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!, 1 El ter Sc I I HTt-V. \t Tv X yr ^,1 V DARE COUNTY TIMES The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore VOL. V; NO. 4 MANTEO. N. C.. .JULY 28. 1939 di FOUR-COUNTY GROUP TO BE GUEST OF MANTEO TUESDAY, AUGUST 17TH Southern Albemarle Association to Hold Annual Convention Day Before Virginia Dare’s Birthday as Guests of Dare County Group; Interest in Roads to Be Aroused DOESN'T IT LOOK COOL AND INVITING THESE DAYS? Single Copy 5c V‘*>r L. Plans to put Manteo in gala at tire for the meeting of the Southern Albemarle Association to be held here August 17 were completed at a meet/iig here Tue.sday afternoon of the members, of the committee in charge and local business men. Jlelvin R. Daniels, vice-president of the Association for Dare County, who is in charge of all arrange ments, says the decorations for the streets of Manteo were discussed and will be taken care of by the Association. M. L. Daniels was named a committee of one to see that all the merchants of the citv get together and decorate their buildings for the event. It is still indefinite as to who the principal speaker will be but an an nouncement about this will be made as soon as possible as will a full account of the other activities w'hich will include a fish fry. C. Wallace Tatem of Columbia, president of the Association, who has been in conference with local officials, anticipates the largest convention ever .held since the four- County Association was formed in 1935. The 200 official delegates will vote on resolutions and sug gestions for better road conditions in the four counties. The proposed beach road down the Banks country to Hatteras will be discussed as will the fight for a bridge across Alli gator river and other roads which ■gator river, Croatan Sound, Oregon Inlet, and other roads which, main traffic arteries. | Besides the business session and the main speaker, there will be; many other entertaining things, planned. Bands from Elizabeth City and Edenton have been asked to attend the meetidg and play. Members of the committee work ing with Mr. Daniels are Roy Davis, C. S. Meekins, Sheriff D. V. Meek- ins, J. E. Ferebee, A. J. Daniels and Martin Kellogg. Last year the Association, which includes the counties of Dare, Washington, Tyrrell and Hyde counties met in Columbia. LIGHTNING FIRES AUTO AND GIVES JOHN HEADACHE Recent Storms Prevent Or phans’ Concert; Affect Electrical Appliances '' ' HIGH SCHOOL BANDS OF FIVE TOWNS TO BRING US MUCH MUSIC TODAY More Than 100 Girls in Group of Enthusiastic Musicians Who Plan to Come to Fort Raleigh Exercises; Program Starts in Wa terside Theatre at 6:45 P. M- Friday DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN ISLAND AND ITS PLAYS iB t Fishing and all Out Doors —By— Aycock Brown Authority on Fishing News If it is a less strenuous type of fishing, yet something packed with thrills, you want, find an old pier or breakwater and drop a hook over- bo:;rd properly baited for a sheeps- head. Although one of the com moner species along our coast and from Cape Cod to Florida, these slow but hard fighters are among the best known pan fish and from .appearances they are the convicts of the fish family. That is because they are so easily identified by the five distinct dark stripes running vertical to the body. The average size is from one to two pounds and according to L. S. Caine, fishing authority and author of '“Game Fishes of the South,” the largest unauthentic record was 20 pounds. But that record which was unofficial was made official down at Ocracoke a few days ago by a chap named Stanley of Sanford, Florida, who was fi.shing near the Old Do minion S. S. Pier pilings. Stanley’s fish spotted in the ,clear water sev eral days before he actually caught it tipped the scales at 18-pounds. And that is an official record—the second record fish taken on Ocra coke this season, and one of several records this season along the North Carolina Coast. The first record ■was a 75 pound channel bass landed (in a net) by Capt. Jamie Styron of Ocracoke. The second record was the Blue Marlin landed by Marshall Dana down at Hatteras. His fish tipping the scales at 593 pounds was the largest of the species ever taken north of Cuba. Earlier in the season a youngster from Norfolk broke all juvenile records for channel bass. His fish weighed 73 pounds—and is the largest to date taken with rod and reel or hook and lines on the coast this year in the channel bass class. (Please turn to page five) After meeting up with a busi ness-like bolt of lightning which knocked him out for three or four minutes, John Waterman had only a severe headache as a souvenir of his experience Wednesday after noon; but the car in which he .had been parked in front of CdlC camp Virginia Dare was burned up. The automobile, a 1935 Ford, be longed to'Tommy Thompson of the CCC camp. Young Waterman, re cently of the camp,,was sitting in it waiting for a fiijend to ride with him to Manteo when lightning struck the car at about 12:30 p. m. Regaining consciousness a few min utes later. Waterman and a number of CCC boys attempted to put out the fire which had started from the acr’s gas tank but they were un able to save the car. The lightning struck in the midst of a severe thunder shower which pelted the Island for several hours Wednesday. It was one of the many heat-religving rains visiting the region within the last ten days; but so far the rains have been well-timed for the pageant, either falling on nights when the play was not given with the exception of July 20, or else stopping before the Lost Colony’s minister made his opening speech. An electrical storm in Norfolk Monday night affected the light current on the Island, putting out lights, burning out several electric ice box motors, and preventing the concert which was to have been given by ten orphans from the 1. O. O. F. Home at Goldsboro. When lights went out in the IVfanteo school building the youngsters were not up to singing in the dark'. TOWN CAN CHARGE ONLY $1 ON RESIDENTS’ CARS 4^ * : A ' THE OLD OCEAN is rolling right along in on the Dare County Beaches, and sends you a mighty- strong and refreshing invitation these days to come down, and es pecially urges you to not miss the Seashore during August. Dare County has 85 miles of ocean waves, besides the great expanse of sound and rivets that make it a veritable summertime paradise. By \V. O. SAUNDERS OW bhowboat Has Had A Rcmantic Career Three Times it Has Gone Down, Yet it Remains a Great North Carolina Institution Repeated references to Paul Green's great music drama as “The Oberammergau of America” gives me a pain in th^ neck. Paul Green’s drama can by no stretch of the im- '! I agination be called “The Oberam- ; July-Au2:ust Calendar Teem-| ^^gj-ica.” THIS SUMMER PACKED WITH MANY EVENTS ing With Attractions From Mountains to the Sea Had the officials of the Town of Manteo not been too zealous in their pursuit of extra revenue, they might have continued to charge $1 more than the law allows them to charge on automobiles. But they went further and decided to charge everyone who spnnt some time in town, even though he lived outside. The law provides that towns, may charge only $1 on cars owned by residents, and it may not charge anything on cars owned by people residing outside. The following opinion was rendered Melvin R. Daniels, this week by the office of the North Carolina Attorney Gen eral: “ . . . . under the provisions of Section 61 of Chapter 407 of the Public Laws of 1937, this being the 1937 Motor Vehicle Law, that cities and towns may levy ‘not more than one dollar upon motor vehicles resident therein’. This office has fur ther held in this connection . that in order for a motor ve hicle to be a resident of a mu nicipality the owner thereof njust be a resident; and it fol lows that if the owner of the motor vehicle lives outside the city limits, the city has no au thority to levy any tax upm such vehicle, regardless of the fact that the owner of such ve hicle is employed within the city limits.” The action in charging fees of non- residents of the town met with much opposition. MRS. MEEKINS RETURNS With the tourist season virtually at its heiglit, the last summer in North Carolina are re vacation activities and ' Three times the “James E.| first sighted her coming down Adams”, built here in 1913, has!lights ablaze, band . and a searchlight playing on the ' ^ u- I In the coastal section fishing con- the original I tinues to be the favorite pastime, First Officer! "’ith July and August red-marked been to Davy Jones’ locker, and no , . ,' shore. one will say how many financial. Only survivor of catastrophies have befallen .her. | company of 191;3 is Yet she floated quietly on the! jj^j-ry Van Becker, known all al river, put down a gang plank and announced .her 26th season w.as not so bad. The old boat, first to be successful on the Atlantic coast, to day remains the most romantic by product of the golden age of mel- lerdrama, and is now the only ex ponent of thrills, heroism, villainy and Little Nell along North Caro lina’s inland waterway. The showboat took the name of I as the best months for surf-casting the Carolina coast as Cap’n Van., and Gulf Stream fishing. In the Cap’n Van is business manager, and! northeastern corner of the state, has sold tickets during 100,000 the famed Lost Colony pageant, miles of shifting up and down the now m the midst of its third sum- coast. The boat also has -an ad-;nien season, continues to be the vance man who puts up posters' SP-eatest single drawing card North and arranges for advance sale of; Carolina has ever held. The sym- tickets. phonic drama, performed on the CpTi’n Van mavhe could snin you'spot where Sir Walter Raleigh’s 111- a yarn or two, but the showboat fated colonists worked out their Not Paul Green”s drama, but Roanoke Island itself is the “Ober ammergau of America.” There’s a difference. Oberammergau, the home of the most successful and most highly publicized of the European Passion \ Colony, Plays, is a Bavarian village or community in the southern part of Germany. Oberammergau is a place, not a pageant. Its Passion Play has cen tered the eyes of the world on this small community in the Bavarian Alps. The name, Oberammergau, is as familiar as the names of Lon don, Paris, Berlin, Rome. But it is a place, a very tangible and mater-; ial fact that can be spotted on the j map. j Then let’s quit calling Paul A mass concert by a group of high school bands will be featured prior to the 105th performance of Paul Green’s historical drama The Lost Colony as a part of the High School Band Day exercises at Port Raleigh, July 28, according to Charles McCullers, grand director of the combined bands. Five hundred youthful musicians, of .high school bands from Eliza beth City, Belhaven, Columbia, A.hoskie, Hender-^'", Edenton, and Pasquotank County will take part in the special exercises at Fort Raleigh at a part of the 352nd an niversary historical celebrations here. More than 100 members of the bands are girls and for that reason a beauty contest is being held to find the prettiest band-player repre sented. A committee of judges, composed of coast guard officers, staff of The Lost Colony and other leaders in Dare County, will offi ciate during the afternoon. The Henderson band comes with traveling expenses paid by aq altru istic person who liked their music during Carolina Day at the New York World’s Fair. When asked what they would do with the funds, the youngsters decided in a body, “We’re going to see The Lost Col ony.” In order to give the youngsters ample time for a complete concert. Producer D. B. Fearing has an nounced that their program will be gin at 6:45 Friday evening. While here they will be guests of the Roanoke Island Historical As.socia- tion which sponsors The Lost I business belongs to next week’s destiny, has played to an estimated; Green’s great dramatic spectacle her skipper and director. When 3,3 jg concerned, .and il"5,000 people in its three-year run. ' "■ James E. Adams saw the hull and plans for his boat in 1912, he re- not to the past. Nevertheless, .he North Carolina’s can tell you how Edna Ferber spent W&'^lands, vacation activities in marked that ‘ it will take all the ggygpai weeks aboard the James E. damn timber in North Carolina to board her up.” But board her up they did, though it took a lot of timber. The Adams looks like nothing so much as a big sea-going bam, as a tug tows .her down the waterway. But before the port towns had movies, the showboat was a floating palace of glamour, and lucky was the small boy who Adams, and went home and wrote a book about it called “Showboat”, and then how they made a movie elude a series of golf .matches and tournaments, played on the coolest and highest golf courses in the east, horse shows, tennis tournaments. out of that. And ironically enough,! and other events. The Blue Ridge the Showboat tied up one time at ajJ^arkway, 60 miles of which will be town where the .movie was playing.' opened to traffic August 1, will af- and the movie outdrew the original visitors an easy and scenic access to the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains. Outstanding attractions in east ern Carolina during July and Au- Showboat! Cap’n Van wagged hi. fPlease turn to page eight) Mrs. Victor Meekins and baby d''ughter, Mary, arrived here Thursday after a visit with Mrs. Meekins’ narents, Mr. and Mrs. Harrv P. Deaton in Mooresville, N. C. Her sister, Miss M.ary Moore, Deaton, accompanied them. Miss Jane Stewart has returned to her home in Henderson, N. C., after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jones for a week. Miss Bobby Parker has been visiting her aunt Miss Pauline Dan iels of Wanchese. NOTICE TO READERS OF THE SEASHORE NEWS During the month of August the Seashore Nevv's null be combined with the Dare County Times. This will give readers and advertisers a two-fold benefit., in that all of our readers will re ceive in addition to the material in the Seashore News, all of the Dare County Times; and adver tisers will be given the benefit of the circulation of the Times, which goes to other co’unties. Fur ther, more space, than is contained in the limited four pages of The Seashore News will be available to chronicle the doings of the beaches. This week The Sea.shore News will appear on Sunday, instead of Friday, the usual date of pub lication. Another season, when we shall have had time to increase the force of The Seashore News, we expect to give the beaches an even better and larger paper than this season. We are extremely grateful for the support given the News this year, and for the reader interest and compliments paid the paper. Readers on the beaches may look forward to receiving the Seashore News and Dare County Times combined during the month of August. Those who have subscribed to The Seashore News will continue to receive during the term of their subscription this season, the Dare County Times. How ea.sy it is to tell folks not to “The Oberammergau of America,” western and put our einphash on Roanoke^ One “recenrafUr- Island as ‘The Oberammergau of, ^ ^ who has been prominent in the pro- Pardon me for feeling a bit sen-] public life of the dis- sitive about this, because I was the ^^ct. His oratory has resounded first to suggest that the production through the capital of the state, his of a great drama presenting realis- ^^^es some praise him and tically the spiritual birth of English one thing speaking civilization m America, certain, he made his name, and a wth a cast ^of naUve charactersfe^tune with little encourage- should spot-light Roanoke Island He launched into profes- as The Oberammergau of Amer-1 tobk all his time, ica. But we start a thing only to from the rugged strength given gust will be the second annual, "erterby oTherTwho have faffed to’ Coastnl Festival at Morehead City, I perceive or understand the vision July und the sscond* dunus.!. ■f'lqat ws.^ tHA 3.uthor^s i ^ -r-^ * •«s« « ' auenor s. middle age, he seenv At nearbv' ^ ^®''® Oberammergau in' gj discouraged. He had worked le First Ik Germany and witnessed hard, maybe, this particular dav. te™.li0„.l Goggle-Fiahms loa™., ment, August 5-7, with an entry compare in dramatic Water Carnival at Berch, August 4-6. Beaufort will be held the First In list from at least a dozen states and, or musical , „ . , . . laaa exccllence, or in its several foreign countries. Of in-1 J Paul Green’s Iterest to devotees of boating will; Crania of The Lost Colony. I do not believe it would get so much as a two weeks’ run on Broadway if j be the Crrolina Yacht Club’s Invi-i j tational Regatta to be held at Wil-I I mington August 10-12 on the easy- ! sailing waters of the Cape Fear ! River. August 25-28 the Yacht j Club will play host to members' of ! the IMaryland Yacht Club when 1 they make their late sum.mer cruise i to Ocracoke Island, N. C. ] Historic Roanoke Island will be- i deck itself on August 18 for its j annual joint celebration commemo- i rating the 352nd birthday of Vir- ' ginia Dare and the founding of the \ first English Colony in America at I Fort Raleigh. Vacationists seeking the unusual I will find it at the annual Folk ; Music and Dance Festival to be held j at Asheville August 3-5. Featured at the Festival this year will be the j Soco Gap Mountain Dance Team, I which recently performed before toe King and Queen of England in ; Washington. j Outstanding golf tournament of ; the season will be the sectional ; oualifying round for the National I Amateur Charapionshin of the U. S. ' Golf Association scheduled for Au- ; guest 29 at Linville. Other tourna- j ments are scheduled throughout the (Please turn to Page 8) brought to this country. To me it was disappointing and highly over rated as a spectacle. But I e'njoyed my brief stay among those Ba- g,,-his own varian Germans; they are more like ...t i.. . our own native North Carolina stock than any people I found on the whole continent of Europe— more like our own folk, in fact, than the English frorn whose lnin« we sprang. I found the Bavarians the muggy heat w.as rather ener vating, and crept unawares upon one deeply engrossed in an office lackin,g ventilating breezes. I have been -amazed at the strens^h w'th which'he fought his v/ny nuv-nrd. and marvelled at that about l^ini. if npthing else. I have though*: hfiw capable and .strong he must fee! at knowin"' his achievements W'.'vo .4nd yet he, too, heonmes grea:iy fUs-onraged as you or I. As I p-iv, the heat h.ad crept upon l.ini, and he was tired and gave v^'iee to to'> same regrets that trouble you or me—the unfaithfulness of f'-i’-n'l-'. or the lack of ingratitude of those a simple, friendly hospitable kinu-i^^,e ^ ° ® a\arianvi g from those who wouUl are as eagerly cashing m on their , , • j , , . j „ Tj 1 T J guofit bv combined labors or icader- Passion Plav as Roanoke Island- , . shin. ers are inclined to commercialize (Please turn to Page Eight) MRS. SALHIA PUGH Mrs. Salina Pugh, 79, widow of the late Ben Pugh, died Thursday zens of that community. She is survived by three sons, Benjamin, Charlie, and Anthony Pugh of Col- lington. Funeral took place in the family burying ground nearby. / i ,'as )ok a.se .The *ted All cook fri-e. It en And hecniise I thought lie de served to be reminded that tbeua are some inartiunlate beings wto anpreciate what he has done, yet through lack of restraining, do ur-t know how to tell him so, I remind ed him that hur a beinfFs oun nrone to be forgetful. And before . ^ il knew it, I bad found som.> :da?.q morning at her home in Collmgton. encouragement. She was one of the best loved citi- ^ ma,nv a smiling face hides an ato- ing heart, and you or I are no*- if'-a only one who has troubles. .\s this :e turn to Page Six)
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