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Page Two THE DARE COUNTY TIMES a , „, „ ■ »■■■' ' ■„ ""g Friday, July 14, T . IS Page Eight Page C CONSF TO r ^IRE W WORK HOU REHEARSAL IN THE SAND By JOHN SIKES CCC CAMP ACCEPTS I, 70 NEW ENROLLEES 'V^a. Dare Camp Swamped With New Mem'biers at Beginning July 5th Quarter Jn The "News and Observe! Of try of - news ' Interestit of Sa J vea* Dare county contributed 47 ne There is something of a spect,acle enrollees to the Virginia Dare CCC within itself in Paul Green’s dili- camp at the quarterly registration gent search for The Lost Colony area July 5. All Dare there on the banks of Roanoke . • j ^ „ , boys were assigned to the camp Sound. Sitting there the other night with' '^^ich means they will Of much Dare is t Warden, Point, whi. Board of ( The repoT MANY COUNTIES I GET AID FROM THE ASSISTANCE FUND State Aiding 61 Poorer Coun ties With Relief Up to $128,778 L DuX;- 4 ,> As C' wish to SI’ covering : cal year, as to ycur '' forest fir’ ’ . cooperati forest sef V* ment of Coi,. ment. “''Ve ha - acres of f according* ures. fires occu: ing a tota a total dam ,, resents an a to the fire ' burned ov’ chantable growth and - The total acm resents .15 ' total area ' county. . , fires was three by irf' nine by smi, tentionally' " cellaneous ci “In carryi, ties, I ha’j traveled 64^ 283 people i seven of the > ganization, ’ have worked eled 2,329 “We nov. half-ton Ch 22 Smith pumps, 18 Cc shovels, on. with tank r •tools that ai work. We ot foot creosoted ed last year hT.’ Thomp ing the past watch frorr project for out all fires tower menti approved a were constru June of this y- ments consi? dence with t\, and tool room, I .ound the t' P division fenc “These ir total invest $1500 that \\ by the CCC. we were req’’’ passage for they were c provements a to furnish p “A coope made betwd’c, State Forest county would n ry fee, eni and the N. pay the bait ^ funds, comi. - County. / “With regal 1*1 T was successfu Hr >VPA to cut them down t' of charge. . county is to’ mall stump. Brad Fearing, local impressario of stationed near their homes the show that is to go on Saturday Besides the Dare enrollees 23 night for the beginhing of its third boys were sent to the Roanoke Is- season, 1, who have never met Paul laod camp from Washington, N. C., Green and know him only from his where they had passed enrollment photographs, was surprised to learn tests. Commanding Officer Eld- that a playwright is not simply a ridge said they came from an area pedantic pen-pusher who writes the covering six counties, Camden, Cur- words and then cringes in trepida-T'tock, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank tion while a hard guy with mega-^" phone and leather puttees drags out' Following are the Dare county *, ., • o- boys who were enroilea: Luther eit meaning. . t Garland Midgett, Buxton; Milton I asked Brad Fearing for a mate to light my cigarette. I thought it Collington; Myron permissible to smoke while the •rr*-rcs Qr»H c*.f»rT*aac!iac wdro rT*\nnO" ml. _ “ . . ' Troy tors and actresses wep trying cut R^^insoii Austin, Hatteras; their hn^, particularly in view of p p the fact that a score or more small c^i.. ai - xv XT- • 1 j 1*11 Winfield Wise, Stumpy Point; Al- fry of the island were playing bide, ^ Collington; Herbert and seek and hare and hounds, with; ^aj. ^mplementary whoopmgs up and Midgett; Salvo; Willie Chil- down the sandy aisles and behind, Manteo; and Tine Tolson and underneath the benches of the ) Willis, Jr., Hatteras. amphitheatre without disturbh.g the entreaties of Sir Walter to Queen Elizabeth to send ships to tlie New World. Brad said no he didn’t have a - a -A.rr,r.T-..rx match but could give me a chew of TOWN OF MANTEO tobacco. Declining, I scrambled 1 COUNTY PROVIDES POLICEMAN FOR over a half dozen seats while Chief QofYif^jggjQf^gl-g ABQ Wanchese was beatiag himselfj RoarH Pav ProviHf^ Snemial about the head and screaming ^ay Provide ^pec a| something that sounded like' Officer For Town Work “Weenie, weenie, wannie, weenie!”; " against the night air, fetched a I special officer at county match, and sat back down beside P^bse to serve as policeman in the jtown of Manteo, in addition to his “That’s Paul Green down there,” duties as ABC enforcement officer Brad said, pointing to a man below us w.ho was pacing to first one spot and the other testing, I assumed. was provided this week by action of the Board of Commissioners, co operating with the ABC Board. 1 the effects from the stage at vari-jTbe salary provided is $75 a month, ous points within the theatre. “He!The ABC Board has been contribu- works just as hard as anybody, | ting $50 of this amount during the perhaps harder than most, trying, P^®t month, and the Commission- to whip the play into shape. Hej ers joined this month with a dona- charged us not one cent for writ- j tion of $25 a month, ing The Lost Colony and he is paid I The town of Manteo will raise no salary for coming down here | the salary of its other policeman to with us every summer and helping: $15 a month, paid for from town us to put it on. He does just like funds. It has been paying both the native actors; he accepts his; policemen heretofore, share of the profits at the end of T. G. Dowdy, who has had many the season, if there are any profits.”. years’ experience in police work About this time they were around was appointed towm policeman and to the point in the play where the enforcement officer. While his du- colonists are gathered at the church lies are in town, he will be allowed on Roanoke Island to give thanks to go out of town in cases of em- ■ for the arrival of a daughter to ergency. Eleanor and Ananias Dare. They! Town officials expressed them- W’ere raising their voices in thanks- selves as being w’ell pleased with giving there on the stage, and the the growing feefing of cooperation Westminster Choir and the organ between town and county. The on the right. The general effect, Manteo fire department receives a I thought, was pretty thrilling. But large part of its support from a just as they got midway the chant, special tax contributed by all tho Sam Selden stopped the action and taxpayers of Roanoke Island. In Paul Green went up on the stage return the men of the fire depart- and said; “Folks, you’re not sing- ment”attend fires outside the town ' You’re not giving it what,limit, and have saved valuable Sixty-one North Carolina coun ties will participate in the public! assistance equalizing fund set by the State Board of Allotments and Appeal at $128,778.36 for the 1939-' 40 fiscal year. Secretary Nathan H. Yelton said Saturday. The fund is set up each year out! of the public assistance appropria-! tions to enable the poorer counties to meet their share of the cost of; old age assistance and aid to de pendent children. Yelton estimated the caseload for, the State during the year at rough-; ly 60,622 persons in each of the two categories with 900 widows of Confederate veterans included in the 37,124 estimated recipients of old age grants. | For the needy aged a total of $4,529,289 will be spent w.hile $1,- 527,352.80 will be used for depend ent children. Average monthly grants are expected to run as high as $10.16 for the former with $6.42 for each child on the rolls. The equalizing fund will operate in the 61 participating counties to prevent the tax rate from being too high where property valuations are insufficient to meet county needs for grants in aid. No county may^ participate in the fund unless the tax rate necessary to raise the county’s share of the public assist ance fund would exceed ten cents on the hundred dollars valuation. 1 Largest allotment of the fund, went to Ashe County which was, given $5,257.29, while the smallest,' was represented by Perquimans’; $103.01 participation. ; Allotments to the counties in this section was as follows: Camden, $488.27; Carteret, $1,801.20; Cur rituck, $869,901; Dare, $2,570.20; Gates, $792.50; Hyde, $874.72; Pamlico, $1,273.60; Perquimans, $103.01; Tyrrell, $1,597.62; Wash ington, $106.77. ing! you ought to. You know, it’s property in several instances. healthy to open your mouths widei — and give out. Let’s go over that' Wilson-Attemptmg to cope with again and let me hear you sing!” I a" unu.sual situation, Wilson .au- It was just like that. Here was thorities are seeking a reformatory the fellow who had written “O chil- for juvenile delinquents. V. V. BRINKLEY FINDS OLD COIN ON BEACH V. V. Brinkley working for the geological survey down at Pea Is land dug up an old copper coin the other day. The piece was dated 1830 and was jvorth a penny then. Now it is worth considerably more to coin collectors. The one-.cent piece pictured a woman’s head on one side and simply the denomina tion of the coin on the other. EAST LAKE MAN’S TRUCK SEIZED IN HYDE COUNTY Police dren by th^wairrsideVrife up your estimate that 100 or more roam the harps and sing!” begging for vol-1 streets, stealing, but all are too ume just like John Park exhorting!young for jail sentences. a crowd of Raleigh Rotarians to give out on “My Country ’Tis of Thee!” That gives you an idea why it’s more fun to watch a rehearsal than A Ford pick-up truck containing thirty gallons of whiskey of the moonshine variety, was seized Sat urday night .at Engelhard by the Deputy Sheriff. The truck was list ed in the name of Ben Cain of East Lake, and Sunday morning, the of ficers arfested Ben Cain, claiming he was in the truck when it was first obser\’ed. He is now held in iail in Beihaven for trial at Swan Quarter Monday. WRECK OF THE S. S. “METROPOLIS” (Continued from last week) The oldest residents of the beach say they have never known lists on the completed performance. It isn’t every day you can .liear Paul ^ complete wreck. It was criminal to snd her to sea as the talk neither ghows how rotten the timbers were. Mr. W. A. Powers who has had large experience in breaking up vessels of all kinds, says that he never saw such rottenness, and the general opinion expressed is that the lives lost were a sacrifice to a criminal negligence wholly unpardonable.” “The wretchedness and misery of the rescued, their pitiable plight and appearance could not be portrayed. Huddled together, almost naked, many wounded and bruised, all in need of clothing .... The story is one of horror, it is one that speaks with no mincing w.ords. It is one that willcause an indignation righteous and just against those who put at the mercy of the ocean waves nearly 250 lives in a vessel that was in every respect unseaworthy—that was as rotten Green making a pep more nor less prosaic than the im promptu dinner speaker’s “Well, fellows, I don’t know how to make a speech and all I got to say is. . .” : It’s a rare sight, too, to watch a Sir Walter Raleigh, dressed in sea- green play togs, pay courtly obeis ance to his virgin Queen Elizabeth sitting up there on her throne in a cool and neat ensemple of brick-red stump'’ giacijs and matching jumper. If his taxeS: imaginative type it is The sum f°f^'j;rig.'btening to watch the hostile ' ^ Chief Wanchese gyrating through . ,p00 worth of ^ ■ ed in this cou». ceunty and S “We are i employ a ma. all the yea^ " qsmall mon derstandini, lof his time "orest fire >. “On the w have had a ve this work, own persoi of the fires large acre: been .stoppi gated to de party, if po:_ . ventative necessary. “I shall to answer gentlemen Resped 1 his war dance up there on the sand as punk and that could be likened to a death trap. “While deep censure should be put upon the guilty parties who were responsible for sending the hulk of the Metropolis to sea, a pile to the left and mAking the! like censure is due the Government for the miserable apology of what night horrible with his high shrieks' is termed life saving stations. To think of it, on a coast like that and stopping short to .come within j of Currituck, Kitty Hawk and Hatteras, a coast that is strewn with, arm’s length of you to confer with; milestones of wrecks, dismal graves of disaster, that stations are [ Sam Selden and Paul Green some movement that wasn’t smooth enough. over quite work. GEORGE U HATT George ' mate and N land Coast a hospital a a heart aih At his buried bes under who' many mon War. Cap weeks ago. O’Neal V He is surv. Sam and » Almy Burrus, Wher. in Norfolk Stop at the HOTEL FAIRFAX NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Headquafiters for all cit izens sitfuth of the Mason Dixon line when visiting Norfolk and the beaches. Attractive roo,ms with bath and shower, $2.50, $3 and $3.50, ©there with bath privileges, $2. Cof fee Shop, Dining Room, Beverage Rotom. Garage Service. HUGH F. CALVIN Pres, and Cen’l Mgr. provided some 16 and 20 miles apart, stations with only a crew of j seven men to each, this force to patrol a beach of the length stated, with no appliances in the shape of horses or teams to move with celerity the life saving apparatus that is to give aid to the wrecked, is a crime unpardonable—a crime that cries aloud for redress.” It is ever thus. The comforts that we enjoy today, the measures of safety that are provided for our security, the things that make for our happiness and welfare, have come to us through the wretched- 1 ness, misfortune and misery of others who went before us, or upon I the labor and soi-rows of unnamed and unknown multitudes whose sufferings we cannot know. America owes much today to the memory j of those humble laborers, on t^e Metrolopis, whose little children were 11 left alone to fare as best they might and to wait for the ship that; never returned. all 0I tiatieras. BEACH Fril More than ever this year the beaches at Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hill and Nags Head appeal to those who like salt water and out-of-doors. More than ever people come to fish. And thousands this year, in place of hundreds last year, will come to cele brate with Dare County the 352nd Anniversary of the Colonization of North Caro lina. You will find these well-known firms below, ready to give you good service to help make your stay pleasant. S 0. L. WOODHOUSE STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES ICE COLD DRINKS, CIGARETTES, TOBACCOS, CANDIES STANDARD GAS AND OILS Dealer in Farm Produce GRANDY POST OFFICE GRANDY, N. C, PHONE 405 NOTE: It will be of further interest to read the following refer ence to the circumstances of the Huron as published in Col. Creecy’s Economist at Elizabeth City under date of March 19, 1878. The report of Capt. J. H. Merryman of the U. S. Revenue Marine I and Inspection of Life Saving Service in reference to the loss of the steamer Metropolis, made to the Secretary of the Treasury, entirely [ I exonerates the citizens of the neighborhood of the wreck from all the | vile charges vthat have been made by some of the Northern papers. Captain Merryman says: “The survivors were distributed among the neighboring dwellings, I the life saving stations being too far away to be reached in their exhausted condition. The citizens fed and clothed them to the full extent of their means, and their generous hospitality is worthy of | all praise. In this regard, the lighthouse keeper, Mr. Burrus and j Messrs. T. J. Poyner deserve particular notice. “Mr. N. G. Burrus, the keeper of the Currituck lighthouse, in his affidavit says: T furnished food and shelter for 61 persons that 1 night, and for about 76 with breakfast and dinner, also sheltered' them that night and gave them a breakfast the following morning’.” A Complete Grocery Store on the Beach to Supply Your Needs E. T. BURGESS stop Here For Gas, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream, Staple and Fancy Groceries STANDARD CAS AND OIL TODD AND MYERS BETSY DOWDY INN CABINS FOR RENT—MEALS SERVED Groceries—Drinks—Cigarettes—BEER ON ICE TEXACO PRODUCTS Right Beyond the Wright Bridge as You Enter Dare SEA BREEZE INN INVITES YOU TO STOP AT KITTY HAWK. N. C. Sandwiches, Cold Drinks, Beer. Ale, Cigarettes, Cigars, Candies—Standard Gas and Oils DANCING NIGHTLY TOLER’S WIGWAM PHONE 523 FRESH SEAFOOD DAILY From My Own Ocean Nets SANDWICHES, BEER, DRINKS KITTY HAWK. N. C. C. W. TOLER, Prop. STANDARD PACKING COMPANY FRESH MEATS Only Display Refrigerator Meat Case on the Beach ICE COLD DRINKS AND BEER GULF GAS AND OILS Courtesy Cards Honored—Kill Devil Hill Post Office Wright Memorial Service Station E. C. TWIFORD, Mgr. KITTY HAWK, N. C. HOTEL NAGS HEADER FINEST HOTEL ON THE CAROLINA COAST Where the Breezes Always Play VISIT OUR TAP ROOM A. F. WADE, Manager )ress pore Us c p nol rour f'oal, (ewel lowe hipo ind itai Jver t’hen toupi ireair tesso I par fou V tver room torg.J ♦pf'PeJ Telephone 121 NAGS HEAD CASINO NAGS HEAD’S BEST ALL ROUND SEASHORE PLACE Rooms, Meals, Free Dancing, Bowling, Beer, Lunches Soda Fountain Service STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS—FREE Nags Head, N. C. AIR Spend Your Vacation at PARKERSON’S HOTEL Nags Head, N. C. A CHEERFUL PLACE Nice Rooms, Excellent Dining Room Service CONFECTIONERY MR. and MRS. L. S. PARKERSON ICE COLD DRINKS—CANDIES lefre.- 't su 'f yo fine (| natei^ gain nd „ iroun; ■ It burse io be luma rotior if lif fo re 'Jie s bone lema Iroop It CO It mn loved bSt fi: ^eloj fhcmli ives. enf ; V Cigarettes—Tobaccos—Notions Yon Always Stop Along the Route, to Refresh Yourself at UNCLE GRAHAM’S PLACE When in Need of a Magistrate CALL UNCLE GRAHAM GRANDY, N. C. PHONE 413 MAMIE, N. C. fresh meats and poultry Slaughtered Daily—We Deliver and Are Serving Nags Head and Manteo Hotels and Stores GIVE US A TRIAL RAYMOND HARRELL THAT TELLS YOU IT’S STOP AT THE SIGN JACK’S PLACE Bertha, N. C. along BEACH HIGHWAY MFVV MODERN DIFFERENT BEERS SOFT DRINKS—ICE CREAM—CIGAREITTES aSo 011-credit cards honored JACK BURRUS, Prop. ON THE WAY TO THE BEACH STOP AT w. B. DAVIS American Gas and Oil Groceries—Drinks—Cigarettes A Mile South of Currituck, N. C. A mile North of Maple Rest Rooms for Ladies and Gentlemen ON YOUR WAY TO AND FROM NAGS HEAD STOP AT SLIGO WALKER’S SERVICE STATION Magazines, Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes, Sandwiches, Old Drinks, Beer BUS STATION an OLD KITTY HAWKER Stop at The Beach Road BAUM AND SON SERVICE STATION AMOCO PRODUCTS-“The Sign of Greater Value” Cold Drinks—Cigarettes—Groceries Bennie Welsted’s BAY VIEW GARAGE At MAPLE, N, C. A completely equipped garage, an expert mechanic, w.lio lives by the Golden Rule—your work done right and at a reason able price. Complete wrecking truck. Service day or night. THE BREAKERS GAS, OILS AND CREASE Sandwiches and Cold Drinks ROOMS Hot and Cold Water Opposite Beach Club NAGS HEAD, N. C. A. J. HARTLEY WHOLESALE GROCER I Daily Truck Through Currituck and Dare County Beaches Distributing Fr u its—M eats—Produce Give Us a Trial PHONE MANTEO ROY SAWYER Jarvisburg, N. C. Three Gas Pumps, Large Store and Stock'bf Groceries We Invite the Business of Tourists and Dare County People COURTEOUS CURB SERVICE LOW PRICES BEER—COLD DRINKS When pausing to refresh at Coinjock stop here for Ice Cold Beer, Cigars, Cigarettes Tobaccos, Soft Drinks Ice Cream, and Groceries TEXACO GAS AND OILS J. T. GUARD’S SONS COINJOCK, N. C. The Dare County Times Recommends These Firms and Persons as Reliable
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