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THE DARE COUNTY Tt ^Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore MANTEO, N. C ..DECEMBER 15. 1939 GREEN VISiTS ISLAND FLIGHT CEREMONY AND LOST COLONY CONFERENCE ^ ^ans to B 3 Made For Training of Local Talent Under Direction cf Fred Howard For Next A. H. SUNDERLAND RETURNS TO HUNT AND SEE COUNTRY VETERANS AND PIN-FEATHER PILOTS MEET HERE Single Copy 5c During June Visit, Major Gen eral Brought Down 19 Crows With 19 Shots Maj. Gen. A. H. Sundrrland, of Washington, Chief of Coast Artil lery of the United States Army, who paid his first visit to Dare Summer’s Production; PlaywrigM to Report Roanoke Island at the end of the an Fayetteville Play, “The Highland Call” i ’ ^ I for a week or more, according to Paul Green will return to Roan- u/y tt' dac Q9 i m here. H/V ’ 92- i He will be quartered at the Port IS SPRY HOUSEKEEPER Raleigh Hotel during his stay in the county. ® ^®iand during the coming week , d to shoot a goose if one can oe ojjD-v.^ ....•i,., of his diight within range of his gun 0 confer with Bradford Pearing of^T^ plans for 1940’s presentation L> dhe Lost Colony, to report on C ®n,?*^°*^dction of “The Highland d 1 in Fayetteville recently and er the dinner for Pin-Feaul ni Raleigh Saturday ght. Mr. Green will be aocom- daied by Samuel Selden. Among Gn the details that Mr. esn will discuss with Mr. Fear be the starting of the Is- dd s dramatic school here early tiexi year, with Fred Howard ^ir^tor and any Islander who seri- ®*y will undertake Pitted bo work ad- t . — .as students. The idea is to J d® native talent to replace pro- _ ®sional or semi-professional .mem- ^ers of the company of- The Lost “mony. Mr. Howard has done in- J^nsive study in dramatifs at the •bversity since September. , *®cond on the list of matters ■Or oonsideration is the future of . ne Highland Call” and its rela- ^’1® to Roanoke Island, whether it ^ s any chance to become a unit in ^ 9^ole of historical dramas of Am- ;i'ican history, beginning with the effort at colonization here, ^ontinuing with the story of cleav- fe between the colony and the ®gdom in the Cape Fear Val- ®y> and concluding with the end of ® Revolutionary War in a third ®sode staged at or near Yorktown, Such a cycle of native dramas has I®.®!! taking form in Mr. Green’s ®d since The Lost Colony be- ®ne an institution in its first year. Pportunity for the second stap in ® cycle came when Fayetteville out to celebrate the 150th anni- ersary .of the ratification of the During his stay here General MORE than sixty young pilots, besides experienced flyers, will gather Sunderland hopes to get in some I'^'npi'i'ow night before the 10-foot Port Raleigh Museum fireplace for duck shooting, to visit the counti-y informal chat about flying. One of Sunday’s events will be the placing of the county’s wreath at the base of Wright Memorial. beyond Croatan Sound, going as far as Alligator River where, ac cording to Raymond Camp in the New York Times, bear are hunted if not taken. After these explor ations the General hopes to go be low Oregon Inlet and visit the full length of the Hatteras National Seashore, parts of which he ex plored last June. He will attend the Pin-Feather Pilots’ dinner at Port Raleigh Saturday night. Credited with bang the best wing-shot in the United States Army, despite his approach to the retirement age, General Sunder- ISLAND CCC CAMP HOLDS ELECTION OF SUPERLATIVES j Compound surperlatives may have no standing with the custo dians of speech as it ought to be spoken but the enrolled personnel of the CCC’s Camp Virginia Dare ignored the regulations in this week’s election of camp superla- OVERMAN ON AIR 2:45 SUNDAY FOR TIMES PROGRAM Charles W. Overman, in a pno- gfaiii of vocal selecfTons accompan ied by Miss Helen Evans, pianist, will appear on the air at 2:46 Sun day afternoon, instead of at 3 o’clock, the usual hour of the Dare County Times program. Last Sunday Capt. Charlie Shan non made a big hit with his rough ^ tives and Moore county, with only land came pretty near proving the ! claim that he doesn’t make when Pasquotank ^ and ready music. It was the second he went crow-shooting here last “"iPO'^nded the infraction by i appearance of Capt. Charlie’s or- June when the fish wouldn’t bite ’ superla-J chestra. for him. In 19' shots General O^'erman and Miss Evans To Walter Smith of Carthage in appeared before and made a Moore county went the most covet- I tremendous hit. Their return is by ed place when he was overwhelm- 1 Popular demand, ingly named the most popular | Breezes from the seashore will be youth in camp and to Hurley W. i discontinued after Sunday, and will Sunderland brought down 19 crows for a perfect score. The day’s 20th shot was made from an automobile traveling at 40 miles an hour, and it got four feathers from the v/ing of an astonished crow. From the day’s outing were brought home four young crows that were naturalized at Fort Ral eigh and were the center of wide interest until the last of them was carried off into captivity by tour- iets. CLUB DANCE TUESDAY HAD GOOD attendance About 25 couples attended the dance given by the Junior Woman’s Club at Camp Seatone Tuesday night. On the dance committee ",’l^tRution and the establishment ^RS. COURTNEY CASKILL, or ,Maxine Tillett Mary Isabelle Ouid- the .University of North Caro- Hatteras, on November 20th, ob-|jg Delnov Burrus Mr. Green was commissioned ssi’ved the 73rd anniversary of her -m + r> ■ iir “ 'vrite a play for the occasion,! marriage to the late W. W. Gaskill ' Newtop Davis, Mrs. Laura as he worked at it the second "'Rl' whom she lived for more than | Skinner, and Mrs. Ray -Tones pre~ P/sode began to emLge. Fayette-;50 .vears. She was 92 years old 'P^^ed the refreshinents served, and in pretty large measure Tost October 3,^ and is cook and; ^ J"®* * ■ the club the 'Kht of the 160th anniversarv it housekeeper in the home she has | the building. Proceeds from ^1-out to celebrate and moved baclc B'''ed in for nearly three-quarters R, dance will go toward buying a 0 years. The play and the cele- of » -century. A son and grandson Ration finally centered about the R'’® "’ith her. She is very active, 0th anniversary of the settlement takes long walks about the f l^he^ Scottish Highlanders in the |*'®’8^hhorhood. ape Pear Valley. Although the | ~ ay was inadequately presented j p-o. om ‘a cramped theatre, and with'* [Playground lot. Jones, of Vass, went the honor of being the neatest boy among the 200. Smith is the company’s sup ply sergeant and Jones is assist ant to the educational director of Roanoke Island’s camp, which is the oldest in point of organization in North Carolina. Willard W .Williams, wno land ed on Roanoke Island two months ago as an enrolle won the double honor of being the most courteous boy in camp, and of being the | hardest worker. He ran a close! second to Jones for place as the probably be resumed sometime af ter the Christmas holidays. DRAMA OF SEA OFF HATTERAS ^ IS DESCRIBED j LOST COLONY ART I BY HIRSCHFELD AVIATION ANNIVERSARY DRAWS MANY TO ISLAND AND TO KILL DEVIL HILL Lindbergh’s Flying Teacher Among Veteran Aviators Attending; Nearly 60 Pin-Feather Pilots Plan to Help Eat Duck Supper Satur day at Fort Raleigh Museum; Wreath to Be Laid Sunday Morning Youthful pin-feather pilots, try ing their wings for the first time in cross-country flight, and w'hite- thatched veterans of aviation whose wings have carried them across the world and back, will gather here at the end of the week to participate in Dare County’s celebration of the 36th anniversary of flight, begin ning with a dinner in the Museum at Port Raleigh Saturday evening and culminating at the Wright Me morial at ten-thirty Sunday niiorn- ing. This year’s observance will cen ter primarily around the coming of nearly three score youngsters who are learning to fly under the aus pices .of the Civil Aeronautics Au thority and the continued presence within the county of two of the three living participants in the epochal thing that came to pass on the brow of Kill Devil Hill on the morning of December T7, 1903, when reality came to centuries of dreaming. Student pilots from North Caro lina and Virginia, and veterans from the^e states and from Wash ington, Baltimore and New York will begin arriving here early Sat urday afternoon, most of them com ing in the small ships used in their flight-training. Veterans of the air, among them the man who taught Lindbergh to fly and who is now senior pilot of Pan American’s Dave Driskill is making plan.® for landing facilities for visitors who will arrive here tomorrow by plane to celebrate the 36th birth day -of flight. Most of them will be routed to the Roanoke Island land ing field but provisions have been made for using the Kill Devil Hills field also. Another saga of the sea off the treacherous shores of Cape Hat teras was related last night by Kennedy Brown, 23, one of the __ _four- passengers taken aboard the neatest boy in Camp, which would Standard Oil Company tanker have made him three times winner in elections that for three full days made the camp seem like a college campus in student-election times. Other places of honor were more evenly distributed. To Senior Leader William E. Doughtie, who is the sort of benevolent tyrant that all first-sergeants have to be, (Please turn to Page 4) T r\ k T Tr>-r» * European line, will arrive by air LOANED LIBRARY l Ry automobile. All of them I will be over-night guests on Roan- Dare County Photographs,;®*^® Island. Exhibited at Fair. Also j Little in the way of formality in Collection has been planned by A. W. Drink- — [water, president o" the Kill Devil Hirschfeld’s original drawing of Hills Memorial Association and Robert E. Hopkins last Friday; morning from the 50-foot auxil-1 the baptismal scene in The Lost j Bradford Fearing, president of the iary ketch Temptress, which was | colony which was renroduced in a' Historical Associa- abandoned to its own resources in' half case in the New York Time-’'hospi- rough seas about 40 miles east of dramatic section last July, together tahty of the community will be pro i.np rirnT/pvarH r\f iViia ” -ii i. i i ! Vlaea to mjlkp thp visit mpmnrahJf with twelve super-enlargements of photographs of Dare County included in the county’s the “Graveyard of the Atlantic. The Temptress, however, a staunch craft, and though built IN DARE JACKSON DAY DINNER County Chairman M. L. Daniels Announces Names of Pre cinct Chairmen. “Veral thousand dollars worth lOf luipment borrowed from The Lost the play excited wide- ^read interest, and Fayetteville -?an to think definitely about be-, ’®®g a unit in the circuit. In ^ i-, , i -i, i >® meanwhile Williamsburg made I P\“® D"’"® ® contribution an-J -finite overtures to Mr. Green Tor participation in the big Dem,ocratic m third unit in the circuit. /event at Raleigh, in January are So far nothing definite has been being directed by M. L. Daniels Sr., ^nned. Tentative discussions ; of Manteo, who this week announc- suggested a dramatic season,'ed his precinct directors. A goal '^®ning here and continuing,; of $200 is sought, and Dare will be mbably in September, with an an- j allowed eight plates at the table at fpi„ . , , X $25 a plate. Contributions are be- tBlease turn to page eight) Lg .^ught from leaders, officials IANDIWORK of GARDEN'^"^ citizens best able to contribute NATIONAL SEASHORE PARK GROUP MEETS WITH HOEY; SEEKS LAND DONATIONS Mismbers Will Visit Blanks After Meeting in Raleigh Early in New Year; Bruce Ether idge Makes Meeting Plans; Bradford Fear ing to Welcome Group; Van Campen Heil- ner and Stanley Wahah on Commission vided to make the visit memorable to the youngsters and veterans coming to join hands in eomniemo- rating this notable event in the county’s history. Visitors will be welcomed upon landing by committees headed by . scenes included in m 1890, weathered the heavy seas prize-winning exhibit at the State and was taken into tow Saturday. Pair in October will this week be i Coast Guard cutter | placed in the Dare County Library. Mendota about 45 miles south of | Mr. Hirschfeld’s drawing was the Diamond Shoals Lightship, and j presented to Ben Dixon MacNeill IH^Hin Kellog*g and Roy L. Davis, Horfolk. I by Brooks Atkinson, dramatic edi- course, Mr. Drinkwater Aooa-ici the kctcli was a two-1 tor of The Tim^s, and Fearing' in attendance and year-old Pekinese which was none with the County's exhibit at the’'^'’RR Have Driskill, veteran pilot of the worse for his experience, while! Fair. At the time of its publica- ^R® National Park Sendee’s flying ‘ the craft proper was'tion last summer, it excited wide- P®^ty attending details of landing, damage to comparatively light. I spread interest, and no little P^fking' and servicing the two score Brown arrived in Norfolk Sun-' amusement by the adroit carica- ®RIP® that are expected bo arrive day afternoon by plane from New' | tures that occupy part of the fore- Jtiring the afternoon. In addition York, where he and his stepfath- j ground of the picture. i t° the airport on the Island, landing er, Capt.-J. J. Brewer, owner of the; Alpheus W. Drinkwater’s cele-■ ^®®*Rties have been provided, ketch, his mother, Mrs. Brewer, 1 brated profile occupies no incon- through the cooperation of Horace and his sister, Dorothy Brown, 19, i siderable space, as does also Roy P®ugh and Harry A. ’White, super- were put ashore from the rescue Davis and an unidentified High- i^tendent of the local CCC Camp, (-1 Patrolman. The Di-inkwater ^''^®®*' Devil Hill. sketch was made on the front ^ _ At six-thirty in the evening a porch of the residence in not Hare County duck supper wdll be tanker the previous night. Drifted Against Tanker “The Temptress,” Brown said, LUB members on SALE] tJOAY and tomorrow to the cause. “We should have Early in the New Year the or- jganization meeting of the recently j appointed Hatteras National Sea- ! shore Commission will be held, Execu- “drifted into the side of the Rob- more than three minutes when ® tRe big* logged museum ert E. Hopkins in high seas, and' ^ , - . . . we feared that it would be smash- MEETS WITH COMMISSION ®'^ Pieces. We had no idea that 'The drawinrdepicts th^ theatre !*^R® Company under the per- Hirschfeld called by to see him be- i R'^Udlng at Fort Raleigh, cpooked fore departing from the Island.! served by the kiti’hen =taff of I probably beginning at the raising this amount,” Mr. Dame.s Christmas decorations w'hioh the fv, \ apprecia ion i Clyde R. Hoey will outline the ®en„,, at G, T. WertcltCr.'n S„„ty“ /*'»>>“ «“ ‘'‘S''" were exhibited when the; Jackson Day dinner npers nmt Monday at the home-j chairmen iis. William Bridgeforth. Van Ness Harwood, chair- of the sale, made coffee trays ‘ fi native grasses, ferns and 'Wers under glass, and Mrs. ®ge orth made gourd decora- ®s and table centerpieces of sil- ' project. Afterward, probably on the fol- ! lowing day, the Commission will rod ivy and red berries. Other members have made vanitv ts. precinc are: Kitty Hawk, E. N. Baum; Buck, Ned Rogers; Nags Roanoke Island to acquaint Head, J. L CulpeppeT; Cohngton,, continue down U W. Stetson; Rodanthe, John Meekins; Salvo, L Douglas; Avon, embraced in the projected 0. G. Gray; Buxton E. P White; Frisco, Charlie Fulcher; Hatteras, Tom Eton; Wanchese, J. B. Hook er; Manteo, M. L. Daniels Sr., Stumpy Toint, Calvin Payne; desoration.s. 1 Manns'Harbor, Garence Midgett; aouginuts on sale were male|Mashoes, T. L. Midgett; East Lake, Tn ^ 'Calvin 1 Sawyer; Buffalo, Claude ®®’'ving refreshmehts n^at the jjuyaii. ^ meeting, the hostess Tised' ondav n ^R*^'®l'®us .motif. Cakes, candy, nuts and grapes were cved. Kessinger Has Beard Kessinger is sporting a d and ^ves various excuses c It. First he said he aimed to get in the Lost Colony and cds come in handy for that. His excuse was that a beard is j*'®’ besides serving as a blind— *>ck blind. Mr. Kessinger bagged ® m the birds Monday. But as we It, there’s no excuse for- that ard. BRIDGE CLOSED meeting and visit will be wiorked I out between now and the end of the i month by Bruce Etheridge, who, I under the act establishing the | Comniission, is exofficio chairman. I Here over the wee'K end, -Hr. | Etheridge declared’that until the organization meeting had been held, any discussion of the plans of the Commission would obviously be [premature. Its work in general is the ketch could withstand the beating, and there appeared to be no alternative but to board the tanker.” The rescue of the four passen gers was -a dramatic incident, as described by Brown, who said that at one moment the ketch would be even with the deck of the tanker, and a moment later would be strik ing the heavier ship below its wa- ' ter line. the audience and the Baptism of Virginia Dare. Dr. Frank F. Graham, president of the University, greatly admired the drawing and wished that it might be added to the collection in sonal direction o." Capt. Frederick Ackerson, who a year ag.o staged a similar dinner to a great .-'omnanv of notable people who were here for the fogged-out celebration of the 36th anniversarv. Plates have GOVERNOR CLYDE R. HOEY will outline the purpose of the recently appointed Hatteras National Sea- the Gallery of the Univeroity, but been planned for 96 guests, which is its owner felt that it belonged in *-R® ®®^Hng capacity of the Dare County. It will remain at the i bu.ldmg. If more come, the supper Library on loan until the commun-I (Please turn to Page 8) ity’s hope for a native museum is! ^ _ . realized. Other pieces in the col- A TRAVELLER PRAISES Brown said he flung himself; lection include Wriifllt. ..IMemorial ^ BUXTON CCC OFFICERS aboard the tanker as it was level | Hatteras Light, and otherg.' Pre-i with the 'Temptress, but that his j sently to be added to the collection i ’Writing in a recent is.me of the niother and stepfather were pulled; are strip-map photographs done St.e.te I-^agazine, Henry D. Shari- aboard after tying a rope around ^ at night with searchlights, the h tte, (V/e don’t know where he ^^®^®-, , ^ I Flying Fortress over Port Raleigh,; is from) told of a trip he made The Temptress left Annapolis on by the Army Air Corps from 12,-[along th« banks of Dare Countv. October 30 on a_ leisurely trip to j 000 feet, showing the Island, Man- this year, and of getiing broken Florida. It remamed in Norfolk ;teo and'■sections of the Outer down at Buxton and stopping for two weeks before continuing i Banks. with the men in the CCC camn, tR® ! “That was an experience within w^rway. Valton Midgette, Norfolk, spent! itself,” he says. Thomas Langan, of Annapolis, the ------- a friend of the family, inspected. parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Mid- “1 slept in the week end in Rodanthe with his barracks and ate in the mnss hall, Due to the construction of the'definitely outlined by fhe act under' shore Commission when that body *'R® at its Berkley mooring,'gette. new highway bridge across the In land Waterway at Coinjock, N. C., it will be necessary to alter the existing bridge for the purpose of making the detour. While these alterations are being effected, the bridge will .be closed to highway traffic between the hours of 12:01 a. m. and 6:00 a. m. on December 16, 1939. M. L THOMAS, Isst Lieut., Corps of Engineers, which it is established. With a definitely limited appropriation it ■will not embark upon any land buying .campaign. It is a commis sion, primarily, in search of a Santa Claus. Not one Santa, but as many as can be found who will donate lands now held to the required total acre-' age before the National Park Ser vice is empowered under the Con gressional AcT to accept the area meets in Raleigh in January. Military Assistant, and declare Tt a National Park. Ten thousand acres is set as the minimum required as a starter to ward the eventual area of approxi mately 65,000 acres. First the Commission will hope to win the co-operation of land holders, large and small, down the Banks, and when that is done, cast about for outside help about secur- (Please turn to Page Four) and said the repair bill would not exceed $100. He said the bowsprit was gone, but otherwise the ship was in seaworthy condition. The ketch has made frequent trips into Hampton Roads, and at one time was owned by Dr. A. C. Strong, of New York, a rethed U. S. A. medical officer, who used the craft in a survey of harbors in the West Indies. He later pub- Mrs. John McClellan left Wed nesday for home at Concord, after spending some time with her sion- in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morgan. C. C. .Tones, who has been .a pa tient at the Marine hospital in Nor folk for some time, spent last week . ... end at his home near Manteo, aa x ®“ Bis fmdinga in the book, turning to the hospital Tuesday for'had expected, I found them to be Bahama Harbours. 'further treatment. extremely friendly and hospitable and personally I think it is a lots more fun than going to college. They were the swellest bunch of fellows—from the Captain on down—that I have ever met. The writer didn’t like the mo squitoes he ran into at the time, but he wrote some nice things about the folks. “There are no pre tensions whatever among the in habitants, because thrre is no oc casion for it. Instead of finding people reticent and clannish, as I Ft B. le ck .r- >11 ar id it I'r I i-l iver.y stem used oth’s have llow- r old. and /,! 'iroy DT-Rlft^o'n.