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THE DARE COUNTY ^ Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland- V; NO. 20 TIMES PRESENTS RADIO PROGRAM SUNDAY ON WCNC SIX DAY CELEBRATION ONE OF STATE’S EVENTS FAYETTEVILLE NEXT WEEK Hundred Years of History in Tipper Cape This week the Dare County Fear Valley to Be Observed With Cere- j Times inaugurates a new service ponies in Which Governors of Two States Hie-Enact Dramatic Historic Event Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, E nbracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore MANTEO, N. C., NOVEMBER 17, 1939 HOMEWARD BOUND FROM SCHOOL AT THE CAPE Single Copy 5c Charles Overman and Miss Helen Evans to Inaugurate Series of Local Talent Programs Fayetteville, N. C.—A strong ■ghland flavor run througfi the celebration which Fayette- uie is readying to commence No- ''ember 19. The celebration, which will mark 00 years of history in the Upper ape Pear Valley, will be one of the ^ost varied and ambitious ever at- cmpted in North Carolina. From over the country, descendants of IS NO STRANGER IN THE COUNTY OF DARE all ae Scotch settlers will return here or the “gathering of the clans.” j .outdoor pageant, in which nota-1 ^ Os of North Carolina and Tennes- ee will participate, and an indoor! aania, written by Paul Green, will | ® Fa-rts of the spectacle. The program follows: Sunday, Nov. 19th, 3:30 p. m.— '.celebration begins with Historical Service at the First Presbyterian I church. Monday, Nov. 20th, 8:30 p. m.— ^ Scotch Historic Drama written y Paul Green, author of “The Lost olony,” veil! be presented at the vlpera House. This drama will be S'ven for flye nights at the same hour. . Tuesday, Nov. 21st, 11:00 a. m.— ^ parade, with floats, portraying Jhe historical, educational, indus- '''al and commercial life of this Section. There will be many mili- and musical units in the pa- jfade. This parade will be followed y en open air historic drama pre- ^nted from the west balcony of the Market House. This pageant which will furnish a bit of enter tainment for its many readers. Be ginning Sunday afternoon, Novem ber 19, at three o’clock, we will sponsor a fifteen minute program composed of native talent over radio station WCNC in Elizabeth City. It is our plan to present an en tirely different stiow each Sunday, A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION FREE to the first one to guess in proper order the names of all these young people. They are mostly the children of Frisco, the little community near Cape Hatteras. They go to school seven miles each day at the Cape. The picture was made by Victor Meekins in front of the store of O. C. Fulcher, at Buxton. R. B. ETHERIDGE, CHAIRMAN; HEILNER, WAHAB, NAMED ON NEW SEASHORE BOARD Manteo Man, Heads Commission Including Doris Duke, Mrs. J. A. Buchanan, Goiv. Carolina National Seashore; L. C. Warren’s Work Led Measure Through Congress IS HEAD OF HATTERAS SEASHORE COMMISSION and we are asking our readers to cooperate in helping us "make these programs a success. All banqjs. quartettes either sacred or spirit ual, hill billies and musicians of 1 every type are asked to register at j the Times office every Saturday | and arrange with Miss Cora Barks dale, radio editor, for an audition. Elsewhere in today’s paper will be found a column hi^ lighting the weekly program of WCNC. Keep your dials tuned to this station, 1370 kilocycles, for profit and en tertainment. The program sponsored by the Times will be known as “A BREEZE FROM THE SEA- I SHORE” and we sincerely hope that all of you who have talent will find your place in the sun. Let us .hear from you. Charles W. Overman, County Agent, and Miss Helen Evans, teacher in the Manteo High School, „ . . . I vocalist and accompanist respec- for the ensuing year, is no stranger | program THE HATTERAS. FISHERIES PATROL BOAT REV. MADISON W. MANESS, who has been assigned the pastor ate of the Manteo Methodist church I in Dare. He recently married Miss Sunday afternoon at 3 p. m. Charlie Overman is a good singer, and Mis I Evans is a gifted musician. I ~ CAP. DAN HAYMAN NOW fore serving as pastor in Camden County, he served the Kennekeet charge in Dare County. He is a * clean, forceful and earnest young man. Wanchese is delighted in the .COMMANDS BIG TRAWLER R. BRUCE ETHERIDGE, who has served during two administrations as director of the N. C. Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment, is chairman of the newly ap- oointed Cape Ha.tteras National Seashore Commission. His ap pointment will naturally meet with THE HATTERAS, patrol boat of the N. C. Fisheries Commission, used great approval in the coastlanS | (for sea duty to halt the illegal operations of trawlers. She is com-j'^’^ere it is desired that the utmost jteras National Seashore H Capt. Dan Hayman, well known to his home folks on Roanoke Is- turn to Stumpy Point; Rev. M. E. turns up as .master of a Cotton to Kinnekeet, while Rev. R., 5”^ Diesel Trawler being outfitted R. Grant, beloved Manteo pastor [ Norfolk to go to sea soon. It is will be superannuated. Rev. John R. " Poe returns to Aulander, and Rev. J. M. Jolliff to Gatesville. METHODISTS SEND ONE NEW PASTOR TO HYDE COUNTY is cook. portray the ratification of the!return of its pastor. Rev J. W. Federal Constitution, the charter-' Sneeden. Rev. J. R. Regan, who of the State University and the preached at Stumpy Point about ten ceding of the Tennessee territory! years ago, will serve Hatteras, the United States. 2:30 p. m. |whiie the present Hatteras pastor, r-At the high school there will be a ! Rev. T. M. Merriman will go to Kit- tootball game between the Fresh-1 ty Hawk. Rev. V. A. Lewis will re- Teams of the University of ■^orth Carolina and Duke Uni- fersity. Wednesday, Nov. 22nd, 10:00 The Highland Sootch clans dl gather at Central school and in separate clans with their colors, and march to the inter- ®®^i-ion of Old and Hay streets, 'here a granite memorial .marker " the Scotch will be unveiled. 2:30 P. m.—Again the crowds will gath- at the high school where Scotch games and sports will be repro duced. Scottish Museum—At the Y. M. • there will be a collection of ^otch relics. This will open Mon- ay and run through Friday. Scottish Register—At the Old tarket House there will be a Scot- ish Register where all persons of cotch blood can register their ames and family history. This Register will be put away in the r'ate Library as a permanent reg- of the Scotch people of this section. The Fayetteville Independent >ght Jnfantry will celebrate at his time the 160th anniversary of ® erganization. The Grand Lodge of Masons Seven Dare County Men in Crew of 17 on Albatross Owned by New Yorker manded by Capt. Glenn Willis of Atlantic. Manteo for several days. S.he has been in port A Hyde County man, R. Stanley Wahab, of Ocracoke and Baltimore was included in a nine-member North Carolina-Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore commission, named this week by Governor Hoey. The commission authorized by the last legislature also includes Doris Duke Cromwell, Duke heiress, one of the world’s wealthiest women, of Somerville, N. J., R. Bruce Ether idge of Manteo and Raleigh, direc tor of the state department of Con- serv'ation and Development, who is cha.frman ex-officio; former Gover nor J. C. B. Ehringhaus of Eliza beth City and Raleigh; Mrs. J. A. Buchanan o'f Durham and Nags Head; John L. Horne of Rocky Mount; Coleman Roberts of Char lotte, Santford Martin of Winston- Salem, and Van Campen Heilner, New York City sportsman and au thor. The most important duty of the commission will be in acquiring necessary lands and turning them over to the federal government, all of which must be donated as the government does not appropriate money for acquiring national parks. Under terms of a Congressional act authorizing the seashore, the lands may be acquired within the next eight years. The creation of the Cape Hat- reserva- 50,000 POUNDS FISH sue standard oil CAUGHT TUESDAY! $i35,ooo loss BY HATTERAS MEN Eight the Albatross, something like 100 feet long. Seven Dare County men in all are in the crew. Curtis Dan iels is chief engineer; Jeke Gallop is rigging the nets, and others em ployed are Esau Gallop, Malcolm Daniels, Luther Daniels, while a brother of Sam Austin of Manteo Low Prices For Small Grades Bring Poor Re- | turns I Manteo Property Owners Want Damages For Re cent Fire and sportsman, and Stanley Wahab of Ocracoke and Baltimore. Will meet in Fayetteville in honor celebration. Special provision is being made 9*' parking and for taking care of •sitors at the hotels, cafeterias, ^^Prants, cafes and drug stores. , Wo southern governors are re parsing their lines these days, ad- ,,meantime not to “saw "P air too much with your hand,” preparatory to a brief career upon me stage. jj *^oyernor Hoey of North Caro- Pa, in powdered wig and velvet will impersonate Samuel Phnson, one of the ancient prede- ^ssors in office, and Governor ^ooper of Tennessee, in raiment °t So resplendent, will play washbuckling John Sevier here in .^asfiue November 21. A host of ,apr prominent officials of both ates will also turn thespians for the occasion. At the annual Methodist confer ence held in Fayetteville last week one new minister was sent to Hyde Count, a second will be transferred County, a second wdll be transferred county and a third will be transfer red to Pittsboro. Two others will be returned to their same charges. The Rev. C. K. Wright, pastor of Amity, Engelhard and Watson Chapel churches on the Mattamus- keet charge was returned. The Rev. W. B. Penny, pastor of the Belhaven charge which includes the Methodist church at Sladesville was returned. The Rev. R. Z. Newton, pastor of the Providence, Fairfield and Soule churches on the Swan Quarter charge was transferred to Pitts boro in the Fayetteville district. His charge will be filled by the Rev. E. G. Cowan, who is being trans ferred from the Portsmouth and Ocracoke pastorates. The Rev. W. H. Brady will as sume the pastorates at Portsmouth and Ocracoke. The Rev. R. R. Grant, who has held pastorates at all churches in Hyde County except at Fairfield and who was recently pastor at the Manteo church, was one of two ministers of the Elizabeth City dis trict who were superannuated, and will make his home at Fairfield. A merger of all branches of i Methodism into the North Carolina conference of the IVHethodist church was effected at the meeting. D. L. Berry of Swan Quarter was both I elected a member of the conference board of lay activities. The vessel is owned by a New Yorker. It will soon be seen off the Carolina coast. Capt. Hayman is well known as a mariner. He has had many big jobs at sea, and some time ago, he was master of the vessel that sought the treasure of the Steamship Virginia Capes. Merida off the MRS. VERNON DAVIS HAS BRIDGE PARTY FRIDAY A suit against the Standard Oil Company is the legal aftermath of Some 20 boats brought approxi- Manteo’s September 11 fire. This mately 50,000 pounds of Croakers suit, brought by eight property losers, totals $135,000, and charges The masque will be the re-enact- ment of a dramatic moment in orth Carolina history when Sevier down from the Tennessee ountains with a price on his head .^nd Went home with a full pardon ^ new state over which he be- and came governor. Cooper, as the out- Wed Sevier, will confront Hoey, e stem Carolina governor, in the he performed on the balcony Th ^^y®tteville’s old market house. of people, perhaps in- Vpif President and Mrs. Roose- watch the First Men of fo Carolina and Tennessee per- as actors. The masque will ease turn to page eight) OCRACOKE MISSIONARY CLUB HAS PRAYER WEEK A week of prayer was obsefved beginning Nov. 3 by the Ocracoke Ladies’ Missionary Society. The meetings were held at the homes of the following: Mrs. Bes sie Howard, Mrs. Eliza Thomas, Mrs. Sue Scarborough, Mrs. Wheel er Howard, and Mrs. Gary Bragg. Two meetings were held at the church. Mrs. Amasa Fulcher, Mrs. Bessie Howard, Mrs. Laura Bragg, Mrs. Sabra Tolson, Mrs. Wheeler Howard and Mrs. Sue Scarborough led the meetings in the order named. In honor of Mrs. O. J. Jones, Mrs. Vernon Davis entertained at bridge Friday night. Guests were: Mrs. Jones, Mrs. E. L. Bell, Mrs. Wilton Jolliff, Mrs. J. C. Evans, Mrs. E. K. Richardson, Misses Bonnybel Evans, Leotta Coulter and Sarah Smith. Miss Smith won high score prize, two linen handkerchiefs, and Mrs. Jones received a cookie j.ar as guest prize. A salad course was served by the hostess. and trout to Hatteras market Tues day. Croakers sold at one cent and trout at five cents. A large part of the catch was bought for Clayton Fulcher of Atlantic. The yield to the boat was $25 to $75. Trout outnumbered croakers two to one. Altogether about' $1,800 was paid into the hands of fishermen. The fish were caught in the vicinity of Avon, about 20 miles from Hatteras. The fish were of small size. Ivy Austin caught a flounder in his pound nets, weighing 14 pound Wednesday. Also a bass weighing 20 pounds A great deal of fish from Hat teras has recently been sold to Atlantic Fish Market, Philadelphia. the oil company with negligence in the storing of gasoline and other I inflammable products. ' Plaintiffs are: O. J. Jones, Claude Wise, E. F. Wise, W. F. Baum, Thomas P. Midgett, H. Schulman, G. T. Westcott, Jr., and T. S. Meekins. Summonses have been sent to be served on the Char lotte office of the company but .have not yet been returned to the I office of Clerk of Court C. S. Meek- ings, where suit was filed last week. The summonses are to be be done to develop this attractive i tion is the result of work over a IsDot into a national playground. It ^ number of years by public spirited IS quite fitting' too, that the ap- citizens headed by Lindsay C War- mointment go to a man from tl jren, first district congressman, and icounty having wuthin its borders the fifficials of the National Park Ser- larg-er part of the seashore area. vice. On this commission are Van Camp-1 a- 4. .n .he celeb.eh,! w.,.^' north of Currituck beach light j house to Ocracoke Inlet, the Na- r.FO M \A/IQP xn OP jtional Seashore, selected after a GEO. M WISE TO B E j study by the National Park Service SUED FOR SLANDER |of the entire Atlantic seaboard, is All R,.,. .. u D 1. entirely new kind of federal res- All Because a Cat Didn t Behave ervation and will be developed and Himse.f; Neighbor Maynard administered according to the nor mal standards of national parks. Total area of the unit is 65,910 acres, excluding several villages and upon es- new seashore. Meekins Highly Aggrieved George M. Wise, of Stumpy Point, one of the best, and best along the “banks known figures in North Carolina ’ tablishment of the who has nothing But kind words the Cape Hatteras State Palk Vill for everybody is going to be sued automatically become a part of the for slander. .federal reservation. Maynard Meekins, his neighbor | Besides outstanding scenic fea- and old friend is going to bring the tures, including in particular the suit. Mr. Meekins is more inter-iw’ell known dunes ranging from 50 ested in obtaining punitive dama-'to 100 feet in height, and the his- ges than in getting cash. He is . torical background of Fort Raleigh, much aggrieved. In short, he is ^ scene of the first English settle- mighty sore.' rock or striped '-v ^ ,niignty sore. jroent in the New World and the Hinds. served throi^h the Mecklenburg; H is all becausejMr.'Wise left his'birthplace of 'Virginia Dare, and County sheriff s office. gujt clothes at lawyer’s Clean-1 also the scene of the first successful Miss Anne 'Twiford was in Man teo and Stumpy Point for the week end. She recently took a new job in Norfolk. Mr. and Mrs. David Lithgow of Norfolk were the week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Atkinson. LOWER NAGS HEAD TO COME IN FOR A BIG DEVELOPMENT SOON Ben Epstiien of Norfolk Becomes Sole Owner of Large TYact of Beach Property South of the Old Seaside Settlement; Hotels and Casinos Being Considered; Property Cost About $12,000 The September fire, destroying two-thirds of the town’s business district, started early in the morn- a^d returned to ing works. Mr. Wise’s clothes of ] airplane flight, the area contains course. They w’ere duly cleaned many other attractions. ing in the M. L. Daniels gasoline storage warehouse on the water front. The spread of the flames George Wise at “The Cape Hatteras area,” ac cording to the National Park Ser vice, “is recognized as the Winter together with a Stumpy Point. But: This particular suit had been nested upon by soitiebbdy’s cat. It habitation of the largest concentra- was unusually rapid because of | seems to be a lazy cat that disre- tion of migratory fowl in the Unit- explodmg gas tanlcs and gasoline gards the sanitary old-fashioned | States Ranking very cat custom oT looking for a sand ‘ close to bird life, if not of equal pile. The cat "had evidently been importance, is the fish life of the lazy many times. Mr. Wise brought it to the clean ing shop. There were ladies pres ent. The clothes were violently effervescing^ the aronfa Of ancient fimburger. ~Mr. Wise* is a modest man. He left the suif in the name ocean, sand beaches, sand of Maynard Meekins his good na-j iril^dd waters, islands and soaked docks, strong wind. Following the disaster, some property owners claimed that they had been complaining for some time to Standard Oil Company agents and to the Manteo police that the pipes and fittings connect ing the warehouse and the large bulk plant across the street were leaky, and that the earth around the pipe lines was oil soak ed. The frame warehouse had been considered a fire hazard for some I time. These complaints and others are brought out in the $135,000 'suit. I The suit alleges further that pe troleum products were stored in wood constructed buildings, in ille gal quantities, in a negligent man ner and that no nightwatchman was employed. Old and patched tanks, worn-out hose, gasoline- saturated docks and leaky valves are said to have been used by the Known to but few people, one of ize, Nags Head will not only wit- the largest and best tracts of land ness many new cottages construct- I company, on Nags Head Beach recently came ed in the next few years, but will j The plaintiffs charge that their into the hands of a Norfolk man.' see another big hotel perhaps, and property was destroyed as a result The Nags Head Beach tract is in a large amusement center with'of the explosion of the petroleum control of a young fellow who came bathing pavilions, dance halls and ; products stored by the company in area. Commercial salt water fish- ing in the sounds is the principal occupation of a large portion of the population. ‘ Scenically the area is interest ing in that there are long vistas of dunes, forests tured friend. “You can send it tojm various combinations and even him at Stumpy Point in care of times all features being visible, me.” Mr. Wise said. |. . . . Diamond Shoals, extending “What else could I do?” asked twenty miles to the coast from Mr. Wfse, when confronted by hi.s Cape Hatteras, present a spectac- fndignant neighbor. ‘TTiere were ular battle of surf in .contrast to ladies present, and I couldn’t telPthe quiet waters of Pamlico Sound them it was my suit.” [across the narrow barrier. Cape All of which reminds one of the | Hatteras Is interesting in that it is story Governor Ehringhaus used to j one of the few points in the United tell in the courtroom, when appeal- (States where one may see the sun merry- For Ben Epstiep is a hustler with to America from Lithuania in 1911,'maybe ferris wheels and a penniless boy, and who has made gorounds, and such like, himself one of the most successful businessmen of his town. Ben Epstien, who pioneered in aviation in Norfolk, and who has travelled quite a bit around the world, now owns more than a mile of ocean front wherein Nags Head Coast Guard station occupies the center. It cost him about $12,000. If his plans to develop it material- the manner described. The charges brought by each of the eight plaintiffs are the same, ideas, and a knack for carrying but the amount of damages asked them out. He has accumulated quite a bit of a fortune himself, and has business associates who will join him. Meanwhile, local folk are watching with much inter est to see what will come to pass by each varies valuations set property. according to the on the destroyed Miss Alma Owens recently re turned froipri 'Washingrton, N. C., out of this new development on the j where she visited her sister, Mrs. beach. ' Harry Snell. ing to a jury. It concerned a young woman who asked her lawyer to bring a suit for slander against her erstwhile boy friend, because he had “wee-wee-d her name in the snow.”" SLADESVILLE WPA PROECT APPROVED rise and set in the Atlantic Ocean.” BOOK CLUB MEETS Approval in 'Washington of the WPA project for a $10,001) com bination auditorium and gymna sium at Sladesville was announced this week by Lindsay Midyette, WPA project supervisor of Hyde County. The project which will cost the county as sponsor less than half the total amount will not be started for some time until work men are available from other proj ects now in progress. The Swan Quarter Book Club met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Robert Edward Tunnell. Mrs. M. L. Carawan was in charge o7 the program and reaj a paper on the history of Roanoke Island. Several contests were engaged in with Mrs. A. J. Harrell winning the prize. A delicious salad course was served to the following guests: Mesdames William 1. Cochran, Lucille Tunnell, O. E. Langley, Dick Lupton, E. K. Mann, Giiy Bishop, J. Allen Harris, M. L. Cara wan and A. J. Harrell. The next meeting will be with Mr®. E. K. Mann. I : r'-i ■■ ! 0^ hasei :hen
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