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VOLUME XVIII NO. 9 LOST COLONY IN FINAL WEEK ON ROANOKE ISLAND America’s longest-lived and original outdoor symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, will present the final performance of the 1952 season in Waterside Theatre on Sunday night, August 31. The finale this year will mark the 592nd performance of The Lost Colony since its premiere here on July 4, 1937, and during the years approximately 600,000 persons have seen the show which tells of America’s beginning in isong, dance, pantomine and the spoken word. While all seats were reserved this year, attendance will be only a small number short of last sea son. Not counted the paid admis sions now nearing 45,000 for the current season are several thous and school children, students of North Carolina history, who have seen the drama as guests of Roa noe Island Historical Association, Inc., sponsors. In addition about 1,500 4-H Club members from all parts of the state and many other groups such as Boy Scouts, Sun day school classes and others have seen the show at special group admission rates. Officials in charge of The Lost Colony’s free parking lot op posite the entrance to Fort Ra leigh have reported that cars from every state and many of the ter ritories and foreign countries have brought persons to see the show See PAGEANT, Page Eight LOST COLONY CHORUS IN CONCERT SUNDAY Mixed Program In Manteo School Auditorium at Four O’clock The Lost Colony Chorus, which is a part of the Roanoke Island School of Fine Arts, will be pre sented in an interesting program of sacred and secular numbers including a number of spirituals, -on Sunday afternoon, August 31, at four o’clock in the Manteo School auditorium. The public is invited to attend. A nominal ad mission will be charged, proceeds to go to the fund for Music in Veterans Hospitals. The chorus, which consists of members of the Lost Colony choir and others enrolled in the Roanoke Island School of Fine Arts, will be conducted by Ralph Burrier, di rector of music for the Lost Col ony. Accompanists will be Franz Engle, James Hart and Helen Reit meyer. AIR MAIL SOCIETY TO VISIT DARE ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 Kill Devil Hills.—ln commemo ration of the issuance of the new United National Air Mail stamp, •members of the American Air Mail Society headed by Admiral Jesse G. Johnson, its president, will meet atop Kill Devil Hills on Sunday afternoon for a brief cere mony which will feature an ad dress by George Kingdom. Kingdom is an attorney of Con neant, Ohio, and a member of the Air Mail Society. The ceremonies at the monument are scheduled for 3 o’clock. David Stick of Kill Devil Hills, chairman of the Museum Commit tee of Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society, is scheduled to speak briefly on the progress that has been made in the creation of a Wright Museum for the monument area. Following the ceremonies at the monument, to'Which the public has been invited, the group, expected to number about 50 persons, will visit the fishing centers to see the ; catches of the day and then as semble at Dare County Shrine Club for a buffet supper, accord ing to announcements made by Admiral Johnson. Following the gathering at the Shrine Club, many of the members are planning to attend the 12th season finale of Paul Green’s symphonic drama The Lost Colony, which will be presented on Sunday night. AGED WANCHESE WOMAN DIES WEDNESDAY NIGHT Mrs. Rebecca Meekins Payne, 71, native of Rodanthe, and widow of the late Joseph Farrow Payne, for many years a resident of Wan chese, died at the home of a niece, Mrs. Folger Payne of Wanchese, Wednesday night at 9:20. She was the daughter of the late J. K. and Celia Meekins of Rodanthe, and was a member of the Fair Haven Methodist Church, Rodan the . Funeral services will be conduct ed- Saturday afternoon by Rev. D. B. Lawrence, pastor of the Assem bly of God Church, at 2:30 o’clock and burial will be in the Garrison Cemetery. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAIRMAN SIX-COUNTY BRIDGE COMMITTEE Ife DR. W. T. RALPH, Mayor of Bel haven, was named chairman of committee of ten from six eastern counties to seek the bridging of Alligator River and Croatan Sound, when 25 people from these counties met at Columbia Tues day. The meeting was called by C. Wallace Tatem of Columbia, president of the Southern Albe-i marie Association, and was at tended by members of his execu tive committee and of the Alli gator-Croatan Bridge Association. Appointed on this committee were the following: Beaufort County, Dr.' Ralph of Belhaven and Mrs. Scott Topping of Pantego; P. D. Midgett and Leon O’Neal of Hyde; W. J. White and Floyd E. Cohoon of Tyrrell; L. L. Swain and D. V. Meekins of Dare; Washington County: W. J. Woolard and Wade Hardison; Martin County: Hugh Horton and H. L. Swain. This committee was charged with task of pursuing methods to get bridges built by the State of North Caro lina. DARE SCHOOLS OPEN WEDN’SDAY NEXT WEEK On September 3, 1952, at njne o’clock in the school auditorium, the Manteo High School will of ficially begin its 1952-53 school year. There will be a short pro gram. All friends of the school are cordially invited to attend. The principal, A. O. Ayres, will observe the following hours in the school building for the two weeks prior to the opening of school: 9:00 to 12:00 and 1,00 to 3:30, Monday through Friday. He will be glad to confer with par ents and students who wish to see him. On Saturday, August 30, the Senior Class is requested to call at the school building from 8:00 to 12:00 for the purpose of regis tration for the coming year. On Monday, September 1, the 10th and 11th grades are requested to register. The principal and the high school teachers will confer with the students, consult their past records, and make recom mendations for the courses to be taken during the coming year. Students.having credit for 4 units of work are classified as sopho mores; those with 7 units as juniors; and those with 11 units as seniors. This system of classi fication is a new ruling of the Board of Education. FORMER DRAFT BD. MEMBER RECEIVES THANKS OF CHIEF V. G. Williams of Wanchese, who resigned July 14 as a mem ber of the Dare County Draft Board, has been replaced by Guy Mann of Manns Harbor. Mr. Wil liams, who agreed at the State Director’s request, stayed on un til August 20, has received a note of thanks from Col. Thos. H. Upton, State Director of Selective Service, as follows: “We thank you for the services you have rendered to the Select ive Service System and particu larly for your consideration in allowing us to hold in abeyance our action on your resignation until a replacement could be se cured.” Mr. Williams resigned because of the press of other duties. He travels for Quinn Furniture Store of Manteo. The draft board now consists of John E. Ferebee and Warren O’Neal of Manteo, and Guy Mann of Manns Harbor. CANCER CLINIC The next cancer clinic will be held in Elizabeth City, Friday, Sept. sth at 2 p.m. at the health department, according to Mrs. W. A. Hoggard, Jr., Pasquotank County Commander the American Cancer Society. VACATIONS NOW GROW POPULAR IN DARE IN AUTUMN By AYCOCK BROWN There was a time when Labor Day marked the end of vacation time at coastal resorts, but today, with the once three months sea son greatly increased the end of summer means the beginning of an autumn vacation period which will extend through October and into November here oh the coast of Dare County. Hotels and other vacation fa cilities which in the old days closed for the season on Labor Day, will remain open until Oc tober and many will be open for the reception of guests through out the winter as they, or many of the hotels and motor courts, now remain open the year around. Autumn brings a different type of vacationist to the Dare coast. There are fewer children and students than in the summer, but the months of September and October bring in older persons coming to relax, or sportsmen who come to match their skill against the game fishes which are available in coastal waters of Dare. I This year, too, emphasis is be ing placed on the “coastal color parade’’ which many persons think outclass the color of the mountains. Here in coastal forests the leaves of hardwoods will merge with the evergreen pibes in coastal forests. Autumn, too, presents a more colorful array of maritime color, the various hues of ocean and sound waters, the bluer sky and more clouds pro viding backdrops for colorful and ever changing marshlands, sand dunes, and miles of glistening ocean beaches and the surf. Biggest of the new Dare coast attractions for tourists this year will be Hatteras Island and its seven fascinating villages. This year for the first time it is pos sible to drive over a new paved road from Nags Head southward through the island villages to the town of Hatteras. It is one of the most unusual oceanside drives in the world. Fort Raleigh National Historic site on Roanoke Island and the Wright Brothers National Monu ment on Kill Devil Hills, both units of the National Park Serv ice, will be open for the recep tion of tourists and vacationists throughout the autumn and win ter, and already this year attend ance at the two historic shrines have broken all previous records. Vacation travel to the Dare coast beaches between Kitty Hawk and Hatteras this year has shown an increase of approxi mately 35 per cent over last year, according to L. L. Swain, chair man of the board of directors of Dare County Tourist Bureau. OOASTLAND NEWSPAPERS TO GIVE slls IN AWARDS TO WRITERS OF LETTERS ABOUT OUR SERVICE MEN Our Subscribers Will Be Given A Chance to Win a Prize as Well as To Render a Great Community Service Our readers want to know about the men of our coastland who are serving their country in Korea or in Europe. This news paper is going to make it pos sible to get more articles about these boys who are away from home. Readers of this newspap er who live in Dare, Hyde, Tyr rell, or eastern Beaufort, will be given a chance to win the slls in prizes to be paid out as fol lows: For the best letter of about 500 words or more, SSO; second best, $25; third best $10; and for fourth prize, three cash prizes of $5 each. For the fifth prize, there will be six $2.50 annual subscrip tions, whereby six people will get a free year’s reading of this, their home newspaper. The letters or articles must be written by a service man himself, who is serving in Europe, or Asia, or adjacent country; or by some member of his family or friends residing in the above named counties and which friends or relatjve is a regular subscriber of this newspaper. Our purpose in seeking these letters or articles is not merely to get a pointless letter with the bare fact that this or that person is in service. Our purpose is to show one or more of the follow ing phases: 1. The ideals for which this service is being rendered our Nation, and the causes which are being defended and the rights that are being protected MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1952 HATTERAS ROAD CELEBRATION IS SET SEPT. 20th i \ Rodanthe.—Arrangements have been made to bring the famous , Elizabeth City High School Band jto Rodanthe on September 20 i when the citizens of the seven | communities of Hatteras Island will be hosts to visitors and friends from the mainland who will be here to help celebrate the new Nags Head-Hatteras high way. Capt. Levene Midgett, chief boatswain mate in charge of | Chicamacomico Coast Guard Sta tion here is overall chairman of i the event which is expected to bring more persons to Hatteras . Island than any similar event I ever staged. I A program that will not only include music by majorettes but i also widely known state and gov ernment officials, and many local competitive local events has been scheduled for the celebration which will be held on a Satur day, according to Capt. Midgett. DARE COUNTY SEAMAN SAVED FROM FREIGHTER Archie Scarborough, Jr., Taken From Ship in English Chan nel by British Lifeboat When the freighter American Farmer went down in the Eng lish Channel last Thursday, Archie Scarborough of Cape Hat teras was one of the seamen res- Sped by a British lifeboat. Thirty-seven United States seamen were landed safely at Dover, England, after a losing six hour battle to save their 7,239- ton Liberty ship Western Farmer, which fell apart after a collision in the stormy English Channel. The men had clambered to safety aboard two British life boats just in time to see the Western Farmer break in two in the heavy channel seas shortly before midnight last night. By noon, the bow half of the 'Western Farmer—keel up was floating,at anchor in mid-channel off the Ramsgate holiday resort The after half, still upright, was swept by the channel’s treacher ous tides towards the French coast. A dispatch from Calais said French tugs had taken it in tow and raised the French flag to mark their prize. Survivors said the Western Farmer, carrying 10000 tons of coal from Newport News Va. to Bremen, Germany, was hit squarely amidships on the port side by the Norwegian tanker Bjorgholm. As passing vessels and lifeboats from channel ports headed for the spot, the crew began a fruit less battle to close the gaping See SEAMAN, Page Eight for us here at home. 2. The physical, mental, or moral gains being rendered to the individual giving the serv ice and by reason of this service. 3. The sense of value, the ad vantages or deficiencies of the homeland so far away, as it appears to the serviceman viewing it from afar. Is the old home being better appreciated by reason of separation? What are the advantages of the na tive community that makes it so much worth while? 4. It must contain a recital of interesting things about the country he is in, the customs and habits of the people, and some of the serviceman’s ex periences in a strange land. It must tell who the man is, his homeplace and immediate relatives. We Relieve that a series of let ters of this type will render a real service of more than casual in terest to our readers. All letters competing for prizes must be accompanied by a usable photograph of the service man. We welcome all other contri butions, although they are not as long as those specified above. We also welcome news about all servicemen. We reserve the right to publish all letters, whether prize winners or not, and we promise to do our best to return all photographs desired to be returned. For further details, address the Editor of this newspaper. THE COASTLAND TIMES, Manteo MANTEO BOY TELLS OF ARMY LIFE IN GERMANY jr- ' ’ Saß J* jKr |, PFC JULE BURRUS An interesting letter from a soldier at home has been received by the editor, and reminds us that we would like to see more letters from our service men. Friends of Pfc. Jule Burrus, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Burrus of Manteo, will be interested in reading what he has to say. Pfc. Burrus has been 15 months in Germany. His letter, dated Aug ust 17, reached us five days later, coming by air mail. Now let’s read what be says about the rough 15 months he has been undergoing training The story is this: During the first 12 months I spent nine in the field, training to face any problem I would run up against in war. I think I can say no training in the wav cf warfare has been overlooked. I arrived in Germany Jure ?.5 cf last year where i went di rectly to Mannheim and spent ten days in a tert. We were moved by truck t-> Mintz and stayed in a tent for two months. From Mintz I walked some 70 miles in tiirre days. This brought me to Baumholder where we spent ten mere days in tents. Well, rfer more than two months of moving from place to place, tak-rg and digging a fox hole in every hill, we moved to Wildflecken. This spot was my home for ten months Very strict and rigid training was carried on there. My company was given a bed and roof over their heads here, but they were only occupied about four days of ten. This was to take a bath, get a harcut or wash a few clothes. In and around Wildflecken I have trained and slept in waist deep snrw, and spent the bigger part of last winter snowed in and much to my sorrow I have seen drifts of snow 10-12 feet deep. After receiving the name of Gypsy, our regiment moved to Glenha usen, which was our orig inal destination 14 months ago. This, I think, completes my roaming in Germany. But life in Germany hasn’t beeh all work. At least once a month special arrangements are made for trips to France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland and various other places of interest. Unfor tunately I have only seen France Switzerland, and the U. S. Zone of Germany. I had intended see ing England and the Rivieria but my time has run short. In Switzerland I learned to ice skate and saw the Swiss Alps. In France I visited Paris and its historical background. Next to See LIFE, Page Eight JONES’ BINGO TO HOLD BIG DAY SUNDAY “‘Sadie Hawkins Day” Feature to Begin at 12 Noon Jones’ Bingo, one of the three merchandise bingos at Nags Head, is holding their “Sadie Hawkins Day” Sunday, August 31. On that day they will give away the re maining stocks, and close for the season. Beginning at 12 noon, they will play bingo until every article has been given away. Large prizes will be given away as well as the smaller ones. A special prize for the winner of the first game will be a Toastmaster toaster; winner of the last game will receive a General Electric television. Other large prizes will be given through out the day. Featured items are dinnerware, luggage, lamps, household appliances, furniture, which will be awarded the winners. The management wants to help everyone have a good time. Jones’ Bingo has been located this season at Mann’s Recreation Center. Plans are to reopen in the spring of 1953. FISHING TOURNEY OCTOBER 3-5 BIG NAGS HEAD EVENT Judging from the interest that has been shown by surf casting clubs in many states and by scores of anglers who prefer fish ing from the beach instead of from boats and piers, the first annual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament scheduled for the Nags Head area on October 3,4, 5, will be the biggest event of its kind ever presented along the northeast coast of North Caro lina. That is the opinion of Dal H. Williams, president of the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club with which the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the tournament. Announcements of the event have been mailed to fishing clubs and surf casters in all surf casting centers along the Atlantic coast. Most response to date has'come from New Jersey, and several clubs will be here to take part in the event and com pete for the prizes from that state. Trophies and prizes having a total value of more than SI,OOO will be awarded winning teams and individuals. The Tournament is timed for the big run of channel bass which appear in the surf in great schools during late September and re main throughout October. Already channel bass and many other species of surf feeding fishes are being landed daily by anglers fishing along the ocean beaches. The channel bass are running- smaller than those which show up later in the season. PARK SERVICE FILES PETITION FOR LANDS Ehringhaus Firm of Raleigh Awarded Contract to Search Titles of Hatteras Island Lands At the request of the National Park Service of the Department of the Interior, the U. S. Attorney General has filed in Federal Court a petition for the condemnation of lands on Hatteras Island to be included in the proposed Cape Hatteras National Seashore Rec reational Area. The lands in ques tion include substantially all the acreage that the National Park Service anticipates acquiring from private ownership on Hatteras Is land. Not included in the condem nation order are the villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras. The National Park Service announced that substantial areas around these villages were also omitted in order that expansion of the villages could take place. It was stated that condemnation action is necessary to clear title to some of the land and should speed up the process of acquisition and pre vent land speculation in the ac quisition area. The Land Acquisition Office at Manteo is making appraisals and securing title data on the prop erties included in the condemna tion order as well as the lands to be acquired for the Seashore on Bodie and Ocracoke Islands. In this connection it has been announced that the law firm of Ehringhaus and Ehringhaus of Raleigh has been awarded the contract for pre paring title abstracts. Despite the filing of the condem nation suit, direct purchase of the lands in the condemnation area is still possible in those cases where the owner can convey a clear title and a mutually accept able sales price can be agreed upon. A. C. Stratton, Project Man ager for the Land Acquisition Of fice has stated that the National Park Service definitely intends, if possible, to acquire every single tract by means of friendly nego tiation, rather than by use of court procedures, except where there is some cloud upon the land title which the Court must clear. WOODROW PRICE NAMED ON SEASHORE COMMISSION Woodrow Price of Raleigh, top reporter on the News & Observer, and summer resident of Ocracoke Island, has been named by Gover nor Scott to fill the unexpired term on the Cape Hatteras Seashore Commission vaefted last week by Major J. L. Murphy of Kill Devil Hills. Mr. Price, an Elizabeth City na tive, formerly lived in Manteo as a newspaperman. He is an ardent hunter and fisherman and spends a great deal of time in coastal areas, writing a column for his paper each ireek. He plans to build a summer home at Ocracoke, on a lot he owns near the hotel. Single Copy 7e NEW DOCTOR AND ; TECHNICIAN PLAN ’ MANTEO OFFICES • Goldsboro Physician Will Head Medical Center in Pearce Building Near Town About Octo ber 1 Dr. Clyde B. Brown, for the past 18 years on the medical staff of the State Hospital at Goldsboro, with his technical assistant, Phil lip Smith, also with the same hos pital for four years, were in Man teo this week making arrange ments for the opening of offices for general medical practice about October 1, in Manteo. They have rented the homes of Mrs. Marga ret Hoyle, and Mrs. Augusta Pen nystone, where they will reside. Dr. Brown, who was accompan ied by his wife, is a native of Potecasi, Northampton County. He is a member of Sudan Shrine Tem ple of New Bern. Prior to his entry into medical school, he was em ployed with the British American Tobacco Co. and worked for them in their New York offices, in New Foundland, China, and Costa Rica. He attended Trinity College and the Medical College of South Car olina at Charleston. He is a mem ber of the American Medical As sociation and the N. C. Medical Association. The Browns have t.wo children. Mr. Smith, before taking his technical schooling, served for three years as a pharmacist’s mate in the Navy. He is a native of Rockingham. They have three children. They plan to set up a complete office with much equipment, hav ing leased the Pearce house one miles south of Manteo. Their de cision to located in Manteo is largely due to the joint efforts dur ing the past year of a committee from the several civic clubs on Roanoke Island, Rotary, Lions, Ruritan. DARE TOURIST BUREAU TO MEET AND PLAN FOR 1952 PROMOTION Manteo.—The first two of a se ries of meetings to be held along the Dare Coast for the purpose of making plans for 1953 promo tion of this resort area will be held at Kill Devil Hills in the Hotel Edgewater Dining Room on Wednesday and Thursday, Sep tember 4-5, it is announced by Da vid Stick, secretary-treasurer of Dare County Tourist Bureau. The meetings will be held at 8:15 p.m. At the Wednesday night meet ing all operators of hotels, inns and motor courts in the Dare Beaches area will gather to dis cuss the increased budget for the coming fiscal year and to hear re ports of activities performed by the Dare County Tourist Bureau during the current fiscal year which ends on September 30. The report will show how through im partial promotion on the part of the Bureau the resort business has had an increase of approximately 20 to 25 percent this season. On Thursday night all vacation enterprises other than Inns will have a similar meeting. Then be fore October 1, similar meeting will be held on Hatteras Island, which has experienced its first ma jor vacation business this year and on Roanoke Island where The Lost Colony has long been the biggest attraction of the summer season. The Tourist Bureau, haeded by a Board of Directors of which L. L. Swain of Manteo is chairman, operated on a SIO,OOO budget dur ing the current year which ends September 30. At a recent meet ing of the Board of Directors, held in Hatteras Village, it was agreed that the tentative budget for the coming fiscal year or for promo tion during 1953 had been increas- See BUREAU, Page Eight FISHING TOURNEY ENTRY BLANKS DISTRIBUTED Nags Head. Anglers from many areas along the Atlantic coast are now receiving entry blanks for the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club’s surf tournament here on October 5, the day on which the event will come to an end. The surf fishing tournament begins on October 3 and compe tition during the first two days will be between teams of organiz ed clubs: “Response to the tournament has been widespread,” according to Dal H. Williams, president of the sponsoring club. “Already we have the assurance that there will be teams here for the competition" from New Jersey, Maryland, Vir ginia and North Carolina.” “There will be special divisions for feminine anglers and also for boys over 15 years of age, for the Open Tourney off the Surf on Oc tober 5,” said Williams.
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