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1 ^ m 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. 206 MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1939 Single Copy 5c G. HALL ROOSEVELT IS A TIRELESS GUEST, FLIES PLANE, COOKS MEALS HALL ROOSEVELT CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY Lady of Land’s Brother Guest of Millers at Goosewinor Club; Tries Hand at Fishing, Truck Repairing and Flying; Says Hull Pins in Ancient Ship Date Before 1700; Returns to Washington to Entertain Royalty i % m G. Hall Roosevelt, favorite nephew of one president and favor ite brother-in-law of another, who has managed to live so apart from notoriety that Alpheus Drinkwater had to telephone Norfolk to find out what his initials might be, drove from New York to Roanoke Island by way of Washington Sat urday and in 46 hours pretty well exhausted his hosts and friends, so tireless was his interest and en ergy. When he departed for Washing ton late Monday afternoon there Was little in the county, from Cape Hatteras to the Wright Memorial, and from commercial fishing at Wanchese to the mosquito control system in the Lost Colony theatre at the north end of the Island that he had not looked at with an im pressive comprehension. He went hack to Washington to help his fa vorite sister with some entertain ing of royalty this week. None with whom he came in con tact would dispute that he is an amazing a man as ever landed on the Outer Banks. His Uncle Theo dore—Uncle Teddy, he called him When he was inquiring about the besting habits of gulls, and being surprised that they nested here— lived “the strenuous life” as older Newspaper readers may remember. Hall Roosevelt would probably have exhausted his energetic uncle if he had lived until Hall Roosevelt got his stride. Mr. Roosevelt (he pronounces it as if it were spelled “rose”) came to Dare as the guest of Mr. and LEXY FORD PLAYS FOR BEACH CLUB’S SATURDAY DANCE Lexy Ford’s 12-piece orchestra will play tomorrow night from 10 o’clock to 2, for the Nags Hea i Beach Club’s opening dance, accord ing to managers O. L. Vick and Wheeler Fields. Saturday night. dances are planned until the end of the season, with the Beach Club or-i chestra furnishing the music after July 1. Nickelodeon music will be used week nights during June. I Bath houses will be open during j the daytime, and shuffle boards and' miniature bowling will provide fur ther entertainment. Miniature bowling consists of a machine which- provides the balls, sets up the pins and keeps score. COMMISSIONERS SEEK CREDITED HIGH AT AVON Want 25 Mile Speed Limit on Beach; Davis Elected Wel fare Officer The Board of County Commis- .‘■ioners, meeting at the cour'. house Tuesday, June 6, agreed to spon sor a project to build an additional room on the Manns Harbor grade school and one on the grade and high school building at Avon. The project was proposed by the Board of Education and if approved m Washington, the rooms will be built by WPA labor and w-ork will prob ably begin some time in August. According to Melvin R. Daniels, clerk to the Board, the addition of a room on the Avon school will make it an accredited high school and bring the total of accredited COMPANY NIGHT STARTS LOCAL PAGEANT CASTING SATURDAY AT TOWN HALL Applicants For Parts in “Lost Colony” Invited to Attend 8 O’clock Meeting; 168 Places in Pageant Still Open; Company Begins Arriv ing This Week, Professionals to Come Sun day; Rehearsals Start Next Week high schools in the county up to nialities as there will be and Sam' four. The three HONEYMOONERS ENJOYING VACATION AT WANCHESE (Please turn to page five) Fishing and all Out Doors 44 -By— Aycock Brown Authority on Fishing News i My telephone was busy until late Sunday night. Enthusiastic guides, "'hose parties had made exception ally goiod catenes of Spanish Mack- ®^el, Bluefish, Channel Bass, Sea “Uss, Trout and other species in "'uters of Beaufort Channel, New port River, Bogue Sound at Atlan- *0 Beach bridge, the Inlet, Cape pookout and Drum Inlet kept call- 1-0 give in their reports. On tonday came word that the week ®ud fishing at Ocracoke was above Par for the season with the krrival many anglers. The Hatteras *'®gion has attracted more fisher- this year than ever before, due 0 the splendid plugging the place Us been given by Tom Eaton, ope- *'ator of the new freight and pas senger boat Hadeco, from that hriving Banks village to the main- aud and the end of a ribbon of Pavement' that spiderwebs over the Uttre continent from Engelhard. Max-w'ell Rnn'sey has bee.n com ing down to fee H, W. Godscy for several summers and enjoyed it so much that wmen he was married Saturday aPernoen in Patersoii, New Jersey, he decided to bring his bride, the former Miss June Bush, to enjoy life at Wanchese. The bride, pretty as a picture and lead'ng a dog which she deo'nros is “afraid of everybody”, was ]ji the Times office with her husband Jhirsday. .^he is as enthusiastic as her husbana over Island life and expects to enjov every minute of their three-weo'ks stay her-^. When asked her name, she repTod in cliarming confusion, “I’m June Kush—no, I mean I’m Mrs. Rumsey now.” j This is a birthday photograph of G. Hall Roosevelt and three com panions -w'ho.helped him celebrate his fiftieth birthday Sunday with a fishing trip. Mr. Roosevelt is the sturdy viking who is a head taller than anyone else in the picture. Alpheus Drinkwater, with tie a-blowing is the one on the left, next is Mr. N. Miller of the Goosewing Club and host to Mr. Roosevelt. At right is Norman Etheridge who commanded the fishing boat. Etheridge is Chief Boatswain’s Mate in the U. S. Coast Guard and in charge of the Oregon Inlet Station. WORDS FROM WANDERING EDITOR route w'hich comes to the jumping- off place in Tyrrell which should connect Dare County with a coast- ! to-mountain route. Ontario, Can- , ada is where I would be tornight miles as we rolled in here this af - j g-one in that direction, and I Murphy, N. C. Dare County Times, Manteo, N. C. The speedometer rolled up 678: now accredited Ha\vk, Manteo mJ ternoon in the setting sun. Capt. | will sleep closer to the Capital of Herman Smith and my two little six other states than to Raleigh, boys have been looking at things on This North Carolina is all too big the other end of route 64, the same and we feiiow-s wu.o want to wander lout West and see World’s Fairs and are at Kitty Hatteras. The continuation of shelf card ing work being done at the library by Mrs. Laura Skinner was ap proved by the Board, who granted $25 for the work at the behest of Mrs. Rennie Williamson. It was decided by the Board that they write to the State Highway Commission asking for a 25-mile per .hour speed limit on the Beach highway between J. C. Modlin’s and L. S. Parkerson’s. There are so many business establishments in this stretch of road that a faster speed is considered dangerous. 1. P. Davis was elected County Welfare officer for two years by a joint meeting of the Commissioners and the County Welfare oBard. Other matters taken up by the Commissioners included property valuation, taxes, police protection and deeds. C. S. Meekins, county accountant, gave his repprt at the meeting, which was attended by A. J. Dan iels, chairman, J. E. Ferebee, A. B. Hooper, W. E. Rogers and J. A. Meekins. The next monthly meet ing of the board will be held on July 6 and 6. The meeting day falls on July 4 but the meeting will be delayed a day because July 4 is a legal holiday. Company Night, when anybody ,ing as Old'Tom, no parts have been who wants a place in the cast of assigned. “The Lost Colony” can come and Final casting of the show will J ■ ! await the nrst of the week when all ask for It. will be staged m the, material in the wav of actors is Court House this Saturday mght,'j„ by the middle of the beginning at 8 o clock, with Brad-, rehearsal will get underway, ford Tearing presiding at such for-rehearsal of the Indian „ , , , , . , . , I dances has already been held. This Selden and his newly arrived as-j of the company was organized Eistant director, Harry Davis to ex- ^ the Virginia Dare CCC camp two anune and assign. t i ^ weeks ago under the direction of Everybody on Roanoke Island,; Howard, native or guest, is welcome, Mr.: ,, , , Fearing said when he announced ^^^^ers of the year’s organiza- Conipany Night after conference began arriving Tuesday, with with Mr. Selden and Mr. Davis.! 7 and Ora Mae Davis being Not everybody who has applied for!®®] down as the first arriva s. They place in the production .can be i^.hapel Hill immediately after placed, but there are about 168.‘h® exercises at the Uni- places to be filled. Preference, of Arriving Wednesday af- course, will be given those who ^®™o®" ,":®i-®, Fugene Langston have been in the company last bui' Dorsett and Tommy McIntosh, and Mr. and Mrs. Selden were not company year, or the year before. Company Night, by now hecom- mg institutional, 7 the actual are ar- lauMhmg of the year s production Rosenberg, who has of The Lost Colony. People who,, want to be in the show come, and, riving. ■ the part of Wanchese, had the days I counted as far back as February, '' according to Ora Mae Davis, and I when she last saw him, he had re- ' duced it to niinutes. But he had to go to Ashe’ville first to see his I folks. He will be here Saturday I night, as will also John Walker, if the director wants to see howl they might do as actors, he can hand them the book and let the>' read so.me lines out of it, or do a ewf random steps of dancing, or anything that comes to mind. With one or two exceptions no ^bfef’eTe"ctrkian7 places have yet been assigned m ^ the cast for this year. At the time , Selecting a company this ye^ of Saturday night’s Company presented a formidable task. Night, there will be enroute to the The pro^ssionals vwre selected by Island from New York a dozen Mr. Davis and Paul Green in New professional actors who will have York, and checked by Mr. Selden place in the show this some place in tne show this year, but with the exception of Miss Catherine Cale, who is returning for a third season as Eleanor Dare and Donald Somers, who is return- OCRACOKE ISLANDERS TO CUT CAPERS FOR WARREN WEEK STARTING JULY 3 some eye jw.hat not would have 1 openers in this country. I V/e labored over high Mountain I roads, some of them nearly 4,000 'feet high with breath taking scenes. IW’e rolled into Murphy following SELDEN, FEARING HOSTS TO COMPANY NIGHTERS upon his return from Europe where .he and Mrs. Selden spent the winter and spring. Others from the Carolina Playmakers group were tentatively selected in Chapel Hill. These selections, limitd to a (Please turn to page five) ifor .many miles a river that flowed- Cong^ressman Takes Nags Head Cottage For Summer; Will Attend Opening ‘Lost Colony’ Performance; Ocracoke Celebration to In clude Pony-penning, Banquet, Pageant Dancing, Beauty and Fishing Contests “Warren Week” on Ocracoke Is land, beginning on the eve of July Fourth and continuing until the last dance is danced in Wahab Vil lage and the last fish caught and entered in the fishing contest is weighed and authenticated, gives promise of about the grandest do-1 ings ever done at the far end of the Hatteras National Seashore. Stanley Wahab and the Hyde County Chamber of Commerce evolved the notion of a whole week .honoring Congressman Lindsay Carter Warren, and the week be gins with the first quarterly west and we saw a traveller slay a high Mountain rattler and saw a mink slide over into a creek. One of the interesting places on this route is Chimney Rock. Near by is Bat Cove. The scenery is great, the good prices for food thirty cents for a ham sandwich. We found Bat Cove near the Old Rock. Is just like it used to be ^,and you have to pay one dollar ten jto drive up to it. We don’t charge - for Nature’s beauty in the East. 1 Tomorrow we are going to see Duck Town in Tennessee and return WARREN HONORED BY OCRACOKE ISLANDERS and Mt. Mitchell, Blovjng Rock too, i where you also have to pay. Gas ' prices run higher than ours which is some consolation and some of the roads are as bad as ours but most meeting of the civic body ever held Oreg'on'inlerfishing irgo'od* and i" Ocracoke, for all that the village lore out of state license tags on Utos carrying anglers and fishing ®ckle have been to that sector jOiin -any other place along the Orth Carolina coast so far this 6agon. Which reminds me—I ounted 19 different states’ license ^Ss in theHeaufort-Morehead City Id Atlantic Beach area on the supports a chapter right handsome ly. It all begins on Monday night, continues with a pony-penning and bunnuet next day and the rest of the week is designed as a festiv.nl. Detained in Was.hington until Congress has put its house in order, which apparently will he toward August, it is unlikely that Mr. War- end.“'(TTo's7‘E"ast7rn”Repr7-ken ^Ul be able to spend more t ian ®®"tatives who almost killed the three days of his own week on Ocracoke, but he has advised ^ ate’s advertising set-up, I hope, . ®a(i -tjjg foregoing sentence) Out state license_tags on autos were i.p.'iMly an oddity three years ago ytore this State started its adver ting program, w.hich is so well ^.aiiaged by Bill Sharpe and asso- tom ^ *^ean license tags on au- f,] whiles which stopped over. g(,®^ty of them went through the Se t to other well-plugged and many carried fishing -hut few ever stopped. It is tackle- diff, Som. erent story today. ^ ae folks say that hard work ^ killed any man, but that or surely killing my fa- fishing trip of the year this Ff>r fbo rkQcsf fb-rtiA vpars ^>tchie For the past three years Perry of 'Tazewell, Va., on ®arly summer vacations to (Please turn to page three) Sam Selden, on the left, will assign “Lost Colony” parts tomorrow night. Company Night, and Bradford Fearing, right, will preside over the 8 o’clock meeting in the courthouse. BOXERS BATTLE AT KITTY HAWK TONIGHT AT 7:30 watched the tender, loving, patient j friend of childhood, to whom you ! could take all your troubles, a >'ock I of strength to lean upon in times of joy and stress, lean back and with a weary sigh welcome death and close his tired eyes forever? Few people ever see their parents die under such circumstances. Most old men of the coastland live long that they have seen all their dreams come true and depart in. peace like one who, at the end of a long day’s work, gathers his family about him for the evening benisons and surrenders gratefully to peace-- MANTEO-INLET CHANNEL LAID BEFORB; congress fu! slumber. I Like many others I watched my Avon Channel Also In; But Ocra- father die the hard way; that is, I of them are not. The Elizabeth City short cut saved my life yesterday because it saved seven miles of driving. 'We had made up our minds to eat at Bob Melton’s Barbecue and had I been forced to drive another seven miles I would have perished. We got there at three and I ate enough to last till bed time. The short cut Tom Dowdy of Kitty Hawk and is worth the Half million or more ™ f i l Representative Lindsay Warren it IS going to cost and we forgive •' . , 4, . stated this week that the Secretary valiantly. ’em for putting it there even of War .has transmitted to Congress would be though we need some roads too. tonight at 7:30 in the Kitty Hawk ^vaterway projects for the channel caught with a cancer. Folks out here are very obliging auditorium. There will be several! from Manteo to Oregon Inlet and Many who read this have watch- even the telegraph operator missed contests includine- the bout' the channel from Pamlico Sound to ed some loved one die of cancer. coke Project Disapproved Richmond saw him finally die, but most of the time I was away from home trying to get bread and meat for the fam ily for whom he had struggled When most men today- called young, he was More his supper to get our wire in. later about this trip. VIC MEEKINS. between Claude Parker and Alfred Midgett, both of Kitty Hawk, and the one between Carl Midgett, Kit ty Hawk, and Jack Wise, Nags friends here that nothing short of world revolution will keep him away from the beginning of it, and from seeing as much of it as offi cial duties will permit him. l ’ , . ^ , , , Islanders will eat, drink and be Here is Congressman Lindsay C. Warren in whose honor Ocracoke Both ends of the great Hatteras National Seashore which he brought into being through legis lation in Congress, will see him and do him. .honor almost simultaneous ly. Mr. Warren will come to Roan oke Island on Saturday, July 1, and will attend the season’s opening performance of “The Lost Conony” departing for Ocracoke the follow ing day. Mr. Warren has taken the Dewey Cottage on Nags Head for the summer and his family will ar rive during the next few days to take up residence. Returning to Ocracoke will be like going home to the Congress- merry during the week of July 3. W. J. GRIFFIN OFFERS LAND FOR RESTAURANT Head. • I It was stated by error in last W. J. Griffin has announced his week’s Times that the boxing con- willingness to loan a piece of his test took place June 2. June 9 is land at Fort Raleigh City to some-; the correct date. one who wishes to erect a restou-1 rant on the site for the summer /^qURTHOUSE LAWN WILL season. The land borders the high- BLOSSOM FOR ONE DAY Avon. These projects have just They have watched the misery of been approved by the Board of one so dear who was enduring the Engineers for Rivers and Harbors bitter gnawing of the demon. And and the Chief of Engineers. ' where is one among you who would As the Rivers and Harbors Bill not grant any drug entrusted ta has already passed the House Mr.' his keeping, to ease the last long Warren stated that he would getiP^'o^'^' mile of the way to one who Senator Bailey to place them in the i suffered so ? bill when it comes up in the Senate. I These thoughts crossed my mmd Representative Warren has heard, the other day when I read m the nothing yet on his project for the|PaPf,^ where Dr. Howard J. Combs improvement of Silver Lake, Ocra- Elizabeth City had been arrested coke Island. This project for a ten Federal agents and charged with man. From childho-od .he has visit ed there and it was due in no small measure to his love for the place that it began to achieve national note years ago during the life time of his two boon friends, Simey O’Neal and Capt. Bill Gaskill. More recently he has maintained sum mer residence at Nags Head, since it is nearer and more accessible from Washington, D. C. Things that are planned in honor way and charge. can he used without (Please turn to page five) The courthouse green will flaunt According to Mr. Griffin the new flowery finery for one day tomor- tourist cottages across the road row, when the Manteo Garden Club from his land accommodate nearly j spreads out its merchandise of cut 100 persons, making the increase of , flowers and plants. The sale will resaurant service still more impor- | begin at 9:30 in the morning, and tant than it was last year. An will continue until the last flowers open air restaurant, seating about have been sold and the courthouse ap- Gil- Ithe illegal prescribing of dope. It foot harbor at Ocracoke was proved by Major George W. lette, U. S. District Engineer, Wil-, rt i j ■ 4.t, . . 4 , ,. 1 recently been involved in the same mington, but was disapproved by|„^__5 o was a sensational affair, and other doctors were so-on to he, and have >4, ■ . tr, • (Charges. It was most amazing. Colonel J. J. Bam, Division Engi- | southland, and in neer at Richmond. Mr Warren ap-j^^^ Carolina Coastland, we do not pealed the matter to the Board of gangsters and rings who pan- Engineers and argued the case on May 15th. He stated that he was 100, could be built at very little green is again left in its unadom- confident that he would win the ap cost, he says, and would fill a great | ed state. Flower and plant contrih needed, but if something, is to be utions will be welcomed. Money done it should be started immedi-' from the sale will go into a ceme- ately. 7 tery improvement fund. peal and it now depends upon how der to the vices and the unnatural appetites of otherwise normal hu man beings. We do have honor able Christian gentlemen, full of ouick it will be acted upon if it is jjyjjjg mercy, wisdom and goodness, to get in the Rivers and Harbors i Bill this year. (Please turn '^o page three) A -J
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