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■ri Tl THE DARE COUNTY TIMES The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of More Than 30,000 People of the Four Southern Albemarle Counties VOL. IV; NO. 203 TOWN BOARD TO AID WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT MANTEO, N. C., MAY 19, 1939 Single Copy 5c I J. C. MEEKINS URGES TYRRELL-DARE ROAD Sewage Lines Must Be Con trolled; Waste, Garbage and Rubbish Covered ch >rre erv Ann iad ar ‘dei LOSS ivii »rv. CB )US. ene 5 tl -s. Urd ene I'd ® Justus third > s vv' an ni.' ree 'hie oth le \ t Are -H. t, ' Cor r n ad. Am, >rm re iln mi( thi a fs. :isa nc( itig ve Pec r, an Pes ?er Sewage lines carrying waste into the bay in an untreated state are tabooed in an ordinance recently passed by the Manteo Town Board, according to Charles Morgan, sani tary oflicer in the district health departhient. Zii an inter^ew with i.bi Times reporter, Mr. Morgan stated that privies overhanging the w'ater will also be things of the past when the new ordinance goes into effect. He hopes to have the regulation in force by June. “The most important part of the ordinance,” Mr. Morgan said, “will be in conrol of sewage waste into the creek or bay. All new con struction must be provided with a settling or septic tank so that sew age will not be carried into the bay in its raw' state. The lines leading from the tanks must extend into the water beyond low tide level.” When asked how' the ordinance ■will affect construction' already in use, Mr. Morgan said that houses and busisess places having inade quate systems will be given several months in which to put in septic tanks complying w'ith the rules. “The ordinance is designed,” he w'ent on to say, “so that no hard ship wdll be worked on any indi vidual.”” According to the sanitary officer, the new ordinance, besides control ling sewage disposal, seeks to pro hibit the dumping of garbage, rub bish, cans, bottles and empty ship ping cartons into the bay. “The practice of dumping such rubbish into the bay has made the water front unsightly as well as insani tary,” Mr. Morgan stated. “After the ordinance goes into effect, the ANDERSON HOTEL AND 2 COTTAGES ARE TOTAL LOSS DARE MAN PRAISED FOR WORK UNDERWAY HNE ADVERT,S,NO .OB 700 FEET LONG Fanned by a strong northeast wind a fire of undetermined origin I completely destroyed a new fifteen | I room boarding house, two small j cottages, a pick-up truck, and an : automobile, all in less than half an , hours time at Kitty Haw'k Beach ; early last Sunday morning. I The fire started in a small cot tage belonging to J. B. Anderson of ! Elizabeth City and Kitty Hawk, ! soon spread to Mr. Anderson’s new 15 room boarding house, W'hich ad- 1 joins his cottage on the south, and ; before Mr. Anderson and other per- : so,T.s drawn to the scene of the con- !flagrat7in could get the flames un der control, hk;’ -.^atiieu the and another small cottage belong- 1 ing to W. S. Overman of Wilson. | ■ The Andersons were living at the time in their old cottage, which o „ 1 • u T 4.1. i • A i is less than 50 feet to the eastward Speaking before the Rotarians of . - ^ _ r»T rhck Tiyck^a orQT»rinrr -r^/^inr Vr»hin_ Edenton at their meeting last week, J. C. (Nat) Meekins, prominent Tyrrell County attorney, appealetl to Edenton folk to join in the proj ect to connect Tyrrell w'ith Dare County by roads and bridges, pledging the cooperation of Tyrrell of the fire’s starting point. Volun teers W'ere kept busy pouring buck ets of water on the roof of the old er cottage, but were unable to save anything from the three buildings that burned. All of the furniture for the boarding house was stored in the cottage from which the fire the in behalf of projects of interest to , j tt j 4. i i TT'j 4- t/ 4. ij iTij 4. 1 originated, and a Dodge truck, .and Edenton. He told Edenton people, ^ the bridging of the waters separat- ing his county from Dare would putj Edenton people 68 miles nearer to Dare County by dependable road.' garage. Mr. Anderson estimated the total loss at between $10,000 to $12,000, with only about 25 per cent covered by insurance. The fire started at about five o’clock Sunday morning, and was first discovered by a neighbor, who roused Mr. Anderson. Mr. Ander- I son had not decided, when this , , 4, ,.4 I newspaper went to press, w'hether and shorten the ferry distance over-j^^ of the buildings that were burned. Mr. Meekins is believed to have voiced the .sentiment of the people of Tyrrell County in advocating a direct route to Dare County. At present, the route to Alligator River is being straightened, which will put Columbia six miles nearer. Construction work was begun this week on a 700 foot fishing pier to be located at the site of the old transient camp two miles south of the Nags Head Coast Guard Sta tion. The pier is being built by W. H. Jennette, Sr., J. W. Jennette, W. S. Jennette, W. H. Jennette, Jr., A. C. Jennette, and W. C. Jennette, all of w.honi, with the exception of J. W. Jennette, are connected with the Jennett^ Fruit Company, of Elizabeth City. Low bidder on the construction work was the Elizabeth City con tracting firm of Wilkinson and Lowry. A pile driver and other necessary equipment were moved down the latter part of last week, nd actual work on the project was DARE COUNTY BEACHES PREPARE FOR LARGEST SEASON IN ALL HISTORY Improvements Made in All Best Hotels; New Ones Constructed and Increased Accommo dations For Thousands of People; Largest Crowds Anticipated This Year; Season Is Already Getting Into Swing ALWAYS WANTS TO SEE THE FOLKS BACK HOME R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE; Dare i County man and director of the -De- The pier will be 16 feet wide,_ap. partment of Conservation and De- ' proximately 500 feet long from* the velopment this week w'ins praise' h.'.gh water mark, and 700 feet over from Editor Herbert Peele of the | all. ' The decking will be almost 18 Daily Advance of Elizabeth City, in feet ab'pve normal high tides, w.hich connection with the fine work of the builcf er.s estimate will, leave the advertising department of the ' feet to spaf'iT even when the largest department. He gives Mr. Ether- j rollers are coNjing in. idge all credit for publicity on the According to W. H. Jennette, Sr., fine fishing of the Carolina coast,! who is personally .i^pervising the and in commenting on the fine work' work, the new pier w JJl have every- of the department says: Surely nO| thing to attract the fisherman. One representative or Senator in the of the transient camp'.buildings North Carolina General Assembly j will be m.oved to the pfe'r.. en- could fail enthusiastically to sup- ^ trance, and will house a cor.n’qs- port the State’s advertising pro-1 sion stand, a ticket office, and .P gram, and biennial appropriation fishing tackle and bait shop. for it. MAY IS CLEAN-UP MONTH IN MANTEO MAYOR SAYS the river. The extension of route 64 Columbia to Manteo would bring thousands of people to the seashore more often than they are now able, —people from the counties of Tyr rell, Washington, Chowan, Per quimans, Gates, Hertford, Martin, area for dumping must be diked off] Bertie, Northampton, and nearby Un ‘.ly 4 somet* and all rubbish covered within 48 hours by earth. This will prevent rubbish being floated out into the bay and then later floated back up on the shore on neighboring prop erty. The move should be wel comed by all eating establishments and markets bordering on the water front, as they are penalized on the routine inspections due to insani tary surroundings which in some cases are no fault of their own.” “Rubbish should be taken outside of the town limits,” Mr. Mogan said, “and dumped at a plac^ where it is not a public health nuisance or dumped as a sanitary fill with earth or sand over it. The .harbor ing and breeding places for rats, (Please turn to page eight) Fishing and all Out Doors —By— Aycock Brown Authority on Fishing News Virginia points. It would also put the Capital at Raleigh some 60 miles nearer Manteo. Dare Coun ty citizens express themselves as being well-pleased with the interest taken in Tyrrell, and know of no more loyal and faithful ally than than the distinguished attorney of Columbia who is boosting the movement. OLD VESSEL TO BE KEPT FOR A MUSEUM PIECE If the old vessel which recently- turned up on the sand banks of Dare County tunis out to be of fif teenth cr sixteenth century- origin, the North Carolina Historical Com mission will make every effort to I preserve the old hull and keep it I in Dare County where it rightfully 1 belongs, it was announced this I week. NEGRO CONCERT TUESDAY | News of the plan reached the IN MANTEO SCHOOL!Times through a letter from Dr. C. C. Crittenden, Secretary of the The Roanoke Island >)egro Com munity Singers will give a concert Tuesday evening. May 23, at 8:15 o’clock in the Manteo high school auditorium. This chorus of 30 voices is the same group who gave a broadcast several weeks ago in Historical Commission, to D. B. Fearing of Manteo, President of the Roanoke Island Historical As sociation. Mr. Crittenden said, “I am hop ing that the vessel can be pro tected from souvenir hunters until “Clean up your premises, all dur ing May. Get everything in shape. Buy lumber and paint, hire me chanics, get your property shining 1' , • 4.. T. J and ready for the tourist season. Norfolk over station WTAR, andja careful examination can be made advice of Mayor L. D. will be directed by Mrs. Genevieve Scarborough, teacher in the Negro school. Sponsors of the Tuesday night appearance of the chorus are the Dare Woman’s Club. The Com munity Singers are a part of the WPA Adult Education Program, of which Mrs. Elwood Inge is the Dare county director. Negro instructors are Delma Tillett and Mattie Sim mons. by experts. It would not require Tarkington of Manto. Other busi- many weeks for the public to cairy | you away so rnany souvenirs from the,^j,j proclamation hull that little would be lef . ,; advertisement on page three. Jojn the movement. Make everything show up w-ell this sum mer. I nyorie More and more big game fisher men are looking towards North Carolina’s coast and the nearby Gulf Stream since Hugo Ruther-| furd landed that 439-pound Blue} Marlin off Cape Hatteras on last July 10. And as time goes by, if our native guides prepare for off shore fishing there will be more and more of these big game fishermen coming to our coastline. Already this year there have been two or three parties in the Cape Lookout- Cape Hatteras waters hunting for the big fish, including Milt and Ed Bonoff of Cedarhurst, L. L, who fished with Capt. Mel Elderd aboard his cruiser Julieanna. And this week came a letter from an other party, anglers in Pittsburgh who aie interested in this newly discov-ered territory which is known to be good fishing grounds for the mighty blue-fin marlin. To give the reader an idea of how the big game fisherman feels about our section and what they demand in the way of boats and service, the letter received this week from Bannister of Pittsburgh is printed. It follows: “My dear Mr. Brown: “The January 29, 1939 is'sue of the New York Times mentioned you as the outstanding authority on salt water fishing in the Capt Hatteras- Beaufort section of ..the.. Atlantic Coast. We are, therefore, taking the liberty of consulting you with respect to a trip a small party of Pittsburgh business men are plan ning for the period June ..17th.. to 25th, inclusive. “We have fished at many 'points on the Atlantic Coast, but thought BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES Manteo: Bible school Sunday m. at 10 o’clock. Worship service at 11 o’clock. B. T. U. at 7 p. m. Roianoke Island: Bible School Sunday morning at 10 o’clock. B. T. U. at 7 p. m. followed by worship service at & o’clock. The Daily Vacation Bible School will begin Monday morning. May 22, at 9 o’clock in the Manteo Bap tist Church under the direction of Mrs. C. W. Overman. The school is to be in progress for two weeks after careful examination and study have been made, it turns out that the vessel is of real historical significance, I am .hoping that it can be preserved in the State of North Carolina rather than carry it away to some other State. Re cently we have had one experience of such -a relic being hustled away Willis G. Baum, popular proprie- to another State, and I am hoping 1 tor of the Filling Station formerly WILLIS BAUM TAKES IN NORFOLK AMOCO FAIR that we can avoid another similar occurrence. If the vessel is En- glish and of the Elizabethan period, nothing could be more appropriate than for her to be placed on the Fort Raleigh Reservation. It might be that a special building could be erected to house her. Certain pro cesses have been developed for pre serving rotten old hulls, and this might apply in this case. “The Historical Commission will wish to cooperate in every way pos sible in handling this matter, and w-e will be glad if you will keep us posted concerning developments.” The parking space in front of the pier will be enlarged and improved, and a new walkway leading to the entrance will be ready by opening day. Mr. Jennette says he has care fully studied construction work in other piers of the kind that are located at Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach, and he is making every effort to biuld a pier that is more serviceable and more acces sible than the others he has seen. He says the new pier will at tract an entirely new class of fish- NOWHERE amo^g the many for mer residents of the J^outhem Al bemarle will be found cone who looks more anxiously towards visit- All indications predict the big gest season in all the history of Nags Head^ Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Beaches on the Dare County coast. Never before has such interest been noted so early in the season, and many cottages are being constructed. Additional stores have already opened for business, and new filling stations as well, and most notable of the preparations is the improvements in ,the hotels and additional ones being built. Saturday night the season got a good start from the social angle, when Ras. Westcott opened his casino, with about 175 couples on the floor. The building has been greatly improved and its facilities enlarged. Seven bowling alleys of regulation size replace the three small ones. And comes announcement that about the first of June Messrs. Vick and Blueforci- of Norfolk will open the beach club, in a gay whirl of life and color, with famous bands to furnish music. They promise the biggest season yet known on the beach at this famous attraction. And now for the hotels. Barker- son’s well known hotel, which stays open practically the entire year is going full blast, and has-met with ing the homeland than W. N. Gibdi‘5, a splendid success this season, on Master Rigger in Shop 72, Norfolk Navy Yard, who first saw the light of day in Washington County, and who fished and lumbered in Dare ^ 4., 4. J .,1'and Tyrrell. His father was a na- ermen to the Dare coast, and wiil-f. i c 4. , 4. i. • 4.1, 1, 4. 4.1, tive of Fairfield in Hyde, and now stimulate business througnout the. . . ,, 4,.;„j 4.. TT 1. J J 44- •4. ' he IS comfortably fixed in Rorts- section. He has made no definite 1'’ f, ht c-u-Uc .......on+i-., 4. 1. 4. 1. r mouth, Va. Mr. Gibbs recently announcement about chargr'S for i fishing from the pier, but he said a decision will be made in that re gard in the near future. Sixty-flve-foot pilings are being used as supports for the structure. Mr. Jennette said it would be im possible at this time to estimate the cost of the project. OXFORD SINGERS APPEAR IN DARE many occasions being filled to ca- pacii^y because of the larger num ber oi" sToort fishermen this year. Parkerson’s is a tribute to the fine genius and fair deaiT. y oYir-'an aiiu' wife, whp have stuck to their job constantly, and who have done their best to give their customers the best of everything. This hotel is unexcelled in popularity, and for the fame of its cool rooms and wrote us a letter, telling how much he liked the Dare County Times, and the things it printed about the most interesting spot on earth. At good service he age of four years, he moved} The First, Colony Inn at Nags from his birthplace, near the shore, Head, long known as the largest of Lake Phelps, where Pettigrew 1 hotel on the beach is open for busi- Park is being developed, to the east I ness. This was formerly the Le- side of the Scuppernong River.! Roy Hotel. Today it is operated by Mr. Gibbs continues: Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Midgett and I left there when I was twelve Ernest Jones. Nowhere are people _ _ years old on March 1st, which hap--with a wider knowledge of the fish- tr'Xm birthday, and went, ing and hunting clientele, than IxHo W JCilliiV lliiMJ tp Croataii to fish with Tom Emery | these people. Famous too for fine I Mann, from Manns Harbor. I fish- j food, it -carries with it the original Oxford ed'one season with old man Ellis,LeRoy reputation and also attracts with Lath the many friends ksown to the Midgetts and Mr. Jones who has The singing class of the Orphanage, always a great favorite Midgette, one season in Dare County, sings tonight at Midgette at Sandy Point. I have Stumpy Point, Saturday night at fished at the Mashoes, ran fish one Wanchese, and Monday night at season with Captain Jerry Cox Manteo. Last night they -sang at from Callihan’s Creek bo the Old Kitty Hawk. | Dominion wharf, old sloop “Pilot’s Tuesday night they will sing in prifie.” I ran fish from Weymouth Elizabeth City. | and Davis Beach with Captain Joe While on tour, the class usually Cooper’s old schooner “E. Hubbs.” stops with members of the Masonic, ^ggg j drifted north. I fratemiy, and their friends. The oysters on the Chesapeake class is always highly popular and large crowds attend. The concerts begin at 8 p. ra. called the Red Top at Kitty Hawk is taking in the Amoco Fair held in Norfolk for dealers and friends of the American Oil Company, and which started on the 17th. A group of show-people set up their equipment, preparing for a big Amoco dealer meeting, which starts May i7th. The gathering is under the super vision of C. E. Beaver, manager of American Oil Company. Mr. Bea ver said that more than 250 Amo-co dealers will attend the fair, coming SAFE HARBOR SOUGHT FOR OCRACOKE ISLAND Bay out of Oxford, Maryland and on the Delaware Bay out of New port, N. J. In the summer of 1895 I shipped out of Philadelphia on the Heckley, a full rigged ship, as cabin boy. I followed the sea con tinuously from 1895 until 1909. In had many years’ experience in city hotels. Among the newest of hotels is the exceptional Nags Header, man- (Please turn to page five) RICHMOND PAPER MAN PAYS US FIRST VISIT But Northeaster Be^ts H. T. Adam'S of B. W..- Wilson Co'm'pany Out of Fishing Trip H. T. Adams, middle-aged presi dent of the B. W. Wilson Paper Representative Lindsay Warren ^fiXFeTgthTf time l’"rose ’'from! Company, wholesalers of Richmond, this week made a strong appeal be- 1 *50^70 master. I commanded fore the Board of Engineers^ for tfi^ee mast schooner Grace Sey- mour, the four mast schooner Elma Rivers and Harbors in behalf of Silver Lake, Ocracoke Island. Mr. Warren who secured the present five foot project at Silver Lake ploye, and beginning at zero .has E. H.’ Holmes and the good ship developed one of the largest busi- . is nesses of its kind in the southeast, Emile May, out of Boston. , “I quit the sea in 1909 and went 'pyggfiay_ jjg fi^d a two-fold pur- into business in Philadelphia. 1 pQgg_ sold out and , from 9 a. m. to 12 noon each day from Monday through Friday. All children 3 years of age through 12 are invited to enroll. The school is open to -children from families of other denominations as w’ell who mav wish to attend. The following have been asked to assist in the supervision and teaching: Mrs. Ada Creef, Mrs. Katie Shannon, Mrs. Elsie Wescott, Miss Mildred Gard. Others will assist from time to time. C. C. Perry, Pastor. SHERIFF’S HEAD CUT BY HOUSE UNANIMOUS FOR WARREN’S 20-YEAR BILL The House Monday unanimously passed the bill sponsored by Rep resentative Lindsay Warren and Graham Barden that provides for twenty year retirement for surf- men in the Coast Guard under cer tain conditions. Mr. Warren was presiding over the House when the bill was passed by unanimous con sent. A piece of flying glass cut a two- inch ga.sh in the right side of Sher- tfig iff D. V. Meekins’ face Sunday night ^ fj.jgjjfigfijps make new ones, and when the car he W-as driving, was j -^v-itness the presentation of struck in the side by one driven by j Amoco sales (advertising plans for Walter Etheridge, 17-year-old 1 as-, spring and summer seasons, quotank County boy. The accident, keynote of the meeting will be the shortly after he entered Congress fathered a resolution to give them business in rmiaaeiprua. 1 pggg_^g visit , the Times printing a real harbor with a depth of ten made some money, office, and to go fishing, but a feet. A string favorable report started a saw mill in Ijrrell Coun northeaster cheated him out of the from Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk,!.^vas'submitted by Major George W. -at the mouth of the bcupper- fig finished his visiting Virginia Beach, and several points; (jifiette, U. S.'District Engineer, bb^g River, went broke^, VLSiteo tne 1 afternoon and went back - - W mington.but was disapproved Navy Yard m 1914 and put ifi pa-, ^^g^g_ recessing his visit until the bv Colonel Jaiwis J. Bain Division pers for a rigger. I was called gpg,^g_ Engineer at Richmond. Mr. War- w'ork right went to wmk| Adams was accompanied by in North Carolina, including Eliza- PIECE OF FLYING GLASS I beth City, Manteo, Kitty Haw'k, Kill Devil Hills and Moyock. In a carnival-like atmosphere, Amoco dealers renew old ren happened on Main street w'hile the Sheriff was enroute to Manteo. There W'ere no other injuries, and Mrs. H. L. Graham who was a nassenger in the car was uninjured. The car was badly damaged when it upset. Policemen were present who arrested the boy, who pleaded guil ty to reckless driving, and was or dered to pay the damages. BERT KLINE GETS FOUR Bert Kline of Homestead, Pa., came back this week, Thursday. He and his party caught four large drum Thursday with Sam Tillett. Accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wilson of Pittsburgh they have been stopping at Parkersons. on October 13, 1914, as a second class rigger “temporary job” mid have been enjnloyed here continu- t-o the I Mr. Vest, his North Carolina sales- ! man. They visited Wanchese and I Fort Raleigh and dined at the Port Amoco Master Merchant plan, a specific program to help Amoco dealers become better merchants and to assure even better service to motorists than ever before. Norfoljc is one of more than 100 towns in which the Amoco Fair will be presented. The American Oil Company operates in 19 states and the Fair will be held in leading cities throughout this entire terri tory. , The meeting in Norfolk is such an important one that it will be at tended not only by 250 Amoco deal ers. but by important executives of the American Oil Company, in appealed to the Board to over rule Colonel Bain. He spoke for twenty minutes be .r,, 4.1 4-i - — — fore the Board on the necessity of ously from 1914 t-o t.ie Present | Hotel. They met a num- a safe harbor for the large trawler time. , ber of local people, and favorably fleet now numbering about two “In 1924 I was appointed Master; impressed with the vicinity promis- hundred vessels that base at Ocra- Rigger which job I still hold and led to come back, coke in the fall and winter and shall spend the rest of my working j a genial, friendly, folksy sort of which are exposed to storms and life here. | man, Mr. Adams recalled the old severe weather'both from the At- “I consider the people of Wash-j flays in Richmond when he began (Please turn bo page eight) lantic Ocean and Pamlico Sound, ington, Hyde, Tyrrell and Dare He gave a graphic picture of condi- Counties among my closest friends tioas on Ocracoke and the Banks of and would be glad to welcome any North Carolina and of the handi- of them at the Navy Yard at any cap the people of the island were time. I am never too busy to busy under in making a living. He se- to welcome an old friend, verely condemned fish dealers from “I do hope to goodness you folks Norfolk, Virginia, who opposed the -will soon succeed in getting that project and asked that the interest little strip of road through to Ma- of the people of Ocracoke and the shoes. I want to visit the old Wey- one hundred boats owned by them mouth imd Davis fishing beach as well as the one hundred and when I come to Manns Harbor fifty trawlers o-wned in North Car- again.” ° olina be considered rather than out- side interests. A decision on the Efficiency systems are those that appeal is expected in a few days. allow the boss to get off for golfing. his business career in what he called a hole in the wall. In a short time the business expanded into larger quarters and now the business sers'es a vast trade in two states, and then some. It is inter esting to know that most all large firms grew gradually from humble beginnings, not like mushrooms; and did not spring full panoplied, devoid of hardships, as might be assumed by tKe average person viewing the colossal structures of today. Visits from men like Mr. Adams make struggles more hope ful, and life more interesting.