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THE 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.
NO. 13
MANTEO, N. C., SEPTEMBER 29, 1939
Single Copy 5c
DARE AND HYDE PAPERS
TO PAY CASH PROFITS
FOR CIRCULATION WORK
WANCHESE BOY
IS KILLED IN
CYCLE MISHAP
Howard Gaston Saunders, 23,
Buried at Wanchese
T uesdav
Funeral services were held for
Howard Gaston Saunders Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 at the Wanchese
Manteo Times and Swan Quarter Herald Offer
Unusual Opportunity to Men and Women I Methodist church. Saunders died
Who Will Enter the Work of Selling Sub
scriptions; Good Chance to Raise Money For
Schools or Churches.
Beginning October 1, the Dare! JJYOE COUNTY^S
County Times and the Hyde Coun
ty Herald offers an unusual oppor
tunity to active workers who will
engage in a subscription selling
drive. These two newspapers have
decided to increase their circula
tion, and create a better paper for
its readers, as well as a more valu
able medium for its advertisers.
It is imperative that the papers
raise cash to carry on the business.
The cost of raw materials going in
to printing is increasing, along with
everything else. And so instead of
starting a subscription contest,
'vhich pays out much money to
iielp brought in from outside, these
Newspapers have decided to divide
the money with the homefolks; in
short to give them the profits for
their work.
Further details of this plan are
announced elsewhere in a large ad
vertisement in this paper. The
complete details may be obtained
upon application to the office of the
paper nearest you. We want
agents in Tyrrell, Hyde, Dare, and
Currituck Counties, and we want
Subscriptions from people living in
these counties. It makes no dif-
GUIDES EXPECT
GREAT SEASON
Cottages and Guides Ready
For Great Days at Lake
Mattamuskeet
ference whether you sell the Dare
CProm Hyde County Herald)
With only a few weeks before
time for the influx of sportsmen
w’ho have made Mattamuskeet a
mecca for the past few years, the
one man who perhaps has had m
to do than anyone else except the
government itself in attracting
sportsmen to this area is ready
with accommodations calculated to
bring more people to the hunting-
sections of Hyde County.
Reference is made to Leslie
O’Neal, the popular proprietor of
the O’Neal Cottages at New Hol
land at the main entrance to Lake
Mattamuskeet. Mr, O’Neal, who
has run a general store at New Hol
land for more than 25 years, fore
saw the possibilities of the section
some five or six years ago and
erected the first of his cottages at
County paper or the Hyde County
paper. That is the choice of the
subscriber. _
Chance For Churches and Schools
In cases w'here the work is done
churches and schools they may
club together and raise a goodly
sum for their activities. It is not
hard to get relatives and friends to
subscribe to either of these papers.
New Holland for accommodating
the visiting huntsmen.
Mr. O’Neal has formed the prac-
tive of catering to these sportsmen,
providing not only comfortable
rooms asd meals at all .hours of the
day, but also all other necessities
such as all size gun shells for sale
right at his store near the cabins.
He also has available for
for sale a large stock of boots, rain
coats, aviation suits and other
items to make the hunters more
Sunday at the Marine Hospital in
Norfolk as the result of injuries
received when he crashed into a
tree while driving a motorcycle.
Young Saunders, 23, was a son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. C Saunders of
Wanchese and lived at Berkley,
Virginia. With his brother, Gus,
and several others Dn motorcycles,
he was returning home from
Okceana -when he went off the road
on Springfield avenue. Chesterfield
Heights. His brother, badly in
jured some time ago in a motor
cycle accident, stated that Saun
ders was forced off the road by an
oncoming automobile. Officers
stated that the driver lost control
of the machine while traveling -west
on Springfield avenue. He was
thrown into the air and the fall to
the ground was thought to have
caused internal injuries from which
he died. The machine was de
molished.
The accident occurred about one
o’clock Sunday morning and Saun
ders died six hours later in the
Marine Hospital. He called for his
brother 15 minutes before he died
and was conscious, reports said, un
til the time of his death.
Casts had been put on his legs,
broken by the accident, and doctors
up bo the last, were of the opinion
that there was a chance for his re
covery.
Besides his parents, Saunders is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Lois
Cudworth Saunders; one daughter,
Sandra Gayle Saunders; six sisters,
Mrs. Frank Midgett and Miss
Madge Saunders of Wanchese, Mrs.
Minnie Bassett of
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MASONS FEAST
THURSDAY WITH
GRAND MASTER
Wanchese Lodge Host to the
Brethren of the District
at Fish Fry
The Masops of Wanchese Lodge,
No. 521, A. F. & A. M. were hosts
to a large gathering of their breth
ren of the entire First Masonic
Disrict, as well as the Grandmas
ter, J. Edward Allen of High Point,
and Grand Secretary, John H. An
derson of Raleigh. The big fea
ture of the meeting was a fish fry
at four o’clock Thursday afternoon,
and an ice cream social at night
and degree work. The Masonic
ladies of Roanoke Island assisted
in putting on the social.
The committee in charge of the
fish fry and lother entertainment
was Represenative Roy Davis, Ray
mond White and W. M. Jolliff. Ma-
isons from lodges at Edenton, Hert-
'ford, Elizabeth City, and in Gates,
Currituck and Camden w’ere invited
to attend.
The meeting was one of the
most auspicious occasions staged
by Wanchese lodge. Leo Midgett
is Worshipful Master of this lodge,
Leigh Hassell, secretary.
INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASE
UPSETS ANXIOUS MOTHERS;
SMALL CHILD SERIOUSLY ILL
Be sure to start this thrilling
story beginning next week.
GEO. P. CARTER
OF FAIRFIELD
TALKS
C. R. DAVIS IS
DUCKED IN THE
POTOMAC RIVER
Seeks Change' From Old One
Crop System and Will Raise
1,000 Turkeys a Year
. Regardless of the outcome of
Wilmington, I controversy with the President
Del., Mrs. Abe Sobel of San Pedro, j Thanksgiving, Geo. P. Carter
Calif., Mrs. George Sigsby and' ^ Fairfield, is doing his part
Mrs. Lusetta Meekins of Norfolk;
With Roanoke Island surrounded
by water, C. Ralph Davis was not
satisfied with bathing facilities and
travelled way to Washington, D.
C., for a ducking in the Potomac
River. The “ducking resulted when
TURKEY I the boat he was driving in the
races last Saturday afternoon sank,
spoiling his chances of placing in
the President’s cup regatta.
Pat II, owned by H. V. and C. R.
Davis, was entered ivith Class E
inboird runabouts and was one of
eight boats to leave the starting
line at 2 o’clock S.aturday after
noon in the five-mile race. The boat
has a 175 h. p. eng'me, is 17 feet
to
Dr. Johnston Advises There Is No Undue
Cause For Alarm; There Have Been Many
Other Cases; No Preventive Yet Known;
Cases Prevalent in Norfolk and Near Eliza
beth City
PLANS VINEY ARD
NEAR 3,000 VINES
IN CURRITUCK CO.
Capt. T. A. Baum Has Already
Set 1,000 Scuppernongs
on Melson Farm
A scuppemong vineyard of nigh
onto 50 acres is being planted in
Currituck County near Harbinger,
by Capt. T. A. Baum of the Roan
oke Ferry Company. The vineyard
will have about 3,000 vines. Capt.
Baum has planted 1,000 and .has
another 2,000 plants ready to set
out.
One wonders how Capt. Baum
can find time to do so much. Be
sides operating two ferry boat sys
tems, he is owner of the second
largest and the newest hotel on the
Dare County beaches, the Wilbur
Wright at Kill Devil Hills.
His vineyard is on the Melson
farm near Harbinger post office,
and between his trips to Tyrrell
County and Currituck, he is
mighty busy man.
They enjoy reading the home news,
snd these papers give them j comfortable while hunting,
of the home news than any other | Three excellent cooks are
rent or two brother,, Gn, Sounder, ,( Nor- jSri.riW p.te Hrd” *0^“, iSteTln'J'Sve'or "Scoid.
folk and Erneot Sounder, of Mon- ' M, “’“tam the
leo. I intent,nn tn point the Way for a' eta, i h.g line but war; in second
also
papers, and we expect to give still | provided to furnish good meals and the funeral services. Rev. Laurence j
TVl A .i-. .(1 T 1 -f 1 ee. ^ ^ J} ^1— ^ \ ^Vv I I r.
Rev. W. N. Sneeden. pastoi; of
the Wanchese Methodist church, a
sisted by Rev. Laurence,
altitude of 18,000 feet 15 miles off
shore midway between Ocracoka
and Cape Lookout was undertaken i Tranquil House where her par-
, . , I - = - - I this week bv the Photographic Sec-1 ^B'e. Dr. Rinker, a Norfolk
enuren, a I Plwhen she nad covered t\vo|tion of the Army Air Corps under | specialist vjas called in consulta-
conducted ' bothered Hyde County so | gf the cource. It was then j the direction of Maj. Hache M. tion with Dr. Johnston this week.
’ long. -1-- -4- 1- 1 —
115 MILES OF SEA
AND SAND IN A
SINGLE PHOTOGRAPH
The sudden illness of two-year- '
old Judith Y/escott, child of Mr.
and Mrs. Nevin Wescott of Manteo,
critically ill of infantile paralysis
here this week has thrown a scare
into parents everywhere in the
vicinity.
‘‘But there is no need to become
unduly alarmed,’’ says Dr. W. W.
Johnston, the attending physician,
whose own child was stricken by
the disease five years ago, and fully
recovered. ‘‘We have had many
cases in Dare County before; as
many as five in a single year. While
it is to be dreaded, and its origin
and manner of spreading is yet un
known, we rarely hear of it hap
pening to more than one person in
the same family.’’
Dr. Johnston says there is no
form of vaccination yet discovered
to prevent this disease. Since the
scare occurred, many people have
asked him about this. He thinks
the best thing under the circum
stances is for parents to keep their
children home when not in school.
^ In the opinion of Dr. Johnston,
there is no need to close the
schools. Children would be going
about everywhere, he says, and
would probably be in as great dan
ger as at present. If the disease
shows any tendency to spread, then
the school and health authorities
A single photograph that will'
show the entire j.l5-mile reach of I promptly,
the Hatteras National Seashore,!. P^^r^nts are warned it is better
done with infra-red filters from an! they can keep their children
home, when not in sc.hoql.
T.Pe little Wescott girl is ill at
I that she struck some pieces of ply-1 Reeves, personnel officer of the
ttiore of it when this drive is con-1 (.q prepare and cook game which
eluded. All you have to do is to go Ujje visitors bring in. Numerous
osk people to subscribe to the pa- guides make their headquarters at
per. They will not bring it to you. 3Ij._ O’Neal’s store, so that the
For those who send in the first i yjgRjj^g huntman has no occasion
batch of subscriptions, there 'vilL^g gp elsewhere for sup-
be an extra cash bonus. ! plies or for guide service.
For those who turn in the first I So popular have been the cabins
batch of subscriptions to either or [and the service provided by Mr. for the funeral were Mr. and Mrs.
both papers by October 5, there | O’Neal that each season has found
will be an extra cash bonus. Extra , many of his former patrons return-
bonuses will also go to those w'ho j ing and brmging others with them
send in the largest number of sub-]to the Mattamuskeet hunting
scriptions by that time gnd still grounds, made famous the country
over since the government took it
over in 1934 to make it a fowl ref-
is an evangelist of the Assemblies! Carter has built a new house j wood torn from another boat in an jgecond Wing of the GHQ Airforce.
of God church. Pall bearers were
Richard Grey, Jr., Freddie Ether
idge, Henry Parker, Robert Thur
man, Sherman Sawyer and James
Altman. Interment was in the
Cudworth cemetery.
Those coming from out of town
of photo-
the same
tion with
Her condition is considered moss
critical. She is paralyzed from the
neck down.
for his 140 birds, and now he is sojearlier race, the propeller broke. A,,r,thpr nf n Qenes
well pleased with his success with : and a hole was torn in the bottom, I undertaken on
them he is getting ready to build a leaving her nose sHcking up out of ^ Diamond , RATTER A^ AIFN
y^ter and drn^r DaAus floating in Hatteras Light to the
house of 1,000 bird capacity. With
turkeys bringing $3 or $4 apiece on
the markets, he ought to be able to
the Potomac river. The rac^B was
v • 1 .1, T ° J wn" • / iwith polLoid filters that
realize a nice profit when they can B. Ward, Jr., of Wilmington, Dela-' ^
another cash bonus of great value
bo the agent who sends in the larg-
(PI ease turn to page eight)
Fishing
and all
Out Doors
-By-
Aycock Brown
Authority on Pishing News
uge.
Each year additions have been
made to the cabins with the result
that there are now 16 rooms, al
most all of which are well screened
and equipped to accommodate com
fortably up to four persons. Hot
and cold water is provided in the
showers with the rooms being com-
! fortably heated.
' In addition to the cabins at New
I Holland, Mr. O’Neal a little over a
I year ago acquired the ownership
jand management of the hotel in
G. P. Banks, Robert K. Thurman,
Shurman Sawyer, James Altman,
Robert Johnson, S. J. Regulan, Gus County, many years ago envisioned
Montague, George Daniels, Mr. and j a ferry across Albemarle Sound.
Mrs. Tom Hayman, Mr. and Mrs.; The result of that vision is a mag-
be raised for about $2 apiece. iware, and the Davis boat was not
Mr. Carter, who is one of the J recovered until late in the after
most farsighted citizens of Hyde noon.
' The Davises won the chance to
enter their boat in the President’s
cup regatta by placing second in
George Sigsbee, Mr. and Mrs. Gus
Saunders, Mrs. Vance Cudworth
Mrs. Lois Cudworth Saunders and
daughter. Miss Loretta Godfrey,
Miss Wilma Cudworth and Mrs.
Nannie Calhoun of Norfolk, Miss
Leatha Lenark of Oceana, Va., and
Mrs. Hyacinth Bassett of Wilming
ton, Del.
The fuuneral services Tuesday
were the second held in Wanchese
in recent months for victims of
motorcycle accidents. A nephew of
Saunders, Lionel Midgett, was
killed in May of this year when the
machine on which .he and Roy
Swan Quarter, 10 miles away. The Davis, Jr., were riding crashed into
Lawrence Lancaster of Vance-'
boro probably caught the record
2ero of the season last Sunday
when he landed the 36-pounder
while fishing with Capt. J. J. Finer
^board his party boat Patricia in
Onslow Bay off Beaufort Inlet.
Lancaster, brother-in-law of Pa
trolman Jo.hn Laws famous crack-
n^arksman of the Highway Patrol
Was fishing with quite a number of
persons aboard the boat and
strange to say only the 36-pound
cero and a small bluefish was ta
ken. The largest cero taken up un-
bil Sunday weighed 29 pounds.
Despite favorable weather condi
tions on the week end no outstand
ing catches were reported from
nny of the fishing centers. Thurs
ton Gaskill of Ocracoke and Ralph
Nelson of Atlantic and Drum Inlet
who have served faithfully as con
tacts for this column in their re-
spective sectors report that plenty
of channel bass, blues, Spanish
mackerel and smaller species of
fish are being taken, and it is the
same story in the Hatteras-Oregon
Inlet sections, but no record fish or
near records have been reported
during the past week.
Major George Gillette, U. S. Dis
trict Engineer of Wilmington, his
soh Douglas, a second year man at
Annapolis and Dr. Herbert F. Pry-
therch of the jU. S. Fisheries Lab
oratory in Beaufort landed several
nice porgies, sheepshead and Span-
hotel has been renovated, with
; some additions, and is being man
aged by Miss Pearl Saddler, sister-
in-law of Mr. O’Neal.
Also accommodations for hunters
are provided at the Lake Mattamus
keet Lodge, situated on the lake
and leased by the government to
J. S. Mann.
The Lakeview Cottages built last
year by R. L. Gibbs and E. M.
O’Neal, son of Leslie O’Neal, were
since burned but are now being re
built and will be operated by El
bert Jones.
S. H. Barber who operates Bar
ber Shanty at Lake Landing also
has cottages for visiting sportsmen.
an oncoming automobile at the
Coinjock canal bridge. Davis es
caped with minor injuries but Mid
gett, driver of the motorcycle, died
in the Marine Hospital a few days
after the accident.
nificent bridge over the sound. T^-
day, he is looking far ahead, and
attempting to show the people of
Hyde County, how to diversify and
find more profits from their labors.
His new turkey house will be
100 X 150 feet. A 12-acre section
of his 140 acre farm will be devoted
to pasturage for the birds. He has
Sowed a patch in crimson clover,
and his arrangements permit a part
of the land to be grazed at the time
—about four acres.
‘‘We have been raising too many
caterpillars and army wo/ms,” Mr.
Carter says. ‘‘Now is the time to
change. We can grow anything m
the world in Hyde County, and its
rich pasturage suggest profits in
livestock, as well as crops.”
the September 2 races at Stone
Harbor, N. J., and winning the
Eastern championship at Atlantic
City September 3 this year.
Several loving cups, cocktail sets
should
reveal clearly the scores of wreck
ed ships lying in the graveyard of
the Atlantic, and on the return
flight to Langley Field a mosaic of
Roanoke Island and another of Col-
lington were done. |
MAKING GOOD
SHRIMP CATCHES
Many large catches of shrimp
early in the week were proving a
great help to several Hatteras fish
ermen. Most of the boats are
manned by a crew of several men.
Altogether the series of pictures, gjjg jj^an fishing alone, Morris
when completed .and made avail- winig on Monday caught about
able for publication, will become of 22fi pounds of shrimp, valued at
immense value in projecting this ' ^55^ 25.
region into national notice. Major j jj-ish Styron, fishing Dan Oden’s
and a clock' are numbered among ; Reeves was hopeful that the {,oat caught 2,300 pounds valued at
the trophies that Pat II has brought I photograph of the National Sea- $1^200. Dennis Robinson and
to the Davis china closets, but her j shore would rank with his picture Emul Foster also made good
trophy-winning days, now seem to that shows clearly the entire length catches.
have ended. The motor used for [of Long Island, and is regarded a^ j jjost of the shrimp are sold to
Saturday’s race was borrowed, the 'Ooe of the most renaarkable aerial ^ buyers, for the Globe Pish
NEGRO SHOT IN FOOT
AT SATURDAY DANCE
WAR ENDANGERS
WRIGHT BROS. PLANE
Capt.
Bill Tate Seeks Return
Ship From English
Museum
of
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SALISBURY MAN CAUGHT
BIG HATTERAS BLUEFISH
A big bluefish caught at Hatteras
lon September 2 by T. K. Carlton,
Salisbury, N. C., attorney, niay
prove the record catch in the Field
and Stream contest. While fishing
off the Diamond Shoals with Vern
on Willis and Roscoe Burrus, Jr.,
Mr. Carlton landed the fish on a
36 thread line. It was 35 inches
long, weighed 14 pounds and was
18% inches around it. The fish was
led to its doom by biting a chunk
of bait cut from another bluefish.
J. I. Willis well-known Hatteras
merchant reports he saw a large
blue marlin off Hatteras Monday,
which did stunts beside his boat.
Coinjoek, N. C.—Capt. Bill Tate,
who helped the Wright brothers
make their first airplane flight at
Kill Devil Hills 36 years ago, is
fearful that German war planes
will destroy the original Wrig'ht
plane.
He wants the United States bo
return the Wright ship from Eng
land at once.
‘‘One bomb would destroy this
ship and rob all of us of their
treasure,” he said. ‘‘It certainly is
not safe at Kensington Museum.”
The original plane was sent to
the English museum as a result of
a dispute between Wright and
Smithsonian Institution officials
over the wording of a plaque to be
placed on the exhibit.
A Negro employee of Duvall
Brothers, East Lake, is somewhat
the worse for his Saturday visit to
Roanoke Island. He reported that
he attended a dance in California
and that his dancing with a girl in
the dance hall occasioned a fight
climaxed when he was shot.
The bullet went through his foot,
so he did not seek medical atten
tion but admitted that his foot was Kellogg
regular motor having been des
troyed w'hen the Creef machine
shop burned in the Manteo fire
two and a half weeks ago. It was
sorry enough luck to replace a
motor, but now the whole boat will
probably have to be replaced be
cause it was so badly damaged.
According to Ralph Davis, the
President’s regatta is a jink for
him. Pat II placed third in 1937
but bad luck prevented , entering
her in the races last year, and this
year she capsized. The regatta was
held this September for the thir
teenth time, lasted from September
16 to 24 and included sailing and
motor racing, swimming, rowing,
canoeing and an illuminated water
carnival.
Among those from Manteo at
tending the races Saturday were
Earl Green, Keith Fearing, Jr.,
I Miss Mary Mann Evans, Martin
'vnimo-o- 1
photoeraphs ever taken. 1 of Elizabeth City, Clayton Ful-
Tentative plans for the. series of ;cher of Atlantis, and' Potter Fish
pictures were made here last sum- jCo., of Belhaven.
mer when Major Reeves spent a! A catch of 1,200 pounds of
week here aboard his yacht and shrimp was brought to Hatteras
during .his stay saw much of Roan- | market Monday by J. 1. Stowe who
oke and the Outer Banks, with also caught 600 pounds of shrimp
Alpheus W. Drinkwater, Capt. John Friday. They were selling at 4 to
T. Daniels and Ben Dixon MacNeill 5 cents a pound on the local market,
as guides. Last Tuesday morning Snowden Quidley caught 1,000
the matter was definitely proposed pounds of shrimp on Saturday. Lu-
in his office at Headquarters in ther Burrus, Henry Gaskill, Pres-
Langley Field, and, after telepbon-j ton Stowe and many others are en-
ing for weather reports off Hat-1 gaged in shrimping. Profits are
teras. Major Reeves was ready to not large, for running expenses are
take off. The flight was made in ^ $10 to S12 a day, whether any fish
a twin-motor'ed Grumman am- are caught or not.
phibian of -the same type flown by i
Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of JENNINGS MIDGETT IS
the Army Air Corps, on his many NOW LEGUM’S MANAGER
visits here "during the summer.
Jointly with Maj. Albert W.
W. Jennings Midgett of Rodan-
a little sore. After the shooting
he spent .a good share of the night
eluding his pursuers who were not
satisfied with the extent of his in
juries. He escaped without being
further miolested.
Mann
Mr. and Mrs. H. Vernon
EVERETT HEADLEY GETS
JOB WITH STANDARD OIL
(Please turn to Page Eight)
Everett Headley left this week
on the S. S. Swift Arrow, a .Stand
ard Oil tanker. The bo.at will go
and evidently weighed as much as j from Norfolk to Houston, Texas
400 pounds. and from there to Philadelphia.
DRUM FISHING GOOD AT
HATTERAS INLET STATION
On the north point of Ocracoke
Island 15 drum fish were landed
Sunday afternoon in one and a half
hours by William Garrish and L.
D. Midgett of Hatteras Inlet Coa.st
Guard station The boys reported
the inlet was full of fish, with many
strikes, but most of them got off
the hook. But 15 large fish were
landed.
Davis and daughter Pat, Mr. and
Mrs. Roddy Meikle. who went up
Friday. Dave Driskill Leigh Hassell
and Alvah Ward flew to Washing
ton Saturday morning. A number
of the g;roup visited Mount Vernon
Sunday.
Stevens who was the first to photo- who has been connected with
graph the curvature of the earth’s the A. J. Legum Furniture organ-
surface, Major Reeves is regarded jzation for several months as sales-
as the father of aerial photog-1 mao, vas this week made local
raphy. He established also the | manager succeeding Frank Fac-
Aeronautical Museum at Wilbur |chini, who returns to Norfolk’. Mr.
Wrighf Field in Dayton, and has | jjjfjgett will be in charge of sales
FISHERMEN NET A
MAN EATER SHARK
Miss Estelle Meekins, Mrs. Edith
Quidley and Mrs. Cora Midgefit
were in Norfolk Monday.
The first man eater shark ever to
be caught in a pound net in Croa-
tan Sound so far as is known was
:aught last Thursday by Jaccie
Burrus and Thelbert Tillett, two
young fishermen of Manns Harbor.
As the fishermen came near their
nets they could see a large fish in
one of them, and several minutes
spent many years collecting his-1 and collections. Although the
toric items and pictures. He was .jyianteo store burned down in the
this year transferred to Langley! recent big fire, the firm will con-
Field and came shortly thereafter ^ tinue to do business in Manteo, and
to visit Roanoke Island. 'will fill orders from both their
Archaeology is Major Reeves’ Norfolk and Elizabeth City stores.
hobby, and the great shell mounds
on Collington, he believes, should
whefTthey are opened, disclose val
uable flues to aboriginal civiliza
tion. He was delighted that the
area will eventually be presented
in the Hatteras National Seashore
and the mounds preserved.
Mr. Midgett who is highly popular
will make regular trips over Dare
County in the interest of the busi
ness.
ELIZABETH CITY HAS
RADIO STATION, WCNC
First radio broadcasts were made
Tuesday from Elizabeth City. The
new station, . managed bv Trim
Mr. and Mrs. James Hollowell
later they captured it and brought have as their guests, Mrs. HoUo-
it ashore. iw-ell’s sister, Mrs. Robert 0. Jones, Aydlett, is ksovm as WCNC, (We
The shark weighed about 800!of Lafayette, Ind., and aunt, Mrs. Cover North Carolina), and oper-
pounds, and was 12 feet long. Pearl W. Franklin of Phoenix, Ariz. | ates at 1370 kilocycles.