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VOLUME XVII NO. 23 YOUNG WIFE KILLS BOTH SELF AND SPOUSE MONDAY Wanchese Couple Buried Wednesday Following Dou ble Tragedy Near Nor folk A Wanchese couple, victims of murder and suicide by the frantic wife, were buried Wednesday aft ernoon, following services at the Methodist Church at Wanchese. Esau Edison Gallop, 37, and An nie Laura Gallop, his wife, who shot him and then herseslf, were buried together in the Cudworth Cemetery. The couple were living in Ocean View, Va., at the time of the tra gedy Monday afternoon, which had its beginning in the dining room and ended in the living room of their home at 1016 Modoc Ave nue. Gallop was a marine engi neer, employed by the McAllister Towing Co. The couple had been to Manteo over the week end. They had been on the verge of separa tion many times .The wife was hysterical because her husband, she said, did not treat her right and properly provide for herself and family. Present at the time were Bar bara Jean Gallop, 12, and the baby, Alice May, 16 months old. The other child, Oswald Edison, 16, was not at home. v “I was in the next room when my father was shot,” Barbara Jean related. “Then I saw mother come from the dining room into the liv ing room with the gun in her hand. I tried to get it away from her. 1 grabbed hold of it and yelled. My mother wouldn’t let go and the gun was pointing at me. I was afraid it might go off and shoot me. A lady next door yelled to me to get out of the house and come over there, so I ran out of the front door.” , As Barbara Jean reached the neighbor’s house, another shot was heard. This was the one which killed Mrs. Gallop. The little girl said she heard no argument prior to the shooting. “But mother had been sick,” she said. Sgt. Ernest M. Towe, who in vestigated for the homicide squad, said that Mrs. Gallop had been treated by a physician for a nerv ous breakdown earlier in the day. Following the double shooting, neighbors and Barbara Jean en tered and brought the baby out of the house. Answering a call from neigh bors, Towe, Detective Lawrence Benton and Patrolmen C. F. San ders and J. L. Skaggs arrived. They found Gallop sprawled on the dining room floor, a gaping wound in the top of his head. In the liv ing room, beside the shotgun, lay Mrs. Gallop, her head shattered by the shotgun blast. The gun, Towe said, had been flred twice. The Gallops had been residing in the Modoc Avenue bungalow for about a year. Mrs. Gallop, daughter of the late Albert and Mrs. Annie Laurie Cudworth Daniels, was a native of .Wanchese, where she was a mem ber of the Methodist Church. In addition to the three chil dren, she is survived by three brothers, Curtis Daniels, of Man teo, Luther Daniels of Raleigh, and Clyde Daniels of Pittsburgh, Pa., and some half-brothers and sisters. Mr. Gallop, son of Mrs. Delilah Meekins Gallop, of Wanchese, and the late Marvin Leslie Gallop, al so was a native of Wanchese, and like his wife, was a member of the Wanchese Methodist Church. Besides the children and his mother, he is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Alice Hayman and Mrs. Stella John, both of Norfolk,* and Mrs. Theresa Daniels, of Pittsburgh, and two brothers, Lawrence Gallop and William Gal lop, of Wanchese. PILOT WHALE ASHORE ON HATTERAS BEACH H ATTERAS.—A small' pitot whale measuring about 12 feet from tip to tip was beached here this week during stormy weather offshore. It is the first of the species to be reported ashore along the coast since last spring when several were frightened and driv en onto the beach between Nags Head and Oregon Inlet. The small whale on the beach here was discovered by Theodore O’Neal. Locally the blunt-nose specimen is called “blaekfish.” They travel in sizable herds off the coast during the late autumn and winter months and when frightened they often hit the beach | They halve very small eyes on eith er side of their large blunt heads, and because they are unable to see very well is said to be the reason they often come ashore, sometimes living for a day or two on the dry sand before dying. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA HERBERT PEELE, 70, DIES SUDDENLY IN ELIZ. CITY 1 11111 *i 11 i b jRRBHPRnL Jillillir & k «kS media nMMHUi "!*>■ 188 ; 'Jjjl ‘ ; w. Jplfp?: "JHD Funeral services for Herbert Peele, veteran newsman of Eliza beth City who died Tuesday morn ing, were conducted Thursday morning at 11 o'clock at Christ Episcopal church. The Rev. Geo. Frank Hill, rector, officiated, as sisted by the Rev. R. W. Kick lighter, pastor of Blackwell Me morial Baptist church, and the Rev. W. W. Finlator, pastor of the First Baptist Chqrch. Mr. Peele’s body was found on the sidewalk in front of the Kra mer Building on E. Main street Tuesday morning by Irvin Shan non, colored janitor of the Carolina ■Building, who reported the finding of the body to police headquarters at 6:49. Mr. Peele had gone downtown with Mrs. Peele to gather news for the early morning newscast over his radio station WGAI. He had gone to a case for a cup of coffee and was stricken just before reach ing the entrance to the Kramer building in which the radio station stndios are located. No one saw him when he fell to the sidewalk and died. Dr. W. H. C. White, coroner, who viewed the body, said that he vlas of the opinion that the dean of Elizabeth City newsmen died of coronary occlusion, and the death was instantaneous. The time of death was believetf to have been a very few minutes before tha body - was found, as he had left the case at about 6:45 to go to the radio station. Mr. Peele was 70 years old, and was well known throughout North Carolina through his newspaper work. He was for 37 years publish er of the Daily Advance in Eliza beth City, which he sold in Septem -1 ber, 1949. He came to Elizabeth City in May, 1911, and leased the Tar 1 Heel, a weekly paper, from F. F. i Cohoon, with the privilege of pur chasing which he did at a later date. From this he established his daily. Since selling the paper in 1949, he had been actively e.igaged in See PEELE, Page Eight GEESE BLACKEN DUNES OF OUTER BANKS Duck.—There was a time when the Canadian wild geese did all of their feeding in the sounds and marshes along the coast. Then they started feeding in dryland fields and in Cur rituck and other counties of East Carolina bordering fresh water sounds and lakes many farmers became hunting guides during the wildfowl season. Now the geese have learned a new trick which may not put them out of range of hunters’ guns, but it at least gives them a chance to see approaching hun ters, and thus they have a bet , ter chance for survival. The wild geese of Currituck have gotten in the habit of land ing on top of treeless and grass less dunes along the Outer banks between Duck village and the Virginia State line. Not just a few hunderds, but thousands of geese sometimes alight on one dune until the dune is blacken ed with the geese. From atop the dunes the geese ,are on a perfect lokout to see approaching hunters and usual ly a flock will take off in flight before a gunner can come with in range. Since most of the dunes are located on gunning club lands, Hie average individual, unless a member of the various clubs in the area are rot permitted to hunt or shoot the geese while they are resting on top of dunes. Since there are no roads in the area between Duck and the Vir ginia line, the average hunter | has difficulty reaching the dunes ■ which can be approached only by boat and to land a t*oat on the Banks shore of Currituck it is usually necessary to follow a channel to a club house landing, where hunters are told they can not shoot on the dunelands. NAGS HEAD MAN PICKED TO RUN LOST COLONY Dick Jordan To Succeed Bill Hardy and Attempt to Get Shovy Back on Its Feet By AYCOCK BROWN R. E. (Dick) Jordan, veteran showman and Nags Head business man, was named manager of Paul Green’s symphonic drama THE LOST COLONY, at Manteo, dur ing the December meeting of Roa noke Island Historical Association held in Raleigh on Wednesday, fie succeeds William Hardy, manager for the past two years who re signed as of December 1. Jordan, a native of Lenoir County, N. C., had lived in Newport News where he had been employed by Newport News Shipbuilding Corporation for the past 18 years, heading the organization’s sheet metal depart ment for several years as supervis or before resigning in 1949 to en ter business for himself at Nags Head . * He established and is owner of Jordan Concrete Products on Nags Head. Always interested in dra matics he has assisted in the stag ing of scores of shows and for many years owned and directed an orchestra in addition to his ship yard duties. During the past sev eral months he has been a featur ed pianist on a daily individual program featured by WTAR-TV in Norfolk, in addition to directing the affairs of his concrete business at Nags Head where he lives with Mrs. Jordan. Widely known in the Dare coast al and Tidewater Virginia area, Jordan is expected to give the Lost Colony a great amount of local promotion, which has been lack ing to some extent in recent years, according to Martin Kellogg, chair- See COLONY, Page Eight DUVALL MADE CHMN. DARE COUNTY BOARD C. C. Duvall of East Lake, was reelected Chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners Tuesday. Mr. Duvall has served for the past two years. Two new members of the Board were sworn in; Lloyd Scarborough of Hatteras Township and W. H. Le wark of Atlantic Township. Other county officers were sworn in and filed bonds and made re ports. The Board voted to increase the travel allotment for Welfare Case workers by about 25 per cent. Willis Daniels was reap pointed Tax Supervisor. Martin Kellogg, Jr., County Attorney. December 18th was set for the day on which the Board will meet to appoint appraisers to re value property in the six town ships of Dare County this year. 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 YACHTSMAN SPENDS TWO NIGHTS IN SWAMP New Jersey Man’s Boat Ashore at Mouth of Alligator River; Un happy Thanksgiving Frederick Griffith of New Jer sey, who was on his way to Flor ida, ran his boat on a stake at the mouth of the Alligator River on Thanksgiving Day. He spent two nights in the Alligator swamps be fore finding his -way out. He was found by some hunters night, wet, hungry and barefooted. They brought him to Columbia im mediately. He stated that his feet would have frozen, had it not been for a stray dog he ran across Fri day night. The dog slept on hts feet, which were extremely swol len from exppsure. SINGSPIRATION IS SUCCESS Columbia. The Singspiration which is a quarterly meeting of all the protestant -denominations in Tyrrell County on the Fifth Sunday nights, for the purpose of meeting together and encoura ging good singing, met Sunday night at the Albemarle Christian Church with the following churches taking part: Columbia Christian Endeavor, Free Will Baptist, Gum Neck, Malachi Chapel Free Will Baptist, The Albemarle Quartet, Columbia Missionary Baptist, Free Will Baptist at Sound Side and Gum Neck Christian Church. H. S. Swain of Columbia, Route 1, is president of this organization, and through his able handling of the Singspiration, it is usually at tended to the full capacity of the Church in which it is held. The next meeting will be held at the Gum Neck Free Will Baptist church. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1952 ONCE BIG, WARM HEART NOW STILL AND COLD JL.il REV. LOUIS T. SINGLETON, 75, died suddenly Sunday afternoon at three o’clock at the home he had recently bought on Front Street, Belhaven. Thus ended his career as a minister of more than 50 years. He had been for five years pastor of the Belhaven Methodist Church and he had retired in No vember. With his wife, Mr. Singleton had attended the Belhaven Methodist Church Sunday, and together they had planned to go for a ride, after lunch in Arthur Zambos case. He had enjoyed his dinner, and leav ing the case they had stopped at their new home, where he went inside for something. When he did not return immediately, Mrs. Sin gleton went in to see about him and found him sitting on a couch, and complaining of being dizzy. He soon asked her to send for a doc tor, and went unconscious. Before Dr. C. C. Byrum arrived, he was dead. Mr. Singleton was born at Roper, October 20, 1877, the son of John Edward and Mary Louise Osborne Singleton. On October 19, 1910 he married Miss Mary Lawrence of Murfreesboro who survives him. Also three daughters survive, Miss Mary Clyde Singleton and Mrs. Simon Rose of Durham and Mrs: Wm. B. Ligon of New York. One brother, D. T. Singleton of Eliza beth City, and two sisters, Mrs. John Raney of Norfolk, and Mrs. Floyd Johnson of Whiteville. Funeral services were held in the Methodist Church in Belhaven Tuesday morning at 11 o’clock. Services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. L. Pi Jackson, assist ed by Rev. George Downey, of the Christian Church; Rev. J. T. By rum of the Baptist Church; Rev. A. J. MacKie of the Episcopal Church, and Dr. Frank S. Love, Methodist Supt. of Elizabeth City. Pall bearers were Clyde Burgess, James Younce, Lee Andrews, Leon See SINGLETON, Page Four TYRRELL LIBRARY BD. EMPLOYS LIBRARIAN Columbia.—The Tyrrell County Library Board met in special meeting at the Library Building Monday Night, Dec. 1. The pur pose of said meeting was to work out with Miss Elizabeth House of the N. C. Library Commission who was present at the meeting, the needed salary schedule of hiring a Libraraian, untrained, to fill the position left vacant by the resigna tion of Mrs. L. L. Gibbs, and also to review the five applications on file for said position. Mrs. W. V. Reynolds, Columbia, was hired as Librarian. Miss House recommend ed that Mrs. Gibbs be asked to re turn for three days each month, for the first six months, in order to keep the Library in line with services now being rendered, which was passed by the board. The Sec retary, Mrs. C. Earl Cohoon, was asked to inform all applicants of the board’s decision, and to write a letter of thanks to Mrs. L. L. Gibbs for her past services to Li brary work in the county both as board member, chairman, and sub sequent Librarian, and for her loyalty, inspiration ,and confidence in helping to spread library serv ices throughout the county. REV. NORMAN KNIGHT GOES WITH METHODISTS Columbia.—The Rev. R. Norman Knight, who having received his degree at Wake Forest College, and was subsequently ordained in the Columbia Baptist Church in Columbia for the ministry, and who has been employed as teacher of the eighth grade in the Colum bia School, has recently joined the Methodist Conference, and has See COLUMBIA, (Page Eight GUNS TAKE LIFE AND INJURE TWO DURING WEEK Fairfield Boy. Dead; Hunter Loses Fingers; Pantego Girl Injured Firearms have taken a costly toll in the area during the week, the most serious mishap being the death of Daniel Webster Sears, Jr., 19-year-old Fairfield boy who was accidentally killed while hunt ing near his home. He was found dead with a wound in the chest and was thought he had stumped a toe while crossing a canal bank. On November 27th, a hunter from Lumberton, Jack Ashley, went to pick up a gun by the end of the barrel, the trigger caught, and the load blew off the thumb and forefinger of the left hand. He was treated at Pungo District Hos pital, in Belhaven. He had been hunting with a party of friends, including some highway patrol man, near Fairfield. On Saturday at Pantego, Susie Spencer, a 12-year-old girl suffer ed serious injuries when a gun in the hands of an eight-year-old boy neighbor went off and punctured her liver, penetrated a kidney, and required a major operation in the Belhaven hospital, causing the re moval of kidney and gall bladder. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Spencer of Pantego. Young Sears was the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Sears of Fairfield and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B .Gibbs of Sladesville. He was buried in Fairfield follow ing services conducted Wednesday by Rev. Edward Sharp, Episcopal Rector in the Fairfield Church. Be sides his parents he is survived by five sisters, Marie of Henderson, Marlin, Sara, Mary and Amanda, and a brother Nathan, all of Fair field. TRAVEL INCREASE NOTED AT DARE’S HISTORIC SITES Manteo. Tourists from 37 states and seven foreign coun tries visited national historic sites during November 1952, and the total number was a consid erable increase over the same month last year. More than twice as many pers ons visited the Wright Brothers National monument in November this year than last. The total of 3,564 visitors at the monument was an increase of 111 percent over November 1951, according to Horace Dough, superintendent of the monument reservation. Due to the December 17th celebration planned this month in observance of the 49th aniversary of the Wright’s first flight in 1903, an even larger increase of visitors wil be registered at the site un less weather conditions stop trav el which is seldom the case here on the Dare Coast. Robert Atkinson, superintend ent of Fort Raleigh National Site on Roanoke Island, scene of The Lost Colony by Paul Green, each summer, and the actual site where English-speaking America had its beginning in the late 16th Century stated that with 1,953 See TRAVEL, Page Four BANK OF MANTEO ISSUES $16,000 FOR CHRISTMAS The Bank of Manteo recently returned over $16,000 to depositors in its Christmas Savings Club, it was learned this week. This year was the largest in the bank’s history, being about $2,000 above last year’s deposits. The 1953 Club will start Monday, December 8. FEW DEER KILLED ON HATTERAS THIS SEASON Buxton--Only a few of the tiny deer in the Cape Hatteras Woods were killed during the one month open season which began Novem ber 1, and ended November 30, Residents of the area who hunt the little animals with beagle hounds, stated that there were more doer in the woods there this year than ever before. One of the reasons few deer were killed was because of unusually good commercial and sportsfishing which claimed atten tion of local hunters. AVON SOLDIER ASSIGNED COMBAT TRAINING COMMAND FORT BENNING, GA.—Sgt. Arthur L. Gray, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo C. Gray, Avon, was recently assigned to the Combat Training Command, Fort Benning, Ga., Sergeant Gray’s unit, which supports the activities of the world famous Infantry School, demonstrates battle-tested techni ques to student officers from every army area in the United States and from many friendly foreign nations. SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE ASSOCIATION INCLUDES BEAUFORT AND MARTIN Two of Larger Counties in Area Join With Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington in 18- Year-Old Betterment Organization; Com mittees Named by Boards. 1 '"V WHAT ARE WE DOING TO HELP THOSE LESS FORTUNATE? (Contributed) * The Christmas season is the time of the year when we pause to hon- ■ or the birthday of the Christ-child, and to express our appreciation to our many friends who have helped 1 to bring a little happiness to our ; less fortunate. Last December, a 13-year old Paines Hollow boy heard the ap- : peal in his school for contributions for Santa Claus Anonymous, which provides gifts for less fortunate 1 children. The boy saved his pen nies until the Friday before Christ mas vacation and had 15 cents. He intended turning it in at school that day, but because of a blizzard the buses didn’t run. So he walked all the way to school to give the money to the principal. If the principal had to swallow hard as he accepted the boy’s dime and five pennies it’s understandable— the youngster was one of those on the list to receive a gift from San ta Claus Anonymous. Surely this boy had the true spirit of giving. But what are we doing here in our community, in our county, to make Christmas a little brighter for our less fortunate children? We, the Waif are Department, once again stand ready to cooperate with the county organizations and individuals who wish to have our help in bringing Christmas cheer to the less fortunate citizens here. In previous years many have asked us to help them channel their gifts to people in need and we have* been able to be of service to sug gest those in greatest need and to avoid duplication. As a part of our responsibility here in the Welfare Department, we come to know the needs of many who cannot provide the ‘extras’ which make Christ mas. “As always we want to work with groups as they may need our assistance in either planning or carrying out some project for the benefit of the people who can be cheered by some wisely plan ned giving at this season”, Mrs. Meekins, Superintendent of Pub lic Welfare of this county, stated. She further said that the depart ment will accept donations of food, clothing, toys, fruit, and cash and will distribute these where tnej» are most needed. Casi we count on you? Let’s get in the spirit of Christmas and make it cheerier for the less for tunate people in our county. We are requesting that all gifts do nated by you, the individual, or by clubs as a whole be brought to the department by the 15th of this month. SWAN AND SNOW GEESE PLENTIFUL ON COAST Swan and snow geese are plen tiful in coastal waters from Cur rituck Sound southward this year. These two wildfowl species enjoy complete protection during the open season for other species of wildfowl. L. B. Turner, in charge of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge between Oregon Inlet and Ro danthe stated this week that sev eral thousand Greater Snow Geese had arrived at the Refuge. “For three years the great flock of this species arrived on No vember 26, but the refuge popu lation of snow geese was still not at a peak on Tuesday.’ Turner said. This, he indicated, was no cause for alarm because the spe cies have been reported in large flocks in upper Currituck Sound and Back Bay. Approximately 15,000 snow geese spend about six weeks at Pea Island Refuge each winter. They are usually the last wildfowl to arrive at the refuge and the first to leave. Us ually by mid-January the flocks have started their leisurely mi gration northward. as plentiful this year as last m Currituck, one of their prihcipal feeding grounds along the Atlantic Flyway. A few hun dred swan also winter at Pea Island and Mattamuskeet. While swan have enjoyed pro tection from hunters for fnany years, old time guides along the coast still place a few swan de coys out with their Canada geese See WILDFOWL, Page Eight Single Copy 7# The dream of many people in all the counties involved came true Monday, when the County Board of Commissioners of Beaufort and Martin, both unanimously voted to accept the invitation of the 18- year-old Southern Albemarle As sociation to become members and join in the program for betterment in all six counties. The Southern Albemarle Associ ation was formed in October 1935 at Columbia by the counties of Tyrrell, Washington, Dare and Hyde, as a means for a campaign for rural betterment, particularly roads and other improvements. At that time, these three counties had not been adequately connected with modern highways, the only coun ties in the state so situated. In October of this year, a mo tion was presented at the annual meeting in Columbia by Victor Meekins, a former president of the association, to invite Beaufort and Martin to join. On Monday of this week, Meekins, now Secretary of the Association, with Lawrence Swain, the President, and Melvin Daniels, the vice-president for Dare County, visited Washington and Plymouth to fotmally extend the invitation. The Martin County Board im mediately named Elbert S. Peel, Williamston attorney, a former State Senator and political leader, to be pro-tem Vice-President for Martin County to serve until the next regular date for election of officers. Beaufort County’s officials on the Executive Committee of the Southern Albemarle Association named Monday are as follows: Allen D. Swindell, Vive-Presi dent; Mrs. Scott Topping of Pan tego; Mrs. Essie Barr Waters of Chocowinity; J. Irving Hodges and Mrs. Dan Taylor of Washington; Mrs. Dan Windley of Aurora; Mark Taylor of Chocowinity; L. •Carmer Alligood of Pinetown; Dr. W. T. Ralph of Belhaven; Bill Mc- Ghee of Aurora. Both county boards seemed much interested in joining the Associa tion ,and intimated they would have been glad to be in it long ago, had opportunity presented. However, it was explained that the original purpose of uniting was because the original three counties had planned a joint meeting to discuss ways of solving , a problem acutely common to these counties, which alone of all the counties in the state had no high way connections suitable for all year use at that time. Now that these counties have become in a broader sense through improved roads, a part of the whole area, and its citizens able to get out in the world, it is con sidered to advantage for a broader union of counties to work for the betterment of all. When the Association was form ed 18 years ago, it was often im possible for many months in the year to travel over the roads be tween the county seats of Tyrrell, Dare and Hyde. Now all are con nected by hard-surface save for the gaps served by ferry over Al ligator River and Croatan Sound. Bridging of these waters is a part of the Southern Albemarle Associ- See SAA, Page Eight BAPTISTS MEETING AT ELIZABETH CITY CHURCH The well balanced program for the annual “M” Night Rally of the Training Unions of the Cho wan Baptist Association is to be climaxed with the inspirational address by Dr. R. Stuart Grizzard, popular minister of the First Bap tist Church in Norfolk. His subject is “That All May Learn.” Dr. Grizzard’s message will bring to a close the annua! “M” Night Meet ing held with, the Blackwell Me morial Baptist Church in Eliza beth City, Monday night, Decern-* ber Bth, at 7:30 o’clock. Other features of the ihterest ing and helpful program are a screen projection “Learn From Me”, special music by the Youth Choir of the First Baptist Church of Elizabeth City and a demonstra tion conducted by Miss Jennie Lou Newbold, Educational Director at the Ffrst Baptist Church in Elisa beth City. Miss Carol Jean Biszell, Minister of Music, at the Black well Memorial Baptist Church in Elizabeth City, will lead the sing ing and Mr. J. C. Newbold, Train ing Union Director of the Black well Memorial Church, will con duct the period of devotion. *
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