North Carolina Newspapers

V THE DARE COUNTY Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, ETihradng the Cape Hatteras National Seashore VOL. V; NO. 19 n/iftMTcr> m r' ^lri\/I^^^DCD *” I>ARE COUNTY’S COAST GUARDS rescue seamen ^^arnatic Voyage of 35 Foot Yacht Ends at Oregon In- '®t; Hatteras Crew Busy Dare County Coast Guardsmen Sured in two rescues of seamen in ^stress last week. Two men, °und out of New Bedford, Mass., n a 35-foot yacht,-* had battled a for five days trying- 'to get ^^ound Cape Hatteras, and finally ®re towed in by a boat crew Tues- of last week, to Oregon Inlet, oast Guard station. U'ku'Walter, and John Knox of Bedford had experienced a rightful voyage. Heavy seas had amagefi their craft, and they had Sone many hours without sleep or ood. fiig following Oregon Inlet Vernon Tillett, Alexander ^®ekins, Borland Midgett and Mon roe Barco, comprised the rescuing party. Mj.. Walter, who was pilot- *ag the yacht south for the owner, Continued his voyage by inland yraterway Friday, while Mr. Knox returned north to his home. He gave great praise to the Coast guards for their good work and ospitable treatment while at the ^ration. The Hatteras Inlet crew also ren- oered aid to a vessel Saturday, the yacht Siesta, which had grounded ii| the Inlet during the night. Her riistress calls were picked up by amateur radio operator in Lor raine, Ohio, relayed to the Coast ^uard which floated the yacht, boast Guard headquarters in Nor folk sent the message to Hatteras 2:30 Saturday morning. At 12:30 p. m., the radioman on the fiesta messaged “We are all clear. . ptteras Inlet station did a great job.” The yacht was owned by W. J. "^lliday, of 1231 Beacon street, bhicago, Ind., according to local boast Guard headquarters. An earlier identification of the yacht as one owned by Mrs. John J. White, Sr., wife of an Atlantic City notel man, ' was incorrect. Both '''essels had the same name, and "'ore of the same type. stumpy point church ^Roup ELECTS OFFICERS New officers for the Stumpy 1 oint Woman’s Missionary Society ^®re elected when the group met -“November 6 with Mrs. Dewey Wise. They are: Mrs. Dewey Wise, President; Mrs. Calvin Payne, vice President; Mrs. Beaman Hooper, 'Corresponding secretary; Mrs. Len- Hooper, recording secretary, Irs. Calvin Ho.oper, treasurer; ^rs. Marvin Hooper, local treasur er; Mrs. Hollis Quidley, outlook ^gent; Mrs. Dallas Grey, superin- rsndent of study; Mrs. Rosser Nix- pr*> superintendent of supplies; Mrs. Roland Midgette, superinten- oeni of children; Mrs. Tobe Wise, ®'*Perintendent of Christian social relaions; Mrs. Tom Wise, Mrs. Gar- ®iid Meekins and Mis. Ransey ooper, local work. ''Methodist ministers annual conference The Rev. R. R. Grant of Manteo, Rev. R. Z. Newton of Swan Quarter and D. L. Berry left Swan Quarter Wednesday morning for Rayetteville where they will attend rhe annual Methodist conference in ^ssion there this week. The Rev. Mr. Wright of Lake Landing is also attending the conference. BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES ,,-^^^riteo: Study class tonight at church at 7:30. Sunday, Bible PpPool at 10 a. m. B. T. U. at 6:30 P- m.. Worship service at 7:30 p.m. ^'rr Mission Institute will begin Monday evening at 7:30 and con- rinue through the week. Rev. w. C. Newton, a returned ^issionary from China will be here ° direct and lead this series of Services. We plan to .have two 'Or Pree discussion groups and at the P ose of the discussions Dr. Newton rs expected to appear in native cos- ume and bring a special message earing on his experiences in China. IS hoped that the reader of these come and invite others; Children, young people and adults. Gur Christmas program is in the aking and will be given on the yening of December 24 at the chumh. It will be the story of cistmas in discussion and song. Roanoke Island: Sunday, Bible chool 10 o’clock a. m. 'Worship crvice at 11 o’clock a. m. B. T. U. Pt 6:30 p. m. „ ”'6 welcome the visitor as well hhr own people. C. C. PERRY, Pastor. .. DANIELS WINS bo ^PP’'d Daniels will probably * Cominsky in Baltimore late i_'^P'hhth. He won Monday’s fight in ,v''rfolk by knocking out Rabin the fifth round. ANOTHER LOCAL INDUSTRY GROWING BIGGER AND BETTER Manteo has a printshop that can turn out anything equal to any shop between Norfolk and New Bern. Without boasting, it is a credit to the community of the size in which it is located. It ha.s ample equipment to serve all the printing needs of its locality. You don’t owe us anything for putting this printshop here, because we put it here in the hope of making money and getting out of life the true satisfaction of a job well done. But we believe, all in all. we can give you something more than any other print- shop in the country. And that is, in addition to quality printing at reasonable prices as well, as quickly and as cheaply as any" other shop, the satisfaction of knowing that you have paid your money into local hands, for local taxes, for local labor, and for local enterprise— that will come nearer finding its way back to you than in any other manner. The thing we are trying to do is the only way to bring progress and prosperity to our own section. We must build home industries, we must create jobs for people. We take pride in establish ing a printing industry for the North Carolina coastland. We are pleased with out growing circle of customers. We have done printing for people in New York City, in Pennsylvania, and in Norfolk, Virginia. W'e can supply everything you need in the printing line. TIMES PRINTING CO., Inc., Manteo, N. C. MANTEO, N. C., NOVEMBER 10, 1939 FRISCO'S NEW LITTLE GROVE M. E. CHURCH Single Copy 5c THOMAS WESTON CAPTAINS SHIP FROM HOUSTON Hyde County Native Broke 1934 Longshoreman Strike One of the most interest ing careers of a Hyde Coun ty native is that of Captain Thomas G. Weston of Houston, Texas, who was born at New Hol land in 1896, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Weston. After a short period of education at Oak Ridge Military Institute young Weston i took to sea, running on a boat to I Europe. He was a member of an ! oil tanker that in 1918 engaged in ia gun battle with a German sub marine 100 miles off the Straits of I Gibraltar. Twenty-one shots were I fired by the tanker with the result HERE IS the newly completed Methodist Church at Frisco near Hat- j that the submarine wa!s disabled teras, -which at long last replaces the Methodist church destroyed by | towed into Gibraltar by a de- a storm in 1933. It is largely a monument to the faith and community stroyer. service of Mrs. D. E. Fulcher, postmistress and former teacher, w'ho . First Through Kiel Canal solicited funds for the building of the church, and received contributions from Boston to Mexico City, the Hon. Josephus Daniels being one of the contributors. The Duke Foundation also aided in the work.—Photo by 'Victor Meekins. Captain Weston was a .member of the crew of the first American ship I the World War with a cargo of j food and clothing for the extreme I northern part of the Baltic sea to ! people who were destitute, i In 1910 Captain Weston began ; plying waters between Philadelphia and Houston and for the past thir- ■ teen years .has been captqin of a fast freight snip between Houston i and Philadelphia. j In 1934 Captain Weston had a jpart in breaking a strike of long- By ELAINE JOHNSON ’ jhead far back .and at a certain!shoremen which feat gained for There is a little box of a store angle, Shannon can see alike with him national publicity in the news named Miniature Grocery on thejhis eyes. The two impressions,! reels and in marine circles, j highway between Manteo and Sky- that is, become exactly superim- I CO, with the usual stock of canned posed, one upon the other. WHEN THIS GROCER LOOKS AT HIS STOCK IT DOUBLES Jack Shannon, Now in Store Business, Has Strange Malady of Double-Seeing LOWER TAX RATE HOPE OF COMMiSSIOnERS F NEW PLAN WORKS WELL Dare Board Plans Intensive Hunt For Prop erty; Special Civil Court Asked For First Week in January; Hire White For Manteo Policeman in Tuesday Meeting- A. J. HARRELL, HYDE FARM AGENT, RESIGNS If plans of the Dare County Commissioners for the proper list- POR r.DPPIMP ro inR valuing of taxable pnop- FOR GREENE CO. JOB discussed in the meeting of the Board Tuesday, the Hyde County commissionera m .q.,, , session this \veek accented the “ ^alf, session this \veek accepted the county may be several resignation of A. J. Harrell, for the J past two years county farm agent, ^ property. effective November 30. For the CommissiLers plan to J. P. Woodard, who will succeed'put on a supervisor early in 1940 Mr. Harrell as county agent inland have every piece of property Hyde Decembenl, has been assist- visited in the county, and a search- ant county agent in Martin Coun- ing examination made for those ty for the past two years. He i who are not listing poll and per- graduated from State College withjsonal property according to law. a degree in animal husbandry. He was a member of Alpha Zeata, na tional honorary agricultural fra ternity while at State College. He is a native of Kenly in Johnston County, and is single. Following the acceptance of the resignation of Mr. Harrell the County Commissioners drafted a letter of recommendation, to the Greene County coimmissioners, pointing out the satisfactory work of Mr. Harrell and expressing re gret at losing him, though joying in his promotion. Mr. Harrell was as- Ran Blockade It was during that year that the goods, crackers, cookies and the | So confusing is this double im- port of Houston was closed by the j sistant county agent in Greene like. Outwardly it’s an ordinary pression that it is .hard to guage' striking longshoremen who were County before accepting the county sort of place, but it symbolizes the distances and simple habits such as striking for a closed shop. The [agent’s work in Hyde County, hope of an unfortunate man to find walking become a struggle. Mere- harbor and channel had been j himself. |ly seeing now consumes so much of crowded for fifteen days with load-1.. . ., . nni it Head and Kitty Hawk. . That man is Jack Shannon. He^Shannon’s mental and physical ed ships “laying at anchor” unable VVnU WI-vUl t. MBUU i is still a young man, a few years | energies that there is not much to reach their piers. The port was I this side of 40, and until one morn-1 strength left for other things. i experiencing a great loss that ran ing last January he had a good job ^ But it isn’t good for an able- into hundreds of thousands of dol The Commissioners agreed to hire Asa White, former Manteo policeman, at a salary of $75 a month, to serve as policeman in the town ,of Manteo. The Board also agreed to ask Governor Hoey to set aside the first week in January as a special term of Superior Court in I Dare to try the congested civil docket, and dispose of cases as much as 12 years old. The Board released the taxes of a widow at Avon and one at Stumpy-Point and corrected a num ber of errors in listing. It accepted the Sheriff’s 1939 tax settlement, and agreed to participate in pro viding a watchman for beach cot tages during the winter season at MAN LOSING ONE GETS TWO PAIR PANTS CAP. W PAIRS BACK CAPT. LANCE MONTAGUE TAKES CANAL ZONE JOB Capt. W. Lance Montague, a Wanchese man, who for 20 years served as captain of the Virginia Pilot Boat Relief, off Cape Henry, will sail from New York .on No vember 14th, to Balboa, Canal Zone, to take command of one of the Government tugs working in the Canal. Capt. M.ontague has been employed recently by the Govern ment to pilot a harbor service tug at Norfolk. He has been in boat ing work for over 30 years, and is one .of the best known steamboat men in the Norfolk vicinity. His address will be Balboa. After school Mrs. Montague will close their home in Norfolk, and go to Panama. Two other Dare County boys are at the Canal Zone. They are Carl B. Meekins, and Glenn C. Dough, both of Roanoke Island, and employed as boatbuilders. Capt. Montague was on Roanoke Island this week, visiting his mo ther and sisters, and before telling everyone goodbye, took out a three years’ subscription to the Dare County Times in order to get the home news. DIES H. KINDERVATER IN KENTUCKY jas section foreman in the State'bodied man to sit all day thinking lars. During one night while “lay- That it pays to tell your troubles {Highway department. He had about himself, so the former section ing at anchor” Captain Weston j through the columns of the Times worked for the department for 161foreman has gone into the grocery took on board his vessel 300 long-{was proved to Harry Brooks this . years. But one morning in January I business. The store was opened s.horemen who had been locked out j week. Someone took a pair of; Devil Hills memoriaT" and'^the whirled about his head and became a muddle. Capt. William H. Kindeiwater, the retired Army officer who super vised the construction of the Kill Hills memorial and the job .September 25. His wife and mo- from their jobs on the piers by the {trousers from the back seat of Mr. I of anchoring the hill, back, in 1932 ther wait on the customers when strikers, and 35 men armed with’Brooks’ car and the loser protested to 35, died Monday at .his home in pains in his head, nearly always machine guns and ran the blockade. 1 in last week’s Times. i Elizabethtown, Ky. The funeral don’t know the I in the Miniature Grocery buying case of double I their food supplies. The Shannons Doctors are puzzled by his case.-with him, are worse than usual, and Captain Weston’s vessel reached! sheriff Meekins found an old pair was Thursday .of this week. Some say paralysis, some sleeping j his other relatives are frequently her pier and discharged he/ cargo | around the Times .office and do- i The news of his death was sickness, some answer. It is a trouble, for where there is only one, i live in a small house next door to Jack Shannon sees two. Each per-|the store, and have two children, son standing before him has two)Aldrich, 7, and Yvonne, 3. , outlines, one overlapping the other, 1 Jack Shannon is still cheerful two persons become four, and four and hopeful of improvement. He alarmingly become a crowd of enjoys visitors and can explain the eight. j sensation of double seeing so clear- the sea was manifested in 19:54 In some way .his eye muscles ily that you almost feel as if you’rs when after 5% months of spare have been affected and each eye | seeing double yourself. As far as time labor he completed a 32 inch registers a different impression both as to the location of the ob ject and its color. To one eye a person seems a shade darker than to the other eye. By tilting his [he’s concerned, the customer is al- niodel, made to scale, of his vesse. I ways right. If you buy a can of the S. S. Wichita Falls. The model tomatoes from him, .he will be see-1 entirely handmade and hand-fitted, ing two cans but.he’ll charge you for only one. RECALLS SLAVE AUCTION SALES IN ANCIENT FAYETTEVILLE rested his slight frame from Alabama. Robert returned to I his home which he bought at the ' time of his marriage in 1932. And Mrs. Weston, the former 1 -4. „ 4. .4., Miss Dione Dunne of Fifth Avenue, and endeavored to push a pebble ® New York, has also had an inter- Robert against an old chest of drawers his place by the pillar. An old and other vessels proceeded to them to Mr. Brooks. They ceived with great regret in Dare likewise. It was this breaking of. didn’t fit. A few days later a man County where he was universally the strike that brought Captain | ^^,^0 had been a passenger in the loved, and particularly at Kitty Weston national publicity in the | notified him that he had unin- Hawk, in which community he re marine circles and on the movie .tgntionally picked up the package [ sided. When his work was finished screens. ^ ^ Icontaining the pants when he at Kid Devil Hills, he vvas trans- Prize For Ship Model picked up his own bundles and got ferred to Kentucky. He suffered His experience and knowledge car. He knew who the^a stroke two years ago, and had owner was but didn’t know where j not fully recov'ered. to find him until the complaint ap-1 Besides his wife, he is Survived peared in the Times. jby six children, William H. Jr., I Julius, Robert, Neal, Christine and MANTEO INDEPENDENTS Caroline. The youngest was born PRACTICE AT NIGHT in North Carolina, and was named was entered in a national hobby \ . for this state. show at Philadelphia and won i Manteo Independent football | Capt. Kindervater while here second prize. Later it was dis-1 team have had lights put up on the buiit a home at Kill Devil Hills, played in the show window of a gpo^ts field and have been having now owned by J. H. Holmes of Houston store and has since found {aight practices, with Adrian Ayers Edenton. He was a public spirited a resting place on the mantel of | coaching th^jn. | citizen, and his work here attracted Their game with Portsmouth, wide attention, for the job he did at scheduled for last Sunday after- Kill Devil Hills. The news of his noon, was indefinitely postponed death was wired Tuesday to Mrs. MRS. MEEKINS HOSTESS TO ISLAND MUSIC CLUB Mrs. William Bridgeforth, Mrs. Rennie Williamson, Mrs. Victor Meekins and Alexander Mathis presented the pnogTEun for the Roanoke Island Musk Club when that organization met Tuesday night at the home of Mrs. Meekins. Mrs. James Hollowell, president, opened the meeting, and Mrs. Wil liamson played the federation song and reported on the district .meet ing of music clubs which she and Mrs. Preston Daniels recently at tended in Windsor. According to Mrs. Williamson, a new federation song .has been adopted by this dis trict and is to be introduced to .other music clubs throughout the country. Jack Adams and Miss Elaine Johnson were voted on and accept ed as new members. A chapter from “Discovering Music,” The text being used by the club this year, was discussed by Mrs. Bridgeforth, Mr. Mathis, program chairman, talked on radio music, Rachmanin off’s Prelude in G minor was play ed by Mrs. Meekins, and Mrs. Wil liamson played a contrasting light number. Coffee and cake were served by the hostess. The December meet ing is to be held at the home of Mrs. E. L. Bell, with Mrs. Bell, and Misses Hel^n and Bonnybel Evans as .hostesses. Mjr. and Mrs. Robert Atkinson recently visited the David Lithgows at their home in the Norway Apart ments .on Granby street in Norfolk. with his big black toe along a crack in the pavement underneath the arches of the old Fayetteville Market House. Taxes, even in 1861 were high, and at last through neglect and disinterest the old plantation up the river, and all of its chattel, was under the hammer of Alexan der Campbell. The old auctioneer mopped his heated Scotch brow and in a prac ticed pleading tone asked for an other bid on a Sheratan card table. “Ladies and gentlemen,” intoned the auctioneer, “rather than to see this beautiful table go at such a price I’ll raise the bid myself to twelve dollars. Do I hear another bid? Going once! Twice! Are ye all done? Sold to myself for twelve dollars.” Yesterday Robert had played on the plantation and had I tears, brought a little sack of hard to her youngest boy. w’hen a Portsmouth team repre sentative telephoned late Saturday afternoon to cancel the game. Ef forts to schedule a game with an other team on short notice were not successful. The Manteo team consists of esting life. Until married she had never stayed at one place longer than three months, having made Robert wiped his hands on his fourteen round trip voyages across tattered knee-breeches and prof- the Atlantic and two trips around fered a piece to a little white boy the world with her father. In her _ Twvne Sam Kee David who came up. “I’m sorry daddy travels she saw ports of the world Wbffa. Gerald Wise, had to sell you. He doesn’t think never visited by any other Amen- slavery right but then he couldn’t can woman. bid you in, anyway,” said thei Her hobby of raising pets once white lad. I led her to travel 2,000 miles to free a small animal which she was un able to tame into its native wilder ness. She speaks many languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and like her husband, belongs to a number of elite clubs. Hetty M. Baum, Kitty Hawk post mistress and friend of the Kinder- vaters. MANTEO NEWCOMERS FROM PANAMA CANAL The negro boy sort of grinned and together they munched the candy. Almost lost behind one of the graceful arches the old mammy clutched her hands together, mut tered in a low voice audible only to the two boys, “Oh Lawd, yo’ knows best, ah knows, but grant me dis one prayer dat mah little j boy Robert won be no account to j dat white man what bought him, and dat his bondage will soon cease to be.” I BRANCH CCC CAMP SET I UP NEAR WASHINGTON A branch camp of the Mattamus- keet CCC camp, Co. 424, was set up near Washington this week and wdll be in charge of Mr. Bond, gone { It w'as but a month later that forester, under the command of swimming in the Cape Pear that. the man from Alabama, returning Lieutenant Martin of the Matta- made a watery boundry of one end, for another auction, reported muskeet camp Forty men for the of the plantation; today he. wfth Robert was dead, starved himself branch camp were sent from the fiftv cents the rest of the slaves of the plan-, to death before he had a chance Virginia Dare camp at Mantec. ^ tation had trudged the four or five to be worth the price of his head.. rpj^g engaged in a project miles in the wake of wagon-loads And when this month, Payette- of building fire breaks.' of other chattel from the big house, ville celebrates its two hundredth j year of settlement, a little white MRS. RAYMOND WESCOTT Newcomers to Manteo are Cap- Stick, Linwood White, Gerald Wise, tain Carl B. Wahle and his family, Punk and McCoy Tillett, Roy Davis, who came here from Panama, Oc- Jr., Ray Westcott, Leon Owens and tober 24. They have taken an Bill Richardson. They and the apartment in town and plan to stay high school team use the uniforms a month. The Wahles are on a two month’.s leave, at the end of which they will report to their new station at Foiji Monroe, 'Va. Charles and Carol furnished by the Manteo association. Athletic SIX-YEAR-OLD MAKES 400 PER CENT PROFIT jthe two younger children have en- [tered the Manteo school, Charles as When Francis Meekins, Manteo a hia:h school sophomore and Carol first grader, went to a Hallowe’en , jj, the fourth grade. Jacqueline, party put on Saturday by the Jun- ■ ^^tiS was graduated from Christobal ior Woman’s Club, he spent one of scJiool last year, plans to enter his nickels to get a grab package., william and Marv’s college at W:i- Inside the package was a brown;]i„,nsburg, Va., when her father silk tie which Francis’ father, | t,kes over his new post. Sheriff Meekins, is now wearing. | The tie cost Francis five cents, he sold it to his father for a quarter, and the Sheriff claims it’s worth So everybody is happy. Old Auctioneer Campbell finally turned his attention to the little group of colored folk huddled to gether in the shadow of the arches. A gentleman from Alabama was interested in many of the slaves. MISSIONARY GROUP MEETS AT MOYOCK moustached old man, now eighty- four will look on, as the historic pageant takes place at the same old market house, and will recall ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE Mrs. Raymond Wescott enter tained at two tables of bridge Wed- how seventy-eight years ago hd sat | nesday evening, guests being meni- the number of negroes multiplied beneath the stately columns and; bers of her club. High score was behind him at tne market. Two of ate candy with a little colored boy [ wen by Mrs. Alice Mae Etheridge. his sister who failed to see the last part of | A salad course was served. Those his mammy’s prayer come true. | playing were Mrs. Wescott, Mrs. and he | Captain Alexander Campbell lives Etheridge, Mrs. McCov Hillett, was placed on the low block. For j today among the same old fumi- I Miss Delnoy Burrus, Mass Mary a time bidding was strong but | ture that his father, the old auct- ! Mann Evans, Mrs. Elmer Midgett, ceased with the booming “one 1 ioneer, once bid in at the public Mrs. Frank White and Mrs. Vernon thousand dollars” from the man' auctions of another day. j Davis. Robert’s brothers and Liza were separated. It came Robert’s turn The Elizabeth City district of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Baptist church held its annual meeting Wednesday at the Moyork Baptist church with an all day ses sion and lunch. Mrs. R. M. Rid dick taught from the book, “Con straining Love.” Among those from Manteo at tending were: Mrs. O. J. Wescott, Mrs. Ada Creef, Mrs. Stewart M. Rogers, Mrs. W. W. Johnston, Mrs. C. C. Perry, Mrs. Eliza Twyne, Mrs. Cartha Liverman, Mrs. C. B. Parker and Mr, and Mrs. J. T. Daniels. NORTH CAROLINIAN NOW IN THE MOVIES The world premiere of Kay Ky- ser’s first motion picture, “That’.s Right, You’re Wrong,” will take place November 15 in Rocky Mount, Kav’s home town. Following three showings of the movie. Kay will broadcast his regu- hour from Rocky Mount over the NBC network, and his orchestia will play for a warehouse dance. November 15 will be known at Rocky Mount as “Kay Kyser Day.” Kay organize'd his first band when he was a student in the University at Chapel Hill about 12 years ago. Miss Evelyn Rogers has returned to Raleigh after visiting her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart M. Rogers. 0 i Of law ihen vcr,T tci» used •th’s lave low- ' old and tTHTTStCTT: