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Itlg Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland—Devotedtotheinterestsof the Lost Colony Country, Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore
V; NO. 25 MANTEO N. C. DECEMBER 22. 1939 Conv 5c
COMPLETION 264 AND 94
PLEDGED SUPPORT G. A. A.
DIRECTORS AT HERTFORD
RECORDER BAUM
HOLDS LENNON
ON RAPE CHARGE
TWO STRONG CONTENDERS FOR GOVERNORSHIP
Mrs. Bessie Gray Woodley
Testifies Tuesday, Sending
Young Man to Jail
Harold Bruce Lennon, charged
with the rape of pretty young Mrs.
Bessie Gray Woodley on Saturday
was given a
^oad Committee Appointed and Authorized
to Prepare Tentative Map of Present and night December 2nd
Future Highway Needs of Albemarle Area; DarrSrde?s
Rep. Roy Davis, C. H. Pruden and L. S.
Blades, Jr., on Committee
Convincing evidence of the re
gional consciousness of the officers
®nd directors of the Greater Albe-
^'irle Association was asserted at
he December meeting of the asso-
E. COHOON PRESIDENT
Columbia MtiM s club
Ration at the Hotel Hertford,
^ert.ord, Thursday night.
. resolution was offered pledg
ing the support of the association i
^h two highway projects; N. C. 94
noin Columbia to Fairfield and
Connecting with N. C. 264 and the I
Completion of N. C. 264 from En-1
8®lhard to Manns Harbor.
^e resolution was referred to a
^Mmittee named by President “
JL Midgett, which committee is au-
thorized to prepare a tentative map
the present and future higTiway |
hseds of the Albemarle, with a view i
adopting a road and bridge pro
gram on which the Albemarle car
Solidly unite. The directors of each
rounty organization in the associa
“JOh will be consulted in preparing
the
Proposed map, which map is t(
submitted to the directors from
in the association
approval be lore its adop-
the counties
^pr their
tion. Members chosen to the coni-
^fittee are Representative Roy Da-
^’s of Mianteo, Dare County, C. H.
TELEPHONE OFFICIALS TO
RAISE BEEF CATTLE IN
HYDE CO.; HAVE CAMP
Court. Judge Baum held the de
fendant in jail without bond, for
his appearance- at the Spring Term
of Superior Court.
Great disappointment prevailed,
when a courthouse almost packed
with w'omen and men, was cleared
oy order of this Judge, be.ore tak-
ng of testimony, all anxious to
glean every scandalous morsel |
about the affair. Mrs. Woodley,'
who is young, and a childhood
schoolmate of the defendant, testi
fied he offered her a ride home ■ primary of 1940 are Wilkins
early on the Saturday night, that p jjorton of Pittsboro, Chatham
he asked her to accompany him on , bounty, and J. Melville Broughton
a brief errand, w'hile en route, and g-. Raleigh. Mr. Horton is the
that while parked in a truck in the pj-eggat Lieut. Governor, and has
vicinity of the Mother Vineyard, Senator from his district.
; Reed Growth in Extensive Area Provides Ex
cellent Winter Feeding; Soy Beans, Hay and
.Corn to Be Raised For Further Feed; Camp
Houses Built For Employees to Enjoy Week
End Hunting and Fishing
THREE HELD AS
BRAWL ENDS IN
DEATH OF MAN
WILKINS P. HORTON
MELVILLE BROUGHTON
- The first two men to announce
for the Governorship in the Demo-
farm, he twice violated her person.
The only testimony given was by
the plaintiff. Mrs. Woodley, who
until recently had been living at
Creswell with her husband, has
been living with relatives at Man-
teo. The defendant, a young mar
ried man with one child, lives in
Manteo. He was represented by
M. B. Simpson of Elizabeth City.
Former Solicitor Herbert R. Leary,
Mr. Broughton is a prominent Bap
tist, and former Representative of
Wake, former president of the
State Bar Association. The two
men are regarded locally as per
haps the two strongest contenders
-of the list of prospective candi
dates which includes Lee Gravely of
Ro-cky Mount, Tom Co-oper of Wil
mington, and Willis Smith of Ral -
eigh. Dr. Clarence Poe has been
suggested and is expected to take
top rank with the candidates,
should he run. Both Mr. Brough
ton and Mr. Horton are well-known
in this section. Mr. Horton par
ticularly, as he
here for several
has been
years.
visiting
CAPITAL CASE DATA
REQUESTED OF CLERK
Clerk of Court C. S. Meekins
Prude
C. EARL COHOON, was
president Tuesday night at a meet-1
retained as private counsel by the | this week received from At-
plainti^, assisted County Attorney j Forney General Harry McMullan
request for detailed information
Solicitor Chester
en of Windsor, Bertie County, ing of the Columbia Men’s Club,
L. S. Blades, Jr., of ElizabeHi
Pasquotank County, Mr. Mid-
Sett as president and W. C>. Saun-1 Litchfield succeeds H
’*erR as the Greater .
succeeding Frank Griffin.
Lupton was named vice
C. C.
presi-
rs as secretary of the Greater
Albemarle Association will also
Serve the committee.
O. Saunders, executive sec
retary of the association, was di-
rected to take immediate steps to
assemble information for the pro
posed map, and Mr. Saunders was
instructed to give the' fullest pos-
®’^'e publicity to the proposed map
®rid the work of the map-making
r^iommittee.
Commenting upon the action of
association at Hert.’ord Mr.
baunders saiJ: “Fears that this as
sociation will go off half-cocked on
®iiy highway program to be spon
sored by this body should have been
aispell^ by the acti-on taken last
Thursday night. If any section of
th ^^laarnarle is not satisfied wit
rhe highway program which will be
^opted by this association, it tvill
o® because of the inertia of that
pounty or locality and its lack of
interest in the regional aims and
objects of the association.”
H. Harris as secretary trea.surer.
The Men’s Club of Columbia is an
Martin Kellogg, oonon/oi j ^
named Morris was on hand for the trial., . , ■ , ,
I / Judge C. Everett Thompson fixed, on ^11 capita, cases in which appeal
Lennon’s bond at $2,500 and he was j to the supreme court has not been
released from custody on Thursday j perfected.
The case is a capital one in this i The letter received by the clerk
state, and conviction would carry | pointed out that no mishap on
sentence of death. | death row has resulted from lack
Nearly every year a case gf guch information but added that
similar in nature gets on the docket, the attorney general’s office was
excellent organization, meeting in Dare County. The most sensa-1 seeking to prevent any misunder-
semi-monthly. It has no outside tional one was some eight years standing.
connections, sends no money away, ago, when Oscar Partridge was | jg ormation requested includes
but aids the ladies of the Methodist tried for his life. The court found | organization .of the court, day of
church in paying for a new annex. |him not guilty. Within a few : gggveriing, nresidir.g judge, solici-
“Earnest Earl” Coho.on is a busi-j weeks another plaintiff brought a
ness man who has succeeded well!similar charge against him. Rather
WCNC BROADCASTS KOCH
READING OF DICKENS’
“A CHRISTMAS CAROL”
Doctor Frederick H. Koch’s read
ing of Dickens’ immortal story “A*
Christmas Carol” will be broadcast
to the listeners of the Great Albe
marle section, by radio station
WCNC in Elizabeth City c-n Sunday
afternoon, December 24th, begin
ning at 3 -o’clock. Doctor Koch’s
reading will be given in the Caro
lina I’laymakers Theatre in Chapel
Hill.
WCNC is j.oining a network o
North Carolina stations to present
G. H. CoFioon, 53, of Gum
Neck Dies as Result of
Fracas Saturday Night
Three white men, one the brother
of a death victim of a drunken
brawl, were given preliminary
hearings before Recorder W. C.
Alexasder in Tyrrell recorder’s
court Wednesday morning in
connection with the death of G. K.
Cohoon, 53, Gum Neck farmer Sun
day morning.
Sheriff B. Ray Cohoon, who in
vestigated the ffracas and made the
arrests, stated that the men were
reported to have engaged in a fight
near the Richmond Cedar Works
commissary about nine o’clock Sat
urday night with G. H. Cohoon
sustaining a fractured skull from
which he died the following morn
ing.
Arrested and held under bond for
appearance at recorder’s court yes
terday were E. L. Cohoon, brother
of the victim, Irving Snell of Gum
Neck and James Brickhouse of Kil
kenny. Stuart Barrow, Negro, of
Gum Neck, arrested with the
others was released.
Funeral services for Howard Co-
hpon who died Sunday morning at
his home in Gum Neck from in-
at home. He was vice president of than face the ordeal -of
convening,
tor, grand jurors, trial jurors, bill | or five years’ persuasion
of indictment, iury’s verdict and;will be the first broadcast
this famous work. Doctor Koch ..jurigg received Saturday night were
agreed to the broadcast after foar|Rei3 R^re Sunday afternoon.
■and this, jjr. Cohoon is survived by his
of “A
That this area provides excellent
opportunities for the raising of
beef cattle isThe opinion .of two ex
ecutives of the Carolina Telephone
and Telegraph Comany of Taj-boro,
who are starting beef cattle opera
tions on an extensive farm which
they have acquired in Hyde County
which borders on the Pungo River.
The telephone officials, Mr. Por
ter, president, and Mr. Mullins,
looking to the time when they will
retire from the company five years
hence, sought and located about 800
acres in Hyde County in the Scran
ton section. They took over the
land a little over a year ago, and
have already done much to reclaim
some parts of the land which had
not been .cultivated in ten or fifteen
years.
In the land which they have ac
quired and in adjoining land be
longing to a lumber company from
which they can acquire grazing
rights, there are hundreds of acres
of forest and waste land with a rich
growth of reeds. These reeds pro
vide . excellent winter grazing for
beef stock and with the open land
being reclaimed for cultivation with
lespe’tleza, soy beans, and com,
they ecvcept to provide feed for the
stock.
Some 50 Hereford heifers have
recently been purchased from Ala
bama and have been 'turned Into
the reeds for grazing. With this
stock as a start Mr. Mullins, who
will superintend the stock raising,
expects to go into beef raising in
a big way, at the same time im-
author presents
story hour at
manteo library
Mrs. Eula G. Duncan, Greens-
N. C., who recently has had
^ collection of children’s stories ac
cepted for publication by Stokes,
oas been invited to read some of
*1® stories next Wednesday after
noon at two o’clock in the Manteo
library.
Mrs. Duncan is Mrs. Rennie Wil-
lamson’s sister .and will be in town
Or the holidays. Her stories will
® published in book form next fall,
und are based on stories told her
^ sjv. cook.
l^he has already appeared on a
hour in Greessboro. Origin
ally Scheduled for the library there.
th,
.® program had to be given in the
r. ‘ ~IlilU l/U
iSh school because so many chil-
ren wanted to hear the stories.
"1® 'vill be Mrs. Duncan’s first
Published book. She complains,
Suod-humoredly, that she has had
bequests for copies autographed
y the negro cook but that no one
usked for her autograph.
*he wrote the stories because she
oticed that her sister’s children
®ked the negro co.ok to tell these
lories over and over again, and
^soned that they would be just aa
popular with other children. The
'^ook claims they are stories her
lU'Other told her.
another i in full, perfect transcript | Christmas
^ of record, statement that appeal, state.
jwas not pe"fected in due time an-i
Asheville—Jack Sawyer expects whether defen'=p attorney intends
of the club in a bridge across Alii-|to eat fresh home-grown pineapple fg perfect appeal,
gator River. \ for Christmas dinner. He said the! ' ^
Carol’'
•wife, Mrs. Jennie Mae Cohoon; a'proving the stock for beef purposes
the Club during the preceding year, trial, he shot himself.
His first act in accepting the presi
dency, was to arrouse the interesT
He’s thoughtful, dignified, likeable Hawaiian plant was the result of j
and extremely friendly, he radiates his planting the top from a pine- Miss Josephine .Austin, a studen*^
good will and hospitality. The apple purchased at a market, and I at W. C. TJ. N. G. p.t Durham is
visitor to Columbia is instantly im- that it has grown in a pot since home for the holidays,
pressed with his energy and sin- March 6, 1935.
by him in this daughter, Lola Cohoon; a son. Pres-1 ^i^rough breeding.
ton Cohoon; his mother, Mrs. Sarah only will they go in for beef
~ ^ Cohoon, all of Gum Neck; two, hogs will figure in their
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Atkinson of brothers, Reuben Cohoon of Nor- stock rai.sing operations. They
IVIanteo and Mr. and Mrs. D.avid toik and Ludford Coho-on of Gum have about 150 hogs after opera-
I.ithgow, of Norfolk, will spend the Neck: three sisters, Mrs. Jesse ! tions of only a little over a year.
Christmas holidays with Mrs. l.ith- Everton of Columbia, Mrs. Alfred ^ Recent visitors at the farm
gow’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pfief- Liverman and Mrs. Tom Jones, of known as the Rivershore Fawn
GARNER TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
of
Miss Se'nio O-ien
College, Louisinirg. is
narents at Hattera-s
holidays.
T onishnrg
vls’i-ing hnr
during
fer. in Spartanburg. Pa.
Gum Neck; and a granddaughter.
M-s. George i'Iepi'’n«. o-f Avon,
st^n-e-l in Manteo Wednesdav en-
ro”teTo Deen Rock. V.a., where she
the will snend the Ch’"’se>-n''= holidays resume work with the Sun Oil Com
w'th Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Creef. pany.
viewed the cleared fields, the widen
ed and improved road, the new
Ulysses “Red” Roliinson, who has barns and stock houses, and re-
heen visiting his wife in Frisco, re-j called that the place had changed
turned to Philadelphia Tuesday to | considerably in the past year.
Reeds would ave touched both
I^ANCE SCHEDULED FOR
SATURDAY AT CASINO
The Nags Head Casino will be
Saturday night, December 23,
u according to the own-
, Ras” Westcott. 'The dance will
at nine, and both floors will
so that patrons can also
There will probably be a'
s dance, too, Mr. Westcott
th likely that
+1,®, Casino will be open again after I newspaperman
until
in May.
THE PICTURE, made by Victor
Meekins shows Vice President John
N. Garner while fishing at”^ Oregon
Inlet in Dare County in 1'936 as the
guest of Congressman Lindsay C.
Warren, a close personal friena.
The Vice President captured tTiS
friendship of Dare County people
who met him. In fact, he has a
strong following in North Carolina,
second -only to that of the Presi
dent, who also visited Dare County
in 1937. Mr. Garner on Saturday
announced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for Presi
dent of the United States.
Speaking on the front porch of
New his rambling Uvalde, Texas, home.
Garner dictated a 44-word state
ment to Bascom Timmons, a Texas
and Gariier inti
the beach season starts!mate. The statement said:
1 “I will accept the nomination for
President. I will make no effort to
control any delegates. The people
should decide. A candidate should
be selected at primaries and con
ventions as provided by law, and I
sincerely trust that all Democrats
will participate in them.”
Two facts stood out; Garner’s as
sertion that he is in the 1940 po
litical race for himself and not as
a stalking horse to attract dele
gates who might be used to throw
the nomination to another candi
date.
The implication that Gamer’s
name will be placed before voters
at state primaries and preferential
balloting during the Winter and
Spring.
The announcement made Garner
the first unequivocal Democratic
candidate for the 1940 nomination.
sides of a car s ttempting to go u?
the narrow road a year ago, they
said, and the c.'u.nces would have
been that a car wftuld have gotten
stuck on the road besides.
j The area tee nwith game of all
kinds, including fish in the adjacent
river. Employees of the telephone
company have bean permitted to
build two log houses on the farm
jand since the houses were complet-
|ed a short while ago, the employees
and a limited number of guests
have spent the week ends at Camp
I Carolina hunting, fishing and en
joying camp li'e in general.
Logs were cut from the farm by
a number -of colored laborer^
brought in for that purpose. The
logs were stripped, and all work In
erecting the camps, except the
brick work in fireplaces and chim
neys, was done by the telephone
employees at various visits.
And so Messrs. Porter and Mui-
1 lins are starting stock raising oper-
{ations and -at the same time their
employees are finding Camp Caro
lina an excellent place to spend
week ends.
SEAL SALE GOING WELL
SAYS MISS HELEN EVAN.S
The sale of Tuborculosis Christ
mas seals is meeting expectations
'according to Mis Helen Evans,
j chairman of the sain in Dare Coun-
jty. Special credit, she says, should
g-o to Houston Pe:idergrass, princi-
pal of the lioanoke Colored school.
and to the faculty and students of
the same school, who sold nearly
' $14 worth of seals.
I Seals are still on sale and may
be purchased from Mrs. William
i Bridgeworth, Miss I.oGie McCarter,
Mrs. C. S. Meekins and Mrs. Emeof
Meekins.
Sound Side
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow LudfonI,
boy born Dec. 10.
Dr. Edgar Burke, who spent
about a week hunting near Ocra-
coke, left Wednesday for his homirf’
in New York.
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