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VOLUME XVII NO. 49 MAJOR AL WILLIAMS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER at DRISKILL CEREMONY AT MANTEO AIRPORT TODAY Ceremony Will Begin at 2:30 P. M., Melvin R. Daniels, Mas ter of Ceremonies, Announces; Many Distinguished Visi tors Coming; Including Numerous Visiting Airmen. Major Al Williams of Elizabeth City has accepted the invitation to make the address at the exer cises in memory of the late John David Driskill at the Manteo Air port Friday, May 30, at 2:30 p. m., recording to announcement made by Melvin R. Daniels, Master of Ceremonies and chairman of the :ommittee which made arrange •nents for the unveiling of the nemorial tablet. , ' “I am glad that we will have the Measure of hearing Major Wil iams,” Mr. Daniels said. ‘‘For nany years during his active ca •eer, he was famed as one of the foremost precision flyers of all :ime. He was a major in the Ma ’ine Corp, and is now retired to i beautiful farm near Elizabeth City. He was a long time friend >f Mr. Driskill. Mr. Daniels states also that T. K. Basnight, Jr., Chief Air Traffic Controller of the Washington Na tional Airport, and his brother, “apt Arvin O. Basnight of CAA Washington, D. C., will appear vith others to pay tribute to Mr. Iriskill. Eugene C. Marlin of the ’atrick Henry Airport, Newport 'Jews will lead a flight club to vlanteo Friday, and another large light group will come from Pitts »urg’s Aero Club. The music for the occasion will >e furnished by the Manteo High school Glee Club, L. W. Huggins, director. The songs will be the Air Corp ong and America, the Beautiful. Leading the list of special guests rill be Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Dris :ill of Knoxville, Tenn., parents f the late flier. Others include: J. A. Barnett, Vice President of he Kellogg Aircraft Corp, of Camden, N. J., for whom Mr. Dris ;ill was chief test pilot at the time f his death.; Dr. C. C. Critten en, Director State Department Archives and History; W. W. Ly ns, Manager Norfolk Airport; lomander William H. Snyder US JG, Boston, Mass. The invocation will be by Rev. J. W. Guthrie, and the benedic ion by Rev. H. R. Ashmore, Meth dist pastors of Wanchese and danteo, respectively. See CEREMONY, Page Four )LIVE SAYS HE’LL «JAME FISHERMAN )N THE BOARD Raleigh.—Hubert E. Olive de lared today that as Governor he rnuld apoint a commercial fisher nan to the State Board of Con ervation and Development. “It is unthinkable to me at the resent time the thousands of com lercial fishermen in North Caro na do not have a single member I f their group on the board,” Olive ommented. ‘‘We have the astonishing situ tion of a State agency attempt ng to protect and regulate a major ndustry without having a repre entative of that industry on the Soard.” Olive’s comment followed news eports that two shrimpers drown d in the Neuse River while shrim ing at night. The Board of Con ervation and Development pro fited day-time shrimping in State waters, and leaders in the ishing industry resentfully point ut that the tragedy might have een avoided had the shrimpers een permitted to pursue their velihood during daylight hours. ‘‘l’m going to put a commercial isherman on the Board just as oon as possible after I become Governor,” Olive declared emphat ?ally. ‘ It’s a crying shame that hey do not have representation ow.” Olive pointed out that the fish ries committee of the Board Jias ive members, none of which live rithin hollering distance of a com lercial fisherman except Fred .atham of Belhaven, and Latham j known as a farmer. The committee is headed by Mrs. toland McClamroch of Senlac <ane, Chapel Hill, which is a far iece from Salt Water. Other nembers of the committee are Iharles H. Jenkins of Ahoskie, lharles S. Allen of Durham and >r. C. Sylvester Green of Chapel Ull. None ever fished for a living. “Some of these people might go ishng for sport once in a while,” aid Olive, who is a devotee of >ass fishing, “but what they ac tually know about commercial ishing could be written on a clam hell. 1 know they are doing the >est they, can, but they need at east one commercial fisherman in he bunch. I’m going to put one THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA 33,000 VOLT LINE ’ GOES IN SERVICE W’N’SDAY NIGHT Ample Power Now Provided Dare Beaches; Line Be ing Constructed to Corolla The Virginia Electric & Power Compahy’s new line through the Currituck peninsula down to Kit ty Hawk went into service at mid night Wednesday. It carries 33,- 000 volts and was recently com pleted at a cost of $300,000. Meantime the company is push ing construction of a power line northward to Corolla and is mak ing plans for early building of a line to Oregon Inlet. The new line put into service this week will now assure Nags Head and vicinity an ample sup ply of current, which was not pos sible with the old line, even with the emergency plant at Kitty Hawk in operation. SUMMER SEASON IN FULL SWING ON DARE COAST Heavy Bookings By Vacationists On Memorial Day Week End By AYCOCK BROWN Whether the weather is fair or foul, Memorial Day weekend of 1952 will result in more persons visiting the Dare coast beaches, than ever before. This was the prediction of hotel, inn and motor court operators here on Wednesday when already the influx of vaca tionists out to make the most of a long weekend were arriving in the Nags Head to Kitty Hawk beach area. Memorial Day marks he open ing of Hotel Wilbur Wright at Kill Devil Hills, the largest hos telry on the Dare beaches. All other hotels, inns and motor courts have been opening since late March when the first channel bass hit at Oregon Inlet. All amuse ment centers operating only on weekends during the Spring will open daily from now until mid autumn. , Fishing piers have been open daily since early May. Thousands of persons have been enjoying the fishing from the piers each week with the greatest throngs on the weekends during May. Also open are the concession stands, the night clubs and other attractions that one seeks when they want a seaside vacation. This year on Memorial Day weekend, Hatteras Island will also have its largest influx of vaca tionists. The paved road to Hat teras is nearing completion. Many drive over the route each day, des pite a few rugged miles yet to be paved near Rodanthe. MANTEO WOMAN SINGS SUNDAY IN GREENSBORO Marjalene Thomas Will Be So prano Soloist in “Passion According to St. Mat- thew” Mrs. Harry (Marjalene) Thom as of Manteo win be featured as Soprano soloist Sunday evening, June 1, in a performance of Bach’s “Passion According to St. Mat thew,” which will be presented in the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro by the Guilford Col lege Comunity Chorus. Norman Cordon, former Metropolitan Op era bass, will be one of the soloists. Other soloists will be Paul Berry of Greensboro, tenor; Beatrice Donley, contralto, who teaches at Meredith College in Raleigh; and Richard Spencer, bass, who teaches at Summerfield. Austin Lovelace, minister of music in the host church, will be at the organ. See SINGER, Page Eight WILL H. BARNETT VISITS HATTERAS AFTER 20 YRS. William H. Barnett, -Retired Coast Guard Commander, and former resident of Frisco, where he was for sometime in command of Creeds Hill Coast Guard Sta tion, returned this week to his old home after an absence of 20 years. He noted many changes on Hat teras Island. In Manteo he looked up old friends before driving on to Wilmington Wednesday. He has been retired for several years and his address is now Route 2, Box 213, Wilmington, N. C. He was accompanied by his wife, and his sister, Mrs. Mary Dußois of Paq tucket, Rhode Island. WIN HIGH SCHOLASTIC HONORS ' v?Wii fc. *• > ' . ' - is li|f ■ BETTY RAE ROGERS, left and KATIE HASSELL, right, won top scholastic honors in the 1952 sen ior class of Manteo High School. Betty Rae delivered the valdictory and Katie the salutatory address on Thursday evening, May 29, when the class presented its Class Day program. Doreen Midgett of last year’s graduating class, as sisted them by taking part in the program. The Last Will and Testa ment and the Prophecy were exe cuted by Betty Alice Skinner, Lou Tillett, Mafie Etheridge, Jerry Ca hoon, Jerry Daniels, William Dan iels, Wade Nixon, D. A. Rogers, Sally Alford, Wanda Burrus, Joyce Stetson and Shirley Daniels. The Class History was presented most interestingly by all members of the class. Gifts to the Seniors were presented by Ray Jones, Jr., and Carlisle Davis of the Junior class. On Friday morning the eighth grade, under the direction of Miss Esther Wynne, will hold exercises at 10 o’clock. Following the proces sional, the invocation will be pro nounced by Rev. D. B. Lawrence, he class will sing “Till We Meet Again.” In additions to the Sen iors, papers as follows will be JUDGE TO RULE ON DeFEBIO CASE JUNE 9 The appeal of a custody case in which the DeFebio children had been declared wards of the state was heard Thursday. The appeal was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeFebio, formerly of Washington. Their children, 10- year-old Theo and four-year-old Dominick, were placed in custody of the Dare County Welfare De partment, May 21, 1951. That was after DeFebio had refused to send Theo to school and spent 30 days in jail for violating the North Carolina compulsory school atten dance law. Dare County juvenile court de nied a motion by Mr. and Mrs. De- Febio Aug. 24, 1951, which would have modified the custody ruling. The hearing in Manteo this week was ap appeal from the juvenile court denial. Judge Clawson L. Williams indi cated that he would rule oh the See DeFEBIO, Page Eight DARE’S LIBRARY NEEDS MORE ROOM ML 11 iff j | u ®I or oo t Dare County’s Library, said to be one of the outstanding small town libraries of America, has outgrown its quarters in the Community Building here. This photo, made last week, shows hundreds of volumes for which there are no shelves. To keep the library modern and up to date, approximately 1,000 new books have been added annually during recent years. About 1,000 books are loaned each month from the main library here in Manteo and another 2,000 are loaned from the Bookmobile. The situation has created a perplexing problem for Mrs. Georgia Harwood, the Librarian who has made Dare Library so outstanding. There is only one thing that will solve the problem and that would be additional space, which is not available in the Community Building. Manteo and Dare County needs a library building of a size adequate to house the valuable 15,000 or more volumes and to have reading and reference rooms. (Photo by Aycock Brown) ‘ . MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1952 ■■ read: “The Dismal Swamp,” Carl Hayes; “Wild Life,” Tommie Biggs; “Schools of Today,” Billy Tugwell; “Facts”, Davis Ballance. Wallace H. McCown, Manteo At torney, is to be guest sptaker, and following his address wlil present certificates to the students. The program ends with the singing of the school song, which was written by Principal Huggins. The Seniors were entertained by their mothers Wednesday evening at a dinner at the Hotel Parke’r son, Nags Head. Mrs. D. A. Rog ers, mother of Betty Rae Rogers, was hostess at a party after the Thursday night program. Mrs. H. S. Ward, high school faculty mem ber, will entertain the class on Friday. On Friday evening, May 30, di plomas will be awarded by Princi pal L. W. Huggins, following an address by J. H. Rose, superinten dent of the Greenville, N. C., city schools. Members of the graduat ing class are Jane Midgett, Mazie Tillett, Loretta Midgett, Katie Hassell, Iva Ambrose, Imogene Finch, Tracy Midgett, Betty Rae Rogers, Jackie Forehand, Reba Daniels, Hudean O’Neal, Tony Gibbs, Marvin Forbes, Carolyn Gaskill and MaXfne Russell. THREE ANGLERS LAND 171 BLUES OFF OREGON INLET Nags Head, N. C. —Best catch of bluefish made by anglers fishing out of Oregon Inlet so far this season was brought into the new fishing center at Oregon Inlet on Tuesday. A. S. Jernigan, D. A. Jernigan and E. B. Brittingham of Norfolk, Va., using nylon lures trolled in the wake of Capt Omie Tillett’s Jerry, Jr., landed 171 blues. They ranged from one to two pounds. Choppy Seas offshore prevented several boats from going to the Gulf Stream this week. One party aboard Capt. Dan Lewark’s, Rita, caught a few dolphin near Dia mond Shoals. No other large catch es of Gulf Stream fish had been reported by mid-week. Hundreds of persons have made reservations to fish for blues or Gulf Stream species along the See ANGLERS, Page Eight FOUR DAY COURT IN DARE HANDLES NUMEROUS CASES Judge Clawson Williams Presides Over Term; Finishes Business Thursday The court term in Dare County which began Monday wound up Thursday*evening after having dis posed of many cases and ended a busy week. Judge Clawson Wil liams of Sanford presided. David E. Worsley of Rocky Mount, tried for the second time on a drunken driving charge, was found guilty after five hours of deliberation by the jury, and fined $l5O and costs. Last year a jury disagreed. Ethel H. Crampton of Kitty Hawk, on the same charge, which had been continued for nearly two years, tendered a plea of reckless driving and paid a fine of SSO and costs. Her plea was accepted be cause the patrolmen on duty at the time, could not be located for this term of court. Curtis Mann of Manns Harbor, who was under prayer for judge ment from last years court to re pay a worthless check given Fields Fish Co. in the amount of $2,250 and costs had failed to comply. The court continued prayer for judgement on payment of SBSO. The case of Earl Quidley, who had appealed from a court order to pay his former wife and child S3O per month, was remanded to Re corder’s Court. The first order was See COURT, Page Eight WM. A. OWENS, 43, DIED SUDDENLY SUNDAY Popular Salesman, and Resident of Wanchese, Was Native of Columbia Funeral services for Wm. A. Owens, 43 who died suddenly Sun day afternoon were conducted Tuesday at 3 p. m. in the Wanchese Methodist Church, Rev. C. W. Guthrie officiating, and Masonic rites at the graveside in Tillett cemetery, Wanchese. The body lay in state one hour before the serv ice. He was in his garden Sunday afternoon, and came to the house saying an insect had bit him on his leg. Shortly afterward he com plained of nausea and pain, and Twiford’s Ambulance was called to take him to Dr. Wright in Cur rituck, and he died shortly before reaching the Doctor’s office. Death was pronounced due to poisoning believed to be a “Black Widow” bite. He had resided on Roanoke Is land 37 years, and was the hus band of Mrs. Iva Tillett Owens, and the son of the late Henry and Elizabeth Weatherly Owens. He is survived by two children, Wm. Conrad and and Myrna Kay, by one brother, Zack Owens of Nor folk and one sister, Mrs. Joe Swindell of Wanchese. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Methodist church; was highly regarded as a citizen, and had been employed for many years by G. T. Westcott. MILLION DOLLAR MUSEUM IN MEMORY OF WRIGHTS IS DREAM FOR KILL DEVIL HILLS Committee Meeting in Raleigh Considers Ways and Means Tuesday to Provide Addi tion to Shrine at the Birthplace of Avia tion; Construction Planned During 1953. EAST CAROLINA COLLEGE GRADUATE ■Br FT ■<■ ./ & f ' -f jraii . ...... MISS JEANNETTE TILLETT of Kitty Hawk, who graduated on May 19 from East Carolina Col lege, Greenville, with the Bachelor of Science degree in Primary Edu cation. Miss Tillett was accorded the honor of being May Queen in the 1952 May Day festivities at the college. She has been listed in the 1952 edition of “American College Student Leaders.” She plans to teach in the primary grades in Elizabeth City, starting in Septem ber. Miss Tillett is the daughter of. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Tillett of Kitty Hawk. JEPP HARRIS IS FAVORED WITH MANY HONORS Popular Coast Guard of Kill Devil Hills Feted at Croa tan Wednesday Thos. Jefferson Harris, Chief Boatswain’s Mate, U. S. Coast Guard, is retiring after 28 years of service. Wednesday night, some 75 old neighbors, comrades and other friends gave him a testimon ial dinner at the Croatan at Kill Devil Hills. Hon. Lindsay C. War ren was toastmaster. Friends from the village of Kit ty Hawk, his home community, numbered most of the 65 people present. Many of them were re tired veterans of long service in the Uoast Guard. And there were Admirals and prominent Govern ment officials present. Mr. Warren paid high tribute to the character, integrity and cour age of Jepp Harris, and read a highly complimentary letter from Admiral Merlin 9’Meial, Comman dant of the Coast Guard» Herbert C. Bonner, Congressman from the First District, spoke. Many splen did gifts were presented Mr. Har ris, not only by his comrades, but by numerous friends in Washing ton, D. C., with whom he has fish ed for many years at Oregon In let. Among those presented at the dinner were Sheldon O’Neal, who will succeed Mr. Harris in com mand of Kill Devil Hills Station; Col. George Combs of the Balti more Sun; E. L. Fisher and Don ald M. Dudley of the General Ac counting office; Judge Donnel Gil liam and Marshall Ford Worthy of the U. S. Federal Court; Admi rals K. K. Cowart and James Hnsehfield and Captain J. C. Wendland of the U. S. Coast Guard, and A. W. Drinkwater. Songs were sung by the Rotary Quartet of Manteo:*Dick Jordan, Lawrence and Ralph Swain, and Julian Oneto. See HARRIS, Page Four HOME CLUBS TO FEED DARE COUNTY BOARD The Manteo and Wanchese Home Demonstration Clubs are planning to entertain the county commissioner? at a covered dish luncheon Tuesday, June 3 at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Building in Manteo. All members are urged to attend, according to Miss Mary Kirby, home agent. After the luncheon at 2:30 pan. the 4-H County Dress Revue will be held. 4-H girls .entering the contest are asked to meet at the Community Building at 2:45 p.m. Single Copy 70 RALEIGH, May 28.—Plans were shaped here yesterday for the erection of a $1,000,000 Wright brothers memorial museum ott windswept Kill Devil Hill. A group of aviation leaders, ar chivists and North Carolinians reached agreement on the prelim inary details at a meeting with Governor Scott. The Governor, honorary chair man of the organization commit tee, said the group hopes to com plete the museum by December 17, 1953, the day on which the world will celebrate the 50th an niversary of the Wright brothers’ historic flight. Committee Picked ' A comimittee headed by David Stick of Kill Devil Hill was ap pointed by the Governor to push arrangements for financing the museum. The funds would be rais ed by the aviation industry and from private contributors, with the National Park Service co-op erating in the construction and maintenance of the building. The committee was named the “Wright Memorial Committee of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial So ciety.’' Brig. Gen. Frank P. Lahr the society. Miles Clark of Eliza of Mansfield, 0., is president of beth City is chairman of the board. Committee members include: Adm. DeWitt C. Ramsay, presi dent of Aircraft Industries Asso ciation of Washington, D. C., Paul Edward Garber, curator of the Na tional Air Museum of Washington, D. C., Merrill G. Meiga, vice pres ident ,of Hearst Corporation of Chicago, 111., T. H. Davis, president of Piedmont Airlines of Winston- Salem; Fred C. Kelly, official bio grapher of the Wright brothers of Kesington, Md.; Ronald F. Lee, assistant director of the National Park Service of Washington, D. C.; Ralph Whitener, organizational director of the Air Force Asso ciation of Washington, D. C;’ Dr. C. C. Crittenden, director of Ar chives and History, and D. Victor Meekins of Manteo. Landing Field Planned The museum will be located near the spot from which Orville and Wilbur Wright made the world’s first flight in a heavier-than-air craft, a spot now marked by the present Wright Memorial. It will house scale models of gliders and other aircraft built by the Wright brothers, and the workshop and hanger used by them will be re constructed. The plans also call for a landing field for light planes. Admiral Ramsay, Lee and Whit ener were appointed members of an executive committee to draft pilot plans for raising needed funds. After the meeting, the group lunched at the Governor’s Man sion with Kay Kyser and Control ler William D. Carmichael of the University of North Carolina. The new film, “The Lost Colony,” was exhibited. The committee said in a state ment that the museum would ac quaint Kill Devil Hill visitors with the “fact” that the Wright broth ers were “scientists rather than thrill-seeking adventurers.’ “... They first studied all avail able information regarding flight, carefully double checked what they had read, and then,” the committee said, “in many cases found it necessary to discard what had heretofore been accepted as basic principles of flight, and conducted completely new experiments of their own.” “AU this,” the committee claim ed, ‘‘needs to be depicted visually, and more; for even today the av erage visitor to the Wright Mem orial doesn’t seem to be aware See MUSEUM, Page Eight A $25,000 LOAN FOR LIGHTS AT OCRACOKE Ocracoke Island people are to have the advantage of another $25,000 for improvement to their electric system, according to Con gressman Herbert Bonner. Mr. Bonner advises that he has received the following message Rural Elertrification Administra tion: “A loan for the amount of $25,- 000 has been approved for the Ocracoke Electrinc Membership Corporation to be used to finance the installation on members prem ises of wiring and plumbing fix tures and various electrical ap pliances.
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