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VOLUME XVIII NO. 10 SIOO,OOO TOURIST COURT SOLD ON NAGS HD. BEACH Fearing’s Recently Built Dolphin Bought by Mrs. Bertha Sample Completed only a few weeks ago, the modern tourist court, The Dolphin, on lower Nags Head, was sold last week by Fearing’s, Inc. of Manteo to Mrs. Bertha Sample of Elizabeth City, who entered immediately on the continued operation of the court. The court brought a price in ex cess of SIOO,OOO. Since its completion, Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Fearing have been managing the court. The Fear ings now plan to build another court with perhaps a fishing pier. Tourist courts on« Nags Head Beach have been proving highly successful, particularly those de signed for modern comfort. Sev eral more enterprises of the kind are being planned for construc tion this fall. SHRIMP SEASON SUFFERS MUCH FROM HURRICANE Loss of thousands of dollars of income to the shrimp fishermen of North Carolina, and to busi ness in Engelhard, which is the largest center of the industry in the state, is estimated as result of the backwash of winds which followed the hurricane last week off the Florida coast. Because of the winds many boats lost their fishing for sev eral days, and unsettled fishing reduced the volume of catch in an already poor season. Night shrimping and more ex tensive and destructive opera tions over the years is believed to be threatening the entire in dustry. Many seasoned observers believe it is only a matter of a short time before shrimping, like other fishing, may be completely depleted and unprofitable to most new deriving a living from the industry. Although a poor season it has been of great help to many fish ermen, and particularly to busi nessmen in Engelhard. It is now bfelieved that industry will last I near as long this fall as in form er years. DEATH CAN BE QUICK WITH FUN ON WATER Bonnie C. Davis, Moyock, Drown ed When Water Skis and Boat Collide MOYOCK.—The joy of an after noon water-skiing party was turn ed into mourning Sunday with the drowning of a young Moyock High School graduate and senior at N. C. State College. The young man drowned was ■U Bonnie Cole Davis, whose body I was recovered, from the waters of Hannahs Landing off the Tull’s Creek road two miles from the center of Moyock’s shopping dis trict at 1:45 this morning. The drowning occurred when • Davis, on skis, was in collision with an outboard motor boat being operated by Henry Doxey. Accord ing to Currituck Coroner Bryan Smith, Davis was being drawn by a boat occupied by other members of his party. Experiencing some difficulty with his skis and swing ing from side to side in an effort to adjust one of them, he did not ( ' see the boat piloted by Doxey, which was in the act of turning around when the collision occurred. According to eyewitnesses, both men were thrown into the air When Davis hit the water he dis appeared and was not seen again unitl his body was recovered near ly 10 hours later. Doxey’s boat after he went over board, began running around in circles, and Doxey managed to catch hold of it as it circled around him. Reaching into the boat he cut off the motor, scram bled aboard and then blacked out. He was taken to the Albermarle Hospital in Elizabeth City where he was treated and released. The body was recovered by two Coast Guardsmen from the Coast Guard Depot at Coinjock, H. In-* gram and Kenneth Roberts, the ( latter a Currituck boy. Assisting 'i in the effort to recover the body were crews from fire departments at Elizabeth City and Great Bridge and a number of neighbors and friends. Davis was the son of Mrs. Wiley Franklin Brinkley and the late Archie Davis, a lifelong resident of Moyock. t THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MANY VISITORS IN AUGUST SEE HISTORIC SITES By AYCOCK BROWN Almost 100,000 persons visited Wright Memorial at Kill Devil Hills and Fort Raleigh on Roa noke Island during the month of August according to reports of of ficials who have to do with count ing the tourists .at the two units of National Park Service here on the Dare Coast. There were 43,022 persons counted at Wright Memorial Mon ument during the month just pass ed as compared to 37,130 in Au gust of 1951. This was a 14 per cent increase over August of last year. In July of this year 39,516 persons had visited the memorial which was erected to commemo rate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright who flew the first heavier than air machine from the base of Kill Devil Hill on December 17, 1903. Mrs. Louise Meekins of the Na tional Park Service announced to day that 55,591 persons were counted at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site during August 1952, as compared to 49,548 for the same month last year. It is inter esting to note In Mrs. Meekins re port that persons from every state and 23 foreign countries were among the visitors at Fort Ra leigh, the birthplace of English speaking civilization in the New' World, during the month of Au gust. Martin Kellogg, chairman of Roanoke Island Historical Associ ation, stated this week that ap proximately 45,000 persons paid admission to see The Lost Colony during the season ending on Au gust 31. “This figure is less than the paid admission last year,” said Kellogg,” but not included in the total paid attendance were several hundred members of the press who taw the show at no cost and probably 2,000 school children and history students of Dare County and North Carolina. EXCHANGE TEACHER Miss Amanda Etheridge, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Ether idge of Manteo, recently sailed from New York for Amster dam, Holland, where she is an ex change teacher of physical edu cation under the Fulbright Foun dation. Miss Etheridge, who has been a member of the faculty of State Teachers College at Man kato, Minnesota, for several years, visited her family on Roanoke Is land for a week before sailing for Holland. Her sister, Miss Natalie Etheridge, who graduated from Minnesota State Teachers College last spring, with a major in physi cal education, left Monday for Alexandria, Va., where she is a member of the faculty of the George Washington High School. She spent the summer vacation with her parents. BELHAVEN SOLDIERS ON DUTY GERMANY AND JAPAN WITH THE 28TH INFANTRY’ DIV. IN GERMANY.—Pvt. Hiram V. Jones of Route 1, Belhaven, N. C., is now serving with the 28th Infantry Division in Germany. The division—a Pennsylvania National Guard unit—is currently conducting training exercises in the rolling hills of Bavaria in Sou thern Germany. HYDE COUNTY WOMAN WINS UNUSUAL HONOR m Jr ► 9 4h iff MRS. OLIVE O. CAHOON of Swan Quarter, wife of Sheriff Charlie J. Cahoon, who is to be honored to represent North Caro lina at the International Associa tion of Rebekah Assemblies in Dallas Texas September 13th to 19th. Mrs| Cahoon is State Prtsi dent of the Rebekah Assembly of 1.0.0. F. and has long been a lead er in this woman’s fraternity. She will leave for Texas Wednesday of next week. GUM NECK MERCHANT MASONIC LODGE MAST’R ■■■■<■ oft. ' «t<***’ A J ▼ wB ■ ■’ ... ■■ HF £ V f A t I. HERMAN COHOON, merchant of Gum Neck in lower Tyrrell Coun ty, is now the Master of Provi dence Lodge No. 678, A.F.&A.M. Mr. Cohoon doesn’t mind driving twice a month at night to preside over his lodge, and sometimes he goes extra for special meetings. The Lodge is an active one, and has about 60 members, having been re-instituted about six years ago. Other officers of the Lodge are: Donald Alexander, Senior Warden; Clair Morris, Junior Warden; C. W. Pritchett, Treas urer; Lloyd Davenport, Secretary; Roland Riddick, Tyler; Mike Dav enport, Senior Deacon; Joe Ham ilton, Jr., Junior Deacon; Willie Mayo, Senior Steward; and Alvin Hamilton, Junior Steward. The Lodge meets on the first and third Wednesday nights in each month. Mr. Cohoon, who graduated from Columbia High School, is 35 years old. He has been in the mercantile business for several years, first operating a store on No. 94 but having sold out this business some time ago, has taken over an older place in the center of the community. Mrs. Cohoon is the former Doris Everton of Gum Neck. HERE’S A STORY TO TOUCH THE HEART Somewhere on the Dare Coast a mother and father might have enjoyed a trip while bitter trage dy awaited them. A worried grandfather in Rock ingham Monday, tried to contact his vacationing daughter to warn her that her six-year-old son had been bitten by a rabid dog. Arthur Capel, said his son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Stogner, and their son left for a vacation in the Manteo area shortly after the boy, Sonny was bitten by a dog last Thurs day. Capel said the head of the dog was sent to a laboratory for exam ination and he received a report indicating that the animal was “definitely” rabid. Capel said the Stogners left no forwarding address, saying only that they would spend their vaca tion around Manteo. DARE BOARD AIDS THE BANKS HEALTH CENTER Taking note Monday of a wor thy proposition, the Dare Board Tuesday following a request from W. A. Gray of Buxton, agreed to furnish $275.00 for re pairs and painting the radio sta tion property given the county and used as the Cape Hatteras Health Center. The Board also agreed to take out insurance on the property in the amount -of $7,000. The Board heard a report from Bob Smith, Farm Agent, that the Roanoke Island 4-H Camps quar tered in the property of the Man teo Airport, had enjoyed a suc cessful season, with 1,300 chil dren in attendance as compared with 800 last season. STUMPY POINT PASTOR AT AMITY REVIVAL The Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson, Pastor of the Stumpy Point Metho dist circuit will be the guest evan gelist for a series of five nightly services at Amity Methodist church, Lake Landing. The pastor, The Rev. William O. Connor states the revival will begin Monday, Sept. 15th and go through Friday of that week. Services will begin at 7:30 p. m. A welcome is ex tended to everyone to come to these services. The pastor. The Rev. W. O. Con nor will be preaching in a series of meetings at Bethany Methodist Church, Gulrock during the week of Sept. Bth - 12th. Services will begin at 7:30 nightly. Everyone is invited to attend. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1952 UPWARD TREND IN ALL SECTIONS OF TYRRELL COUNTY Fann Crops and Tourists Both Help to Increase Prosperity of People A new spirit and a new look is manifest all through Tyrrell County these days. Even in re mote Kilkenny which has so long been so far out of its own county it has to get its mail from Hyde, and then only three times the week, is found a new air of pros perity and progress. Even Kil kenny has electric power, which has been extended all over Tyr rell County. Gum Neck, the largest com munitp, now lacks only telephone service to bring it all modern advantages. The improvements throughout the county are re flected in Columbia, the county seat, where new homes are con stantly being built, and improve ments made to business facilities. Columbia for .some years has had the only post office in the county. Fortunately for Tyrrell County this summer is its low altitude so its crops did not suffer unduly from the draught, and a bumper harvest is in prospect. Both Irish and sweet potatoes have been proving profitable all through the seasons. Sheriff B. Ray Cahoon says one of his friends reported a sweet potato crop now being marketed, which has yielded a profit of about SI,OOO from a single acre. It would be “quite a hog” who would demand more bounty from his soil. More and more, preparations go on for tourists and sportsmen trade. Although Tyrrell County interests and Columbia, along U. S. 64, have suffered greatly because of the badly arranged ferry schedules which discour ages much travel, everyone lives in hopes of better day# Because the ferry now leaving Tyrrell County is not properly timed to put the motorist across Alligator River quickly enough to connect with the Croatan Sound ferry, numerous people this year have been subjected to long waits at Manns Harbor and have failed to reach Roanoke Island in time to witness The Lost Colony. Al though many have come a long way with the sole purpose of seeing the show, many of them not having another day to spare have made their trip in vain, all because of the badly arranged ferry schedules. But Tyrrell County people are not easily discouraged. They waged a battle for years for bet ter roads, and they never permit the subjet of desperately needed bridges to die. They live in hopes and always look for better days, and they are continuing with their investment in tourist fa cilities. Pritchett's Inland Harbor A unique development is und erway on U.S. 64 between Co lumbia and the ferry slip at Sandy Point. Charlie Pritchett and his son, Morris, who operate a store eight miles east of Co lumbia have dreded a canal from little Alligator River, a distance of 625 yards through the woods, and having a width of about 30 feet. Boats and yachts drawing up to seven feet of water may now come into this canal and up to the highway, in a safe and landlocked harbor eight miles from the Inland Waterway. The Pritchett project has great possibilities. In time, numerous yachtsmen can be induced to pause in their journeys along the Intracoastal waterway to enjoy the bear, deer and quail hunting and the superior sport fishing of Tyrrell County. It will be a point of assembly for boat owners of many inland sections, who may base their own craft at this point, and easily reach them by automobile. A railway and repair show is to be developed along with case, store, and other serv ices to appeal to yachtsmen, tourists and sportsmen. Columbia itself has become ex tremely well-equipped for serv ing this new class of trade which is now pouring many thousands of dollars into the county each season. It has service stations, hardware and novelty stores of the most modern type. The only town in the county, it has been the principal trading center of the region ,and continues to en joy the bulk of the commerce of the entire county. Its business men blessed with an abundance of friendliness and hospitality, have no fears for the future of the community and the county. TOURIST BUREAU BEGINS CAMPAIGN TO RAISE BUDGET First in a series of meetings by the Dare County Tourist Bureau for the purpose of raising a $14,- 000 budget fox' publicizing and pro moting the rapidly increasing tou rist business of the area was held at Edgewater Hotel on Kill Devil Hills Wednesday night, with another scheduled there fox - Thurs day night. Hotel, motor court and tourst home operators were at the Wednesday meeting and other firms catering to the vacation trade in the Dare Beaches area were scheduled be present on Thursday night. Four meetings are scheduled for the Hatteras Island communities which have been experiencing their first major tourist business during current year, on September 16-17. David Stick, secretary treasurer of the Dare Tourist Bu reau, announced this week that the meetings scheduled for Hat teras Island would be held as fol lows: September 16—Avon at 10 A. M., Buxton at 3 P.M. and Hat teras at 8 P.M. On the following day, September 17, a meeting will be held in Rodanthe for that com munity and the nearby villages of Waves and Salvo. A comprehensive report of the Tourist Bureau’s activities since it began functioning last October 15 is being preesented at the var ious mctings by the organization’s secretary and treasurer and by Lawrensce L. Swain, chairman of the executive committee. The re port gives all details about the publicity and promotion activities of the manager and news director as well as the financial report showing how the money was spent and how it is planned to spend the proposed budget of- $14,000 during the coming fiscal year. BOARD BACKS SWAIN FOR HIGHWAY POST Commissioners Recommend Man teo Man as Commissinea From First Division The recent campaign begun by Dare Register of Deeds suggest ing Lawrence L. Swain of Man teo for Highway Commissioner from the First Division in which Dare County is situated, got well underway Tuesday when the County Board gave its earnest approval. Mr. Swain, who is noted as a liberal worker for public causes, is now a member of the County Board, head of the Tourist Bu reau, and active in many civic, religious and fraternal affairs. He has a penchant for public serv ice, and finds flavor in political affairs, and a political future. He is a native of Washington County and has lived in Dare for the past 20 years where he oper ates the Manteo Laundry and represents the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. STATE’S BIGGEST FERRY BOAT FOR OREGON INLET A 3-Motored $75,000 Vessel To Carry 24 Cars To Go Into Service Next Season The biggest automobile ferry yet operated in North Carolina is planned to be built soon and put into service across Oregon Inlet by next season. It will be built of wood, having three motors, and will carry 24 cars. It will be more than 100 feet long, and plans for it will soon be made by a naval architect and bids let for its con struction. The boat was approved last week by the State Highway Com mission on recommendation of Commissioner H. G. Shelton of Tarboro. The present two boats have be come completely inadequate for thetraffic that has resulted from wide advertising of Hatteras Is land and the completion of the new road. A further increase in business has resulted in the di version of traffic from Ocracoke Island, which also has been the re sult of the new road, which gives the people of Ocracoke and their visitors, the quickest and easiest way of travel save flying. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. REBECCA M. PAYNE Funeral services for Mrs. Re becca Meekins Payne, 71, who died Wednesday of last week, were con ducted at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at the Wanchese Church of God, Rev. D. B. Lawrence officiating. Hymns sung were “Some Golden Daybreak,” “Ready” and “When I Have Gone the Last Mile of the Way.” Burial was in the Garrison cemetery at Wanchese. Pallbearers were Herbert Midgett, Charles Roadcap, Ira Stowe, Will Barnett, John Herbert and Roscoe Gallop. MANY GROUPS ENDORSING APPEAL FOR BRIDGES OVER U. S. HIGHWAYS 64 AND 264 Board of Commissioners, City Aidermen, Civ ic Clubs All Favor State Owned Bridges, Although Tolls May Be Charged; Appeal Will Be Taken to Governor Scott Soon. Boards of County Commission ers, Town Boards, and civic clubs throughout the Southern Albe marle, this week endorsed an ap peal for the construction of state owned bridges over Alligator Riv ■er and Croatan Sound. Preferably free bridges but bridges at any rate, even if they must be toll bridges. Under the last appeal, there re mains no reason for the State Highway Commission to longer de fer the building the bridges, and no cause for complaint from other sections of the state that the in vestment is too great for this com paratively small but long forgot ten region. The appeal to Governor Scott and the Highway Commission asks first for two toll-free bridges; second, if not granted, for two toll bridges, and third, for even one bridge, with or without tolls. In Washington, N. C. the Beau fort County Board Tuesday endor sed the appeal. Likewise the Bel haven town Board Tuesday night, as well as the Belhaven Rotary Club. The Rotary Club of Engelhard gave its endorsement last week, and Tuesday, the Hyde County Board of Commissioners added their endorsement. On the same day, the Commiss ioners of Dare, Tyrrell and of Washington Counties also added their endorsement. Dr. W. T. Ralrih of Belhaven is Chairman of a Committee of ten people who will present the appeal to the Governor. LOST COLONY CHORUS PRESENTS FINAL CONCERT The final concert of the summer season was presented Sunday afternoon, August 31, at four o’- clock in the Manteo school audi torium, by the Lost Colony Chorus with a small but appreciative aud ience attending. Opening with “Al leluia” by Randall Thompson by the entire chorus, the program continued with “Alto Rhapsodic” by Johannes Brahms, with Helen Reitmeyer, contralto, as soloist, ably supported by the bass and tenor sections of the choir. Franz Engle accompanied at the piano. The song cycle “In a Persian Garden” by Liza Lehmann follow ed,’ Soloists were Marjalene Thom as, soprano; Anne Wynn, contral to; George Vassos, tenor; and Ralph Burner, bass. Helen Reit meyer was accompanist. The song cycle was followed by the “Liebslieder Walzer” by Brahms, by the entire chorus with a duet accompaniment by Franz Engle’and James M. Hart; and the program was brought to a close with a group of spirituals. Ralph Burrier, music director for the Lost Colony, and head of the music department of the Roa noke Island School of Fine Arts, under whose auspices the chorus functioned, conducted the after noon’s program. Proceeds of the afternoon’s con cert were donated to the fund for Music in Hospitals, which is spon sored by the National Federation of Music Clubs. The program was sponsored by the Roanoke Island Music Club. STATE FAIR LIVESTOCK SHOW IS “BIG LEAGUE” A livestock show, offering $27,- 145 in premiums and labeled “big league” by Dr. D. W. Colvard, head of the Department of Animal In dustry at N. C. State College, is scheduled as a part of the 85th State Fair to be held in Raleigh October 14-18. Competition “open to the world,” but with special classes for North Carolina exhibit ors, is planned in all four breeds of dairy cattle and in the Hereford and Aberdeen-Angus breeds of beef cattle. “Prospective livestock exhibitors should immediately* obtain "a copy of the free 1952 State Fair cata log,” Dr. Colvard said. This is available upon request to Mana ger, State Fair, Box 1388, Raleigh. “There are many changes since last year, all approved by the Livestock Advisory Board,” Dr. Colvard pointed out, “and entries must be made an official printed forms which are attached in the back of.' the Fair catalog." Single Copy 7e SEASON’S BIGGEST DAY AT LEARY’S SUNDAY, SEPT. 7 ’’Sadie Hawkins Day” Ex pected to Draw Crowds Larger Than Any Year Previous “It was a big day the first year,” said W. K. Leary, speaking about the opening season’s ‘Sadie Haw kins Day’ in 1949. But each year has been an improvement, with more prizes, and consequently, more fun for all. “Sadie Hawkins Day” this year will be Sunday, September 7, with the first game starting at 12 noon. Bingo will be played until every prize has been given away. Such prizes as mixers, dinner ware, luggage, an outboard motor, a bicycle, jewelry and hundreds of other valuable prizes will be given to the winners. A G. E. television will be given the winner of the last game. “Sadie Hawkins Day” draws hundreds of people from distant places in North Carolina and Vir ginia and other states, every year, to play for such valuable awards as mentioned. No increase in price ' will be made—dbuble cards still ; 10< There is only one way to sum it all up—and that’s the way Leary I does—“A day of fun, for young and old.” It should be—it always i has been. ARCHIE BURRUS PLANS BEACH TOURIST COURT Manteo Merchant To Begin Con struction of 20 Rooms On Lower Nags Head Archie Burrus, Manteo mer chant, is planning to build five units of four rooms each, as the beginning of a modem tourist court on lower Nags Head. This wil be the first court of brick construction on the beach, and is J expected to cost more than $50,- 000 for the first units. Ivey Daniels of Wanchese will be in charge of construction. The court will be located about a half-mile north of the junction of U.S. 158 and the Hatteras highway. FAMILY DESERTER IN HYDE BREAKS JAIL Ellis Gibbs, notorious deserter of his family, who had been under a court order to pay $lO a week for the support of his wife and eight children living in Ponzer, 1 Hyde County, broke out of jail and escaped last week. He had refused to pay and had been living in Norfolk but was apprehended when officers took him off a tug boat on which he was working when it recently came into Hyde County waters. This he has not been found. NEW DENTIST ON BEACH AT KILL DEVIL HILLS Dr. Wallace F. Mustian, for the last 15 years has been in General Dental practice in Durham, North Carolina. During this period he was on the Senior Attending Sur gical Staff of Watts and Lincoln Hospitals in Durham and was chief of Oral Surgery and Dental Surgery. Previously, Dr. Mustian practiced Dentistry in Norlina- Warrenton for the 15 years im mediately after graduation from college. Dr. Mustian is a native of War ren County. He is a veteran of World War I. He graduated from the University of Maryland in Baltimore and North Western Uni versity of Chicago. He is married to Miss Emily E. Long of Valdese, N. C., and they have three chil dren; all married and away from home. The Mustians have built an all weather and season Ranch Type Home on the Ocean in Kill Devil Hills and a separate office build ing on the Highway. Dr. Mustian will maintain open offices on Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday during the entire year. The Mus tians are Methodist. Dr. Mustian is a member, of the Lions Club and of the American Legion. He is also a member of the Local, State and American Dental As sociations.
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