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♦ ® PAGE TWO THE NAGS TALE Published Weekly by The Merchants of Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head and Manteo. Editor Roberts Jernigan, Jr. Associate Editor David Stick Reporters Woodrow Price — Tommy Miller Saturday, July 16, 1938 OUR THANKS We would like to thank the many Merchants that cooperated in making this small newspaper a suc cess for without their support the whole venture would have been an impossible one. We sincerely hope that by publishing this small week ly we can in some way help the business people of this beach and Manteo and if there is anything we can do please let us know. Your welfare is our welfare and the sooner we realize that fact the better off we will be. SPEED—SPEED—SPEED There are many ways of killing a person but the most common of our day is by a weapon called the AUTOMOBILE. I think I am safe in calling the automobile a weapon as it kills more people than any other one thing in the United States today. Nags Head is not an exception to the rule and al though we have been very lucky so far our luck can not hold out if we continue to allow drivers to drive sixty and seventy miles an hour along our highway. Something should be done about it before it is too late. LIGHTS—LIGHTS—LIGHTS If there has ever been a place on the face of the earth that is de pendant on electricity Nags Head is. For this reason the people should come together and demand better service than is at the present time being given by the V. E. P. Co. I do not know the reasons why for the past three week-ends we have, at one time or another, been without lights but I make the above statement notwithstanding what the trouble may have been. It is the duty of a company of this kind to serve the public and this they have not been doing. If the lines have been breaking then the V. E. P. Co. should have installed strong er lines last winter when there were but a few people on the beach. If the transformers have been giv ing trouble then that should have been; fixed earlier in the season. After all a person renting a place of business at the beach has but three months at the best, and this year only two months as June was a cold month, to pay the rent and it is without reason to think he Saturday night, his best night. Again I would like to make an appeal to the good people of this beach to act. “MUSIN’S” Times were when the favorite pastimes at Nags Head were climb ing sand-dunes and sitting around bon-fires on the beach. They’ve been replaced in the last few sea sons with running over to Manteo for a movie, or just going to ride along the beach. Can it be that Nags Head’s going modern? In line with current discussion of the garbage collection situ ation comes one of the funniest cracks in weeks. Speaking about one rather well-to-do family on |;he beach, free-lance garbage col lector Mrs. Tillett of Kittty Hawk, said: “They have the sweetest swill on the beach.” THE NAGS TALE PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW By The Beachcomer There’s been considerable argu ment of late as to who is the belle of the beach. Some claim that Helen Parker deserves the mythical ratings while others hold out that the ficticious title should be given to Martha Buchannon, Mary Tudor Hudson, Carolyn Aydlett, Betty Evans, or Wanda Miller. Looking back at year’s gone by we can remember the summer when Martha Outlaw ruled the beach, another when Lydia Evans was tops, and still more recently when Mary Wood Winslow ranked first. Birth certificates would cer tainly show that these girls were in their early or middle teens when they were having their heyday’s. In line with this it’s our opinion that the younger girls deserve a chance, and we feel confident that the early teen girls on the beach at present can more than hold their own in this matter of popu larity and good looks. We cite Anna Wood, Nita Newbold, Jane Evans and Annie Felton, as good examples of what we are trying to prove. Mr. Thomas Clark was given a surprise birthday party at his cot tage Wednesday night in honor of his 19th birthday. Those who at tended were Roger Shannonhouse, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938 Edward Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Cahoon, C. B. Morrisette, Carlton Lister, Wood Boyce, Diddy Armstrong, Melba Parker, Mrs. Clark and the host Tommy Clark. Thinking back about years gone by is fun. Remember the time when Joe Burke and his Duke Am bassadors were stealing all the girls along the beach . . . When Billy Robinson’s “Whippet” was the pride of all Nags Head . . . When “Country” Perkins was at his prime . . . When there were more stags at girl breaking dances on Tuesday’s, than at regular dances on Saturday nights . . . When people who came here on weekends to fish, actually fished ... When they heid square dances in the old dance hall on the sound side . . . When Fiatfoot Sambo was beachcombing, same as we’re do ing now . . . When pin games had never been heard of and the boys had money in their pockets. . . . When C. H. and Lydia scared the wits out of their crowd by puli- ing that “she’s faiien off the deck” trick . . . when Cack, and Sas, and Frank, and Ciem introduced the “Big Appie” and folks thought they were crazy . . . When shoes were outlawed and wearing a cot was a capital offense . . . Them day’s is gone for ever. Sheriff Victor Meekins To like a man is to know him and such a man is Victor Meekins, sheriff of Dare County for the past nine years. Mr. Meekins is 41 years old, a native of this county and for three years editor of the Dare County Times. Before as suming the duties of editor of his county newspaper Mr. Meekins worked with “The Independent,’ printed in Elizabeth City. For the greater part of Sheriff Meekins life he has been working for the public in some way whether pub lisher or keeper of the king’s peace. We greatly admire a man of such high standard and recommend that each visitor at Nags Head make it a point to meet and chat a while with him. Miss Margaret Burgwyn of Woodland, N. C., is hostess to a house party at the Charlie Parker Cottage, Kitty Hawk Shores. The guests include Misses Peggy Holmes Fairmont; Nancy Taylor, Harrells- ville; Margaret Britt, Murfrees boro; Ann Bennett, Rocky Mount; Ann Burgwyn, Capphanos, Va.; Meriam Hancock, Oxford and Grant Jones of Wilmington. HICKEY'S PLACE He is A Fisherman NOW Miss Isabelle Toms is spending July at the Callum Cottage with her father. Miss Katherine Jessup is spend ing the summer at the Jessup Cot- can do it if the lights are out every^^ge. YOUR BEAUTY SHOP Permanents, Facials, Finger Waves Manicures, Etc. We Appreciate Your Patronage Mrs. Lawrence Swain Manager Manteo, N. C. HOTEL FORT RALEIGH Manteo, N. C. Rates—$1.50 and Up — Dining Room RUNNING WATER IN EVERY ROOM Bill Duvall and Lewis Combs Managers L. D. TARKIKGTON Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Groceries—Free Delivery PHONE 14 MRS. C. W .TARKINGTON 5c to $1.00 STORE We Appreciate Your Patronage and Courtesys Extended During Past 10 Years Manteo, N. C.
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