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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. V; NO. 1 MANTEO, N. C., JULY 7, 1939 Single Copy 5c OCRACOKE CELEBRATES WARREN WEEK; LAUDS WAHAB ACHIEVEMENTS Hyde County Chamber of Commerce Pays High Tribute to Congressman; Witnesses Modern Improvements Provided by Native Son Who Loves His Homeland; Biggest Event on the Delightful Island By WOODROW PRICE I ■i Out on Ocracoke Island, IC-mile- long pardHjpe isle which juts off the southern tip of Hatteras £|^miles i iout in the Atlantic ocean, this week | is being celebrated in honor of the i First District’s Congressman Lind-j ^ kWarren and the occasion called ' daJ^Tor the visitation to the island of iiigh State dignitaries ««#*friends| and well-wishers of the Congress-' man from all parts of Hyde and Dare counties and from .other por tions of his district. Pressed by Congressional busi ness back to, Washington! Warren •was able to be present only from mid-day Sunday until early Tues day morning_when he boarded the state patrol boat Hatteras and pro ceeded to Manteo on the first leg of his journey back to the capital city of the nation. In his brief visit, he was the guest of Stanley Wahab in the latter’s fine new hotel ■which, opening_within the past two weeks, is the show place of Wahab Village. Warren’s itinerary at Ocracoke, ■where more than a thousand per sons flocked to join in the celebra tion, included a concert Sunday night by the Edenton High School band, a witnessing of the annual roundup of wild Banks ponies Mon day morning and a huge banquet in I the school building Monday night E at which the Congressman was fet- |3 4 and eulogized by speakers who ^ included J. M. Broughton of Ral eigh, an. .attorney who in 194i0 will seek to be Governor of North Caro lina. Stan Wahab—^w'hose erection of a new hotel, establishment of an elec- HOr rlED IN HYDE i! LINDSAY C. WARREN, the Con gressman without a peer in the estimation of his district, who was honored by Hyde County’s Cham ber of Commerce at Ocracoke this week. His speech at Monday night’s banquet was a .master piece. Please turn to Page 4) I have just ended a drive of 400 miles. While a curious publi travelled to Dare’s beaches and filled every available room, largely because the First Lady of the Land visited this county, I was paying a visit to .a young woman four days old in the perfect pink of condition and weighing six and a half pounds. As one approaches his two score and two, he begins to have a feel ing that about all the thrills of life f^'>re exhausted. In this crowded ^ay, one soon experiences so many things, that little is left to look foiw'ard to. But I had not taken into account the thrill of be ing the father of a daughter for the first time. Nothing I had anticipated is just like it. To look .at this little mite of humanity wailing for her lunch with great eagerness and to realize the pride of the mother, who has seep her fondest hopes come true after mothering t\w sons, gives me .much to think about. This new ex perience seems a little more or at Iqpst a little different than see ing two sons grow up. It is challenge. Sometime ago I was thinking, that now, after working 14 .hours a day for several years, and worry ing time on end about how to make ends meet, and deploring the time I lost from ,my family and my friends, it occurred to me I should hope for less and do less work. But now I know I must not only keep on working and dreaming and planning more than ever, but I’m challenged more than ever before. For having a daughter reminds me that I must be more careful of .appearances. I must watch my behavior, for I must set an ex ample. A growing young woman JTl vust have something to look up to, ^ her pride will be hurt and her incentive will be lost. I know I will be harassed and perplexed; I will be wondering what sort of companion she will drag in when she grows up. Young women have a habit of picking up OPENING OF THE LOST C NY SEASON LAST SATURDAY ANNUAL SESSION OF SOUTKEUN ALBEMARLE IN MANTEO AUGUST 9 iFour County Gathering' Will Have Notable I Speakers; Local Committee Plans Fish Fry; 1 Two Hundred Delegates From Washington, ' Tyrrell, Dare and Hyde, and Hundreds of Visitors BRUCE WAS THERE DRAMA AT ROANOKE REVIVED—Paul Green’s .historical drama The Lost Colony, originally produced in connection with the 350th anniversary of the founding of the first English colonies in America, opems its third summer season at Fort Raleigh, Roanoke Island, N. C., July 1. It is produced every summer for those making a pilgrimage to this Birthplace of the Nation. Above are three scenes from the play. Top, mutiny among the colonists in the New World. Below, the huge Waterside Theatre facing Roanoke Sound where the, colonists first stepped on American soil. '■ Right, Old Tom, the ale-mug orator, talks a squaw into taking his burden. ADULT EDUCATION WORKERS, PUPILS CONVENE AT FORT WALT. WILLIS HELPS PEOPLE ENJOY LIVING Over 800 Visit Dare to Have Community School Day Exercises at Ft. Raleigh Man Who Plans Fishing Trips Takes in Hyde and Dare This Week By MARY MATTHEWS A good Yankee newspaper colum nist and fisherman is Captain Walt Willis who for the past several days has been in Dare county talk ing to fishing and hunting guides, skippers, commercial fishermen, and just about anybody else who will talk fishing news. Captain Willis is a lucky m.an. His business is his pleasure, and helping other folks to enjoy recreation is part of his job. Employed by the Atlantic Coast line bo boost eastern Carolina fish ing and hunting grounds and make .arrangements with guides for fish ing parties. Captain Willis in a few days has cc'^ered a great deal of Dare territory. He has gone down to Ocracoke and Hatteras, watched surf .casting from Dare’s beaches, and look on amazed when a large blue .m.3rlin jammed into the State patrol boat, Croatan, on its way up the Sound to Manteo from Ocracoke. “I like this county. I think Dare and Hyde Have .as fine fishing and hunting as any place along the eastern coast, and my business here is to make arrangements with guides and hotels so that parties from the North may come down and enjoy the best this area has to of fer. The Atlantic Coastline and Florida East Coast Railway pay me to do this because thev believe their business is helped by intro ducing as many people .as possible w.ho might travel their lines to this area.” Captain Willis was careful to explain in what way he served the Atlantic Co.astline. “Some guides, until they kfiow better,” he said, “think I want a cut out of what they make or else am trying to hoodwink them into . some scheme. There isn’t any. I get paid to publicize good fishing and hunting grounds and contribute w.hat T ¥now towards building up 9 desire to come to eastern Caro lina. All four of us, teh railway, the guide, the visitors, and myself profit by it. I was once a guide and .commerciarifisherman. I know what hard work it is. I get a big kick out of trying to drum up busi ness for guides.” Besides his work as a scout and contact man for the Atlantic Coast- lina. All four of us, the railw.ay, Friday night over WHN, New York, and gives out the late\t fish ing dope. He has 60 boats along the eastern coast equipped with Community School Day at Fort Raleigh yesterday brought over 800 teachers, student^ and friends connected with the Adult Educa tion program of North Carolina to Manteo to hold their annual educa tion rally. They met here last year and voted to return .again for the 1939 meeting. State WPA Administrator C. C. McGinnis and Dean Bob House of the University of North aCrolina were the principal speakers to a group which came from all over the state. Mrs. Mary E. Campbell, di rector of professional projects, and MAN AND BOY SAVED AFTER 15 HOURS IN WATER Fisherman Holds Companion Aged 9, in Arms Until Help Arrives HISTORICAL PLAY OPENS WITH FIRST LADY IN AUDIENCE (Please turn to page eight) John J. Dunson, of Camden, N J., stood in water about five feet deep in Currituck Sound last week end, for 15 hours and held little James Doxey, of Aydlett, N. C., in his arms. Both were picked up by Lieut. W. D. Shield, who, from a Coast Guard airplane, sighted them when his_ ship was about 400 feet in the air. The rescue was made at 8 a. m. after Lieutenant Shields had searched the sound about three hours. When the pair were sighted Lieu tenant Shields dropped his plane as (Please turn to Page Eight) THE DARE COUNTY TIMES STILL PLUGS ALONG; BEGINNING FIHH YEAR Radio Program Tuesday Pre sents Lost Colony Choir Music From Drama Coastland Newspaper Is Four Years Old This Week; Has Kept Going in Spite of Predic tions It Wouldn’t; Prospects For the Section It Serves Are Increasingly Bright; Splendid Encouragement Given It (Please turn to Page Six) (Please turn to page eight) We overlooked mention last week i which it never had before—and that of the fact that our last number j will give employment to many rounded out four years of publish- j people. ing a newspaper in the Southern j -yve realize of course that a print- Albem.arle Coastland. And so we jf,g. business is just like any other acknowledge this week, as we en- j business. It. is a commercial ven ter on our fifth year, a tribute from j ture. Nobody owes us anythin’', Editor Geo. Haskett of the Eliza- ■ ^yhat we get we expect to earn, beth City Independent, who has Only insofar as it serves its custo- met and mastered similar publish-' jY,gj.s jjogg it -win patronage. We ing problems. | have not sought to develop this After being reminded of our newspaper around the personality birthday. We do wish to express our gjjg person. Regardless of appreciation for the encouragement -^^,1^0 pubjishes it, or who might buy that .has been given us, as well as i^^ should its ownership change, the the discouragements, which also business should go on and render serve a purpose. For more than ^ community and a commercial ser- two years, we had this newspaper yjgg just as a good store, or a printed by contract in the shop hank or any other institution, vhich Mr. Haskett operated. When, illusions about the that s.hop met with misfortunes ■„ both of us were out in the cold with v, no home to go to. ^ It was_ then we realized we must ^ anything. If now and then either give up^ all the results we had struggled for, or find some-1 nothing unusual of thing unusual to aid us. We invit- ed a number of prominent people to disapprove it are those who take stock m a printing business in support to- M,anteo. The _ result was _ a num- instances ber of people iwested their money with us and this encouragement whatever develops made the present plant of the anyway, upon .his Times Printing (Company possible, ^j^o aren’t one’s LjT.-.- .» a A -wk i-I 1-^ 1 1 /I CO-VI F/’vyHrfVi'T’i—' ' All of our j experience with it has been inter- i.spersed with hard knocks. No one Friends, and, public spirited citi-1 With the Lost Colony already witnessed by thousands during the six days it has been running since Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt ap peared Saturday night to immeas urably heighten the excitement of the first performance of the sea son it is reasonable to predict that Paul Green’s drama is entering its third successful year of production. Without the attendance of the first lady of the land the 1939 open ing night performance would have thrilled the audience, but her pres ence increased the expectancy asso ciated with opening night. She arrived aboard a CCC truck, two CCC lads serving as escorts for .her. The trip was made from Goosewing Club where Hall Roose velt, brother of the first lady has been spending some time and cele brated Saturday his 60th birthday. Mrs. Roosevelt suggested that the trip be made in the truck because of the difficulty of traveling over the sparsely grassed dunes which lead to Goosewing. She entered the amphitheatre with a party of friends almost unnoticed. Brad ford Fearing, president of the Roanoke Historical Association, met Mrs. Roosevelt and her brother at the theatre’s entrance and con ducted them to their seats. Six Coast Guardsmen, commanded by Captain Norman Etheridge, es corted the other members of the party to their places. Harry White, Superintendent of the CCC project, drove Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Mil ler, hosts to the house party, to the Fort. Dressed in dusty pink lace and wearing a w.hite hat, Mrs. Roose velt was a contrast to her brother clad in sweat shirt and white cot ton pants, but both were properly attired, for Roanoke Island is a place of friendly informality. The gracious first lady chatted pleasant ly with those around her between ,?cts and rose to meet 8G-year-old Mrs. Pierce Hampton, widow of the late Captain Pierce Hampton of Currituck. So delighted Mrs. Roosevelt ap peared to be with .her CCC truck ride that she dismissed her own car after witnessing the perform ance to return in the lumbering CCC vehicle that bounces daily over the sandy stretches of Dare. She left Sunday morning for Rich mond after giving a parting hand shake to Ondlle Wright Rogers, CCC youth -wno drove for her the preceding day. Sunday’s religious services in the outdoor theatre were conducted by the Rt. Rev. William A. Brown, ri. D., bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia. R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE, Dare County man and director of the Department of Conservation a/.d Development, headed the list of many state officials attending the Ocracoke celebration. They includ ed U. S. Marshal Ford W.orthy, At torney General Harry McMullan, Judge Everett Thompson, District Engineer Major Geo. W. Gillette of Wilmington, Herbert Bonner, Con gressional Secretary, Representa tive Roy Davis of Dare, and many others. HEADED CELEBRATION Two hundred delegates and a number of invited guests will come to M.anteo representing the four counties comprising the Southern Albemarle Association to the an nual convention Wednesday, Aug ust 9, according to Melvin Daniels, vice president for Dare County. De cision as to the date was made this week in conference with represen tatives of the Association and the Dare County Commissioners. Josephus Daniels May Speak Manteo was chosen last fall at Columbia as the meeting place this year. C. Wallace Tatem of Co lumbia, president of the Asso.cia- tion, visited Manteo Wednesday to discuss plans for the meeting. He anticipates the largest convention ever held since the four-county Association was formed in 1936. Many prominent speakers will be on the program. Melvin R. Dan iels, distant cousin of Josephus Daniels, is going to attempt to se cure his illustrious relative for tho program. Arrangements Committee The following committee was named to work with Mr. Daniels in plans for the celebration, which will include a fish fry. Roy Davis, C. S. Meekins, Sheriff D. V. Meek- ins, J. E. Ferebee, A. J. Daniels, and Martin Kellogg. A day of music, speeches and planning for a greater Southern Albemarle will be the order of the day. The 200 official delegates will vote on resolutions and sugges tions for better road conditions in the four counties. Besides the re newal of the fight for a bridge across Alligator river and proper roads to link the coastal counties with main traffic arteries, the group will discuss the proposed beach road down the Banks country to Hatteras. Bands Invited to Play Bands from Elizabeth City and Edenton are to be invited to play at the meeting, and the town of Manteo will be asked to cooperate with the Association in decorating the town for the day’s festivities COMMISSIONERS IN BUSY SESSION Board Hears Complaint on Manns Harbor Road; Ap points AxKinson Officer P. G. GALLOP, Superintendent of Hyde County Schools and President of the Hyde Chamber of Comm.erce, and who headed the committee which put on a week of celebration at Ocracoke. FIRST LADY KNITS MORE THAN SHE SWIMS friends, cannot tear down what zens have done the job. To them^^j^^^g ffoes the credit. n t. Those who have labored to create But after all we have no com- this business, have drawn no pay, plaint. Those who would discour- for their services. First of all, we', .age us are few and far between, •want to develop an industry that We don’t know of anyone else who will serve this long neglected coast land, that will give it a voice— (Please turn to Page 4) was assisted in the service by Rev. Dr. C. A. Ashby of .Edenton and the Rev. R. R. Grant, pastor of the Manteo Methodist church and by The Lost Colony Choir. Among those attending the ser vices were General George Marshall Donning a conser\’ative black bathing suit and picking up a much-used knitting bag Mrs. Roose velt climbed in CCC truck No. 1060 last Saturday .afternoon and went swimming over at the Whalebone beach. Her escorts were Alpheus Drinkwater, Manteo’s veteran tele graph operator, and Judge Biggs. The charming first lady was in Dare .county last week end visit ing her brother at Goosewing Club. She and Mister Drinkwater chatted over on that particular part of the beach where Manteo folks go swim ming without being disturbed. A good sport and genial conversa tionalist, Mrs. Roosevelt told about the visit of thg king and queen to Washington. Aside from the fact that Mrs. Nesbit, for thirty years housekeeper at the White House, had her .household routine inter rupted by the intrusion of foreign servants, the visit of the royal couple went without a hitch. Declaring that England’s king and queen were regular folks, Mrs. Bishop Trowni Roosevelt proceeded to other sub- (Please turn to page five) jects and listened enthusiastically to stories about Dare and the first flight of the Brothers Wright. While she chatted and sunned on the beach she w.as busily knitting a baggy, woolly something. Later in the day she again went in a CCC truck to'attend the 1939 opening performance at The Lost Colony. Gaston Mann of Manns Harbor appeared before the Board of Dare County Commissioners in their regular monthly meeting Wednes day, July 6, to ask them to do -something about getting the High way Commission to stop hauling dirt out of the bar pit at Manns Harbor, declaring that such .action would endanger the road at some' future time. The Clerk to the Board was instructed to take this matter up with R. R. Roper, dis trict highway superintendent. B. W. Atkinson was appointed special police officer on a fee basis, to operate on the beach between Currituck bridge and Roanoke Is land bridge by the Dare County Board of Commissioners. Atkinson was required to give bond in the amount of $250. C. W. Tatem appeared before the Board in behalf of a reduction of the valuation of the Richmond Cedar Works property for 1939 and the B-oard agreed to take this request under consideration. Upon pavment of all back taxes Richard Scarborough is to receive a deed for the Mrs. N. G. Scarbor ough land according to court order. A motion was carried to aPow the Mashoes Creek people 1.000 feet of lumber and nails to put up the lum ber in order to repair the Mashoes wharf. M. R. Daniels, chairman, D. V. Meekins. Roy L. Davis, C. S. Meek- ins. .1. E. Ferebee, A. J. Daniels and Martin Kellogg were named as the committee to plan the SoiRtiern .41bemar1e convention activities August 9. Cantwell Mills was allowed $3,00 for si.x davs a's special police officer in April, 1939. Tommv Basnwht of XVash’r,(ri-.vv,, D, r,. visited his family over the holidays.
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