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THE DARE COUNTY
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. 208
MANTEO. N. C... JUNE 23, 1939
CAMP SEATONE OPENING
BRINGS BIG INFLUX OF
YOUNG SUMMER GUESTS
Local Youngsters Will Join Campers in Mon
day Afternoon Swimming Party; Director
Mabel Evans Enthusiastic Over .New Con
crete Tennis Court; China-Born Howard
Howard McFadyen Is Waterfront Director
EVANGELIST S. E. MERCER OF FRANKLINTON
REV. S. E. MERCER, a
young pastor-evangelist of
Franklinton, N. C., will
preacK at a series of evan
gelical meetings at the Wan-
chese Methodist church, be
ginning tonight and running
through Friday, June 30. The
services are held each even
ing at eight o’clock. Rev.
Mercer was reared in a Meth
odist parsonage, graduated
from Duke University, and
has been a member of the
North Carolina conference
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By ELAINE JOHNSON
The influx of very young sum
mer visitors will begin tomorrow
when 32 little out-of-town campers
start the day’s routine at Camp
Seatone, the Roanoke Island c’nil-
dren’s camp directed by Miss Mabel
A. Evans. A number of local boys
and girls will be initiated into the
ranks with a three o’clock swim
ming party Monday afternoon.
Innovations at the camp this year
are a concrete tennis and game
court, an office partitioned off in
the basement, and a new blue sail
for the boat. Marietta. The other
sail boat is being repainted and
named Blair, according to the
pleasant Seatone custom of naming
boats for early registrants of past
seasons. Mary Blair Bowers of
Jackson, N. C., has the honor in
this instance.
Lassie Welcomes Cam'pers
The camping period will extend
from June 24 to August 20, witn
special trips planned for Saturdays,
a water carnival scheduled for the;
fourth week of camp and a dancing
exhibition for the seventh week.
The enrollment this season is the
largest it has ever been. One of
the favorite old time campers, pres
ent every season but never listed
on the roll call, is Lassie, Miss
Evans’ collie who is an old and good
friend to the little campers.
Director Evans is a busy woman.
She has been supervising schools all
during the school year in Talladega
County. Alabama, returned to Man-
Aeo, p!ir]y this month, and im.medi-
ately was off on a iatmt to the
New York World’s Fair with her
father. And no sooner was she
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OTHO CARTWRIGHT
YET LOVES H13 ISLAND
Mercer will lead the 11
o’clock morning service as
well as the evening meeting.
DOCTORS DRAW
BIG FINES FOR
DRUG DEALINGS
Druggist Charged With Fill
ing Prescriptions Fined
$1,000 Also
PIONEER BIRD PROTECTOR
APPROVES CROW KILLING
OF CHAMPION WING-SHOT
Throwing themselves on the
CHANNEL DREDGING
PROJECT APPROVED
BUT NOT FINANCED
Two long needed, long sought
V> RIGHT MISSES RITES
FOR FAIR’S N. C,
DAY
Orville Wright,
her of the brotiier
mercy of Federal Coui’t Judge C. C. Major Geiiaral Sunderland Mows Down Crows
in First Visit Here; Dr. Pearson, Audubon
Society Founder, Became Conservation-
Minded 41 Years Ago in Dare County; Seeks
Bird Protection Pact With South America
^ channel dredging projects for Dare j brought fame to Kill Devil
^ County ■ have the approval of a! when their plane lumbered into
sub-committee,
the rub—there
but-
isn’t
-and
I air back in 1903,
Wyche with a nolo contendere plea, |
two Elizabeth City dr.-dors and al
druggist arrested for dealing in the
illicit narcotics traffic were fined
$1,0,00 each and placed on proba
tion for three years as their trial in i
the Federal Courtroom at Elizabeth |
City came to an abrupt end late;
Wednesday morning. I
Dr. Howard Combs, Dr. Claude B.!
Williams and Druggist Sidney G.:
Etheridge drew the fines and pro-1
bation terms. Harrison Perry,!
colored chauffeur for Dr. Combs, |
was put on probation for three,
years but was not fined. j
Only one of the four cases to be!
aired in court was that against]
Dr. Combs, and only Government
surviving mem- witnesses—13 addicts, four secret
which service agents and five medical ex-
Hill i perts—took the stand then. At the
the' second day. Dr. Combs I
I withdrew his early plea of not;
was unable to guilty and-replaced it with thej
MARRIED IN BALTIMORE
duet
guv'make it from Dayton, Ohio, to the! nolo contendere.
, r -ii North Carolina Day celebration atj Joining him Wednesday mornin
money yet available for either of pair Monday, w.here* in the same plea were Dr. Willian
I the new proposed channels. he was to have been one of '
I he was to have been one
j The dredging—if and when the I honored guests. But sending
money is made available—would bei regrets, he wired he still considers; dismissed and Judge Wyche
I a boon to the fishing guides, and
! from Pamlico Sound into Avon.
Public hearings on both projects
! were conducFed last year in Manteo
I and at Avon. The Senate sub-com-
. , , ,1 mittee early this week added both
Readers of this newspaper a few
an omnibus rivers and
weeks ago read a most interesting: harbors bill, increasing by $324,-
narrative, written by Otho G. Cart- j oo7,500 the amount of the bill okeh-
wright of New York City. To most ^hg House.
the I and Druggist Etheridge. A jury;
his selected for the Williams trial was'
w.l
done from Manteo to Oregon Inlet,'North Carolina ‘’his second mother j presided after Judge I. M. Meekins]
V,— —’'state.” 'disqualified himself, passed sen-'
In his speech at the Fair, Cover-1 tence abput 11:30 o’clock, meting]
Clyde Hoey recalled for the benefit | gut the punishment recommended
America’s foremost conservator
of wild life accorded his blessing to
I the ablest wingshot in the United
I States Army when the two met
I casually in the Lost Colony Thea-
I tre Wednesday night while watch-
I ing the third full-company rehear-
i sal of The Lost Colony, and were
I for a while forgetful of the busi-
i ness that commonly is uppermost
I in their minds.
The conservator of wild life was
I Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, founder of
j the American Audubon Society, au-
, thor of the first law to conserve
I migratory wild fowl and just now
' setting out upon a mission for the
[United States government that
jwill bring into being an interna
tional accord for the protection of
i migrant birds. Dr. Pearson was
- back in Dare County for a very
I specific purpose. He began here
' 41 years ago, and now he is setting
' out anew.
The great wing shot, who has
i brought down as many birds as the
oiyae noey lecaiieu lui uie oeiieiii-; out tne pumsnment recommenaea TrfMMTtTM wart> nf Man iuuwu as many uiius as unc
of 2,0,00 persons gathered on Flush-1 bv District Attorney J. H. Manning.'-^7 1° i -’jnext one and probably more was
fV,a Pirat WkitP teo, who was married last week m'Moinr Gonprai A. H. SonHprland.
Cost of the Manteo-Oregon Inlet
ing Meadows that the First White The doctors were charged with h,pi
Child in the New World was born | ^vj-iting prescriptions for morphine; , \ ‘ , U p. Qnwvpr of
pr, Rpp^pVp Hp’« a big .Up wop : daughter of Mrs. M. D. Sawyer of
on Roanoke Island. He’s a
booster for the Lost Colony.
DUNCAN URGES U. S. 64
COMPLETION TO MANTEO
of the older residents of this island,
Mr. Cartwright is well-known. His, , , , , , p.rppA' a
, ■ T-. J 1 cn • tu channel would be $45,000. Dredg
father, a Federal officer in the-. . „ S’,.. , ^
’. . u- w tu Dp ' lug from Pamlico Sound into Avon
Civil War, met his mother on Roan-i ” , , „ ,
, T ■ j 1 u t .p i would cost $16,500. However, the
o e ® an , " ®u .e was sen ' jjjjj authorizes no appropriations,
comman eer er gir ome^ leaves that to be acted upon next eigh Chamber of Commerce urged
the use of the Y ankee officers The, Commerce to keep
incidents, beginning with a battle, hammering away for the comple-
between soldier, and southern maid,! Apparenuj men, even wim me . min Man
The son ^^annels approved, they won t be t’on of U. S. 64 right on into Man
Speaking to the Washington
County Chamber of Commerce,
Secretary L. H. Duncan of the Ral
culminated in a courtship.
j dug until 1940.
Fishing
and all
Out Doors
—By—
Aycock Brown
Authority on
Fishing News
-of this union, Otho Cartwright,]
spent much of his J^oy^ood on ^
Roanoke Island. In New York he WILL BE LET JULY 11
has won a number of distinctions, |
and he is listed in an accountant’s,
who’s who as follows:
Otho Grandford Cartwright, cer-
teo, including bridges across Alli
gator River and Croatan Sound.
Contracts for grading and pav
ing the approaches to a new' bridge,
which is to be built across the
CEMETERY IN MANTEO
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Not even a cemetery is immune
tified public accountant and w'riter j Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal at from the wrath of a thunderstorm,
on tax, budget and governmental, Coinjock on N. C. 34, the present for the beautiful cedars in Manteo
questions, was born in September, I only all-paved route to Roanoke cemetery were severely damaged
1869, in Balmont, New' Y'ork, the Island, are to be let on July 11. In- by lightning during a recent squall,
son of Alphonso G. Carfcw'right of formation on the highway project The damage w'as in the vicinity of
Belmont and of Lovia deLery has already been sent to Washing- the John W. Evans family plot and
Etheridge of Roanoke Island. He ton for approval by the Federal some of the gravestones w'ere shat-
is -of Anglo-Saxon and French de-, Bureau of Public R-oads. The new tered by the bolt. The cemetery is
for addicts and the druggist w'as:
East Lake. She w’as Miss Bertie
FLAT-NOSE REPLACES
charged with filling the prescrip-^ ^
tions all on a scale m violation of
the Ha-rrison Narcotics Act. Har-, i_
rison Perry was indicted as an ac-
Admitted addicts to drugs, testi-i BUS BURNED IN MAY
fv'ing as Government w'itnesses in]
the Combs case, declared that the' Flat-Nose, the cream and green
doctor sometimes gave them money bus recently purchased by the Vir-
to secure the morphine w'hen they ginia Dare Transportation Com-
did not have enough, that on many pany, is scheduled to be put on the
occasions they did not pay him fori regular run July 1. The new 25-
the prescriptions he w'rote. I passenger fiexible bus has a flat-
i nosed 'front, W'ith the engine ac
cessible through a door in the
rounded rear end of the bus,
and is powered by Buick Motor.
The upholstery is green with a
blue vertical lihe -and shades are
TYRRELL DEMONSTRATION I
DEPARTMENT IS REBORN
-and
Major General A. H. Sunderland,
chief of the Coast Artillery Corps
of the United States Army, who is
visiting in the county for the first
time, as guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Miller at the Goosewing
Club. He arrived earlier in the
w'eek, caught four Hluefish off Ore
gon Inlet Wednesday and set out
then to do some wing-shooting.
But wing-shoioting with the ap
proval of the greatest conservator.
He was shooting -crow's, and crows
rank among the worst enemies of
respectable wild fowl in the w'orld.
With Ben Dixon MacNeill for a
guide, the General went to Kitty
Hawk, Collington and to Fort Ral-
eig’n, and there w'as considerable
shooting down and a fair lot of
scent.
Mr. Cartwright prepared for col
lege at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., got his B. A. and M. A. de
grees from Yale University, and
C. P. A. in New York in 1916. Be
fore beginning independent prac
tice as a C. P. A., in 1919, Mr. Cart
wright was connected with the fol-
lowjng firms: Managing director
of Westchester County, New York,
Research Bureau for six years, or
ganization manager of Lybrand,
Ross Bros. & Montgomery, C. P.
A.’s, supervising senior of Barrow,
Wade, Guthrie and Co.
The Westchester County Tax
Law and the Westchester County
Town Audit Law were instigated
by Mr. Cartwright. He has been
auditor at Eastchester, Greenburgh,
Mt. Pleasant, Bronxville, Tuckahoe,
Westchester County Building Com
mission, Nassau County Associa
tion, State of Delaware Efficiency
Commission, and numerous munici
palities.
Mr. Cartwright holds member
ships in the following organiza
tions: A. I. A.; N. Y. State Society
of C. P. A.’s; Yale Club; All .Uni-
|ty to the North Carolina coast, versities Club; Mason. He is the
They probably heard of our big] author of “The Middle West Side,
kame fishing last year when Hugo! a Historical Sketch” (Russel Sage
fcutherfurd landed the blue marlin I foundation), and a contributor to
Iff Hatteras, because its big game Annals of the American Academy
liey are after. They probably
Luld never have heard of it if
here had been no State News Bu-
lau to tell the world about it, not
lly through a printed story but
bo via picture. Without the
loper coastal contact the State
"•ws Bureau would never have
, ard about the catch until it w-as
) late to be considered as news—
; that is the way things work out.
d that story is all the big-game
ling people of the country are
Iking towards and planning to
ae to our coast.
|ust at the time I thought Cape
gkout was the spot where the
Gulf Stream fish of the season
taken this year, -and within
[hours after I had wired the
to my contacts up state tell-
ibout what the party from
)na and Mr. Jackson -of More-
The idea might seem a bit
screwy, but it popped in my head
last Saturday while flying low
over the waters of Beaufort Inlet
and Atlantic Beach with Dave Dris-
kill in his Stinson, and I am deter
mined to try it out sometime. When
I can find an aviator who will fly
me to the outer end of Lookout
or Diamond Shoals, over the west
ern edge of the Gulf Stream I hope
We can flush a school of dolphin,
which will have enough sporting in
stinct to give us a race. I have
seen dolphin travel, I believe, at a
hundred miles an hour. The aver
age plane would -make the same
speed and I want to try put such a
race between fish and plane, if for
no other reason, just for the hell
] of it.
Bryant Banister and party frdm
[Pittsburgh are fishing this week
[from aboard the triple screw cruis-
ler Shearwater with Capt. Ottis
I’urefoy of M-orehead City. Banis
ter and party have heard -of the
julf Stream and its close proxim-
I bridge will eliminate the sharp the only one of any size located in
, curve around which motorists have the town of Manteo and it is where
to drive at a crawl -on the span practically all of its dead of the
' which now crosses the canal. town and its vicinity are buried.
Tyrrell County is banking
betting—on a 1939 college gradu-
ate to revive home demonstration j new bus replaces one which
.vork, dead these six long years badly charred when it caught
since Miss Georgie Piland departed ^ j^g^^er May 2 on the
in 1933. The grad is Miss Mary gpj.|y jy^iornlng run. Seven passen-
Blanche Strickland, w'ho completed ^.^g were res-
a four-year course at East Carolina ^j-g extinguished by
Teachers^ College in years and jj.j.y.gj. Saui Midgett but the interior
was so badly damaged that it w'as
necessary to buy a new bus.
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BUGGY PUSHERS’ PARADISE
before she received her diploma on
June 5. Three days after that date,
she arrived in Columbia, ready for
work, and things have been hum
ming in the home demonstration
department of the county ever
since.
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' poured on each measurement of ce
ment and sand.
On the other side of the mixer,
the mixed cement gushes out in
just the right state of gooeyness to
warm the heart of every amateur
and professional mud-pie maker.
The cement is held back until a
man wheels a barrow under the
outlet. A furn of a bright orange
wheel sends the mixture sloshing
into the barrow, the man wheels
it away, and dumps it between
boards showing the width of the
walk. Some one else smoothes it
down, and marks the division be
tween blocks. A little sun, a little
air -and we have a sidewalk, the
longest unbroken strip in Manteo
on two sides of the street.
The men seem to enjoy their mud
pie making. They tell tall tales as
CONGRESSMAN WARREN
SATES C. G. AIR BASE
Congressman Lindsay C. Warren
-received credit again 1-ast week for
saving the Coast Guard Air Base
at Elizabeth City. He discovered a
relief bill before Congress w-ould
have eliminated the use of WPA
funds already authorized for de
veloping the air base and succeeded | you follow a recipe
in having the measure changed so ' '
that it will not affect any projects
which Congress has already author
ized. Included in the deficiency
appropriations bill was an item of
$334,000 for materials for use at
the base, with the understanding
that the WPA was to supply labor.
Warren’s quick action saved that
project.
By ELAINT: JOHNSON
To city-bred feet the feel of a
cement walk beneath them is like
the flowers of spring, the first
flush of love, a birthday cake re
plete with candles. And that’s put
ting it mildly. Heaven can keep
its golden streets—taxes on them
would be too high anyway. Just
give me cement.
Up on County street last week
the first block of walk and curb ex
tending from the highway was fin
ished. Little girls pushing doll
buggies have already discovered it.
They walk up and down, up and
down, glorying in it. Oddly
enough no little boys have scratch
ed their initials or any naughty
words in the wet cement.
The man who pulls the levers on
the cement mixer says that when
he was working on a New .Jersey
highway project, the crowds were!tells all about catching bull frogs
such interestedbystanders that thej for as long as anybody will listen,
police were cafled to hold them | He may exaggerate a little. He
back. Not so Th Manteo, where the! says that last year he caught 18.000
frogs and sold them for three dol
lars a dozen. That represents an
income of $4,500, so we think his
story should be discounted. Mous
tached Bill Twiford, who reminds
us of Old King Cole when he
laughs, carries a card in his pocket
which says, “I’m a Big Liar My
self, But Go Ahead, I’m Listen
ing.” He thinks all the men on
fhe job should carry similar cards.
An^nvay, the next time I’m home
sick, I’m going to walk un and
down that County Street block of
nice, smooth cement sidewalk. I’ll
even buy myself a doll buggy if the
little girls wheeling perumbulators
look askance. Nobody regards
such little girls with a peculiar look
in the eve, but they do look at vou
oddly if you say, “Oh, I’m just
walking up and down because the
cement feds so good under my
shoe soles.”
RODANTHE BOY WINS
4-H HEALTH HONORS
$80,000 BOND ISSUE
BEFORE CURRITUCKIANS
Health King of Dare County is
Milton Midgett of the Rodanthe
4-H Club, according to the report
of county agent C. W. Overman.
His scoring was higu in the district
Currituck County voters will step
up to the polls in a special election
on July 29 to vote for or against
the issuance of $80,000 in bonds for
the erection of a new, modern
school building at Poplar Branch
and for needed repairs at Moyock.
Joseph P. Knapp, whose money has
been a Godsend on occasion after
occasion for the Currituck schools,
has promised a grant of $40,000 to
It has occurred to me several
times that the North Carolina
coast should be advertised as a sin
gle unit. Instead of the several
communities and resorts pulling
against each other, they would each
reap great profits and greater
satisfaction by puliing together.
Many tourists come to Nags
Head, or to Beaufort, for instance,
4-H health contest held in Tarboro. g^ppjgnient the $80,000 if the bond ;and having stayed out their stay go
Further news from Mr. Overman jg approved. No one appear-ion to some other st.ate wit^ou"; hav-
ed before the county commissioners ing got a real g'impse of the vivid
Monday mioming to file any protest I life and color of the North C.irolina
against an election being called, so Coast that truly entrances tnose
the commissioners set June 29 as who remain a long time,
the date. j What if the one community made
includes the chicken raising suc
cess of J. A. Osbofne of Stumpy
Point, and the 1939 Agricultural
Conservation Program, which will
attract more Dare County farmers
than in 1938.
PETTIGREW PARK TO BE
DEDICATED LATE SUMMER
workmen are not much pestered
by onlookers.
The wheelbarrows are fancy ones,
with fat black rubber tires. Some
men stand by the sand pile shovel
ling sand Into the barrows, other
men wheel the barrows along a nar
row plank walk and dump the
sand into a bin attached to the ce
ment mixer. When three men have
dumped their loads, another work
er pours in a bag of cement. Mix
ing cement is like mixing biscuits—
Sixty shovel
fuls of sand to one bag of cement,
and each wheelbarrow contains
about 20 shovelfuls.
When the right amount of sand
and cement are in the bin, a man
pulls a bright orange lever, a pul
ley hoists the bin, and the sand
and cement flow into a revolving
container. A gauge on top con
trols the amount of water which is
Director R. Bruce Etheridge of
the State Department of Conserva-
pie making They tell taies as Development has released
the cement slops into place and information that Pettigrew
they smooth it out. Bill Dough
dedicated in late summer of early
fall. Invited to attend v/ill be Miss
Mary Johnston Pettigrew, last di
rect descendant of the Pettigrew
family, now a resident of Tryon.
Present also will be Governor Clyde
Hoey, Congressman Lindsay War
ren and former Governor .1. C. B.
Ehringhaus. Leaders in planning
the celebration are C. W. Tatem
Sydney Smithson, J. C. Meekins
and John W. Darden, prominent in
Washington and Tyrrell counties.
GEORGE T. MEEKINS DIES
JACK GRAHAM, HONOR
GUARD FOR ROYALTY
j a special effort, ■■vlien a tourist had
concluded his visit, to get him to
visit another community in another
county ?
. e ' When we know some vksitor has
1 finished in Dare County, why not
Effie A Brickhouse postma^er at Carterer;
Columbia, enjoyed his assignment
last week. He was a member of
the special detail of Ylarines who
served as guards of honor for the
King and the Queen of England on
their visit to Washington.
GEORGE SFETSOS RUNS
COM.MUNITY*DINING ROOM
After several months of illness,
George T. Meekins of Hatteras,
quietly passed away. Funeral ser
vices were conducted by the Rev.
Thomas Merriman at the home of
the deceased and interment was
made in the family cemetery.
Mr.
ind vice versa.
I was impressed this w^ck in
reading of the prices asked for lots
in Myrtle Beach, S-outh Curoiin-i,
the pre-eminent resort of the Pal
metto State. Prices ranged from
$700 to $1,375.
The best of lots at Nags Head
range from $200 on the highway
to $550 on the ocean, and they aie
George Sfetsos is the proprietor 50 foot lots. I suppose that simUnr
of the Community Dining Room, comparative values prevail m Car-
which opened last week end in the te^et „ vr
Manteo Community building. Mr. In both Carteret and ^are the
Sfetsos runs the Central Cafe in People are asleep, just as they have
Elizabeth City, and has rented the 50 years. Fifteen j ear^
Community building dining hall for , the same land in are ul
the summer season. f for ?560 a lot would have been
bought for $2 an acre. Land is not
going to get aiTy cheaper, and there
PLYMOUTH LOSES ONE
RAILROAD CONNECTION
are just as good values today as
twenty years ago.
. ~ . T, I The safest investment one can
The Atlantic Coast Line ™'^";niake today, whether he be a
road s passenger train running into ^ g^j.anger or one of the home folks
Plymouth is being withdrawn on ^ coastal real estate. No other
June 30, the town has been inform-' increase so rapidly in val-
Meekins is sur\'ived by his ed, leaving the Norfolk Southern ^oagtai realty.
Daily, I hear men
wife, Lorena; one daughter, Mrs.'as the only rail connection for the
Edward Scarborough of Wanchese;. Washington County capital after-
and one son. Freeman. ward.
complain at
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