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VOLUME XVII NO. 25 DIMES FUND WAGES DUAL POLIO FIGHT Funds contributed to the 1952 March of Dimes this month will become double-barrelled barrages in the war on polio, Mrs. Balfour Baum, Dare County campaign di rector, declared today . “Every dime and dollar finances care of patients, research, epidem ic aid and education of much needed professional personnel,” Mrs. Baum said. Fifty per cent of the funds re main here to finance care of local polio patients needing such help or, in an emergency, are made available to the national epidemic aid fund. The other fifty per cent is sent to National Headquarters, where it is used for these programs: Research—The most extensive voluntary research programs ev er levelled at a single disease. Aimed at finding a means of pre venting or curing polio, March of Dimes grants are supporting research in the nation’s leading universities and laboratories. Professional Education—With shortages resulting from in creased demands for profession al service, plus inroads made by military requirements, more trained personnel are needed to day than ever before, particular ly in view of more widespread polio epidemics. March of Dimes scholarships, fellowships and short courses are training more professionals to care for polio victims and to man scientific laboratories. Emergency Epidemic Aid Fund—This is money made available to any community which has exhausted its local March of Dimes funds caring for patients. Mrs. Baum emphasized that “the number of new patients every year, plus the tens of thousands of patients from past years still needing help, have left the March of Dimes in debt at the end of each of the past four years. Thus the 1952 appeal must surpass any of the past.” . The March of Dimes will con tinue to the end of the month. LIONS CLUB DANCE TO BE DECEMBER 22 Television Set Will Be Given to Some Lucky Person The Manteo Lions Club is again sponsoring a Christmas dance this year. It will be held December 22 in the Manteo School gymnasium. Tickets are now on sale by any Lion. Proceeds will be used toward installation of a heating system for the gymnasium, which is sorely needed in the coldest winter months. A television set will be given as a prize to one of the purchasers of tickets to the dance. The set is valued at $260, so in addition to all the enjoyment of the event itself, some lucky one will receive a bo nus prize. Last year the television set went to Stella Crees (now Mrs. Earl Green). Ticket sales have not been too heavy yet, but are expected to pick up during the next week. NATIONAL MAZAGINES USE STORIES OF COASTLAND Manteo.—Four with national circulation are carrying stores about the northeast coast of North Carolina in current De cember issues, it was reported by the Dare County Tourist Bureau. Red Book has a story about Julian and Lima Oneto and their two children Jan and Susan. Title of the story “This is the Life,” tells of the popular family’s exper iences operating the Carolinian, one of several hotels at Nags Head. The story is illustrated in color with photos by Al Gould and text by Emile Shumaker. Air Force Magazine carries as its lead story in the December is sue an article about Kill Devil Hill and the annual First Flight Cele bration by Aycock Brown. Illustra tions for the story are also by Brown. December 1 issue of Colliers Magazine carries a story by Ray mond R. Camp about wildfowl hunting in northeastern North Carolina, and especially in the Currtuck Sound region. The story is illustrated with black and white and color photographs. The Tourist Bureau also re ported that a story about The Lost Colony on Roanoke Island appears in the December issue of Lions International Magazine. It is built up around the appearance of Inter national Director Curtis Lovill of Gardiner, Maine, who made a visit to Manteo Lions Club last summer and who appeared as a guest performer in the famous symphonic drama while here. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MANTEO MASONS SERVE DISTRICT DINNER TO 115 W. J. Bundy, Former Grand Master, Principal Speaker at Dinner in Metho dist Church One hundred and fifteen Masons of the district, with all lodges rep resented except Gatesville, attend ed an elaborate dinner given Wed nesday night of last week at the Methodist Church in Manteo, with Manteo Masonic Lodge host to the group. W. J. Bundy of Greenville, So licitor of the 2nd district and for mer Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina, was the principal speaker. Mr. Bundy recited the functions of the Grand Lodge as a principal part of his address and reminded the members how they might par ticipate and enjoy more fully the activities of the Grand Lodge. The meeting was conceded one of the finest of the kind ever put on in the district, and is the sec ond district meeting held on Roa noke Island this year. Sometime ago a district meeting was held at Wanchese, which lodge has been host to several such meetings dur ing the past three or four years. BETTER PHONE SERVICE FOR OUTER BANKS Modern telephone service for residents of the Seven Villages of Hatteras Island, with local service by dial exchange and long dis tance over trunk lines connecting with the exchange at Manteo, seems now assured during the New Year as a result of several weeks negotiation an correspon dence between residents of the Is i land and L. S. Blades, Jr., presi ! dent of the Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. These modernized facilities would replace the “world’s worst" party line arrangement that has served as' the only connection of the Island with the outer world for about 25 years. There are 19 telephones on the over-loaded line and because every installation is in a place of business normally clos ed at night, the Island is without service of any sort about 12 hours in each day. Telephone “subscribers” or peo ple with pay-telephones in their places of business had drawn up a protest of service to the State Utilities Commission early in Se tember when Mr. Blades was a week-end guest of friends on the Island. The matter was discussed tentatively with him at that time and within the week a tentative survey of the possibilities if utili zation of modernized equipment was undertaken. As a result of the survey, under taken in Avon by CWO George Harrison Meekins, in Buxton by I Mrs. Maude M. White anl in Hat | teras by M. L. Burrus, it was de i termined that a minimum of 227 ( residence and business telephones would be taken, provided a serv ice comparable to that furnished local subscribers in Manteo was given. The matter was laid before Mr. Blades, and the formal com plain to the Utilities Commissi held in abeyance pending h.s con sideration of the project. It was pointed out to telephone officials that a survey undertaken at the same time indicated that the people of the Island were even now a paying, in long distance charges, a sum very nearly equiv alent to the prospective income from residential telephones This was ascertained by checking the monthly aggregate remitted by “subscribers” who repay them selves by opening the coin boxes on the telephones and taking what ever they contain. Mr. Blades showed every wil lingness to consider the proposal and asked that his company be giv en time to explore the possibili ties, the probable costs, and the likelihood that necessary equip ment could be had in the present state of world markets for criti cal materials. This week Mr. Blades wrote Ben Dixon Mac Neil), who has conducted the Island end of the correspondence and co-or dinated the informal surveys: “For your personal information we are beginning to see light as to the possibility of placing an exchange on the Cape at a much earlier date than we had original ly anticipated. The fact that we have been unable to get down there again, as we had planned, does not indicate that the problem has been dormant.” Continuing, the letter promises definite action by or early aDer the New Year. The telephone exchange here would serve about 2,50.0 people, or about half the population of Dare County. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM AT MANTEO METHODIST The Choir of Mt. Olivet Metho dist Church, Manteo, will present its annual Christmas program at 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, December 16th in the church audi torium. The public is cordially in vited. DRINKWATERS ON NEW YORK VISIT WITH EASTERN Mr. and Mrs. Alpheus W. Drink water are in New York this week where he, on behalf of the Kill Devil Hill Memorial Society will extend an invitation to Capt. Ed die Rickenbacker, president of Eastern Air Lines and other out standing aviation personalities to attend the 48th anniversary cele bration of the first flight by the Wright Brothers. It was Drinkwater, who as a telegrapher, had assisted in relay ing the first flight message and later in 1908 transmitted thou sands of words of press copy to newspapers throughout the coun try from correspondents covering experimental flights of the Wrights as they made tests of a plane that was later sold to the government. The Drinkwaters made the trip to New York by commercial air lines, in a plane that had a wing spread almost as long as the first 120 foot flight of the Wrights on December 17, 1903. They will re turn home late this week. The Drinkwaters flew from Ra leigh Tuesday. WANCHESE MAN IS NOW MASTER OF WANCHESE LODGE C. B. Daniels 111 Elected to Post Last Week; Officers To Take Over in Jan uary For the first time in 30 years a citizen of Wanchese has become worshipful master of Wanchese Lbdge No. 521, A.F. & A.M., Thursday night of last week, Charles Bailey Daniels 111, grand son of one of the founders of the lodge some 50 years ago, was elected to that office. Heretofore, the lodge has been headed for about 30 years by residents of Manteo and vicinity. Mr. Daniels suceeds Sheriff Frank Cahoon who has held the office for three years. Other offi cers elected last week are: Boyce Midgett, Senior Warden; Valton Williams, Junior Warden; Melvin Daniels, Treasurer; H. O. Bridges, Secretary; Willett Tillett, Senior Deacon; Omie Tillett, Junior Dea con; Anderson Owens and Damer on Payne .Stewards. S. B. Tillett continues as Tyler. New officers will take over in January. The last Wanchese cit izen Master of the Lodge was the late William S. Baum, well known fisherman and merchant; a broth er of Judge W. F. Baum of Dare Recorder’s Court. WARM WEATHER RUNS RATTLESNAKE OUT Freak winter weather, with the temperature around 80 last Fri day, felt good to a number of peo ple, but it also brought out some thing unusual for December. J. C. Groce of the North End of Roa noke Island reports killing a rat tlesnake near his home last Satur day, Dec. 8. The snake had 6 rattles. WHAT BETTER GIFT FOR A J LOVED ONE ... THAN A LETTER FROM HOME EACH WEEK? Send This Newspaper To Your Relative or Friend Only $2.50 Per Year. Big Reduction for Three Years What better gift can you think of than to send the home paper to a relative or friend every week for a whole year. It will cost less than writing and mailing a letter, and think of the many things to read about in 52 issues. We will make you a special Christmas offer on one condition, and that is you send your subscription direct to the editor of this newspaper. If you will send it di rect to the editor, we will at any time before January 1, 1952, send you the paper for three years for $5, a saving of $2.50. Or we will send the paper to three persons for one year each, for $6. Remember, this applies only as above stated. We will appreciate a letter from you telling us if you like the paper, and if you don’t like it, to offer us your best suggestions for improving it. This may help us to give you a better paper. With Season’s Best Wishes: THE EDITOR THE COASTLAND TIMES, Manteo, N. C. MMBMMMMO MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1951 Early Christinas Mailing Urged as Annual Holiday Rush Gets Under Way at Postoffice With the Christmas rush already started at the Manteo postoffice, Postmoster Charlie Evans pre dicts a record business. All packages and greeting cards to go out of the state should be mailed by Dec. 15, Mr. Evans declared. Those destined for points within the state should be mailed ” week before Christmas to b* sure of delivery, and those for distribution locally should be in the postoffice by Dec. 20. Christmas falls on Tuesday this year. Since no deliveries will be made the previous Sunday, Dec. 23, Christmas eve is likely to tax postal clerks and mail carriers to the limit. The public can help not only the postal employes but them selves by observing a few simple MANTEO LEGION DINNER AROUSES MUCH INTEREST J. W. Davis Elected Com mander; Address by State Adjutant Wednesday New interest was aroused in the work of the American Legion when Dare County Post held a dinner Wednesday night in the Communi ty building, Manteo. Ralph Swain retiring Commander called for a report from the nominating com mittee, and the following officers were elected unanimously: Lt. James W. Davis USCG Re tired of Wanchese, Post Comman der; Ralph Swain and Ned Ethe ridge of Manteo, Albert O’Neal of Colington, Walter Beecham and Charlie Perry of Kitty Hawk, Vice Commanders; Vernon Gaskill, Wanchese, Adjutant; Earl Green, finance officer; James Vannote, Service Officer. Mr. Vannote who presided at the meeting, presented several visit ors: Pratt Fearing, Pasquotank Service officer; Wm. F. Ainsley, of Hertford, District Vice Com mander; Jerry S. Wright and Tom my Ames of Elizabeth City, past commanders of Seth Perry Post. Steve H. Alford of Elizabeth City, District Service officer was presented, and he introduced Nash McKee, State Adjutant, who de livered an inspiring address on the ideals and purposes of the Legion. About 30 attended, and the meet ing closed with a short address and prayer by Rev. H. R. Ash more, Manteo Methodist Minister. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM TO BE HELD SUNDAY Will Take Place of Usual Worship Service at Engelhard Chris tian Church ENGELHARD.—Instead of the usual worship service, Sunday night at Engelhard ' Christian church, the Sunday school will pre sent a Christmas program. This will be in charge of Mrs. Agnes Etheridge and Mrs. Lola Gibbs, teachers, with all the chil dren taking part. Other teachers are Mrs. Guy Gibbs, Mrs. Freddy Berary and Mrs. Sam Neal, with Ronald Flowers as superintendent. The Rev. F. M. Lilley of Wash ingto is pastor. A tree is to be decorated for the occasion, and there will be gifts for the children. The Christian Women's Fellow ship will have its Christmas party Thursday night of this week at See PROGRAM, Page Five rules. For instance, a notice is issued when C.O.D. packages ar rive. Each notice has a key letter on it to show where the package has been p'aced in the postoffice. If the person to receive the pack age will bring the notice with him. the postal clerk can walk directly to it. Without the notice, he has to search, while other customers wait impatiently in line. Another way to speed work in the postoffice is to put all Christ mas cards in a stack, face up, with the stamps all showing at the upper right hand corner. If the whole stack, with a rubber around it, is handed through the window instead of the cards be ing poked through the slot, one at a time, they are ready to run at a time, they are ready to be cancelled without delay. THEY GOT BAG ENOUGH BUT NO CANVASBACK Nags Head.—During the recent “June in December” weather along the coast many who came to hunt went fishing instead. Some of the wildfowlers changed sports in the middle of the stream, so to speak. Take the case of C. D. Jones and Grady Brown of Hillsboro. They arrived at Nags Head on a Sunday afternoon all primed for some duck shooting in nearby Currituck Sound on the following day. They reached their blind heav ily laden with guns and ammuni tion but it was one of those days when the weather was so calm that ducks stayed well beyond shooting range. Borrowing a rusty lure from their guide, the couple found a cane pole that came drifting by their blind. Rigging the lure to a line and attaching it to the cane pole, they started casting. The r day’s bag was not ducks, but the limit of large mouth bass, a total of eight that weighed up to two pounds each. Another group of hunters had gone goose shooting with Capt. Charlie Perry of Kitty Hawk in the Albemarle-Roanoke Sjund area. By mid-morning the weather had gotten so mild and the geese were keeping so far away from their blinds they decided to go fish ing, using the tackle which Capt. Perry always keeps aboard. When they returned to their Nags Head hotel they had a total of 40 striped bass, averaging four to six pounds each and totaling 200 pounds. The hunter-fishermen which included R. H. Yeatman, W. D. Aud and Antone Auth of Silver Springs, Mr., and F. F. Shoemaker of Washington, D. C., did not kill any geese on that day. MANTEO’S FIRST OPERA BRINGS BIG AUDIENCE # ■ ■ School for Lovers Well Re ceived by Young and Old The introduction of live opera to Manteo, by means of the Grass Roots Opera Company of Raleigh, was termed a success by those sponsoring the performance of Mozart’s “School for Lovers” last Saturday night in the schrool audi torium. The Manteo PTA sponsor ed the entertainment. While the house was not full, there was a good-sized audience and an appreciative one. Both adults and children were there, and the children especially enjoyed the performance. A number of the adults in the audience had seen grand opera as a finished perfor mance in much more elaborate set tings, with full chorus and all the details it is impossible to have outside an opera house; these still enjoyed the Grass Roots presen tation. Other adults, who had never seen opera in any form, werg di vided in opinion. Some few did not care for it; most were delight ed. But the children were all en thuisiastic, and are anxious for another opera to come to Manteo before too long. “School for Lovers” was pre sented in English, as are all the Grass Roots operas. A. J. Fletch er, Raleigh attorney, is at the head of the Grass Roots opera, and Robert C. Byrd is director. Both played roles in “School For Lovers.” Others taking part were Robert Witherspoon, Raleigh ac countant; Nora Sands, Anna Ap plewhite and Deborah Alden. Ai leen Lynn, pianist, was the ac companist. William . Allen and Harry Garland were stage man agers. Following the performance the members of the cos 1 ’.'••ere gue'ts of horor at a nerty given by the Roanoke Island Music Club at the home of the president, Mrs. Ren nie Williamson. TOURIST BUREAU OFFICIALS MEET HERE FRIDAY AM First meeting of the officers and board of directors of the Dare County Tourist Bureau since its organization on October 1, will be held in the Court House at Man teo on Friday morning, December 14 at 11:00 o'clock, it was an nounced today by L. L. Swain, chairman. Purpose of the meeting is to re view the work that has been done in the way of publicizing Dare County during the first eight weeks of the organization’s exis tence. A complete report on the financial status of the organiza tion will be given by David Stick, Secretary-Treasurer, along with his report on theactiv ities of the Tourist Bureau’s manager and news director. Scheduled to be present at this meeting in addition to directors and officers from all parts of Dare County, is William Hardy, general manager of The Lost Colo ny, who is coming down from I Chapel Hill. The Lost Colony is one of the heaviest investors in the Tourist Bureau program. BONNER PAINTS DISMAL PICTURE of OUR SITUATION Congressman Returns From World Tour Viewing Waste and Inef ficiency Foreign aid spending must be continued by the United States in the global fight against the spread of communism, but it can be and must be done cheaper than it is now being done, Herbert Bonner, First District congressman, last week told members of the Wash ington Rotary Club, according to the Daily News. Just back from a trip abroad which took him to 17 foreign countries, Mr. Bonner declared that the United States government has “got to find more economy” in aiding allies in the struggle with communism. Mr. Bonner is chairman of the sub-committee on Inter-Gdvern- i mental relationship of the House I Expenditures committee, which has been conducting a probe into waste and inefficiency in the arm ed forces and in the disposal of I surplus government property. Aid Spending Essential Although results are sometimes disappointing, foreign aid spending is essential, Mr. Bonner declared, pointing out that the free nations are engaged in a death struggle with the “most ungodly hordes on the face of the earth—an ideology in many respects like a religious faith.” “The Communists will stop at nothing; they will stoop to any thing,” he said. Mr. Bonner made these observa tions about nations receiving U. S. aid: (1) Nehru offers no strong lead ership in India to deter the fall of that nation to communism. Recent I wheat shipments from this country did pitifully little, if anything, to help strengthen ties between the two countries. (2) Chiang, Chinese Nationalist leader, is weak. A new leader must rise up in China to defeat the Reds. (3) The British are stinting and working hard in an effort to solve their economic troubles. The task is great there, but so is the deter mination. (4) Most Western European na tions are not doing as much for themselves as is possible. The rich do not bear their share of the bur den of texes, while the poor bear more than they are able to carry. Not Selling America Mr. Bonner said that he was surprised to find that American foreign representatives have not been building as much good will abroad as they should have. He observed that by bragging about American wealth and gifts many peoples have become jealous rather than grateful for U.S. aid. Regarding his work probing waste by the armed forces in the, field of supply and disposal of] surplus property, the First Con gressional congressman said that much can be saved and has been saved as a result of the inouiry of See BONNER, Page Five CHRISTMAS PARTY . The Manteo Rebekah Lodge will hold their annual Christmas party Monday night in the Town Hall. A covered dish supper will be held at 7:30. After the business meeting a Christmas tree, tearol singing and an exchange of gifts will he en-| joyed. Each member is asked to I bring a covered dish and a gift to • exchange. Single Copy 70 EVERYTHING SET FOR CELEBRATION MONDAY, DEC. 17 48th Anniversary of Airplane To Be Observed at First Flight Scene By AYCOCK BROWN Kill Devil Hill.—Here atop Kill Devil Hill at the national monu ment erected to commemorate man’s conquest of the air and the achievement of Wilbur and Or ville Wright the 48th anniversary of the first flight of a powered heavier-than-air plane will be cel ebrated on Monday. The two phase program sponsor ed by Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society in cooperation with the Air Force Association is scheduled to begin at 10 o’clock with music by one of America’s outstanding and most colorful high school bands of Elizabeth City and the appearance of Navy blimps and Coast Guard helicopters. Before the program at the monument ends the nation a most powerful and fastest air craft of the Air Force, Navy and Ma rines will present thrilling flyover exhibitions. The impressive and exciting morning program on Kill Devil Hill will be witnessed by the general public and with favorable weather a record audience will be at the famous shrine to aviation. Due to limited facilities for pre senting a large luncheon, there will be only 125 persons present at the mid-day banquet which fol lows the exercises at Kill Devil Hill. Attendance at the luncheon will be by invitation only as a re sult of no large banquet hall be ing available at Nags Head. Through the cooperation of the Air Force Association arrange ments were made with eight U.S. 1 scheduled inter-continent airlines to fly food from seven foreign countries to provide an interna tional menu for the memorial luncheon which will climax the 148th anniversary observance of the Wright Brothers flight at Kill Devil Hill on December 17, 1903. The Menu The international menu will feature the following select foods (the name of the country from which it came and the airline transporting it is listed): Sliced I Fresh Pineapple, Hawaii, United Air Lines; avocado for salad, Cu ba, National Airlines; salmon steak supreme, Alaska, American I Airlines; Camenbart cheese, France, Trans-World Airlines; and coffee, Brazil, Braniff Airways. The purpose of the internation al menu is to demonstrate in an attractive and appealing manner the far-reaching development of U. S. scheduled air transportation. Rose Petals from Plane The airlines will also contribute to another inspiring phase of the 48th anniversary observance pro gram by flying cartons of rose petals from the west coast for re lease from the air over the Wright Memorial Monument atop the fa mous hill. American Airlines will fly two cartons of rose petals from Los Angeles, California, con tributed by Pasadena's Tourna ment of Roses Association and ,the Pacific Rose Society. United Air Lines will fly rose petals from Portland, Oregon, contributed by the City of Portland. Two wreaths in memory of the Wright Brothers will be present ed by the City of Dayton, Ohio, birthplace of the flyers, and Eliz abeth City. The third wreath will be presented by the people of Man teo. The Dayton wreath will be flown from Dayton to the monu ment by the Dayton Squadron of the Ohio Civil Air Patrol. The Manteo wreath will be placed at the monument from the air by a US Coast Guard helicopter . Flight Might As a climax of the morning pro gram at the monument America’s flight might will be demonstrated by military aircraft of the Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Air Force. A Naval blimp opens the aerial display followed by a “V” formation flight of seven Ma rine F4U fighter planes. Next, a flight of Navy jet fighters will streak across the monument. Air Force fighters, transports, and bombers will then fly a progress | formation, demonstrating the de ivelopments made in these three categories of planes. Among the Air Force fighters will be the fa mous F-47 Thunderbolt, the F-51 Mustang and the F-80 Shooting Star and F-84 Thunderjet, mod ern jet fighters. The transports will range from the C-47 “work horse of the Air Force,” to the huge Douglas C-124 Globemaster 11. Featured among the bombers will be the B-45 jet bomber and the Convair 6-engine B-36 inter continental bomber. |. High ranking officers from the i military service will attend the cer * emonies at the monument and the See CELEBRATION.
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