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VOLUME XVII NO. 17 500 EXPECTED IN HYDE THURSDAY TO SAA MEETING Engelhard Host to 17th An nual Session of Southern Albemarle Association Five hundred people are expect ed to attend the 17th annual meet ing of the Southern Albemarle As sociation in Engelhard next Thurs day. P. D. Midgett, Jr., President of the Association, is making plans for the entertainment of the visi tors from the four counties of Hyde, Dare, Tyrrell and Washing ton. Robert H. Midgett of Manteo will, lead the group singing, and for mer senator W. B. Umstead of Durham will be principal speaker. The Association is looking for ward to the visit to Hyde, well re membering the hospitality that has prevailed on other visits. The last annual meeting of the Association held in Hyde County was in 1948 when W. W. Watson closed his term as President of the Association. By precedent, the presidency this year will return to Tyrrell County. This office has been held by C. W. Tatem and W. J. White of Tyrrell, E. O. Arnold and W. L. Whitley of Washington, M. R. Daniels and D. V. Meekins of Dare. W. W, Watson and P. D. Midgett of Hyde. The meeting will start at 10 Thursday morning, in the Engel hard high school auditorium. For mer Senator Umstead’s address will occupy the place of honor on the morning program. At noon, a basket dinner will be served. Every family is asked to bring a basket. The afternoon meeting will be devoted to business, including plans to push the Croatan Sound and Alligator River bridge pro posals. Following is a list of delegates from Dare County to the meeting: Melvin R. Daniels, Wanchese; Mrs. Melvin R. Daniels, Wanchese; C. P. Midgett, Nags Head; Mrs. Daisy Midgett, Nags Head; Dew ey L. Hayman, Nags Head; Mrs. Dewey L. Hayman, Nags Head; Lawrence L. Swain, Manteo; M. L. Dainels, Jr., Manteo; Mrs. M. L. Daniels, Jr., Manteo; Z. V. Brink ley, Manteo; L. D. Tarkington, Manteo; Frank Cahoon, Manteo; C. S. Meekins, Manteo; A. W. Drinkwater, Manteo; D. Victor Meekins, Manteo; Walter Perry, Kill Devil Hills; Willis Daniels, Wanchese; Hallett F. Perry, Kittu Hawk; C. C. Duvall, East Lake; J. W. Scarborough, Avon; Albert Austin, Hatteras; M. L. Burrus, Hatteras; Levene W. Midgett, Ro danthe; Asa H. Gray, Waves; Wil liam A. Gray, Buxton; Mrs. Wil liam A. Gray, Buxton; W. S. White, Manns Harbor; W. O. Bar nett, Manns Harbor; C. W. Mann, Manns Harbor; C. L. Midgett, Manns Harbor; George M. Wise, Stumpy Point; Mrs. D. L. Meek ins, Stumpy Point; Calvin E. Payne, Stumpy Point; Tom A. Bas night, Manteo; Russell Perry, Kit ty Hawk; Edgar Perry, Kitty Hawk; Mrs. Ernest Haywood, Col ington; Mrs. Lewis Meekins, Col ington; H. 0. Bridges, Wanchese; Ralph Meekins, Wanchese; John W. Midgett, Mashoes; John D. Meek ins, Rodanthe; Mrs. Mary L. Ev ans, Manteo; Rudolph Midgett, Rodanthe; Warren Jennette, Nags Head; Pat Bayne, Nags Head; Mrs. Grace Mann, Manns Harbor; M. K. Fearing, Manteo; Martin Kellogg, Jr., Manteo; George Am brose, East Lake; Ralph Davis, Manteo; Bob Smith, Manteo; Dav id Stick, Kill Devil Hills; Helen Duvall, Manns Harbor; J. W. Dav is, Wanchese; C. W T . Guthrie, Wan chese; John Wilson, Manteo; Mrs. John Wilson, Manteo; Sam Liver man, Colington; Elton C. Twiford, Kill Devil Hills; Mrs. Elton Twi ford, Kill Devil Hills; W. L. Lew ark, Kill Devil Hills; W. S. Greg ory, Kill Devil Hills; W. R. Pearce, Manteo; C. C. Smith, East Lake; Dan Q. Oden, Hatteras; J. H. Austin, Frisco; Preston Bas nette, Frisco; Ralph Swain, Man teo. HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL PLANNED FOR MANTEO The annual Hallowe’en carnival put on by the Manteo Parent- Teacher Association is scheduled for Wednesday night, October 31, at 7:30, in the gymnasium. Many kinds of entertainment have been planned for the evening, and it is expected that the public will at tend in large numbers. Among attractions for the oc casion will be a house of horrors, grab bag, cake walk, bobbing for apples, fishing ponds, dart throw ing, throwing balls at heals in holes, and a bingo game. Plenty of candy, cookies, hot dogs and drinks will be on sale. There will be a costume contest' and a door prize. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA ACCEPTS POSITION IN HIGH POINT MISS MIRIAM FEREBEE of Manteo has accepted a position, with the Welfare Department in High Point, N. C., and started to work last week. Miss Ferebee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferebee of Manteo, is a graduate of the University of North Caro linia, with a major in sociology. In High Point, she is working with the child adoption branch of the; welfare service. MACHINE AGE STRETCHES TO BODIE ISLAND Operation of Lighthouse Made Automatic; Elimi nates Need for Keeper By AYCOCK BROWN Bodie Island. The keeper’s house at the lighthouse here has been abandoned which adds to the loneliness one feels while driving over the crooked sand road (mark ed “Private Property—Keep Off”) that leads from the new paved highway between Nags Head and Oregon Inlet. The keeper’s resi dence is abandoned because Bodie Island Lighthouse like most of those along the coast today has been made automatic. Upkeep of the beacon and pow er plant which cuts the light in the tower off and on at dawn and twi light is now the job of the Coast Guard at Nags Head station sever al miles up the beach. What will happen to the well built keeper’s house is anybody’s guess. Some times the government (owner of such properties) offers same for sale to become club houses, sum mer mer cottages or permanent residences. Maybe that has already been done with the keeper’s house at Bodie Island, but the new own er, if there is one, is surely not taking very good care of the prop erty. The doors are unlocked and inside the rooms are vacant. The grass has grown high in the yard and the fence which once surround ed the house and light tower is now partially down or hidden from view by the white and red myrtles which form a sort of jungle around the properties. Bodie Island Lighthouse is one of six along the 320 miles of ocean front on the North Carolina coast [ today. Each of the lights have their own individuality. Corolla on Currituck Beach is the site of a I brick structure, dull red or natural in color. The tower here when seen by mariners during daylight is dis tinguished by its white and black horizontal stripes. Cape Hatteras, some 40 miles south of Bodie Is land, is identified by its black and white spiral stripes. Ocracoke, where the tower is now having its face lifted, is a 75 foot high solid white tower. Cape Lookout at ‘the lower tip of Core Banks has black and white diamonds and Cape Eear is a skeleton-steel structure. The present tower, 163 feet high, is not the original Bodie Island lighthouse. The first, a brick struc ture, was built 2,800 feet south of the present tower in 1848—the same year a great storm opened an Inlet that was to be nsrmed Ore gon. The original tower, like many others along the coast, was de stroyed during the Civil War. At about the same time the original structure here was destroyed Fort Oregon had been established at the Inlet for the duration of the war. The present lighthouse was erected in 1872. Its beacon, 160,000 Candlepower, can be seen 19 miles seaward on a clear night While the present Bodie Island lighthouse was under construction, five sail ing vessels were wrecked nearby. Since that time there have been few shipwrecks close by Bodie Is land, which speaks well for the warning service the beacon has given. The new highway passes about % miles east of the struc ture, but now motorists visiting Oregon Inlet can get a closeup view of the 163-foot tower. CLUB WOMEN OF DISTRICT MEET IN DARE Manns Harbor and Manteo Clubs Hostesses to More Than 100 Members The 16th district of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs met in the Methodist Church in Manteo on October 10, with the Manteo and Manns Harboi- clubs as hostesses. One hundred and fourteen were present, and heard Mrs. J. W. Bunn, of Raleigh, State Federation president, deliver an address on active community work and world peace programs. Mrs. Keith Fearing, Jr., presi dent of the Manteo club, and Mrs. Forrest Sawyer, president of the Marins Harbor club, extended wel come to the visitors. Mrs. Leo Mid gett brought greetings from the Dare County Home Demonstration Clubs. Response was made by Mrs. David Q. Holton of Edenton. Mrs. Julian Oneto of Nags Head sang “The Holy City.” She was accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Raymond Wescott of Manteo, who also rendered an organ solo. Mrs. Dennis Evans of Manteo, as a past district president, was honored by a memorial gift, as were other past district presidents. A luncheon was served in the ed ucational building of the church. At the close of the afternoon ses sion, visitors were taken on a tour of Fort Raleigh, including the mu seum. MANTEO ROTARIANS ATTEND GATHERING Dr. M. O. Fletcher of Washington Is Speaker for Engelhard Club Meeting ENGELHARD.—Dr. Maynard O. Fletcher of Washington was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Engelhard Rotary club, Thurs day night of last week at the En gelhard hotel. Nine guests from the Manteo Rotary club attended. This was their first inter-club meeting since completion of the hard surfaced road connecting Hyde and Dare Counties. Dr. Fletcher’s talk was on “Ro tary Speaks to a Troubled and Confused World.” He advised Ro tarians to start thinking of living for their country instead of dying for it. Dr. Fletcher was introduced by Thomas E. Spencer of Washing ton, formerly of Engelhard. Leon Ballance was program chairman and Harold Jarvis, Jr., presided. Members of the clubs introduced themselves and told their occupa tions. Guests were Harold White of Baltimore, ‘Md., Bob Smith, Z. V. Brinkley, Dr. W. W. Johnston, Wally McCown, Ernest Meekins, C. S. Meekins, Edward Wescott, Dick Jordan and L. L. Swain. MANTEO AIRPORT BECOMES MECCA FOR MANY PLANES • • I ♦ t * : fjT" 9 « w V " ~ f a... .. .... - - —v- ■ ■' ...a : - ' • , L. ““ewe sessaK. —’™ lT Under the management of Bill Henderson, the Manteo Airport has been the mecca for many planes during recent weeks. Sometimes they come singly and at other times many planes of various types use the airport facilities. Those in photos were at the airport this month on a week end when the Pagasus Flying Club of Glen Burnie, Md., came to the Dare coast on their annual autumn fishing flight. At that time the Maryland flyers were amazed to find the yucca (locally known as bear grass) in blossom. In upper photo Manager Henderson is shown gassing one of the cruisers. Henderson recently flew one of the smallest planes to the Manteo Airport, a self-made job, with a wing-spread of only 15 feet, which may be seen by visitors and which will be demonstrated in flights on the week end if flying weather is fav orable. (Photos by Aycock Brown). . MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1951 DARE SHRINERS PLAN HALLOWE’EN DANCE Winning Costume Will Receive 32- Piece Set of China Saturday, October 27 at 8:30 p. m. at the Recreation Center on Nags Head Beach, the Shriners will hold their annual Hallowe’en festival and dance. The most orig inal costume made from old clothes, etc. will count the highest points in selecting the winner. There are expected to be many witches, clowns, cowboys, flappers, ballerinas, rich men, poor men, beggar men, thieves, bums, En glish gentlemen, Kentucky Colon els, Southern Belles, barbers, po licemen of the gay ’9os, grandmas, grandpas, Indians, zoot suits, sail ors, cigarette girls and many oth ers. The judging will be by ap plause from the audience. This is expected to be an out standing and colorful dance, and fun for everyone. WRECK VICTIM HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL Mrs. Irene Brooks Gaskill Suffer ing from Bruises and Other Minor Injuries Mrs. Irene Brooks Gaskill of Manteo has returned to her home from the Albemarle Hospital in Elizabeth City, after receiving treatment for several days for in juries received when the car she was driving last Thursday night ran off the highway into the canal near the Roanoke Sound bridge. She suffered a slight cerebral con cussion and painful bruises. David Caswell Tillett, of Greenville, who was also riding in the car, was re leased from the hospital the fol lowing day. Mrs. Gaskill told the investigat ing highway patrolman that she swerved the car to avoid hitting a dog that ran across the road. The car was submerged in the canal, and the passengers consider them selves lucky to have avoided drowning. PIONfEER THEATRE SPEARHEADS MOVIETIME Full cooperation between the Pioneer Theatre and the state and national committees for “Movie time, U.5.A.,” gigantic nationwide film jubilee, is underway, as man ager George Crees announced re cently. The greatest films in the history of Hollywood from every studio will open, starting in October, the most lavish screen season in the history of film-making. “Movietime, U. 5.,” marks the fiftieth celebration of the American movie theatre. Manager Crees ex plained. “Just half a century ago Talley’s Theatre in downtown Los Angeles was built for the specific purpose of showing films. So this celebration is really a salute to theatre audiences all over the coun try.” WRIGHT CAMP RESTORATION IS PROPOSED Visitor at Kill Devil Hills Re iterates Suggestion for Historical Spot By AYCOCK BROWN Kill Devil Hills.—William Court enay, aeronautical and war cor respondent for the London Daily Graphic with R. K. T. Larson, executive editor of the Virginian- Pilot in Norfolk paid a visit to the birthplace of aviation at Kill Devil Hills a few days ago. Courtenay, recently back from Korea, consid ered his first view of the Wright Memorial and the place where the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Or ville, flew their heavier than air power driven plane a “visit of pilgrimage,” according to an inter view with the Pilot’s Robert Ma son. Restoration of the Wright camp of 1903 where they made their successful flight was suggested by Courtenay. “It should be a perma nent shrine and ready on the first flight’s 50th anniversary,” he sug gested. That would be on Decem ber 17, 1953. Courtenay’s suggestion was the third along this same line that has been made recently. Earlier this year Fred C. Kelly, the Wright’s biographer, who now lives in Ken sington, Md., said after a trip here in August that the small marker indicating the actual place of the flight, which is a granite boulder about 1000 feet north of the Memorial Monument, should receive more emphasis. The Kill Devil Hill Memorial to the Wrights, a national monument, is on top of the greatest of the dunes in the Kill Devil Hills region. A few days prior to Courtenay’s visit to Kill Devil Hills, while the Southeastern Airport Manag ers Association was in session at Nags Head. David Stick of the Dare County Tourist Bureau and Victor Meekins of the Dare County Chamber of Commerce had appear ed before the group and suggested that the organization they repre sent, the one closest to commercial aviation, endorse plans for the creation of an international air museum at Kill Devil Hills. The airport managers looked with fav or on the suggestion and allotted certain funds for drawing up an initial brief that may result in the building of a museum to be dedi cated on the 50th anniversary of the first flight. In Elizabeth City, Miles Clark, president of Kill Devil Hills Me morial Association and famous flyer Al Williams have long since favored a movement for the build ing of air strips at the birthplace of aviation. At the present time nearest airport to the site of th £ first flight is located on Roanoke Island, 15 miles by highway from the site. “All of this goes to show,” said Clark, commenting on the Courte See WRIGHT, Page Eight BELOVED SURFMAN GOES TO HIS LAST REST • i ■Sig t ' » ? $ ■ ' IJI WBr • > J CAPT. HERMAN CORNELIUS SMITH, 71, retired Coast Guard warrant officer and beloved citizen of Manteo, died Friday morning at the family residence in Manteo, I following an illness of two days. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon in the Manteo Methodist Church. Rev. D. W. Wil lis, pastor of the church, officiat ing, assisted by Rev. H. V. Na pie.r, pastor of the Manteo Baptist Church. The church choir sang “The Lord’s My Shepherd” and “Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me.” The casket was draped with the Amer ican flag. Masonic rites were conducted at the graveside in the Manteo cem etery by Lodge No. 521, of which Capt. Smith was a member. Mili tary rites were also conducted at the graveside. “Captain” Smith, as he was known to his friends, served in the Coast Guard for 30 years, and re tired with the rank of Chief War rant Officer while in command of Core Banks Station. He was for many years in command of Bodie Island Station. He was presented with a gold watch by the King of Sweden, following his courageous action at the time of the wreck of the Carl Gerhardt off the North Carolina Coast in 1922. He was a member of Mount Oli vet Methodist Church in Manteo; the Masonic Lodge No. 521 of Wanchese, and the Wanchese Or der of the Eastern Star. He was a member of the Dare County draft board and for a number of years served on the Manteo school board. He was a native of Currituck County but had been living in Manteo for the past 30 years. He was the son of the late Lovie Cowell and Cornelius Smith and the husband of Mrs. Polly O’Neal Smith. Besides his wife he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Nick Sa pone of Manteo and Mrs. J. L. Newman of Nags Head; three sons, Walter Smith of Avon, Mar shall Smith of Norfolk, and Her man Smith, Jr., of Manteo; two sisters. Mrs. Mary Crawley of Mi ami, Fla., and Mrs .Trix Savage of Norfolk; one brother, Ivey Smith of Philadelphia, Pa.; 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. TREASURE HUNTERS FIND THINGS IN UPPER DARE ■» Duck.—lndications that a long forgotten community existed just north of this upper Dare County village on the east shore of Curri tuck Sound has been proven again recently by amateur “beachcomb ing archeologists.” Latest finds have included pieces of pottery and porcelain, an Indian type clay pipe, many bones (of animals or hu mans) perfectly preserved tusks, presumably from wild boars that may have once roamed the area, odd-shaped clay bricks >and one coin, a copper piece bearing the date “1734.” Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Wise and their children of Manteo made the find. Mrs. Wise, attending a con vention of nurses in Washington D. C. last week took the coin along to show to government museum ex perts in efforts to identify it. Ear lier this year, Walter Carroll of Durham, a frequent summer visi tor in the Nags Head region of Dare, had also made some unusual finds at the site. No person residing in the village of Duck today can give any infor mation about a community at the spot where the “treasure-trove” is located. Early maps of the region show an Inlet near the site. On some of the early maps of 300 or more years ago, the inlet is identi fied as “Trinity Harbor” which was the place where the earliest En glish explorers sent to the New World by Sir Walter Raleigh dur ing the reign of Queen Elizabeth. That was during the late 16th (Cen tury. The coin which Mrs. Wise found bore a date almost two cen turies later. . Single Copy 70 NORTHEASTER TROUBLES FOLK ALONG COAST Gales This Week Force Sea Tides Over Beach, Dam aging Highway Strong winls, prevailing Wed nesday night and Thursday of this week, have resulted in considerable minor damage along the North Carolina Coast. High seas running across the beach in Dare County have done considerable damage to the new road north of Oregon In let, and the road south of Rodan the. High water at nine o’clock Thursday morning saw consider able water on the road at Nags Head Coast Guard station, where is has run across the beach. The Coast Guard station vicinity is one of the places sand fences were not built, and the beach remains rela tively lower at this point. The sea ran over the beach at other places in Nags Head. Damage to the road south of Nags Head was due principally to the reason that the fill for the road is comparatively new and easily displaced by action of wind or water. Also, no aprons were provided for the edges of asphalt left raw when the road was built. Winds continued throughout the day at upwards of 40 miles per hour. No local damage was reported other than damage to new road fills. A ship was reported adrift some 20 miles off Nags Head, and Coast Guard rescue boat Cherokee was standing by. The vessel en dangered was a liberty ship, the Lucy Stone, being towed by a Mo ran Towing Co. tug. DARE SHRINERS ARE BUILDING CLUBHOUSE The Dare County Shrine Club has begun work on their new club house. Location of the new place is at the south end of Nags Head. To be of frame construction, it will be 50 x 100 feet and in front it will be two-story for 16 feet. The Shriners plan to have it completed by the Ist of January, with much of the work being done in spare time by members. Sufficient funds have not as yet been raised for completion of the building, but the club has several fund-raising plans for the future. GARDEN CLUB MAGAZINE FEATURES HATTERAS LIGHT A photograph of the Cape Hat teras lighthouse at night is Man teo’s contribution to the 1952 edi tion of The North Carolina Gard ener Engagement Calendar which The Garden Club of North Caro lina has just issued. Resplendent in a color cover, showing Airlie .Garden azaleas in bloom against a background of moss-laden trees, the booklet car ries 55 photographs, including scenic views, homes and gardens, close-ups of flower specimens, and blue ribbon arrangements from flower shows. The full page pictures are op posite weekly calendar pages, marked off for morning, afternoon and evening arrangements, with the extra pictures taking care of pages furnished for notes. Each calendar page is footnoted by gar dening hints for the week. In addition, the full 1952 calen dar is carried inside the front cov er and the full 1953 calendar in side the back cover. These covers, incidentally, are waterproofed for the first time in the three year history of the Gardener engage ment calendar. This edition marks a first, also, for the color cover. Mrs. George J. Searle, of Asne ville, is chairman of the calendar committee. The first edition of 10,- 000 calendars is selling rapidly, and Mrs. Searle is querying the clubs to see if it will be necessary to print another edition. Proceeds from the publication are divided between the scholarship fund of The Garden Club of North Caro lina, which is given a student in landscape gardening at State Col lege, and the individual clubs on the basis of their sales for assist ance with their local projects. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING School committeemen and prin cipals in Dare County are being urged by the Superintendent, Mrs. Mary L. Evans to attend a meet ing of the N. C. School Board As sociation to be held in Chapel Hill, November 6. It is proposed that a special bus be chartered to leave from Manteo, leaving about 4:30 A. M., at a cost of $6.96 each for a minimum of 29 people. Mrs. Ev ans urges a good attendance from Dare, since it would be the first time the county has been repre sented at such meeting. ........... .*< . *. :....
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