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Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland —Devoted to the Interests of tlie I.ost Colony Country» Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashore
U VIII; NO. 24
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1942
Single Copy 5 Cents
THERE IS A LOT OF FUN
IN BEGGING FOLKS FOR
LAND FOR SEA SHORE PARK
But There Is Luck in it Too, and One Never
Knows Until He Asks For it; Park Commis
sion Announces First Goal of More Than
lOiOOO Acres in Sight; Would Bring Great
Improvements to Three Counties on Coast
i.
"It's an interesting experience, lifAIL GIFTS
going about the country begging
folks. to give, land to help North
Na-
Caaoiina create a Seashore
tional Park,' and there is a lot of
- Jan in it too”, says Victor Meek-
inB,jwho as secretary of the Park
^ Commission reported last week at
-"si ineeting.in .Sleigh that more
•than io',000 acres are either deeded
. w pledg^-to public ownership,
■ whicli means that the work of con
tinuing toward the final goal of
.62,000 acres must go on.
In the past 16 months Meekins
has.,travelled about the country
ffrom New England to Ohio, talk
ing to folks about the parte, and
visiting people who own land on
the North Carolina coast in the
three counties of Currituck, Dare
and Hyde which embraces the pro
posed National Park. “It is a
splendid experience, and one gets
some new impre.ssions, atid learns
some worth while ideas,’ he says.
“We don’t always get land, but we
^o get helpful ideas in nearly
every case, and most of the time,
I am taken out and fed before be
ing refused, so I get let down
easy.
THIS WEEK .
AT LATEST
OBSERVfNO 39TH ANNJVERSARY OF FLYINO
PLANS LAUNCHED
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Postoffic* EmployMS .Cannot
Mako Delivorin on Tint#
Without Cooporation •
of Public
Some of the public—but not
enough—are heeding the warnings
of the Post Office Department
that Christmas gifts must be mail
ed this year earlier than ever be
fore, if reports from seven of the
largest post offices in the United
States prove to be typical. Six
of these offices, queried on Christ
mas mailings, reported that gift
parcels had started moving
through the mails from 10 to 12
days earlier than in previous
years. The seventh reported some
rise in parcel post but no broad
gain in Christmas mailings. Clirist-
mas canis—one of the most diffi
cult problems because of the pub
lic’s habit of mailing them in a
TO OBSERVE 40TH 18 MEN PERISH MISERABLY
FLIGHT DIRTHDAY;
2'0-',oni8s at Kill Devil i'.;i
Followed by Banciiet i
Thursday Nia:ht Dec. 17
plans!honorary president
K. D. H. ASSOCIATION
The picture shows group around the base of the Wright Jlemorial
at Kill Devil Hills, observing the .anniversary of the First Flight, an
annual ritual of tlie Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association.
’ last-minute deluge—also have
And many men have given | started to move, but in only , small,
. . usilarge acreages of land, because . numbers.
they know the development of the I postai officials warn, the
park is our only hope of getting I mailings are not yet in suf-
something for an asset that atl v.diime to prevent delay in
present is doubtful.” | deliveries of gifts until after
“Tlie bulk of the more than j Chri.stmas unless ma ings arc in-
>. 11,000 acres deeded and pledged, j creased sharply at once, and prac-
comos to .North Carolina as a gift lically comjileted by December 15.'
'"om peojilo who are not residents Wartime burdens on transporta-
>/ state,” he continues. “But I tion and on the -postal service make
ef ■ .are people who know^ the j it essential that the’peakof 'inail-
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LE.SLIK .SUTHERLAND
INDUCTED IN NEW YORK
O.
J. JONES NAMED
COLLECTOR TIN TUBES
Dec. 17, 1043, a year from now,
will be the 40th anniversary of the
first flight of a power driven heav
ier than air machine. To observe
this important event properly,
plans were begun here at Manteo
this week, a year ahead.
Secretary Melvin R. Daniels of
the Kill Devil Hills Memorial As
sociation, began making
some weeks ago, but the event
dates from December 17, 1942.
On Thursday, the usual ceremon-l
ies and laying of a wreath in honor
of Wilbur Wright took place at the
granite memorial atop Kill De\nl
Hills.
On behalf of Dare County Sen
ator D. B. Fearing presented a
wreath, and Mayor Jerome Flora
of Elizabeth City brought a wreath
and greetings from the people of
Pasquotank. Short addresses were
made by Allen H.'Watkins, Presi
dent of the Association and .Attor
ney D. L. Russell of Manteo.
News Commentator W. E. Deb-
nam in Raleigh gave ten minutes j
itme to the occasion over a Ra
leigh .station.
At night, a banquet was sched
uled foe seven o’clock at the Man
teo high school, for the election of
officers for the ensuing year.
Important national associations
dealing with aeronautics will bo,
asked to participate witli the Kill
Devil Hills .Association in plans
for a suitable observance next helped tlie Wrights to fly, took a
SHIPWRECK NEAR SAIVO
Steamer Lauise Came Ashore Near Scene of
Kohler Wreck in 1933; Dead Men Discover
ed Thursday Morning; 20 in Crew of Ship
Laden in Part With Automobile Tires;
Wreck Near Abandoned Gull Shoal Station
Near the same Coast Guard sta
tion from which the lookout spied
the burning tanker, Mirlo, tor
pedoed by Germans in 1917, a ship
was wrecked during the bitter cold
of Wednesday night, and 18 men
of a crew of 20 perished miserably*
either in the surf, or of exposure
after crawling from the icy waters.
Two men were found behind the
hills and sav^..
The wreck occurred about two
miles below Gull Shoal Station,
near Salvo, on Hatteras Island,
near the spot where the schooner
Geo. Kohler was wrecked during
the .storm of August 1933.
Coast Guards, patrolling , -the
beach Thursday morning found ’a
i number of the bodies of the men,
seven in one group washed ashore.
Gull Shoal Station was abandon--
ed as an active unit of the Coast
Guard some years ago, when the
Coast Guard retrenchment pro
gram was ext-ended to the shore
branch of the service. It was fa
mous man.v years ago for the res-
Lesiie. Sutherland, son, of ,. Mr.0. J. Jones, owner
and Mrs. Leslie Sutherland of \vi,oiosa!e Company of
•blems our people face, and whoii„gs be far earlier than in normal
ive grown to love the people of I times.
Hyde, of Currituck and of Dare'
because thev liave been good:
neighbors. They know we liave a |
good proposition, and they want I
to help us achieve it.
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“Postal employees are going to
do their best, as always, to sec
tliat tile Christinas mails are de
livered on time,” said Ambrose
O’Connell, First .Assistant PoSt-
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“We appreciate this great ^
from-outsKie people and now^n^^ personnel. “Postmasters al-
nre going to ii i r I’o.adv have done sidendid work in
folks for some help. Many of ,, j *. i ti
them have small tracts of land, t f
but are unable to donate it. All-/® public attention throughJiews-
ne-ask of them is a reasonable », preparing
price, and if they will -give the-!>« rush of inailinp.
state options at a i-easonable price, ’ “But this year deliveries on
T shall go out and ask for-money I time are impossible unless the
to" buy this land as'a further gift puublic mails its parcels earlier
to .the state, j have been told by; than ever before. We have reduc-
a fiiw people of me.ans, .that they ed the age limit for extra person-
wou’.d donate some cash lo the ’ ne! from 18 to IG, but the thoii-
cause, provided the people would I sands of persons being hired are
be reasonable in what they exxpecti inexperienced and i-elativcly slow
for the land.” j in handling mail. .And there were
And so plans continue toward' already many thousands of inex-
obtaining the C2,000 acres required jierienccd workers in the service,
in the 125 mile stretch of coast-1 replacing men who have gone into
land, nhieh would give North Car- the Army and Navy.” .. .
olina the only Seashore National'
Park in the country. The area ! LOST COLONY HISTORIAN
doesn’t embrace the villages along DIES ON DECE.MRER 12
■the coast, but leaves largo part
Manteo, who lias in-ido his home in
Manteo for the la.st year, was in
ducted into the U. S. .Army from
the .N’ew York draft board on Wed
nesday, December 9. i
h-is bt-eii named as
of Jones
Manteo,
.Authorized
plans CAPT. JOHN T. DANIELS, who ^
next helped tlie Wnghts to fly, took a j ... , .
,f wl..d. will do- Ploturo O, ,l,o Aral Ills].. wMo ' .„,[,5?i3T.„od '2|'”„",
pond entirely on the status of the ..Coast Guardsman k,ii n,.v,i commissioneo, and lepan woik is
war situation ■ ' fHills was made honorary President
war siiuauon. ■, t ^ Alemoriab Theo. S. Met?kms of.Man-..
rr fho war «iituation should'‘^f Kill Dovil iHDs •, -x. • . ..j . -i,-'
rcl evS to the point where travel Association Thursday night at the’ ,ea" d" ft'To
,n.av ho ro umed. then a large af- annual oan|uet of the As.sociati.m, ‘''"'•h Mi. Meekins lea.-ed it to
Rcpi'eseiualive of the Tin Sah age ^ jjp .imi'god. If traird is in the hi.gh school building, held
Institute, and will serve as collec- not feasible on the 40.11 anniver- jointly with Bolar.v. The .Associa-
the duration
tion a,gcnt for all tooth paste and
-Mr. Sutherland had volunteered shavin,g cream tubes collected by
twice before, and was rejected for retail merchants in Dare County,
physical reasons, but was accept-! No retailor is permitted to sell
ed on the third npnlication. lie a tube of tooth paste or shaving
has had si.x years in tlie National' cream unless an old tube is turned
Guard of New York. He has been I in at the time of sale. -All retail-
sent to
present.
Camp Upton for the
CHRI.STMAS CANTATA
AT WANCHESE CHURCH
.A Christmas cantata ‘'Aiieiuia”
will bo iiresented b.v the children
of tlie AVanchese Methodist church
ers in Dare County are asked to
send in tlieir used tubes to Mr.
Jones, parcel post or freight col
lect.
Mr. Jones will in turn send the
tubes to the lieadciuarters of the
Tin Salvage Instituto, to be used
in tlie war ofTort.
the Coast Guard for
of Hie war.
The tonnage register lists a .
steamer Louise of New Ymrk as -
being owned by tine Erriesdn Line."
The.'vessel is of 900 hor.se-powor,'.-
1152 gross tons, 185 feet long,
carrying a crew of IS and was ,
built in Wilnungtbn, Del., in 1912.,
sary, then suifable ob.scrvance, tion voted to incorporate the asso-
pos'sibly with the issuance of a ciation which was founded in 1927,
special' stamp, or medal, will be and appointed the following corn-
attempted. inittee to prepare articles of incor-
The Association will make a poration. Martin Kellogg, Jr.,
drive for new members, in order to Horace Dough, D. B. Fearing, D.
raise funds for the work of ar- A’. Alcekins, AA’. J. Tale, Melvin
r,anging a suitable celebr.ation. Daniels, Allen AVatkins, C. S.l
Mr. Orville AA’riglit of Davlon, Meekins. It was agi-eed to con-, WAR.RATION. BOOK NO.
Ohio, co-inventor of the airplane tinue the present officers until af-! 2 DUE EARLY IN 1943
was invited to .attend the .servico.s ter the association is incorporated:! -—7—
tliis week, but the Association re- Capt. Allen AA'atkins, president; >hoso .^(>t Having
ceived his regrets he was unabio Melvin Daniels, secretary; C. S.
to come to the site of the fii-st .Afcekiiis, treasurer.
night at this lime. !" r
AVilbur AA’right died .about the YOUNG MEN OF 17 ' A" total, of 3,340,316 persons n
year 1912. The two men, who-se WANTED BY NAVY-
scientific achievement is one of the
No;
Not Having Ration. Book
I’MnsI Appiv at Once
For No. ’2 ^
i!
on Sundav night, December 20, at IBANK OF .AIANT.EO OPEN.S
7:.30 .at tile church. Mrs. Reg^dei NEAV CIlRiSTMAS CLUB
Tillott will act as ac'?ompanist. i world's greatest, inadq history at .■\'o One E’-igihlo For A'oU'Jitary
The nublic is cordially, invited to | The Bank, of Manteo lias again Kil'i Dovil Hills ono'hl&k da.v,.-39 . Enlhfmeiij After They'Bc-
attend. j opened ih Chri.stmas Savings Club, j years ago. ■ ' conic 19
I after pavirg out approximately.' ;
UEBEKAIIS AVILL IIAA'K
Cl IKI .STM A.S .M E.ETING
! .$5,000 last month.
This method of saving for an-;
..SIX AND A HALF. MILLION
'other ChriFtnias insures ri.anv pee-;
FROM BEER IN THIS
Now
'.K-
«
I-
•iVt’
for future development. Most of
the land contemplated in the Park
i-s land of no particular value at
this time for development. AA’itli-
out the establishinent of the park,
it is e.xtremely doubtful their
status as to' value would ever
ciiatigg.
The legislation providing for the
Seashore National Park provides
that no Federal money may be
used to buy land. But the Na
tional Park Service alre.ady has
spent several hundred thousand
dollars in planting grass, build
ing sand fences, and making other
improvements to restore the na
tural state of the coastland where
by trees and shrubbery may again
be a part of this beautiful and in
teresting region.
And so the State of North Car
olina undertook, without funds, to
htain land for the park. Various
■•lens have donate large acre-
{. Among these !peopIe are
i'rv C, and Ogden Phipps of
,.ew*York; Ben Lambe and Joyce
O’Hara of Washington, D. C,;
Stanley Wahab of Ocracoke; Miles
Clark of Elizabeth City; L. D.
Pieree of Providence, H. I,, and
many others donating smaller
acreages. ■
There are many others who have
tentatively pledged, lands. Not ..an
acre has been bought. Persons of
menWa who do not have land, may
donate cash to buy lands from
those not able to donate land. But
in no case will unreasonable prices
be paid.
The State of North Carulbia has
alnadr hfd the foresight to fore-
atill' anr attempt to profiteer on
land. Legialation providing the
of eminaat.domaia pan^^
News of the death of Henry
Buckler, on December 12 at New
ark, N. J., reached the Times o.’-
fice this week in a letter from his
sister, Mrs. AVilliam S. Hutchinson
of Bethlehem, Pa, Mr. Buckler
had been ill of a heart ailment for
the last four months, being on tour
in California with “Arsenic and Old
Lace” when stricken,
Mr. Buckler was historian for
Paul Green’s “Lost Colony” during
the last three summers of its pro
duction on Roanoke Island, and had
made many friends here who will
regret to learn of his death.
17-YE.AR.OLD.S MAY ENLLST
IN U. S. MARINE CORPS
Seventeen-year-olds may now
enlist in the U. S. Marine Corps, it
has been announced by state head
quarters of the Marine Corps Re
cruiting Service.
Following President Roosevelt’s
order of a week ago, freezing en
listment of men 18 to 38 years
of age, the Marine Corps also
froze enlistments of 17-year-olds.
But now the ban on the 17-year-
old boys has been lifted, and these
boys can apply for enlistment at
Raleigh, Charlotte, Asheville,
Wins.ton-Salem or Greensboro.
SLOW TRAIN
An American soldier in England
was giving some illustrations of
the size of his country. “You can
board a train in the state of Texas
at dawn/’ he said imptessively,
"and twenty-four hours later you’ll
still be in Texas.” ^
"Yes," said one of^hls.BngjUili
Pfoesediags fbr sap Ustenofs,' wMk-feiltaig, "uwVr got
traias hm, too.”
Tlic Mmitt'o Rebt'kali I.ndgp will! pic cav-h year the possibility of f
have a Christinas party Mon-' moking the Christmas .reason a
day night, Decentbor 21, at the,'
Odd Fellows Hall at eight o’clock.!
All members are urged to be pres
ent. and each is asked to bring a j
small gift.
STATE vantage
.At this time yf u have
of enlisting in tli-
North- Carolina .received AA'ar Ra
tion Book-No. 1',during the initial
registration for .sugar rationing
held last-summer, AV. JHirere,, HoN ■
le(‘; state' OP.A' ration ’cfriccr, •has.x
’r - ann.-'iunced.
i.s your cliaoce to take .ad-1 Ho.'lor .said lioiJor.s of the,
of a golden o'jiiorl-jnitv. i.No. j book Will lie c-’ijr'LSe fo re-
the choice reive the
Ration
United States, B,.-/k v.liith viH bo di.stri'buted .sooh
year.
SUGAR STAMP NO, 10
GOOD FOR THREE POUNDS
Sugar .stainn No. 10, which bs-
canin valid AA'ednesdav, Decemher
16, will 1)0 good for three pound.s,
whicli will have to last from De-
c-ember 10 through Januar.v -31,
according , to recent information
from rationing headquarters.
Mr.s. J. G. Midgett had as her
guests .Sunday, Mrs. Penrl Mid-
irott and son, Cl'.esley Alidgett. of
Buxton. On AVodnesday she had
as her .eue«t LaFayctle Midgett,
also of Buxton.
Buy Defense Bonds and Stamps.
FIRST FLIGHT AND INVENTOR OF PLANE
The picture indicate* Orville Wright a* he looked about 15 year*
ago. It aI*o *how* the fint flight, 39 year* ago. Aviation ha* gone
a fdiig why in fifi yaar*,' and thia the group gathered .at Kill Devil
Hilla aaw Hbigr plane* go by at SM mile* an
Availablo figures show that the
industry has paid the state $2,555,-
061.05, the fcder.-i! govorninont
53,229,597.16 and the cities, towii'i
and counties $155,009 so far this
vear—.n total of .$5,939,6.5.8.21.
These totals arc based on 11-
month colieclions for the state and
local, units and ten inontlis Xpr, tin?
fcder.ni government.
. ,11 is autic-ipaled the stale’s c'd-
Icctions will top $2,750,000 and th-’
federal government’s share will
ed
.I.s being used
day for on that day you lyijl have f^j* rotioning of su.gar and
to register for Selective SerN'dfce and colToe, ia Dare la.st sumnier, Hof-
after re.gisterin.g you can hq, longer ler announced.
volunteer but will have to 'vvail tol :
be drafted. So why not take ad-'LOA’E AND KI’iSR.S CAN'BE
vantage of this opcortunily iiow.,' SENT DYER.SE.l.?, BU7’ HOM'
Contact the Navy Recruiting. .St-i- . A
tion, Post Office Building. New - Al’.-mta, Ga, Dec. l7,i-.D-:d you
1 lisin, N. C.r or see ..one of , the kr.wv il>at,.;b,>V(.> jsiui'kisses.; .Christ-.,
travc'iiiff recruilei'.s wdio freqhent-] nias gi-eoiings. h.nppy birthdays,
, iy visit the towns in .vour Vicr.tit,,., birth armouncement.s and requests
Make your application now .T^difor money may now be sent, via
do not wait lo complete your en- cablegram, ovei-seas. for the small
range between .$3,700,000 and $4.- lisimcnt as hesitation may make amount of around 60 cents? Well,
000,000 for the 1942 calendar yc^v. ygy ((,0 late. I they can, according to Captain
There will be only a nominal in- pemember after you ■ reach your Robert H. McCormack, Chief of
crease in collections by the local birthday and register for Sc-' Postal Section, headquarters,
lective Sert'ice you are no longer Fourth Service Command. And,
eligible for voluntary enlistment.'conversely, they may be sent this
way from "over there.”
UNCLE JEFF LOSES
MUCH MONEY IN FIRE
WOOD—SPRUILL
“Uncle Jeff” Hayman, well-
known former caretaker at Fort
Of course other mes.sages may
be sent also, just so they arc brief,
and the fixed te.xt is adhered to.
A wedding of interest to their
. r . J . manv friends in eastern North Naturally, the c.ablegr.nnis must be
Raleigh on Roanoke Island, who caroUna ^^as that of 'Mrs. Reba! submitted through the proper
has run a shop on the grounds for ^j-teile Spruill of Columbia to Rev. channels, and must be properly ad-
i«o4. e^iin o ♦uof . , . dressed, out-going messages show-
‘ some time, lost $400 in a fire that ^ c!‘wo^7f Rop7rron''fhu”rsday,
I burned the building to the ground jo.
Monday afternoon. ; ^ j a
The fire started when an oil! The ceremony «-as performed at
heater exploded, and the flames the \Vanche.se Methodist parsonage
were beyond control before
could be summoned.
aid by Rev. James W. Sneeden, pastor
.of the Wanchese Methodist church
In addition to the personal-loss W. Maness of Manteo.
of “Uncle Jeff”, a number of Fort'* The^bnde wore a cos^me of Vic-
Raleigh reconls were burned, and 'tory blue crepe with black acces-
a typewriter was lost.
CHRISTMAS PROGR.\M
sorie.s, and a shoulder corsage of
American Beauty roses.
ing full name, Army serial num
ber, APO cable address and the
routing word. This type message
will consist of not more than three
of the fixed authorized texts. Thus,
for $1.20 you could cable: “Hear
ing your voice on the wireless gave^.
me a wonderful thrill. Glad and
proud to hear of your decoration.
' Evervbodv thrilled. Many' thanks
merican ucauiy ro.ses. parcel.”
‘Those present included Revv and j y. jj,esg gpm cables,...except for
I
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AT MANTEO METHODIST, Mrs. Sneeden, Mr. and Mrs. C. S
Ar-
Meekins of Manteo and Mrs
A program of Christmas music'villa Midgett of Wanchese.
will be rendered at Mount Olivet 1 Mr. Wood is pastor of the Meth-
Methodist church Sunday morning, I odist church at Roper.
December 20, at the eleven o’clock,
Christmas' greetings, are discon
tinued until after December 27.
You may send the Christmas mes
sages, however, at any time
'through December 25, and after
the 27th any of the messages or
service, by the church choir. The, Girls in Czechoslovakia are ex-1combination*,
public is cordially invited to at-'eluded by Nazi* from all but ele-1 , .
tend. mentary schools, and ao are the Eyesight ,i«qiiireawnt* have
son* and daughter* of "progiea- bean modiflad for volunteers in the'
-i
Buy Dsfsnsa Bond* and Stamps, aive” parents.
' Navy and Naval Rtearva.