VOLUME XVII NO. 7
CURTIS LOVILL
SPOKE MONDAY
AT LIONS CLUB
Large Gathering of District
Lions and Guests Hear
Talk by Maine News
paper Man
Curtis D. Lovill, Gardener,
Maine, publisher and Director of
International Lions Clubs, told
guests and members of the Manteo
Lions Club Monday night that the
principles of Lionism afforded
club members the opportunity to
oppose the spread of communism
in their own communities in a most
effective manner. The spirit of
Lionism, he said, is “to help others
less fortunate than ourselves,”
and the Lions’ principles are
thoroughly democratic and de
signed to foster democracy in
civic affairs.
The visiting official of the
world’s largest service organiza
tion compared the privilege of
Americans at the polls—to vote
tor the candidates of their choice
without fear with that of the
voters in countries behind the Iron
Curain, who must vpte “right or
they won’t be voting at all in the
future.”
The dining room of the Ft. Ra
leigh Hotel in Manteo was full to
bursting for the occasion of Mr.
Lovill's appearance. Visiting del
egations from the Weeksville,
Camden and Elizabeth City clubs
were in attendance, as well as
nearly 100% of local Lions. Nor-,
man Trueblood, Elizabeth City,
State Lions Club Secretary, intro
duced Mr. Lovill and other dis
tinguished guests. Among these
were International Director John
T. Stickley of Charlotte, who
spoke briefly; Governor of District
31-E George T. Rogers of Apex,
and Melvin R. Daniels, president
of the Wanchese Ruritan Club.
The Elizabeth City, Camden and
Weeksville delegations were in
troduced. 4F IM
Wilson Wade, John Mizell,
Charles Millard and Harley Streiff
of the Lost Colony Chorus enter
tained the group with several
quartet numbers. An encore rendi
tion of "The Whiffenpoof Song”
was received with particular
pleasure.
Edwin Midgett, zone chairman,
was responsible for the program
and the appearance here of the
Lions officers.
NORFOLK HONORED
FOR FIRST TIME AT
LOST COLONY SUNDAY
Norfolk, one of the world’s great
port cities, will be honored by Paul
Green’s symphonic drama, The
Lost Colony, in Manteo on Sunday
night, August 12, it was announced
today by General Manager Wil
liam Hardy who is collaborating
with Norfolk city officials and R.
K. T. Larsen, executive editor of
Norfolk Newspapers, Inc.
Chamber Music Group
Special features of the special
tribute to a city which is being
honored for the first time in the
14-year history of the drama will
include a pre-show performance by
the Feldman Chamber Music So
ciety Quartet with Gloria White
hurst as guest pianist, and a brief
talk by Mayor W. Fred Duck
worth.
Mayor and Mrs. Duckworth will
head the Norfolk delegation which
will include a number of persons
prominent in the city’s official, civ
ic and social life.
The Feldman Quartet will play
the Dehnanyl Quintet for Piano
and Strings preceding the show.
This will be the first North Caro
lina appearance of the ensemble,
and its third touring appearance
in the last two seasons. Last year
it won high acclaim in several ap
pearances while on tour. The Do
hnanyl work was performed as a
feature of the regular concert sea
son this year. Supporting Miss
Whitehust will be regular quartet
members, Dora Marshall, Ronald
Marshall, Vera Rugieri and Philip
Nelson.
KENTUCKY MAN DROWNED
AT NAGS HEAD SUNDAY
Vann Dowling, 52, of Louisville,
Kentucky, was drowned near the
Parkerson Hotel on Nags Head
beach Sunday afternoon. Mr. Dowl
ing was rushed to Albemarle Hos
pital in Elizabeth City, after he
was recovered from the water, by
Twiford’s Ambulance Service of
Manteo. But despite resuscitation
efforts en route and after reaching
the hospital, Mr. Dowling never
regained consciousness.
Mr. and Mrs. Dowling were va
cationing at the Parkerson Hotel.
The body was sent- to Louisville
fur burial.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
GREENSBORO MINISTER
AT COLONY SUNDAY
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| The Rev. John Chilton Mott, pas- !
I tor of Holy Trinity Episcopal i
Church in Greensboro, will conduct |
services at 11 a.m. in Waterside i
Theatre on Roanoke Island next I
Sunday. The Rev. Mott is a native ‘
■of Norfolk, graduate of William
and Mary College and the Uni-
, versity of Virginia; he held the
pastorate at Chatham, Va., and
Henderson, N. C., before coming to
Greensboro early this year. j
. Helyne McLain and Marjalene I
■ Thomas of the Lost Colony Chorus
I will be soloists at the Sunday serv
ices.
LAUGHTON SEES
AND PRAISES THE
LOST COLONY
Charles Laughton, celebrated
British actor came to Roanoke I«-
: land and saw the Lost Colony
, Sunday night. After the show he I
I met and talked to the cast, high in _
I praise of what Paul Green has
done with this drama, and the work
lof the cast as well.
i Following his meeting with the
: Lost Colony cast, Laughton was a
guest at a party at the home of or
' ganist Jim Hart, and he enter
-1 tained the group with readings
j until the wee hours.
Laughton likes to read and to
quote Shakesphere. He had orig
inally planned to return to New
York and thence to Hollywood on
Monday, but he liked the Dare
coast, and the Lost Colony people I
he met here. He also liked Nags
, Head; he liked the surf of the
ocean.
Meets Fellow Englishman
At Waterside Theatre he met
English-born Albert Q. Bell, archi
tect and designer of The Water
side Theatre who has been with
I the show officially since 1937, ex-
I cepting 1941.
Laughton and Bell discussed;
j their homeland together. Both are
i from the southern part of England.
On Monday afternoon after a
I visit to Fort Raleigh and Waterside
| Theatre during daylight hours he
I visited Bell at the latter’s Roanoke
i Island Gardens. Here the actor
j showed a deep interest in the
I shrubs and the things which Bell'
has gotten to grow in his nursery. I
I It surprised Laughton to learn
that gardenias grow in such pro-,
i fusion on the island. He was
1 amazed to see the loquat and other
citrus plants which thrive at Roa- 1
i noke Island Gardens. He wanted
i a peach, but there were none ripe :
! on the Bell trees. He settled far |
•an August Pippin, and as he
! munched it he quoted Shakes-'
1 phere, one verse especially for |
I Bell the nurseryman and landscape j
architect: •
“And make conceive a bark of
baser kind
- By bud of nobler race: this
is an art
Which does mend nature, change
it rather, but
The art itself is nature.”
The lines, which pertain to a
Shakespearian viewpoint on graft-1
ing from A Winter’s Tale, the
quote being from Polixenes, King
of Bohemia.
Receives Gifts
Autographed copies of Paul
(See LAUGHTON, Page Four)
PARTY BOAT BURNS
AT OREGON INLET
A new 40-ft. party boat, Mrs.
Kay, owned by Billy Baum of
Wanchese, was a total loss from
fire of undetermined origin at Ore
gon Inlet Wednesday night. Thei
cabin of a boat owned by Sam Til
lett also caught fire and was badly
damaged.
DARE COUNTY HIGHWAY
FUND BALANCE
According to a balance sheet re
ceived by Melvin R. Daniels on
Thursday morning from the State
Highway Commission, Dare Coun
ty still has 3256,131.23 unallocated
from the original amount of 3806,-
131.23 bond fund money set aside
i for highway purposes in the
county.
MAN WHO MAKES FIRE FLY, TURPENTI.ME DRIP, PLANS TO RUN ‘ THE STATE”
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BILL SHARPE, Tarheelia’s most widely known publicity agent, is known the length and breadth of Caro
lina. For the moment he’s the public relations expert for the CaTolina Power & Light Co., but he’s plan
ning to take over The State Mazagine, which he rec :ntly bought into, and which has been running for
some 18 years with Carl Goerch, its founder, at the h dm. With Carl Goerch now getting old and rich, and
having lost his desire—for hard work, he couldn’t have found better hands in the country to turn this pop
ular family journal over to. Bill Sharpe knows the newspaper business inside and out. His columns are
still published in many state papers, some of them being headed, "Turpentine Drippings,” “Manteo to Mur
phy,” “Hell-Bent for Hokum,” and many other salubrious and refreshing titles. He has published several
books about North Carolina; he organized the order of Honorary Tar Heels, is now writing a history call
ed “Alcoholics Unanimous, Ancient and Modern.” For six months we have been trying to get Aycock
Brown to write suitable cut lines to go under this big engraving which cost us about five dollars—we
paid more than it is worth—but finally came to the conclusion that Aycock must be afraid of his boss,
Bill, so we have had to do it ourselves, well knowing that one newspaper man cannot depend upon anoth
er. ... ~
So Now! The reason we wanted
to run a picture of Bill Sharpe is I
because he is the president of the ’
Roanoke Island Historical Associ
i ation, sponsors of the Lost Col
ony. Many great people have head
ed it, including Governor Brough- 1
ton, Jonathan Daniels, Mrs. Char
les Cannon. However, these being
gentle and kindly folks, it remain
ed for a cold-blooded news-hound
| to wield a hefty axe, if he hoped
to stop buying red ink, so he came ;
i down with two axes, one in each
I hand. It hurt, and it hurt bad when I
| some of the expenses were lopped
I off; cutting something off, always
hurts somebody, if only their
pride, and pride being great in a
patriotic and historical organiza
tion, most folks couldn’t see the
use of money going out to a few
patriots who weren’t too proud to
(take a little of it for nominal
■ services rendered. We have to ad
j mire him a little bit because he
said “somebody has to be the
5.0.8. and since I am already one,
I might as well go ahead and do
it.” Anyway, God being with us
and barring too much bad wea
ther, it looks like the Lost Colony,
| because of lopping Bill and plug-
■ ging Aycock, is going to come out,
at least under Goosewing and jib,” j
as the old sailing men might say.
(Photo by Miss Pinkie Perry of
Catfish Corner.)
kCOAST GUARDSMEN AID
STRICKEN FISHERMAN |
While deep sea fishing with Capt.
Ernal Foster on the Albatross I
last Saturday afternoon, W. J.
Humphreys, dispatcher for Caro
lina Trailways, became seriously
ill. When Humphreys began hem
morhaging, Capt. Foster radioed
to Ocracoke Coast-Guard Station.
Chief BMC D. C. Midgett, SIC
Louis Torrens and SIC Louis C.
Willis immediately went to the aid
of the strideen man and took him
to Cape Hatteras Health Center
»where he was treated by Dr. N. M.
Hornstein.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1951
State School Board Reappoints Survey
Committee to Examine Possible Sites
Lawyer for Avon Interests Questions State’s Right to
Overrule the County School Board’s Decision As to
Location of School.
Arguments presented to the
State Board of Education by at
torneys representing two Dare
County factions, those who wish
Cape Hatteras Consolidated School
to be located at Avon, and those
who wish it to be located at Bux
ton, accomplished very little more
last Thursday than the production
of a streamer headline in the Ra
leigh News and Observer on Fri
day morning.
Raleigh lawyer J. C. B. Ehring
haus, Jr., spoke for the Buxton
site last Thursday. The legal rep
resentative of the Avon people has
been Harry McMullan, Jr., son of
the Attorney General.
Same Committee Named
After the oratorical fireworks,
the State Board decided to send
a committee to survey the two
sites and make recommendation to
the State Board of the most suita
ble. Joker in the game, so far as
the supporters of the Avon loca
tion are concerned, would seem to
be that the committee appointed is
the same one which strongly rec
ommended Buxton after making a
survey in June of 1950. Committee
members are A. S. Brower of Dur
ham. chairman; Paul S. Oliver of
Marietta and Claude Ferrell of El
kin. Supt. Clyde Erwin will ac
company the group, as will 3 board
of education engineer. The com
mittee is to report its findings at
the September Board meeting.
Attorney Ehringhaus, who
said he was speaking “for a
majority of the people of Dare
County,” challenged the legal
right of the State Board to re
fuse to accept the decision of
the County Board of Education
about the location of the school;
he asked the Board to seek a rul
ing from Attorney General Har
ry McMullan on the question.
Thre was an implication in Eh
ringhaus’ talk that, if the State
Board persisted in its refusal
to accept the County Board’s
decision, legal action might be
forthcoming.
Superintendent Clyde Erwin ob
jected to the statement that the
State Board was attempting to fix
the school site. “We have simply
disapproved of certain sites offer
ed to us,” he declared.
To which Ehringhaus retorted,
“By ruling out all but one you are
in effect picking the site.”
Ehringhaus sharply criticized
former Dare School Board Chair
man E. P. White of Buxton al
though, as a Raleigh newspaper
reported, he disclaimed any inten
tion to criticize. The newspaper.ac
count put it thus: “The people of
Dare ‘would stand for it no longer
and defeated Mr. White and the
faction led by him,’ he said. But
before the defeat, he continued,
White (1) refused to call meetings
of the board and (2) refused to
put questions to a vote at the
meetings he did call ‘despite re
peated insistences by board mem
bers and after long discussions.’
White favored the Buxton site.”
When all the claims and counter
claims were over, an agreement
which could lead to the actual
building of Cape Hatteras School
seemed as far away as ever. The
Board must consider the question
once more at its September meet
ing, when the Survey Committee
will make its report.
Writer’s Opinion
The writer of the Under the
Dome column in the Raleigh daily
added an interpretative postscript
on Wednesday of this week. He
opined: “There’s a chance that
Dare County’s Avon-Buxton school
squabble may get the State Board
of Education involved In a court
fight.
“If it does, the line-up of at-
See SCHOOL, Page Four
ASKS CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE
TO MERGE AND ENTER BROAD
COUNTY PROMOTION PROGRAM
County Commissioners Pledge Liberal Finan
cial Backing to Unified Organization; Board
to Send Letters Inviting United Mass Meet
ing of All Three Chambers At Early Date
Convenient to All Interests.
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?VT. WILLIAM R. MIDGETT, 20, i
son of Mr. and Mrs. Creedon Mid- <
?ett of Manteo, is completing his 1
basic airmen indoctrination f
:ourse at Lackland Air Force Base,
fexas, the “Gateway to the Air ’ t
j’orce.” I j
Lackland, situated near San An- 1 j
:onio, is the world’s largest air i t
’orce base, site of Air Force basic < s
raining, for men and women, head- ;;
quarters of the Human Resource >
Research Center, and home of AF’s I <
Jfficer Candidate School. i s
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BOARD SUES TO
STOP CASH BINGO <
AT NAGS HEAD ’
Mater Defies Board Ruling*
and Opfens Game on Cash,
Full Blast Right Away
Al Mater, one of the three bingo
operators at Nags Head asked the
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Commissioners of Dare County
Tuesday to abrogate the contract
made with the Board requiring the
Bingo games at Nags Head to re-'
frain from using cash, but the
commissioners stood by the orig- -
inal agreement on the ground that
to change the rules now, to
which all had agreed, would work
a hardship on operators who had <
bought large stocks of prizes.
Ras Westcott told the board,
that on the strength of the license
granted him he had bought some
$28,000 worth of prizes, and would
be as good as broke if Mater was ,
allowed to pay off in cash. W. K. I
Leary, another operator said that
he was stocked with prizes also, i
and felt that letting down the bars
to Mater would result in ill-will
for bingo.
Mater contended that he would
be broke unless he could pay off
in cash because he owed $2,500
rent, and had only a few weeks in
which to take in enough dough for
the business.
The Board was firm in refusing
to change the contract, and Mater
went back to the beach and opened
for cash anyway. It is reported
some S7OO was paid Tuesday night,
and much business moved over
from the other two games, to try
out Mater’s cash plan. Everybody ■
didn’t win, but some samples of .
awards reported, are as follows: I
Tull Lennon, S9O; Mrs. Rowap !
Quidley, SSO; Herman Sears, $43. j
Wednesday the Board of Com
missioners instructed County At
torney Martin Kellogg, Jr., to
bring an action in court seeking ,
to restrain Mater from operating
bis game for cash. Mater said i
Tuesday afternoon he expected to !
operate for cash anyway, and i
would sue the commissioners for I
damaging his business if any ac- !
tion was begun against him.
And so in good old Dare County
tradition, which demands that
there must be a row about most
everything undertaken in these
parts, the Bingo war is on. Mater
was represented before the Board
by W. A. Worth and Forrest
Dunstan of Elizabeth City, who
contended it was no worse to play
for cash than for prizes, and they
further contended that winners of
cash would have that much more,
money to spend with the local
merchants.
Martin Kellogg, speaking for
the Board, upheld the position
that bingo was not approved by
everyone, and that by keeping out
See BOARD, Page Four
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For some weeks there has been
bandied around a proposal that a
fairly large sum of money be
raised to enter on a broad prog
ram of publicity and promotion for
Dare *County, including the em
ployment of a full-time Chamber
of Commerce manager and public
ity director.
The method suggested for this
fund first came to the Dare County
Chamber of Commerce with head
quarters in Manteo, and was then
forwarded to the Dare Beaches
Chamber of Commerce at Kill Dev
il Hills, and the Nags Head Cham
ber of Commerce at Nags Head.
No definite commitments had
come from these organizations in
response. The proposal was to ask
the Lost Colony management for
$2,500, the Dare Beaches Cham
ber of Commerce and the Nags
Head Chamber for SI,OOO each,
the town of Manteo for $500; the
Dare County Chamber of Com
merce for $3,000, and the county
of Dare to make up the balance
to bring the total fund to about
SIO,OOO.
From this fund it was suggested
that a full time promotion and
publicity office, with a full time
manager, clerical help, travel, pos
tage, etc., be set up to impartially
advertise all sections of the coun
ty on a broad scale.
The proposition sounded pretty
sensible, and it was brought to the
attention of the Dare County
Board of Commissioners this week.
Differences of opinion arose
from various members of the board
as to the feasability of the under
taking.
Commissioner Lawrence Swain
expressed the opinion that by unit
ring their efforts, the money and
labor now expended by the various
j organizations in promotion and
publicity' work would be many
times more effective if it could all
'be directed through one channel,
i Commissioner Perry expressed the
opinion that it would be impossible
to get them all united. Most of
the Board were of the opinion that
they would get into mighty hot
water in many parts of the coun
ty, if funds were contributed to
the various organizations separat
ely, and the complaint of impar
tial distribution and use of the
■ money would arise, so long as so
many differing organizations ex
ist.
Commissioners Scarborough and
Austin, as well as Perry, favored
I the county setting up some money
for advertising the whole county,
i but were opposed to entering into
any agreement with so large a
number of participants involved.
| See PROGRAM, Page Four
LOST COLONY TROUPE
ON TV NEXT MONDAY
Next Sunday is Norfolk Night.
Miss North Carolina of 1951
to Be Guest Actress on
Tuesday
A group of cast members of The
Lost Colony troupe will go to Nor
folk Monday for a television ap
pearance at 6 p.m. over station
WTAR-TV. This is the first live
telecast of any portion of the Lost
Colony, although several members
of the group have made television
i appearances as individuals.
Although no performance of The
; Lost Colony has yet been cancelled
because of rain, intermittent
showers during the daytime Tiours
have made inroads in the audiences
at Waterside Theatre so far in
August. Total paid admissions for
the first seven performances in
i the month have been 5,871. At
tendance during the past week
I was as follows: August 2, 500;
; August 3, 577; August 4, 1,720;
August 5, 713; August 7, 983;
August 8, 831.
“Norfolk Night”
Sunday night will be Norfolk
night. A large attendance is ex
pected for this first special Nor
folk night in the history of the
outdoor drama. Mayor Duckworth
and other city dignitaries will be
on hand for the event, and special
musical entertainment win be of
fered by members of the Norfolk
Symphony Orchestra.
Cartia D. Lovill, Gardner, Maine,
publisher, and Director of Lions
International, 'was the guest per
former at Tuesday's celebrity
night. Next Tuesday the guest star
will be Miss North Carolina of
1951, LuLong Ogburn of Smith
field.