VOLUME XVII NO. 12 l VIOLATIONS of ABC LAWS NET COUNTY SIOO IN FINES Eight Violations Result of Officers from Raleigh Tried Tuesday; Were Selling ABC Liquor The tax for bootlegging ABC liquor in Dare County runs now at $lO if you get brought up in Re corders Court, provided it is the first time you are caught, and $25 » on the second count. With a profit of 200 to 400 per cent, as testi mony showed Tuesday, before Judge Baum, there is pretty good pickings for somebody in it, dur ing the summer time at Nags Head, especially if you do not get jkcaught. ” The Dare County school fund profited to the amount of SIOO from the fines in the cases, but it cost the State of North Carolina, or the Dare County ABC stores, who ever paid the bill, more than SIOO i to get the evidence. Three under- 1 cover men operated at Nags Head f. for some time and brought in the evidence, for which warrants were drawn by County ABC officer M. C. Mitchell. An attractive woman, Mrs. Pauline Daughtry of the Sir Wal ter Case at Nags Head was one of the defendants, paying a fine of 0 $lO an VISIT TO ENGELHARD Ruritan-Sponsored Barbecue, Tal net Show Earns Lunchroom Equipment Fund The Rotary Club of Manteo wants to go to Engelhard to hold a joint meeting with that club, having heard of the fine food the club serves, and the good fellow «hip dispensed. A discussion in the lub Monday night favored going the first occasion it is convenient for the club to make arrangements for the meeting. , HOTPOINT RANGE WON BY VIRGINIA WOMAN Jones-Leary Bingo Reopening To- night at 7 I Grand prize winner last Sunday at the original Nags Head bingo was Mrs. Elton Heath of Fentress, Va. She won the Hotpoint range on the last game of “Sadie Hawkins Day.” Other major prize winners were: Preston Sears of Manteo and Lois Mann of Nags Head, each winning a bicycle; J. C. Hobbs of Edenton wbn a combination radio phonograph. The Jones-Lewy bingo will re open tonight qt 7 and plans are to run through the months of September and'October. The man | agement states that many late-va | cationers have requested that more a amusement be available. Whether ! the stand will be open every night has not definitely been decided up tyn, but it will be open week ends. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESID'NT PAYS WARREN HIGH TRIBUTE TUESDAY HON. LINDSAY C. WARREN, Comptroller General of the United States, was paid high tribute Tues day when the new 25 million dol lar General Accounting Office was dedicated in Washington, with President Truman taking a princi pal part and paying high tribute to the patroitic and efficient ser vice rendered the nation by this Beaufort County man. Lindsay Warren’s ability and foresight, and his management of the GAO has saved America many millions of dollars, and might have saved millions more had his advice been more closely followed. His name stands high among the notable's on the conerstone of the new building. But all the honors in Washing ton did not thrill him more than will his trip to Beaufort County this weekend, when on Monday, he will be present when his son, Lind say, Jr?, will be admitted to the bar in the Beaufort County courthouse in Washington. For here were ad mitted Mr. Warren’s father and grandfather, both noted lawyers of their day also. Young Mr. War ren will appear for admission be fore Judge Susie Sharpe of Reids ville, just 107 years after his great grandfather was admitted to th* bar in. Beaufort County in 1844. Lindsay Warren, Jr., has joined the law firm •of Langston, Taylor and Allen in Goldsboro. SO. ALBEMARLE ACCIDENT RATE LOW IN JULY No Fatalities in Tyrrell, Dare and Hyde; One Killed in Beaufort; State Total Mishaps 3,395 No persons were killed as a re sult of traffic accidents in Tyrrell, Dare and Hyde during the month of July according to the report of the Bureau'of Motor Vehicles, but one person was injured in Hyde, and Tyrrell, and two in Dare. One was killed in Beaufort, and 13 in jured. Reported motor vehicle accidents reached an all-time high of 3,395 during July. Next highest in num ber of accidents reported occurred in December, 1950 when 3,161 ac cidents were recorded. An increase of 913 or 37 per cent was recorded in traffic accidents during July. This brings to 19,212 the number of accidents for the first seven months of 1951, while last year during the same period 14,690 ac cidents were reported. Fatalities chalked up for July were the highest for the year. A total of 93 persons were killed I during July, this was the highest I death toll for any month since December, 1950, when 110 persons 1 were killed. An increase of 18 t>er cent was noted in fatalities as com pared with 79 fatalities reported during July, 1950. This brings to 557 the number of fatalities for this year, while during the same period last year 502 fatalities were reported. Personal injuries reached an all time high of 1,362 during July. This shows an increase of 23 per cent over the same month of last year. Pedestrian fatalities decreased 33 per cent during July. A total of 12 pedestrians were killed and 111 injured on the streets and high ways of the State while during the same month of 1950, there were 18 pedestrians killed and 7T in jured. BEAUTIFUL WANCHESE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. JENNINGS BRYAN TILLETT few | ‘ J? '■ ..... “ • • • ••••. ■ V.. * ”. ....'V -r . ■ ■ ■ / ' • • . A?"; . ' jjjOfrra-. Hft H sfl It has beautiful grounds, and is well furnished and laid out. It is one of the most attractive homes ol Roanoke' Island. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Tillett and their two young daughters have something to be proud oi and they keep it in fine shape. Most people know Mr. Tillett as “TOby.” At an early date we will shov other homes on Wanchese. Photo by Vic Meekins. • OPPOSE MOVING LOST COLONY FROM CAROLINA State’s Editors See Nothing But Disadvantages to State and Pageant The effort that is being made to set up a counterfeit edition of The Lost Colony at Princeton, N. J., and which is finally to be ruled upon by the Board of Directors of the Roanoke Island Historical As sociation, the last of this month has received almost no encourage ment from the newspapers of this state.. Among the most recent editor ials disapproving the plan is one in the Kannapolis, N. C. Indepen dent, which heads off with Prince ton Proposal Ignores True Value, Purpose of ‘The Lost Colony’.” The editorial goes on to say: The proposal that a second com pany present “The Lost Colony” in Princeton, New Jersey, next summer offers nothing of lasting benefit to the famous Roanoke Is land drama or to the state of North Carolina. The charm of the drama stems largely from the fact that it is per formed on the very ground trod by Sir Walter Raleigh's early col onists who are portrayed on the Manteo stage. That would be lost entirely in any “extension” pro duction elsewhere. In addition, the whole area at Manteo is being turned into a shrine of North Carolina history. Nearby Fort Raleigh has been re stored and is viewed by the thou sands who attend performances of “The Lost Colony.” An Elizabeth an garden is being built just out side the enclosure where the drama is presented, giving another au thentic glimpse into the past that will be valuable not only to this generation but to the generations that follow. These attractions com bine to give North Carolinians something to take pride in because “The Lost Colony” is outstanding in the nation; they help to develop cognizance of their own state’s his tory in those same North Carolin ians. An additional production of “The Lost Colony” in some dis tant state would lack those extra attractions. It would add nothing to the drama’s effectiveness in those respects and there is a dis tinct possibility that it might de tract therefrom. Wyoming would not be as proud of “Old Faithful” as it is now if every state had a similar geyser. The proposal advanced by Ted Cronk of the Westminster Choir College for production of “The Lost Colony” in Princeton as an ex ' tension of the Manteo production points to Princeton’s location in a J heavily-populated area and near ' convenient mediums of publicity as i advantages. The original would ' gain from the public attention di rected to it, to the historic site and to North Carolina, he daclares. He further says that “The Lost Col ony” in a sense “belongs to Amer ica.” “The Lost Colony” does belong to America in the sense that it commemorates an important part of American history. But it belongs first to North Carolina. Its primary function is to awaken North Caro linians who are also Americans to their own historical heritage. To attempt to duplicate it in the synthetic surroundings of the New lersey-New York metropolitan ar ea, in competition with Broadway plays and the other attractions of big-city life, would pervert its pur- See COLONY, Page Eight MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1951 PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH AT KITTY HAWK PLANNING BIG EVENT .wte t < 7 Sail H H mI H S K 'iK IB M 9 9 K R k ®|| M K. S W 9 - z 9 W Mr ’9l 91 9 9 9 9 B I 1 The big annual session of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Association to be held at Kitty Hawk is just three weeks off. For the first time in the 186 years of the Association it will come east of Alligator j River to hold a three day session in Dare County with the Kitty Hawk church which was organized 97 | years ago. Several thousand people are expected on October 6,7 and 8. About 30 preachers are expected to be heard. There are more than 30 churches in the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Association which was formed in the year 1765 and now embraces the territory east of Rocky Mount, and north of the Pamlico River. | Providence Church at Kitty Hawk was constituted i n 1854 and the present structure, with the largest' auditorium on the Outer Banks, was built 50 years ago. It has 28 members. Great interest in the forthcoming meeting is expected because it will be the first time the Associa tion has met on the Outer Banks. x In preparation for the day, the members of the church have cleared the picnic grounds, and three hundred and thirty feet of tables will be provided to h old the food. Church members and citizens of Kitty Hawk will supply much of the food, as well as lodging in many homes. Every one, of course, will bring food with them, as is the custom. There is a church at East Lake, known as Lebanon, established in 1879, but rather inactive. The Kitty Hawk church has operated continuously for 97 years, it being formed by eight members of the Powells Point church who lived on the North Banks; four men and four women, namely: Hodges Gallop, Morris Beals, Thos. McKinney, Sally Toler, Peggy Owens and Betsy Brickhouse. The first church stood not far from the present structure, at the fork of the back road at a point known as “Sign Post.” The present Elder of the church is 80-year-old J. P. Tingle of Grantsboro. Services are held the first Saturday and Sunday in each month, with dinner on the grounds. The church uses no musical instru ment in its worship, and in many ways its form of worship differs from other prevailing faiths. It is a strong organization. BILL UMSTEAD SHAKING HANDS IN MANTEO SAT. Former Congressman W. B. Um stead of Durham was in Manteo last Saturday with folks in the in terest of his candidacy for Gover nor. Mr. Umstead was in the race at the time the late J. M. Brough ton was elected to the U. S. Sen ate. Mr. Umstead will address the Southern Albemarle Association in Hyde County on September 24. He is an old classmate and friend of P. D. Midgett of Engelhard, presi dent of the Association. JOHN EDGAR CREEF DEAD John E. Crees, 87, of 1101 Jack son Street, South Norfolk, died in a Norfolk hospital Sunday at 9:25 a. m. after a long illness. He was a native of East Lake, N. C., and had lived in Norfolk for 19 years. He was a retired carpenter. He was the son of the late Hen ry J. and Eliza Holmes Crees and the husband of the late Sallie Riggs Crees. He was a member of the City Road Methodist Church, Elizabeth City. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J .P. Holmes, of Manteo; one son, A. B. Crees, of South Nor folk; nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. MANTEO WOMAN’S MOTHER 100 YRS. i OLD LAST WEEK Mrs. Emma Jernigan, Moth er of Mrs. Effie Crawford; Often Visitor in Manteo Mrs. Emma Jernigan, oldest liv ing resident of Nansemond County, •Virginia, has been hale and spry and looking forward to her 100th birthday celebration Friday of last week. But she had to observe it un- t der unpleasant circumstances. She , fell on Tuesday and broke her hip. ! So she spent her birthday in bed. Mrs. Effie Crawford of Manteo, her daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Russell of Manteo have been visiting her. Mrs. Jernigan, who had been ill very few times in her life, was feeling rather poorly and it was a drab birthday. Her injury occurred in an ironic manner Tuesday. She had been sitting in a chair in the living room looking at birthday j cards. She arose from the chair, then turned to pick up some cards : and fell to the floor. The family physician said her hip was cracked, it per- | haps was not a complete fracture. Nevertheless, the mishap will put her out of commission for some i time. I The aged woman lives with her I granddaughter, Mrs. Beverly Hol land and Mr. Holland four and a half miles east of Suffolk on the Holland Highway. Only three of her children are still living, al though there are 12 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and several great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Jernigan was born 100 years ago, Sept. 7, at South Quey, Nansemond County, daughter of John and Patsy Jones. Her hus band, Miles Jernigan, died in 1932. MANTEO PTA WILL MEET TUESDAY AFTERNOON Parents Urged to be Present; Fath ers Especially Invited The Manteo Parents Teachers Association will hold a business meeting on Tuesday afternoon, September 18, at 3:30 in the school auditorium. All parents are urged to be uresent, and it is especially requested that all fathers of.school children try to attend. The PTA feels that the fathers should take a more active interest in the af fairs of the school, and not leave it all to the mothers. Mrs. J. M. Williams, vice- presi dent, will be in charge of the meet ing, at which a president will be elected, this office having been left open at the end of last school year. MANTEO WOMAN’S CLUB SPONSORING BOOK DRIVE Public Asked for Magazines and Books of All Sorts to Send to Korea The Manteo Woman’s Club is sponsoring a Books for Peace Drive to send to Korea. Those who have books or Magazines to give are asked to leave them on your front porch Tuesday morning, Sept. 18 by 10 a.m. and a collec tion will be made. Those who live out of town, call Mrs. M. K. Fear- 1 i ing, Jr., and your books will be ! collected. The following types of books and magazines are needed: 1. For small children or those See CLUB, Page Eight KITTY HAWK CLUB TAKES * ACTION ON LOST COLONY Members of the Kitty Hawk Civ ic Club, meeting in the Kitty Hawk School Monday night, voiced unan imous disapproval of the plan re- I cently advanced for presenting the I Lost Colony in New Jersey, i The action took the form of a ' resolution, instructing the presi dent of the club to write to Bill ' Sharpe, president of the Roanoke : Island Historical Association, with the information that members of , the club are one hundred percent against the plan to present the Lost Colony at any place other than Waterside Theatre on the north end of Roanoke Island. The Club members also discuss ed the plan for organization of a Dare County Tourist Bureau, ex pressing approval of the move; and made preliminary arrange ments for the establishment of a Citizenship Award, to be made an nually to a youth of school age in the community. JOHN BROWN GRAY, 52, DIES SUNDAY AT CAPE HATTERAS Buxton.—Funeral rites for John Brown Gray, 52, who died Sunday night at his home at Buxton after a short illness, were conducted at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the home by the Rev. W. B. Greg ory, pastor of the Buxton Metho dist Church. Burial followed in the Buxton Cemetery. Mr. Gray was a native and lifelong resident of Bux ton, son of William H. and Melis sa Farrow Gray. The husband of Mrs. Nellie Gray, he was a retired Coast Guardsman, member of the American Legion and a member of the Buxton Methodist Church. Sur viving him are his wife; one son, Zane Gray; two brothers. William and Kendrick Gray, all of Buxton; two sisters, Mrs. D. J. Parr of Huntington, West Virginia and Mrs. Sarah Williams of Ports mouth, Virginia; and one grand . child. , Single Copy 70 COUNTY TOURIST BUREAU BEGINS FUND CAMPAIGN Planning to Spend SIO,OOO to Advertise Dare County During Coming Year J The fund raising phase of the plan for establishment of a Dare County Tourist Bureau to handle a full-time, impartial program of publicity and advertising for the county as a whole, gained impetus this week. The first of nearly one hundred letters, signed by newly elected chairman Lawrence L. Swain, of the Tourist Bureau, and addressed to wholesalers in Norfolk, Eliza beth City and other nearby cities, were mailed early this week. The letters, outlining the proposal for operation of the Tourist Bureau, urged the wholesalers to invest in the program, calling to their at tention the fact that they share in the financial benefits from the tourist business here, yet are not required to share in the costs through payment of county taxes, as are local business concerns. In a meeting Tuesday night the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce, i which has already pledged SI,OOO I toward the costs of the program I for the fiscal year beginning Octo j ber first, formulated a plan for col lecting this amount, and possibly even more. A system of assess | ment, whereby each hotel, tourist I court or rooming house owner would invest five dollars per room toward the program, restaurant ownerg would invest one dollar per seat, fishing guides would invest fifteen dollars each, and other busi nesses would invest on a similar basis, was adopted. And a commit- I tee was appointed to call on every ! member of the chamber, explain the Tourist Bureau program and ■ aims, and collect the assessed a mount. The program was also under dis cussion Monday night, at the Kitty . Hawk Civic Club meeting, and i Wednesday night at the Dare Bea ches Chamber of Commerce meet ing, with similar discussions nlan ned for Hatteras Island and the mainland in the near future. A budget of $10,000.00 for the first year of operation has been adopted by the directors of the Tourist Bureau, five of whom are appointed by the county commis sioners from the various town ships. and five from the three Chambers of Commerce, the Town of Manteo and the Lost Colony. Already a total of nearly $7,000 has been pledged toward the $lO - goal, and it was stressed this week by chairman Swain that the full goal would have to be rea ched by the end of this month if the program is to be adopted for the coming year. A special request was made to any individuals, business establish ments or groups in the county, who are not otherwise participating in the program, to make whatever investment they think worthwhile. Money thus received will be de posited in a special account by the County Commissioners and all checks will be signed by the Secre tary-Treasurer of the Bureau, and countersigned by the Chairman of the County Commissioners. During the first year of opera tion the Tourist Bureau will con centrate on three projects: First, the hiring of a qualified, full-time publicity director to publicize all of Dare County on an impartial ba sis; second, the establishment of a central office for the dissimination of tourist information; and third, the printing of an attractive folder or brochure which will be made available to all Chambers of Com merce, hotels and other establish ments for distribution to prospect ive visitors to Dare. NEW COLONIAL STORE OPEN IN ELIZABETH CITY Colonial Stores in Elizabeth City is in the midst of a three-day opening of its new store, which is much larger than the old, and carried a much larger variety of stock. George Paulos, an Eliza beth City boy will continue as manager. The store is on the cor ner of Church and McMorrine Sts. Many new departments have been added and eight check-out stands for the convenience of cus tomers are provided in the new • store. The store is going to give away several valuable prizes this week end. These include a 17-inch Phil co television set, a Thor Spinner Washer, and three table model Philco radios. Refrigerated counters have been added; there is a new department for seafood, and one for party dainties. The opening began Thursday 1 morning, but will continue through Saturday. <