PAGE SIX
It Takes
All Kinds
By DAVE WEST
Letter to 1951 Graduates
Dear Athena and Merlin,
“So you’re graduating from high
school! Now, isn’t that just—etc.,
etc. Why, it seems only yesterday
—” and all that sort of rot. At the
end of which should come our con
gratulations. As this is to be a
rather important letter, for us,
let’s finish up all the commence
ment season ceremonies quickly—
congratulations.
We know that this is the open
season for older folks to shoot high
school seniors full of advice.
There’s nothing wrong with that.
It’s seldom fatal, and it does give
your elders a feeling of contribut
ing to your education. It just does
n’t happen to be our purpose to
give advice.
We’d like, rather, to ask your
counsel about some things that
have troubled us for a long time.
We beg your advice because we
are sure you can give it .decisively.
Frankly, we don’t know anybody
else "who can do that. It may be
sensible or silly advice you will
give. No matter, so long as it is
not wishy-washy, hesitant, cloud
ed by selfishness and prejudice.
(We can get that kind of stuff
from any adult. But the point, just
now, is to avoid confusion, if pos
sible.)
From the uninhibited ease and
confidence with which we have
seen you conduct your relation
ships with each other, your teach
ers and such outsiders-in-the-world
as the sheltered life of a scholar
has given you, we conclude that
you at least think you know what
you’re doing and where you’re
headed. We’d like to catch you be
fore doubts of your omnipotence
set in, while you are more certain
than, we’re afraid, you’ll ever be
again of what it’s all about. If
ever you’ll be able to give a man
your advice without hedging, it
.ought to be now.
Give me your wisdom, please,
about these things, none of which
appear to give you the slightest
trouble. We would learn, or re
learn, the absolute self-confidence
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NOTICE
THE BOARD OF EQUALIZATION
AND REVIEW FOR EAST LAKE,
CROATAN, KENNEKEET, HAT
TERAS TOWNSHIPS
Will Meet At the Courthouse In
Manteo, North Carolina, On
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
AT 10 O’CLOCK A. M.
for the purpose of considering com
plaints on the valuations of real and
personal property for the year 1951.
This is not a re-valuation year and
complaints will be considered only
where there has been a loss or an im
provement.
This 3rd day of April, 1951.
W. L. DANIELS
Tax Supervisor, Dare County
RURITAN-PTA PROGRAM
A GREAT SUCCESS
On Tuesday night, May 15, the
Wanchese Ruritan Club in co-op
eration with the Wanchese P.T.A.
gave a musical program at the
Wanchese School. The Program
consisted of old numbers on the
piano, accordian, banjo and gui
tar.
Those taking part in the pro
gram were: Mrs. Pete Daniels,
Mrs. Dallas Tillett, Mrs. Dile'Gal
lop, Ralph Tillett, Mahlon Mid
gett, Chick Craddock, Miss Vir
ginia Tillett, Mrs. Hoover Brat
ten, Mrs. Martha Crees, Jean Dan
iels, and Odell Tillett, Leßoy Mid
gett and Walter C. Gaskill. Ev
eryone enjoyed the program. There
was a gross of $67 at the door and
the P.T.A. sold ice cream and can
dy making a total of approximat
ely S7O. The door receipts were
split with the Parent-Teachers on
a 25% basis, they getting some
thing over sl6 and the Club SSO.
The members of the Club wish
•to thank everyone who helped to
make the night a success.
that makes your actions, wise or
unwise, so admirable in their de
cisiveness. We’re certain you can
help us.
Where do you get the courage
to stick your necks out? To brave
the scorn the world visits on those
who choose the wrong side of ar
guments, who risk their reputation
as sensible sobersides by fighting
for unpopular causes?
How have you been able to go
through twelve years of schooling
together without such deep differ
ences of opinion arising among you
that you could not be amiably as
sociated day after day?
Why haven’t you established
cruel social differences among you,
so that some of you have come to
feel “better” and others “inferior”
members of your class?
How have you lived through one
great war and in the shadow of
one possibly far more terrible and
yet remained gay and hopeful?
Why have you not become cynical,
suspicious of others and desperat
ely eager to gain as much for
yourselves as possible at the ex
pense of everyone, or anyone, else ?
How have you escaped feeling that
it was “common sense” to do so?
Why aren’t you frightened of
the world, of the future, of each
other, as most adults are, and, we
suppose, have always been?
When don’t you babble about se
curity, your inalienable right to
something or other, or claim that
some fantastic thing is “owed” to
you because you have had the luck
to get yourself born ?
Why in heck are you happy?
What makes you glad to be grad
uating from school and entering
the world?
Doubtless our questions seem
naive, or downright stupid, to you.
But bear with us kindly. Our
mind’s not what it was. We knew
all the answers once, just as you
do, but we’ve lost ’em somewhere
along the way. We think we recall
what we KNEW when we were
eighteen, but we can’t trust our
memory any longer things just
don’t seem so clear any more . . .
We just don’t know.
With Great Affection,
A Bewildered Old Fool
P. S.
Please do not ask us to take our
problems to Dorothy Dix. She’s got
troubles enough answering letters
about YOUR problems.
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Train up a child in the way he
should go; and then he will not
depart from it. —Proverbs
Habits are at first cobwebs, then
cables. —Spanish Proverb
ORGANIZATIONAL
CALENDAR
Sunday
MT. OLIVET METHODIST
CHURCH of Manteo: Sunday
School, 9:45 a.m.; morning wor
ship, 11:00 a.m.; evening worship,
7:30 p.m. The Rev. J. H. Overton.
Jr.
ROANOKE ISLAND BAPTIST
CHURCH: Sunday School. 10:00
a.m.; Training Union, 6:30 p.m.;
evening worship, 7:30 p.m. (Pray
er Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wednes
days.) The Rev. Frank B. Din
widdie.
WANCHESE METHODIST
CHURCH: Sunday School, 10 a.
m.; morning worship, 11 a.m.;
Methodist Young People, 7:00 p.
m.; evening worship, 7:30 p.m.
(Prayer Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Wed
nesdays. Choir rehearsal after
Prayer Meeting.) The Rev. C. W.
Guthrie.
ASSEMBLY OF GOD of Man
teo: Sunday School, 10 a.m.; ev
ening worship, 7:30 p.m. (Regu
lar worship service, Friday, 7:30
p.m.) The Rev. D. B. Lawrence.
MANTEO BAPTIST CHURCH:
Sunday School, 10:00 a.m.; morn
ing worship, 11:00 a.m.; Baptist
Training Union, 6:30 p.m.; even
ing worship, 7:30. (Mid-week
prayer service, Wednesday, 7:30
p.m.) The Rev. H. V. Napier.
Monday
ROTARY CLUB of Manteo: at
Community Building, every Mon
day, 6:30 p.m.
LIONS CLUB of Manteo: at Ft.
Raleigh Hotel, first and third,
Mondays, 7:15 p.m.
REBEKAHS, Manteo: at Ma
sonic Hall, first and third Mon
days, 8 p.m.
MANTEO HOME DEMON
STRATION CLUB: at Commun
ity Building, second Monday, 2:30
p.m.
THETA RHO GIRLS CLUB:
at Masonic Hall, second and
fourth Mondays, 8 p.m.
SHRINER’S CLUB: at Man
teo Airport, first Mondays, 8 p.m.
TOWN COMMISSIONERS of
Manteo: Manteo town hall, sec
ond Mondays, 4 p.m.
WESLEYAN GUILD: third
Monday each month in homes of
members, 6:30 p.m.
AMERICAN LEGION AUXIL
IARY : second Monday each
month at the Community Build
ing. 8 p.m.
Tuesday
WOMAN’S CLUB of Manteo:
at Community Building, every
second Tuesday, 8:15 p.m.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS:
at Dare County Courthouse, Tues
day after first Monday each
month.
A.B.C. BOARD: at Manteo
store, Tuesday afte- first Mon
day, 11 a.m.
BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Dare: Tuesday after first Monday,
quarterly, 11 a.m.
MUSIC CLUB (Roanoke Is
land): first Tuesday each month,
8:30 p.m.
MANTEO P.T.A.: at school
house, second Tuesday each
month, 3:15 p.m.
ODDFELLOWS, Virginia Dare
Lodge, Manteo: at hall rear of
school gym, first and third Tues
days, 8 p.m.
Thursday
MASONIC LODGE of Wan
chese: first and third Thursdays,
8 p.m.
EASTERN STAR: at Wanchese
Masonic Hall, second and fourth
Thursdays, 8 p.m.
V.F.W. CLUB No. 9959: at
Manteo Airport, every Thursday.
8 p.m.
GARDEN CLUB: at Communi
ty Building, first Thursdays, 2:30
p.m.
Friday
MANTEO LODGE A.F. & A.M
No 682: at Fire Hall, first ana
third Fridays, 8 p.m.
RURITAN CLUB of Wanchese:
at Wanchese school, third Fri
days, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday
DARE COUNTY TEEN-AGE
RECREATION CLUB, at Com
munity Building, every Saturday,
7:30 p.m.
WANCHESE JRS. WIN 4-3
The Wanchese and Manteo Jun
ior High School baseball teams
played at Wanchese Sunday even
ing with Wanchese winning by the
score of 4-3.
Carlyle Davis was the «starting
pitcher for Manteo. Burrus reliev
ed Davis in the Bth.
Manteo scored all 3 runs in the
first inning. Two of the runs were
due to a lost ball in left field.
Jimmy Daniels pitched all the way
for Wanchese. He pitched a nice
game and struck out 14. Manteo
completed a triple play in the 6th
inning.
N. C. BROADCASTERS
MEET AT NAGS HEAD
The North Carolina Association
of Radio Broadcasters met at Nags
Head for a two-day convention
Wednesday and Thursday this
week. Pat Patterson of Washing
ton was in charge of special ar
rangements for the meeting which
was held at the Carolinian Hotel.
It was one of the largest conven
tions at Nags Head so far this
season, more than 90 persons at
tending.
THE COASTLAAID TIMES. MANTEO, N. C.
WISCONSIN WRITER
LAVISHES PRAISE ON
DARE AND ITS PEOPLE
Editor’s Note: The following
account of the Vacationland
that is Dare County was writ
ten by A. W. F. Langer, Jr., of
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin,
once a visitor to the Dare
Beaches, now, as his account
will show, an enthusiast for the
country and people that this
paper asserts are the best in the
world. If we are seldom as lyri
cal about Dare County as the
Wisconsin writer, we neverthe
less applaud his expression with
a lusty bravo! This account was
sent to the Dare Beaches Cham
er of Commerce by Mr. Lang
ner.
By A. W. F. LANGNER, JR.
Nags Head, N. C.—The beach
es between Kitty Hawk and Nags
Head on North Carolina’s Atlan
tic coast are a summer wonder
land of sand, sky, and ocean.
On these mile-wide islands, the
Outer Banks, vacation resorts
have grown up very casually be
side an older way of life. In this
fresh and unspoiled oceanside en
vironment, the little villages of
fisher folk, lighthousekeepers, and
just plain beachcombers, comfor
tably nestled in matchless expan
ses of pleasantly warm, yellow
sand and delicately green dune
grass, create a leisurely and mag
nificent vacation atmosphere.
The people out here on the Out
er Banks are a fine and friendly
folk. Many of their families have
lived on the Banks for almost two
centuries, virtually isolated by
sand and water in their tiny, tree
less, windswept villages colored
by the rugged beauty of life by
the sea.
Altho a modern asphalt high
way “opens up” these sandy
reaches to latecomers and visit
ors, the old hands of the Banks
still use what they call the best
highway in the world. It is the
beach itself. For hours after the
tide goes out, the sand remains
as firmly packed as cement by the
waves. You shouldn’t be surprised
to hear the shrill call of a horn
on the beach, to look up and see
a native, four-wheeler device that
had once been a car rolling down
the sand.
Aboard one of these cars (they
can be hired), or driving your own
car if you’re in a gamesome mood,
you can make a particularly
unique and intriguing day or two
excursion along what is known to
seafaring men as the most treach
erous coast in the world, down to
Cape Hatteras. The road is the
beach-line, a foot from the water’s
edge. It is a dozen miles to Oregon
Inlet and the coast guard ferry,
past mountainous dunes of sand
with such suggestive names as
Kill Devil Hills, Jockey Ridge,
Grave Yard Hill, Scraggly Oak
Hill, Bloody Tom, and the Seven
Sisters, the hags of the Outer
Banks, all remiscent of their
thrilling history from Sir Walter
Raleigh and his band of follow
ers, 18th century pirates, priva
teers, and smugglers to the enemy
submarines of World War IL
The Lower Banks
Past Oregon Inlet, it is forty
miles to Cape Hatteras southward
thru the picturesque villages of
Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon,
Buxton, Frisco, past the feet of
towering light houses, and finally
to the metropolis of this pencil
line of sand, Hatteras City. The
real thrill of the trip—and you
should take field glasses with you
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FISHERMEN* NOW UNDER
SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
Owners and operators of fish
ing boats are now covered by the
Social Security law according to
J. A. Morrison, manager of the So
cial Security office, Norfolk, Va.
He pointed out this is due to the
inclusion of the' self-eipployed un
der the recent amendments. Under
the original law as well as under
the amendments, employes, that is
members of the crew of owners
and operators- of boats under ten
tons, are exempt from coverage of
the law. However, for the first
time, the owner or operator him
self aa a< person self-employed is
covered.
All self-employed persons with
to see them—are hulls of wrecked
ships which line the edge of the
banks. One magnificently preserv
ed and stately ship, looking as tho
she might sail with the next tide,
actually was wrecked one huiylred
and fifty years ago. Wars as well
as offshore storms have taken
their toll—tankers and freighters
sunk: by subs during the last war.
On the beaches the waves leave
evidence of the ocean’s work—
stray and weatherbeaten wrecks,
the fascinating debris of count
less sunken ships.
On to Hatteras, a sun-filled and
vividly colored fishing town thir
ty-five miles by boat from the
mainland across Pamlico Sound.
The Hatteras docks, where fresh
fish and shrimp are brought in
live, are first stop on a gourmet’s
trip to the town’s single hotel
deftly perched on the oceanside
dunes, its lobby filled with sports
men’s surf and deep'’ sea fishing
geay, and its dining room a trib
ute to seafood supreme.
If there’s a
magic carpet
to success,we
hope you
find It. *
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First and Oldest
Food Store in Manteo
net incomes of S4OO or over from
such self-employment in a trade or
business, except certain profes
sions, will report such earnings
with their 1951 income tax return.
He stated this coverage is com
pulsory and not optional, and that
these earnings up to $3,600 annu
ally will be credited to their per
sonal Social Security account
along with any earnings that the
individual may have as an employe
working for someone else. As a
result, the self-employed is given
the protection of Old-Age and Sur
vivors Insurance provisions of the
.Social Security Act under which
benefits are paid to retired persons
over 65 and to families of deceas
ed persons.
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PHONE 4 MANTEO, N. C.
FRIDAY, MAY 25,1351
Mr. Morison advised that per
sons wanting information on- So
cial Security cards which will be
required for the self-employed
should z write the Social Security
Administration, 520 Flatiron Build
ing, Norfolk-10, Va;
MANNS HARBOR NEWS
Mrs. L. D. Goodwin, daughter
of Mrs. Mary D. Midgette of
Manns Harbor, has returned to her
home, 502 South Second Ave., in
Siler City, from the McCleary Clin
ic and Hospital, Excelsior Springs,
Missouri, where she was a patient
22 days. Mrs. Goodwin underwent
minor surgery and treatments.