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VOLUME XVI NO. 40 CHAIRMAN McCOWN REPORTS DARE RED CROSS DRIVE FOR FUNDS MAY EXCEED QUOTA Eleven Community Chairmen Make Final Re ports Indicating Successful Local Drives. Manteo, Buxton, Manns Harbor, Duck, Avon and Beach Area Reports Incomplete. Good reports of successful work in many of Dare County’s com munities this week gave Fund Chairman Wallace McCdwn high hopes of exceeding the quota for the County. Since last week, eleven com munity chairmen have reported their success by turning in final reports, or indicating the a mount pledged in their various communities. The reports of chairmen this week are: Mrs. Emily Smith of East Lake, $23- 60; Mr. Haywood, Officer in Charge, Oregon Inlet Coast Guard Station, $13.00; Mrs. Jes se Baum, Mrs. Edward Perry and Miss Virgie Perry, co-chair men for Kitty Hawk, $40.34.; Mr. Alton Williams of Avon, $50.00; Mrs. R. H. Taylor in charge of the Beach area, $40.- 75; Mr. Lafayette Douglas of Salvo, $7.00; Mrs. Myrtle Til , lett of Wanchese, $42.00; Mrs. Calvin Payne of Stumpy Point, $22.75. Reports of the amount raised at Manns Harbor and Buxton have not been received as yet but are expected before the end of the week. These reports show a total of $401.00 cash in the bank, and ap proximately- $150.00 which has been collected but not as yet turn ed in to the Fund Chairman. Final reports are yet to be received from Avon, Manteo (colored), Manteo Residential, Buxton Manns Harbor, Duck, Wanchese, and the Beach area. Successful re sults by these communities will assure Dare County of a proud response to the 1951 Red Cross Drive. It is hoped these reports will boost our Fund to $600.00 Every effort is being made to close the Drive by the Ist of April and have final reports made at that time, showing Dare County’s wholehearted .response to the Red Cross slogan “Mobilize for De fense.” HATTERAS-ENGELHARD FERRY TO OPERATE DAILY AFTER MONDAY Daily ferry schedules between Hatteras and the mainland at En gelhard will be established on Ap ril 2, next Monday, according to an announcement made by Fraz ier Peele, ferry operator, this “Week. The vessel for this service will be the motor vessel Hadeco. The ferry will leave Hatteras at 9 o’clock and will start its return to Hatteras from Engelhard at 2 o’clock. Sunday schedules will be added after June 1. Peele said he will operate, on call, a ferry between Hatteras and Ocracoke, starting immediately. BOARDS OF EDUCATION CONFIRMED IN RALEIGH Among the county boards of ed ucation confirmed in Raleigh this pact week were the following: Beaufort: Ralph H. Hodges, B. Frank Godley, W. B. Voliva, for four years. Dare: Mrs. Mabel Ev ans Jones, Roy Gray, Harvey Best, Ellis Gray, and Walter Per ry, for two years. Hyde: E. R. Clarke, M. A. Swindell, Keith Dunbar, two years. Tyrrell: Jul ian H. Swain, Otis B. Cahoon, Harvey Davis, and Rev. J. A. Brickhouse, two years. Currituck: Charlie (Roberts, Bertie W. Griggs, Norman Newbern, Bidney White and Earl Ferrell, two years. DEPARTMENT QUENCHES FIELD FIRE FRIDAY Fast work on the part of the Manteo Fire Department last Fri day prevented the spread of tt dangerous fire which had somehow got started in the field behind the homes of John Dameron O'Neal and Miss Ruth Bray in northeast Manteo. There was a stiff breeze fanning the flames as they spread toward the outbuildings and poul try yards behind both houses; when the firemen arrived the flames had reached the edge of the pens, but the fire was beaten off and extinguished without any property loss. Four new Grade A dairies have been completed recently by farm ers in Rutherford County. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA DOING GRADUATE WORK - MISS MIRIAM FEREBEE of Manteo, who graduated from the University of North Carolina at the end of last term, is doing graduate work at the university, in sociology, and has been sent to the Charlotte office for practical experience in social welfare work. Miss Ferebee is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferebee of Manteo. BINGO, RACING BILLS KILLED BY COMMITTEE After a public hearing on Tues day in Raleigh, the ’ Propositions and Grievances Committee of the House of Representatives voted 23 to 4 to report unfavorably the’ two bills designed to outlaw pari mutuel betting in the state and to make it illegal to play the game of bingo for prizes of value. The huge margin by which the committee turned thumbs down on the bills makes it impossible under House rules for sponsors of either measure to get the bills to the floor of the House on a minori ty report. No action will be taken in the Senate as no such bill has been offered in that body and none can be considered now that the House committee has killed the bills. Rep. Edwin R. Johnson of Cur rituck and John McMullan, Eliz abeth City lawyer representing the racing commission, were the only persons actually to give tes timony before the committee Tuesday. A delegation of 50 per sons from Currituck who favored continuation of the dog track at Moyock were mingled in the crowd of about 150 that .attended the hearing. After the delegation had been asked to stand, the com mittee contented itself with hear ing Johnson and McMullan only. Rep. Etheridge Speaks Rep. R. Bruce Etheridge of Dare appealed for an unfavorable report on one of the bills, the one sponsored by Rep. Noah Burfoot of Pasquotank. This bill was the one that would outlaw bingo any where in the state. “We play a lot of bingo at Nags Head and other resorts in historic Dare County,” Rep. Etheridge said. “Bingo is also legalized in about seven or eight other places in the state.” The committee struck the bingo provision from - the Burfoot bill on motion of Rep. Addison Hew lett of New Hanover County. The motion to remove the bingo provisions from the bill before acting upon the pari-mfltuel bet ting bills probably reflected the lesser sentiment that has been ev ident against bingo all through the discussions of the anti-gamb ling bills. The real issue all along, as it was this week at the hearing, was to determine whether or not the Assembly wished to do any thing about the dog tracks at Mo yock and Morehead City. The As sembly’s final decision appears to have been made, at least for this session. MRS. MEEKINS RETURNED TO ALBEMARLE HOSPITAL Mrs. Theodore S. Meekins, Sr., was taken to Albemarle General Hosnital in Elizabeth City by the i Twiford Ambulance Service at 1:30 a.m. Thursday. She had re turned to her home from the hos pital only a few days previously, i ’,l *. S* '&1-* , SEASON’S FIRST CHANNEL BASS AT HATTERAS First channel bass of the sea son were reported caught at Hat teras Wednesday from the party boat Albatross operated by Capt. Bill Foster. Two of the fish weighed 30 and 35 pounds. Bass have been taken in nets earlier in the week in Pamlico Sound. Fishing guides are making more than usual preparations for the forthcoming season. NEGRO TO BE TRIED FOR SHOOTING HERE Capus Issued for Appearance of Litchfield Peele and Two Manteo Bondsmen Judge W. F. Baum bound Lee Patton, South Carolina Negro, ov er to the superior court for trial on grounds of assaulting Gene McCain with a 22-guage riflle with intent to kill on March 4. McCain was seriously wounded by a riflle bullet on that date and spent two weeks in the Albemarle General Hospital, part of the time in critical condition. After hearing the evidence pre sented by three state witnesses, Judge Baum said it was not his duty to determine whether or not the shot had been fired intention ally; that he was binding Patton over to superior court on the in controvertible evidence that Mc- Cain had been shot by a bullet from Patton’s gun during a “tus sle” in the house rented by the two men. Patton was placed un der SSOO bond. Eugene McCain, 38, nicknamed Gene, said on the stand that he was a friend of Patton’s of about ten years’ standing. He told So licitor Martin Kellogg that there was no argument between himself and Patton; they were simply “tussling,” he repeated a number of times without giving any rea son for the tussle. He said that he wasn’t angry with Patton, and “He didn’t act like he was mad.” Witnesses Agree Two other witnesses, Isaac Mann of Manteo and Tracy Mar cus, formerly of South Carolina but now of Manteo, said they were* at the house in which the shooting occurred a short time before it took place. Both were there when McCain, who had been away dur ing the day, arrived. They agreed that the wrestling started soon af ter McCain’s appearance. Mann said, “Lee said, ‘Gene, you treat ed me wrong today,’ and Gene said, ‘Treat me like a man,’ and then they started tussling.” Mar cus gave substantially the same account of the brief prelude to the tussle. Both men said they left the house before the shooting took place. Both men insisted that nei ther the tusslers appeared to be angry. In reply to a question of Mr. Kellogg’s, Mann said he left the place because it was getting “too rough for me.” Patton, not represented by counsel, asked none of the wit nesses any questions and did not take the stand in his own defense. Sam Sawyer of Currituck Coun ty pleaded guilty to public drunk enness and was sentenced to 30 days on the roads, suspended upon condition that he pay the costs of the court and stay out of Dare County for two years. Capus Issued The Solicitor reported that Litchfield Peele, formerly of Hat teras and now said to be living in Virginia, had failed to live up to the provisions of a judgment handed down in the court here last May. He had at that time been bound to pay a certain amount of money to his wife each month as well as assuming certain hospital bills already due. Mr. Kellogg re ported that by the terms of the judgment Peele should have paid $1,310 by the last day of this month; that he had paid only $265, and had paid nothing since Aug ust of 1950. He asked the court to declare Peele in contempt and is sue a capus for his appearance. The judge ordered a capus issued for Peele to appear in court a week from next Tuesday to give cause for his failure to make the regular payments, and he further cited Peele’s bondsmen, two Man teo businessmen, to answer for their bond on the same day. HIGHWAY & PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION TO MEET HERE An invitation from Bill Sharpe, chairman of the Roanoke Island Historical Association, for the State Highway and Public Works Commission to meet on the Dare coast during the summer has been accepted. Dr. Henry W. Jordan, chairman, has not as yet announc ed where the group will convene in Dare, and no exact date for the meeting is yet available. MANTEO, N. C. t FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1951 NORFOLK-INLET TOLL ROAD BILL OKAYED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday of last week approv-.. ed the construction of a multi million dollar toll road from Nor folk to Oregon Inlet. The bill reported by the com mittee amends a 1949 statute setting up Municipal Corpora tions to construct toll roads “to allow also construction of toll bridges.” Although the bill is said to be primarily designed for the Carolina-Virginia Coas tal Highway Corporation, the provisions of the bill have state wide application. Authority for construction of toll projects under the bill would be granted by the Municipal Board of Control, whose members are the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the Chair man of the Utilities Commission. Rates Unregulated Some objection to the bill was voiced on the grounds that the corporations authorized to oper ate toll projects under the terms ’of the bill would not have their rates controlled by any state body. Rep. William B. Rodman of Beau fort had this to say in reply to that objection: “Rates to be charged by the corporation would not be subject to the regulation of any state board or body under the bill. This is necessary to allow for flexibility.” ASSEMBLY MAY CUT N.E. DISTRICT SENATORS Northeastern North Carolina may be on the way to losing rep resentation in the Senate at Ra leigh. One bill had already been introduced to deprive the section of two senators before Senator Carruthers of Guilford introduced a second one Monday of this week. This one, he says, will have a far better chance of passage than the first bill. The earlier bill was based on a study made by a group of college professors at the request of some legislators. It assigned two Sen ators each to Guilford, Mecklen burg and Forsythe, chiefly at the expense of the Northeast District. The bill went to committee and remained there. The new bill which Carruthers says will be “much more favorably received” would change the pres ent senatorial setup in these ways: 1. Take Bertie out of the First District and reduce the number of senators in the district from two to one. 2. Take Martin out of the Sec ond District and reduce the num ber of senators in the district from two to one. 3. Put Bertie and Martin in the Fourth District. 4. Add one senator to Guilford and one to Mecklenburg. 5. Combine the 28th and 29th Districts with two senators, the same number the districts now have. . In theory, at least, there is one senator for each 81,000 residents. Guilford’s, population is 190,000 plus, and Mecklenburg’s 196,000 plus. AVON YOUTH CENTER OPEN First Such Project on Lower Banks Brought to Reality by Hard Work of Many Adults of the Community. In spite of the pouring rain the Avon Youth Center opened Mon day night of last week, to launch the first recreational program for the young people below the Inlet. Miss Mary Kirby and Bob Smith were on hand to direct activities which consisted of relays and a variety of other games. From now on, the Center will be open every Saturday night for all chil dren and young people from school entrance age through 21. Due to the inspiration and ef forts of Mrs. Mabel Meekins, principal of Avon school, a much-needed program of recre ation will be carried out after much planning and with the ab le assistance of many of the ad ults of the community. Goodrich Williams and John Scarborough were instrumental in getting the repair work done to a small building on. the school grounds which will serve as the meeting place each week. Assist ing Mrs. Meekins with the pro grams and chaperoning are: Mrs. Ruby Price, Mrs. Margaret Hay wood, Mrs. Willie Austin, Mrs. Percy Williams, Mrs. Willard Gray, Jr., Mrs. Dallas Miller and Mrs. Bonita Williams. These vol unteers, recruited by Mrs. Meek ins, have plans afoot for decorat ing the Center and making it at tractive for the meetings as well as taking an active part in carry ing out the programs. The possi ble total membership in the Cen ter is 50. S i illfeiteil SOME FISHERMEN ARE DOING WELL CATCHING SHAD On the whole, shad-fishing on the Dare mainland is reported good. Manns Harbor fishermen have been most successful this season, and on the best days, the catch has run as high as 700 shad to the boat. A single box of shad sells for more than SIOO at pres ent prices, which are reported as holding up well throughout the season. Only about eight rigs are now operated at Stumpy Point, as com pared with 50 rigs a dozen years ago. Os these eight rigs, six are reported as having made a fair fishing. Due to past poor seasons, many people have abandoned the industry. It is said more than 100 people have left Stumpy Point during the past year, having mov ed near defense work centers where employment is more stable. 1951 IS YEAR OF ANOTHER BUILDING'BOOM ON BEACH The Nags Head beach area is in the midst of another spring build ing boom. An actual count of buildings under construction or recently completed between Sou thern Shores and a point just south of Nags Head proper show ed 47 such structures. Another new hotel is to be built on the beach, too. A permit was granted this week by the National Production Authority to Mrs. Al ice Powell Sykes of Virginia Beach, Va., to construct a new hostelry in the Southern Shores section, north of Highway 158 on the ocean front. The estimated cost of the new structure is $lO5, 682. Mrs. Powell and her husband are proprietors of the widely kncwn Powell’s Club of Virginia Beach. INCORRECT MAPS MAY COST U. S. 264 VILLAGES PLENTY Here’s one job for a chamber of commerce that is on its toes. A re gional highway map of the South eastern States issued by the Stan dard Oil Company of N. J. and which has wide circulation in the south Atlantic states, both north and south of North Carolina, and which is now given out by filling stations may be costing Hyde County, Manteo, Columbia, Manns Harbpr and the Belhaven area an enormous amount of tourist trade. This map shows no existing road of any kind between Engelhard and Manns Harbor and between Columbia and Sandy Point and East Lake and Manns Harbor, nor any ferry operating in between. This despite the fact that a road has existed many years between these points, and a paved road for two years. Naturally, a tourist, studying this map south or north of the state, would be kept from traveling through this area, as in either event, whether north or south-bound he would be travel ing to a dead end. Five Centers in Dare With youth programs in full swing in Manteo, Manns Harbor, and the Roanoke' School for the Negro community, the Avon Cen ter will be the fourth in Dare County, with the Kitty Hawk Youth Club opening tonight to make the fifth. In all, these youth programs serve nine of the 17 communities of Dare County and are providing wholesome recrea tional activities for the youth of this county. With the exception of the Man teo Center, all these programs have been inspired by the Dare County Council for Services to Children and Youth, which was organized last November. The Council member for each of these communities has inspired these programs and as in the case of Mrs. Meekins, has contacted groups and individuals in the com munities and enlisted their sup port in providing space and lead ership to carry out such activities. Recreational Workshop A plan is underway to hold a recreational workshop for such leaders of Dare County, next fall, Mrs. David Stick, President of the Council, announces. At that time, a staff member of the North Car olina Recreation Commission will come to Dare for several days, and all who are interested ir. learning how to lead games, square dancing and all other ac tivities will have the opportunity to learn from an expert and also, to get material to use m their programs. SELECTIVE SERVICE BOARD HITS BOTTOM OF MANPOWER BARREL IN DARE COUNTY Unable to Supply Five Men for Physical Ex amination Monday. Two Called for Induc tion Friday; One Man to Report WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN OF HATTERAS PASSES ... ... .. . —.. • ft . ■m* ute, x jA '%< -■ r’ A J. IRISH WILLIS died at his home at Hatteras Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. He was well-known through out North Carolina. He had been engaged in the fishing business all his life, and for several years ran a general store at Hatteras. He was known affectionately by num erous sportsmen he had taken on fishing trips. His children are Vernon Willis, Mrs. Frazier Peele and Mrs. R. G. Job of Hatteras and Mrs. Ralph. Burrus of Manteo. He has two brothers, W. P. Willis and Rev. Geo. Willis of Hatteras, and one sister, Mrs. Louisa McCleary of Manteo. He had engaged in many public activities during his long life on Hatteras. He was a life-long mem ber of the Methodist Church, where funeral services were con ducted by Rev. W. B. Gregory, as sisted by Mrs. Arvilla Barnett, Holiness minister, at 2 p.m. Wed nesday. Interment was in the fam ily cemetery. Choral music during the service was provided by the Hatteras Methodist Choir, accompanied by Mrs. Alice Gray. The pallbearers were grandsons and grandsons-in-law: Boyd Peele, Keith Peele, Edward Midgett, Eld die Albrecht, Irish W. Peele and David Austin. SERVICES WEDNESDAY FOR MELVIN C. TILLETT Funeral rites were conducted by the Rev. W. J. Freeman at the Austin Cemetery at Kitty Hawk on Wednesday afternoon for Mel vin C. Tillett, 43, -who died at his Kitty Hawk home on Monday, two days after suffering a heart at tack. Mr. Tillett was a veteran of 17% years service in the Coast Guard; he retired from the ser vice in 1945; he had attained the rank of Chief Machinist’s Mate. He is survived by his wife, Zola Beacham Tillett of Kitty Hawk; one son and one daughter, David C. and Betty Lou Tillett of Kitty Hawk; three brothers, Pennel A. Tillett of Kitty Hawk, Vernon H. and Coulter L. Tillett of Virgin ia Beach, Va.; and one sister, Mrs. Esther G. Beacham of Kitty Hawk. Melvin C. Tillett was the son of the late Theocanus and Florence Dowdy Tillett. DISTRICT MASONIC LODGES MEET AT WANCHESE FRIDAY Wanchese Masonic Lodge No. 521 is host to the First District Masonic Lodges Friday, March 30, at 7 p.m. The meeting will be op ened with a shad dinner prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Collins. State Grand Master William Caldwell of Chapel Hill will de liver the main address of the ev ening’s program. Nine district lodges will send representatives to Wanchese for the meeting* * LAST WEEK’S* WEATHER Figures provided by U. S. Govt. Meteorologist A. W. Drinkwater High Low Rain March 22 54 38 March 23 63 34 March 24 70 44 March 25 50 89 March 26 46 86 March 27 53 36 March 28 68 44 Single Copy 74 The Dare County Selective Ser vice Board has reached the end of its resources for supplying men to the Armed Services, at least until such time as a change in the present requirements for induc tion is made, according to word from the office of Robert Ballance, board chairman, this week. The board has received a call to send up five men for pre-induc tion examinations at Raleigh on Monday, April 2. It will be unable to send a single man to fill the call. Although many men have been reclassified in recent months, all men in the 1-A category register ed with the Dare board have eith er been accepted for service or put back in a deferred classification. Last 1-A To fill the induction call for two men to enter the service on April 4, the Dare board will be ab le to send only one man, Theo dore R. Meekins (colored), 21, of Manteo. Meekins is the last avail able man in the board’s files who can be sent for induction or pre induction examination under the present rules. As things stand now, draft boards who are still able to pro vide men must fill the Dare quot as. The situation here could mean that, if the pending legislation to lower the draft age to 18 years or 13%,should become the law, all the youngest registrants in the Daz“e Board’s files would be likely to get very short shrift as civil ians. They would become, those who were classified 1-A at least, “the top of the barrel,” as the World War II phrase had it. BASKETBALL SQUADS HONORED AT BANQUET . Manteo high school’s basketball teams brought their highly suc cessful seasons to an official end Tuesday night at a banquet spon sored by the parents of the play ers at Wise’s Case. Robert Ballance was toastmas ter for the occasion. Mrs D. A. Rogers, who headed a committee of parents in charge of prepara tions for the banquet, gave the speech of welcome. The response was given by Betty Rae Sander lin, captain of the girl’s team. Mrs. Hal Ward offered a toast to the teams, to which Capt. Jack Cahoon of the boys’ team made re sponse. Reviews of the seasons for the boys’ and girls’ squads were given by Coaches Ayers and Fry. The girls’ team won the Rur al Albemarle Conference cham pionship for the full season’s play. The boys won both the season and tournament titles in the Rural Albemarle Conference and won runnerup awards in the Ahoskie and Plymouth tourna ments. It was one of the most successful seasons in recent years for both squads. Evelyn Marie Dowdy sang a so lo for the entertainment of the group, and the entire assemblage joined in'singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, before the ban quet v came to formal conclusion. Dancing followed. In addition to team members, the high school faculty and referees for local games were present for the banquet. MANNS HARBOR WOMAN FOUND DEAD THURSDAY Mrs. Sarah Eliza Mann, 75, died in her sleep Wednesday night at her home in Manns Harbor. She was found dead by members of her family at 9:30 a.m. Thursday. She had been in failing health for a long period. Mrs. Mann was the wife of Lee R. Mann for nearly 60 years; was the daughter of the late Willis and Nancy Tillett of Manns Har bor, where she was a lifelong res ident. She was a member of the Manns Harbor Methodist Church. She is survived by five children: Gaston Mann of Nags Head, Guy Mann and Mrs. Calvin Beasley of Manns Harbor, Harry Mann of Oklahoma City. Okla., and Mrs. Ina M. Waterfield of Washington, D. C. One brother, Charles T. Til lett of Norfolk, and a sister, Mrs. Guy F. Hudgins of Elizabeth City, survive. There are seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were not complete at the time the paper went to press.
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