VOLUME XVII NO. 18
SEASHORE PARK
BOUNDARIES ARE
FULLY SET OUT
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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
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•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.
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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
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
L. L. SWAIN HEADS SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE
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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.
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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
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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<fti
on the ways of service life and
it’s discipline, and are instructed
in practical first aid methods and
personal hygiene. Their responsi
bilities as citizens are also stres
sed in weekly lectures. Daily
physical education periods help
to build sound minds and strong
bodies as well as encourage a
competitive spirit among the
men.
Ronald D. Styron, seaman re
cruit, U. S. C. G., and the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Styron
of 2007 Windy Road, Norfolk,
Va., is now undergoing the 12
week training period at Cape
May, N. J. Styron attended Cape
Hatteras High School, in Buxton,
where he made a letter in basket
ball. He was employed as an in
sulator by G. H. Gaskins and Cp.
before entering the ervice in
Augut of 1952.
FLOUNDER SURFACED
FOR BUCKTAIL LURE
Alice Sykes of the Sea Ranch,
on Southern Shores Beach, land
ed a 3-pound flounder Saturday
while fishing with her husband,
Travis Sykes, Trafton Robertson
and a party of friends from Nor
folk. «
That in itself is not considered
especially newsworthy, but the
manner in which her flounder
was taken even amazed Capt.
Lee Dough, veteran guide of
Manteo, who had taken the party
out on a striped bass expedition
into the waters of Croatan and
Albermarle Sounds. She -was trol
ling with a bucktail lure in fair
ly deep water when the flounder
surfaced, struck the lure, was
hooked and landed.
Hundreds of flounders are tak
en daily by anglers in Dare wat
ers on good Autumn fishing days,
but this was the first to be taken
with a lure trolled on the surface.
Usually flounders are taken with
shirmp or other bait from the
bottom of sounds and inlets.
TONY SPENCER’S STORE
ROBBERY SOLVED BECAUSE
OF A DEAD TAIL LIGHT
Norfolk, Manteo and Engelhard Trio Nabbed
by Edenton Police After Midnight Robbery
Tuesday, Now in Hyde Co. Jail; Clothing
Worth SSOO Recovered.
Capt. R. S. (Tony) Spencer, En
gelhard’s oldest merchant, was
peacefully sawing w’ood Monday
night, when at 2:30 of Tuesday
morning, three thieves broke into
his store and robbed it of more
than SSOO worth of clothing, which
they carried away to Edenton in an
automobile. Before store opening
time Tuesday morning, officers
were literally hammering on the
door, to get Mr. Spencer to open
up and take all his merchandise
back.
A burnt out tail-light resulted in
landing three young men in Swan
Quarter jail, where they await a
hearing before Judge Joe Simmons
on November 10th, who can set
bail. They have made a full con
fession which means their case
cannot be disposed of before next
May court.
Carroll Linwood Gibbs, na
tive of Engelhard, who now claims
Shawboro and Elizabeth City, as
his residence, Lawrence Gray of
Manteo, a native of Wanchese, and
Edward Beach, 33, of 605 May Ave
nue, Norfolk, have admitted the
stealing. Leaving Madison Bal
lance’s filling station where they
stopped about 10 p.m. Monday for
gas, they drove to Engelhard, and
by raising a window of Mr. Spen
cer’s store, right on the front of
the building, went in and loaded
their car with merchandise, —
mostly men’s, women’s and chil
dren’s ready to wear of various
kinds. They picked up a little bit
of money from the cash register,
probably $2.
They drove on through Fairfield,
Kilkenny, Columbia and to Eden
ton where a police officer stopped
them because the tail light of their
car was not burning. The officer
also checked the driver of the car,
Gibbs, as to his license to drive,
and finding he had none, and no
ticing the pile of clothing in the
back sea, took them down to the
station for questioning, when
Gibbs told the whole story, which
was denied by the others. After
getting in touch with Sheriff Char
lie Cahoon of Engelhard, arrange
ments were made to take the men
to Hyde County and to restore the
merchandise to Mr. Spencer. Wed
nesday, admissions by all were
made to the Sheriff.
Gibbs is the son of the late Cas-.
sius Gibbs of Engelhard. He has 1
been a more or less unstable char
acter since a youth, according to
reports of old neighbors. Gray is
employed as an automobile me
chanic in Elizabeth City, but is a
sucerer of TB. He is married.
He is the son of W. B. Gray of
Wanchese.
The case has renewed the clam
or of Engelhard citizens for the
employment of a full time peace 1
officer to protect the community.
They contend that although they
have the most populous area in
the county, scene of more mercan
tile activity and floating popula
tion, they are suffering undue ne
glect at the hands of the county
board in not giving them police
protection. They have no law of
ficer.
BEAR AND DEER HUNTING
STILL GOOD IN DARE
Bear and deer hunting is still
very good here on the mainland
of Dare County with more than
a score of bucks killed since the
season began and more than a
dozen bears bagged by more
hunters than have ever before
matched their skill against the
big game of this area.
One of the best kills of the
week, a 300-pound bear and
three dear, was bagged by a par
ty of five hunters including J.
M. Cooper and F. J. Cooper of
Norfolk, L. W. Johnson and M.
L. Johnson of Princess Anne, Va.,
and Red Hudson of Eliabeth City.
They were guided by E. P. Hud
son and Horace Hooper of Manns
Harbor.
Ken Ward’s party accounted
for one bear and one deer during
the week. Ward, who operates a
gunning club on the East Lake-
Manns Harbor link of Highway
64, stated that one hunter killed
a bear on th' > highway as he
awaited the arrival of Alligator
River ferry.
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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.