VOLUME XVII NO. 18 SEASHORE PARK BOUNDARIES ARE FULLY SET OUT > Coastland Times Publishes Detailed Maps by Courtesy of Park Service Detail maps of the boundaries lines of the proposed Cape Hatter as Seashore being estsablished by the National Park Service are published in full, covereing all sections on Bodie, Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. The Coastland Time's, is pleased to send this information to its readers through arrangements with the National Park Service. | Early this month, Conrad Wirth, j the Director of the National Park I Service paid a visit to the people , living near the area, and gave as surance that the public would be kept fully informed. This was in line with the sug gestion made by this newspaper, and proved that a great many peo ple had “hollered” before they were hurt; in that most, of those who “hollered” loudest had noth ing to lose in any event. Most-bit ter remarks about the project were made by many people who owned not a foot of land. A great part of the whole uproar was inspired by the able minds of people who wanted to block the Park in order to make profits for themselves, or to keep large areas for their own use. It was extreme ly noticeable, that those who were most active in this opposition were people who had never been noted for contributing much themselves to causes for the public benefit. Since the visit of Park Director Wirth many substantial citizens of Hatteras Island who had feared too much restriction from the pro posed park, have declared they made a mistake and got misled. Some have said that they see through the scheme inspired for selfish purposes. Director Wirth, not only wishes to keep the people informed, but he urges the people not to sell their lands to speculators. He believes in future they will derive far greater profit from the land, prof its that will come largely by rea son of what .the Park will do for the area. There is no desire on the part of the Park Service to impose a hardship, or loss upon anyone. Like most farsighted interests, they believe the fame and the greatness of the Cape Hatteras area is a mighty trust in the hands of the people, to be safe guarded fbr future generations of the nation. Time will prove the vision and the wisdom of this course to be far better than the policy of allowing this region to become spoiled by the forces of selfishness and greed. CHANNEL BASS APPEAR IN BIG SCHOOLS AT HATTERAS / , •Hatteras.—G re a t schools of channel bass have arrived in the waters of Oregan Inlet, but few persons are fishing for this spe cies from boats at the present. Instead, the scores of channel • bass anglers coming tq Hatteras Island daily prefer matching their skill against the fish in the surf. And surfcasters, for the most part are taking only small or medium size fish ranging from five to 20 pounds each. Exception was made on the weekend when two Mansfield. Ohio anqlers, Charles Swanker and M. *W. Sims made a short trip here to try the surfcasting. From the breakers along the ocean beach abreast Hatteras village they landed two chan nel bass, a 47-pourider and a-| nother fish that weighed more than 50 pounds. “Our scales went only to 50-pounds, and his fish was heavier than that,” said Scotty Gibson of the Atlantic View Hotel who did the weigh- I ing. i “There are acres of channel bass at the Inlet now,” contin ued Gibson, “but the only per sons fishing for them are fish ermen returning from the Gulf Stream. The way to catch the big channel bass of these big, schools in the inlet is by cast- 1 ing with cut or »artificial bait j from boats that are allowed to | drift through the fish. Apparent ly few persons coming here now■ like that type of fishing, as most of them either fish from the surf or go to the Gulf Stream.” “In the Gulf Stream anglers i are still catching plenty of dol phin, little tuna and bonita,” said Gibson. “This has been an excellent autumn season for off shore fishing since the stormy weater of September. The sea 'has been calm and suitable for offshore fishing just about every day.” THE COASTLAND TIMES ’ . - ■ ■ . . I PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA L. L. SWAIN HEADS SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE I I •> ■ * Lawrence L. Swain, left, of Manteo, was elected president of the Southern Albemarle Association at the afternoon business session of the group’s annual meeting, which was held in Columbia Thursday. Melvin R. Daniels, right, of Wanchese, was elected vice-president for Dare County. Speakers for the morning session were Governor Kerr Scott and Dr. Henry Jordan, chairman of the Highway Commission. CITRUS TREES ON OUfER BANKS A BIG ATTRACTION Buxton.—Sportsfishermen com ing to Hatteras Island to match their skill against game fish of the surf and surrounding waters at this season are usually amaz ed at the results they have. They are also amazed to find citrus fruit, oranges, grapefruit and cumquats growing here at Cape Hatteras and in nearby communi ties. Ben Dixon Mac Neill, who lives here at Buxton-on-Cape Hatteras is the man mostly responsible for the hundreds of citrus fruit trees now growing in the yards %f island residents. It was he, who with the active aid of Board Member Fred Latham of Belha ven and the cooperation of De partment of Conservation and Development officials in Raleigh, that got the folks interested in setting out the plants which the department had shipped here from Florida. Mac Neill will tell you there are some 700 citrus fruit trees growing on the island at present. The citrus trees which really amae visiting anglers and tour ists though are those which have been growing here for the past several years. One such tree in the front yard of the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. White at Buxton is about 15 years old. It is about 25 feet high and each year for the past sev eral winter seasons it has borne fruit. This tree originated from a grapefruit seed Mrs. White threw into the pard. The fruit on this tree, now about ripe, is as large as the average grapefruit from cultivated groves in Flori da. During the mid-thirties Capt. Loren Barnett at Cape Hatteras Coast Guard station bought some pigs which he fed on table scraps from the CCC-Camp here at the time. In the scraps one day were some orange seeds. The seed of an orange slipped behind the pig pen, in the back yard of the Bar nett home. It sprouted and today is one of the largest orange trees on Hatteras Island, about 30 feet high and each year it bears bush els of fine oranges. BIG CATCH OF CHANNEL | BASS MADE AT HATTERAS Hatteras.—S ixt ee n channel bass, 10 of them ranging from 30 to 40 pounds each, were land ed in Hatteras Inlet on Monday by a group of New Jersey ang lers who came here primarily for the surfcasting. Six of the total catch were smaller, aver aging about 12 pounds each. Mr. and Mrs. Harvty Young and Miss Dorothy King of Point Pleasant, and Mr. and Mrs. O. B. | Cunningham and T. J. Borner, of Headdenville, were the ang jlers. The fish they were landing |in the surf had been small, in the “puppy-drum” class, or chan !nel bass weighing less than 15 pounds each. They heard about the big schools of channel bass in the .nearby inlet and chartered Cant. Ernal Foster’s Albatros II for some boat fishing. Casting into the “acres of channel bass” now reported in Hatteras Inlet, the surf casters started getting strikes, and fish, a total of 16 in less than two hours of fishing. They were using cut bait to at tract the fish. ' ■ CONFERENCE RETURNS METHODIST MINISTERS Few Changes in Pastorales of Coastland North Carolina Sunday There were few changes in Coastal N. C. charges when Meth odist ministers of eastern North Carolina received their appoint ments at Conference which was held in Burlington last week. Those of interest in this section are as follows: Elizabeth City District: F. S. Love, district superintendent; Bath, A ,C. Regan; Belhaven, L. P. Jackson; Columbia, E. R. Meek ins; Creswell, J. T. Smith; Curri tuck, J. O. Jernigan; Hatteras, W. B. Gregory; Kinnakeet, P. M. Por ter; Kitty Hawk, W. J. Freeman; Manteo, H. R. Ashmore; Matta muskeet, W. O. Conner; Plymouth, P- L. Fouts; Roper, Vance Lewis; Stumpy Point, A. L. G. Stephen son; Swan Quarter, D. M. Lewis; Wanchese, C. W. Guthrie; Wash ington, D .E. Earnhardt. Washing ton Circuit, C. R. Newton. Among those retired were L. T. Singleton of Belhaven and J. M. Jolliff of Gatesville, who served in Manteo some yeasr ago. Retir ed from the Wilmington distinct was L. D. Hayman, native of Dare County. Mr. Hayman will contin ue to serve Carolina Beach. In the New Bern district, -M. Y. See CONFERENCE, Page Twelve BEAUTY AND BLUES AT HATTERAS • mT -- I Jk a ■ .•jK: j?-? IB 1 -A- ' " Ik 1 BWI V ' WW |u 'W w ;W ' •’ ■ I - „ ' * ? fW Bluefish such as those Winona Peele was holding when this Dare County Tourist Bureau publicity picture was made on Willie Newsome's pier at Hatteras some time ago are still being caught in Hatteras waters, but mostly by commercial fishermen as anglers going to the island during the autumn season are after bigger game, such as channel bass and Gulf Stream fishes. As a publicity picture, the shot of Winona and the blues served its purpose, and has been published in newspapers throughout the nation attracting attention to the fine sportsfiphing of Dare County generally and Hatteras in particular. Since the picture was made, Winona won first place in the Outer Banks Beauty Con test, a feature of the receht Hatteras Island Highway celebration pro moted by Levene Midgett of Rodanthe and other island boosters. (Photo by Aycock Brown) MANTEO, N. C„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1952 MALOOF’S MILLION GOES IN MANSION NEAR WASHINGT’N Man Who Recently Owned Most of Dare County, Buys Magnificent Welles Home By AYCOCK BROWN Fred N. Maloof, noted art en thuiast and for several years own er of some 165,000 acres of Dare County’s big-game hunting and lumber lands has bought the Oxon Hill Manor, classical Georgian mansion of Sumner Welles, form er Secretary of State, according to a story in the Washington, D. C., STAR on Sunday. The Washington newspaper re ported that the famous art enthus iast capitulated after one look at the sprawling two-story brick structure of some 40 rooms, the imposing assortment of supporting buildings, the swimming pool and perhaps most of all, the breathless vistas of boxwood sweeping ter races and the Potomac at sunset. “It’s a collector’s dream come true,” said Maloof,” as stimulat ing as any painting I ever bought.” Mr. Maloof forthwith produced a check for $175,000 to seal the b deal. The new owner of the place right -across the river from Alexandria busied himself then with about the biggest housekeeping job in these parts. He knows he has bitten off a big chunk of real estate but he has big plans for it, too. First of all, he wants to preserve the estate in the historical manner to which it has become accustomed. Located on Oxon Hill road in Prince Georges County, 15 minu tes from Washington, the land is part of that granted to the family of John Addison by King Charles I, in 1634. John Hanson, the first president of the Continental Con gress, died there and is buried on the estate. The original house burned in 1895, and in 1929 Mr. Welles built the present structure on 246 acres of scenic land sloping to the broad Potomac. Visualize Art Center Mr. Maloof’s plans encompass more than preservation of his tory. He visualizes the spacious manor as a resting place for some of his rarest early American art pieces, as well as his Phoenician and Greek works. “I want to keep Oxon Hill Man or alive for the public, to continue annual garden tours, and most of all to make it a meeting place for artists,” he said. “I’ve always visualized Wash- See MANSION, Page Twelve RECORD VOTE IN STATE EXPECTED NEXT TUESDAY Party Leaders Urge Early Voting by All Qualified Next Week, Nov. 4th Tuesday of next week, Novem ber 4th is election day. It may be an extremely important day to the State and nation. A large vote can do no harm, and it most certainly will do a lot of good. For one thing, it will favorably assert the apportionment of delegates to conventions. It will impress the world at large with the size and volume of our interest in public affairs. There has beena considerable in crease in registration in all North Carolina. Because of this, other wise late comers in the afternoon may not get time to vote before closing hour. Raleigh.—North Carolina Dem ocratic Party leaders have called the general election next Tuesday “one of the most important” in history and have urged every reg istered voter in the State to exer cise his ballot right. B. Everett Jordan, State Demo cratic Executive Committee Chair man, and William B. Umstead, Democratic nominee for Governor issued the statements and called on voters to get to the polls early in view of heavy registrations. Jordan’s statement is as fol lows: “Every report we have received throughout North Carolina in the last few days indicates the grow ing popularity of the Democratic cause and I predict that the Dem ocratic Party will achieve an out standing victory for Governor See VOTE, Page Four DARE COUNTY SEAMEN TRAIN IN NEW JERSEY Hudean O’Neal of Manteo and Ronald Styron of Hatteras in Cape May C. G. School CAPE MAY, N. J.—Hudean R. O’Neal, seaman recruit, U. S. C. G., the son of Mr. and Mrs. War ren R. O’Neal, of Manteo, is now undergoing the 12 week course of recruit training at the U. S. Coast Guard Receiving Center at Cape May, N. J. The course sche dules the basis duties encounter ed as a member of the nation’s oldest seagoing force. Recruit O’Neal is a graduate of Manteo High School, where he won a letter in football. He was engaged in commercial shrimp fishing before entering the Coast Guard jn August of 1952. The curriculum of the Coast Guard recruit is varied and ex tensive in both a military and personal sense, in order to meet the Service’s manifold needs. The men received indoctrinati highway as he awaited the arrival of Alligator River ferry. Single Copy 7# SHRINE CLUB PLANS BIG DANCE SATURDAY Norfolk Orchestra to Be Featured at Big Hallowe’en Blow-Out at Nags Head Shrine Hall November 1 The Dare County Shrine Club plans one of its biggest occasions Saturday night, November 1, at its new hall on lower Nags Head beach, acording to R. S. Smith, Club secretary. This big time is featured as a Hallowe’en party, and all visitors are expected to wear a costume of some sort, pre ferably of the comic type made from old clothing. The dance will begin at 9 p. m. Mr. Smith says that more con crete has been poured, and there will be additional parking space. A Norfolk orchestra, The Mar shallaires will furnish music, and admission is $3 per couple only to Shriners, and invited guests of Shriners. A grand prize will be provided. GULF STREAM FISH TAKEN NEAR WRECK OF SUNKEN TANKER Hatteras, N. C.—Joe Massolet ti, New York restaurant owner and a party of friends stopping at his lodge here discovered on Monday that it was not necessary to make the long trip to the Gulf Stream to catch Gulf Stream fish. From aboard Masoletti’s cruiser, Coco, skippered by Hallas Foster, the party started for blue water off Cape Hatteras but decided to try a bit of trolling in the vicinity of the S. S. Australia wreck which was sunken by a German submarine during World War 11. Using feathers for lures, the party started trolling and in a hort time had landed seven am berpack, four false albocore and one dolphin. These Gulf Stream fish were landed several miles inshore of the inner limits of the Stream which is about 12 miles southeast of the point of Cape Hatteras. SURF FISHINGS TOPS ALONG AVON BEACH ON HATTERAS ISLAND Avon, N. C.—Best fishing re ports of the week here on Hat teras Island originated in the surf along the beach abreast of Avon. And Dr. Joseph F. McFad den of Norfolk reeled in the lar gest fish—a 35-pound channel bass. “Dr. McFadden also caught several small channel bass, some speckled trout, flounders and kingfish,” said Charles Williams, proprietor of Cape Hatteras Ho tel here. Williams also reported that: C. J. Lund of Hempstead, N. Y. landed six channel bass rang ing from five to 12 pounds, a six pound black drum and sev eral varieties of surf feeding fish es. W. B. Yoder and a party of Hickory, North Carolina anglers brought in seven channel bass weighing from 3 to 20 pounds and eight speckled trout rang nig from two to six pounds. Eight channel bass ranging landed by T. T. White of Nor folk. He also caught six trout ranging from two to six pounds each. D. Houseman of Norfolk, fish ing for channel bass near Avon hooked and brought to the beach a 150 pound shark, the largest shark taken from-the surf in this area so far this season. Angler Houseman also got his channel bass, a 40-pounder, while fishing the surf on Saturday. HALLOWE'EN EVENT AT KITTY HAWK SCHOOL A Hallowe’en Carnival spon sored by the Parent Teacher As sociation will be held at Kitty Hawk School Friday night, Oct. 31, starting at 7:30 p. m. Entertainment will include a door prize, Costume Parade, cake walk, Fish pond, Fortune Tell ing, spook house. Horseshoe pit ching and bowling. Everyone is invited to come out and join in the fun.