren. The Bodie Island^sattion was ta ken out of commissTon by the Coast Guard two years ago, and since that time Mn Warren has been making an effort to have it reopen ed because of its importance and proximity to Oregon Inlet. It will operate as a part of Oregon Inlet crew. The Bibb anchored off the Inlet Tuesday night, and the party were out Wednesday with Capt. Charlie Perry aboard the Maggie. Dr. Ruffin drew first blood, a 35- pounder. Capt. Palmer Midgett, skipper of Oregon Inlet, had the Coast Guard patrol of the crowded fishing grounds off the Inlet during the day, and brought the Admiral ahhore for station visiting and sup per. The Bibb planned to weigh anchor after nightfall to return the party to Norfolk. Senator Bailey discussed fishing | and nothing else. He was blandly unaware of matters and trends in \ Washington. He greeted Alpheus Four men, sun-browned and arm-' ed with drawing boards, are al- KftU'' figures between H^hf V §°die Island fight. Each of these neers, employed by w. States Geological Survev own district to map. A. T. Fowler, head topographic men. The junjor topographic engi- an^B Brown, and B. Thomas Hopkins, each have one rodman helping them with their iReasurenients. Manteo will be the home of these .. e.n during the entire summer, as It IS expected that the surveying o^ the proposed Cape Hatteras Park area, about IQO square miles, will take nearly six months. Later, when the project is further along, the men expect to make their head quarters at the northern and south ern ends of the district. Their homes, between field work ing periods, are far separated. Mr. Fowler is from Washington, D. C., Mr. Arthur from South Carolina, Mr. Hopkins from Massachusetts, and Mr. Drown from Vermont. Be fore he took this job, Mr. Drown was a contractor’s engineer for the New York World’s Fair. Mrs. Fowler is here with her husband, and their daughter, Anne, will join them following her graduation from Smith College in June. The survey will include the coast line from north of Currituck Beach, almost to the Virginia border, to as far south as (Jeraeoke Island. The north end, or Fort Raleigh section, is the only part of Roanoke Island which will be surveyed at this time. Engineers on such surveys are graduates of an engineering col lege and have passed a civil service examination, but less education and training is required of rodmen. who thinks or does‘‘dMerent from Rodmen on the Hatteras Park proj- the first person.” P; MacNeill was born in Scotland Napier, Vernon V. Brinkley and JacK Sweatte. So detailed are the maps made from the survey that beach resi dents, by sending 10 cents bo the United States Geological Survey in Washington, D. C., will be able to find their houses on the map and every sand dune on the beach. It BEN DIXON MacNFILL is a mme that has gone far and wide. The greatness of many men has been illumined by the magic of his pen. Reams of North Carolina h’story, of utmost consequence, forgotten by mankind, have been turned out of his typewriter, long overlooked until unearthed by his diligence. He is a man of keen mind, a pene- oonstantly busy. His oftimes ap- I mit him to do more work. Folks I consider him hard to get acquainted I with. Yes, he is most extraordi nary, and as all of us are, peculiar. Peculiar of course when applied to the other fellow, meaning “One County nearly a half a century ago. His blood stream comes from a long line of poets, lawyers, edu- (Please turn to page five) HATTERAS FORMER PASTOR PAYS A FINE TRIBUTE will be at least two years, howevijr, before the maps will be ready for j Editor, The Dare County Times: public distribution. The Depart- Dare County has made many ment of the Interior, of which the W. Drinkwater warmly when the ii'® » P^rt, is far behind in veteran telegrapher went out to see i^ot only is this county famous as the printing, and precise checking him, and said that he was coming birthplace of the nation and of all map details takes considera- become so familiar isaiu 11c vYcio wu.ii.i.jt nation back down here this summer for at | sturdy ble time, least one performance of The Lost|fi“lk who have contributed to our “Engineers Colony. The Senator appeared in i advancement in an unassuming with the territory they are map way. When we lose one who con- ping that they can correct finished tributes to our betterment, our loss maps sent to them from Washing- is great. This is especially true in ton without referring to their origi- the passirig of Calvin Midgette of nal dravi[ings,” Engineer Hopkins I Rodanthe. stated. I I knew him as a member of the Each of the four men working on excellent health and spirits. LOCAL GROUP ATTENDS MEETING AT SUNBURY The District Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs will meet at Coast Guard. I knew him as a de- the present project expects to cover voted husband and father. And an average of three or four square Sunbury, in Gates County, Tuesday, j knew him as a miles each month, indicating the DICK BRINN WHO PLAYED BASEBALL AT 75 IS DEAD Man and wife of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Mo'Ore, address 66 S. Michigan Avenue, went fishing ready Tuesday with Capt. Claude Wise, markets for our grain. And we Along about three o’clock in the af- would have a steady cash crop of ternoon when discouraged novices tourists. And we could g'o and might have called it a day, they cotffE to and from the seashore. Do began landing channel bass. The you know of another county in the biggest weighed 50 pounds, the te state, whose people have so much tal fish caught was 30. And that trouble getting to the seashore ? was -only one of many good catches “Another thing we want and this week. need”, said Matthews, “Is a mail route between Manteo ' and ATTEND MEETING Engelhard. If this could be ac- oomplished, it would bring us our Miss Sadie Hendlev, Dare Coun mail a day earlier than at pre.sent.” tv Home Demonstration agent, and ■ C. W. Overman, Dare County Farm Elwood Inge, of Williamsburg, agent, last week attended a Dis- Va., snent last week end here with trict Farm and Home Agents meet- Mrs. Inge. ing in Elizabeth City. Uncle Dick Brinn, the man who quit playing baseball at the age of 75, died ’Tuesday at'Stumpy Point. Mr. Brinn was 79 years old. Until four years ago, he was as sprV as a kitten, and played baseball just I as active and as well as most of the young fellows of the neighborhood. Uncle Dick was very popular with the homefolks. He was the father of the following children, who .sur- bive him: Mrs. W. M. Payne and Mrs. H. G. Payne, of Stum.py Point; Marion Brinn, of Florida; Bill, Mack and Louis of New York. He came to Stumpy Point from Hyde County. May 23. A delegation from the Dane County Home Demonstration Club, headed by Home Demonstration Agent Miss Sadie Hendley, will at tend the district meeting. Miss Hendley urges at many local club Christian gentleman of the highest preciseness of detail which is neces- type. He had that great faculty sary. In some districts, easier to of creating friendships that you map, a man can map 10 or 12 knew were true and sincere. His square miles in a month, life was one of devotion to his fam- “The funds for the beach sur- ily and fellowman. He was truly vay,” Head Engineer Fowler said, a Good Samaritan along life’s path- “were made available through a members as passible to make their' always lending a helping hand 1938 PWA allotment of $36,000 to trip, since she is anxious to have a those who needed him most. North Carolina”, good representation from Dare passing is inexplainable. Maps made by the Geqjogical Sur- This district IS made up of clubs ^ 0^,^ vey are used by park planners, from Dare, Currituck, Camden,: garden, and with State Highway departments, who Pasquotank, Perquimans, Hertford,, ^ j^and He plucks not only Pla” coads by these maps, map-ma- Gates, and Chowan. j those flowers whose petals hive king companies, such as Rand Mc- ' withered; but sometimes He selects NaHy,. k.v college geology students, those who are in the morning of by mineral, irrigation and swan-i their dav Those who enrich reclamation groups, and by the Heaven with their youthful beauty, general j-ublic. Huiffe 's and fi-'her- ' men arc enthusiastic isers because exery woodland trail is shown on the tnap, as well as ditches and ^^May his life be an inspiration to even streams flowing only a part us to lift upour heads and look unto e'' ^he y ( ar. Him from whence cometh our It is the aim strength. Sincerelv, JOHN R. POE. Aulander M. F. Church, Aulander, N. C. May 9, 1939. CONGRESSMEN HERE Representative Lindsay Warren ' . ^ e and six other Congressmen will be This I feel is especially true of in Dare County this week for a try j Calvin. Our loss is surely Heaven s at channel bass fishing. The Con gressmen will stay at the Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard station. And then there was the simple- minded yokel who really expected the moving picture to show the love scenes that the reading notices hinted about. POU PAYS SECOND VISIT State Auditor George Ross Pou, Mrs. Pou and Mr. and Mrs. John T, Taylor of Raleigh, were in Manteo Wednesday and Thursday to fish at Oregon Inlet with Capt. Tom Bas- night on the Croatan. Mr. Pou wais here for fishing ten days ago, but missed out because of the storm. Every once in a while a man wants this newspaper to publish something that he has written which he thinks is awfully funny, but it’s about someone else who might not think it so hilarious. SERIAL LEFT OUT OF THE TIMES THIS WEEK Every community has a small group of people, ready and able to tell everybody else how to manage their own business. of the Geological Survey to publish topographic maps of the entire United States, as well as of outlying territories. The work was begun in 1882 and about three-fifths of the country has been mapped. Maps are made in differ ent scales, depending on the topog raphy and the public importance of the'land. I'he Beach map will be scaled at 2,000 feet to the inch, and I contour lines will be at five-fo'Ot In- Shut- tervals. This means that each on the beach will be brown line, roughly Our .serial story, “Three tered Houses,” got crowded out of .hummock the paper this week, but we will try shown by a to make it up next week. You may circular in shape, and if the hum- look for it to be resumed, along mock amounts to a hill there will ,wih many other interesting fea- be series of such lines indicating tures. every five-foot rise. . ■ that Vick 'open •1 of lands praise n on fction. ,rker- stays %a.v is with in, on , ;o ca- num- year. ’•e fine y d e 1- 11 le il ;s le IS Y' is n- T us Sl ier id, si- m- las isi- ist, isit ur- ing t a the .jack ■iithe i; by Jand ii'ort . um- •ably :mis- I’t of old 5gan ' he n a nded the ; two nter- large imble loms; plied, ht be erson •es of e Mr. hope-
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