VOLUME XVI NO. 45
X BEACH RESORTS OF DARE
PROMISED BUSIEST YEAR
BY ALL EARLY INDICATIONS
* Unusual Interest Manifested by Early Com
ers to Kitty Hawk, Nags Head and Kill
Devil Beaches; Reservations Pour In and
Business Men Jubilant at Prospects of
Great Season.
Business men on the Dare
Beaches are looking forward
with all confidence to the big
gest season ever known at
Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills
and Kitty Hawk. Early tray
tv pl to the resorts, and the raft
* of reservations coming in in
dicate that there will be lots
of business for everybody.
Every year gets bigger and bet
ter at these beaches, as more
roadsi are developed, and fame
spreads across the country. Many
1 people from distant places now
own cottages at Nags Head. Some
from as far away as Kentucky,
with many from Washington, Bal
timore, Greensboro, Charlotte and
out in the mountains of Carolina,
Virginia and West Virginia.
Reservations are pouring in and
♦ at the present rate, late comers
may find it difficult to find a house
for a week if they wait until late
ia the season to make arrange
ments.
Elsewhere in this paper today,
many of the leading businessmen
of the beach are are reminding
. folks that the season is open.
* Let’s take a look at them:
The old established hotels: The
Arlington, run by Mr. and Mrs.
Hayman, greatly enlarged and
modernized last year; the friendly
and cool First Colony Inn, operat
ed by Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Mid-
* gett; the Nags Header first set
“ the pace for modern hotels at
Nags Head, and now operated by
Clarence Culpepper; the Croatan,
made famous by Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Griggs who set out with
high standards and never let them
drqp; the Kitty Hawk, one of the
1 See BEACH, Page Eight
SPRING SCHOOL
FESTIVALIN
MANTEO FRIDAY
About 400 Dare County school
pupils from out of town schools
are expected to be in Manteo on
Friday of this week for the Sec
ond Annual Spring Festival. Mrs.
Mary Langston Evans, supervisor
of county schools, said on Tues
day that this many students had
indicated their intention to attend
the schools’ big event.
Exhibits
Exhibits prepared by school
children all over the county will
be on display in the M an teo school
gymnasium all day and until 9 p.
h m. Judging of the exhibits will be
completed by noon, and announce
ment of the judges’ decisions will
be made at the afternoon pro
gram. Mrs. Evans said that Miss
Pierce of Willimston, who had
been previously announced as one
of the exhibit judges, will be un-
* able to be here on Friday. Another
judge will be secured to replace
Miss Pierce.
“Drama of Dare”
Skits prepared by the county’s
schools will be presented as a
“Drama of Dare” in the school
auditorium, beginning at 1:30 p.
Hie field events program for
boys and girls will be conducted
on the Manteo athletic field, com
mencing at 10:30 a.m.
A carefully prepared schedule
will be followed to serve the
throng of out of town and Man-
* teo students who have signified
that they wish to take lunch at
the Manteo school lunchroom.
ROBERT O. BALLANCE
APPOINTED MAGISTRATE
• Robert O. Ballance of Manteo
was appointed last week by Gov
ernor Scott as a Justice of the
Peace for Nags Head Township
in Dare County for a term of four
years. Mr. Ballance is Chairman
of the Dare County Draft Board,
and well-known as a builder in
this section. He is now the only
magistrate in Dare County. I. P.
Davis who served until last year,
* had served as a magistrate for
several years, but did not offer for
re-election in 1950.
'DANIELS ADDRESSED
* , TEACHERS TUESDAY
•1 Melvin R. Daniels, Dare Regis
trar of Deeds, was the principal
speaker at a meeting of the Curri
tuck Teachers Association in
Coinjock Tuesday night. The *>ub
. ject of Mr. Daniels address was
“Our Debt to the Pioneers.”
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THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
WINS SCHOLARSHIP
AWARD IN GREENVILLE
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MRS. NELL WISE WECHTER of
Stumpy Point was among the sen
ior students last week at East
Carolina College chosen for out
standing scholarship and service
in the departments in which they
specialize. Mrs. Wechter’s special
ty is grammar grade education.
There were 14 who received cer
tificates.
TWO SCHOOL BOARDS
REPORT FOR MEETING
Old Board Appoints School Com
mittees at Last Meeting
Two sets of Education Board
members assembled in the County
•Board room Monday for the meet
ing called for the purpose of elect
ing a new county superintendent
of schools. Each board held that it
was the official body governing
the Dare County schools. Finally
County Attorney Martin Kellogg
was called in to interpret the con
trolling statutes, and it was deter
mined that the new board could
not legally act until the first
Monday in May.
Accordingly, the election of
the new superintendent of Dare
schools was deferred to Mon
day, May 7, and Chairman E. P.
White of Buxton took the chair
to preside at the last meeting of
the outgoing board. The incom
ing board members are: Ellis
Gray, Avon; Roy Gray, Hatter
as; Harvey Best, Stumpy Point;
Walter Perry, Kitty Havtk; and
Mrs. Mabel Evans Jones, Man
teo. Ellis Gray and Mrs. Jones
are the only continuing members
from the old board. Elwood B.
Parker of Kitty Hawk joined
Mrs. Jones and Mr. Gray in vot-
See SCHOOL, Page Eight
ELECTION TUESDAY
The Manteo town election will
be held next Tuesday, May 8. A
mayor and three town commis
sioners are to be chosen for two
year terms. Only names printed
on the official ballots will be
those oif incumbent town officials,
as they were the only candidates
whose names were 'brought for
ward at the town nominating con
vention, April 23. They are: May
or Martin Kellogg and Town Com
missioners G. T. Wescott, Sam
Midget and Moncie Daniels, Jr.
The official balloting place is
the county courtroom, and the
polls will be open from 6:30 a.m.
to 6:30 p.m.
POLICE CHIEFS MEET
AT SCENE OF ACCIDENT
There was no lack of official
coverage for an accident that oc
curred in front of Sam Tillett’s
place on the Nags Head beach
last Friday night. Manteo Police
Chief M. C. Mitchell’s Hudson and
a Studebaker driven by D. D. Mat
thews, Police Chief at Burlington,
collided, causing about >SOO dam
age to the right side of the Stude
baker and about >75 damage to
the front end of the Hudson, ac
cording to the estimate of Sheriff
Frank Cahoon.
Mr. Mitchell was driving north
on Highway 158 at the time of the
. accident. The Burlington man
I drove his car out of the Tillett
. Service Station drive to cross the
1 highway to Jennette’s Cabins.
. Mitchell’s car crashed frito the
1 right side of the other vehicle.
No one was injured in either car.
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ONE HUNDRED years ago, Nags Head was a thriving summer resort, as indicated by the above picture,
drawn by a Harper’s magazine artist and published in the New York papers. When people came from var
ious parts of Eastern North Carolina by steamer, they brought their household furniture,' and carried it
back at the end of the season. This furniture was hauled up the wharf on a truck that was pulled by an
ox. Many of the summer visitors to Nags Head today recall when oxen were used to pull carts about the
beach.
Today, almost everything has changed at Nags Head. All traffic is by motor vehicle. Few houses re
main on the sound-side where in the old days all population centered. A great development has sprung
Up, and the cottage line is thickly developed from end to end of the beach, and includes large groups at both
Kitty Hawk and Kill Devil Hills whksb-rival Nags Head. All areas of the beach are served by good hotels,
stores and amusement places. Homes now range in cost up to $60,000 and no longer do people carry theii
cast off furniture to their seashore cottages, but furnish beach homes with latest beach innovations.
DARE’S FIRST CLASS A LUNCHROOM
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MANTEO SCHOOL LUNCHROOM, which this year received the first
class A rating ever given by the Health Department to a Dare school
lunchroom, serves an average number of 170 pupils at noon every
school day. The staff, under the direction of Manager Laura Gaskill
assisted by Mrs. Nellie Williams, has served lunch to 226 pupils at a
single meal. The present lunchroom and its equipment has been ac
quired since the beginning of the 1947-48 school term.
Manteo School Lunchroom Rated Class A,
First Such Rating Ever Given In Dare
Average Daily Servings Jump from 50 to 170 in Four
Years. Mrs. Laura Gaskill Manages Lunchroom Op
erations.
Posted on the wall of the dining
room in the neat little lunchroom
building at the rear of the Man
teo school grounds is an official
notice to the effect that the Health
Department has classified the
lunchroom as “Class A.” This is
the first such classification ever
given to a Dare County school.
The Health Department award
ed the Class A rating in March of
this year, marking the end of four
and one-half years’ ceasless ef
fort on the part of Manteo school
officials and others to make tha
school lunchroom a first rate place
in every way.
Principal L. W. Huggins, who is
also supervisor of the lunchroom,
recently reviewed the events
which have marked the progress
from 1947, when the lunchroom
building was secured as a gift
from the CAA, to the present
time.
Moat of the money which has '
I gone Into equipment for the
MANTEO, N. C„ FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951
building has come from lunch
room proceeds and proceeds
from special activities of the
school, snrh as athletic contests
and plays; some financial help
has been given by the county,
the Manteo P.T.A. and the
state. Principal Huggins esti
mates that the value of equip
ment in the building now ex
ceeds $3,000, all acquired and
fully paid for since the lunch
room was opened at the begin
ning of the 1947-48 school term.
The average number of pupils
served daily has grown from 50
in 1947 to 170 at present. The
lunchroom has accommodated
as many as 226 pupils in one
day.
Prior to the acquisition of the
building, the school lunchroom
was maintained in the main build
ing. It was poorly equipped, had
a kerosene stove, dishes donated
by various individuals and inade-
See LUNCHROOM, Page Eight
MANY SEEK JOB
AS SUPT. DARE
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Desirable Post To Be Filled
When Board of Education
Meets Next Monday
Many people are seeking the
post of Superintendent of Dare
County Schools which is to be fill
ed Monday, next week by the
County Board of Education.
Among those who have filed appli
cations for the job are Talmadge
Page of Windsor, formerly prin
cipal of the Kitty Hawk School,
Mrs. Mary Langston Evans, pres
ent Supervisor of Schools in Dare,
and R. E. Howard, now school
principal at Wagram, N. C., Hu
bert Price, University graduate of
Avon.
Sups. R. I. Leake, who has held
the office for several years, ten
dered his resignation a month ago
following the request of the Board
of Eduaction that he resign. Two
years ago, in the face of a peti
tion signed by some 800 school
patrons, and a packed courthouse
of determined citizens, he was re
tained in office by three of five
board members. Opposition to Mr.
Leake has developed over several
years, stemming first out of his
apparent inactivity and failure to
visit the schools and show inter
est in the work.
The job paid a salary of $4,860
during the fiscal year 1949-50, and
also paid $2,100 for office help. It
looks like a pretty good job, con
sidering the amount of energy
heretofore put out on it, but a new
Superintendent, if he succeeds,
will have to put out a lot more ef
fort. Os course, due to recent new
schedules, there may be some sal
ary increases. However, the job of
Superintendent of Schools is made
much easier since Supervisors
have been employed to do much
of the work that was formerly ex
pected of the Superintendent.
OREGON INLET ROAD
WORK BEGUN MONDAY
The contractors moved onto the
scene Monday and began prelim
inary grading on the Oregon In
let-Whalebone road which will
connect Highway 158 south of
Nags Head with Oregon Inlet.
Hard-surfacing of this road will
produce a strong link in tying the
water-separated parts of Dare
county more closely together.
Contractors express the intention
and hope of completing the entire
Job in 90 days.
STRONG SUPPORTERS ASSIST
OREGON INLET COMMITTEE
IN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY
Beaufort, Pamlico County and Washington
and Virginia Men Appear With Ward, Bon
ner and Mac Neill to Outline Value* of Pro
ject Needing $860,000 to Aid-Commerce and
Fishing.
KITTY HAWK GIRL WINS
MAY DAY HONORS
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MISS JEANETTE TILLEtT, 20,.
of Kill Devil Hill, Dare County,
has been honored by being select
ed as a member of the May Day
Court for the Queen of festivities
this week at East Carolina Col
lege, Greenville. She is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Tillett.
The picture was made of her three
years ago, when a high school
student in Norfolk, she won a trip
to Miami, Fla. awarded by the
Seaboard Railroad. Her good rec
ord continues.
HATTERAS ID. PUPILS
TO REENACT HISTORY
Unique Exhibits Planned For
School Fair in Manteo FrU
day. Today
Buxton on Cape Hatteras, May
3.—Schools on this outermost is
land of continental United States,
where the populace has a ring
side seat at the making and un
making of history will do some
pioneering of their own on Roa
noke Island next Friday when, as
their part of the Dare County
School Fair, they present home
made history in the form of home
made drama. Each school will pre
sent a brief dramatization of
something that happened right
here.
Virtually the entire school pop
ulation of the Island and a lot of
their elders, and juniors, too, will
go to Manteo by the first ferry
See HATTERAS, Page Eight
CIVIC CLUB TO HEAR
CLERK OF COURT
Chauncey S. Meekins, clerk of
the Dare County Court, will be
the speaker at the final spring
meeting of the Kitty Hawk Civic
Club at the Kitty Hawk School
Monday, May 7, at 8 p.m. Mr.
Meekins will explain the functions
and responsibilities of his office,
as clerk of court and county ac
countant. He will be the third
county elective officer to address
the club in the present series.
Register of Deeds Melvin Daniels
and Sheriff Frank Cahoon spoke
at earlier meetings.
The general public is welcome
to attend the meeting on Monday
night.
SCHOOL DENTAL SURVEY
COMPLETED IN COUNTY
Dr. W. W. Johnston, Health De
partment officer, said this week
that dentists have completed
checkups for the year in all Dare
County schools. On last Friday
the work was completed at Roa
noke School, where the dentist in
spected 125 children, performed
work on 60 and referred 10 to loc
al dentists for further attention.
Pre-School Clinics
Mis Draper, county nurse, said
that the date for the Manteo Pre-
School clinic had been advanced
from that announced last week.
The clinic will be held at the
health department office in the
community building at 2:30 on
Wednesday, May 30.
Other such clinics not yet com
pleted are scheduled as follows:
Stumpy Point school, May 16, 11
a.m.; Manns Harbor school, May
16, 2 p.m.; Rodanthe school, May
22, 9 a.m.; Avon school, May 22,
11 a.m.; Buxton school. May 22, 2
I p.m.; Hatteras school, May 23,
9:30 a.tn.
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Friends of Oregon Inlet got an
opportunity Wednesday morning
to appear before a Congressional
Committee in Washington, which
is holding two weeks of closed
door sessions, and made their ap
peal for $860,000 for the deepen
ing of Oregon Inlet to 14 feet,
with channels leading into Manteo
and Pamlico Sound.
Heading the delegation was A.
H. Ward, Chairman of the Com
mittee for Oregon Inlet, and with
him were strong supporters from
Beaufort, Pamlico County, and
Washington and Virginia seafood
centers. Victor Meekins of Man
teo also appeared in support of
the project. Ben Dixon Mac Neill,
read the main article in support
of the improvement of Oregon In
let both from the viewpoint of Na
tional Defense as well as the sea
food industry. He was supported
strongly by William Potter of
Beaufort, E. H. Holton of Vande
mere, and G. F. Fulcher of Ori
ental.
Strong support came from the
National Fisheries Institute of
Washington, D. C. and their
Wayne M. Waller, an executive,
presented a strong brief on behalf
of the fisheries interests of Vir
ginia, supporting the project.
Charles E. Jackson, manager of
the Institute, as well as Eric Rog
ers of Scotland Neck, member of
the State Board of Conservation
and Development, also appeared
in support of the inlet.
P. D. Midgett of Engelhard, and
Col. Geo. W. Gillette, state ports
director, both had traveled to
Washington to appear at the
meeting originally scheduled for
Tuesday, but which along with all
hearings. of. this, nature had been
postponed until Wednesday morn
ing. Both had to leave because of
other engagements, and were un
able to attend.
But Governor Scott, George
Ross, Director of Conservation
and Development, and W. A. Elli
son of the U. S. Bureau of Fish
eries sent strong telegrams of
endorsement.
Congressman John H. Kerr of
See INLET, Page Eight
MRS. FRANK DeFEBIO
CONDUCTS ONE-PERSON
PICKETING CAMPAIGN
Since last Friday morning at 10
o’clock, at which time she came
to the office of Juvenile Court
Judge C. S. Meekins for a hearing
to which she had been summoned,
Mrs. Frank DeFebio nas remained
inside or near the courthouse in
Manteo. No one, after her week’s
self-imposed vigil, has any doubt
of the resolution of Mrs. DeFebio
to- stay at her post until some
kind of settlement is reached.
Mrs. DeFebio says that she
intends te stay at her voluntar
ily adopted post until (1) her
children are returned to her and
her husband and family are
cleared of all charges pending
against them; (2) or until she
is locked up in jail. She has
been seen by and has talked to
many persons in Manteo. She
sleeps on a bench in the main
corridor of the courthouse. Mrs.
DeFebio has not caused any
disturbance of any kind, what
ever embarrassment her persis
tence may have caused county
officials who are, whether they
will or not, involved in any way
in the case.
Two hearings are scheduled in
See DeFEBIO, Page Eight
HALF THE QUOTA RAISED,
CANCER DRIVE TO CONTINUE
Mrs. T. S. Meekins, Jr., announ
ced on Wednesday of this week
that permission has been granted
to continue the annual cancer cru
sade in Dare County through the
first two weeks of May.
Miss Bessie Draper, Cancer
Crusade treasurer for Dare coun
ty reported on Wednesday that
$123.48, or about the half the
county’s quota of $250, had been
turned in to her up to that time.
Miss Draper and Mrs. T. S. Meek
ins. Jr., urged local Crusade direc
tors and clubs of the county, less
than half of which had yet re
ported, to complete their reports
and turn in their collections to
the county treasurer, Miss Drap
er, gt once, in order that the coun
ty’ report can be turned over to
the state Cancer Crusade organi
zation.