VOLUME XVII NO. 21
' PLANS SHAPING
FOR AIRPLANE’S
50th BIRTHDAY
, Memorial Association Launch
Effort Thursday in Eliz
abeth City for De
cember 17th
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By AYGOCK BROWN
Kill Devil Hills, N. C.—Avia
tion’s golden anniversary, a full
year of celebrations and observan
ces throughout the nation and
'world, will be launched here at the
>ite of the Wright Brothers first
flight on December 17, 1903, next
month, 49 years after their
achievement, if plans of Kill Devil
Hills Memorial Society material
ize.
Members of the Society which
each year sponsors an annual cele
bration of the first flight on at
the Wright Memorial Monument
here met in Elizabeth City this
week to map plans for the obser
vances next month on December
17.
General James B. Doolittle who
once was guest of honor at a local
celebration, years before his fa
mous “30 seconds over Tokyo” will
be asked to come here on Decem
ber 17th to officially launch the
full year of observances marking
a half century of aviation.
Ralph Whitener, program direc
tor of the Air Force Association,
Washington, D. C., flew down for
the Elizabeth City meeting. Miles
, Clark, chairman of the Society’s
Board of Directors turned the
meeting over to Whitener who dis
cussed tenative plans for the cele
bration here next month. He will
serve as liason between the so
ciety’s local sponsors and outstand
ing personalities of aviation who
will be asked to take part in the
program.
■,• David Stick, chairman of the
Society’s Museum Acquisition
Committee reported briefly on the
progress his group has been mak
ing towards the establishment of
a Wright museum and memorial
landing strip here at the site of
the first flight.
Howard Ruff, assistant CAA Ad
ministrator of Washington, attend
ed the meeting and outlined some
of the problems in connection with
getting federal aid for building
the air strip. He agreed that it
might be possible to get a special
grant from Congress to create the
air strip.
“It is an unfortunate situation
that modern airplanes cannot be
landed at the exact site of the
first flight of an airplane,” said
Ruff.
Chairman Clark appointed a
committee to wrok with the Gov
ernor of North Carolina and his
Director of Archives and History
to expedite the erection of hi#h
♦, way markers at the site of import
ant events of aviation in Dare
County, adjoining territories and
throughout the State.
“The eyes of the aviation world
See PLANS, Page Five
GOOD FISHING WEATHER
OPENS HUNTING SEASON
There were hundreds of hunt
• ers on the Dare coast from Curri
tuck to Ocracoke Inlet as the wild
fowl season opened Monday and
the weather was perfect—for fish
ing and bluebirds. Southeasterly
winds gave the coastal region, tem
peratures that ranged in the 70’s
and the sun shined brightly, ex
cept for fog that rolled in from
the sea late on Monday and cut
down visibility for people and
wildfowl.
In the Manteo-Nags Head area
a few dueks and geese were killed,
but few hunters had the limit to
boast about. The news from lower
Currituck and in the Kitty Hawk
region was some better but at
Hatteras, where a few hunters
had gone to match their shooting '
skill against brant and ducks the 1
weather was so perfect that hunt
ers went fishing instead of to stake 1
blinds out in Pamlico Sound. *.
Son\e of the hunters here last
night were grumbling about the
season opening so early for geese
and ducks. That is because in re
cent years weather almost like
summer or early autumn, prevails
until winter.
“It will take a nor’easter to get
the game flying close to the vicin
ity of point and sound blinds,”
said Capt. Omie Tillett, who di
vides his time between taking out
fishing and hunting parties at
Nags Head. No nor’easter was in
the offing, immediately and Tues- 1
day, seeond day of the season was
5 like Monday with warm southerly
winds and plenty of sunshine.
There are plenty of ducks and
geese this year, more, as a mat
ter of fact than have been here 1
along the coast in several- seasons,
but the shooting- weather, as the ■ '
open season began was too good
for good hunting. After a good 1
northeaster, the story will change. <
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
I Give
THANKS
By VERNETTA FAIRBAIRN
In the Country Gentleman
For all that is my life on an
American farm this Thanks
giving Day, I give thanks ...
*
On Thanksgiving morning in
Plymouth, Masachusetts, many
families will find five grains of
corn on their plates for break
fast. This is an old custom still
observed by some families in that
region.
These five grains of corn sym
bolize the pitiful ration to which
each of the pilgrims was reduced
during their first bitter winter.
O-t of latitude forth ? abun
dant harvest the foflowing fall
the Pilgr.ins establish .d Thanks
gi-' -ig r?y
Over t> ree hundred Thanks
g'vings later, I too, look at ou.
rarvest of com—bulgm-t bins of
it—and in a burst of gratitude
for all .het is my life on at>
American farm, I declare a
Thanksgiving Day in my heart.
. For Food. For our lockers bul
ging with fresh frozen foods, for
rows on rows of canned fruits,
vegetables and preserves, for
bins of potatoes, and a pit full
of root vegetables. As we bow
our heads and murmur “Father,
we thank Thee for this food” this
Thanksgiving Day we are re
membering that two thirds of the
peoples of the earth will go to
bed hungry. Yes, we’ve worked
hard for this bounty, but because
I live on an American farm my
family has first claim on the
fruits of our farm and our labors.
Were we a farm family in Russia,
our farm would be assigned a
quota of what we must produce
and a tiny portion would be re
turned to us after the govern
ment had taken its share.
For Soap. That seems like such
a little thing to give thanks for.
Here in America we take it so
for granted. But if I were a house
wife in China or Germany or
France my family could not en
joy the protection, nor I the lux
ury of abundant soapsuds. Our
family uses about 25 pounds of
soap a year, as against one eighth
of a pound per family in China,
about a pound of soap in France
per month and one cake of soap
for each family in Germany per
month. Yes, I give thanks for
soap and all it lends to the dig
nity and self-respect of our way
of life.
For My Electric Washing Ma
chipe. A laborsaving device not
shared by farm women in most
countries. This week around the
world housewives will be taking
the family wash to the mountain
brook in Czechoslovakia, to the
canal in China, to a river in Afri
ca, and to a washboard in Mexi
co. Yet in America we turn a
faucet and hot water gushes
forth—we turn a switch and the
soil is cleansed from our clothes.
For My Modern Range. To get
breakfast on a German farm this
morning, I would rise around
5:30 A. M. and prepare the cof
fee on a coal range (and it would
beets). Were I a housewife in
Czechoslovakia or Japan I would
See THANKS, Page Eight
NEW DUCK ROAD TO
COST NEARLY $50,000
Low bidder on the proposed
new hardsurface road to the com
munity of Duck in Dare county
was Ballenger Paving Co., whose
bid for the 3.77 miles this week
was $48,498. The road would be
gin on the Southern Shores road
; at a point one mile north of the
i bend of U. S. 158 at Kitty Hawk
I Beach.
I This road will open up a sec
i tion of considerable scenic beau-
I ty, sportsfishing and wildfowl
hunting, and will prove a god
send to the pupils of the Kitty
Hawk school from that area who
are obliged to ride the bus each
day.
MANNS HARBOR MAN
LANDS TWO TONS ROCK
Best catch of striped bass this
season from the Manns Harbor
area was reported this week on
Monday when Odell Tillett with
a purse net caught 4,000 pounds
of these beauties, which sold at
20 cents a pound or a total of
SBOO. Larry Midgett made a good
catch later in the week, his take
being 2,800 pounds. x
Many other good, but smaller
catches have been reported.
These fish bring good prices
when shipped to the markets of
Baltimore and New York, but
many fishermen prefer to sell for
cash to some of the local buyers.
CHEVROLET CARS
TO BE SOLD BY
HASSELL-CREEF
Leigh Hassell and Herbert
Crees Sole Owners of
Former Crees & Ward
Motor Co.
A contract was signed this week
with General Motors whereby the
Chevrolet dealership in Manteo
will operate under the firm name
of Hassell-Creef Motor Co. The
'stock 'owned by the late A. H.
Ward in Crees and Ward Motor
Co. was purchased this month of
his estate by L. D. Hassell of Man
teo, who has' been manager of the
business for the past 12 years.
The business was formed in
1939 by Herbert Crees of Manteo
and Alvah H. Ward who died dur
ing the past summer. The building
which now houses the business at
the intersection of U. S. 158, and
64 with Lodge Street, Manteo, was
erected at that time, and the local
Chevrolet dealership was assumed.
The plant is one of the best equip
ped in Eastern North Carolina.
The new owners will continue
the busness of selling and servic
ing automobiles, with possible en
largement of the .plant and facil
ities. Price of the stock and proper
ty purchased by Mr. Hassell was
not disclosed, but reliable sources
put it in excess of $30,000.
PUNGO REGION IN
MOVIE PREMIERE
OF BLACKBEARD
Participants from Belhaven
and Ocracoke Expected
to Take Part in New
York Nov. 26
Several people from the Belha
ve narea and from Ocracoke may
journey to New York next week
with expenses paid to take part in
a movie and television broadcast
in connection with the premiere of
the new technicolor movie about
“Blackboard the Pirate,” a produc
tion by Edmund Grainger, to be
released Nov. 26 by RKO Studiso.
Robert Newton plays the title role
of Captain Edward Teach, “Ter
ror of the Seas.”
Axson Smith received a tele
phone call in Belhaven Tuesday
from RKO officials in New York
asking that any relics of Black
beard, any treasure maps avail
able, or persons who have found
treasure, come to New York at the
expense of the studios.
In Beaufort County are several
people who have dug up treasure,
and at least one man on Ocracoke
Island claims kinship with Teach’s
men.
Mr. Smith has called on Victor
Meekins, publisher of the Belha
ven Pilot, Aycock Brown of coast
al publicity fame, and Dr. W. T.
Ralph, Mayor of Belhaven, to as
sist him with arranging a pro
gram for the opening of this fa
mous movie s
Blackbeard’s origin is uncertain,
but he began his notorious career
by looting ships and committing
atrocities throughout the West In
dies during the latter part of the
17th century. He subsequently
See MOVIE, Page Four
WHAT A BABY COSTS.
“How much do babies cost,” said he
The other night upon my knee;
And then I said: “They cost a lot;:
A lot of watching by a cot,
A lot of sleepless hours and care,
A lot of heartache and despair;
A lot of fear and trying dread,
And sometimes many tears are shed
In payment for our babies small,
But every one is worth it all.
„ “For babies people have to pay
A heavy price from day to day—
There is no way to get one cheap.
Why, sometimes when they’ra. fast asleep
You have to get up in the night
And go and see that they’re all right.
But what they cost in constant care
And worry, does not half compare
With what they bring of joy and bliss—
You’d pay much more for just a kiss.
“Who buys a baby has to pay
A portion of the bill each day;
He has to give his time and thought
Unto the little one he’s bought. «
He has to stand a lot of pain >
Inside his heart and not complain:
And pay with lonely days and sad
For all the happy hours he’s had.
All this a baby costs, and yet
His smile is worth it all, you bet.”
—Edgar A. Guest.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952 •
A DAZZLING PAIR OF MANNS HARBOR GIRLS
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MARY FAY and FRANCES KAY, weight 36 and 37 pounds respective
ly are almost identical twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Flay Kemp of
Manns Harbor ,now making a temporary home in Elizabeth City. They
have been spending six weeks with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Stewart Jones. They are two and a half years old. Their mother is the
former Melba Jones.
News of Columbia & Tyrrell Co.
For Subscriptions, see Mrs. Blanche W. Cohoon, or Call Her,
Phone 317-1, Columbia, N. C. She will welcome news of
Columbia and Tyrrell County
TYRRELL’S HOME
CLUBS HOLD DAY
OF ACHIEVEMENT
Successful Event Follows
Full Program in Colum
bia; Many Awards
Made
Columbia. —There was hustle
and bustle in the air early last
Wednesday, when the Home
Demonstration Clubs throughout
the county were preparing for
their annual Achievement Day.
Handwork was being displayed,
flower arangements were being
made for competition among the
different clubs in the Agriculture
building.
The program was held in the
opening with the song “Faith of
Columbia Theatre at 2:00 P. M.
our Fathers,” followed by De
votional by Rev. George C. Fields
Jr. Special music was rendered
by the Columbia High School
Glee Club under the direction of
County Council President, Mrs.
C. W. Spruill, presided. The coun
ty report for 1952 was given by
Mrs. Phillip Swain, Jr., and Mrs.
Dan Davis. Highlights of said re
port: 13 Home Demonstration
Clubs in Tyrrell with 275 mem
bers, 25 new members added to
roll during year, and 16 members
lost. Twenty-two Nutrition and
Home Dairy Leaders, Sixteen
Health and Clothing Leaders at-
tended training schools m their
respective courses in May, One
Club member as publicity Chmn.
for the Eastern District in fis
cal year 1951-52, six leaders ser
ved on the program planning
committed for Home Demonstra
tion and 4-H Club Work for 1953.
New homes built two, remodeled
homes 14, Sewage systems 5 and
water systems 9 installed: Bath
Rooms installed 8;
Storage Space added 11; Articles
of furniture refinished 49; floors
refinished 12; Laundry equip
ment installed 12; Families im
proving their home grounds 49;
new electrical equipt. purchased
104; 347 new garments made,
and 290 remodeled. 54 Club mem
bers have pressure cockers; 31
have home freezing units, and 6
rent lockers, during 1952, 9,105
quarts of foods canned and 3,703
lbs. frozen. The winning Creed
for the Eastern District was from
Tyrrell: 25 Club members to re
ceive perfect attenrance pins; 28
Club members to be presented
book review certificates
After the singing of “The Uni
ted Nations Hymn” Mrs. Floyd
B. Spencer, of the Columbia Club
presented the speaker Mrs. H. M.
Johnson, immediate past presi
dent, N. C. Federation of Home
Demonstration Clubs, who had as
her theme “Serving as Loyal Cit
izens through Demonstration."
She urged the women to find
their personal responsibility; to
find and recognize our problems
and to think them through; that
5% would rather die than to
think; that home is where begins
the foundation of all problems;
the world’s crisis is in our hands,
for men to get along together;
If we cannot settle our differen
ces in the homes, how can we
settle the differences in commun
ity, nations and the world? we
are like pebbles dropped into the
sea, the small *ripples start, end
ing ultimately in the large waves
See COLUMBIA, Page Five
THOUSANDS OF DECOYS
READY TO LURE DUCKS
AND GEESE ON MONDAY
Manteo.—While it is unlawful to
hunt over live decoys in the sounds
and marshes of coastal North Car
olina, wildfowl will be lured with
in gunshot of hundreds of point,
stake, and other types of blinds
just the same. The flock flying
overhead will see another flock on
the waters below and come in for
a landing. That is when the shoot
ing begins, because the flock see
by the flying ducks and geese were
anchored around blinds to lure the
game with in range.
While some guides and hunters
use modern plastic, cloth or rub
ber decoys, the majority of old
timers still use wooden decoys,
painted to look like their live cop
sins. There are thousands of wood
en decoys still in use along the
coast. Capt. Wayland Baum, vet
eran guide of Wanchese, has more
than 800 wooden duck, brant and
goose decoys, and that is only a
few of the many similar decoys
that will be luring game to blinds
Monday.
GREAT ACTIVITY
IN KITTY HAWK
SCHOOL THIS YEAR
Neither Sports Nor Studies
Neglected in This Active
School
Members of the Kitty Hawk
School, both the student body
of only 39 students and the two
faculty members are quite proud
of the work that has begun in
this school pear.
The English classes are spon
soring an anual—Ocean Echo—
for the first time in mny years.
There are twelve students on
the staff with Phyllis Sawyer
as Editor-in-Chief and Dawn
Tillett as Business Manager. The
staff have solicited $475 of ads
and compliments in Dare Coun
ty, alone. One hundred and five
orders have been taken by the
subscription manager. It is ex
pected that the copies will be
ready for delivery by March 1-
st. The annual will have 52
pages with the dedication to the
parents.
These students have under
taken other projects also and
are successfully making great
advancement. The French class
has organized a club for those
averaging A. The club, Les
Contents Chats, already have
sponsored a successful dance,
and have many other objectives
for the future including a
Thanksgiving Dance, Christmas
banquet, an one-act play in
French and a Scrapbook of
French recipes. Officers are
Perry, vice president; and Dawn
Tillett, sec.-treas.
Students of the English clesses
have organized an Emerson So-
See ACTIVITY, (Page Five
SMITH URGES US
TO CUT FOREIGN
GIVEAWAY FUNDS
Balanced Budget Advocated
by N. C. Senator in Eliz
abeth City
Senator Willis Smith, speaking
this week to the Jaycees in Eliz
abeth City, called for a balanced
federal budget and a cut in taxes.
He said one way to accomplish this
would be by sharp cuts in foreign
aid expenditures.
Speaking before the quarterly
board meeting of the North Caro
lina Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Smith said that “whereas the Unit
ed States should carry out its hon
est committments abroad, there is
no question but that our foreign
aid expenditures can be cut severe
ly without impairing the overall
purpose and efficiency of the pro
gram.”
“Os course we should be willing
tc help other nationss,” Smith said,
“But we must think of our own
economy. There will be nobody to
help us in the event of an econom
ic tailspin in the United States.”
Smith declared that our govern
ment is “far too big.” In recent
years, he said, “We have heard
much about the evils of ‘big busi
ness’. I agree, but far worse is
‘big government’.”
Citing official government fig
ures the Raleigh Senator said that
as of Nov. 5 the national debt
stood at just under 265 billion dol
lars. On a per capita basis, he
said ,every family of four in Amer
ica owes $7,000 as its share of the
national debt.
“And even in the past seven
years of confiscatory taxation,”
Smith said, “We have seen our
national debt, not reduced,.but in
creased by more than six billion
dollars.”
The senator stated that the For
eign Aid Program has claimed a
healthy chunk of the tax dollar.
He pointed out that from July
1940 through June 1952, U. S. ex
penditures for foreign aid totaled
more than 104 billion dollars. This
does not include our own defense
expenditures, he said.
Taxes must be cut, Senator
Smith said, “else the average
young man will find that his op
portunity to accumulate savings
and build his own business will be
destroyed.”
NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS
Effective at once, copy sent
to this newspaper for publication
written in pencil will be thrown
in the waste basket. There are
many good reasons for this, but
two of them suffice: It is too
difficult to set without the type
setter being unable to decipher
and it is too difficult to edit.
Further, it embarrasses us to
print names incorrectly in the
paper as a result of these diffi
culties. Copy unless typewritten,
must be written in ink. We wish
to print all the news possible,
but we cannot do the impossible.
Single Copy 70
HENRY ALBERT’S
SHRIMP PLANT
CHANGES HANDS
Beaufort County People Buy
Big Establishment at
Wanchese Soid by
RFC
The fabulous plant built four
years ago at Wanchese by Henry
Albert of New York was sold on
November 10th by the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corp, to Clara M.
.Wharton, of South Creek, Beau
fort County. The price is not re
vealed in the deed which has gone
to record in Manteo.
Local rumor is that the RFC
swallowed a big loss and sold for
$12,000. It is anticipated the stor
age equipment will be moved to
Pamlico County, and by the new
owners the buildings dismantled
and sold.
A few months ago, the RFC
brought an action to foreclose its
mortgage in which it had loaned
Mr. Albert about $30,000 in the
construction of the plant, which
was financed in hope of stimulat
ing employment, and developing
the seafood business. The RFC
did not have to bid the full amount
of the sum due it. Its bid was
$7,000.
The plant never did prove suc
cesssful. It was involved with
many wild schemes, including the
bringing of live shrimp from the
Gulf of Mexico to be processed at
Wanchese.
With the plant goes a vast
amount of equipment, including
cold storage machinery, etc. The
site includes one and 42/100 acres
of land at Davis Landing, Roa
noke Island, near Wanchese
Wharf.
FERRIES STILL ARE
BOTTLENECKS IN DARE
By AYCOCK BROWN
Manteo—North Carolina opei
ated toll-free ferries here in Dare
County are still proving to be bot
tlenecks for tourist travel which
at this season of the year includes
a great number of fishermen and
hunters.
Bill Mason, former mayo 1 * of
Oriental, here a few days ago,
stated that he and a group of
friends had left home planning to
make a round trip tour to Hatter
as .coming to Dare via U. S. High
way 64.
“Because the first ferry was
loaded to capacity, we had to wait
two hours before we could get
passage across Croatan Sound to
Manteo,” said Mason.
“Then,” he i-dded, “we hurried
on down ro Oregon Inlet uni got
in line hoping to get aboard the
ferry. After waiting an hour and
when it appeared that we wcnld
have a chance to get aboard the
next ferry, the Captain of the fer
ry asked us if we were planning
to go to Hatteras and return the
same day, which was on Sunday.”
“When we told him that we
planned to make the trip down to
Hatteras and come back after see
ing the attractions of the island
he~ (the ferry skipper) told us it
was no use.” *
' “Even if you get across to Hat
teras Island today, you won’t be
able to come back until tomorrow,”
said the ferry skipper,” because
there are dozens of cars over there
now trying to get back today.”
That is only one of many simi
lar examples of what the State
is doing, or not doing, to provide
transportation for motorists and
See FERRIES, Page Five
PLEASE LET US HAVE YOUR
NEWS WHEN IT IS NEWS
We are frequently finding it nec
essary to discard copy concerning
community happenings, that some
one has gone to the trouble of
writing, without taking thought of
its lack of value. This week for
instance there came to us a news
I item about an affair that happened
November 6th. That was two weeks
ago in this issue. It could have
been written and sent us the day
after or three days after for that
matter when it was news. Its value
as news is now gone. Moreover, in
the article attention was called
to the importance of another meet
ing today, to which all people
were urged to go. It would be a
waste of space of course, to print
things of this type.
We do not print articles simply
because one or two people like to
see their names or a friend’s name
in print. It ie costly business oper
ating a typesetting machine, and
what it sets must be justified. We
welcome news when it is news,
when it has some meaning for
everyone who reads it. But please
do not waste your time and ours
by sending us items about ordinary
meetings two weeks old.
We are often expected to spend
$5 for an engraving, whereby we
See NEWS, Page Eight