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COUNTY 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. 6 MANTEO, N. C.: AUGUST 11, 1939 Single Copy 5c STRATTON PRAISED FOR ABLY DIRECTING BEACH FIGHT AGAINST EROSION IT MAY BE RUINS OF TEACH’S STRONGHOLD Called a “Boyish King Canute” Holding Ocean Back; Youthful Director of Park Service Camps Subject of News Article by Bill' Sharpe of State News Bureau By BILL SHARPE it. ISETS OUT ALONE FOR A 29-year-old Canute with a boy-| NtW JOB IN COLORADO ish grin and some new ideas about sand, has just told the Atlantic ocean where to get off. And the Atlantic ocean, not to mention a couple of sizeable sounds, is getting off. A. C. Stratton does not look like a figure in a cataclysmic chapter from nature’s book, but North Car olinians as far inland as BO miles or more might well regard him as the general of a long thin yellow line which is keeping their geog raphy intact, keeping a wild surf from pounding over their farms and cities, and saving their network of inland waterways and a substan-; tial fishing industry. Geologists estimate that if the long finger of Outer Banks which points out into the ocean were to keep pounding to pieces, the banks would disappear—the time depend ing upon storm conditions—and the Atlantic, now held safely at bay,j YOUNG FELLOW would invade the low mainland fori , ^ ^ . many miles. ! Less than 100 years ago the on this happy island, left Tuesday Banks seemed secure enough. When alone for Mesa Verde, Colorado, Raleigh’s colonists arrived 352 vrhere he will be a Park Ranger in TWO APPOINTED TO SEEK SURVEY COUNTY ROADS Commissioners Name Nelson, Daniels to Talk to Mr. Barnes 1,200 PEOPLE EXPECTED FOR MEET OF SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE ASSOCIATION SEVERAL WEEKS AGO the Times carried a story of the ruins o. an old house recently discovered on a Tyrrell County farm. Here is a picture of the site, with County Accountant M. A. Davenport of Tyrrell County with a spade, turning up some of the bricks of the massive wall. It is four miles from the town of Columbia. TOURIST ACCOMMODATIONS The Dare Board of County Com missioners Tuesday appointed i committee to 'call on Highway Commissioner D. Colin Barnes, of Murfreesboro, in the interest of surveys from Manns Harbor to Mashoes and from the Whale Bone filling Station to Hatteras. J. D. Nelson and Melvin R. Dan iels were named on the committee. The survey is sought with the ulti mate view of having the State Highway and Public Works Com mission and the Works Progress Administration to collaborate in building roads between the above- named points. The Mashoes-Manns Harbor road would be three miles long, while the VTiale Bone-Hatteras road Daniels Stresses Fact That All Citizens of Four Counties, as Well as Official Dele gates, Are Invited to Attend Big Meeting Here Next Week PRESIDENT FOUR YEARS OF ALBEMARLE CROUP MORE SANITARY THAN EVER Would be .about 50 miles in length. I The commissioners decided to re- P. F. MEEKINS DIES AT Charlos Morgan Is Pleased HOME IN STUMPY POINT by Good Showing Made This Season Pharoah Farrow Meekins, 69, of Stumpy Point died at four o’clock According to Sanitary Officer Wednesday morning after an ill- Charles Morgan, hotels, tourist „„ i i j j homes, cafes, camps, markets and ness that has extended over several 11,1.1 who is years ago, they reported heavy vegetation covered the reefs—with great forests. A few generations ago civilization changed the habits of the Bankers who inhabited the thriving villages. Many entered the coast guard and lighthouse ser vices and abandoned careful stock Raising, turning their stock out of pens. A heavy demand for timber caused the great forests to be cut. Pigs, horses, and cattle roamed the forests, rooting up and eating the grass and shrubs. The constant 'vinds blew- sand from the beach and from around the roots of trees in the denuded ground and the de struction of the banks commenced. Soon most of the banks became a great flat desert, lowering the land level until high storm tides cut inlets through to the sound. In lets which should be kept open for waterways were filled; other inlets (Please turn to Page Six) Mesa Verde National Park. Arvin Odell Basnight, as he is known, is one of the most popular young men in the county. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. A. Basnight of Manteo, and for the past three years has been on the staff of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial. Prior to that time he worked for the Government at Washington, D. C., after coming out of State College, Raleigh. The picture was made 2 years ago by Victor Meekins, and not havmg another one handy, we used this one. But it looks very much like him. His friends are much gratified that he is making his way up so well in the National Park Service. His life ambition is to come back and have a hand in the Development of the Cape Hat teras National Seashore. dairies are rating higher this year years. He was one of the out- than ever before and he is well standing citizens of his community pleased with tlie improvement, end for many years was noted The majority of 'hotels were throughout the district as a lay given an A rating, with none rat- leader of the M. E. Church, and his than a B. The following received A ratings: The Breakers, teacher Nags Header, First Colony Inn and fame as a Sunday ncliool spread far and wide. j Parkerson’s Hotel, all at Nags At one time he served as a mem- Head, and the Croatan and Wilbur ber of the Board of Commissioners Wright Hotels at Kill Devil Hills. of Dare County. Most of his life Tourist Homes An A grade was given to all the had been spent in the fishing indus- tourist homes inspected. ^OU/ / -AND^ * mam7>7he/j I IH'TB' ^|1 ~ Mir1 ij(l,VICTOR, MEEKINS 352ND ANNIVERSARY OF VIRGINIA DARE’S BIRTH FRIDAY, AUGUST 18TH try. He was born at Rodanthe, and] They are: Atlantic View Cottage, moved to Stumpy Point at an early Nags Head, age. He was an uncle of that large; Baum Tourist-Home, Bertha, family of Meekins at Rodanthe of; Beachwood Cottage, Nags Head. duce the Richmond Cedar Works valuation by 310,000, making the new tax value $93,697. Mrs. Flos sie Russell’s valuation was fixed at $860, and that for the A. H. Ward Ice Plant, $6,000. , The clerk was ordered to contact the owners of the island’s flying field and get a renewal on the field foi 12 months. This field has been rented by the County for two years at .some $176 a year. The Commissioners gave some discussion to the revelation that while the county has been paying some $240 a year rental to J. B. Griffin during the past five years for the land on which the WPA Camp Wright at the north end of the island sits, Mr. Griffin since C. WALLACE TATEM, rounding out his fourth year as president of the Southern Albemarle Associa tion, which has achieved much un der his leadership. Mr. Tatem will preside at Manteo next Thursday. N. C. LAW HELPS January 1, unknown to the Com- I HEALTH OFFICERS missioners had been gettihg an ad- T)t>17''1717'TV.TT' TATCSTP A 017 ditional $30 a month rent from thej A XVJjj V JcjIN 1 UloH/iVoUi Federal Government. It is likely i that the county’s donation will not Diphtheria Immunization and be forthcoming again this fall. Tourist Home which County Commissioner John Caroland Farm A. Meekins is one. j Poplar Branch. Mr. Meekins is survived by his! Chowanoke Cottage, Nags Head, wife, Mrs. Fannie Taylor Meekins,] Eleanor Dare Tourist Home, and by one brother, Arthur M. i Manteo. Meekins, and one sister, Mrs. Jerry Hooper, one son, Maynard Meekins, two daughters, Mrs. Calvin Hooper and Mrs. Roy Hooper. All except the last named are of Stumpy Point. Mrs. Hoy Hooper lives in Elizabeth City. Also nine grand children, and one great-grandchild. Funeral services were conducted Thursday morning, and burial was Manning Tourist Home, Bertha. M. L. Johnson Tourist Home, Manteo. New England House, Manteo. Rest-Over Tourist Home, Manteo. Roanoke Inn, Manteo. Sea Rest Tourist Home, Nags Head. Sleepy Hollow Inn, Nags Head. Snug Harbor Inn, Nags Head. Sarah Woodhouse Tourist Home, in the family plot at Stumpy Point., Assisting in the seridces were Rev.: Grandy. A. E. Brown of Moyock, a former Cafes pastor, and Rev. R. H. Lewis, I Of the cafes, 14 rated A, six re- Stumpy Point pastor. TOM BARNETT’S WARM HEART FOREVER STILL Thomas Barnett, 48, retired boat- For the first time since Paul Green’s epic drama The Lost Colony has been presented at the Waterside Theatre here as a part of the local historical celebrations, Virginia Dare’s birthday falls on a ,, , . , , , . , Friday, August 18, and her bap-j d'ed Monday night at his home of a tism on a Sunday, according to his- j sudden attack ^ following torical records of this colony. I illness. That is the order in which ceived a B rating, and three, a C. The sanitary officer gave an A grade to the following: Baum & Son, Kitty Hawk. Colonist Inn, Fort Raleigh. Community Dining Room, Man- mate of the Coast Guard a long Mr. Barnett leaped into the'fs^e in 1931 for his work in con- events happened 352 years ago and nection with the rescue of the crew the Historian of the Paul Green' A LITTL E BOY’S PLEA TO HEI. P HIS DADDY IN VAIN AT HATTERAS Venereal Disease Treat ment Handled by Law Dr. S. V. TTewis, district health officer, has recently written the Times asking that attention be call- “Please, sir, come out here and ed again to the diphtheria preven- see if you can help my daddy; he tion act passed by the North Caro ls feeling bad.” A little boy ran iif,a General Assembly of 1939 and into Dan Oden’s store at Hatteras j jtie venereal disease quarantine Monday morning. When help went; jaw. to the car, the man was speechless | Diphtheria Immunization end helpless. They t-ok him toj According to the law, children Dr. D. W. Crankshaws’ office, and between the ages of six and 12 while Mr. Oden was in for a pil- jj^gnths shall be given an immuniz- Paul drama makes a point of mention ing these dates. August 18th has of celebration Well, Jennette has gone and done it; his ocean pier is comcleted., , , , Folks said when he started hej , - wouldn’t get his pmney back. It the^ PoP«lation of Roanoke Is- , J „ -p land, but this year it is expected to cost a good many thousands of do - lars to go Out m the ocean a tnou- sand feet with a wharf as wide as a Highway bridge, built on inverted trees 60 feet long. But it looks like brought something County Seashore that is going to bring something else just like it, so popular will it become in a short while. Jennette’s ocean pier has more to it than just the pier. It has a comfortable refreshment stand, bait market, rest rooms, etc. And above all, it has about 30 rooms in its comfortable and spacious cot tages, all neatly furnished, with modern facilities. The ocean pier alone might not mean so much to the fisherman, but when a fisherman can come to the beach, where there is of the ill-fated trawler Anna-May out of Hampton. He was retired some three years ago. He for merly commanded Fort Macon Coast Guard Station, Durants, and other units. He served at Little Kinnakeet, Big' Kinnakeet, Cape Hatteras, and Creeds Hill. Since his , retirement, he .had lived at his home at Buxton, Cape Hatteras. be the largest because double-feature event. Pirns are now underway for a three-day celebration for Virginia .D:re to begin Fridav, August 18. Jennette has ^ gpegi^i exercises will be held at | late Capt. David Barnett, a re- to the Hare j^^igjgjj during the Sunday j nowned Coast Guardsman of the morning services to commemorate; old days. He gave a great deal of her baptism on that very day 352 years ago. The Roanoke Island Historicsl Association invites the public to take part in this historic celebration. Kill Devil Hillss Service Station, Kill Devil Hills. Nags Head Casino, Nags Head. Owens’ Quick Lunch, Manteo. Parker’s Service Station, Devil Hills. Rose Cafe, Moyock. Sea View Inn, Nags Head. Snow W.hite Cafe, Nags Head. Swain Confectionerv, Manteo. Thompson’s Cafe, Shawboro. Wigw’m Tea Room, Manteo. Wright Memorird Service Station, Kill Devil Hills. Two of the three tourist camps, the Jennette Tourist Camp at Nags low, he drew .his last breath and died in the arms of Scotty Gibson, proprietor of the Atlantic View Hotel. It was a sudden heart at tack. The man was Edward Grimes Mullen, age 55, a traveling sales man of Charlotte, who with his wife and two smalt boys were spending a vacation at Hatteras, and had gone down to the wharf that morning to go fishing. There was no undertaker, or em- balmer at Hatteras, Charlotte is a long way off, the trip across to the ing dose of a prophylactic diph theria agent meeting the United States Public Health Service stand ard, and those between 12 months and five years, not previously im munized, are also to be given the dosle. Parents or guardians should take children to private physicians un less unable to pay for the service; in such cases, children should be taken ta the Health officer in thei' own counties for immunization. The law pi'bvides that a certificate of treatment be presented school authorities when the child, enters any public, private or parochial mainland requires three hours; the ' weather was hot. The bodv of the deceased was put in the hold of the , , freight boat; fish boxes packed ^ North Carolina. with ice were placed all around it,. Hon of the act draws a fine of not and the hatches closed. And in thisimore than manner the body was returited to days imprisonment. Twelve hundred people of the Southern Albemarle counties are expected to gather in Manteo next Thursday, August 17, for the meet ing of the Southern Albemarle As- soci.i'-tion. The big events of the meeting will be the speaking and the giant fish fry. Headlining the speakers will be Lieut. Governor Wilkins P. Horton, whose name is definite ly linked with the 1940 Democratic • gubernatorial race, and State Sen ator W. B. Rodman, of Washington, N. C. The lieutenant governor will be introduced by State Senator D. Bradford Fearing of Dare, and Senator Rodman will be introduced by Dare’s Representative Roy Davis. Meivin R. Daniels, association vice-president for Dare County, said yesterday that arrangements are being made to take care of 1,200 people. John Ferebee is the fish fry chairman, and is making arrangements to feed everybody well. “Although each of the Southern Albemarle counties is limited to 50 delegates and 25 guests, we want to make it plain that we are mak ing preparations to take care of 1,200 people at the celebration here.” Mr. Daniels said. “We also wish to make it known that any citizen of the Southern Albemarle counties, whether he be a member of the Southern Albe marle Association or not, is cor dially invited to attend the meeting. Of course, only the official dele gates will have voting power.” Coaimiltees The following committees have been announced for the Dare hosts: Decoration, M. L. Daniels, chair man, W. M. Jolliff, M. K. Fearing. Entertainment, A. C. Stratton, chairman, 0. J. Jones, J. E. Fere bee, R. L. Davis. Publicity, Ben Dixon MacNeill, Woodrow Price, D. V. Meekins. Hospitality, D. B. Fearing, chair man, I. P. Davis, C. S. Meek ins, R. H. Atkinson, General, Melvin R. Daniels, chairman, J. E. Ferebee, Roy L. Davis, Martin Kellogg, C. S. Meekins, D. V. Meekins, A. J. Daniels. Bands will be .on hand from Bel- haven, Plvmouth. Columbia, Eden- ton, and Elizabeth City. As an added,attraction, the Elizabeth City girls’ drum and bugle corps v/ill hold forth. Due to business. Congressman Lindray C. Warren will be unable (Please turn to Page Six) the mainland. SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE PRESIDENCY IS SOUGHT FOR MELVIN DANIELS Hne, and quarantine violators are subiect to Indictment. According Venereal Disease Treatment Venereal disease patients who neglect taking regular and' proper treatments-are spbject to quaran- LARGE CROUP ATTENDS ELIZ. CITY MEETING Some 200 people gathered in Elizabeth City Friday night to at tend a meeting which propo,sed the organization of 11 counties into an cool ba''V-| o’"S'anjzation to be known as the ing, and get rooms right at ‘the Greater Albemarle Association, and pier, where he can find all his needs which would be operated on the supplied in short order-then, that; lines of a district Chamber of Com- is another thing. ™erce, only much improved. It was It has been only a matter of suggested that the four counties about ten years when the late Alex- south of AlbemarleMSound in a ander Midgett was broke in com- Hon to seven others be invited to mercial fishing, .and casting about for something. He wanted to know if I thought it worth while to establish a filling station at '1 ^ the dead end r f the road from Manteo across the bridge, and near the ocean. T said I did think so. I join, giving each county the same number of directors. The scope and purposes of the organization when carried out on the plan sug gested, promises much of great ad vantage to the region. Howard Stevens, J. Henry LeRoy, W. O. wic uc^aii. 1 saiu 1 UlU LUlllIL ^ \ ^ , , 1 figured the trade from Hatteras Saunders, and several other Eliza- Island would grow, and that the betji City men .of great integrity beach would develop. I had faith and ability are leaders in the move- H^ was the .son qf the jjgoj tjjg Virginia Dare Tour ist Colony at Manteo received A, ratings, and both the dairies, Hiilcam Farm Dairv’ "t Manteo end time and research to recording the Edgewood Dairy in Elizabeth City, deeds of the surfmen of years ago, graded A. and he was greatly interested in the None of the markets were grad- service. • ed lower than B, .and most of those. . , - , i- Beside his wife, Mr. Barnett is receiving a B were prevented from | survived bv the following children: getting an A because they lacked Mrs. Otis Willis of Montauk, N. Y., certain items of p.hysical equin- . Henry Belch of Hertford; Mrs. Au- ment and not because of uncleanli- Hes brey Welch, Mrs. Willard Anderson, ness. The City Market .and Tark- . Miss Letitia Barnett, Miss Grace ington’s Market, Manteo, both re- identified with the Association since Barnett, Miss Georgia Barnett; ceived an A. Rumors prevalent around Manteo this week" were to the effect that Melvin R. Daniels, Dare County Register of Deeds, and Vice-Presi dent of the Southern Albemarle As sociation would be elected Presi dent of the Association next week, ! that is if President C. W. Tatem de- The sentiment for Mr. Daniels comes from at least two other coun in the Association besides STAGE DIRECTOR SAYS PLAY IS BASIC ART FORM FOR NEW OPERA Dr. Graf, Colony, Impressed by Will Tell of it. IliMik on Opera Lost The Lost Colon.v has been de- cribed as the basic art form for to Dr. I.ewis, venereal disease pa-|t}je new American opera by Dr. tients are safe for any manner of; Herbert Graf, stage director of the employment if adequately^ treated; Metropolitan Opera House of New but not otherwise. The Health de-lyork Citv. partment attempts to eliminate j Hj._ (jj-af, who directed opera unnecessary hardships by locating; various European clinics where most convenient the greatest number of patients. to Cliiswell, David, and Ward Barnett of Buxton. j Funeral took place in Buxton Wednesday in the family burial plot. The services were conducted by the local preachers. BUDDING DEMONSTRATION it was formed four years ago, and one of its most enthusiastic workers. Sentiment is overwhelming for Lewis P. Watson, extension hor- Mr. Tatem to stand for re-election ticulturist from State College, re-, but in event he doesn’t, Mr. Daniels cently spent two days assisting seems to be second choice In the death of “Capt.” Tom, as County Agent C. W. Overman with he was known to his friends, a big horticultural work. Mr. Watson hearted citizen has gone to his rest, took several pictures of garners, Tom loved the Coast Guard. He flowers, shrubbery, grapes and figs took much interest in seeing it got growing in sand, credit. He had a big warm heart. The two men conducted a pecan and he wanted to do something budding demonstration with Roy worth w'hile all the time for the Midgett of Manns Harbor, who has service. There are many who were some young seedling trees about .his friends and none his enemies, four years old, which were cut back ^ ■—- I Ir-st winter. The demonstrators A traveling salesman received placed several buds in the DIVORCE SUIT FILED DR. LITTLE WILL SPEAK AT FORT RALEIGH SUNDAY capitals before coming to the Met ropolitan seven years ago, attended the Lost Colonv' this week at the invit'-.tion of Theos Crnnk, chorus director. Dr. Graf said .of the jplay: “It goes back to the roots of Dr. Luther Little, pastor of the folk-emotion by the story and the First Baptist Church of Charlotte, form .gf the production, and thus will preach at the 11 a. m. services; creates a real folk-theatre. It is Sunday, August 13, at Fort Ral- from such sources that the develop- eigh. I ment of a new theatre always drew A divorce suit filed in Wilson County last week is of interest to Dare County people. The plaintiff is William 'T. Mason of Stumpy Point, against Dellon Hooper Ma son, whom he married in 1910. The couple separated in 1933 after 23 years of married life. Mr. Mason new for many years was a rosperous Dr. Little, who has been pastor iff g deciding forces, of the First Baptist Church for the “j ^y^g moved by the natur.al past 22 years, has the distinction of | combination of folk-story, words, being the first religious leader in action and music. This is the wav the entire country to broadcast his .gf the old ‘song plays’ or musical regular services. Since the begin- dramas which from the dreams of ning of radio his messages have Aeschyjus have been the important in it, and called the proposition to ment. The membership fee is only the attention of Miles Clark of (Please turn to Page Four) $1 a year. Representatives were present from most of the counties involved. this telegram: “Twins arrived to- growth on each tree, and Mr. Mid-| fisherman and merchant at Stumpy night—more by mail.” The sales-j p;ett plans to complete the work Point, and was a member of the man immediately wired back: next week. A pecan buddimr Dare County Board of Commission- “Overjoyed regarding twins stop demon sir" tion was aPo condimied ers. The mercantile business is if more arrive by mail refuse wHh M. M. Sawyer of Manns Har- them.” bor. , now run at Stumpy Point by Mrs. Mason. been heard over the air as well as under the roof of the Charlotte church, which is the largest of its denomination in the state. A native of Alabama, Dr. Little was reared and educated in Missis- cippi. After graduating from the Mississippi Baptist College, he en tered the Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary at Louisville, Ky. His first call to preach was at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to coming to Charlotte, he preached in Tennessee. germ-cells of opera. I am con vinced thaj it is from such original sources that the new folk-opera will develop.” In the form and material of The Lost Colony, Dr. Graf sees the trend of the basic opera form in America. A firm believer G.at the opera is not a dead art. Dr. Gr"f v.’as recently assigned ihe tuck of writing a book on “The Onem • Yesterday, Today and Touu)rr.-.w ” He plans to mention The f ""t Jackson,! Colony in the closing section of the b‘ok. a Cop] ) OF Gl Mr. i filed tk of ( if a hab 'not all ;^emanc :orney .mocks Iding i the liH Pm Thurs '■.s to k Jy. He 't. LeRoy I Judge b ; required ■' nounced I ,ring bej I of Dare supeia kins, fat noon •*ase inv fie bri; tji roucl ( Ition of i ! people N F( ber 'the list bunty com iveek to g lury ' ‘br tern 1 jeonven kki I - Jibbs, , Engelbi ,wan i* ‘iletownj ird; R- o. B. ;is M. Can omy Gibbs, lan, S^a lo- Ocracok . iton; E. jgh Harri I Swan Qt Quartei ^nton;Y ;I. Berry 'ms, Sci Quarter; •garter; jrock; Ingelhard flcoke; H jem _Irris fdell, B k. E. C |pencer |->ss, Ne' Ue. Eng I % Iflolland; and S IN 1
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