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THE DARE COUNTY TIMES
The Weekly Journal of the North Carolina Coastland —Devoted to the Interests of the Lost Colony Country, Embracing the Cape Hatteras National Seashores
Aug. 17, 1944
Mantco, C., Aug. 18, 1944
Single Copy 5 Cento
EXPEa LOST COLONY
DRAMA NEXT YEAR ON
BIGGEST SCALE EVER
Japanese Vessels Trapped Off Saipan
Plans Launched This Week to Begin At Once for
Super-Production in ^945 Which May Cost
$100,000 to Stage; Roanoke Island Historical
Association Meets With Chairman J. M. Brough
ton, and Elects Directors; Observe Anniversary
of Virginia Dare’s Birth
The Lost Colony, Paul Green's
gripping drama of the struggles
of early English settlers to found
a colony in the New World, may
be resumed next season—in 1945.
That is the hope of the Roanoke
Island Historical Association
which launched plans Friday, and
will seek to raise a fund of $150,-
000 for the purpose.
Governor J. Melville Broughton
told an audience at Fort Raleigh
today that the drama in its five
years of. successful operation had
brought a million dollars of bus
iness to'the section surrounding
Dare County. Over 300,000 peo
ple have seen the show.
The Governor, who was recent
ly elected chairman of the As
sociation which sponsors the sliow,
says the state should underwrite
the play because of its great val
ue not only commercially to the
state, but because of its influ
ence iu moulding interest and ap
preciation for the history of the
state and the Nation’s early be
ginnings.
Accordingly, the Association
elected on its board of 21 direc
tors, many of them outstanding
citizens over the length and
breadth of the state who have
manifested interest in the play,
and have advocated greater pride
and ifnterest in North Carolina’s
history and progress. '
The Governor spoke at Fort
.Raleigh in commemoration of
the birthday of Virginia Dare,
first white child of English par
ents born on American soil, a
daughter of the colony founded
by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1387 of
the third expedition, the first of
which was in 1384,
D. Bradford Fearing, known
and loved universally and whose
untimely death last year remind
ed all of the tremendous place
he had occupied as a promoter
of the Lost Colony, was honored
by the presentation of a plaque
placed in the Chapel at Fort Ra
leigh.
The officers elected today for
the Roanoke Island Historical
Association were J. M. Brough
ton, chairman, Melvin R. Dan
iels, vice chairman, C. S. Meek-
ans, treasurer, I. P. Davis, secre
tary, and Martin Kellogg Jr., gen
eral counsel. Josephus Daniels of
Raleigh was named honorary vice
chairman, the only person in the
state to hold this position, and
Dr. C. C. Crittenden, of the
State Historical Commission, was
named historian.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Midgett,
owners of the First Colony Inn
at Nags Head, generously extend
ed the courtesies of the hotel to
the party Thursday night, and en
tertained Governor Broughton
and party at a clam chowder,
fish, and chicken dinner. Gover
nor Broughton with Sam Selden
and Billy Carmichael spent the
night at the Midgett cottage.
Those present at the dinner were
Governor Broughon, Sam Selden,
director of the Lost Colony, Billy
Carmichael, controller of the
State University; Dr. Frank Gra
ham, president of the University;
Roy Davis, Theo Meekins, Mel
vin Daniels, John Ferebee. Harry
P. Deaton of Mooresville, D. V.
Meekins, Herbert Peele of Eliza
beth City, and I. P. Davis.
LONGER SEASON
FOR HUNTING
MIGRATORY BIRDS
Ten Days Added to Open Sea
son; Bag Limits for Ducks
and Geese Remain Same
I
Hunters who gun for migratory
game birds will have 10 more
days of shooting this year than
last. The season will last for 80
days, beginning November 2nd.
This is the result of the increase
in the population of these birds.
The liberalized hunting regula-
tio.ns released by Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes also
permits hunters to take redhead
and bufflehead ducks. The bag
limits on ducks remains at 10 and
also remains at two for geese.
Hunting of migratory game
birds this year w’ill be from one
half an hour before sunrise to
sunset. The regulations contin
ue to forbid the taking of water-
fowl by means of bait or with
the aid of live duck or goose de
coys.
Sportsmen wm oe permuted as
last year to retain birds lawfully
taken for a period of 45 days fol
lowing the close of the season in
the State where killed.
No open season is provided on
snow geese, Ross’s goose or swan.
Open season for w'ild duck, geese
and brant November 2 to January
20th inclusive. The open season
on mourning and turtle dove
will be from November 25 to Jan
uary 20, inclusive.
The daily bag limits on ducks,
except American and redbreast
ed mergansors are 10 in the ag
gregate of all kinds, including in
such limit not more than 1 w'ood
I duck, in addition 5' singly or in
the aggregate of mallards, pin
tails or widgeons. Any person
at any time may possess not more
Ithan 20 ducks in the aggregate of
all kinds, not including Ameri
can and redbreasted mergansers,
but not more than 1 wood ducK,
and in addition 10 singly or in the
[aggregate of mallards, pintails or
widgeons. American redbreasled
mergansers, 25 or in the aggre
gate.
i The daily bag limit on geese
i and brant is 2 buot not including
snow or white-fronted geese,
and in addition 4 singly or in the
I aggregate of blue and snow geese.
iNo person may possess more than
14 geese, including brant, but not
j including blue, snow or white-
' fronted geese w'here such are
[permitted to be taken,
t Bag limits for rails and galli-
nules is 15; for coot, 23; for sora,
25; for woodcock, 4; mourning
and turtle dove and w'hite wdng-
ed dove, 10.
STUMPY POINT METHODIST
CHURCH HOST AUGUST 27
TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY
Clyde R. Hoey, Former Governor, and Nominee
i for Senate to Deliver Principal x'^ddress at Which
j Many Notables and Hundreds of People From
Eastern North Carolina Will Attend; Rev. W. B.
, Parkin, Pastor, Well Pleased With Interest Being
Sliown in Event
Photo by Corp. E. Cj. Wilbert
Marine Corps Combat Photographef
IT. S. Marine^ have a grandstand view as artillerymen shell Japanese vessels In Tanapah harbor
Fleeing Japs tried to escape from Saipan in a few ships they had anchored in the harbor but they
didn’t quite make It. The pnCfed oil drams in the foreground arc part of an enemy dump wmen sui-
fered diroet hits from American naval gunfire.
Gov. Broughton’s Speech
BLAZE STARTED
BY LIGHTNING
DESTROYS HOME
I d
CHARLES ETHERIDGE
INJURED IN ACCIDENT
Charles Etheridge, AMM 1-c,
U. S. Coast Guard, who has been
visiting his mother at Wanchese,
left about two weeks ago for
Florida, where he was being re
assigned, going by way of motor
cycle. Enroute he became the
victim of an accident and was
in a hospital for five days. He
has now been released and has
arrived in Florida. No details of
the accident had reached his mo
ther this week, but she had word
that he was getting along all
right.
EVERTOX FUNERAL HELD
Funeral services for Mrs. Car-
thenia Creef Everton, 94, who
idled at the home of her daugh-
, ter, Mrs. Claud Jones at Gum
I Neck last week, were conduct-
led at the Cedar Grove Methodist
[Church Friday afternoon by her
pastor, the Rev. Preston E, Cay-
ton, of Edenton.
Mrs. Everton was a native of
Dare County but had made her
home in Tyrrell County since
1871. She was the daughter of
■the late Angelico and Benjamin
i Creef of Dare County, and widow
of the late Joseph D. Everton.
■Surviving are one daughter,-
Mrs. Claud Jones of Gum Neck;
and four sons, J. J. Everton, of
Gum Neck, C. E. Everton of Hick
ory, Va., G. W. Everton of Gum
Neck and S. T. Everton of Nor
folk, Va., 28 grandchildren, 59
great grandchildren and 22 great
' great grandchildren.
U. S. wheat production is esti
mated at 1,128,000,000 bushels,
the largest crop in history.
lYAl'ir IVAK ROND
Remarks by Governor Brough
ton at the Meeting of the Roa
noke Island Historical Associa
tion at Manteo on the Annivers
ary Date of the Birth of Virginia
Dare.
North Carolina is rich in its
history and traditions. In its
more than three and a half cen-'
turies there have occurred with
in the boundaries of this com-
m'onwealth many epic and dra
matic incidents of historic signif
icance. It is our singular misfor
tune that the recitals and ac
counts of these dramatic and his
torically important events have
been inadequate and too fre
quently lacking in the drama
that was attended b ythe events
themselves.
The outstanding contribution
to the record of the early history
of North Carolina is the notable
production of ‘‘The Lost Colony,”
written by North Carolina’s bril
liant son Paul Green, staged and
directed by liim and liis .asso
ciates, and sponsored by the Roa
noke Island Historical Associa
tion. Nothing in all our history
has quite so signally dramatized
any event in our long period of
existence or brought so graphi
cally to the attention 'of the Na
tion those traditions and attri
butes of character which entitle
North Carolina to its place among
the Nation’s greatest common
wealths.
It is highly fitting, therefore,
that on this .v.niversary date of
the birth of Virginia Dare the Ro
anoke Island Historical Associa
tion should assemble to make
plans for reviving this epic of
pageantry which in its years of
presentation attracted visitors
from all over the United States
and other parts of the world.
I would first like to i>ay tribute
to the memory of one of the
founders of this Association, a
man without whose untiring en
ergy and unfailing faith in this
project the success of the early
days could not have been achiev
ed. I refei\to Dare County’s great
son. Representative and Senator
D. Bradford Fearing, whose
death about a year ago saddened
this entire section of the state
and brought sorrow to all who
were associated with him in this
notable undertaking. I would
likewise pay tribute to all of the
charter members and those later
associated with this endeavor.
Their courage, their faith and
their willingness to give unstint-
ingly of their time and resources
made possible the complete suc
cess of this achievement.
The first performance of The
Lost Colony took place in the
summer of 1937 and It ran each
summer—July 1 to Labor Day—
until the end of the 1941 session
when the emergency of war made
it expedient to discontinue. In
those five memorable seasons a
total of approximatly four hun
dred thousand people attended
its presentation. It is doubtful it
here is any comparable record of
similar attendance to a presen
tation of this character. The at
tendance as carefully checked by
the management came literally
from every stale in the Ameri
can Union. Likwise, from many
other lands people were attract-
. ed to this remote hut highly in-
[teresting section in the days be-
. fore the imminence of war made
traV’el virtually impossible.
From the point of view of state
advertising alone the pageant
[ was worth all the labor, effort
[and expense that was involved
jin its presentation. It was never
I conceived as a commercial or fi
nancial undertaking, and if the
purposes of its author and origi
nal sponsors are maintained, it
will never be lowered to any
commercialized level.
Even from a practical business
point of view, however, it should
be noted that during the period
of its five years presentatlve an
aggregate amount of approxi
mately three hundred and thirty
thousand dollars in admissions
was collected. Likewise, a con
servative estimate reveals that
that the visitors who attended
his performance in he period of
its presentation spent approxi
mately three million dollars in
that section of the state and that
the State of North Carolina it
self derived not less than sixty
thousand dollars in gasoline tax
es alone from the visitors.
Furthermore, the flood of vis
itors—and cash—wrouglh mir
acles in that section. Hotels,
tourist homes and cafes sprang
up, and many a house unaccus
tomed to paint got its first coat.
Plumbing, once a rarity on Roa
noke Island, became as common
place as it is upstate: sport fish
ing boats did a thriving business;
and the whole economic life of
the island throbbed with new vig
or.
I Pilot Tries Unsuccessfully to
Attract Help to Sladcs-
ville Fire
Rev. W. B. Parkin, pastor of
the Stumpy Point Methodist
Church is well pleased with the
response to plans for the anni
versary of Methodism on the
Dare Mainland to be celebrated
with his church August 27th, at
which time Clyde R Hoey, form
er governor, will be principal
speaker.
Rev. W. L. Clegg, District Su
perintendent, will be present.
The people of Stumpy Point will
serve dinner on the grounds.
MAIL CHRISTMAS
GIFTS OVERSEAS
SEPT. 15-OCT 15
Post Office Department Gives
Advice on Mailing Par
cels to Service Men
The S S Jennette home at
Sladesville was destroyed by fire
when lightning struck Wednes
day afternoon. The meager in
formation obtained by this news
paper just before press time said
the building and furnishings were
a total loss.
A pilot flying over the fire is
said to have discovered the blaze
and tried unsuccessfully to get
help. Reports reaching this news
paper said the air man flew up
and down the neighborhood, rac
ing to the home and diving and
spinning, but no one thought
anything of it. They just thought
it was some ..smart acting young
ster trying to show-off.
I REV. W. B. PARKIN, Beaufort.
|N. C., native who is pastor of the
Stumpy Point Methodist Church,
and dynamic manager of the cel
ebration scheduled for August
27th when former Governor Hoey
will speak.
MANTEO ODDFELLOWS
ENTERTAIN VISITORS
aUXXiXS HARBOR
S. S. CL.ASS MEETS
Offers which have come for
the presentation of the Lost Col
ony in other parts of the nation
and on the screen have been de
clined. It has been the feeling
of Paul Green from the begin
ning that this pageant should be
presented only at the site on
which the events occurred In
this sentiment he has been sup
ported by this .Association and
by the people of tlie state.
The question which is now be
ing considered by this Associa
tion is whether or not there
should be a revival of this pag
eant upon an even larger and
more ambitious plan. War clouds
are beginning to clear and vic
tory is in early prospect. It is
therefore none too early far this
Association to give consideration
to the general question of reviv
al and to plans in the event that
course should be decided upon.
On this question I may say,
'first, that the great author of this
pageant, feels very deeply that
■the play should go on. It is of
course well known that he has
never derived nor sought any
profit from this project. In fact,
he has unselfishly and with a
'high spirit of devO’tion to his na
tive state given unsparingly of
his time and means in connec
tion with the early presentation
of the play. So deeply does he
feel that this great event should
■continue to be memorialized that
he has already been w’orking on
revisions of the script. In a let
ter which I received from him
just a few days ago he expressed
his regret at being unable to at-
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The young Manns Harbor La
dies Sunda.v School Class met
Thursday night, August 10, at
the home rf Mrs. Willie Crain.
The business -was transacted
and the meeting w'as turned into
a shower for Mrs. Darscy Beas
ley. Those present w'ere Mrs. Wil
lie Crain, Mrs. Bula Twiford, Mrs.
Gaither Midgette. Mrs. Shelbert
Twiford, Mrs. Jaccie Burrus,
Mrs. Richard Mann, Mrs. Stan
ford White, Mrs. Curtiss Mann.
Mrs. Cecil Midgette, Mrs. Odell
Tillett, Mrs. Ralph Craddock, Mrs.
Mary Craddock, Mrs. Loana Mid
gette, Mrs. Maggie- Tillett. Mrs.
Millicenl Sawyer and Mrs. Buna
Beasley. Games and contests were
enpoyed and ice cream, cake and
sailed nuts were ser\ed by Mrs
Willie Crain and Mrs. Bula Tw’i-
I ford. The young ladies class will
jineet at the home of Mrs Rich-
lard Mann in September.
About 25 members of Virginia
Dare Lodge No. 3, Independent
Order of Oddfellows, entertained
several visiting notables Satur
day with a fishing trip and ice
cream social at the lodge hall. J.
E Ferebee, secretar.v, sai's the
meeting w'as most instructive and
inspiring. Grandmaster A. 1..
Lane of Greensboro, and Grand
Secretary John W. Clapp of Bur
lington, attended, together with
Grand Marshall Tucker of Sligo,
and District Master Wynn of
Washington, N. C. Edwin Mid
gett. vice grand of the lodge,
presided.
SGT, JACK SEALEY
VISITS O.ARE BEACH
VISITORS HONORED
AT DINNER PARTIES
Ehvood Ingle, U S. Engineer
ing Department, and Curtis Lew
is, U. S Army, who have been
visiting their families near Man
teo for the last two weeks, were
honored Tuesday night at a din
ner party given by Mrs. Harold
Glynn. Guests included Mr, and
Mrs. Ingle, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Basnight. Mr
and Mrs. T. A. Basnight, Jr., Mr
and Mrs. W. L. Warren and Mr
and Mrs. Roy Wescott
On last Friday night the two
visitors were also honored at a
dinner party at the home of Mr
and Mrs. T. A. Basnight Jr
Guests included Mr and Mrs
Ingle. Mr, and Mr.s Lewis. Mr
and Mrs T A Ba.siiight. Sr.
Lee Doring and Paul Corn of
Norfolk, houses guc.sts of the ho.s:
and hostess
Sgl, Jack Sealc.v, U. S Army,
is spending a short leavl*' at the
Croatan Hotel at Kill Devil Hills
Sgt. Sealey, who is a tenor solo
ist and who was formerly with
the Westminster Choir, has many
■friends on Roanoke Island and
in other parts of Dare County,
having been a member of the
Lost Colony choir for sev'eral
years. Besides singing on Friday
at the Virginia Dare celebration
at Fort Raleigh, he wfil also
sing Sunday morning at the reg
ular service at Mount Olivet
Methodist Church in Manteo.
Sgt. Sealey is at present station
ed in Greensboor.
MRS. JOLLIFF IS
. BRHIGE HOSTESS
COUNTY COURT NEW.S
C’arence Payne of Wanchese
submitted to a charge of beating
'his wife, being drunk and disor
derly and assaulting Re\ George
Willis and was fined SIO and the
costs.
I Judge Baum dismissed charg
es against both James Roy Man
ning, Representative elect of
Washington County, and Walter
B. Gray, Jr.^ 17'year old Nags
Head boy, whose cars collided
on the beach road.
^ Odell Tillett of Manns Harbor
drew fines and costs totalling
$23.95 for being publicly drunk
• and disorderly at Gaston Mann’s
[store.
I Other cases were continued.
Mrs. W. M. Jolliff entertained
her bridge club Wednesday night
at her home near Manteo. High
score W'as won by Mrs. Juanita
Parker. Mrs. Parker and Mrs.
Balfour Baum won bingo prizes
Others playing were Mrs. Jolliff.
Mrs. Hugh Basnight, Mrs. Frank
Awhile, Mrs. Vernon Davis. Mrs.
[McCoy Tillett and Mrs. Hugh Mc-
Chesney.
HELPS IVIANV GET HOMES
To whom it may concern:
Any one who has no home
and wants one should got in touch
with W. J Griffin, Manteo. He
will help to get priorities for
building materials. Van Lewark,
Des Rogers and Clark Mann are
building homes this w’a.v, W J
Griffin having helped them to get
the priorities,
adv.
The Christmas gift mailing pe
riod for both Army and Navjr
overseas forces this year is the--
same, September 15 to October
15, it has been announced by
the Post Office Department, and
the local postmaster asks that
J all who w'ish to send parcels to
■j men overseas to remember the-
' dates.
j Among the more important-
[ rules for Christmas mailings to
j the armed forces overseas are
' the follow'ing:
The parcel must not exceed
jfive pounds, and must not be
'more than 15 inches in Inegth or
36 inches in length and girth,
combined. It should be-marked
‘Christmas parcel’ so that it may
be given special attention to as
sure its arrival before December
25.
Not more than one parcel may
be mailed in any one week to
_ the same member of the armed
forces by or in behalf of the
'same mailer.
! When combination packages
are made up of such items as
miscellaneous toilet articles, hard
’Candies, soap, etc., Ihe e'jntents
•should be tightly packed so that
they will not become loosened in
transit and damage the contents
or the cover. Hard candies, nuts,
caramels (including those cover
ed w'ith chocolate), cookies, fruit
cake, and chocolate bars indivi
dually wrapped in waxed paper
should be enclosed in inner box
es of w'ood, metal, or cardboard.
Perishable goods, such as fruits
and vegetables that ma.v spoil,
are prohobiied. Intoxicants, in
flammable materials such as
matches or lighter fluids, poisons,
and anything that may damage
other mail also are prohibited.
Gifts enclosed in glass should be
substantially packed to avoid
breakage. Sharp in.strunients,
such as razors and kniie.s, must
imve their edges and points pro
tected so that they cannot cut
through the coverings and injure
po.stol personnel or damage oth
er packages.
Relatives and friends who
know' that the personnel in the
armed services to whom they
plan to send gifts are at far dis
tant points should begin to mail
their packages on the opening
day—September 15—of the mail
ing period Last year late mail
ings, causing concentration of
great numbers of packages in the
final days of the mailing period,
threatened to defeat the program,
'It is stressed that success car. be
be assured, with the limited
personnel and facilities available,
only if the public gives fulil co-
j operation through prompt mail
ings of the 0%'erseas gift parcels
■ from the opening of the mailing
'period.
ODDFELLOWS TO BE
GUESTS OF REBEICAHS
The Manteo Rebekah Lodge
will ntc^ain the Oddfellows at
an ice cream supper on the night
of August 22. The affair will t.ake
place in the lodge hall and will
begin at eight o’clock. All Odd
fellows are invited to be present.
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