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THE ‘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. 8 MANTEO. N. C., AUGUST 25, 1939 DANIELS MADE PRESIDENT OF SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE IN SUCCESSFUL MEETING Single Copy 5o INSTRUCTORS OF ATHLETICS FOR MANTEO CHOSEN Alligator River, and Endorsement of Webb; D. V. Meekins Succeeds Daniels as Vice- Presideint For Dare When route 264 through Hyde to \ Manns Harbor is complete, the bridgfng of Alligator River and the completion of U. S. Highway 64 from Columbia in Tyrrell Coun- iy,to Manteo will be made the prime objectives for which the en tire Southern Albemarle Associa tion will throw its weight until cul minated, it was decided in resolu tions adopted at the annual meet ing in Manteo Thursday of last week. The delegations from Hyde, Tyr rell, Washington and Dare Coun ties, each with 50 votes, voiced their approval of the projects as an objective for the association without a dissenting vote. Zeb Vance Norman, of Plymouth, who introduced the resolution as sured proponents of the paved road from Engelhard to Manns Harbor that he would not have the bridgin- of the Alligator River take prece dence over the Manns Harbor-En- gelhard road which he opined was already virtually assured. The association has previously considered the bridging of Alliga tor River and Croatan Sound and the paving of the road from Co lumbia to Manteo as a continuation of U. S. Highway 64 as objectives for which the association would fight. The resolutions Thursday simply elevate those projects to one of priority which the association will strive to obtain. In the surfacing of the Columbia- Manteo road, the audience heard opinions from two speakers, one a probable candidate for governor ip (Continued from Page One) CAPT. TATE DISCOVERS NEW YORK SUCKER CITY Carr Teaches History Also; Miss Hypes to Instruct in Home Economics John Gerald Carr and Miss Eliza- . . . . -i . • Hypes have been chosen as Association Enthusiastic For Completion of :the new athletic instructors at the Road Between Manteo and Hyde, Bridging |Je“^®begimfing sS. 7.'“ In addition to football, basket ball, and baseball, Mr. Carr will' teach history, lie.sirles athletics, Miss Hypes will be in charge of the Home Economics department. This subject has not been taught in the Manteo scho.ol since 1933 when it, was discontinued because of a fall ing off in attendance. The State School Commission recently allot ted a fifth teacher, making possible the revival of the department. Mr. Carr is from Stroudsburg, I’a., and obtained his B. S. in Health and Physical Education from Pennsylvania State Teachers College where he majored in Social Science and English. Mr. Carr taught for one year at Wilkes- barre. Pa. He is 25 years old, five feet 11 inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. The new instructor has had a long and brilliant record of par ticipation in athletics. In high | school he took part in varsity foot-1 ball for three years, and varsity basketball for four years. He play ed on the freshman basketball team in college and also on the football team of which he was captain. His junior year he was captain of varsity football, and participated in junior varsity baseball and ten nis, and intramural basketball, baseball, and wrestling. Mr. Can- will be in charge of all boy’s ath letics with the exception of boxing w-hich will continue to be instruct ed by David Lithgow. Elizabeth Hypes from Shelby, N. C., holds a B. S. degree from Virginia State Teachers College of Radford, Virginia, where she ma jored in home economics and minored in science and physical education. She has had two years of experience in teaching athletics. Emphasis will be on soft ball and basketball in the girls’ division of athletics. R. H. Atkinson, superintendent of Dare County schools, announced a change in the physical education program for this year. Athletics of some kind wdll be compulsory for all students in high school and in tlie upper grades of grammar school. Previously athletic in struction has been optional. HAVE DARE COUNTY TIMES GO WITH YOU FROM THE SEA.SHGKE Send us a dollar bill, and we will send j'ou the Dare County Times for eight months. Let it keep you posted about Dare County and the things that go on in the Lost Colony country all through the year. The Dare County- Times is the weekly journal of the in teresting No’.'h Carolina coastland. You will enjoy it. Send y-our subscription direct, or if more convenient, you may- leave it at the Seashore office. Western Union at Nag'S Head. DARE COUNTY TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. MARYLAND YACHT CLUB DUE HERE OCRACOKE BOUND Party on Outing as Stanley Wahab’s Guest to Visit Fort Raleigh ■H GIRLS TRY INDOOR CAMP HERE IN MANTEO Now and then we hear our neigh bors ill adjoining counties, as they contemplate the recent progress of Dare and the astounding success of the Lost Colony, deplore the fact that their counties have nothing to compare with Dare in history and other material around which to build great tourist attractions. It seems to me, as one who has viewed the slow growth of Dare’s progress, that this is not correctly stated. Only 15 years ago, I was laughed at by wiser men than I, for my penchant for publicity stories that lavishly praised Roan oke Island and Dare County. “Why no one will ever bother to go down there; it is too far out of touch with the world, and has noth ing to offer as an inducement,” I was told. If I quoted the names of people who told me that, they would bitterly resent it today. And that was only about 15 years ago. What they failed to take into ac count was that the tides of travel would eventually cause our section to become better united with the outside world. And in all the in tervening 15 years, I never lost faith in the belief that some day the world would come to Roanoke Island and its adjacent seashore. W’hile destiny has favored Dare County in making it the site of many events that have been of great consequence to mankind, it has taken the tireless and the oft- discouraged efforts of many people to bring to pass the things we now enjoy. Those who are prone to be discouraged, now view the nearly completed product, without having taken into account the years of preparation, toil and planning that achieved it. Like the young couple starting out in life, they feel dis couraged, on viewing the accumu lations of their elders, who have fine homes, and cars, and apparent prosperity, which are really the re sults of many years of toil and self-denial and careful planning. We often hear people say, “I wish I could get some cheap land like ‘so and so,’ who is mopping up on lots he is selling now.” They ■overlook the fact that the land may (Please turn to Page Six) Our old friend, Capt. Bill James Tate has recently returned from a glorious trip to New York. Capt. Tate ransacked his memory over 36 years, and just discovered he brought a barrel of gasoline to the Wright Brothers. Capt. Tate also recalls it was Standard gasoline. So Capt. Tate has been flown to New York and feted by Standard Oil as well as in Raleigh, both com ing and going. But Capt. Tate made a discovery. The hicks are not here, but in New York he says. Capt. Tate thinks they are suckers. He frankly says so. Here are his own word®,' ‘‘Gotham—the sucker city is’ easy: Just be different, original, distract their attention from them selves, bring along an idea that was born outside of Manhattan and any one can make New York sit up and take notice. They are really capa ble of being human if you can get their minds off themselves. They are so wrapped up by New York they welcome some diversion. They I are “fed up” on New York and tired of the diet, and welcome any change—they are queer creatures, and like the rest of humanity are looking for something different. They have everything and are sick and tired of it, there’s nothing new for them in New York. They must either bring it in or go outside af ter their thrills. There it’s all “old stuff” to a New Yorker. “These are impressions arrived at after many years absence from New York, having not been here in 20 years. New York has of course, changed much in that time; I am undecided whether the change is for the better or not. Give me the wide open health giving spaces of Eastern Tarheelia with its content ed people, good fellowship of its hu man individuals, its lovely country side and gleaming stretches of beaches and waters in preference to what they have, and the hurry bur ry life they live up here. Tarheelia I love you better than ever. You are incomparable. “New York’s fair when you com- (Please turn to page five) STUMPY POINT MAN TELLS OF BEING CHASIrD BY BEAR Hollis Quidley, young Stumpy Point man, while walking the high way between Stumpy Point and Manns Harbor Monday, reports he was chased by a largP bear, but he finally outran bruin. Recent heavy rains are said to be driving the bears from the swamps, and several have been seen on tf.e mainland roads. On Saturday night. Sheriff D. V. Meekins narrowly missed running over a large deer which suddenly ran across the road in front of his car, within two miles of Stumpy Point. NORFOLK VISITORS The “happy medium” in camp life was discovered this week by about 20 young women from Nor folk 4-H clubs who spent their three days in Manteo cooking outdoors, sleeping indoors on the floor, and following a regular camp prograni complete with vespers. Mrs. Milton Harrell, formerly of East Lake, and Mrs. F. M. Sholes, led the group of semi-campers, who rolled up in blankets each night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Rogers for a a good rest, undis turbed by leaky tents, mosquitoes and spiders. The club members left yesterday by automobile after seeing the sights and studying Roanoke flora. The three-day program included i Tuesday lunch at the Wright Me- j morial, swimming, seeing the Mo- j ther Vineyard and Fort Raleigh, | and attending the Lost Colony. I The club members turned these into educational jaunts-' reviewing the i history of the Fort while there and I studying local plant life on their j hikes to scene.s of interest. Members making the trip were Misses Mary Rose and Muffet Grinalds, Ethel, Grace and Agnes Dublah, Frances Nixon, Arteifa' Byrum, Evelyn Kelley, Shirley Pierce, Lottie Mae Smith, Geneva Everton, Lefia Glowatsky, Prances Alien, Ophelia Miller, Irene Gelar- die, Jackie H. Hagen, Dorothy Brinson, Ginger Harrell and Jean Ives. WORLD’S FAIR TRIP PLANNED FROM MANTEO E. J. Brickhouse, secretary of "uie Chesapeake Auto Supply Company, visited Manteo and the Lost Colony Wednesday night, for the third time. He is one of the most ardent Norfolk boofeters of Lost Colony. He had as his gptests. Miss Dorothy Riggins, and her mother, Mrs. Harry Riggins of Norfolk. NOTICE TO COTTAGE OWNERS AND BEACH VACATIONISTS WESTERN UNION office closes August 31st for :he season. Telegrams to be dispatched from then jn must be sent to Manteo. Delivery will be made from Manteo. ELECTRIC LIGHT office. The office of the Sea shore News which handled complaints and requests for Service for the Virginia Electric and Power Company will also close on August 31. THE SEASHORE NEWS office will open early next season, and it will serve the people of the beaches with printing and advertising and news gathering service. COTTAGES. If you desire to rent your cottage, during the coming 12 months, and wish good service, send us your name and home address, with complete details about the cottage. For a reason able fee, we will look after the rental, make col lections, and otherwise assist you. Address; TIMES PRINTING CO., Box 55. MANTEO. N. C. Low Rate For Party With All Expenses Paid Arranged by Bus Company An opportunity for citizens of Dare County to spend three days and nights in New York and attend the New York World’s Fair wi’l be made possible through an all ex pense tour planned by the Virginia Dare Transportation Company, Inc. ■ The tour has been arranged to leave Manteo at 4:30 a. m. Sep tember 8 with the departure from New York on the return scheduled for the evening of September 11, according to Guy Lennon, manager of the transportation company. Transportation expenses, rooms at Times Square Hotel, and break fasts each morning at the hotel, one aomission to the Fair grounds, a conducted tour of New York City, .1 conducted tcur of Radio CMy and observation roof are all included in the nojninal late for the tour. Reservations may be made at the offleo of the Virginia .Dare Transpor'ia’Gi.n Company, Inc., or with Mrs. Vivian Ryder at Manteo. A party of members and guests of the Maryland Yacht Club, which planned an outing Saturday to Ocracoke as guests of Stanley Wa- hab, hotel owner and native son, has cancelled plans to debark from Swan Quarter and will leave from Manteo, according to announce ment sent us by Stanley Wahab in Baltimore. The change has been made, be cause as yacht owners, and future visitors to Ocracoke, they wish to inspect the route through Croatan and Pamlico Sounds, as well as de siring to visit Fort Raleigh and other points of interest around Roanoke Island. The party will be carried to Oc rscoke on the State Fisheries Cruiser Hatteras, and will leave Manteo about noon, Saturday of this week, returning Monday morn ing. They will come to Norfolk on the Baltimore steamer Friday night. Pilot Dave Driskil!, will tender his plane to any of the group who wish to travel from Manteo to Ocracoke in 40 minutes by air, leaving from the Manteo airport Saturday afternoon. The nartv will lunch at the ''^ort Raleisrh Hotel before leavins- Man teo for OeracoVe. T^iere the'’ will at.np at the Wahab Villanre Hotel, Sunday diversions will include fi.sb- 'nr, two-legged race, spoon race, ■"oUing pin contest for women, bath- ine beautv contest and a refresh- ment-drinkinot contest. There will also be a treasiine hunt on Wahab villasre beach with prizes Sunday night. PASQUOTANK AND DARE ABC BOARDS ENTERTAIN The Pasquotank and Dare County ABC boards will be joint hosts to night when the North Carolina As sociation of ABC boards meets in Manteo for its monthly meeting. According, to Roy L. Davis, head of the local board, actor Donald Somers and the Lost Colony choir, directed by Theos Cronk, are sched uled to appear on the informal pro gram planned for the six o’clock dinner hour at the Community building. B'usiness of the boards will be discussed during and after the dinner, and some of the mem bers plan to remain for the show ing .of the Lost Colony. This is the first time the Association has held its meeting in Manteo. BUXTON MAN TRIED AND TAXED WITH HALF COSTS HIGH FIGURES ON ROAD PROJECTS ARE SCORED BY PRESIDENT M. R. DANIELS Southern Albemarle Head Shows Up Appar ent Tendency to Throw Cold Water on Roads and Bridgres the Law Vouchsafes Us, But Remaining^ Denied To Us After 20 Years by the Administration STATE’S GOVERNOR TO VISIT ROANOKE ISLAND Found guilty of taking some beer from the truck of John Brown Gray of Buxton against the owner’s orders, defenda.nt Clarence Brady, Jr., of Buxton was taxed with half the costs in court by Judge W. F. Baum Tuesday. An' older case charging the same defendant with breaking into and robbing th^ store of Mr. Gray is to be IrlclT next week. Stapp Wise of Nags Head was taxed with the costs for engagtmg in an affray and creating a dTs- turbance at the Nags Head casino. GOVERNOR CLYDE R. HOEY who visits Roanoke Island today, Friday, to witness Lost Colony for the fourth time. Accompanied by members of his family, the Gov ernor must drive some 75 miies further to get to the birthplace of the nation, than he would, if Tyr rell and Dare Counties were united. HYDE COUNTY MAN DIES BY HIS OWN HAND Iline.ss was Shid to have been the cause of the suicide Saturday night of Will S. Dudley, 69, Hyde County farmer. According to County Cor oner Pratt Williamston, Mr. Dudley had had two paralytic strokes within the last few months. He died aoout 8 o'clock from a self inflicted wound, leaving a note, and was buried Monday afternoon. Survivors are: three sons, Leland, AVillie and Sam Dudley, all of Lake Landing, and a daughter. Miss Inez Dudley of Raleigh. Mr. Dudley’s wife died a little over a year ago. The suicide, considered a leader in Hyde county, had large farming interests in the White Plains section between Lake Land ing and Middletown. CONTRACT FOR SHORT PART OK DARE ROAU Taking issue with figures quoted on the cost of completing the roads from Tyrrell to Dare and from Hyde to Dare, Melvin R. Daniels, president of the Southern Albe marle Association, this week point ed his finger at the apparent ten dency of highway officials to throw cold water on the projects which are vouchsafed us by the law of this state, but denied us by its offi cials. Before 24 hours .had elapsed after the Southern Albemarle meeting in Manteo last week, an Associated Press report quoted Engineer Baise of the Highway Commission as esti mating the cost of these projects at §3,000,000. Of course the cost shouldn’t be a matter to be con sidered, any more than the State considered the two million dollars for the Albemarle Bridge projects, since these things are things the law sets forth, but now that the Albemarle bridge is built, those who are opposed to the Alligator River, and Hyde County projects trot forth the bugaboo of cost. Mr. Daniels’ argument, as pub lished in the State pass is reprint ed herewith: “We hope that Mr. Baise will look into the subject more serious ly as the high figures he gives tend to throw cold water on the proj ect,” Mr. Daniels said. For in stance he quotes the cost of build ing a road from Croatan Sound to Manteo as $50,.000 when in fact the road is entirely built and all hard surfaced except nartly one mPe, The type of road built in this section costs about §10,000 a mile .30 We can assume it would cost only §10,000 to finish the surface .of this road. “Bearing in mind this astound- {Please turn to page five) Announcement has been made by the State 'Highway Commis^on [that a eontracl to surface nearly five miles, or 4.94 of the Stumpy Point-Engelhard road in Dare County, at a cost of $88,941.20 to Tunstall Johnson & Company, Nor folk, Va. The work of surfacing some ten miles on the Hyde County end of the road is underway. The surface treatment is of gravel and asphaff. TOAVN’S RESIDENTS TO ASK COLLECTION OF GARBAGE The disposal of trash and barb- age has become quite a problem since the town has grown so fast, and no one now has a patch of woods right back of his house, ana is not able to keep a pig in the town limits. Hence many people are expressing a desire fhal the town adopt a policy of collecting all trash and garbage each day as is done in most other towns, and some of the people are talking about going before the town board and demanding this service. Usually small towns are able to get this service performed for prac tically no cost. A contract is made with some farmer living nearby, who, for the advantage of getting the garbage with which to feed his pigs, is willing to haul it away. Residents are required to give all garbage to the regular collector. TONY THE FISH PEDDLER OR . THE SON OF THE BEACH I sella de feesh an’ sella de crab I am notta so good an’ notta so bad I leeve in de s’nack vare de sea gull, he screech, I am Tony Peroni a sona da beach. I guess you maybe think I’m pretty big fool, Cause I never been to Amerikan seboool An’ I don’t know so good Amerikan speech I’m just “Dago Tony,” a sona da beach. Dey say to me, “Tony vot for you stay here” Y'.ou make more da mon ven you sella da beer, I say, “I no care, I don’t want to be reech, * I vood rather be just plain sona da beach.” Last veek I hear two fellers talk on de sand Bout fella called internal rev-enoo man. I don’t hear so good vot dey say in da speech, It sounds like he too is a sona da beach. Now I don’t t’ink he a feller like me, Kus he didn’t leevo here on da beach by da sea, So I don’t understand, maybe he and I each Be two different kind of a sona de beach. Veil, I am just “Dago Tony” and am dam glad I am, I am glad I am not vot you call rev-enoo man, Cause some day I die, and ven heaven I reach, Dey vill say, “Come in, Tony, you sona da beach.” Fishing and all - Doors -By- Aycock Brown Authority on Fishing News Gulf Stream fish have been taken closer insiiore this year than ever before. Dolphin by the. dozens have been caught by trollers in Hatteras Bight, Ocracoke Inlet and even in the vicinity of Beaufort In let and Lookout Bight. And North Carolina’s share of that blue stream of water ever moving northeast ward, and the fish taken as a result of it flowing so closely to our coast has been responsible for the big'- gest fishing news of the nation be ing centered right here at our front doors this year. Down in Florida it is not considered news of any I importance when a blue marlin, a j barracuda, sailfiah or tarpon is ta- jken. Dolphin, amberlack and cero are commonplace. Here on our coast it was big news early this season when any of these species were taken—but no ; longer. 'That 593-pound blue mar- : liii taken off Hatteras by Marshall Dana of Cincinnati, largest ever taken so far north along tbs co i the many sailfish taken off Cape Lookout, the barracuda off South- port and later off Looko'ut,. along ' with the other gamier species of ithe deep, have definitely placed I North Carolina into the spotlight I of the nation as a salt water game fishing state. It has all resulted in more anglers coming to the coast than ever before. If you hear ]a guide grumbling about business j being poor—take a look at his I equipment. The chances are that I he is not properly equipped, or is ! afraid to go off to the blue water after the big game species. That means simply this, the Gulf Stream fishing fleet of Florida will eventually be spending their sum mers on our coast. North .Caro lina guides should equip properly for off shore big game fishing. It is tJie future for our coast. Ten years ago in an early fishing column of my career 1 wrote from Ocracoke saying that “the future (Please turn to page five) f IIRI warf itm ther; ifore i I’ect 0^ waged d this earing C. S, n Jeai* svd- irivan 3 tw"® n the 0 has, abet, 3lrs. night: veefc \va3 nett-] ani« , on iirs. re- the itei nk' ffi' in ( or- J the / to't US'I -'1.' Fay-f • in tiri; ut., . the ) 1-1. t-» k J mi lud/, : btp i I t r- • - y ezV- 'la rl
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