VOLUME XVI NO. 47
MANTEO STORES PREPARED
WITH LARGER STOCKS AND
SERVICE FOR THE SEASON
Roanoke Island Firms Have Shown Remark
able Growth and Expansion In Preparation
for Increasing Tourist Trade; Just About
Everything Imaginable Now Carried In
Stores.
The business men of Manteo and
vicinity are extending a hearty
welcome at the beginning of the
season to all visitors, and letting
all know that the town has about
everything to offer that one might
want, whether he be fishermen,
tourists, or homebuilder.
Improvement and enlargement
of the business interests in Man
teo have been unusual during the
past few years as new business in
creased with the rapid advent of
tourists and sportsmen.
Now Manteo is complete with
rooming and eating places that are
most excellent and reasonable. It
has hardware stores that supply
building and household needs, tack
le for the fisherman, guns and am
munition for the sportsman. The
town has laundries and cleaners,
furniture stores, plumbing shops,
and some very modern groceries.
A large factor in the growth of
Manteo stores han bfeen'the beach
trade. This means much in the
summer season in particular, and
several of the stores have added
complete stocks of beach merchan
dise. For a long time, Davis, the
oldest store in town, has catered
to the beach trade, and others now
handle a wide assortment of this
merchandise.
One has to go a long way to
find better grocery stores than Ar
chie Burrus, Tarkington’s, Ralph
Swain’s City Market, Wises’s Food
Market, and Parker’s New Gro
cery. There are four good cases,
Fearing’s, Wise’s Case, Walker’s
Diner, the Airport Case. There is
the Dodge and Plymouth dealer,
Sawyer Motor Co. Crees and Ward,
Chevrolet dealers, Desmond Rog
ers’ Manteo Service Station, and
Midway Garage, are well-equipped
for best of service.
Manteo is well equipped for
cleaning service. Lawrence Swain
runs the Manteo Laundry, and Ray
Jones the Manteo Cleaners.
To serve those interested in real
estate are A. W. Drinkwater and
Ernest E. Meekins. Albert Bell,
with his Roanoke Island Gardens
helps in the improvement of real
estate, and operates a gift shop.
Serving the needs of home-mak-
See SERVICE, Page Eight
PRINCIPALS TO RETURN
FOR ROLES IN ISLAND
DRAMA THIS SUMMER
Barbara Griffith, the first North
Carolinian to play the female lead
in The Lost Colony, will return
during the coming season to be
Eleanor Dare in the cast. Robert
Armstrong, Alabama-born former
steel mill worker who studied dra
matics and became an actor and
playwright, will again be John
Borden,
Warren Lee Terry, veteran pro
fessional actor and an outstanding
authority on the Gilbert and Sulli
van operettas, will play the tragi
comic role of Old Tom Harris
again. Terry, a resident of Balti
more, has been an ambassador-at
large for The Lost Colony since
the season closed last year. On an
extended lecture tour built up
around his operatic career, he has
taken every opportunity to publi
cise the Lost Colony, has distrib
uted much literature about the
show and often he has sung a song
from the score of the symphonic
drama.
Other principal actors in The
Lost Colony during the 1951 season
follow. Father Martin, Sam
Greene; Historian, Frank Grose
close; Uppowoc, John Leman; Man
teo, Jerry Allen; Wanchese,. Wil
son Wade; Fernando, George
Spence; Master of Ceremonies,
Fred Young; Queen Elizabeth,
Lillian Prince; Governor White,
Ainslie Pryor; Ananias Dare, Vic
tor Michalak; Sir Walter Raleigh,
Andrew Griffith; Dame Coleman,
Helyne McLain and Agona, Grace
Davis.
JUVENILE COURT
HEARING FRIDAY
A hearing in Judge Chauncey
S. Meekins’ juvenile court, to
which Frank J. DeFebio, Theo T.
DeFebio and their three minor
children have been summoned, is
scheduled to take place on Friday,
May 18. If Mr. DeFebio is allowed
to leave the Elizabeth City hospit
al, where he is recovering from the
effects of a 10-day starvation
strike, the DeFebios are to show
cause why their children have not
been placed in school.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WALTER RALEIGH OOASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
DARE CHAMBER
URGES FINISH
BANKS HIGHWAY
Resolutions of Directors
Wednesday Night Stress
Value to County
A resolution passed by the Board
of Directors of the Dare County
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday
night stresses the value to Dare
County of the hardsurface road to
Hatteras, and directed that a let
ter be sent at once to the Highway
Commission urging that the road
connecting Rodanthe and Oregon
Inlet be built at earliest possible
date.
The Chamber of Commerce also
will write the Commission asking
for more adequate ferry service
over Alligator River in keeping
with schedules across Croatan
Sound.
The Committee voted to retain
the service of Aycock Brown un
til September 15 as Manager of
the Chamber’s activities. Commit
tees were appointed as follows:
Membership, Travis Sykes of Kit
ty Hawk, Archie Burrus and Gor
don Kellogg of Manteo. Finance;
Z. V. Brinkley, J. L. Murphy, Guy
Lennon and E. E. Meekins. Public
Relations: D. V. Meekins, David
Stick and Aycock Brown.
The Committee voted to ask co
operation of the Dare Beaches
Chamber and the Nags Head
Chamber of Commerce to seek a
county wide illustrated booklet for
distribution by all organizations in
Dare County with the view of at
tracting Tourists and others to the
county.
President A. H. Ward of the
Dare County Chamber agreed to
visit all civic clubs in the county
in an effort toe nlist cooperation in
a movement to better advertise
Dare County and work for its ad
vancement.-
CANCER CRUSADE
TOPS QUOTA IN
DARE COUNTY
$220 Turned In to County
Treasurer Up to Tuesday.
Commander Thanks Sup
porters! of Cause
One more humanitarian fund
raising drive is over the top for
1951 in Dare County. The latest
county campaign to exceed its quo
ta is the Annual Cancer Crusade.
Mrs. T. S. Meekins, Jr., County
Commander, reported on Tuesday
of this week that a total of $220.01
in collections had been turned over
to Miss Bessie Draper, Crusade
Treasurer. The quota for Dare was
S2OO.
Recent community reports of
contribution included, in the total
for rhe county are: AVON, Mrs.
Mabel Meekins, chairman, $37.50;
HATTERAS, Mrs. Vera Robinson,
$30.45; WAVES, Cedric Midgett,
$13.35.
Mrs. Meekins wishes to express
her thanks to the people of the
county for their support of the
Cancer Crusade. Their financial
contributions and the hard work
of those who organized the com
munity efforts have made the drive
{.gainst the dread disease, cancer,
a success in Dare County. ,
“PRAYER RETREAT” TO
OPEN M. E. REVIVAL
SATURDAY NIGHT
Dr. Rufus Moseley of Macon,
Georgia, distinguished author and
revivalist will conduct services of
a “Prayer Retreat” to be held at
Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in
Manteo on Saturday night of this
week, it was announced yesterday
by the Rev. J. H. Overton, pastor
of Mt. Olivet Church.
Dr. Moseley will be in the pulpit
for the regular Sunday service,
I May 20, Rev. Overton said. The
visiting minister will conduct re
vival services at Mt. Olivet Church
at 7:45., Monday through Thurs
day, May 21-24.
Author of many books and pam-
I phlets in the religious field, among
them “Manifest Victory” and “Per
fect Everything,” Dr. Moseley’s
series of sermons here will be of
' great interest to church members
and others. The public is cordially
1 invited to attend all meetings in
1 the series.
HE OCEAhI IS CALLING TO THOSE WHO LOVE THE SAND AND THE SURF
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NOTHING IN THE WAY OF SCENERY excites and holds one’s interest so much as the sea. Nowhere
is it more interesting than along the coast from Currituck to Ocracoke, and the beach resorts this year are
expecting the largest business they have ever known. Watching the surf will always be a favorite pastime
with people who find it a greater attraction thany any other bit of scenery because it is forever changing,
and reflects a multitude of moods. The Walter Raleigh Coastland has a priceless God-given asset in the
sea, and it has now become the biggest income producer of the people because of money spent by tourists
attracted by it •
THE DeFEBIO TRIAL
DELAYED; DEFENDANT
UNABLE TO APPEAR
Judge W. F. Baum’s courtroom
was unusually crowded Tuesday
afternoon. But the large crowd
was frustrated of viewing the case
it had, presumably, gathered to see
tried: the case of the State vs
Frank DeFebio. DeFebio was to
have been tried on charges grow
ing out of his refusal to send his
children to school. Court action on
the matter began last December
and has never been completed. The
drawn-out affair has been punctu
ated dramatically by DeFebio’s
serving a term for contempt of
court, another in lieu of paying a
$5 and costs fine assessed by the
court; the release of the defend
ant and the return to the DeFebio
family of their three children, and
the subsequent re-arrest of DeFeb
io because the children were not
placed in school; the attempted
suicide of DeFebio in his Dare
County Jail cell the night of Ap
ril 21. Final’.-, interest here has in
creased in the trial since Mrs. De-
Febio began picketing the Dare
courthouse two weeks ago.
More than a week ago Frank
DeFebio was released from an
Elizabeth City hospital as recov
ered from his self-inflicted
wounds. He was held for trial
in the Perquimans County Jail,
Hertford—where, from the day
that he. was jailed, he began a
hunger-strike, which was only
broken when he became so weak
from fasting that jail authorities
had him returned to the hospital
in Elizabeth City. This was on
last Saturday. At the very end
of the day’s procedings in court
here Tuesday, Solicitor Martin
Kellogg announced that DeFeb
io’s trial would have to be post
poned because his attending
See DeFEBIO, Page Eight
THREE FUTURE CITIZENS OF MANNS HARBOR
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MANNS HARBOR has a lively looking bunch of youngsters coining
on to take the load off the shoulders of the older men in a few years.
These three fellows were down near the docks during the shad season.
First, reading from left to right, is Tom Hunter Midgett, Jr., a third
grader, eight years old; next is his six-year-old brother Daniel Benja
min, both sons of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hunter Midgett. John Edgar
Sawyer, a fourth grader, and the eight-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Forrest Sawyer is at the wheel. \
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 18,1951
Manteo Rotary Club Formulates Plans
For District Assembly on June 10, 11
Committees Named for Nags Head Assembly at Mon
day’s Meeting.
Final plans were made at the
Monday night meeting of the Man
teo Rotary Club for the District
Assembly to be held at Nags Head,
June 10 and 11.
R. S. “Bob” Smith, Assembly
Chairman, named the following
committees for this, the big event
of the Rotary year. Lawrence
Swain heads the Reception Com
mittee with Martin Kellogg, Jr.
John E. Ferebee, A. W. Drink
water, Dr. W. W. Johnson, Tom
Rose (Henderson Club), Roland
Sawyer and O. J. Jones assisting
him.
The Program Committee is led
REGIONAL MEETINGS
OF YOUTH COUNCIL
ON MAY 23 and 24
A discussion of “Family Life
Essentials” will be a feature of
both region meetings of the Dare
County Council for Services to
Children and Youth to be held next
week, Mrs. David Stick, president,
announces.
The first meeting will be held in l
the Manns Harbor Community
Building on Wednesday, May 23 at
7:30 p.m. All the citizens of the
mainland are invited. At this time,
the aims of the Council, what pro
gress it has made not only on the
mainland but also in the other
communities, will be discussed, as
well as the panel discussion on
Family Life Essentials. Several
members of the communities of
East Lake, Manns Harbor and
Stimjpy Point will comprise the
pt.rel and will stimulate discus'-on
See MEETINGS, Page Eight
by R. E. “Dick” Jordan, with Z.
Vance Brinkley and E. W. “Ab”
Wescott, committee members.
The Registration Committee
Chairman is C. S. Meekins, assist
ed by Johnny H. Long, Willis
Pearce and J. Gordon Kellogg and
Burwell A. Evans.
Arrangements for the banquets
and meetings are being made by
Committee Chairman Lawrence
fewa : n, Johnny H. Long, Ernest
Meekins, and Moncie L. Daniels,
Jr.
Publicity for the Assembly is in
charge of Wally McCown, D. Vic
tor Meekins, and A. W. Drink
weter.
A committee in charge of plan
ning for the entertainment of the
visiting Rotary Anns is led by
Frances Broadway of Henderson,
Ruby Smith, Ollie Bell Swain, Sue
McCown and Grace Jordan.
Sergeant-at-Arms Committee
Chairman is Archie Burrus. Frank
White and John Ferebee serve on
this committee.
Reservations Committee for the
incoming Rotarians from District
278 ir headed by Wally McCown,
Chairman, and G. Clarence Cui-
See ROTARY, Page Eight
LILA PEELE WINS
BEAUTY CONTEST
2nd STRAIGHT YEAR
None of the grace and charm
that earned Miss Lila Peele of
Hatteras the title of Miss Dare
County of 1950 has been lost, for
Miss Peele was again chosen the
Dare beauty queen for 1951 at the
contest in the Pioneer Theatre in
Manteo Wednesday evening. Iris
Lee Cudworth of Wanchese was
runnerup and Agnes Fulcher of
Buxton was given third place by
the judges.
Thirty-two lovely Dare County
girls entered the contest, which
was judged by Sid Trott of Staun
ton, Sam Warner of Greensboro
and Mr. Robinson of Norfolk.
The girls were judged in groups
of five, with the winners of each
group returnfrig for the final se
lection. George Crees, manager of
the theatre sponsoring the contest,
said on Thursday that an error was
made in announcing the winner of
the first group. Miss Millie Ward
of Manteo was the judges* choice;
another contestant was called back
for the final judging through an
error.
PAVING BEGUN
Actual laying of the hard-sur
face on the Whalebone-Oregon In
let road began this week. By
week’s end considerable progress
should be made on the 8-plus miles
of paving that will link the Inlet
with ,Highway 158 with an all
weather road. This paving will pro
vide a link with the Lower Banks
of immeasurable value for inter
communication in Dare County.
BACCALAUREATE,JUNE3,OPENS
COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES
AT MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL
Graduation Exercises for 27 Seniors at 8 p.m.,
June 6. Class Night, June 4.
HATTERAS SOLDIER
RETURNS FROM KOREA
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CORPORAL LUTHER AUSTIN,
Jr. ,who after eight months ser
vice in Korea with the Third En
gineers Division, USA, nnd who
has been in the Army since August
1948, returned to America this
week, to visit his parents at Hat
teras, and his sister, Mrs. Stock
con Midgett. Corporal Austin is 22
years old. He served two years in
Panama before going to Korea.
AREA LIONS CLUBS
AID STATE’S BLIND
In the May issue of The White
Cane, magazine for North Caro
lina’s blind citizens, the activities
of Lions Clubs in work for the
blind, so far this year is reported.
The Manteo club collected $30.78
from the White Cane Drive; pro
vided wheel chairs, $10.00; 2
Braille clocks, $15.00; held a
broom sale, gross sales, S3OO.
The Swan Quarter club collected
$75.95 from the White Cane Drive;
bought Christmas packages for
five blind persons; sponsored booth
at the County Fair, depicting blind
man and dog “Out of the Dark
ness”; White Cane memberships
were sold from this booth.
The Belhaven club collected $45.-
20 from the White Cane Drive;
paid SSO on the salary of the Case
Worker.
The Bath club collected $29.67
from the White 'Cane Drive.
The Elizabeth City club contrib
uted $l5O to the White Cane Drive;
piad $432 on the salary of the
Case Worker; bought six pairs of
glasses, $66; clothing for two per
sons, $23.35; electric stove, $8.95;
Braille watch, $18.00; garden
seeds, sold cushions for fund
raising project, SIOO.
VOLUNTEERS FILL
POPPY DAY RANKS
Enthusiastic volunteers are
rapidly filling the ranks of the
American Legion Auxiliary’s Pop
py Day workers, Mrs. Jack Wilson,
Poppy Chairman of Dare County
Unit of the Auxiliary, announced
today.
The volunteers are coining
from other organizations as
well as from the Auxiliary, Mrs.
Wilson .said. They will give
Saturday. May 26, to the distri
bution of memorial poppies to
be worn in tribute to America’s
war dead. They will also receive
contributions for aid to disabled
war veterans and needy chil
dren of veterans.
“A fine patriotic spirit is being
shown by the women volunteering
for Poppy Day duty,” said Mrs.
Wilson. “Distributing poppies is
hard, unaccustomed work and re
quires sacrifice of time and per
sonal interest. Yet it is, of course,
nothing compared to the sacrifices
made for America by those whom
the poppy honors, and by those
still living whom the poppy aids.
Knowing this, our poppy workers
will be on the streets bright and
early on Poppy Day, eager to do
their full part to make the day a
success. I am sure the public will
meet them with the same patriot
ic spirit.”
Dead of three wars will be hon
ored by the Memorial Poppies
which will be worn on Poppy Day,
May 26. In memory of those who
gave their lives in World Wars I
and II and the Korean conflict,
give generously for the Poppy you
wear. This money will all be used
for comforts for disabled veterans
and their needy families.
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Graduation exercises will be
| held for the 27 members of the
| Class of 1951 in the Manteo High
School auditorium at 8 p.m. on
Wednesday, June 6.
The program will be opened with
the presentation of Bth grade cer
tificates to the 37 members of the
Bth grade class. This will be fol
lowed by the presentation of med
als and honors to the members of
the graduating class.
The commencement address will
be delivered by a speaker from
East Carolina College at Green
ville. The speaker will be E. J. Ru
ton of the College English Depart
ment.
Culmination of the program will
be the awarding of diplomas by
Principal L. W. Huggins to the 14
young women and 13 young men
of the Class of 1951.
Baccalaureate
At 8 p.m. on Sunday, June 3 in
the school auditorium the Rev. J.
H. Overton, pastor of Mt. Olivet
Methodist Church in Manteo, will
deliver the Baccalaureate sermon.
Music for the program will be
presented by the Manteo school
choir.
Class Night
The following night, Monday,
June 4, is to be Class Night; the
hour for the beginning of the pro
gram is 8 p.m.
Doreen Midgett will open the
program with the Salutatorian’s
address. Rose Austin will read the
class poem. The class history, by
Evelyn Dowdy, will be recounted.
The class prophecy, written by
Everett Liverman, will be enact
ed upon the stage in the form of
a TV show. Hudean O’Neal, Junior
Class Giftorian, will be master of
ceremonies for the presentation of
gifts from the Juniors to the Sen
iors. The Last Will and Testament
of the Class of 1951, in which each
senior will bequeath some prized
possession or attribute to mem
bers of other classes in the high
school will follow the presentation
of gifts by the Juniors.
Maxine Scarborough, Class Val
edictorian, will close the program
by delivering the Valedictory of
See SCHOOL, Page Eight
EAST CAROLINA PRESS
MEETS AT EDENTON
The Eastern North Carolina
Press Association held its spring
meeting last Friday and Saturday
in Edenton. The Chowan Herald of
Edenton, the Hertford County Her
ald of Ahoskie, the Williamston
Enterprise and the Roanoke Bea
con at Plymouth were host papers
for the meeting.
Headquarters for the convention
was the Hotel Joseph Hewes in
Edenton, where a banquet was held
Friday evening. S. Wade Marr,
distinguished speaker from Eliza
beth City, was the featured speak
er on the Friday night program.
Speakers for the business ses
sion and ’“shop talk” session at the
Hotel Saturday morning were:
Frank Daniels, News and Obser
ver, Raleigh; Leslie Thompson,
News-Reporter, Whiteville; Billy
Arnold, News and Views, Jackson
ville; Jim Fulghum, Wilson Daily
Times; Henry Dennis, Henderson
Dispatch; Max Campbell, Perquim
ans Weekly, Hertford; Herbert D.
Brauff, Wilson Daily Times; Ash
ley Futrell, Washington Daily
News: Mayon Parker, Parker Bros.
Publishing Co., Ahoskie; and Sam
Ragan, News and Observer.
The newsmen were entertained
at Bandon, famous plantation near
Edenton, by John and Inglis Flet
cher. After a one o’clock luncheon
served on the grounds of the stat
ely old mansion, Mrs. Fletcher,
noted author of historical novels,
spoke to the group on the history
of the Chowan River country.
SANITARY INSPECTIONS
BEGIN MONDAY ON BEACH
Sanitary inspection of beach ho
tels and restaurants begins next
Monday, May 21, Hal Daniels, San
itarian, said yesterday. Water sam
ples will be taken and general in
spection will be conducted in order
that grading can be certified im
mediately. Hotel and restaurant
proprietors are requested to be
prepared to cooperate with the san
itarian when he arrives; this will
help speed up the completion of
the sanitary inspections for the
entire beach area.
Mr. Daniels said that a food
handlers’ school, similar to the one
conducted last year, will be held
some time during June. Dates and
1 other particulars will be announc
ed in the near future.