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PAGE TWO THE NAGS TALE SATURDAY, AUG. 6, 1938 THE NAGS TALE Published Weekly by The Merchants of Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head and Manteo. Editor Roberts Jemigan, Jr. Managing Editor David Stick Reporters Woodrow Price — Tommy Miller Benny Lambe Saturday, August 6, 1938 MUSIN’S or PROGRESS Should Nags Head grow should its destiny be ruled by its first settlers? It is our opinion that it should grow and its growth should be encouraged rather than discouraged by its founders. It is true that many years ago Nags Head was a place where people came only to rest. Many years ago that was all right, but this is only half the story. Today is not many years ago. Highways have peen built by the state not for Just a few but for all. Electric current has been placed at our disposal not for just a few but for all that may want to enjoy it. Nags Head is a beach of today and not a beach of yesterday as many would want us believe. We have all the ad vantages one needs when taking a summer vacation and all these facilities have caused Nags Head to grow and there is no doubt but that its growth will continue. I dare say that if all the modern conveniences were taken out of Nags Head today not only the new comers would leave the beach but the old timers as well. Times have changed and we must change with it. America is a progress country. We are Americans: therefore we should wish for only progressive ness in all we undertake. (Continued from Page One) er we’re putting out.” Then just stick the last three copies of the sheet under prospective advertis er’s nose and ask him to take a look for himself. The approach worked fine in one store up the line, and the proprietor seemed very interested in the papers that were shown him. He was so in terested, in fact, that he read every word in all three of them, and then ! went back’ and looked through the ads. The gent was a slow talker,! and judging by the ticking of the' clock he read at a moderate rate j also. It was right much af a dis appointment, therefore, after the fella had finished his reading, to hear him say: “Not interested.”! Which just goes to show you that; you can fool some of the people; all of the time and all of the peo- ■ pie some of the time, but if you aren’t mighty careful when you’re trying to sell ads the storekeepers will fool you. PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW r-'i could and would keep apace Gos sip. Nobody has told me a thing, but I’ll bet there’s enough gossip swap ped around the beach bridge tables or over the cups, to sweeten the pot of many a hungry newspaper man or columnist, if they could print and peddle it at so much per. Ely Culbertson, bridge authority, says “men are bigger gossips than women” but thinks men’s gossip runs too much to trifling matters such as business or war, while wo men stick to biological issues.” This column having run all the way from morals and mentality to women’s gossip on biological is sues, there ought to be an end to it. This is it. SABOY CONFECTIONERY (Store With The Green Front) MANTEO, N. C. SAM MIDGETT (The Bus Driver Proprietor D. Bradford Fearing, (just plain Bradford to everybody in Dare County and those from other places as soon as they know him), is the best known man in Dare County and we don’t suppose there is any body in the whole county who doesn’t already know him. Any- The cutest girl we’ve seen in a long time is Florence Dodson. Our only wish is that she retains her likeable presonality and does n’t let her running mate influence way this column would never be her. be complete did we not run a cut of “Bradford” along with other people you should know. He is just about the main cog in the Dare County machinery and also the production of “The Lost Colony.” Mr. Fearing is also soon to be known as “Senator Fearing,” having won the nomination to the I j Upper House in the last primary. Most popular girl iry the Bu- | which is equivalent to being elect- chanan family is Betsy, Any nine ^ ed in these Democratic parts. If you' year old girl that cam. refuse a | have never been fortunate enough i beautiful corsage must be popu-1 meet D. Bradford Fearing you 1 lar. It is our opinion that more should make it a point to do so the' Phylis Gatling tells us she’s leaving the beach around the mid dle of the month. Could popular ity or lack of such be the reason? Most appropriate nick name we’ve heard is “Feets” Owens. Mrs. John Flannery has return ed to her home in Washington, D. C., after spending several weeks at the Croatan Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Parker and family of Ahoskie are spend ing the rest of the summer at their cottage at Kitty Hawk. TOLER’S WIGWAM COLD DRINKS BEER SEAFOOD Stop To See Us girls should be nine years old. We saw Clara Bond Anderson the other day for the first time in a couple of years. Apparently she still hasn’t lost her gift of gab. very next time you County. visit Dare Van Keys claims that last week this column insinuated he’s con ceited. Wonder what gave him that idea? Dictated, but not read. POTPOURRI PEDESTRIAN The highway at Nags Head serves two purposes. One very use ful and the other very dangerous, of course the hiway is useful in that it is a smooth surface for automobiles to pass but it is dang erous in that people use it for a side walk. Automobiles travel at a high rate of speed and many times the driver never sees the walker until the auto has safely or other wise passed. It is the law of North Carolina that pedestrians have to walk on .he Ictt side of the road. There is a rea-on for this law and not a foolisn oi: .. When a person is walking on the left side of the road he is facing the on coming car and can see the auto in time to leave the highway and seek safe ty. If the person is walking on the right side of the highway this is not true and the on coming auto is at the pedestrian’s back. If you are the pedestrian PLEASE BE CAREFUL. A few days ago we were talking with a party concerning how nice it would be if Nags Head had board-walk or some kind of walk so people would not have to risk their lives on the highway. As we were talking one in the party promptly said that a board-walk would make Nags Head too civiliz ed and that should never be. This person might be right but it seems to us that if civilization decreases danger then it is the thing. Our vote is for civilization. (Continued from Page One) gone one better. The employers are trying it out on their steno graphers. A radio is standard of fice equipment in the Chamber of Commerce. And it is nothing un usual to saunter in and listen to music and the quick clatter of typewriters. Bradford Fearing says his girls are doing better by him than ever before. Sheriff Vic tor Meekins fooled his office girl though. He bought a radio, but it was a short wave set. All it gets is police calls from Williamston. Back to that ABC store sales ROY PARKER’S COLUMN (Continued from Page One) down your morale and resistance by violating all the acceptable rules of good health, mentality and morality? I ask; you may answer if you like. It’s not my business nor my pleasure to advise you what to do, how to act, or what your program shall be. Pew of us ever listen to advice and hardly any ever follow it. You and I have to learn our lessons by experience. You may have most any experience down here on the Dare County beaches. What you doing here, anyhow? I don’t know whose idea it was to start this Nags Tale, but who ever germinated it—the idea—^had wheels in his (or her) head, and shekels in the pocket. One thing can be said for Editor “Little Roberts” Jernigan, if he is the daddy of the idea and the paper —he used his noggin in selecting columnists for his reportorial staff. Beach life is poor pickings for the factual writer; it’s pie for column- business. If the July report the store is any index to business | Permit type of summer on the beach there is very little difference between this year and last. July in 1937 poured approxi mately $300 more into the ABC store till. That difference is neg ligible, though. sojourner-like myself, makes no news; the other extremists make a lot of news, but newspapers don’t print it, not even one with such a gossipy title as “The Nags Tale.” There are few of the in-between class from which legitimate and One of the mam problems facing 1 Columnists, the operators of the hot spots on, order for the beach nowadays lies in tne ■ ^ paper as this. They stop at contemplation of ways and | nothing. When they can’t do any of inducing the celebrants at tne gygn ^rite about them- Albemarle Sound Bridge opening. j j^^yg q^ite often done it, on August 25 to come on over to | ^ Nags Head and do their dancing | g^itor Jernigan’s that night. Some of them will come, but it seems that other at tractions are going to be offered them in dances elsewhere. Sug- ^ gestions might find willing ears attached to the persons of Levy Overton and Ras Wescolt. The bridge celebration in itself is go ing to be a big affair but it will be the type that is best topped off with a dance. Of course my week ly quota of three will probably have been expended by then and I won t be able to take any in. Miss Deede Thurman of Raleigh has returned to the beach where she will spend the rest of the sum mer. family’s apple tree shed half their fruit on my back yard in Ahoskie, and half of our pears fall and rot on the Jernigan lot. It’s been that way since b. b. (before birth) of Editor Jernigan his folks for three generations inclusive, have been my next door neighbors. There aint any money in this beach weekly newspaper business, but it should be a lot of fun. That’s the explanation for the statement about shekels in pocket. If the Nags Tale could carry tales as ef fectively and as effusively as its competitor on the beach, the sub scription money till would be changing endlessly. There would be monetary profit to any paper that L. D. 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