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THE DARE COUNTY
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Che Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of More Than 30,000 People of the Four Southern Albemarle Counties
»/OL. V; NO. 2
LOCAL PLAY MAGNETIZES
WIELDERS OF BRUSH AND
PEN AND PHOTOGRAPHERS
MANTEO, N. C., JULY 14. 1939
A PRIZE FOR NAMING EVERYBODY IN THIS FINE GROUP
Single Copy 5o
rlirschfeld Sketches Island Life and Pageant |
Scenes; Life Mag^azine Sends Photographer!
Here; Writer Hergeshimer, Editor Mencken i
Photographer Eckenberger Expected Next I
Week; Gibbons Flies From Washington i
With more than fifty pages of
lis sketch booK crowded with scenes]
'rom The Lost Colony and of the
'sland, A. Hirschfeld, top-flight
irtist on the dramatic staff of the
"Jew York Times departed for New
fork Monday afternoon after a two
lays’ visit to complete the formal
Irawing of illustrations for an ar-
:icle planned by Brooks Atkinson
vhen he, with Mrs. Atkinson, comes
0 the Island presently.
Hard upon the heels of Hirsch-
:eld came, a staff photographer
’rom “Life” who, after witnessing
Wednesday night’s performance,
isked Director Sam Selden for op
portunity to photograph a dozen or
ncre scenes from the drama, and]
,vho spent most of Thursday mak-;
Ing studies of natives and native!
scenes about the Island. He is the ]
second staff member to photograph:
the show. '
And in the while that “Life” was
about its pictures, word came that
William Eckenberger, No. One
photographer of Times Wide World
Picturs was enroute, with his fam
ily, to the Island for both work and
vocation. Mr. Eckenberger spent
more than a week on the Island in
the early spring of last year and
promised himself and his hosts then
that he was returning for a vaca
tion and visit.
Expected during this week end or
the next is Joseph Hergeshimer, re
garded by many as the ranking
American writer of fiction, and by
everybody as the outstanding ex
ponent of “color,” now a staff con
tributor to the Ladies Home .Jour
nal. With him will come H. L.
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ARMY AIR SQUADRON
MAY BRING AIRPLANES
TO MANTEO AIRPORT
Commander 36th Pursuit Squadron of Lang
ley Field Inspects Local Field; Target Prac
tice Would Extend About Six Weeks; Many
Fast Planes in Group That Might Base Here
OCRACOKE LIGHTHOUSE
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THIS PICTURE is going to embarass a lot of people. For it was made 25 years ago by Victor Meekins,
when these folks were going to school in the old budding that stood on the lot where Herbert Creef's
house now stands. E. W. Joyner of Nashville, N. C. was then the principal. Miss Bessie Dameron, who
married Will Gray, and who . is now dead, and Miss Eunice McCoy of Dunn, were teachers‘then. The Dare
County Times will give a year’s subscription free to the first person who can name everyone in the group.
See if you can find Postmaster Charlie Evans, or Mrs. Guy Lennon, or Mrs. Ernest Meekins, or Miss
Dorothy Drinkwater. There are many others, including Mrs. Walter Etheridge, Mrs. Leo Midgett, Mrs.
Trell Craddock, Mrs. Lee Dough, Miss Effie Westcott, Mrs. Roy Etheridge, etc. Some of these are
grandmothers now. How the time flies.
Fishing
id all
Out Doors
-By-
Aycock Brown
Authority on Fishing News
Collector of Internal Revenue
Charles S. Robertson of Greensboro
said that “Fishing and All Out
doors” was directly responsible for
his visit to the Carteret Coast last
week end for a piscatorial ^expedi
tion. He had read in one of the
Sunday columns about the fine Gulf
Stream fishing off Cape Lookout
and decided immediately to get up
party and come down to try it
out. He and his party caught some
fish, but most interesting thing he
reeled in, according to his story
was a “tiger” shark.
The shark gave Collector Robert
son one of the bipest battles he' ^lyde Hassell, M. L. Dan-
nas ever had with rod and reel on' '
REV. C. D. BARCLIFT, Methodist
pastor of Wilmington, will deliver
the sermon Sunday morning at the
Waterside amphitheatre.
DARE YACHT CLUB
BIDS FOR INLAND
WATERS TRADE
Booth Leads Reorganization
of Group; Vannote Is
Elected Commodore
Thdl Manteo will make a deter
mined bid for the trade of yachts
passing to and fro by way of the
ports and Florida’s winter play-
inland waters between northern
ground v'as evidenced this week in
the revival of the Dare Yacht Club
with the express purpose of seeking
to have at least some of those
yachts stop over here.
John Booth, as leader of the re
organization rhove, told a group of
16 assembled in the courtroom
Monday night that with little effort
Manteo can be made a port of call
and suggested that the channel into
the harbor be charted and an ef
fort be made to get the chart in
some of the national yachting mag
azines.
Hearty seconds came from T. S.
Meekins and O. J. Jones, each of
whom saw great possibilities in the
idea.
Jim Vannote was elected coom-
modore of the newly organized
club, which had not been function
ing for two years. Vice-commodore
is Lee Hassell, and purser is Willis
Pearce, with Lawrence Swain as as
sistant purser and secretary. A
board of govmors is composd of
0. J. Jones, T. S. Meekins, Dave
BASNIGHT RESCUES
LOST WASHINGTONIANS
Visiting Fi.shernven Burn Rags to
Guide Searchers to
Their Boat
POSTMASTERS PRAISE PLAY,
ENJOY SATURDAY FISH FRY
STATE MUSEUiVl MAKES
CAST OF BLUE MARLIN
The 593 "^2 pound blue marlin
caught off the coast of Hatteras
last week which has caused much
Cl'arlis Evans Plans Enter
tainment; Lieut. Aldridge
Arranges Fish Fry
Into every hamlet and
every t-'wn and city of the old
North State, The Lo'St Colony early
It was a tense moment in the
lives of a few visiting Washington
ians last week end who were
stranded at Oregon Inlet until al-j among national fishing] this week sent its praise-singing
most mWnight Saturday, when] I g^ussaries in the persons of 120
Captain Tom Basnight came to, oj-.f- I postmasters and some 80-odd
their rescue in the cabin cruiser,' by the State museum. If
Croatan.
Arvin Basnight was host to the
group composed of Mr. and Mrs.
the North Carolina coast. He v^as
high in his praise for Oregon Inlet
■fishing where he goes frequently,
for Ocracoke fishing where he goes
occasionally and for Cape Lookout
fishing in the Beaufort-Morehead
City sector where the “tiger” shark
gave him such a battle last
Saturday afternoon while he
fished from the cruiser Shearv'ater
with Capt. Ottis Purifoy. Did not
see the shark, so whether it was a
genuine Tiger such as those which
Zane Grey has written about in the
South Seas, or a specimen of our
off-shore waters which fought like
a tiger, I was unable to determine.
It was a tussle for me last week.
At Ocracoke I missed good photo
graphs by not going on over to
Hatteras and shooting pictures of
Marshall Dana’s 494 pound blue
marlin. I missed good photographs
also by being away from the Car
teret Coast where E. B. Crow of
Wilson landed the first sailfish (my
my knowledge) ever taken with rod
and reel on the coast of North Car-
olisa. Also—I missed the fun they
were having at Lookout with the
Killer whales, two or three of
which were brought in dead—an
other one brought in alive and ex
hibited for two or three days until
its death in a local pool where ad
mission was being charged persons
who wanted to see a genuine whale.
Some of the dispatches from some
where said the whales were fish—
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iels. John Booth and Ralph Davis.
A drive for members was started
this week, and tentative plans for
holding a motorboat regatta on
Aug-Jht 20 were made. Lee Has
sell, John Booth and Ralph Davis
’.vere named on the regatta com
mittee.
Lewis Crofts, Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Carlson, and Ted Moss, all of
Washington, D. C. The party had
enjoyed a day of good fishing be
fore a dead motor left Arvin and
his friends in the nuddle of the In
let late at night with no visible
rescuers coming to aid them. Their
hope of being missed and the sight
of rags they were burning to gide
the searchers finally brought the
Croatan to their rescue.
It all ended happily with a jolly
return to the Island. But it’s a
fishing adventure the visitors won’t
soon forget.
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JOHN WATSON EVANS
ATTENDS PATROL SCHOOL
John Watson "Evans, son of Mrs.
Mabel Evans, has gone to Hender
sonville, N. C., where he is taking
the officers training course for the
State Highway Patrol. The school,
located high in the mountains of
Western North Carolina, takes in
candidates for patrol jobs who have
already passed their preliminary
examinations. They train for a 30
day period before being .assigned
to the force.
John Watson Evans is a well-
known Manteo boy who worked for
his uncle, R. C. Evans at the Man
teo Supply Co., before going to
Hendersonville. He was assistant
fire chief of the volunteer Manteo
fire department.
. , ,1. ! guests who motorcaded hei'e Satur-
Harry Davif., „.^'ector of thej ^^^, c’jniax their conve'ition in
state museum, Mms Roxie Calle, Cjty by witnessing the
taxidermist, and Owen )Voods, as- performance of Paul Green’s
sistant, worked all day Wednesday
making the huge cast of the largest utterly adequate .host that he is,
ever caught off tne Caro-'
marlin
lina coast. This big fellow is tlie
second marlin landed off Hatteras
in the past two years, both being
caught from the boat of Hugo
Rutherford of New Jersey and this
last fish was landed in 55 minutes.
BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES
Postmaster Wh T. Culpepper HOME ECONOMICS
Elizabeth City included in the itin-
ANNUAL ALBEMARLE MEET
POSTPONED TO AUGUST 17
INDIAN RITES
The annual meeting of the South
ern Albemarle Association will be
held on Roanoke Island on August
17 instead of August 9, according
to announcement by Melvin R.
Daniels, vice-president of the asso
ciation for Dare.
Daniels said the postponement
for a week was occasioned by an
other meeting at Belhaven which
members of the association from
Washington County had already
planned to attend. The Belhaven
affair was planned in advance of
the Southern Albemarle Association
gathering.
In-
Manteo: Bible Sehool each Sun
day morning at 9:30 followed this
Sunday moming by a 10:30 worship
service. Mr. 1. G. Greer, General
Supt. of our Baptist Orphanage
writes that he will be with us for
this service, and bring us the mom
ing message. B. T. U. at 7:00 p.m.
Prayer meeting evening has been
changed from Friday evening to
Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock.
Roanoke Island: Bible School at
9:30 each Sunday morning. We
are not holding morning worship
services during the pageant season.
B. T. U. each Sunday evening at
7:00 p.m. This Sunday evening
service will follow the B. T. U.
Mr. Greer, Gen. Supt. of our Bap
tist Orphanage will be with us to
bring the evening message at 8
o’clock.
C. C. PERRY, Pastor.
WILLIE BURRUS DIES
Willie Estelle Burrus, daughter of
Mr. and Jlrs. R. E. Burrus of
Manns Harbor, died Monday morn
ing at five o’clock. Besides her
parents, she is survived by one sis-
three brothers.
erary of the hundreds of guests
brought this section by the conven
tion a trip to Dare County. And
through genial, capable Postmaster
Charlie Evans of Manteo he ar
ranged for complete entertainment
for the postal officials while they
were in Dare and on Roanoke Is
land.
Everything went off with the
smoothness of well-oiled machinery.
The motorcade of 40 cars, one of
the leading ones bearing Second
Assistant Postmaster General Am
brose O’Connor, moved across
Wright Memorial Bridge in mid
afternoon. A stop at Kill Devil
Hiljs for an inspection of towering
Wright Memorial was the first big
event of the trip. Then alor^ the
beach highway the motorcade pro
ceeded and over Roanoke Sound
bridge to the Island.
Here, thanks to the valuable aid
of Lieutenant A. M. Aldridge of
CCC Camp Virginia Dare the post
masters and their guests, some 200
strong in all, were fed a piping
hot supper of friend trout in the
camp dining hall at 7 o’clock. Be
fore that. Second Assistant O’Con
nor went out himself to do some
fishing and everyone vov's he
had exceptional luck. Also, besides
his fish, .he got a nice suntan to
carry b.^ck to Washington with
him.
'fhe postmosters witnessed the
drama from a reserved section
Possibility that the GHQ Airforce
of the United States Army might
take over the local landing field as
a base for summer target prac
tice became a probability Thur.sday
after the field and its possibilities
for immediate improvement were
surveyed by Lt.-Col. W. E. Kepner,
commanding officer of the 36th
Pursuit Squadron, based at Lang
ley Field, Virginia.
When facilities .have been pro
vided for their accommodation. Col.
Kepner would bring the entire
squadron, numbering 36 pursuit
ships, with the personnel required
to service them, housing them in
tents on lands adjacent to the field.
The target practice would extend
over a period of about six week, be
ginning about the first of August if
the field can be made ready.
After spending the morning .here,
Coloney Kepner returned to Lang-
led Field where he expected to sub
mit his report to Brig.-Gen. Arnold
Krogstad, commanding the Second
Wing of the Air Force. He did
not indicate what his report would
be, but the indications, from sur
veys and inquiries which proceeded
his visit, are that the report will
be favorable, with reservations
about improvements that have been
assured.
Colonel Kepner brought to
Roanoke Island the swiftest ship
that has ever been landed here. He
made the landing and take-off with
out difficulty. The ship is one of
the Air Corps’ newest Curtiss Pur
suits, the ship that last spring as
tonished the world by attaining the
record breaking speed of 575 miles
an hour in a power dive. Taking
off from the airport Colonel Kepner
climbed it to 5,000 feet in 60 sec
onds. It is the world’s fastest
climber. No figures as to its cruis
ing speed have ev'er been released
by the War Department.
Use of the local landing field by
the Air Corps as a base for target
practice, the pursuit ships firing on
targets towed by heavier ships, was
IN MANTEO HIGH I first suggested during the visit of
Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of
the Army Air Corps, and by Lieut.
Col. Robert Olds, pilot of the
Army’s great Flying Fortress both
of whom were here for the open
ing of The Lost Colony two weeks
village, THIS interesting old landmark is
still in active service on the island
of Ocracoke and is one of the
most important lights on the coast.
It is in Hyde County, but its keep
ers, Capt. Joe M. Burrus and Capt.
Crawford are both from Hatteras,
Dare County. The lighthouse is
kept in splendid shape, and its
quarters and grounds are “rnost
attractive.
WILL BE TAUGHT
Department Revival Possible
Through State Allotment
of Fifth Teacher
A move taken last week by the ago.
county board of education will have
a direct bearing on the welfare of
future visitors to Roanoke Island
The board voted to re-install a
home economics departemnt in the
Manteo High School. Perhaps
m.embers of the school board had
no such idea in mind, but the train
ing high school girls receive in that
course will, eventually, be reflected
in btter living conditions and bet
ter cooking.
In summers to come, tourists
here to see The Lost Colony, then,
will find trained and competent
housewives in any of the homes
they choose Tor their abode w.hile
on the Island.
The coming school term will
mark the first time home econom
ics has been taught in Jlanteo
since 1933. In that year, a drop in
attendance caused the department
to be eliminated. But last year the
average attendance was
enough for the State School
mission to allot Manteo an
teacher, making five in the high
school instea'd of the four previous.
During the past week end. Major
E. E. Glenn, executive officer of
the Second Wing, with Mrs. Glenn,
were here to witness the week end
performances of the show, and
while here Major Glenn examined
the field, and discussed its possi
bilities with Bradford Fearing an(J
with Harry White, superintendent
of the Roanoke Island CCC camfl,
Mr. Fearing and Mr. White assured
him of every co-operation in put
ting the field in shape for the use
of a large number of ships.
Major Glenn declared tha,t the
location was ideally suited to t'ul
needs of the Air Force, especiahj^
for target practice. Ships tovdng
the targets can be flown down from
Langley Field, and within 90 sec
onds the squadron could be in the
air and on the target. The con
gested conditions around H:impton
Roads makes target practice of
highithis sort, a sort so necessary to the
Com- i tactical training of personnel, that
SHORT CIRCUIT
A short circuit in the electric
motor of a water pump at the home
of O. J. Jones late Wednesday af
ternoon ruined the motor, with a
loss estimated at $50.
The fire department was called
out but there was no fire. The
motor was located in an outbuilding
back of the Jones home.
WATCH FOR OUR SPECIAL
HATTERAS ISLAND SECTION
Within a few weeks, a special section of The Dare
County Times will be devoted to Hatteras Island, and
its villages from Rodanthe to Hatteras. It will deal
with the exceptional fishing and hunting of Hatteras
Island and many points of interest.
The advertisements of many of the leading mer
chants on the island are already in. If you wish your
business to be represented in this number, make
arrangements at once by addressing
THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
Manteo, N. C.
Pembroke—Pour thousand ... v.— — j,,
dians gathered at final rites for Ter, Carolyn Davis three brothers. Seated in the theatre with
Bricey Hammonds, Indian murderer Johnie Everett. Allen and Hughes, i gQj^,g gpo other visitors
who died in the gas chamber at | and her gimndparents, Mr. and had come here expressly to
Raleigh. 'Mr.s. Ed Twiford. see the drama.
Afterw.rrds, and before starting
back for Elizabeth City, O’Connor
commented, “It is one of the most
impressive .things I’ve ever seen.
It’s something you’ll always re-
; member.” Such, it seemed, were
the sentiments of the other postal
men, who departed for their homes
with avowed intentions of telling
! everyone with whom they came in
! contact about the Lost Colony.
The motorcade left Dare after the
show and arrived in Elizabeth City,
but not wholly intact, shortly after
midnight. Many of tbs postmas
ters decided to remain over and
continue their fun making at the
night spots of the beaches.
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CATCH TO BRING
RETURN OF DANA
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hughes of
California, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Hughes and son, Audrey, of New
port News, Va., are spending a few
days at Nags Head.
The Man who caught the biggest
fish ever landed by a sportsman off
the North Carolina coastland is
due back in Hatteras next week for
another fling at trrolling in the
warm waters" of the Gulf Stream.
He is Marshall Dana of Cincin
nati, who while fishing* here with
Hugo Rutherford a week ago land
ed a 5931-2 pound blue marlin. The
big fish measured 14 feet and two
inches and had a girth of 62 inches.
When they left Hatteras by plane
last week, the party allowed Ruth
erford’s yacht to remain over. It
is the Mako III and will be used by
them when they return for the
second fishing expedition.
Rutherford^ it will be remem
bered, caught a 439 pound marlin
last year. It held the record until
Danas catch made with
Styron as guide.
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Colonel Kepner is in a good many
respects the most remarkable flier
in the world. He is the one man
among flying men who .holds a li
cense to fly every type of craft that
has ever left the ground. He is a
I balloon pilot, a dirigible pilot, hav
ing flown all types of lighter than
air craft, and participated in three
international balloon races. He
also is licensed to pilot every type
or heavier than air craft. His
notable feat was as pilot in i
stratosphere balloon which attained
a record not since approached over
South Dakota three years ago.
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WILMINGTON METHODIST
PREACHES NEXT SUNDAY
Next Sunday morning’s 11 o’clock
servdces at the Fort Raleigh amphi
theatre will be led by Rev. C. D.
Barclift. Rev. Barclift is pastor
of the Fifth Avenue Methodist
Church of Wilmington, and the
sermon he wilL deliver will be the
third given this season at the
pageant grounds. The Rt. Rev.
William A. Brown and Rev. P. E.
Lloyd i Monroe were speakers at the ore-
vious services
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