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VOLUME XVIII NO. 16 NORWOOD STOWE ELECTROCUTED AT FRISCO THURSDAY Manteo Resident Dies When Pipe Comes in Contact with Live Wire Norwood C. Stowe, 36, Frisco native residing in Manteo, died about 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon at Frisco while putting down a pump. It is understood that a piece of pipe which he was handling came in contact with a high vol tage wire, and he died instantly. A son of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Stowe of Manteo, he was born April 1, 1916. He was in the U. S. Coast Guard for two and a half years during World War 11, and spent part of that time overseas. • He was a member of the Pente costal Church and the Manteo Ma sonic Lodge. Surviving besides his parents are four sisters, Mrs. Elise Boyce, Hyattsville, Md., Mrs. Rosetta Milbury, Collingswood, N. J., Mrs. Evelyn Maccabee, Frisco, and Mrs. Louis Sharpe of Virginia Beach. Also surviving are one half-sister, Mrs. Nettie Peele of Buxton and one half-brother, Henry T. Peele. Burial will be in Manteo. Funer al arrangements were incomplete at press time. HOMECOMING ENJOYED AT EAST LAKE CHURCH Many Former Residents Join Serv ice Sunday and Take Dinner on the Grounds A community homecoming was enjoyed by more than 200 people Sunday at East Lake’s Methodist Church, the crowd being swelled by many former residents from Manteo, Norfolk, Elizabeth City and other towns. A service was conducted in the church by Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson, the pastor. Following the church service, dinner was spread on the grounds. There was more than enough food. Even the visitors brought baskets. Many of the visitors had not seen their old home surroundings in many years. There were more Creefs and Twifords on , East Lake Sunday than have been there in many a day. It was a day of great fellow ship, the revival of old friendships and old memories, and the visitors departed with pleasant memories. A few met with disappointment, coming and going when they found , the ferry could not accommodate them ali at' one trip, and some were late and had less.time to en joy their visits. BIG SAILFISH COBBLES UP TUNA OFF HATTERAS By AYCOCK BROWN What will probably go down as the most unusual catch of 1952’s piscatorial history was made off Hatteras on Monday by Edward D. Bennett, Norfolk, Va., angler, while fishing in the Gulf Stream from aboard Capt. Ernal Foster’s cruiser Albatross 11. A small tuna hooked with a i feather lure was being reeled in 1 for a landing when not one, but several sailfish surfaced and started for the tuna. One of the sail struck /the tuna and in its attempts to swallow the smaller fish was also hooked. Twenty five minutes later after battling the sailfish with a 4/0 Penn Sen ator reel on a 9-ounce tip glass rod, the seven foot, four inch sail weighing 48 pounds was boated. It was the 44th sailfish to be landed with rod and reel by ang lers fishing out of Hatteras and Oregon Inlets on the Dare Coast since May 30 when the first of this species of spearfish was land ed. “The sail took out most of the line before it was finally check ed, and then the exciting battle of bringing the fish to the stern of the boat began. It was one of the most exciting battles between man and fish that I have ever seen, because the sail was not only making sensational leap, but several others were surfacing at the same time,” said Captain , Foster. The tuna which the sailfish took was small weighing two or three pounds but during the day of fishing the Bennett party which included M. P. Schudt, Lewis town, Penna., M. A. Mann, Sr., Jetersville, Va., and,Tom Starke, Jr., Amelia, Virginia landed a total of eight school tuna, the largest scaling at about eight pounds. They also landed four dolphin and one false albacore. Capt. Foster reported sea con ditions perfect for Gulf Stream fishing on Monday. He said that Sam Jones, Jr., accounted for six dolphin, 10 School tuna and three false albacore. Bill Foster was the skipper. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA WILBUR PINNER IS RURITAN PRES. AT MANNS HARBOR \ Club Host to Wanchese and Stumpy Point Members Wednesday Night ’ 1 T Wilbur Pinner, well-known -Manns Harbor business man, Was elected • President of the Ruritan Club Wednesday night, succeeding Huff Mann. It was a special night for the club, which was host to several members with their wives from the clubs of Wanchese and Stumpy Point. About 50 enjoyed the dinner in the Club building. Principal speaker was Rileyn Carver, District Governor. Curtis Olds of St. Brides, Va., a former National Governor was present, and spoke brieby, as did V. G. Wil liams and Melvin Daniels, presi dent and former president of the Wanchese club. About 13 attended from Wanchese. Music was fur nished by Manns Harbor talent. LOST COLONY SPONSORS MEET IN RALEIGH DEC. 3 They Hope to Develop Plans For Bigger and Better Season in 1953 By AYCOCK BROWN With aims for a bigger and bet ter season in 1953 for The Lost Colony, the drama’s 13th, mem bers of Roanoke Island Historical Association, sponsors of this long est-lived of all outdoor productions will meet in Raleigh on Wednes day, December 3, it was announc ed here by Martin Kellogg, Jr., the organization’s chairman. Scheduled in conjunction with other cultural societies, the meet ing will be a luncheon at the Ho tel Sir Walter in the Manteo room at 1 o’clock, with Mr. Kellogg in charge, it was stated. “William Hardy, Jr., general manager of The Lost Colony for the past two years, has reported to the directors that the 1953 sea son was the drama’s most suc cessful,” said Kellogg. “Already plans for promotion of the show Juring 1953 are be ing considered and several inno vations in the production are be ing studied by the association’s steering committee which met in Rocky Mount a few days ago,” he added. Officers and members of Roa noke Island Historical Associa tion who produce the internation ally famous symphonic drama by Paul Green, includes: W. Kerr Scott, governor of North Carolina; Harry McMullan, attorney general; Kellogg and the following honor ary vice chairmen: Mrs. Katherine P. Arrington, W. D. Carmichael, Jr., R. Gregg Cherry, Clyde R. Hoey, Cameron Morrison, Herbert Peele, Clarence Poe and Lindsay C. Warren. Russell M. Grumman is vice-chairman. Other officers in clude, Isaac P. Davis, secretary, C. S. Meekins, treasurer, Dr. Christopher Crittenden, historian and Martin Kellogg, Jr., general counsel. These officers are direct ors along with the following: Paul Green, Samuel v Selden, Mrs. Charles A. Cannon, Jonathan Dan iels, Bill Sharpe, Miles Clark, Melvin R. Daniels, Chester S. Da vis, R. Bruce Etheridge, M. B. Fearing, Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, Dr. Sylvester Green, Mrs. Roy Home wood, Guy H. Lennon, T. S. Meek ins, Hugh Morton, Ralph Nichol son, John W. Parker, Eric W. Rodgers, Betty Smith, Leigh Win slow and Bishop Thomas H. Wright. GOVERNOR TO ATTEND COLUMBIA SAA MEET Governor W. Kerr Scott will be principal speaker, and another honor guest will be Chairman Hen ry Jordan Os the State Highway and Public Works Commission on Thursday, October 30th, at the an nual meeting of the Southern Al bemarle Association, in Columbia, Tyrrell County, according to an nouncement by President C. W. Tatem of Columbia. The associa tion embraces Dare, Hyde .Tyrrell and Washington. The meeting will be followed by a dinner for the dedegates, some 50 people from each county. FIVE STRIPERS FIRST FISH CATCH FOR FIVE-YEAR-OLD Manteo.—Five year old Charles Fearing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Woodson Fearing here, went fish ing for his first time this week. Using artificial bait and a white bucktail with a small reel on a glass rod, he was shown how to cast and reel in his lure at the “Little Birdge” between Manteo and Nags Head. After catching on how to cast, young Fearing start ed catching striped bass and hia score for the afternoon was five, and each weighed about one pound. p Fishing wtiunting | H AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN H Buxton.—While they are seldom hunted except by islanders, the deer season here in Cape Hatter as Woods will open on November 1 and it will be legal to hunt the little animals for one month. The deer of these woods are the small est, which can be legally killed, in America. The animals are about the same size of an ordinary large breed of dogs. Deerhounds such as those used by hunters on the mainland are never used to chase the little animals. Instead, beagles are us ed to chase the deer. Only a few of the toy deer are killed each year. Their small size, comparable with the Keys Deer of southern Florida, is believed to be the result of inter-breeding through the years of closely re lated animals. The Cape Hatteras deer popu lation is believed to be less than 200. In contrast, the mainland area of Dare County, 30 miles across Pamlico Sound, is one of the heaviest deer populated re gions in North Carolina. The lo cal deer are only about half the size of the deer on the mainland, where hunting then is permitted from October 15 until January 1. Elsewhere in Dare County deer have protection the year around. The area where they are protect ed and where the woods have been stocked in recent years is in the Duck, Kitty Hawk and Nags Had region and on Colington Island. Manteo.—Striped bass and chan nel bass were the fish attracting anglers to Dare County waters during the first 10 days of Octo ber and while fishing conditions were not always favorable during the period some good catches were reported from Kitty Hawk and the Albemarle Sound region, south ward to Hatteras. Best catch of the week reported locally was a string of 25 strip ers taken on the week end by Car son Davis and his two sons, Ver non and Ralph, each residents of Manteo. Using Huntington drones as lures, they landed 25 on Sun day morning, trolling in the wat ers near Croatan Sound lighthouse off the northern tip of Roanoke Island. Best catch of the season to date was 78 striped bass landed several days ago by Capt. Will Lewark, who was trolling alone near Wade’s Point lighthouse in Albemarle Sound. Capt Lewark used home-made bucktail lures to catch his sti'ipers on a series of multiple rigs towed in the wake of his boat. Some large channel bass have been landed from the ocean fish ing piers at Nags Head while smaller species of the same fish have been taken daily from the surf between Kitty Hawk and Ore gon Inlet. Largest channel bass to be tak en from the surf have been landed by anglers in the Hatteras Island region. Bernice Ballance of Bux ton who fishes at the point of Cape Hatteras just about every day dur ing the Autumn season stated this week that most of the fish being caught there averaged above 30 pounds. Charles Williams, hotel operator at Avon, reported daily catches of channel bass along the surf at that Outer Banks village except when conditions were such that it was impossible to keep a line out due to stormy weather. Almost daily catches have been made in the surf abreast Hatteras and Waves villages since the first of the mjjpth, it was reported here. Hatteras. —At least 25 varieties of fish have been landed with rod and reel in the waters of Dare County so far this year. At least two varieties have not been tak en elsewhere along the North Carolina coast or north of Flori da and Bimini this season. These two fish afe blue and white mar lin. Last year 27 varieties of game fish, or varieties that are taken with rod and reel were landed in the Hatteras waters alone, ac cording to Scotty Gibson, local hotel operator. Not taken with rod and reel here so far this season has been tarpon. “It is still not too late to catch tarpon, especially in the surf where two or three were taken with rod and reel last year,” said Gibson. Varieties known to have been taken so far this season here or in waters of upper Dare County in the Nags Head, Oregon liflet and Roanoke Island region include: Blue marlin, white marlin, sail MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1952 fish, cobia, dolphin, amberjack, wa hoo, oceanic bonita, school tuna, false albacore, king mackerel, blue fish, Spanish mackerel, channel bass, black drum, striped bass, weakfish, grouper, red snapper, sea bass, flounder, kingfish, (sea mul let), croaker and spots. Not includ ed are the fresh water varieties taken in the Nags Head, Cape Hatteras Woods, and mainland re gion. Large mouth bass, bream and other fresh water - varieties have been landed. Largest fish taken this year to date, was the 36714 pound blue marlin landed here off Hatteras on Sunday, July 13, by Mrs. Ross Walker of Richmond, Va. Another record fish, a 53V4 pound channel bass, was landed at Waves on Hatteras Island by Amelia Bal lance of Buxton. Her fish be came a new world’s record for the species to be landed on 30-pound test line. Mrs. Mary Black of Chil licothe, O. landed a 97-pound cob ia on June 4, a new world’s rec ord for the species to be landed by a woman. DARE COURT CONVENES MONDAY, OCTOBER 20th The regular fall term of Su perior Court will convene Monday in Manteo, with Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn of Woodland presiding. Judge Burgwyn has held many terms in Dare, and is popular here. There is not much litigation ex pected to come before this year’s term. The opening day is Monday, October 20th. AS THIS EDITOR SEES IT By Roland F. Beasley in The Monroe Journal - This column has been sticking its neck out a good deal recently in regard to certain political matters. Recently I have refused to accept claims of the Republican campaign and have not accepted General Eisenhower’s appraisal of his own miracle working powers should he become Presi dent. I appraised the speech of Senator Nixon as nothing but a planned scheme to arouse an emotional jag among [the thoughtless which would obscure the real point which he so skillfully dodged. Before that I never took much stock in the hue and cry against President Truman which assum ed a degree of vindictiveness, vulgarity, and ignorant vic iousness, equalled in our history only by similar campaigns against Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson in their time. For this I have no doubt been by many considered a small time pig headed partisan who thought one party to be perfect and the other to be devilish. It is not the style now for many newspapers to have or express opinions that are based upon anything more than current fancy. And since I would not like for my friends who have long read this column to feel that way about it I will take the opportunity of saying a few words in explanaion, not in apology. I have been active to some extent in public affairs since the first issue of this paper appeared on February 8, 1894. The paper was born in a tumultuous political time. I can say modestly of these past fifty-eight years, as some one else said: “All of which I saw and some of which I was.” I have seen the North Carolina and the world transformed. I have espoused from the very beginning every measure in tended to widen the opportunity of the masses of the people in health, education, agriculture, industry, and public and social welfare. I have wished all this to do as much for the colored people as for the white people. I have never seen one of these measures initiated by the leadership of the Republi can party in state or nation. And in these years I have not only followed such activity and made such observances, but I have studied the political history of the country to try to find out why this is true. I cheerfully admit that among the earlier influences that pressed upon me were Millet’s picture of the “Man With the Hoe,” and Edwin Markham’s poem on the laborer “Bowed with the weight of centuries on his tjack.” In my youth I saw the actual man bowed down with the weight of centuries. And then I studied for years every chapter and verse of “Progress and Poverty,” that first moral indict ment in this country, not only of what ancient injustice had done to the common man, but what modem progress was repeating. And I studied the career of Andrew Jackson who was the first president of the United States to conceive the idea that something should be done for men who work with their hands. And notwithstanding the tragedy of the war which seemed to make him our enemy, I enshrined Abraham Lincoln in my heart as one of the world’s greatest demo crats. And when Woodrow Wilson came along and again cleared the air, I gave him my utmost devotion. Jacksoh, an aristocrat by nature, a democrat by conviction; Lincoln, by nature humble, an aristocrat in common sense and hu man sympathy; Woodrow Wilson, an intellectual aristocrat turning his intellect to the service of peace and humanity. I am not ashamed of the company I have kept. And haying kept such company through the years I am not easily impressed with the. fly-by-night political cam paigns which come and go, confuse and misguide the peo ple, and obscure fundamental facts, ignore the teaching of history, sobsister the public and drown reason and goodwill in a sea of frivolities. I was never for a moment deluded by the advocates of socialism, and I was crying out in my lim ited field against the savage tyrrany and falsity of commu nism from its very beginning. As to corruption in govem- See EDITOR, Page Five ROAD PROGRESS IN THREE YEARS IN OUR COUNTIES Much Has Been Done Under Hargett in Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington In a review of the State’s high way progress from the beginning of the current administration in January of 1949 to Sept. 30, 1952, reported that a total of $26,398,'* 801.67 had been spent in that period in the construction of roads and bridges in the Second Division. The figure does not in clude millions spent on mainte nance. The 12 counties in the Second Division include Beaufort, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington. Hargett reported that since January 1, 1949, a total of 1,192.- 44 miles of secondary roads had been paved in his Division and paid for with funds from the $200,000,000 bond issue voted by the people of the State in 1949. An additional 196.62 miles of county roads were paved with funds coming from sources other than the bond money, and 956.55 miles of country roads were sta balized for all-weather use. Considerable improvement also was made to primary highways. A total of 28.73 miles of primary highways were paved in the Sec ond Division, and another 249.- 17 miles were improved by wide ning or resurfacing or both. A total of 343 new bridges w<jre constructed in Hargett’s Division during the period covered in the report, and highway forces in stalled 593 culverts of 36-inch pipe size or larger. Additional hundreds of smaller culverts were installed. On the financial side, up to See PROGRESS, Page Five HUNTERS FROM MANY STATES POUR INTO COASTLAND FOR GREATEST HUNTING SEASON Opening: Day’s Down-Pour Brings Disap pointment; Calls for Drowning of Sorrows, Sadly Depleting Trip’s Supply of Cheer; Big Season Anticipated. MANTEO SAILORS AID IN RESCUE OF PORTUGUESE Norman Ward and Brantley Brown Write Home About Saving of Shipwrecked Crew at Sea By AYCOCK BROWN Details of the rescue of 12 Por tuguese fishermen from the perils of the sea 100 miles east of Sao Miguel island in the Azores, reached Manteo this week from two members of the crew of the SS Compass which hauled the sur vivors, adrift for six days, to safe ty and later delivered them to Lisbon, Portugal. Seafarers Norman Ward and Brantley Brown, Manteo residents, and Compass crewmen, gave a graphic description of the rescue, in letters airmailed on September 30, the day following the rescue. Their ship the Compass had sail ed from Norfolk with a cargo of coal on September 18th, bound for Savina, Italy. The 12 rescued men had been part of a crew of 80 aboard the fishing vessel John Costa of Lis bon .which had mysteriously ex ploded and sunk some 300 miles off the Azores on September 22 while enroute home with a full cargo after fishing for five months on the Grand Banks off Nova Sco tia. “A group of us in the Compass crew were off watch and sitting around talking about 3:30 on the afternoon of the rescue, when we heard some yelling. At first we thought someone had fallen over the side cf our ship but soon we learned that survivors had been sighted in three small dories, one on the port side of eur abip and the other two on the starboard,” wrote Brown. “We circled and got all three dories on our leeward and hauled them aboard. Thei<e had been 80 men in the crew of the John Cos ta. According to the survivors we picked up all members of the crew had jumped overboard as their vessel exploded and started to burn before sinking. By some mir acle, according to the stories they told us, all 21 dories aboard had been blown free and it was believ ed that each member of the crew had gotten aboard them safely. During the six days of drifting without food or water, except for the rain water they managed to catch during squalls, the fisher men-manned dories had become separated,” he continued. “Our ship, the Compass, search ed the area for more survivors and sent an SOS to rescue agencies on the European mainland and to other ships at sea. We have not learned whether the other surviv ors, 68 fishermen aboard 18 dories have been rescued, but search planes went out to look for them. We delivered our survivors to Lis bon on the following day, before our ship passed Gilbralter and continued on our voyage,” said Brown. “They were surely the happiest persons I have ever seen when rescued and they all hugged and kissed our crew members like half crazed people, and it was all a new experience for me,” wrote Brown who entered the Merchant Marine last year. The SS Compass’ agents in Norfolk is Sprague and Com pany. DEMOCRATIC RALLY IN ROBERSONVILLE OCT. 23 Next Thursday, October 23 at 5 p.m. in Robersonville, Martin County, will be held the First Con gressional District Democratic Rally. The high scshool gym will be the place. The meeting will be followed by a barbecue dinner. Principal state and district can didates will be present. Congress man Herbert C. Bonner declares plans have been made for a good meeting. MANTEO REBEKAHS TO HOLD SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION The Manteo Rebekah Lodge will hold a school of instruction Mon day night at eight p.m. October 20th in the town hall. District Dep uty President, Mrs. Katherine Ken nedy will preside and the Lodge Deputy, Mrs. - Gertrude Lennon. A full attendance is urged to attend this school of instruction. The Lodge has 115 members. Mrs. Mar garet White is Noble Grand. Single Copy It | Many a deer threw his bush jtail into the wind, what there {was of it, and departed leaving i 1 a merry ha-ha behind for the hordes of sportsmen who poured into the Coastland all day Mon day and Tuesday to. be a part of what everybody is looking for ward to as the biggest season , ever known in the counties of ,! Beaufort, Hyde, Dare and Tyrrell. - , I They all wanted to be on hand 1 jon the opening day of the deer season Wednesday and they got j here on time. Some came from las far away as Tennessee, Ohio, i Pennsylvania, and they filled up ! the hotels and cabins of Hyde, Dare and Tyrrell, and in the Bel -1 haven area. Some came with trucks, loaded with tents and cooking utensils, others brought trailers laden with hounds and motor boats, and considered themselves duly prepared for any emergency. Every available guide was an ticipating a good day, with lots | of tips, for Tuesday’s weather was so clear and balmy, it looked fine for the morrow. The sunset was rosy and golden. Even a deer was seen now and then chasing down the pike and the hunters could hardly wait to unlimber the guns before the deer leaped off into the leafy roadsides of U. S. 64 and 264. Came Wednesday morning and a dismal down-pour of rain. It . was enough to make stout hearts : i weep. It didn’t let up all day, like . it needed to encourage the deer , hunter. Weeds and bushes were ! too wet anyway. There was noth , ing to do but to stay home and I seek what consolation might be ’ found in nipping along on the supply of refreshment brought to , serve at night, and to outlast the [ trip. > Some of the hunters, with nothing to do but nip along all i day and far into the dismal night of Wednesday, didn’t feel like ■ getting out all Thursday mom • ing. But not all of them. Most of them kept in form. Some play ed cards and told tales, and others visited around the villages and got acquainted with the {folks. In one instance, a man | made arrangements to buy a : piece of land and build a hunting 1 he mightn’t have got ten around to had he been hunt ing. » Old hunters believe this is go ing to be the biggest season ever known in the Walter Raleigh Coastland. In many sections for est fires have been nil, so that game has flourished, and this sea son it has lots of cover. For an other thing, the publicity that has ben done on behalf of this area is creating a lot of interest in its sport. The fact that paved roads lead everywhere through it is getting more widely known. As a matter of fact, there are yet many sportsmen who still think See HUNTERS, Page Five CAPE HATTERAS SURF ANGLERS CATCH FISH Delmar Williams, local angler, landed two channel bass totaling 70 pounds while surfcasting at the Point of Cape Hatteras Sun day. The largest, and one of the largest channel bass reported the surf during the past week, weighed 45 pounds, according to Edgar Hooper, Buxton merchant who weighed them. “Surf fishing conditions have been perfect in the Cape Hatteras area since the sea moderated fol lowing a cold and rainy nar’eas ter last week and plenty of fish ermen have caught plenty of pup py drum, channel bass and trout,” said Hooper. * A1 DARE FILM TO BE SHOWN WEDNESDAY TO MANTEO PTA The Dare County film which was made some time ago and re leased by the Roanoke Island His i torical Association, will be shown to those attending the PTA meet ing in Manteo Wednesday night, October 22. Mrs. Raymond Wes ! cott president, urges all who can j do so to attend, both mothers and fathers, and all other interested citizens. The meeting will begin I at eight o’clock. Final announce i ments for the Hallowe’en carnival { will be made at that time, and a ! social hour will follow.