VOLUME XVI NO. 31
NEW BIOGRAPHY
OF PAUL GREEN
NOW ON SALE
By MART ELLEN WEST
Dare County residents will be
interested to Team of the newly
released biography PAUL GREEN
OF CHAPEL HILL. Its author,
Agatha Boyd Adams, extension li
brarian at the University of North
Carolina, wrote it in response to
the steadily grooving expression of
interest in Green’s personality and
his work. Mrs. Adams’ other writ
ings include studies of Johh
Charles McNeill and Thomas
Wolfe. After her death last March,
Richard Walser, University Eng
lish Department,, completed the
1950 chapter of the Green biogra
phy and edited the entire work
for publication.
Early Years
Paul Green was born March 17,
1894, on a farm in Harnett Coun
ty, some 30 miles south of Ra
leigh. He knew all the chores
which fell to a boy’s lot on a big
farm, and he had the freedom of
the woqds, fields and rivers. He
inherited from his mother an en
thusiasm for music and his great
love of music. For six months
each year he attended a one-room
school in a frame building about
a mile from the farm.
At the age of ten he suffered
an illness which lasted almost a
year. Osteomyelitis made neces
sary the removal of part of the
bone in his upper right arm, and
it was replaced with a silver plate.
It was after this illness that he
learned to use his left arm as
efficiently as his right. Later he
became known in Harnett County
as Lillington’s star ambidextrous
pitcher. Paul learned to pull fod
der faster than anyone in his sec
tion and was once adjudged the
champion cotton-picker of Harnett
County.
After his graduation from
Buie’s Creek Academy, now Camp
bell College, he earned the money
to enable him to attend college
by playing professional baseball
and by teaching school. In 1916,
then several years older than the
average freshman, he entered the
University of North Carolina. The
following spring he interrupted
his study to enlist in the army
where he served with the 105th
Engineers, 30th Division. Here he
gained considerable knowledge and
skill in surveying and map-mak
ing. This ability proved valuable
later in planning and designing
the outdoor theatres at Campbell
College, at Fort Raleigh near
Manteo, at Williamsburg, Va.,
and Washington, D. C.
Resumed Study
In 1919 Green returned to the
University. He was described as
a solitary, hard-working young
man who made slight impression
on his fellow students, and made
no effort at all to attain leader
ship in campus circles. He found
no time for baseball. Instead he
played the violin remarkably
well for one self-taught. Prof.
Horace Williams led him to elect
philosophy as his major subject,
to spend two years graduate
study in philosophy and, later, to
devote considerable time to ex
ploring the writings of Hindu
mystics.
Before entering the army, Green
had spent seventy dollars of his
own money to have a small book
of poems published. He had Writ
ten the prize-winning freshman
play at the University. Both be
fore and after his time in service,
his poems were published in The
Carolina Magazine. He was named
class-poet in his senior year. Le-
Gette Blythe, however, was voted
the best writer in the class.
When he re-entered the Uni
versity in 1919, he joined the Car
olina Playmakers, which had been
established a year earlier. Eliza
beth Ley, later to become Green’s
wife, was the author of the first
play presented by the Playmakers.
The Greens were married in
1922 while Paul was in graduate
school. They now have four grown
children.
Mrs. Adams gives interesting
accounts of the Greens sojourns
in Hollywood, New York and for
eign countries, as well as the or
igin and production of the region
al historical dramas with which
Green has been so closely identi
fied: THE LOST COLONY (1937),
Manteo; THE HIGHLAND CALL
(1939), Fayetteville; THE COM
MON GLORY (1947), Williams
burg: and FAITH OF OUR
FATHERS (1950), Washington,
D. C.
Recurring Themes
Greefi is now considered the
outstanding folk dramatist of the
country. His earlier plays and
stories seldom carry specific dates
of action; they are almost invars
iably placed in the latter years
of the nineteenth or the first years
See BIOGRAPHY, Page Eight
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
MARCH OF DIMES
B ALL AT SCHOOL
TOMORROW NITE
Saturday night, January 27, is
the night of the March of Dimes
Ball in Manteo. It will be staged
in the Mpnteo high school gym
nasium under the direction of
County Agent Bob Smith, who
heads the Rotary Club committee
in charge of the event.
Music will be provided by the
ten top dance orchestras of Amer
ica, through the use of sound films
furnished by Mr. Smith. Those
who attended the recent Shrine
party at which the film-strips
were used to provide the music
can testify to the excellence of
' the , **tfeir''’l>est bands” and their
music or sound films.
There will be both round and
square dancing during the even
ing. A large crowd is expected to
turn out for the Ball, offering as
it does the chance for an evening
of pleasure, combined with assis
tance to the March of Dimes.
Mrs. Balfour Baum, county
chairman, urged all Dare coun
tians to return their March of
Dimes cards with their dona
tions at once.
Mrs. Billie Tillett is conduct
ing the drive in Wanchese, and
she, too, asks that everyone re
turn their donation cards with
in the next few days.
FEW FAMILIES ABLE
TO MEET COSTS FOR
POLIO PATIENT CARE
Infantile Paralysis Cases In Old
er Age Groups Rising In Na
tion, County Director Points
Out
Everyone giving this year to
the March of Dimes is asked to
remember that the National Foun
dation for Infantile Paralysis to
day faces its greatest patient
load, at a time when the value of
the dollar has decreased. More
money than ever is needed to pay
for hospital care, professional
help, iron lungs, hot pack ma
chines and braces.
* Polio Is Expensive
When infantile parlysis strikes,
very few families can afford to
pay the entire cost of patient care.
This may range from a few hun
dred dollars up to 315.000 or more,
depending upon the degree of phy
sical involvement and the months
or years of necessary care. March
of Dimes money is a GodseiW, a
vailable to everyone who needs it.
For example, March of Dimes
funds amounting to $17,000 have
helped one Texas boy stricken in
1948. Hospital and physical ther
apy charges came to over SII,OOO,
nursing almost $5,000.
Polio Rise
The number of infantile paraly
sis cases in the older age groups
is rising in the United States.
Approximately 15 per cent of
the total diagnosed some years
ago were over 15 years of age.
Today about 25 per cent are over
15. The age group most generally
affected still is in the 5-to-9 brac
ket, but older patients tend to be
more seriously affected. Bulbar or
respiratory cases make up 10 per
cent of the total number, and of
these, half are apt to be 19 years
of age or older.
The 1951 March of Dimes, now
nearing its conclusion, gives ev
eryone a chance to strike back at
infantile parlysis. Dimes and dol
lars given to the March of Dimes
will help the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis carry on
the fight.
“The conquest of polio will be
worth all our efforts and all the
money we can intelligently put in
to it,” the County March of Dimes
director said. “Let us all do our
best to raise more money than
ever before. The need has never
been so urgent.”
METHODIST YOUNG PEOPLE
TO SPONSOR SUPPER TUES.
The Methodist Youth Fellow
ship of the Mount Olivet Metho
dist Church will sponsor a turkey
supper Tuesday evening, January
30 in the Education Building of
the Church. Supper will be serv
ed from 6:00 P. M. till 8:00 P.
M. The supper is open to the pub
lic; tickets are available for the
price of SI.OO. The young people
are sponsoring the supper in or
der to pay for a new outdoor bul
letin board for the church. They
will be assisted by the members
of the WSCS.
FIRM ADDS SERVICE TRUCK
Midgett and Midgett, Manteo
plumbing firm, has added a fine
new 1950 Dodge Route-Van to its
equipment. The new truck is a
complete “Plumbing Shop on
Wheels,” according to Elmer
Midgett, manager of the com
pany. It is expected to step up
the speed and efficiency of the firm
in taking care of its service calls.
Dare County Delegate Describes Work
Os Conference On Children and Youth
Attended by over 6,000 Persons From All Parts of the
World, the White House Conference Was a Forum
for the Exchange of Ideas About Children and Youth.
REPORT FROM
WASHINGTON
By PHYLLIS STICK
PART II
Cosmopolitan Experience
One of the finest things about
the whole Conference was the op
portunity for all of us to meet
and talk with people from differ
ent parts of the world as well as
from different sections of the
USA. This was undoubtedly the
first time for some of the dele
gates to join in a discussion in
which Negroes took part. A bet
ter understanding of the other fel
low’s ideals was bound to result
when Protestants, Catholics and
and Jews worried together over
their common problem: that re
ligious training was being ne
glected at home, and in the com
munity. One day I found myself
sitting between a teacher fr6m
India and a Rabbi from West Vir
ginia. And somehow or another
so many different people, with
such widely varying views and
backgrounds, were able to work
together and get things done. Sur
ely, back in our own communities
we ought to be able to cooperate
even more for the same objec
tives. •
Youth’s Share
The part that Youth played in
the Conference was important. In
fact the evening program of
which they were in charge, was
one of the best, if not the very
best session we had. A Youth Ad
visory Council consisting of 250
young people between 14-21 were
responsible for preparing the Con
ference report on youth and for
their participation during the five
Conference days. Approximately
400 attended the sessions and for
the first time in the history of the
White House Conference, youth
joined the adults in full partici
pation. They sat on most of the
panels, were in every work group,
had their own meetings during the
week, and took complete charge
of the night session that undoubt
edly stands out in most of the
adult delegates’ minds, as “terri
fic.” If we had already been “pan
ned” by other adults for the rot
ten job we were doing, we were
certainly criticzed even more for
cefully by the young people! As
they delivered their addresses be
fore the great and the near-great
and just the ordinary delegate,
before the experts in every field,
and to such a huge audience, I
wondered if there was a. young
person in Dare County who could
ask, with such poise and confi
dence, that youth be given a bet
ter deal from here on out. I doubt
ed it. But I know that given the
same opportunities, there would
be many in our county who could.
What youth told us in the writ
ten report and during the confer
ence itself was, to put it bluntly,
that their biggest problem seems
to be adults! They begged for a
working partnership with adults
and wished that we would stop
planning FOR youth and plan
WITH youth. They are concerned
with the fact that adults are in
clined to take a patronizing atti
tude towards them and want to
feel that their ideas are respected
at least, knowing that they are
not always right. They felt that
adults are over-protecting young
people and begged parents to “let
go their hand” sooner.
They want to assume more
responsibility not only in plan
ning activities for themselves,
but in the home, at school, in
the church and community as a
whole. They recognize that ma
turity begins when the first re
sponsibility is taken and if ad
ults continue to treat young
people as though they will al
ways be rash, incompetent, un
interested and selfish, and with
hold opportunities to share re
sponsibilities, then youth, when
adult, will be less capable of
handling the affairs of the com
munity when they are thrust
upon them. In short, young peo
ple feel that adults do not ex
pect enough of them.
They felt the need of firmer
spiritual values and on more than
one occasion the adults were call
ed down for the materialistic at
titudes that young people were
being taught. “We will be what
you teaeh us to be,” one young
delegate said, and added, “We
have been taught that our success
depends upon what we can get,
not on what we can give.” They
realized that they needed the
backing and support of adults but
were bewildered with the conflict
ing values in the world today.
They advocated more and bet
ter citizenship training in schools
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1951
and at home, so that as adults
they could vote intelligently, and
fill public offices adequately.
Throughout it all, the most
earnest striving on the part of
youth seemed to be for an es
tablished status in the home and
in the community life. They war t
ed to be counted as worth some
thing, their opinions and their ac
tions, and they wanted this for all
youth. In their written report
they went on record thus: “We
are united by a basic truth which
is the belief that all men are
created equal with certain inal
ienable rights, and that each is
of infinite worth and dignity. All
men must work together to elim
inate the artificial barriers of
race, creed, and nationality which
so often create conflicts.”
Along these same lines their
written report includes this com
mitment: “The youth of today are
growing into a world which needs
mutual understanding and cooper
ation of all peoples to survive.
This calls for improved inter
group relations across social, ec
onomic, religious, racial and na
tionality lines. When ALL youth
cannot develop on a free and eq
ual basis, the nation suffers in its
leadership, development of re
sources and quality of leader
ship.”
Youth set high standards. That
they set down such goals was
proof that adults had not complet
ely failed. But to achieve such
goals, youth said, they must have
the cooperation of adults.
Between these sessions, for
anyone still on their feet and not
wanting to miss anything, there
were scores of exhibit booths set
up where we could see, for exam
ple, children’s encyclopedias, Boy
Scout hobbies, Puerto Rican hand
craft and National Health Coun
cil literature displayed side by
side. There were movies on health,
mental hygiene, and education
(some world premiers) during the
noon hour, and meetings of var
ious state delegations or profes
sional groups squeezed in between
the rest of the program items.
Getting something to eat at noon
was a major problem since the
food service facilities did not
quite meet the needs of the starv
ing thousands A sorry-lookiug
hotdog and a Coke, gained after
standing in line, had to suffice
for most of us.
Rush at the End
The last day of the Conference
was set aside for adoption of the
recommendations of the work
groups. Although the list pre
sented had evolved through a
democratic process; that is, from
35 different discussion groups
which included the opinions and
thinking of all the delegates, and
thence through a smaller commit
tee that edited and wrote them
in concise form, nonetheless, as
the meeting proceeded, ..there were
moves for amendment, deletion,
and much discussion. This too
was part of our democratic pro
cess, but it delayed and prolonged
the business and, consequently,
the last of the program, which
was the summing up of the Con
ference activities as a whole, had
to be abandoned. In fact, some
of the delegates had to leave to
catch trains and buses before all
the recommendations had been
considered. Consequently, we left
the Conference without a com
plete report of what the final rec
ommendations were and are wait
ing for the Conference Journal be
fore we will have the final results
of the 2 years and five days of
work. These recommendations will
serve as our guideposts for work
with children and youth for the
ten years until the 1960 White
House Conference on Children and
Youth.
Recommendations
Keeping in mind the focus of
the Conference, FOR EVERY
CHILD A FAIR CHANCE FOR
A HEALTHY PERSONALITY,
here are some of the recommen
dations that definitely were adopt-
See REPORT, Page Eight
HIGHWAY DEATH
TOLL, 1951
Killed January 19 through
January 22 18
Injured January 19 through
January 22 148
Killed through January
22 this year. 56
Killed through January
22, 195® 52
Injured through January
22 this year. — 557
Injured through January
22, 195®. ,«15
FISHERIES BOARD CHMN.
PASSES AT PLYMOUTH
WILLIAM ROY HAMPTON,
since 1937 a member of the N. C.
Board of Conservation and De
velopment and at the time of his
death Chairman of the Commer
cial Fisheries Division died sud
denly Wednesday morning in the
Washington County hospital fol
lowing a sudden heart attack.
Mr. Hampton had served as
Stale Senator for the Second Dis
trict, and gave many years ser
vice on the school board of his
town and county. He was immen
sely popular throughout the state,
and had a wide circle of friends,
particularly in the fishing indus
try.
He attended State College, was
a Mason, and a member of the
Episcopal church. He was a son
of Lulu and the late W. IL Hamp
ton of Plymouth, a prominent
family and is survived by his mo
ther, his wife, and two sons, W.
R., Jr., and Tom Hampton and a
daughter, Mrs. Norman Gliddens
of Washington. D. C., a sister,
Mrs. L. W. Whitehurst and four
grandchildren.
THREE MORE MEN
ENLISTFROM
DARE COUNTY
The Dare County Selective Ser
vice Board was notified this week
by the Coast Guard Recruiting
Station in Norfolk of the enlist
ment this month of two nineteen
year-old youths from Avon. Har
ry Miller Gray enlisted on Janu
ary 15, and Gerald Davis Wil
liams enlisted on January 17.
When registrants with the loc
al board become 19 their names
are removed from the deferred '
list, and they become eligible for
induction along with the other
older registrants. On the 24th of
this month Leland Reese Midgett
became 19, and Dare County now
receives credit for his enlistment
in the Navy last July on its quota
of men supplied for the services.
The board was notified this
week of the re-enlistment in the
Air Force of Julian Erford Haz
en. Hazen previously served 1%
years in the Air Force between
1945 and 1947; he re-enlisted in
the grade of private first class.
THEATRE DAMAGED BY FIRE
Cause of the Fire Not Determinable With Certainty.
Loss to the Uninsured Building Not Yet Estimated.
Fire broke out in the air con
ditioning room of the Pioneer
Theatre in Manteo last Sunday
noon and within a very few min
utes destroyed the screen, the
sound equipment at that part of
the theatre and caused extensive
smoke damage to the interior fur
nishings of the whole theatre.
The quickness with which the
fire spread can be understood when 1
one considers that an employee of i
the theatre company had been in I
the building within fifteen minu
tes of the time when the fire de
partment arrived and had seen no
evidence of fire. A very few min
utes after his departure the
flames burst out, the alarm was
given and the Manteo Fire De
partment was hurrying to the
scene. A large crowd of spectat
ors soon gathered, also, as the a
larm was given just as Manteo
churches were out.
The department played water
on the flames through upper
windows in the west wall and at
the rear of the building. The
fire was brought under control
in a short time and was com
nletely extinguished within an
hour. But a great deal of dam
age had been done to the build
ing, owned by H. A. Crees, be
fore the fire was out net. Mr.
Cieef says it is impossible, as
vet, to estimate the amount of
loss. The building was not in
sured.
The theatre is a new one and
many of the interior decorations
have only recently been put in
DARE VETS AND DEPENDENTS
PAID $330,000 IN 12 YEARS
ANNUAL ON-JOB PAY $186,000
Dare’s 1,200 Vets Get High Ratio of Benefits.
Sixty Establishments Certified for On-The-
Job Training. Many Types of Training Giv
en in County.
MANTEO CHOIR TO SING
AT EPWORTH METHODIST
Thirty-Voice Group to Provide
Music for Evening Service
In Norfolk
The 30-voice choir of Mount Ol
ivet Methodist Church in Manteo
will by special invitation present
the music for the evening service
of Epworth Methodist Church in
Norfolk, located at the corner of
Boush and Freemason Streets, on
Sunday, January 28.
The musical program will be
gin at 7:45, and the Manteo choir
will take over for the regular Ep
worth choir for the remainder of
the evening’s services.
JASPER SIMPSON, JR. GETS
JUDGEMENT AGAINST BAUM
J. D. Simpson, Jr., 14 year old
Manteo boy was awarded S6OO
damages Wednesday afternoon in
Elizabeth City Federal Court on
his $25,000 suit against William
Baum and his father, Wayland
Baum of Wanchese.
The court absolved Wayland
Baum, father of William, of any
blame in connection with the au-1
tomobile accident which occurred
in May, 1946 in Dare County. The
father tnd son were both being
sued by the Simpson boy. There
fore William Baum was ordered
to pay Simpson S6OO damages,
less SBS which had already been
paid to the Simpson family by
Mrs. Baum.
FLETCHERS TO ATTEND
NAGS HEAD FOX HUNT
Inglis Fletcher, author of Ben
nett’s Welcome, a current best sel
ler, and husband, John Fletcher,
plan to attend the annual Valen
tine Season Fox Hunt at Nags
Head on the three days following
Valentine Day, February 14. The
Fletchers attended the hunt last
year when it was held for the first
time. The Fletchers live at Ban
don Hall, a pre-Revolutionary
War plantation near Edenton.
Also attending the fox hunt will
be Lord Downes of Scarborough,
England, who took part in the ev
ent last year primarily to witness
the work of the famous Ameri
can Walker Hounds. A total of
200 hounds are expected to take
part in the chases this year which
will extend from Kitty Hawk,
southward to Oregon Inlet. The
largest packs of hounds will be
brought to Nags Head by the
Bunch brothers of Edenton and
the Watkins brothers of Oxford.
Headquarters for the hunt will be
the Carolinian Hotel.
use. It is going to be necessary
for the theatre to remain closed
down, perhaps a month, perhaps
longer, until necessary repairs can
be made. But the theatre manage
ment promises that it will begin
to show movies in the building 1
again as quickly as it is possible, j
No one really knows how the
fire started, but the two theories '
which seem most consistent with ,
the circumstances are these: a ;
spark from trash being burned be
hind the building may have blown
in through an open window and
set fire to some excelsior inside 1
the theatre; or, the motor in the ■
air conditioning room became ’
shorted and set off the fire.
FIRE DEPT. HANDLES
TWO SMALL HOME FIRES i
The Manteo Fire Department <
was called out about 10 a.m.
Thursday morning to the Van Le- >
wark home about a half-mile 1
north of Manteo. The department
was summoned because of danger J
from an overheated oil stove, but
the volunteers were able tn bring
the danger under control before
any but minor damage had
been done.
The Fire Dept, answered anoth
er alarm, on Sunday, in which its
prompt appearance probably sav
ed a householder from disaster.
The department extinguished all
evidence of fire at the home of El
la Dough, colored woman near
Manteo, before any serious dam
age could occur.
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Dare County Veterans Service
Officer I. P. Davis reported this
week that $330,860.18. had been
paid to Dare county veterans,
their widows, the dependent par
ents and children of veterans in
the period of the last fifteen
years. The sum does not include
veterans insurance claims, fam
ily allowances or subsistence pay
for veterans under the GI Bill
of Rights, Mr. Davis emphasized.
There are now approximately
1,200 Veterans of World Wars I
and II in Dare county, the service
officer said. They are receiving
around SII,OOO per month in gov
ernment payments of various
kinds.
The North Carolina Veterans
Commission has reported that
Dare county is one of the very
highest-ranking counties in the
state in the proportion of bene
fits received to the number of res
ident veterans.
GI Training Facts
Although it is not generally be
lieved to be of great importance
in this county, a study of some
of the facts regarding on-the-job
training for ex-Gls in Dare coun
ty will show that the training has
been, and is now, of very great
significance here. Mr. Davis says
that since July 1948 an average
of 60 business places in this
county have been certified to train
ex-Gls for various kinds of work.
'The average number of veterans
in training here during that per
iod has been 90, or 1% per cer
tified training-establishment. The
average subsistence wage paid by
the Government to these men dur
ing the period mentioned has been
SSO per month. Thus, for the past
two and a half years, to the pres
ent time, $4,500 per month has
been received by veterans in the
county under this phase of o"«r
--ernment assistance to veterans
alone.
This has meant a year-round
supplement to incomes of Dare
countians of $15,500 every
month for all kinds of veterans
aid. This means that a total of
$186,000 per year is being dis
bursed in Dare county every
year for veterans and their de
pendents in all forms of veter
ans-aid funds. Service Officer
Davis points out.
The variety of on-the-job-train
ing contracts entered into here
would be surprising to many peo
ple as the money sent into the
county by the program. A few
of the many kinds of training
which has been arranged for
through the Service Officer’s of
fice are these: automobile mechan
ic’s training, training for service
station and filling station opera
tion (the major types of training
entered into by veterans in Dare),
petroleum and oil distribution, ho
tel clerks’ training, hotel chef’s
training, bank training, wholesale
and retail grocery and general
merchandise operations.
MANTEO DOWNS CENTRAL
TWICE FRIDAY NIGHT
Manteo high school boys and
girls basketball teams took a pair
of well-played games from Cen
tral high school of Elizabeth City
on the Manteo court last Friday
night. Both teams won seven
point victories. The boys’ score
was 34-27, the girls’ 33-26.
Betty Rae Sanderlin and Caro
lyn Gaskill led the local girls in
scoring, with 16 and 11 points;
Jane and Doreen Midgett domin
ated play in back court. A for
ward named Jones tallied 13
points for the losers.
Jack Cahoon, Carroll Wescott
and Punk Daniels popped in ten
points apiece to pace the boys'
team’s attack.
Both games were Rural Albe
marle Conference affairs. They
established both Manteo squads
more firmly in the driver’s seat
at the head of the league’s stand
ings.
LAST WEEK’S WEATHER
Figures provided by tl. S. Govt.
Meteorologist A. W. Drinkwater
High Low Rain
January 18 60 40
January 19 74 46
January 20 71 44
January 21 66 45 .
January 22 47 32
January 23 62 37
January 24 62 45