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VOLUME XVII NO. 35 STICK OUTLINES WRIGHT MUSEUM PLANS PROCESS By AYCOCK BROWN Kill Devil Hills, N. C.—A mu seum to depict the life and accom plishments of Wilbur and Orville Wright is the plan of the commit tee headed by David Stick of Kill Devil Hills under the sponsorship of Kill Devil Hills Memorial So ciety. The museum'planned will be built here at the spot where the Wrights first flew a heavier than air, powered aircraft, on Decem ber 17, 1903. Main discussion at a meeting of the committee held in the offices of National Park Service at Wash ington last week was to study plans for the museum which have been drawn up by government of ficials of the Department of the Interior. In attendance from Dare County was Horace Dough, super intendent of the Wright Memorial National Monument here who ac companied Stick. D. V. Meekins, Manteo publisher, also a member of the committee, who has played a major role in developing plans for the project over a long period, was unable to attend the meeting. Ronald Lee, assistant director of the Department of Interior and a member of ,the committee was represented at the meeting by El bert Cox of the National Park Service. Fred Kelly, authorized biographer of the Wright brothers and a member of the committee, went to Washington from his Ken sington, Md., home and he repre sented Roy Miller of Dayton, Ohio, another member and co-executor! of the Orville Wright estate. Other I committee members at the meeting included Paul Garber, curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s Na tional Air Museum and C. C. Crit tenden, director of the N. C. His tory and Archives Commission. Charles J. Parker, director of the State Advertising Division i n Raleigh was there as personal representative of Governor W. Kerr Scott and Ralph Whitener, who has played an important role in planning for the museum and organizing the Kill Devil Hill So ciety on a national scale, repre sented the Air Force Association. WRECKERS BUSY AS SHIP DECLARED A DERELICT By AYCOCK BROWN Hatteras.—Best fed birds along the coast today are those growing fat off the cargo of unsalvageable wheat aboard the M/V Midget which broke in two during a recent storm off Cape Hatteras. The little ship, flying a Panamanian flag, finally fetched up on the Outer Reef of Portsmouth Island after her crew had abandoned her when it seemed evident that she would sink. Not only the birds but wreckers too have bfeen busy removing any thing possible from the craft. It was reported here that Hatteras fishermen among the first to board the vessel returned with a general cargo of articles including paint, hawsers and cigarettes. Much car go has also been removed by resi dents of nearby Ocracoke, accord ing to reports. The master of the ship reported ly went back aboard the Midget briefly following her stranding to drop the anchor which according to maritime law made the vessel still the property of the owners. If the first wreckers aboard had thought of dropping the anchor, the dere lict would likewise have become their property. Wreckers are after usable sup plies mainly and not the cargo of wheat which was aboard, it was stated by a person who had visited in the vicinity of the ship. As the wheat washes ashore, birds, by the See SHIP, Page Eight DARE COUNTY FOLDER BEING 'PRINTED FOR ’52 By AYCOCK BROWN Under the sponsorshin of the Dare County Tourist Bqreau a new brochure advertising the va cation attractions of the area’s coastland is now being printed. The folder in two colors will have six pages. In addition to an; up-to-date map designating every' of Dare, the new 1952 brochure will carry 25 photographs from various areas of the county. Featured primarily will be the sportsfishing, beaches, historical sites and The Lost Colony. This is the first all-county brochure pub lished for Dare in a number cf years. It advertises no particular establishment or locality on the Dare Coastland but stresses the climate, and vacation advantages of the area as a whole. I Other brochures now being dis tributed by Dare County Tourist Bureau, include North Carolina’s eastern vacation map, Outer Banks brochures and fishing information pamphlets. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA TWIRLING TEACHER | Jci Jk t fS K A ■ ■ ‘WgKg s igF 'JB KgßMwr, With the ocean’s surf as a back drop, Sara Page Jackson of Eliza beth City will conduct her first twirling classes of the 1952 season here on Nags Head in June, it was announced this week. And then, throughout the summer she will be teaching young majorettes the art of baton twirling for one week classes in this and other states. She is nationally famous as a ba ton twirler and has been featured in magazines and press releases throughout the nation. This year will mark, her finale at Wake For est College where she has been chief majorette of the Demon Dea con’s Band during her college ca reer. She learned to twirl in Eliza beth Citj While chief majorette of that city’s famous high school band, and for many summers has conducted twirling classes on the beach here and in towns and cities of the State where there are high school bands. Already she has booked several groups of major ettes for her summer classes. (Aycock Brown Photo) WARREN URGES . CLOSER CHECK ON SPENDING Economy In Government Es sential To Economic Survival Statesville.—Belief, that “affir mative and aggressive action sho”ld be taken to impress upon those who spend the people’s mon ey that it is NOT their money,” is asserted by Hon. Lindsay C. War ren, Comptroller General of the United States, in an article writ ten for publication in a special number of The North Carolina Economy Advocate to be issued by State Secretary Paul Leonard of Statesville in connection with the Fair Tax Association’s campaign to promote public sentiment favor ing nomination and election of economy-minded candidates t o membership in our State and na tional legislative bodies. A “full time course on the subject of ‘The American Taxpayer’ wherever the United States bears the cost of educating or training officers and employees of the Government” is strongly advocated by Mr. Warren in his communication. Warren, a native of North Caro lina and an ardent economy advo cate, served as a member of the General Assembly of his home State and as a member of Con gress from the first district of North Carolina for 16 years before being appointed Comptroller Gen eral eleven years ago. Leonard, who has frequently quoted War ren in speeches, said he asked him to write the special article “be i cause as head of the General Ac . counting Office there is no man in Washington who has rendered more distinctive service to Ameri can taxpayers.” The Warren article reads in part as follows: “With the national debt standing at over a quarter of a trillion dol lars, it is essential to our econom ic survival that the operation of our government be az effective and as econpmieal as possible in the term* of expenditures. One .of tho. prime factors in achieving this ob jective is the re-establishment of the principle that Congress itself must exercise complete control over public expenditures. The leg- See CHECK, P>ge Eight ROANOKE ISLAND GARDEN CLUB PLANS CAMPAIGN Model Mile Along Highway To Be Developed; Dump ing of Waste on Road side Deplored The Roanoke Island Garden Club, holding its February meeting at Seatone, spent most of its busi ness session in a discussion of its two big projects, the Elizabethan Garden and the Model Mile, both of which are to be carried on for a period wf several years. A letter from Mrs. J. M. Tyler, Editor of the North Carolina Gardener, was read to the club. Mrs. Tyler told of the interest the Elizabethan Gar den project was developing, not only in the state of North Carolina, but throughout the United States, and in parts of England. The let ter was written to all of the clubs in North Carolina, but was of special interest to the local club. News that the garden clubs throughout the state had gone for ward generously toward ■ raising SIO,OOO dollars for the develop ment of the garden, raised the question in the Roanoke Island Club as to what could be done lo cally toward starting the clean up of the proposed site. State garden club members will be visiting The Lost Colony all summer with a side interest in the site for the Eliza bethan Garden. The Model Mile project got its r beginning through the appointing £ of a Survey Committee, by the club a president, Mrs. A. W. Drinkwater. , See CAMPAIGN, Page Five s OCRACOKE PTA ’ PRESENTS COMEDY J Youngsters Learn Something of j Old-Time Mischief of Grand- f father’s Day t i Members of the Ocracoke P.T.A. j presented a play on Friday night— j the Village School—proving that < many of the participants have real s dramatic talent. Marvin Howard as , the schoolmaster, Mr. Fuzzy-Wuz- j zy, and Theodore Rondthaler, sing in'g teacher, Mr. HorseGruntle, ex- ( hibited professional dignity only j sometimes diminished by the an- , tics of their thirty adult school t children. The dunce stool and the j paddle were in quite constant use', j and doubtlessly present-day school j children in the audience learned i from their parents several new j ways to annoy their teachers. Ap- j propriate recitations, songs, and costumes added to the success of , the presentation. , The visit of the local school com- i mittee —Capt. Ike O’Neal, Mr. and ] Mrs. Murray Tolson, Mrs. W. Y. , Stewart, and Mrs. Ruby Garrish— brought out old-fashioned cos tumes long since forgotten. Moth- ' ers of three first graders—Mrs. Selma Spencer, Mrs. Calvin O’Neal, and Mrs. Harvey Wahab— bringing their reluctant little ones 1 to school for the time, made a big i hit. Scholars were: first graders— < Kermit Robinson, Bertha O’Neal, 1 Elizabeth G. Howard, Calvin I O’Neal, Virginia Esham, Rebecca 1 Spencer, and Howard Wahad; < third grad e—Monford Garrish, 1 Eph Esham, Ellen Robinson; 1 fourth grade—Thurston Gaskill, i Irvin Garrish, Elizabeth O’Neal < Howard, Harvey Wahab, Iva Gar- | rish; fifth grade—Nora Gaskill, 1 Janice Taylor, Lorena Williams, I Virginia Austin, Lucile Garrish, s Ben Spencer, and Jesse Garrish. < Following the presentation of 1 the play, the group enjoyed an old- i time square dance. Proceeds of the < play go to the P. T. A. treasury. 1 VANNOTE ANNOUNCES LEGION FUND DRIVE , J. M. Vannote, active Legion- ■ naire of Manteo, N. C., has been named chairman for the Legion j Rehabilitation Fund campaign of Dare County, it is announced by Louis Parker, E’izabethtown, De partment Commander and Chair man for the fund drive. The Legion Rehabilitation Fund is appealing for funds in Dare County to support the activity of the American Legion’s rehabilita tion and service work in North Carolina. All funds contributed through this drive will be used exclusively in rendering the services required by disabled veterans, dependent children, widows, orphans and vet erans needing assistance in hand ling claims with the Veteran’s Ad ministration, Parker said. Under the Legion’s Rehabilita tion Program trained men and women devote full time to hand- Jipg veterans’ problems pertaining to compensation, pension, hospi talization, education and training, home «ntk. business loans, burial allowance, insurance and other al lowable benefits. Assistance to See DRIVE, Page- Eight . MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1952 83 YEARS OLD JOHN H. MEEKINS of Colington, celebrated his 83rd birthday at his home on Wednesday, February 13, with his family and friends. He has three children, Mrs. Evelyn Haywood, Mrs. Robanna Toler and John O. Meekins, all of Colington, 12 grandchildren, 8 great grand children. His family and friends wish him many more Happy Birth days. MRS. EVANS PRESIDENT MANTEO WOMAN’S CLUB The Manteo Woman’s Club met Tuesday, February 12, at the Com munity Building. The meeting was called to order by the president and the group gave pledge to the flag, sang the Clubwoman’s Hymn and repeated the club collect. Mrs. Rennie Williamson presented the hymn of the month, “The King of Love My Shephard Is.” Mrs. El mer V. Midgett reported from the North Carolina Clubwoman. The following officers were voted on to serve for 1952-53 being installed at the June meeting: President, Mrs. Dennis Evans; Vice President, Mrs. Francis Meekins; Recording Sec., Miss Bessie Draper; Corre sponding Sec., Miss Norma Bas night; Treasurer, Miss Mollie Fearing. Mrs. Wallace McCown; chairman of the Woman’s Club Scholarship Fund urged all high school seniors who wished to apply for the fund to enter their applications before March 1. Those serving with Mrs. McCown are Mrs. R. S. Smith, Miss Mollie Fearing, Mrs. Rennie Williamson, and Miss Bonnyhel Evans. Applications can be made to any of the committee members. Mrs. L. S. Meekins, Jr., pi'esent ed Rev. H. R. Ashmore, who spoke on “Spiritual Foundations of Hu man Welfare.” During the social hour, Mrs. R. S. Smith and M-s. O. J. Jones served cake and coffee. NEWMAN’S TRIP ' INCLUDES MEXICO Mr. and Mrs. Jess Newman of Nags Head have returned from a five-week motor trip to the West Coast and other points. Returning last Wednesday from their trip, they reported visiting states of Nevada, California, Arizona, and other states on their route. A high light of the trip was a trip down the west peninsula of Mexico, see ing much beautiful scenery, and collecting many sea shells and growths. After returning from the trip down the peninsula, they traveled deep into Mexico proper, and found road conditions poor, at one time spending two days to travel twelve miles, building a road as they went. Poor living conditions were evident, and la borers work for 36 cents a day. On their return east, they passed through Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex., Louisiana, Mississippi, and down into Florida for a few days. “It was cold in Florida,” said Jess. “I took soiqe pictures ofMary col lecting shells, while, wearing a heavy coat.” MANTEO GIRLS WINNERS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT The Manteo girls’ basketball team won first place in the final game of the tournament last Sat urday night, as a good part of the population of Roanoke Island stood by in Central gym to watch them. The final game was played between Manteo and Griggs, the score being 48-34. The Manteo girls’ team has been mentioned by certain sports reporters as one of the best teams in the state. Outstanding team work between Betty Rae Rogers, Marie Etheridge and Carolyn Gas kill, and the defensive play of Carollee O’Neal, Betty Alice Skin ner and Jane Midgett was praised during the entire basketball sea son. The tournament trophy was awarded at the end of the Saturday night game. The sportsmanship trophy for the season was won by the Kitty Hawk girts’ team. VEPCO BEGINS A NEW PROGRAM OF HUGE EXPANSION At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Electric and Power Company held in Rich mond, a construction budget of ap proved for the current year. Ex penditures under this budget will proximately $50,000,000 was ap include approximately $9,650,000 for the new 90,000 kw. addition to the Chesterfield station now under construction for completion in August of this year, and $lO,- 568,000 for the new 90,000 Kw. Portsmouth station at Portsmouth, Va., scheduled for completion in February, 1953, at a cost of ap proximately $20,000,000. Improve ments and extensions to the trans mission network will amount to approximate 1 y $10,645,000, of which approximately $5,200,000 will be spent in the Newport News area where construction work will include a 110 Kv. line from Ches terfield station to Langley Field. Three 6ther new 110 Kv. lines will require the expenditure of approxi mately $2,300,000, one of which will be built to connect service to the cities of Greenville and Wash ington, N. C.; a second will run from Occoquan to Middleburg in the Potomac District of the sys tem, and the third will run from the new Portsmouth station to a substation near Norfolk. An expenditure of $9,950,000 has been approved for improvements to the distribution system and for extensions to new customers. Ap proximately $1,150,000 will be spent for new rural lines to serve approximately 27,000 new rural customers. It is estimated by Vep co that as of January first 95% of the active farms in the Vepco service territory were either be ing served, or had electric power available to them. Vepco is now serving approximately 140,000 ru ral customers including farms and non-farms. I In Norfolk and Newport News, where the company provides Gas service also, approximately $600,- 000 will be spent for Gas (improve ments and extensions to serve new customers. j Other items include aver sl,- 000,000 on the new addition to the general offices in Richniond and numerous smaller construction projects throughout the /system. While the constructidn budget totals about $50,000,000 Jack G. Holtzclaw, president of Vepco, feels that due to the present re strictions on critical materials the amount which will actually be spent this year will undoubtedly I be substantially below the budget ' authorization. While the work on the proposed hydro electric development on the Roanoke River will continue, Mr. Holtzclaw said that the Board of Directors has authorized no spe- cific amount set aside for this con struction during the current year due to the uncertainty of the con struction program. With the completion of the new addition to Chesterfield station during the summer and the con struction of the new Portsmouth station in 1953, the Vepco system will have an installed capacity of nearly 1.000,000 Kw. as compared with 432,000 Kw. at the close of the war. MUSIC CLUB MEETS TUESDAY AT NAGS HEAD Mrs. Julian Oneto Hostess to Group at Her Oceanside Home Mrs. Julian Oneto entertained the Roanoke Island Music Club Tuesday evening at her oceanside home at Nags Head, with Mrs. T. D. Etheridge of Manteo as associ ate hostess. The Hymn of the Month, “The King of Love My Shepher Is,” was featured on the program, and the origin of both words and music was told by Mrs. Rennie William son. Julian Oneto accompanied the members of the club on his guitar in an old-fashioned “sing.” During the social hour the host esses served cherry pie a la mode, coffee and nuts. Guests of the club were Mr. Oneto, Mrs. Raymond Wescott, Miss Helen Mann and little Miss Jo Ann Ballance. CHICAGO VISITORS AT KILL DEVIL HILLS Mrs. George Frank and twin sons, George and Michael, of The Edgewater at Kill Devil Hills, have returned from a visit to Chicago. They were accompanied by Mrs. Frank’s father, George Brier, and het aunt. Miss Anna Bengston, both of Chicago. Mr. Frank is re cuperating from an attack of virus pneumonia which confined him to his home for several days. STUMPY PT. SOLDIER GETS IST CLASS RANK din Marine Private First Class Rog er V. Best, 17, son of Mr. ,Guy V. Best of Stumpy Point, N. C., was promoted to his present rank when he was graduated from “Boot Camp” Feb. 12. He climaxed his recruit training by winning the marksman medal on the rifle range when he fired a score of 211 out of a possible 250 during his weapons training . During the past eight weeks of recruit training, as a result of field experience and classroom lec tures, the new Marine has become versed in such military subjects as precision drill, first aid, hygiene, and field tactics. In addition to firing the famed Garand rifle for qualification, he fired other infan try weapons such as the .45 cali bre pistol, carbine and Browning Automatic Rifle. He also witnessed demonstration firing of the ma chine gun, mortar and flame thrower. He entered the Marine Corps on Dec. 5, 1951. He was a recent em ploye of Cahoon’s Esso Serivce Station as a lubricator. The last school he attended was Stumpy Point. FLYING METEOR SEEN PLAINLY IN COASTLAND Seemed Very Near to Every f one Who Saw It; Phe nomena Not Unusual In Region. / The meteor which streaked a cross the sky Monday like a ball of fire, and widely reported in East ern North Carolina and Virginia, was witnessed by several people in Hyde and Beaufort Counties. Mrs. George Riddick of Belhav en and Mrs. Clyde Pilley of Terra Ceia were among those who saw this strange phenomena plunging toward earth. The glowing object, believed a meteor, flashed through a blue noonday sky over Eastern Virginia and North Carolina and the Coast Guard said it probably burned itself out over the Great Dismal Swamp. A search, started when residents at Suffolk, Va., reported an “ex ploding noise” and whooshing sound, was called off as the Coast Guard said any further search efforts would be useless. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration at Raleigh discounted near ly a dozen reports of plane crashes iin North Carolina alone and said the object “probably was a meteor.” Coast Guard and weather bureau officials said if any pieces did fall they probably were buried in the muck of the swamp. Reports of the bright, flashing object, visible only for a few sec onds, were received from observ ers is three states. It was sighted over an area from the Atlantic coast of Virginia to Winston-Salem and Charlotte, N. C., and as far south as Charleston, S. C. Two observers in the CAA tower at Raleigh-Durham airport were among hundreds who saw the strange object and described it. ‘‘My first impression was that some aircraft had fired a rocket, but it must have been a meteor,” J. M. Bearden, a CAA observer, said. (Phyllis McKeithan, seventh grade student at Raleigh’s Thomp son School, reported seeing the large meteor shortly before noon. Early last night, another meteor was reported as flashing across the eastern sky, travelling north to south over Longview Gardens.) CAA Safety Inspector Hamilton Gowin of Richmond, Va., said he saw a “silvery, cigar-shaped ob ject” hurtling toward the earth as he was flying over Hanover, Va., about 15 miles north of Richmond. He said he was tpo far away to determine what it'was but said it was traveling at “tremendous speed” in an almost vertical line. Highway Patrolman C. R. Kirk man of Salisbury, N. C., reported he chased a trail of ?moke in the vicinity of High Rock Dam east of Salisbury thinking it was a burn . ing plane. About 11:30 a. m., highway pa- See METEOR, Page Eight Single Copy 70 MARCH OF DIMES FUNDS INCREASED AS DRIVE ENDS Several Communities Not Yet Heard From; Approxi mately S7OO Turned In The 1952 March of Dimes came to a close on February 16, with a total of approximately S7O turned in to Mrs. Balfour Baum, county chairman. Mrs. Baum stated the first of this week that aMnteo and Wanchese returns were still incomplete, and that sums raised by members of the armed forces are yet to be included. Amounts not included in pre vious reports are as follows: Kitty Hawk, $94.94; Salvo, $7.00; Ma shoes, $12.70; Duck, $8.00; Manns Harbor, $80.00; Stumpy Point, $13.00; Manteo colored district, $38.55. Agatha Gray was head of the drive in the colored section. House-to-house canvassing i n Manteo last week end brought in approximately $15.00. The drive has officially, ended, but any con tributions will still be welcomed. FLIERS FINDING ATTRACTIONS ON OUR COAST Florida-Bound Air Travelers Offer New Business Prospects There’s a lot of new business available to many points on the North Carolina coast by catering to vacations traveling by private plane between New York and Florida, if we get on our toes, thinks Silvi Speroni, New York businessman, who was a visitor at Manteo Airport Monday, and who with Charles Moebus, his friend and pilot, stopped over in Belhav en, at River Forest Manor for the night. It was possible for them to stop in Belhaven because their See Bee amphibian plane could land in the river, and tie up on the. shore in front of the hotel. They left New York Monday at 10 o’clock. They stopped at Chin coteague, Va., before arriving at Manteo where they refueled the plane. They swung off their course to visit Manteo for gas because it had been recommended them by Carl Evers, operator of a small seaplane base in Pelham Bay, New York, who had been impressed with recent publicity for the Manteo Airport. They too, said Manteo had a wonderful airport, and suggested that private fliers be informed about it. Everyone is looking for a new place to visit, and it would be possible to attract many of the North and Southbound private fliers to stop over for a day, even if they do have to swing off their usual course. Monday’s visitors have been visiting Florida by plane for the part six years. MANTEO PTA OBSERVES ANNUAL FOUNDERS DAY March Meeting To Be Held At Night; Attendance Prize For Room With Most Fathers Present The Manteo Parent-Teacher As sociation observed Founders Day at its February meeting in the school auditorium. A program in observance of the occasion was presented by Mrs. H. K. Tugwell, those participating being Mrs. Sheldon O’Neal, Mrs. Wilford Wise, Mrs. Edwin Midgett, Mrs. Caleb Brickhouse, Mrs. G. G. Bon ner and Mrs. Robert Ballance. The group voted to hold the March meeting on the first Tues day night of next month, which will be March 4, at eight o’clock, and an effort is to be made to get a large number of fathers to at tend. The attendance prize will go to the room having the most fa thers present. A social hour will be enjoyed after the meeting. The social hour following the Founders Day program featured birthday cakes with candles, punch, mints and nuts, served from a table covered with a white linen ! cloth and centered with an ar ■ rangement of camellias and fem, with flanking candelabra holding i lighted white candles. Hostesses , were Mrs. A. Q. Bell. Mrs. D. A. . Rogers, Mrs. Allen Mann and Mrs. i Robert Ballance. t i~ ~ ~ THE SAM TILLETTS TAKE - A VACATION IN FLORIDA 1 Mr. Sind Mrs. Sam Tillett of t Nags Head returned Sunday from -a week’s vacation in Florida, spending a good while in Miami. - The trip consumed about 2500 miles of driving.
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