VOLUME XVI NO. 22
COLONY HOUSING
OFFICE TO OPEN
HERE TUESDAY
The Lost Colony housing office,
■which performs a service for island
guest house and hotel owners at no
charge by the placement of over
night guests, will open in the Com
munity Building at Manteo on
Tuesday, it was announced today
by Bill Hardy, general manager of
the show.
Mrs. Helen Baum has been
named housing secretary for the
1951 season. All guest house
owners and residents who will
have rooms for rent to overnight
guests are urged to contact Mrs.
Baum when she assumes her
duties on Tuesday, in order that
a corrected list of all facilities,
number of rooms and telephone
numbers may be compiled.
“It is most important that per
sons contact Mrs. Baum immed
iately as requests for overnight
lodging facilities are coming in to
the Lost Colony office from per- '
sons planning to see early season j
performances,” said Mr. Hardy. “It
is interesting to note,” he added,
“that several local residents who j
have guests rooms and received
lodgers through the Housing Serv
ice in past years are this year
buying tickets to sea the opening
performance of the drama, to show
their appreciation for the service.”
TICKET SALES GOING
WELL AMONG COUNTY
PATRONS OF DRAMA
Chairman Melvin R. Daniels, of
the committee in charge of ticket
sales among local people for the
first night’s performance of The
Lost Colony on June 30, said on
Tuesday that the response of local
people was most gratifying. “Ev
ery one of the people we have con
tacted so far has been ready and
willing to take tickets,” Mr. Dan
iels said. Though the concerted
drive is just getting underway,
more than 30 cash sales have been
made to proprietors of tourist
homes and other business men, and
many more tickets have been
pledged. It is probable that total
first night sales to Dare conntians
will easily exceed 250, the chair
man said.
Committee in Charge
Working with Mr. Daniels and
C. S. Meekins, treasurer for the
committee, are the following com
mittee members: Mrs. Ethel Til
lett, who is in charge of ticket
sales in the Wanchese community;
Mrs. Grace Jordan, who is in
charge of the beach area from the
Carolinian Hotel south to the Roa
noke Bridge; Mrs. Phyllis Stick,
beach area north of the Carolinian
Hotel; Mrs. Donnis White and Mrs.
Coy Tillett, the Manteo district.
Local residents who wish to help
demonstrate the solid backing of
Dare county for The Lost Colony
should get in touch with the per
sons named above or call at The
Lost Colony office in the Communi
ty Building, Manteo, to secure
their first night tickets.
V A.-CAROLINA PRESS
PHOTOGRAPHERS TO
MEET HERE JUNE 27
A joint meeting of the North
Carolina Press Photographers As
sociation and the Virginia Press
Photographers Association will be
held on Roanoke Island at the Fort
Raleigh Hotel Wednesday, June
27. Feature of the meeting will be
the annual Lost Colony Full Dress
Photo Rehearsal.
Only accredited press photo
graphers will be admitted to the
Photo Rehearsal, it has been an
nounced by Lost Colony manage
ment There will be an afternoon
rehearsal for television camera
men and photographers who will
shoot scenes of the play in color.
The night rehearsal will be for
the Photographers shooting black
and white.
Hugh Morton. Wilmington, pres
ident of the N. C. Photographer’s
association will be in charge of
the gathering. Jim Mays, presi
dent of the Virginia association
will also be present. Bill Sharpe,
Chairman Roanoke Island Histori
cal Association, Johnny Hemmer,
and Charles Parker, State Adver
tising Division, Bob Garland,
Graflex Corporation, Joe Costa,
fioted photographer of King Feat
ures and other outstanding lens
men will be present for the meet
ing. Local press photographers,
Roger Meekins and Carl Swaim,
will make their photo-labs avail
able to photographers wanting to
finish films oh the island.
ATTEND CONVENTION
* AT ATLANTIC CITY
Clyde Biggs and Adrian Ayres
will leave by auto Saturday to at
tend the International Convention
of Lions Clubs at Atlantic City.
They will be official representa
tives of the Manteo Lions Club.
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THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OP THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
BUMP HITS WATER i
OFF NAGS HEAD
A blimp from the Naval Air
Station, Weeksville, went down
into the ocean about seven miles
east of Nags Head Coast Guard
Station at about noon on Thurs
day. The blimp was first detect
ed by Billy Cox at the Nags
Head Station. A helicopter from
Elizabeth City was dispatched to
the scene and a duck from Kill
Deivl Hills Station and a crash
boat from Oregon Inlet Station.
One engine was put out of
order when the blimp hit the
water, and it was necessary to
put four men (a captain, two
commanders and a civilian) on a
life raft and discharge ballast
before the blimp could lift itself
into the air again. The men were
rescued from the raft by the
Duck from Kill Devil Hills and
were returned, when ashore, to
their station in the helicopter.
The blimp limped back to its
base in Weeksville safely. No one
was injured.
GIFTED MANNS HARBOR
BOY IN ARMY, AGE 20
■ 1K
■ GARD of Monro Har
bor, who was 20 June 1, is a
talented boy, and quite a local
musician. He is a graduate of Man
; teo High School, and entered the
'army in February at Fort Jack
-1 son, S. C. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. C. Gard.
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SECOND SUICIDE
j ATTEMPT FAILS
FRANK DeFEBIO
Frank J. DeFebio made a second
unsuccessful attempt to take his
own life in his Dare county jail
cell sometime during the night of
June 14-15. He was found with his
throat slashed on both sides and
one wrist cut, lying on the cell
floor between nine and ten o’clock
! Friday morning by Policeman M. C.
Mitchell. The prisoner inflicted the
wounds with a safety razor blade.
Rushed immediately to Albe
marle General Hospital in Eliza
beth City, DeFebio was found to
be in a weak condition from loss
of blood, but hospital authorities
did not find his condition as seri
ous as it was when he was brought
to the hospital after his first sui
cide attempt on April 23. By early
this week, his condition was re
ported tg be good and all doubt
of his recovery had been dismissed.
Thursday afternoon of last week
the courthouse square was the
scene of a determined effort by
Mrs. DeFebio to bring the six
months’ long fiasco to head by
forcing the responsible officials to
end the dragged-out case, once for
all. She brought the children from
Wanchese to their father at the
window of his cell. After consid
erable difficulty the officers re
covered the children.
They were immediately made
wards of the state and removed
from the county.
Presumably, mental depression
after the dramatic scene in the
courtyard led DeFebio to attempt
to take his life for the second
time. DeFebio told officers that he
had made the attempt at suicide
about midnight Thursday.
On Wednesday DeFebio com
pleted his jail sentence; he was
still under observation in Albe
marle General Hospital, his doc
tors ruling that his release should
be delayed for a day or two.
Juvenile Judge C. S. Meekins,
who had intended to give a final
verdict in the case involving the
care of the DeFebio children on
Wednesday, postponed action on
the matter until DeFebio is free
to attend the hearing if he wishes.
Mrs. DeFebio has divided time
since last Thursday between Eliz
abeth City and the Kitty Hawk
beach section.
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LAST WEEK’S WEATHER
Figures provided by U. 8. Govt.
Meteorologist A. W. Orinkwatsr
High Low Rain
June 14 82 60 .24
June 15 74 60
June TO 80 60
June 17 74 $7
June IS 77 6$
June 18. 7* 66
June 20 * 82-66
FIRST CONTRIBUTION FOR ELIZABETHAN GARDEN
AGAINST A ROUND symbolic of the English ports from which
the Sir Walter Raleigh expeditions sailed during the late 16th Century
on discovery and colinization voyages to Roanoke Island in the New
World, Mrs. Charles C. Cannon, head of the N. C. Society for the
Preservation of Antiquities makes the first contribution for the
establishment of an Elizabethan Garden adjacent to Fort Raleigh
near Manteo. Receiving the contribution, a rare Lost Colony Memorial
Half Dollar (now a $4.50 collector’s item being sold by The Lost
Colony) is Mrs. Roy Homewood, Chapel Hill, recently elected president
of the Garden Club of North Carolina. The Elizabethan Garden, in a
natural setting of coastal plants, may be created near Fort Raleigh
on Roanoke Island as a project of the state Garden Club members
at the site of English-speaking America’s beginning where Paul
Green’s symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, which tells the story of
the great history-mystery of the Elizabethan Period in music, song,
dance and pantomine, opens for its 11th season on June 30. (Lost
Colony Photo.)
PIER AND GULF STREAM
' FISHING EXCELLENT
Gulf Stream fishing and sports
fishing generally along the Dare
Coast has never been better than
during the past few days. Hun
dreds of dolphin, amberjack and
other Gulf Stream varieties have
been landed, and ocean pier and
Oregon Inlet bluefishing has been
at its best.
More than 1,000 blues were
landed from Jennette’s ,Pier on
Thursday afternoon, and fishing
was reported also good at Bain’s
Fishing Pier farther north along
the beach. Nice catches of blues
came In from Oregon Inlet every
day this week.
Gulf Stream
The biggest piscatorial news has
hinged around the Gulf Stream.
Jeff Benjamin and party of Balti
more landed 51 amberjack and
nine dolphin in blue water of the
•Wimble-Diamond Shoals area 45
miles southeast of Oregon Inlet on
Sunday. They were fishing with
Capt. Willie Etheridge, Jr.
Capt. Omie Tillett’s party of four
Virginians trolling in the Stream
on Thursday landed 107 dolphin
and one rather rare Oceanic Bo
nita. A party aboard the Spur from
Virginia and Delaware brought in
97 dolphin. More than 70 were
landed by a party of Corepeake
and Suffolk anglers fishing with
Capt. Kermit Godsey. Other boats
and skippers also bad good Catch
es. Most of the 'dolphin catches
were made from boats basing at
the bridge.
Two at a Cast
The blues were really biting at
Jennette’s pier on Thursday. One
angler, Jerry Plum of Norfolk,
caught two biues on one cast.
A member of Omie Tillett’s par
ty hooked and played a sailfish
but failed to boat it. The party did
bring in two sails, however, two
baby sailfish less than 6-inches
long which were disgorged by one
TONY HEADS LARGEST RESTAURANT GROUP
Head of the nation’s largest state
life on a Mecklenbnrg County farm, is Tony Seamon, the famous
founder of the world t amed seafood restaurant at Morehead City, N. C.
Actually his restauraw career started in the galley of a charter boat:!
the Monnie M, where Ha fishing parties got their first teste of hush j
puppies which played at important role in his success. i
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1951
KITTY HAWK’S
YOUTH CLUB TO
MEET TONIGHT
An .important meeting of the
Kitty Hawk Youth Club is planned
for Friday night this week, at
7:30. Officers are to be elected,
and plans are to be discussed for
the Club’s summer activities.
Selby Harris, Vice-President, is
acting president of the club.
WANCHESE RURITANS
ENTERTAINED LADIES
AND GUESTS FRIDAY
More than 50 persons attended
a Ladies Night meeting of the
1 Wanchese Ruritan Club at the
Wanchese schoolhouse last Friday
night. The Rev. H. V. Napier, pas
tor of the Manteo Baptist-Church,
was the chief speaker of the even
ing; his address, “Do It Now,”
dwelt upon the idea that clubmem
bers, churchmembers, citizens lose
countless opportunities to achieve
genuinely beneficial accomplish
ments by a policy of procrastina
tion, putting off the completion of
the worthwhile things they wish
to do without better reason than
inability to force themselves to get
started upon them. When you have
a thing to do, the minister said,
“Do it now,” and complete it; then
go on to other worthy projects.
Special guests of the club were
Ralph Davis, president of the Man
teo Lions Club; Stanford White,
District Lt. Governor of the Ruri
tan Clubs; Tom Sutton, Charles
Wilkes Mann and Uncle Bill Bar
nett of the Manns Harbor Ruritan
Club.
The banquet was served by the
ladies of the Pocahontas Lodge of
Wanehese.
of the dolphin when brought
aboard. The same dolphin also
coughed up a very smell seahorse.
FORMER EAST LAKE COUPLE
CELEBRATE GOLDEN WED’ING
Os much interest to people of
East Lake and Dare County where
the couple lived for a large part
of their lives, is news of the golden
wedding celebration on June 9 in
Norfolk of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
Layton Twiford. Mr. Twiford is a
brother of Mrs. A. M. Cahoon of
East Lake. The party was held at
the home of their daughter, Mrs..
H. T. Marshall, 160 Sir Oliver
Road. Present at the reception, in
addition to the 200 guests, were
their daughters, Jlrs. Marshall,
Mrs. Linwood D. Summerell, of
Baltimore, and Mrs. Dewey N.
Twiford, and their sons, M. W.
Twiford, W. W. Twiford, D. T.
Twiford, and D. C. Twiford, of
Richmond.
COMMANDER MIDGETT
RECALLED TO NAVY
ELLERY CLARK MIDGETT, of
| Manteo who holds rank of Com
mander, USNRF has been recalled
to active Naval service, having
been assigned a responsible execu
tive billett in connection with the
military sea transportation serv
i vice Naval control of shipping with
headquarters in New York, a port
out of which he saw 20 years ser
vice, being a licensed first class
pjlot of that harbor. He is the son
of the late Capt. and Mrs. John
. Allen Midgett of Rodanthe, and
i resides on Roanoke Island near
■ Manteo. During World War II he
j took part in several invasions in
the pacific, and was in command
of several important ships. His last j
' command carried 500 officers and |
i accommodated over 2,000 combat
I troops. He served in all theatres j
[ of World War II and was awarded I
[several medals.
DARE LIBRARY OFFERING
MANY NEW BOOKS JULY 1
First Graders in Miss Evans Room
Reported to Have Read Many
Books During Season
Many new books are to be on
the shelves of the library at Man
teo by July 1, according to Mrs.
Georgia Harwood, librarian. Due to
increased demand upon the library
during summer months, there are
many interruptions in the work,
and it is taking considerable time
to get them ready.
Here are a few that are ready
for circulation: “The Loved and
Envied,” Bagnold; ‘The Relentless
Tide,” Bonavia-Hunt; “The Raid,”
Brick; “Death Has Many Doors,”
Brown; “The Woman in Posses
sion,” Burnett; “Portrait of Isabel,”
Corbett; “This Is the Hour,”
Feuch,twanger; The Short Stories
of Scott Fitzgerald; “Bend of the
Snake,” Gulick; “The Age of
Longing,” Koestler; “The Best
Sport Stories of 1951,” March, ed;
“Proud New Flags,” Mason; “Orig
in of Evil,” Queen; “Jingling
Spur,” Raine; “Murder for the
Holidays,” Rigsby; “Hangman of
the Humbug,” Robertson; “High
Calling,” James Street; “The Biz
zare Sisters,” Walz; “A Woman
Called Fancy,” Yerby.
Mrs. Harwood reports with con
siderable satisfaction the progress
in reading among first graders in
Manteo, and shows that in Miss
BonnybeJl Evans room as high as
18 books have been read by a
younjf’ pu-11. This reading : s part
of their first year’s school work,
and is an to the children in
understanding Pf other studies.
Below is the list Miss Evans gave
of haw man]); of these extra books
they read:
Nancy Coles Basoight, 18; G. G.
Bonder, 13; £ddie Bliven, 6; Dickie
Butrus, 2; Sylvia Cox, 10| Charlie
Clark, 8; Robert Dough, 7; Roxie
Etheridge, 3; Virginia Etheridge,
10; Patsy Gordon, 10; Linda Har
rell; 11; Bobby Jump, 10; Gary
1 Lewark, 7; Patty Long, 10; Nancy
j Lynn Midgett, 11; Diann Midgett,
|S; Horace Midgett, 3; Robert Mid
-1 gett, 12;- Lance Newman, 7; Sarah
A BOAT’S COOK
RISES TO TOP IN
CAFE BUSINESS
Tony Seamon’s Success Hing
es Around His Hush Pup
pies Recipe
By AYCOCK BROWN
It is a long way between a Meck
lenburg county farm and the top
job of America’s largest state res
taurant group, but Tony Seamon
has made such a trip during the
past 26 years. One of the original
directors of the North Carolina
Restaurant Association at its or
ganization in 1947, Seamon, who
has helped bring the membership
of the group to more than 1,400
in four years, became president of
the group following the tragedy
which claimed the life of Alvi3 M.
Single of Asheville within a mat
ter of hours after his election at
the annual convention in Asheville
recently.
Tony’s career is a Tar Heel suc
cess story. In 1924 his address was
Davidson R.FJX Today in massive
scrap books always available to pa
trons of Sanitary Fish Market and
Restaurant while they are waiting
for a shore dinner one will see
letters and post cards that reached
Seamon through the U. S. Mails
j which bore no address, merely the
I name of the restaurant and some
j times just “Tony” of North Caro
| lina. Actually, he is J. L. Seamon,
, the name “Tony” was given him
as a gag by a companion in the
automobile which first brought
him to the 'Carteret coast, with a
group of Mecklenburghers coming
here to work with Coach Simmons,
the contractor who built the first
good roads in this central coast
area.
Coach Simmons, Charlotte con
tractor, had a part in Tony’s ca
reer. After a few years of road
and bridge construction work in
I Carteret, Seamon saw possibilities
jin sportfishing business, but
■he lacked capital to buy a party
| boat. Simmons didn’t lack capital
I and when he learned that Tony
would like to become a sportsfish
ing guide he loaned him SSOO to
buy the Monnie M. There was no
note attached to the deal. Simmons
told Tony to repay the loan at his
convenience, and that was within a
few months because party boating
paid off for the Mecklenburg coun
ty farm boy. Fishing parties kept
Tony booked solidly from early
Spring until late Autumn. If fish
ing was below par, the parties Verb
still happy and that was because
I Tony not only served as captain of
I the Monnie M., but also cook. From
I the charter boat’s galley came fish
and potatoes accompanied by
j French-fried corn bread that was
! later to become famous as Tar Heel
I Hushpuppies.
“What you ought to do is start
a restaurant in Morehead City,” his
fishing parties would often tell him
following a meal aboard the Mon
nie M. while on trips to .Cape Look
out, Fort Macon Channel, Shackle
ford Breakwater or the Gulf
Stream. In 1938 Tony took them
seriously and did start a restaurant
on the waterfront and in 13 years
it has become one of the most pub
licized seafood eating places in
America. The scrapbooks will
prove this too, because Tony has
saved clippings, from all over the
world, and also communications
from persons including generals,
movie stars, and persons whose
names are front page news of th*
nation—all of whom at one time or
another have eaten at the estab
lishment which Seamon, his asso
ciate, Ted Garner, and his broth
er, Robert, have made outstanding.
As head of the state association,
Tony Seamon has one objective and
that is for all North Carolina res
taurants to become famous
throughout the nation for good
food, service and hospitality, and,
as he puts it, “Our restaurants will
strive to become a number one
tourist attraction, for the ever in
creasing tourist travel coming to
our great State.”
Lee Overton, 16; Donald Payne, 7;
Wandn Powell, 14; Charles Quid
ley, 9; Mary Faye Rogers, 8;
Sheila Reber, 12; Jere Simpson,
10; Larry Sanderlin, 5; Diane
Saunde -s, 12; Neal Short, 2; Burton
Turner. 13; Sarah Wynn Ti’lett, 9.
CASE CONTINUED. ANOTHER
APPEALED HERE TUESDAY
Judge W. F. Baum’s court op
ened and closed in near-record
time Tuesday. Frank White and
Archie Burrus, bondsmen for
Litchfield Peele, were cited for ap
pearance to hear Judge Baum read
the corrected judgment in the
abandonment case and his judg
ment ordering them to pay the
clerk of the court SIOO per month,
beginning July 1, until b sum of
$738 is paid. Through their lawyer,
W. H. McCown, the defendants ap
; pealed the judgment to the October
| term of superior coart.
The other case scheduled for
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THREE DARE MEN
LEAVE TUESDAY
FOR INDUCTION
No Pre-Induction Examina
tions 1 Scheduled for July,
Chairman Announces
Chairman Robert Ballance an
nounces that on Tuesday, June 2fl,
the Dare Selective Service Board
will send three men to Raleigh for
induction, the first inductees sup
plied by the Dare Board for some
time. The three young men enter
ing service are Franklin C. Payne,
20, Wanchese; Murray L. Farrow,
24, Frisco; and Alford Smith Pugh,
21, Salvo. Pugh’s registration was
transferred to the Dare Board from
Reidsville.
Mr. Ballance also said on Mon
day that no pre-induction physical
examinations are scheduled for
men registered in this county dur
ing the month of July. None are
being conducted this month, nor
were any such examinations given
to Dare registrants during the
month of May. Heavy enlistments,
particularly in the Coast Guard, by
Dare countians have kept the Dare
quota for inductions filled, or near
ly filled, through most of this year,
the chairman explained.
DARE COUNTY WOMAN
GETS MASTER DEGREE
COLUMBIA, Mo.—Mrs. Matilda
Etheridge Inge, of Manteo, was
among the 1,541 graduates who re
ceived degrees last week at the
109th annual Commencement of the
University of Missouri. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce
Etheridge, and majors in Educa
tion.
Forming into an academic pro
cession at 9 a.m., the graduates and
faculty marched into Brewer Field
House to the music of the Univer
sity Concert Band. The exercises
began with the singing of “The
Star-Spangled Banner,” which was
, followed by the invocation deliv
j ereri by the Rev. Lee Sheppard of
l the First Baptist Church of Co
-1 lumbia.
j Following the commencement ad
dress by Maj. Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, General Staff Corps, As
sistant Chief of Staff, Department
of the Army, degrees were con
-1 ferred upon the candidates by the
- President of the University, Dr.
Frederick A. Middlebush.
Honorary degrees were conferred
upon Maj. Gen. Taylor; Ernest E.
Howard of Kansas City, intema
i tibnally famous bridge designer
and engineer; Robert B. Caldwell,
prominent attorney and business
man of Kansas City; and Dr. W. W.
, Charters, noted educator and for
many years director of research for
■ Stephens College at Columbia.
TWO NARROWLY ESCAPE
DROWNING ON MONDAY
Dr. Warren Keith Brown of
Warrenton narrowly escaped death
I by drowning on the beach at Kitty
, Hawk Monday just after noon
j when he went to the rescue of a
I young lady who had called for
help. The young doctor and the
girl were both swept out to sea
and were within a moment or two
or drowning when they were res
cued by personnel from the Coast
Guard station. The young lady
was quickly revived, but artificial
respiration failed to revive the
doctor. A Dr. Peck from We3t
Virginia, guest at one of the beach
hotels, was summoned to Brown’s
aid, and he accompanied him to
Elisabeth City in a Twiford ambu
lance. On Tuesday morning, it was
reported from Albemarle General
Hospital that Dr. Brown’s condi
tion was good and his recovery
assured.
OPTOMETRIST TO OPEN
PRACTICE HERE JULY 2
Dr. J. Edward Hamilton, O. D.,
w 1> open an office in the Fearing
Building in Manteo for the prac
tice oi optometry on Monday, July
2. Dr. Hamilton has been asso
ciated with Dr. Henry B. Day, Sr.,
in Raleigh until determining to
r' ablish his own practice hero.
The optometrist is at the present
time vacationing in Tennessee; he
expects to arrive in Manteo by the
middle of next week.
Office hours, beginning July 2,
announced by' Dr. Hamilton in an
advertisement in this paper are to
bn 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except
Saturdays, when the office will be
epen from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
trial was continued for one week
upon the request of the defendant’s
lawyer. j
State College agricultural engi
neering specialists say proper ad
justment of a carburetor on a
tractor will enable the machine to
operate 88 per cent longer on a
given amount of fuel.
There are about 300,000 farm
families in North Carolina.