Cape Lookout Property Owner Tells
Governor of New Grass, Tree Growth
Gov. Luther Hodges kaa champ
ioned the cause of preservation of
the outer banks. The governor for
?* warded to u* this week a letter
written to him by a friend of his,
John T. Mclsaac Jr., who has
property near Cape Lookout.
Mr. Mclsaac, in the letter which
follows, gives his views of the im
provement on Core Banks, since
the horses and catties have been
removed.
September 24, 1959
Honorable Luther H. Hodges
Governor of North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Dear Luther:
Last night (while Jeanie and 1
were eating some of our 4-pound
blue fish which we caught in the
surf at Cape Lookout a couple of
weeks ago asd which incidentally
^taved there lor the full two weeks
that the Bryants were there), we
were talking about the change that
has come over Core Bank since
the cattle and horses were re
moved. The thought has occurred
to me that perhaps you have not
been out there and are not familiar
with what a spectacular thing has
happened on this bank.
1 We first became aware of it in
July when we went down beyond
the lighthouse to one of our fav
orite clamming spots and found
that we had difficulty in following
the old road since the grass and
some shrubs, 1 presume yaupon.
had started to grow up where the
main thoroughfare for the horses
Hcid been. On our later trips, and
we have made a number of them
this year, we watched with amaze
men! as Ike whole appearance of
the bank changed. As a matter of
fact ?q Labor Day weekend vhea
we went down to the same general
area to get our first oysters, we
could nol find aay trace of this
road and noticed that the grass and
the sea oats which have had a fan
tastic crop of seed this year had
grown up sufficiently in the scoop
ed-out area where the road was so
that it is now completely filled
with sand and there is no possible
way ef finding where it once was.
As a matter of fact, we got com
pletely lost and finally bad to go
out on the beach to get our bear
ings to come back. In the area
down toward tbe point of the Cape
where, as you know, the dunes are
badly cut back the seed fropi the
oats has dropped over the edges
and already sprouted to the extent
where the straight banks whieh
were left from last year's hurri
canes have already filled up with
sand and have resumed the ap
pearance which they had some
seven or eight years ago. We also
noticed with complete amazement
that the flat area of the beach on
the exposed side now has sprigs of
these same oats coming up to about
six inches high and that each of
them has a small pile of sand
around it so that, in effect, there
is the beginning of an entire new
line of dunes as much as 200 feet
outside the remaining ones. Appar
ently there is some sort of an air
current through here which car
ries the seed because the general
appearance is that a new barrier
of dunes is at least trying to build
itself between the poi*t ef the
lighthouse. This unfortunately will
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run right down the middle of the
area which has been used for land
ing planes on the island. You will
probably recall the low swampy
area between the new dock and the
the Coast Guard Station which had
nothing in it but grass as recently
as last spring. This has now grown
up to not only grass but a number
of these same bushes some of
which are as much as six feet high
and are apparently growing like
weeds. We also noticed that next
to Skinny's house in a low place
where there had always been the
semblance of some roots of some
kind which we could not identify
that a complete scuppernong vine
has grown up and has on it about
two bushels of good scuppemongs
ready for the picking. As a matter
of fa^t, it is growiag so fast that
Skinny is planning to build a trellis
for it in order that he will have
a shady spot.
When we first started going out
there. Skinny decided that he would
see whether or not he could grow
any trees of any sort in the area
around his house and as a result
planted them on several different
occasions only to have them die.
Apparently this was due to the cat
tle either walking on them or nib
Wing at the tender shoots since the
ones which he planted last fall
have survived almost 100%. At
the present time he has both lob
lolly and shortleaf pine and, be
lieve it or not, one cypress tree do
ing beautifully and now some two
to three feet high growing in what
was bare sand as recently as last
fall. He has also attempted some
long-leaf but due to the fact that
they look so much like the grass
which has taken over where he
planted them, we are not sure
whether they are alive or not.
Unfortunately the fishing was so
good that we simply did not take
time to take any pictures, but the
thought has occurred to me that
perhaps you would like to have
your conservation people take the
time to go out and get some pic
tures before it grows up to the
point where no one will believe
that this could possibly happen. I
do not know when I will get out
there again myself, but if it is soon
enough I will attempt to get some
pictures for^you, although I am
afraid that if the fishing is as good
as it has been for the past months
that I will be completely unwilling
to even take the time to snap a
few pictures of the new shrubbery.
Jeanie joins me in sending our
best to both you and Martha.
Sincerely,
Mac
John H. Maelsaac Jr.
Library Club Elects New
Officers at W. S. King
By HELEN PAMMKMi:
The Book Wora* are pla?i??g ?
big year. On Thursday, Sept. 17,
the Book Worms library club, held
its first meeting in the library
of the W. S. King School. The
officers elected for the first se
mester are:
President, Bernard Martin; vice
president, Rose Adams; secretary,
Mollie Walker; treasurer, Delores
Pickett; and Vonnie Ha mm re
porter.
The constitution was read by
our advisor, Mrs. McLendon.
Miss Senior Superior ii Miss Flore
Bernice Ham, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Elisha Ham, route one, New
port. Her favorite foods: chicken,
cabbage, ham and chola cake; her
favorite color is red; her favorite
song; Good Things Will Come to
Those Who Wait; hobby, cooking;
subjects; English and economics;
teacher, Mrs. M. J. McLendon;
friend A. C. Galloway.
Mr. Senior Superior is Donald
Lee Henderson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Winfield Henderson, More
head City. His favorite foods, sea
foods; color, blue; song. Say Man;
hobby, sports; subjects, English
and French; teacher. Miss M. L.
Thope; his favorite friend, Deloris
j Pickett.
Junior class presented a program
Friday, Sept. 25. titled Increasing
Our Knowledge of Football.
The panel was Mollie Walker.
Evelyn David, Delores Pickett.
I Mary Stile,. Hannah Bryant, Lillion
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