'OLUME XVI N 0.28
j /ILLIS DANIELS IS
| 'HOSEN FOR DARE
pAX SUPERVISOR
I Jard Recommends Building
K • ermrt Law in Dare Coun
ty; Sanitary District
I Approved
I The Dare Board of Commission-
F S by a vote of the Chairman
• ■ the first time in two years,
i >se Willis L. Daniels of Wan
•f >se for tax supervisor at a sal-
T V of $250 a month for six
J ‘:iths, without any expense al-
J *ance. Commissioners Swain
| i Perry voted for a tax super
i or and Commissioners Scar
/ ough and Austin of the South
i nks voted against employing
i e at this time.
L Robert Ballance of Manteo and
i ’k Jordan of Nags Head had
I, plied for the job, but the name ,
/ Mr. Daniels, who served for a
[ ort time in 1948, was put forth,
f d two votes were for him and
£ o against.
• The need for a tax supervisor
keep up with the changes in
operty is considered important,
id much property is not on the
oks at all, for lack of sufficient
►" pervision.
Commissioner Perry of Kitty
awk has long advocated a build
.ng permit law as one means of
keeping up with property and he
made a motion, seconded by Mr.
Scarborough, that the Representa
dve be asked to pass such a law
for Dare County. This would re
quire all persons to obtain a per
mit before erecting any buildings.
The board endorsed the sani
iry project completed on the
Nags Head beach in a vote of ap
proval proposed by Commissioner
Lawrence Swain and seconded by
Commissioner Perry. It was
agreed that Mr. Etheridge should
be asked to use his efforts to se
cure an act in the General As
sembly which would allow proper
ty owners, as well as resident vot
ers, to vote on any proposed san
ary projects to hie undertaken
sn the Nags Head beach in the
uture.
RETURNS TO ARMY
Pvt. A. L. Austin of Hatteras,
■•ho has been spending the holi
days with nis mother, Mrs. A.
•urrus of Hatteras has returned
> his base at Fort Frances E.
arren, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Old Christmas Celebration at Rodanthe
Described in Fourteen Year Old Article
Origins of the Double Visits of Santa Claus to South
Banks Village and the Festivities of the Villagers
on Christmas and Ancient Twelfth Day Are De
scribed in Story Reprinted Below.
The kids down at Rodanthe
on’t quibble with you if you
ant to call it Little Christmas,
[ welfth Day, Epiphany or Old
'hristmas; but if you suggest
' hat Santa Claiis comes only once
. year—and that time in the wee
< tours of December 26—the kids
- ill inform you politely that it
<st isn’t so, not in Rodanthe.
, aere, Santa Claus makes M sec
>ud round of visits twelve days
’ ter ;Christmas, on January 5.
she background of the double
tristmas celebration at Rodan
e was accurately described by
4herine D. Meekins in a feature
| tide on the Rodanthe Old
Viristmas celebration in The
■ ite Magazine in 1936. Because
| the unique nature of the old
f ristmas celebration and the in-
■ -est which it holds for many of
| • readers who are loathe “to
raS. EDITH WISE
(DIES AT HOME
I STUMPY POINT
I as One of Best Loved Citi
-1 zens, and Lifelong Resi
gn dent of Communitv
I Mrs. Edith Best Wise, 73, widow
It x.he late Enoch Wise, and daugh
]■ of the late Joe Harvey and
|| eline Best of Stumpy Point, died
|| 10:30 Wednesday morning at
|L> home, following an illness of
|| > weeks. She was a lifelong
|F ident of the community, and a
|| mber of the Methodist Church.
H lhe was one of the community’s
J t loved citizens, and a devoted
nemaker. She loved Stumpy
int and its people with all her
• art, and she had served her
V ureh and community well. She
, survived by one daughter, Mrs.
R. W. Wechter and one brother,
Albert Best of Stumpy Point.
Funerai services were conducted
at two o’clock Thursday, Rev.
Tracy 'amum officiating and
burial was fa the Community cem
etery.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WALTER RALEIGH OOASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
JOHN FEREBEE MEETS
MISHAP IN CAMDEN
AaOh.
I? I
JOHN E. FEREBEE, well-known
Manteo business man, and form
er Chairman of the Board of
Commissioners received painful
injuries in his native county of
Camden, Friday afternoon, when
his car was in a collision with a
1938 model driven across the road
in front of him by a Negro, near
Camden Courthouse. Mr. Fere
bee, in a new car which he had
just bought for his daughter, yas
on a visit to his wife in the, hos
pital, and being driven by an em
ployee, Ephraim Daniels, Jr., 28.
Ferebee was given first aid at
Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth
City and released but Daniels, of
Manteo, driving Ferebee’s 1950
Studebaker, is confined to the hos
pital with a skull fracture and
lacerations.
Patrolman A. B. Stewart, who
investigated, said a 1938 model
car driven by Ariah Banks, 57,
Negro, of Elizabeth City, drove
into the path of Ferebee’s car at
the intersection of US 158 and
NC 143. Banks received only min
or injuries and John Cabarrus,
75. Negro, Elizabeth City, riding
with him, was given first aid at
the hospital.
Banks was charged with care
less and reckless driving.
Ferebee’s car was damaged to
the extent of SI,OOO and Banks’
car had damage estimated at $350.
Mr. Ferebee is the brother of
Harry Ferebee of Camden, mem
ber of the State Board of Elec
tions.
see the old folkways die out and
become forgotten,” Mrs. Meekins’
article is reprinted below.
OLD CHRISTMAS
AT RODANTHE
By CATHERINE D. MEEKINS
(Note: Written for the Christ
mas issue of The State Maga
zine, 1936.
Thousands .of children in all
parts of the world will soon rea
lize the day, to them the happiest
of the year. Santa Claus will vis
it them and. fill their stockings
with the things of which they
have dreamed for so long. The
gifts of which they have talked
for many months and which they
so keenly desire will at last be
theirs. Happy memories will re
main with them for years to come,
because of some particular thing
which will rejoice their hearts.
Doubly happy, then, will be the
children of Rodanthe. For in this
little fishing village on the North
Carolina coast, Santa Claus will
come twice within two weeks, as
has been the custom for many
years. The 25th of December will
be celebrated thebe as Christmas
and on the sth of January, twelve
days later, Old Christmas will be
observed. ~ .» /
Old Christmas, known some
times as Little Christmas, Twelf
th Day, or Epiphany,. is a cele
bration taking place on the twelf
th day after Christmas, counting
Christmas as the first day, and
See OLD, Page -8
LAST WEEK’S WEATHER
Figures provided by tj.. S. Govt.
Meteorologist A. W. Drinkwater
High Low Rain
December 28 52 32
December 29 48 38 .96
December 30 52 39 .16
December 31 50 36 .14
January 1 44 32
January 2 48 31
January 3 70 40
BOOKMOBILE NOW
EXCEEDS TOWN
CIRCULATION
From Jan. 1, 1950 to Dec. 31,
1951, the Library circulated 27,-
942 books in the County and town.
This covers only ten months of
the Bookmobile service. The cir
culation from the Bookmobile has
already far exceeded that in the
town, and is growing each month.
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE LAW
VIOLATOR COSTLY TO DARE
The prosecution of Frank De
Febio who defied the North Caro
lina School laws by failing to send
his two eight year old sons to
school is proving costly to Dare
County. This was revealed this
week by County Commissioner
Chairman C. C. Duvall who sign
ed checks totaling $175.45 which
were itemized as follows
De Febio was given a 30 day
sentence for contempt of court at
the original trial and
in jail here. Rather than abide by
the Recorder’s Court order and
pay a fine of $5 and cost at end
of 30 days, De Febio took another
30 days sentence in the local jail.
He claimed his conscience would
rtot permit him to abide by the
'court order. In addition to fuel
for the jail cell, his food bill dur
ing first month was $39.85. It has
cost the county during same per
iod $135.50 to care for the aband
oned De Febio children.
HIGHWAY DEATH
TOLL, 1950
Killed Dec. 29, 1950
through Jan. 1, 1951 11
Injured Dee. 29, 1950,
through Jan. 1. 1951 127
Killed through Jan. 1, 1951 1
Killed through Jan. 1, 1950 7
Injured through Jan. 1,
1951 19
Injured through Jan. 1
1950 39
Schedule for Home Demonstration Clubs’
January Meetings Announced This Week
First Meeting at Kitty Hawk January 5. All Groups
Will Elect New Officers. Parliamentary Procedure
to be Month’s Topic for Study.
Dare County Home Demonstra
tion clubs will devote their Janu
ary meetings to club organization
for the year 1951; election of club
officers will be the first order of
business, according to County
Home Agent Miss Mary Eliza
beth Kirby. The study-topic for
the month will be parliamentary
procedure.
Time and place of the year’s
first meetings were announced
this week by Miss Kirby, as fol
lows:
Kitty Hawk Club, January 5,
at 2 p. m., at the home of Mrs.
Mary Best.
Manteo Club, January 8, at 2:30
p. m., in the Community Building.
Rodanthe Club, January 9, at
2:30 p.m., in the home of Mrs.
Nora Herbert.
Hatteras Club, January 10, at
2:30 p.m., at the schoolhouse.
Buxton Club, January 10, at
NEW YEAR’S THOUGHTS
Let us walk softly, friends;
For strange paths lie before us all untro.d
The New Year, spotless from the hand of
God,
Is thine and mine, O friend.
Let us walk straightly, friend;
Forget the crooked paths behind us now,
Press on with steadier purpose on our
brow,
Co better deeds, O friend.
Let us walk gladly, friend;
Perchance some greater good than we
have known
Is waiting for us, or some fair hope flown
Shall yet return, O friend.
Let us walk humbly, friend;
Slight not the heart’s-ease blooming
round our feet;
The laurel blossoms are not half so sweet,
Or lightly gathered, friend.
Let us walk kindly, friend;
We cannot tell how long this life shall
last,
How soon these precious years be over
past;
Let Love walk with us, friend.
Let us walk quickly, friend;
Work with our might while lasts our little
stay,
And help some halting comrade on the
way;
And may God guide us, friend.
—LILLIAN GRAY
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1951
FOUR BROTHERS SERVED
DURING WORLD WAR II
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ALBERT W. AUSTIN of Hat
teras, who is now serving his first
term as a member of the Dare
Board of Commissioners, is a fish
erman from boyhood. He once
worked for the State Fisheries
Commission, some 25 years ago,
and except for the World War II
period, has spent his life at Hat
teras. During the war, he served
in the Army in the China-Burma-
India theater.
Three brothers beside him also
served in this war. HYDOUS AUS
TIN served in the Army in Europe,
and has returned to Hatteras to
live, and has a wife and one child.
HILTON AUSTIN served as a
Chief Petty Officer in the Navy,
and had two ships sunk from under
him by the enemy. He has con
tinued his Navy career and is now
continuing his studies at Brown
University, Rhode Island. BRUCE
AUSTIN, who served in the North
Atlantic patrol during this war,
came out and entered the Army
reserve and having been called in
to service, he is now with the army
in Tacoma, Washington. The four
Austin boys are the sons of Mr.
and Mrs. Russell J. Austin and
brothers of Mrs. U. L. Rollinsbn
of Frisco, Hatteras township.
7:30 p.m., with Mrs. Odessa Gray.
Duck Club, January 17, at 1:30
p.m., with Mrs. Carrie Whitson.
East Lake Club, January 18, at
3:00 p.m., with Mrs. Sarah Ca
hoon.
Wanchese Club, January 22, at
2:30 p.m., at the schoolhouse.
NEW OFFICERS OF THE
MANTEO MASONIC LODGE
The new officers of the Manteo
Masonic Lodge recently installed
are Edwin Midgett, Master; G. G.
Bonner, Senior Warden; Raymond
Wescott, Junior Warden; Wilford
Wise, Treasurer; Jack Wilson,
Secretary; R. O. Ballance, Senior
Deacon; Belton Burrus, Jr., Dea
con; J. G. Kellogg, Tyler; Elmer
V. Midgett and Henry B. Parker,
Stewards. The Lodge, which now
has about 60 members, meets on
the First and Third Friday of
each month.
SIX YOUNG MEN
REGISTER FOR
DRAFT HERE
Six Dare county eighteen-year
olds registered with the Dare
County Selective Service Board
during November and December,
according to information from
the office of Chairman Robert
Ballance. Five of the men are
from Maateo, one from Manns
Harbor.
The two new registrants in No
vember were Moncie L. Daniels,
111, and Arnold L. Midgett, both
of Manteo. Those registering in
December were Randall Eugene
Holmes, Everett Edgar Liverman
and Robert Valentine Owens, all
of Manteo, and Dalton Lee Mann
of Manns Harbor.
APPROPRIATION
MADE BY STATE
TO LOST COLONY
The Lost Colony was allocated
$7,228.40 from the state contigen
cy and emergency fund by Gov
ernor Scott and the Council of
State on Tuesday of this week.
The appropriation was made to
make up an operating deficit in
curred by the Roanoke Island dra
ma during a rainy 1950 season.
Bill Sharpe, chairman of the
Roanoke Island Historical Asso
ciation which sponsors the Lost
Colony drama, had asked for an
allocation of $7,891.90. The Coun
cil, however, scaled down the re
quest because it held that not all
of the deficit could be attributed
to Operational costs.
The Colony dramatic group has
been under the wing of the state
since 1947. In that year, the gen
eral assembly authorized an al
location of SIO,OOO from the con
tingency fund to make up an op
erating deficit.
An audit prepared by the state
auditor’s- office showed that the
Lost Colony had ticket sales of
$95,234.70 last summer in spite of
July rains which cut down the size
of crowds. Os this amount, how
ever, the government received
$15,872.45 in amusement tax.
D. E. WILLIS, FORMER
HATTERAS RESIDENT, DEAD
* -
After a long illness, David Ellis
Willis, 80, a native of Hatteras
but a resident of Elizabeth City
for 13 years, died Wednesday
morning.
He was the husband of Mrs.
Minerva Gaskins Willis of Eliza
beth City to whom he had been
married 59 years. He was the son
of the late John and Minerva
Stowe Willis, a member of the
Woodmen of the World, the
American Legion, had been retir
ed from the United States Coast
Guard for the past 28 years and
a member of City Road Methodist
Church.
Besides his wife he is survived
by four sons, Roscoe Willis of At
lantic, Jasper, Hobson, and Har
lan Willis of Hatteras; three
daughters, Mrs. V. A. Lewis of
Elizabeth City, Mrs. Ross Bur
rus, Jr., and Mrs. Zack Austin
of Hatteras; two sisters, Mrs. W.
B. Gaskins of Elizabeth City and
Mrs. Pat Gaskins of Norfolk; 39
grandchildren and 17 great grand
children.
Funeral services were held Fri
day at 2 p.m. at the Twiford Fun
eral Home Chapel by the Rev. J.
O. Long, pastor of City Road
Methodist Church, assisted by the
Rev. L. Sigsbeen Miller, pastor of
Pearl Street Assembly Church.
Burial was in New Hollywood
Cometery.
1951 March of Dimes Campaign To Begin
In Dare County on Monday,'Sanuary 15
Mrs. Balfour Baum Is Chairman of the Anti-Polio
Campaign Committee; Local Committee Appoint
ments Made; March of Dimes Ball to be Held Jan
uary 31.
The 1951 March of Dimes cam
paign will open on Monday, Jan
uary 15. In Dare county on that
day and in the days following
those in charge of the campaign
in the various communities will
solicit contributions from the peo
ple of this county to assist? the
nationwide campaign against the
dread disease, infantile paralysis.
The county March of Dimes
committee is composed of Mrs.
Balfour Baum, Manteo, chair
man; Miss Ruth Evans, Manteo,
vice-chairman; Miss Delnoy
Burrus, Manteo, secretary; Dr.
W. W. Johnston, treasurer; and
Miss Bessie Draper, Martin
Kellogg and I. P. Davis.
Mrs. Baum said this week that
the county’s quota for 1951 has
BOARD OF EDUCATION DIRECTS
ARCHITECT TO PROCEED WITH
DARE SCHOOL BUILDING PLANS
A New Building for Roanoke Colored School
Proposed. Site for $164,000 Consolidated
School on Lower Banks Is Still Not Definit
ely Determined.
RECENTLY PROMOTED
QUARTERMASTER USN
wWWL _■»<•.. -
John G. Brown, 23, quartermas
ter, second class, USN, son-in
law of Mr. and Mrs. P. E. Sawyer
of Wanchese, has recently been
advanced to quartermaster, first
class.
Brown enlisted in the Navy on
June 2, 1945, and received his re
cruit training at the Naval Train
ing Center, Sampson, New York.
Upon completion of his recruit
training he was sent to Bremer
ton, Wash., where he boarded a
transport which took him to Yok
ahama, Japan. Here he was sta
tioned aboard the USS Norton
Sound and USS Curtis both oper
ating in the Pacific theater during
the war.
In 1947 he was assigned to the
USS Siboney and passed through
the Panama Canal into Atlantic
waters where he boarded the USS
Philippine Sea where he was ata
tioned for two years.
Since shipping over in October
1949, Brown has been attached to
the flag allowance, Commander
Second Fleet, now commanded by
Vice Admiral M. B. Gardner,
USN, at the - Naval Air Station,
Norfolk, Va. He was married to
Miss Goldie Sawyer, July 2, 1947.
BAILEY BROS.
STAGE SHOW
HERE SATURDAY
This Saturday evening at 7:30
o’clock on the stage at Manteo
schoolhouse the well-known radio
entertainers, the Bailey Brothers
and their Happy Valley Boys, will
offer a varied program of music
and singing under the auspices of
the Manteo Lions Cub.
Featured entertainers for the
group’s performance in Manteo
will be the popular Happy Valley
Quartet; Jimmy Martin, fiddler
extraordinary; Little Wilma Mar
tin and her bass fiddle; Willis
Hogsead and his five-string ban
jo; and the irrepressible Slap
Happy Jake.
not as yet been announced by the
national foundation. Last year’s
quota was set at $1,500, and it is
expected that the 1951 quota will
be about the same. It is hoped
that Dare county’s showing this
year will be better than last year,
Mrs. Baum said.
Appointments to local commit
tees have been made; but as for
mal acceptances in some eases
have not as yet been received,
names of local committee mem
bers will not be released by the
county chairman until next week.
As in previous years, the anti
polio campaign will be climaxed
on January SI, the birth date of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, by a
March of Dimes ball in Manteo.
Single Copy 7<
The Dare County Board of Edu
cation, on Tuesday, January 2nd,
completed another step toward be
ginning the building program of
the Dare County Schools. Archi
tect B. H. Stevens, of New Bern,
met with the board and received
directions "to submit to both the
State Building Committee and the
Dare County Board of Education
plans for a new building for the
Roanoke Colored School, added
rooms and some remodeling for
the Manteo School, likewise addi
tion and remodeling at the Kitty
Hawk School, and remodeling at
Manns Harbor and Wanchese. *
The Cape Hatteras Consolidated
School, which will receive the bulk
of the funds appropriated, is to
have new tentative plans drawn.
A definite hope was expressed by
the majority of the county board
that this school, the location of
which is still in doubt, will be
contracted for at the same time
that the remainder of the building
program is put out. The architect
See BOARD, Page 8
CAPT. R. M. HOYLE
CHIEF of SECURITY
PORT OF NORFOLK
Former Manteo Man Pro
moted In Coast Guard;
To Assume New Dut
ies January 8
A former Manteo man, who
grew up in the town of Manteo,
where his father practised medi
cine, has been named Captain of
the Port of Norfolk. The new se
curity Chief is Captain Richard
M. Hoyle, USCG, the son of Mrs.
Margaret Hoyle of Road Street,
Manteo, and the late Dr. Hughes
B. Hoyle. He has risen steadily
in the Coast Guard Service.
Capt. Hoyle, commanding offic
er of the Coast {Guard cutter Ing
ham, was ordered to assume the
new duties effective on January 8.
The assignment covers all of
Hampton Roads.
His duties will include the broad
aspects of port security, ship ber
things and clearances and general
port movement. Captains of the
port are not assigned except under
emergency conditions. During
peacetime, the duties revert to a
representative on the staff of the
commanders of the districts.
Hoyle was transferred to the
Norfolk (fifth) district in April
from Seattle, Wash., where he
was operations officer of the 13th
Coast Guard District. He assum
ed command of the Ingham at
that time. The cutter returned to
Norfolk Saturday from a 30-day
weather patrol in the North At
lantic.
Capt. Hoyle attended school at
Manteo and graduated from the
Newport News High School, and
after attending the Coast Guard
Academy was commissioned an
ensign in 1926. During World
War II he served in both the At
lantic and Pacific theatres of op
eration.
GOVERNOR SCOTT
GOT NO GAME IN
DARE LAST WEEK
Hunted at Off Island With
Ras and Har-' Westcott;
Shown Need For Road
Governor W. Kerr Scott, who
came to Dare County last Thurs
day as the guest of Ras and Harry
Westcott, owners of Off Island
near Oregon Inlet, struck bad
hunting weather, and got no
game, but got a chance to hear
a plea for the paving of the road
that leads to the vicinity, between
Whalebone and Oregon Inlet.
Governor Scott was accompan
ied by his Secretary, Ben Roney,
and was driven to the Island by
Tom Dough of Nags Head Coast
Guard Station. He spent the night
at the camp on the island, and
enjoyed a dinner prepared by
Commander Walter Etheridge,
USCG retired, a member of the
Off Island staff.
The Governor also hunted in
Currituck, with Orville Wood
house of Grandy, member of the
State Wildlife Resources Com
mission, during his visit to this
part of the state.
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