THE DARE COUNTY
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‘e Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Eaibracing: the Cape Hatteras National Seashore
XpL. V;
NO. 22
MANTEO,
t>ARE COUNTY
Boys active
IN 4-H WORK
ENGELHARD GIRL
IN WHO’S
^°j«cts For 1939 Included
'hardening, Poultry Raising,
Pig and Fig Growing
. Dare County boys are showing an j
''creasing interest and are mtye
Actively participating all the time!
" 4-H Club work, as shown by the
foil,
o^ying report of C. W. Overman,
"''Unty farm agent:
A check up on boys 4-H Club
Projects along the outer banks
Jfiows that boys south of Oregon
inl
t boys
do something beside fish, crab
"d play. A total of 64 boys con-
4-H Club projects during
and 61 projects were carried
''ough ,to completion. Projects
^"^sisted of gardening, poultry
. Rising, pig growing and fig grow-
"ig.
Thirty-five boys were enrolled in
hardening work. Thirty-three of
completed projects. They
'sed on an average of 8 kinds of
^Setables each. Total value of
vegetables raised $428.71. Club
, enibers worked a total of 1828
valued at 10 cents per hour
GIBBS CATCHES
FISH WHICH IS
LIKE NIGHTMARE
H. T. Gibbs is catching a
new kind of fish. It has a
head like a croaker, body and
tail like an eel with a beard
and is colored like a croaker.
No one has ever seen one
like it around Manns Harbor.
He has caught two of them.
CHRISTMAS SEAL SALE,
LEAD BY HELEN EVANS
IN DARE, BEGINS TODA
Robed -Angel and Double-Barred
Cross Form Design on
1939 Seal
'^'aki:
oth,
'"g $182.80 for their time;
h>aki;
expenses amounted to $94.73
Wg total expenses amounting
j
® $277.53. Net profit value of veg-
produced $151.18. Practi-
all of these vegetables were
at home but were valued at
^derate market value.
poultry work 24 boys conduct-
MISS MARY MATTHEWS
Miss Matthews, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. M. A. Matthews of Engel
hard, who will receive her A. B.
degree from Atlantic Christian
College at Wilson in May, is among
thoise students who will be listed in
the 1939-40 issue of Who’s Who
Among Students in American Uni
versities and Colleges.
The book
The sale of Christmas seals, be
ginning today, is being sponsored
I in Dare County by the Senior Wo
man’s Club, which has appointed
Miss Helen Evans as chairman asd
Miss Lottie McCarter and Mrs. C.
S. Meekins as her assistants.
The 1939 seal .has for its design
a red double-barred cross, the em
blem of the National Tuberculosis
I Association, and a white-robed
I angel. There is a little story being
told that one woman protested that
the angel, drawn on modernisic
lines, did not look like an angel.
She was silenced when asked i' she
ed
will be released in January or Feb-ijj^^^ gggj,
ruary. , rpj^^ seals will be sold.by teachers |
the Wanchese and Manteo
Miss Matthews is a member of
the Golden Knot honor society at j sgfiggjs ^s well as by the three
Projects, and 23 projects were
, “Ppleted. Eggs set 1536, chicks
^fched 1114, chicks bought 100.
these 1214 chicks started 860
6re raised to frying size weigh-
S from 2 to 3 pounds each. Value
j;, fryers produced was $572.75.
j®®d and other expenses amounted
,‘f'f-80 leaving a net profit value
*227.95,
pig gjyfi member raised 32
gs. Peed cost amounted to ap-
"Xiniately $205.00, value of hogs high school career.
Start
Atlantic Ghristian College, was n, members named. The
representative to the Woman’s Tuberculosis Association
Dormitory Council for two years,! jiigg Evans, is not to
was elected secretary of the Coop-, ggnfuggd with the American Red
erative Association her junior year j ^ake place
and was elected to fill that position November 11 through Novem-
again in her senior year. She is her 30. She said further that only
president of the Sigma Tau Chi
sorority.
Single Copy 5c
LIGHTSKfP LiFE HAS
THRILLS AS WELL AS
HUMDRUM MONOTONY
Men Anchored in Vessel in Ocean Off Cape
Hatteras Prepare to Enjoy Christmas Too;
Ship Was Destroyed by German Sub in 1918;
Long Spell at Sea Broken by Shore Leave
Diamond Lightship guards
the greatest area of quick
sand in tlhe world—turbulent,
boiling Diamond Shoals, off
Cape Hatteras, N. C.
The Lights,hip crew is on
duty 60 days, off 27 days.
Weekly mail is brought by
passing coastwise steamers,
but in bad weather the mail
is carried on past the ship
and put aboard a northbound
vessel later. Sometimes the
mail has been at sea for six
weeks, waiting an opportune
passing.
The Lightship was the only
one sunk in warfare (1918).
Once in a Caribbean hurri
cane, the captain and engi
neer put the vessel to sea to
prevent dragging anchor up
on the shoals. The pair sail
ed the ship into the face of
the worst hurricane in Hat
teras memory.
125 per cent of the income from |
'the sale plus campaign expenses ,KITTY HAWK METHODISTS ob- Slaughter who spoke very highly of
Miss Matthews graduated from .goes out of the county, the rest re- |ggj.yg(j another great day. in their Dr. Ormond’s knowledge and under-
.„ii Stonewall, I njaining here to be used ! g^urch history Sunday, Nqv. 26,
Stonewall high school,
in the class of 1936. She was
outstanding student during
and for
his wise direction of that part of i
when they dedicated their church Duke Foundation for building
people with tuberculosis
I general health work.
The Christmas seal idea origi- built a year ago. Rev. J. M. Or- rural churches. Dr. Ormond spoke,
was about $175.00 approx-1 The publication is published I 1904 in Denmark with almond of Duke University delivered on the text, “For the Kingdom of'
$600.00 worth of hogs were I through the cooperation of over, official named Einar Hol-;tfie sermon; the new pastor, Rev. God is not meat and drink, but:
■ ^ p.^^^d with a net profit of $2M.' 500 American universities and col-^nd was adopted in this coun- Thos. Merriman offered prayer; its righteousness, and peace and joy in
The Gulf Stream’s ed,g€
moves around the lightship,
bringing a stream of tropical
fish around the vessel.
In winter, the lightship
crew goes flor weeks without
visitor, except for the
a
monthly visit of the
tender.
supply
• club
of
Worked about 101 hours valu
w at
fo 510.10.
y^lued
members set 91 j leges. SeverM students from ac-!tj.y by Miss Emily P. Bissell of outgoing pastor, Rev.
which 63 lived. The j credited colleges are selected each -yv^jjrgiugton, Delaware, in 1907. Eaj.fiuer under whose
'year, by an unprejudiced commit-1The American Red Cross took over tfig church was built,
10 cents per hour amounted; tee, for their biographies to appear j^j^g g^.jig_ ]fjter forming a partner-: There were visitors from Elizabeth
Sixty-three living trees | in Who’s Who Among Students inig^ip with the National Tuberculosis ' citjA Manteo, Goldsboro, Durham
to ^at 25 cents each amounted j American Universities and Col-
, v15’75 leaving a net profit value leges. These books are placed in
^ *5.65.
the hands of hundreds of companies
made 4|and others who annually recruit
' outstanding students for employ
ment.
The purpose of the book is to
serve as an incentive for students
to get the most out of their college
means of compensa-
- handicraft member
Dp valued at $5.00 with ex-
amounting to $3.00.
production value of projects
K Totel expenses includ-
niemberal time $1016.43. Net
value 5n projects $606.78. j careers; as a
number pf hours worked by alliD®" to students for what they have
Association. The two are now en-|ajj(j Norfolk, and the beautiful au-
tirely separate and the sale is con-1 fij^oHum of the church was filled,
dupted by the latter organization j Mrs. M. Leigh Sheep of Elizabetl
alone. !City was the organist for the ser-
Matt R. the Holy Ghost.” Rom. 14:17.
direction He said, “We need to take new |
presided, stock of our religious character and
use this text as a stimulus f»w.,our
future service for the kingdom of
God. Injury to our neighbor will
help bring about our own destruc
tion. Jesus is the supreme illustra
tion of how men ought to live. The
By BILL SHARPE
Diamond Lightship, N. C.—Leon
Hudgins lashed his handline to the
rail and trained his glass on the
smudge of smoke. “It’s one of Ill
Doochey’s ships,” he said with
agreeable levity.. “We see lots of
Eye-talian ships out here.” Three
or four of the crew came over and
peered curiously at the passing
freighter, but Leon Hudgins re
turned dutifully to his handline.
For many years he has fished the
esoteric and fruitful waters of the
Gulf Stream—that mysterious blue-
black current which washes its
western edge against the most fa
mous lightship in America. New
comers to the lightship first fish
enthusiastically, then fitfully, then
not at all. But Leon Hudgins fishes
like a true sportsman, never so
sophisticated as to tire of what his
line will produce. One day he
brought up seven octopi (they are
octopusses, on the lightship) and.
^ astounded them all. To get bait-
I for the barracuda, amberjack and
j dolphin he has a simple expedient.
I Open a hatch near the water at'
I night, set a light there, and
I flying fish jump right in.
the^
MacNEILL RETURNS TO
THE POAST COUNTRY
The idea of selling seals for the]vice and accompanied Mrs. Mar- principles .of Christianity are the
benefit of tubercular patients hastg^j-et Foreman Love when she sang reverse of the jungle law and re
spread to many countries in Eu-i"! Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.” quire the strong to help the weak,
rone, Asia, South America and I Announcements were made of appreciation of others rather than'
Africa and even to various islands. | memorials in the form of windows, destruction, eo.ual opportunity for
The designs vary considerably,, pulpit, and communion furniture, everyone to make his life the best j
|ithose in the Asiatic countries often; altar, and hymn books. possible, absolute reality, genuine-j
total^ Mproxiniateiv'3,000 .or! done; as a recommendation! gflgpEag Asiatic customs. Motifs,; Kev. Gardner announced that this ness of lif^ and personal purity fori
days of 10 hours each. ' 1*'° business world; and as as the wrestler, the cock, the]59,300 church was free of debt. all. Out of handicaps we get our!
standard of measurement for stu- jj^ygHn thrower, the dancer and Mt. This was the joyful climax of .hard greatest achievements. War, race]
Fiijiyama have been among Japan-Uyork for a period of almost three prejudice, enmity in family and I
ese designs, and the Korean stamp!years. This church is on a mission community, divorce, murder, etc.,
■'or 1936 showed children flying charge and is the only brick church are enemies to Christianity. Take
kites. jin Dare County. It is one mile God in all of your affairs. Our con-1
m g——aMfe timetc DAnin PDOr.R AM^ highway and in a cept of God determines our way of
well KNOWN SALE_SMAN : community of 360 people. life. On this dedication day we
dents comparable to such agencies
as Phi Beta Kappa and the Rhodes
Scholarship award.
MOVES TO ENGELHARD
, doesn’l
p ,,'‘'"«sn’t pay to put off things,
fn T-'®'iiarly when it comes to re-
ki."'°®ring one’s friends. Other
that are put aside for the
3-^’the most part can be done
other day. But the things we
Con? ^ friend, ma.y be-
deatk because of his
Rr . course one’s later re-
Us tv nothing, but to remind
in future, we should follow
Pro ^*’°**'P^ings of our heart more
of Particularly when a deed
kindness is contemplated.
Do weeks ago, I got a
fro from Kentucky. It was
•VicM ^ ®P^6f>did man and citizen, as
erv friend. Capt. W. H. Kind-
Vg the man who spent several
int ^ Dare County while super-
the construction work at
V-rir Hills, was prompted to
the a ^
"h' down here on the coast,
yea?? had not seen in many
but anxious to write him, and
, , he card in my pocket, where it
g. *0 Quickly come ' to hand- 1
it for ten days, until it al-
"'-ore out.
^at I got too busy, or so 1
tno then one day, came a
that Capt. Kindervater
suddenly died.
V-n Mann of Manteo
t; ® ^ good friend of mine at the
wme and
The radio programs being spon
sored by the Dare County Times
over the Elizabeth City station,
WCNC, have caused much com
ment, and listeners here are en
thusiastic.
Two programs have been given,
one on each of the two past Sun
day afternoons at three o’clock.
Charlie Shannon and his gang have
been receiving fan mail all week
since their broadcast last Sunaay.
C. W. Overman and Miss Helen
Evans presented the previous pro
gram.
Plans have not yet been com
pleted for the Times program to be
given Sunday, December 3, but
the 15-minute presentation will go
on at the usual time, 3 p. m.
WESTMINSTER CHOIR
ON RADIO SATURDAY
During the service, under the di- need to discover for ourselves the
rection of Rev. B. B. Slaughter, meaning of Christianity and show
district superintendent, an offering it to the world in righteousness,
was taken and presented to Rev. peace, and joy through this church.” |
Gardner for .his work there as pas- The trustees and officers of the BEN DIXON MacNEILL whose
tor during the past four years and church came before the altar and gkjnful and gifted pen has done so
especially in the completion of the presented the church for dedication. ■ j •
new church. Dr. Ormond, read the dedication Carolina coastland, is
Dr. J. M. Ormond, of the School ceremony. ’This was a very impres- back again after spending
of Religion, Duke University, de- isive and triumphant moment. A months aiding his homefolks at
livered the Dedicatory Sermon. He chicken dinner was served on the
was introduced by Rev. B. B. ground.
The handful of men stared sol
emnly at the Eye-talian ship as she
steamed by, cutting in between the
Outer Shoals and the pestiferous
current of the Gulf Stream,
j Once, 20 years ago now. Captain
IW. L. Barnett had stood in like
]mein, watching a .heavily loaded
I Hollander plod along. Suddenly,
I he had seen a puff of smoke upon
jthe Dutchman, then another. Climb-
I ing high into the light-mast, he
I espied the German submarine,
^ pumping shell into the craft with
I her surface guns.
I Now Captain Barnett, for 33
years afloat lightships, tends a
peace ul little garden in the shad
ow of Old Cape Hatteras light in
Buxton woods. But he recalls viv
idly that afternoon 20 years ago.
“I monkeyed out of the rigging,”
he said, “and we radioed an S. O. S.
for the Dutchman. Her crew was
already in the lifeboats and mak
ing away. The submarine picked
up our signals, and we must ’a
made' the commander mad. Next
thing I knew, she was steaming up,
and a shell knocked out our' an
tenna.”
The regular captain was ashore,
and Barnett (then First Mate) was
in charge. The frightened crew
took to the whaleboat and pulled
I away. Meantime, the submarine
I chased away after a tanker, but re-
I turned a bit later and pumped
I shells into the lightship until she
sank.
“We were three miles away,”
said Barnett, “when the old tub
stuck up her noise and went under.”
The choir of the 'Westminster
Choir School of Princeton, New
Jersey, will sing over station WJZ
(New York) Saturday night at To
o’clock. They will sing with the
NBC symphony orchestra under the
direction of Toscanini, the program
being the sixth in a series of
Beethoven festival presentations.
Beethoven’s ninth symphony will
be featured lon the program, and Ibest known salesmen in this section,
four important soloists, besides the j
i reMl’vTan?^“to ®hoiD will sing. Marguerite Etta, CAS! NO OPENED
1 really wanted to Edenton is a member of
She became interested in the
CHARLES R. FULCHER, well-
known as a travelling salesman has
recently removed to Engelhard in
Hyde County, the old home of Mrs.
Fulcher, where he is engaged in
the wholsale and retail fish and
oyster business. Mr. Fulcher has
travelled the North Carolina coast
a number of years and is one of the
HISTORY AND PAUL GREEN
REPEAT THEMSELVES
By ELAINE JOHNSON
Fayetteville with their highly suc
cessful celebration. MacNeiil is
back at his den at Fort Raleigh this
week.
some 2:30 p. m. when they left
ship. At 9:30 that night, they
landed on the Outer Banks north
of the lighthouse, carefully rowing
north of the roaring Diamond
Shoals. There was no power launch
on the lightship then. It was a
beautiful, calm night .... “lucky
METHODIST MEET BRINGSjfor added^the captain.
100 YOUNG PEOPLE TO
KITTY HAWK TUESDAY
i. ^ ^ promising him to
A. , P'® ■'''’ith him for the mid-day
^ ''Sally wanted to, and kept
J ^ would maybe right away,
lef. I0 him one morning, and
ret-. for two days. When I
alw/?**^’ dropped dead. I
ys felt badly about not keep-
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choir
school when a group, of Westmin
ster students came to Roanoke Is
land in 1937 to sing for The Lost
Colony. A group of singers from
the school has returned each sum
mer since to take a part in the
drama, and considerable interest in
the schoiol has developed in this
section of the country.
FOR SATURDAY’S
HOLIDAY DANCE
Mrs. Ray Jones and son, Ray Jr.,
and Mrs. A. H. Ward and children,
Millie. Leila and Alvah Jr., went to
Norfolk 'Thursday.
The Casino will be opened for a
Thanksgiving dance Saturday
night, owner G. T. Westcott, Jr.,
has announced, and first and second
floors wilt be heated so that pa^
trons can both dance and bowl.
This is the first time the Casino
has been open since the Hallowe’en
dance but it will open again for the
Christmas hoRday dances in late ; when no danger
I saw Paul Green’s play. The
Highland Call, in Fayetteville Tues
day of last week and don’t like it
as well as The Lost Colony. The
two plays are built on the same
lines, and both of them are based
on history, but the Fayetteville
drama takes place between 1752
and 1776, nearly 200 years later
than the Roanoke Island play.
Rosenberg Has Shoes •
It seemed strange to see Donald
Rosenberg shod. He plays the
comedy part of Sandy Ochiltree in
The Highland Call. At the show’s
end when I wanted to catch his at
tention I stood in the orchestra pit
and called, “Hi, Wanchese,” and
Rosenberg leapt to attention
assured me he’d be back ii
dark-skinned role next summer.
His part in the Scotch play is
much like the pari of Old Tom in
’The Lost Colony. Sandy is a ser
vant, attached to the house of the
MacDonalds, and his insistence on
wearing his Scotch kilts under his
English pants makes his costume
somewhat on the bulky side. He
puts up a great show of bravery,
is present, but.
follower. Male. Joe, an Indian
left behind by .his tribe, follows him
about with almost the same devo
tion as Agona followed Tom.
Scotch Dancers Steal Show
’The play is in two acts, with from Manteo,
some scenes in Scotland and some Kitty Hawk.
j Kitty Hawk was host Tuesday
night to the Dare County Young
People’s Union of the Methodist
church, a meeting which drew over
Wanchese and
in North Carolina, and concerns the | Dorothy Meekins, treasurer, pre-
struggle between the Tories, loyal sided in the absence of the presi-
to their blood oath to England, and ; (jgjit; and ■^ice-president. Marie
the Whigs, eager to break away s^-ain, Kitty Hawk, read the scrip-1 and lodged square on
from the mother country. A robed Dorothy Toppin, Manteo, .sang, and everybody wondered what the
choir and an organist furnish the,^ “Evening Prayer,” Grace j devil.” You can imagine the gossip
music of old Scotch folk songs, Bal-j Wanchese, read a poem,' that morning aboard the Diamond.
So life aboard The Diamond,
which guards the outer edge of
America’s greatest area of quick
sand and most dangerous shoal
waters, might be monotonous, and
then it miglit be very, very excit
ing indeed. And it might be the
most dangerous spot on the seven
seas, as it was bask in 1933 ....
But Captain Barnett was talking
now of the Carroll A. Deering. “I
mind tHat 5-master,” he agreed.
“Slie came past us one morning
the shoals.
lads, dances and hymns, and the Carolyn Daniels, Manteo, read!The great vessel sailed majestically
show is very nearly stolen by eight article. Refreshments were *'y the warning signals, with all
nimble-footed Flora MacDonald
M.
college girls who were called b^k
and, for an encore of their Scotch: ^ Maness
his dances. I
. . „ The meeting was divided,^
T • i****ifi TV-w three parts, recreational games, the
Jennie Bahn MacNeiil, an his- -- j r
served, and the meeting dismissed j sails set, and heaved herself upon
into
. , , . J If ousiiiests meeting, and a religious
torical character and ancestor of including group singing.
Ben Dixon, y e w^ urm e ^ meeting since the
the second comedy element. She is,; ^ ^
I must admit, as interesting a char- ■
aeter as any in The Lost Colony.
i three groups having entertained
December. Mr. Westcott says he j like Old ’Tom, handles a gun with
has many new records and expects. buttered fingers when danger
a big crowd, imminent. He, too, has an Indian,
Mother of four sons, she decides
some should fight on each side.
Whig and Tory, and is accused,
when she knits a pair of socks, of
donating one sock to each side.
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' once. ’The next meeting will be at
I Wanchese January 6, ,at eight p. m.
I Counsellors are Miss Helen
; Evans, Dare County; Mrs. O. J.l
! Jones, Manteo; Mrs. Jesse Baum,
i Kitty Hawk; and John Etheridge,
Wanchese.
Diamond Shoals, in a moderate sea.
When Coast Guardsmen finally
boarded her, they found the crew
gone, but every thing else in order.
Pots were still on the stove. No
One ever found trace of crew or
captain. Only ,a cat was left to
tell the tale of the Deering.
“The cat wouldn’t talk,” said
Captain Barnett.
Diamond Lightship, 12 miles off
Cape Point (Hatteras), and some
20 sea miles from the village of
Hatteras, lies at the edge of the
shoals, with the Gulf Stream mov-
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