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VOLUME XVII NO. 25 7 NEGOTIATIONS OF SEASHORE PARK LANDS IN 1953 Acquisition of Property to Begin in Manteo Office Early After Jan. 1 The Land Acquisition Office of the National Park Service, which 1 was established in Manteo three months ago, will start actual ne gotiations for property in the Sea shore Area soon after the first of 1 the year. The acquision office has been engaged in surveys, apprais als and title studies during this 0 period. It is the hope of the Na tional Park Service that all lands can be secured by negotiations with the property owner except those instances wherein it is nec essary to resort to friendly court action to clear property titles. In addition to a small staff of Park Service personnel headed by Proj ect Manager A. C. Stratton, the firm of Ehringhaus and Ehring haus of Raleigh, is engaged in title studies. The property appraisals are being conducted by Govern ment appraisers and the firm of > Richard B. Hall of Washington, D. C. A meeting of the North Carolina Cape Hatteras Seashore Commis sion has been called for 11 a.m. on December 22 to consider resolu tions leading up to the transfer of State-owned lands to the National Park Service for the Cape Hatter as Seashore Project. At noon on that date, the Commission will meet with the Governor and Coun cil of State and officials of the Na tional Park Service at which time the transfer will take place. I The State-owned lands included in this transfer are the Cape Hat teras State Park at Buxton, several ungranted tracts and a number of tracts which have been acquired 5 \ by donation for the Seashore Proj ect during the past few years. The transfei; of approximately 6,000 acres of State lands to the Na tional Park Service together with the already Federally owned tracts will total over 12,000 acres of the 30,000 acres that are sched uled for acquieion. The National Park Service land acquisition office in Manteo is now engaged in ses curing the balance of the land within the boundaries designated 1 and approved by Secretary of the Interior Chapman on October 27, 1952. In connection with the transfbr of lands to the Park Service, Proj ect Manager A. C. Stratton has announced the first of several deeds of gift of land from persons interested in lending their support to the Project. This first gift di rect to the Park Service was made by Mr. C. N. Keyser, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. Property deeded by Mr. Keyser is located near the vil lage of Waves. Other donations of land are expected as the land ac quisition portion of the project progresses. MANTEO BOYS WIN STATE COLLEGE PROMOTIONS > The North Carolina State Col lege of A & E, Air Force ROTC Headquarters at Raleigh, N. C., 5 announces the appointment of Ca det Roger P. Meekins, as Cadet First Lieutenant in its corps of cadets numbering some 900 stu dents at North Carolina State Col lege. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Meekins of Manteo. Cadet Meekins is majoring in mechanical engineering and is tak ing a course of flight operations in the air force ROTC program and upon graduation in June 1954, will be commissioned in the United States Air Force Reserve as a sec . ond lieutenant. The college also announces the , appointment of Cadet Leigh De leon Hassell, Jr., as cadet second lieutenant. • Cadet Hassell is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Hassell of Manteo, and is majoring in mechanical en gineering and is taking a course of aircraft maintenance engineer ing in the Air Force ROTC pro gram and upon graduation in De cember 1954, will be commissioned in the. United States ‘ Air Force Reserve as a second lieutenant. i MUST GET PERMIT BEFORE BUILDING A SEPTIC TANK On November 21 the Currituck- Dare District Board of Health con ducted its quarterly meeting at which time Dr. W. W. John ston stressed the dire need of a revised Septic Tank Ordinance. ■4' The new Ordinance was discussed at some length and was' unani mously approved and passed by the members of the Board present. The Ordinance in effect means that any firm, corporation, or pers on must secure a written permit from the local Board of Health before beginning the installation of any Septic Tank in Currituck and Dare Counties. i THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA A GREAT LEADER PASSES OUT OF MANTEO’S LIFE Jfl By BEN DIXON MacNEILL Mrs. Rosa Gray Drinkwater, wife of Alpheus W. Drinkwater and in her own right one of the most widely influential and be loved women ever to live in Dare county, and for more than two score years a leader in the com munity’s religious, civic and fra ternal life, died at 11:29 o’clock in Albermarle Hospital, Eliza beth City after a series of mas sive cerebral hemmorhages which began before mid-day. Conscious almost to the mo ment of her death Mrs. Drink water, though she must have rea lized the gravity of her condition better even than those around her, continued cheerful and she died, after an instant of appar ently convulsive pain, her hand in the hands of her oldest daugh ter who was with her from the moment of the onset of the at tack that ended her life. Also at her bedside was Dr. C. R. Brown of Manteo and Dr. W. W. Sawyer of Eliabeth City had just left the hospital in a hopeful mind about her recovery, provided she survived the initial stages of the attack. Until the last night of her life Mrs. Drinkwater was active, in her home, in her community and on the last evening attended one of the organiations with which she was so long and influentially connected. She awoke feeling un well Tuesday morning, with lit tle energy for the day’s duties, as she remarked to Mr. Drink water when she set about the day. He urged her to just take it easy and within two hours the first minor attack came on. Physicians in attendance which also included Dr. W. W. John ston were agreed that a massive hemmorhage at the base of the brain had occurred and might recur unless she was kept quiet. She was not alarmed, or if she were he gave no hint of it. Her last words as she was carried out of the house to an ambulance ; about 7:30 P. M., after a second and more severe attack, was , that her birds and her indoor I flowers of which she had hun dreds, be attended to carefully. Last week she had reserved two tickets for the annual Wright Memorial Dinner for Wednesday, an event she never missed and on Wednesday morning, feeling that it would be as she wished, the tickets were sent to J. W. Goodman, manager of Eastern Airlines, Raleigh Division who, a year ago, was host to Mr. and. Mrs. Drinkwater on her first trip in the air and to New York. Mr. I See LEADER, Page Ten WATCHING SABRE JETS AT KILL DEVIL HILLS ■ v .'« ' » ’‘W I B K.'"- ''?r\ ; Jg It 1 VlrglnlMi-PUot Photo by Borjes A few of the spectators who craned their necks at the Wright Me morial pylon to watch three Sabre jets crack the “sonic barrier” at 20,000 feet yesterday. HELICOPTER’S INVENTOR SEES HIS PLANES FLY AT AVIATION’S BIRTHPLACE wL "M- ' w A.. ,•» ; 'l'-."W: 'W . r • Mb.. 111 I >■ ■ * - flflfll H Hl j | B . ”* IW I K J- I A MM ... - Vlrglnlan-PUot Photo by Borjes Igor I. Sikorsky, the man who made the rotary wing aircraft a reality, told such a plan was fan tastic, he told a Kill Devil Hills audience Wednesday. Here are three of the thousands that fly. Sikorsky was warmly praised for the plane’s development, since it has held a special role in Outer Banks rescue operations. SENATOR SMITH DIDN’T TRY TO SPEND IT ALL -4- --- This Nows From Washington Sounds Almost Too Good to Be True WASHINGTON. Despite the fact that 1952 was an almost un precendented year for requests by constituents for assistance, the of fice of Senator Smith is turning back to the government almost 20 percent of the government funds allocated to it for operating ex penses. Senator Smith, an ardent advo cate of economy in government, could have spent about $13,000 more than he did in the operation of his office for the last fiscal period. But by careful selection of personnel and a close check on general expenses, the office oper ated at a minimum cost to the tax payer. Even so, the task of responding to, and assisting whenever poss ible, the nearly 50,000 Tar Heels who contacted Smith’s office dur ing the period cost a total of $47,- 500 in round figures—including the Senator’s salary which is set by law. The maximum amount of money which a Senator’s office may spend is based on the population of his State. North Carolina is in the brackets of States with popula tions ranging from three to five million people. Therefore, Smith See SMITH, Page Ten MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1952 MASONIC INSTALLATION IN MANTEO DEC. 19th I K. St ■ . I I / fl RAYMOND W. WESCOTT of Manteo, who will take office of Worshipful Master of Manteo Ma sonic Lodge No. 682 tonight in the Lodge Hall. Mr. Wescott will suc ceed G. G. Bonner. Other officers to be installed are R. O. Ballance, Senior Warden; Belton Burrus, Junior War,den; Charles E. O’Neal, Secretary; Gordon Kellogg, Treas urer; Elmer V. Midgett, Senior Deacon; Wilford Wise, Junior Dea con; Selden and Edwin Midgett, Stewards; Allen Mann, Jr., Tiler. The lodge which was organized with 20 members from Wanchese Lodge in 1947 now has 82 mem bers. Previous masters of the lodge in order have been Raymond White,, Frank White, Hugh Bas night, Edwin Midgett and Glenn Bonner. The services this Friday night Dec. 19th will be installation ceremonies and work in the Third Degree. Regular meeting nights of the Lodge are First and Third Fridays in each month. Mr. Wescott was also elected president of the Dare County See MASONS, Page Ten BIG CAROL SING PLANNED FOR SUNDAY NIGHT, DEC. 21 A big carol sing is being plan ned for the evening of Sunday, December 21. on the courthouse lawn in Manteo. People from all over the county are invited to at tehd, and all church choirs are urg ed to take part in the event. A manger scene is being erected on the court house lawn by a commit tee of women headed by Mrs. W. R. Pearce and Mrs. Nevin Wescott of Manteo. John H. Long is in charge of musical arrangements, and the singing will begin at nine o’clock, giving everyone time to attend church services and stop by to take part in the caroling before 1 returning home. O’CONNOR SEEKS SOLID SUPPORT FOR POLIO FUND Cites Greater Need Now For Money to Fight Disease NEW YORK.—Basil O’Connor, president of the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis, has asked the nation to support the 1953 March of Dimes. Mr. O’Connor said the most ex tensive campaign in the 15 year history of the March of Dimes has been planned. Local volun teer workers in each town will call on editors this month for support in the build-up period, and in Jan uary for assistance in raising money. Mr. O’conner noted the all time toll of 55,000 new polio cases of 1952 surpassed the previous record year of 1949 by 13,000. During each of the pre vious three years, he said, the National Foundation ended the year $5,000,000 in debt. Unpaid bills at the end of 1952 will total $7,000,000, and there will still be 58,000 children and adults needing assistance, he said. The March of Dimes pays the portion of the patient’s bill which the polio victim cannot afford for as long as treatment is necessary. The organization also conducts re- See POLIO, Page Ten THE MAN WHO FLEW THE NORTH POLE i I Mai s ■ •i- -"HHI s HI sajjaSWjßMf wF^ ; Wr Jll " 1 .• \ X » ' 7/ sgj| &B|s| Virginian<PUat Photo by Borjes Col. Bert Balchen, USAF, known in Norfolk as the man who help ed prepare things hera for polar expeditions of Adm. Richard E. Byrd, was at the Wright Flight Anniversary celebration yesterday which proved to be a gathering of the great in aviation. \ AVIATION’S FUTURE NOW EVEN MORE FANTASTIC THAN WAS IMAGINED 50 YRS. AGO Stupendous Suggestions Come Out of 49th An niversary at Kill Devil Hills Wednesday; Many Notable Aviation Figures Presented; 50th Anniversasry Celebration Discussed for Next Year. Forty nine years ago Wednesday, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane in Dare County. Yet today, the things predicted in the field of aviation are so far more fantastic than the future of flying in those days, that they ap proach the realm of “impossible”; Visitors Wednesday heard some of these things predicted. Igor Sikorsky, aviation pioneer and developer of the helicopter, came back Wednesday to Kill Dev il Hills to witness the unfolding of a prediction he had made to an audience on the same spot five years before—flight by man at speeds exceeding that of sound. Sikorsky was one of more than 1,000 persons who watched and listened fascinatedly as three Air Force Sabre Jets roared earthward from 43,000 feet, passed the "son ic barrier” for a period of three seconds and pulled out of the dive at 20,000 feet. Entering and returning through the “barrier” at the speed of sound produced six “sonic booms”—two for each of the planes .These are loud, sharp explosions. The speed of sound is roughly 760 mph at sea level. It was unof ficially estimated that the F-86’s were traveling at better than 800 mph when they pulled out of their dives. They were a part of a splendid air show put on by the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. Later, at a luncheon in the First Colony Inn, Sikorsky listed reasons for the Wright Brothers’ selection of the place and the time for their successful flight. ... “Today we experiment in wind tunnels. The Wright Brothers really had a wind tunnel at this site. They had a smooth hill and a reasonably strong wind and that is virtually a wind tunnell,” he said. They made their plane fly, not because of good luck, but because of the correctness of their basic ideas and because of their out standingly accurate, thorough and well-done scientific approach.” Sikorsky made another predic tion: “Out of aviation will come the inter-planetary operations of the future.” Arthur F. Kelly, president of the Air Force Association and a prin cipal speaker at the luncheon, call ed for a “consumer commission” to assist in planning possible adapta tions of instruments of war to peacetime use. He said: “We must bring onr military air power effort closer to the people who pay for it. We can do this by increasing the research and devel opment portion of this effort and by planning a program adapting it to dur civilian economy. First and last, we must crack the mental bar rier as we have cracked the sonic barrier.” See FUTURE, Page Ten Single Copy 70 McCown speech ON CHRISTMAS TO ROTARIANS Manteo Club Heard Secretary Make Address Monday Night; Appeals Made for Unfortunate Wallace McCown, Manteo At torney and Secretary of the Man teo Rotary Club as program chair man Monday night didn’t have to go far to find a speaker. He made a good talk himself on the spirit of Christmas, which was both in spiring and challenging. His ques tions stirred the thinking of his hearers. Several guests were introduced, and Dr. W. W. Johnston offered a suggestion that club members send Christmas cards to all of Dare County’s unfortunates who are away in institutions of any kind. R. D. Sawyer made a request for articles of clothes for a needy 16-year-old Dare County boy, the clothes to be brought to Mr. Saw yer immediately for delivery be fore Christmas. TEN - MAN GROUP VISITS MANTEO AIRPORT ON HUNT Study of Recreational Possi bilities in Connection with Flying Sportsmen Made Ten men interested in Avia tion spent the early part of the week at the Manteo Airport, and some of them got some good wildfowl shooting in the two counties of Hyde and Dare. Lim its were bagged Monday and Tuesday at Lake Mattamuskeet and near Oregon Inlet, as well as Kitty Hawk bay, where some of the party hunted with Charlie Perry. In the party were Joe Nor wood, District Airport Engineer of Wilmington and his Deputy, John Talbert who had as their guests eight others. L. A. Wink ler, Chief of Planning and Eval uation of the CAA; A. S. Quinn, Chief of Airport Lighting Sec tion; Marsden F. Holman, Elec trical Engineer; R. D. Stout of the Southern Engineering Co. ol Greensboro; Sam Baker of Wil mington, an attorney for the Na tional Production Administration R. D. Seaborn, Chief of the Air port Building Section; O. L. An drews, Director South Carolina Aeronautics Commission and his Chief of Airport Division. The party lived in the Sky- Club building at the Manteo Air port, where business sessions were held following the hunts. Meals were prepared on the pre mises. Some of the party came by plane, others drove in, while one lone member rode the bus all day Sunday from Washington in order to complete the rendez vous. Something may develop from this meeting in the near future if only comments and advice for the community to take advant- See GROUP, Page Ten NATIVITY SCENE AT DARE C’THOUSE THRU HOLIDAYS Throughout America this year there has been a special effort put forth to get Christ back into Christmas. This spirit has even taken root in Manteo, is the belief Mrs. Nevin Wescott and Mrs. W. R. Pearce, through whose good ef forts there will be very soon a Na tivity Scene displayed on the courthouse lawn. It is hoped that no one will pass this by without pausing to realize the true mean ing of Christmas, “Peace on earth, good will to men”. A listing of those who have made this display possible through their generous gifts will appear in next week’s paper. COUNTY OFFICES TO CLOSE FOR LONG WEEK-END The Dare County Board' of Commissioners this week voted to close all county offices December 26, 26 and 27, thereby giving all county employees a long week end f or the Christmas holiday season. The county offices will also be i closed on New Year’s Day.
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