VOLUME XVII NO. 29
BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
BEGAN 11 YEARS AGO
e OFF CAROLINA COAST
Tanker Allan Jackson First of Many Ships
Sunk When Submarine Warfare Began
Only 42 Days After Pearl Harbor. Many
Sinkings Centered About Cape Hatteras.
MANTEO BANK
SHOWS STEADY
CLIMB IN 1952
Deposits of One and a Quar
ter Million Dollars
Herbert A. Crees, Manteo thea
tre owner with other business in
terests was named president of the
Bank of Manteo Tuesday at the
annual meeting of stockholders. He
succeeds Z. B. Brinkley who died
suddenly last Saturday.
Other officers elected were O. J.
Jones, Manteo, vice president and
W .R. Pearce, cashier since 1937,
was re-elected to that post, with
John H. Long re-elected assistant
cashier.
Named on the board of directors
were; May L. Brinkley, Manteo,
chairman; Frank Turner, Raleigh,
chairman protem, Arnold Schiff
man, Greensboro, H. A. Crees, O.
J. Jones, L. D. Tarkington and W.
R. Pearce, Manteo. Martin Kellogg,
Jr., Manteo was named trustee.
Policies of the bank will remain
the same and there will be no I
change in operating personnel ac
cording to members of the Brink
ley family, principal owners.
The statement issued last week
by the Bank of Manteo shows at
the close of business for 1952 de
posits of more than one and a
quarter million dollars, indicating
that the steady growth of the bank
has been maintained without inter
ruption for several years.
Demand deposits of the bank
amount to $758,445. State and po
etical subdivisions also had de
t >sited with the bank $138,865.
■Jr TJie bank, which is 46 years old,
nas maintained a steady pace in
the progress of the community. In
earlier days, the bank was usually
looked upon as a place to borrow
money in an emergency, but more
and more it is looked to for loans
to finance business developments.
The total resources of the bank
is nffw listed at $1,399,186.78. It
has only $25,000 capital stock, but
its capital accounts are listed at
$126,036.26 which means that ev
ery dollar of capital invested is
worth more than $5.
The president and owner of the
majority of stock, Z. V. Brinkley,
passed away Saturday. The direc
tors of the bank in addition to
Mr. Brinkley are O. J. Jones, H. A.
Crees, L. D. Tarkington, and W.
R. Pearce, Cashier, who with Mar
tin Kellogg, Jr., constitute all the
stockholders of the bank. At the
present time, the majority of stock
of the bank is owned by the estate
of the late Mr. Brinkley.
PROMINENT CURRITUCK
MAN DIES IN MANTEO
Thomas Grandberry Dowdy, 83,
died Saturday morning at 6:10
o’clock dt the Beacon Nursing
Home in Manteo following a long
illhess. He was a native and life
long resident of Harbinger and |
son of the late Lindsey and Cyn
thia Dowdy. He was a retired
farmer and a member of the Pow
ells Point Christian Church and
a senior elder of the church.
He is survived by three daugh- |
ters, Mrs. Cynthia Whitehurst of
Norfolk, Mrs. Lorena Bowden of
Berkley, Va.,and Miss Clara Dow
dy of Decatur, Ga.; four sons,
Lindsey Dowdy of Harbinger,
Qrandberry Dowdy of Manteo, El
wood Dowdy of Sanford and “Elmer
Dowdy of Hillsboro; 15 grandchil
dren and 11 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock
X 1 the Powells Point Christian
L* Jhurch by the Rev. Preston E.
Caton, a former pastor. The Rev.
Garland C. Bland, a former pastor,
and the Rev. Bill Gardner, pastor
assisted. Burial followed in the
family plot near Harbinger. The
body was carried to the church one
hour prior to the services to lie in
state.
Mr. Dowdy was well known in
Dare County where he spent much
of his early manhood, and his first;
wife was Miss Clara M. Daniels of
Wanchese, who mothered his large'
family, and died about 20 years
ago. His second wife, Cora Twi
ford Basnight, formerly of East'
Lake, died about two years ago.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
By AYCOCK BROWN
Cape Hatteras.—Eleven years
| ago on January 18, 1942, the “bat
, tie of the Atlantic,” which was to
1 result in the loss of 100 or more
Allied ships off the mid-Atlantic
• capes in general and Cape Hatter
as in particular, began at 0500,
just before dawn. It was the 42nd
. day after Pearl Harbor.
First ship attacked and sent to
the bottom by a torpedo from an
Axis submarine was the Allan
■ Jackson, a Standard Oil tanker.
Sunk off the Cape here, only 13 of
her crew of 35 survived and seven
of those were hospital cases.
A luckier I 'ship on that January
18 w’hich brought World War II
within sight of jittery residents of
the Outer Banks at times during
the following six months was the
Gulf tanker Malay, attacked but
not sunk. She finally limped into
the port of Norfolk from off Ore
gon Inlet.
A successful offensive by our
Navy and its Coast Guard did not
become effective until the summer
of 1942. In the meantime while
scores of our ships, and the ships
of neutral nations were attacked
and sunk, only two or three sub
marines of the enemy were defi
nitely known to be killed, the first
I near Wimble Shoals almost three
! months to the day from the sinking
of the Allan Jackson.
Other Sinkings
| Before the survivors from the
Allan Jackson had been briefed fol
lowing their arrival in Norfolk, a
second ship, the Latvian freighter
Ciltvaira of 3,779 gross tons got it
off the Outer Banks here. Laden 1
with paper, she had been torpedoed
near daybreak on January 19 and
within 11 hours on the same date
the Ocean Steamship Company’s
City of Atlanta with a general car
go was the target of another, per
haps the same Axis submarine.
During those early days of the
“battle of the Atlantic” enemy
activity was centered in the gener
al area of Cape Hatteras. Gradual
ly operations spread to waters off
Cape Lookout and Cape Fear in
North Carolina and Cape Henry
and Cape Charles in Virginia. On
January 23, two more ships, the
Venore laden with iron ore and the
British tanker Empire Gem were
sunk, the latter with a great loss
of life and some outstanding hero
ism by a Coast Guard crew headed
by Chief Boatswain Mate Harvey
Wahab of Ocracoke.
From then ffn there were sink
ings almost daily. Millions of dol
lars worth of shipping in cargoes
and vessels were lost, crippled sur
vivors were landed at the Naval
section bases in Morehead City, at
Ocracoke, Southport and Little
Creek or at the Navy Base in Nor
folk. Bodies of seamen who did not
survive came ashore throughout
the area, some were identified, and
some which were only the bones or
parts of bodies were not.
Battle Continues
Within six months after the Al
lan Jackson, scores of ships were
sunk and some of them were the
following:
Amerikaland, a 15,335 ton
! Swedish ore carrier on February
2, off Cape Henry, the Ocean Ven
| ture, a Britisher, sent to the bot
! tom five days later off the Virginia
■ Capes and then the little Norwe
gian freighter Blink, attacked and
sunk off Cape Hatteras.
Nationality meant nothing to the
: submarine skippers. The Brazilian
■ cargo ship Barque and the Olinda,
another Brazilian were mid-Febru
ary casualties. Iron ore ships, like
the tankers seemed to be favorite
targets because another, the Ma
rore was plugged by a torpedo
near Wimble Shoals on February
26. Another Brazilian ship, the
Arabutan and many of her crew
were killed off Cape Hatteras on
darch 7.
The manganese-laden Caribsea,
See BATTLE, Page Five
DARE COUNTY UNIT NCEA
TO MEET AT WANCHESE
The Dare County Unit of the
North Carolina Education Associ
ation will meet Saturday, January
17, at 10:30 a.m., in the Wanchese
I school. President Lloyd C. Finch
is expecting all teachers in the
county to be present. The legisla
; tive chairman, Mrs. Matilda Inge,
will have charge of the program,
' which will deal with the proposed
school legislative program which j
will be presented to the 1953 Gen- ,
' eral Assembly. The Wanchese
teachers will be hostesses.
BEING A GOOD
FELLOW COSTLY
IN MOST CASES
Finds It Doesn’t Help When
It Comes Time to Pay
Bills
Too often a fellow with limited
capital gets in a jam when he
trusts out his goods too far. F. L.
Peele of Hatteras ,was in the oil
business. He couldn’t say “no” to
his friends and neighbors; he lik
ed to help all of them. His collec
tions weren’t on hand when it came
time to pay his bills. He gave a
check for $1,700 to the M. L. Dan
iels Oil Co. in December 1951, and
after doing so, his collections didn’t
get in on time to get to the bank.
He did his best to work it out
with the oil company; he said he
paid- off part of it, but he lost his
agency, and the company got out
a warrant in September. At that,
with all his efforts, it finally came
to trial Tuesday. Judge Baum gave
a 30-day suspended sentence, and
BVs months to pay off the $1,700
at the rate of S2OO per month. No
body works any harder, or goes
farther to help folks than this
man, but when it comes to busi
ness, oil companies don’t take any
thing off for that.
For a brutal assault during the
Christmas holidays on slender
Clarence Hassell, Deputy Sheriff
at Manns Harbor, Van Buren Twi
ford of Stumpy Point was fined
$lO, and required to pay Hassell’s
doctor’s bill. This with costs and
fine amounted to $28.20.
John Coolidge Mann, colored,
got drunk Jan. 9th and while in
jail tore up a towel belonging to
the county. He got a suspended
30-day sentence and was ordered
to pay 50 cents to buy a new tow
el. Court costs and all came to
$21.20. ,
A WOMAN DIES AFTER
STRIKING FISH TRUCK
Coinjock Woman Collides Head On
With Truck Driven by Donald
Midgett of Manns Harbor
Mrs. Zola Lee Walker, 40 year
old Coinjock woman, was instantly
killed, her companion, Geo. A. Rob
erts, about 45, of Southern Ave
nue, Elizabeth City, received a
fractured arm, a head injury and
numerous cuts and bruises in an
automobile accident that occurred
on NC 158 during the early part
of Saturday night.
Roberts who is a civilian em
ployee of the NAF at Weeksville,
was taken to the Elizabeth City
hospital where he was treated for
his injuries and admitted.
Investigating highway patrol
men said the accident occurred one
and three tenths miles east
of dßarco in Cuuutpck County at the
intersection of NC 34. •
Involved were a fish truck be
longing to Robert Beasley of
Manns Harbor and driven by.jJDon
ald Midgett, and the automobile
in which Mrs. Walker and Roberts
were riding.
The Patrol said the car, which
was driven by Mrs. Walker, cross
ed the center line of the highway
and collided head on with the
truck. Mrs. Walker is said to have
been driving the automobile. She
was dead when the ambulance ar
rived at the scene.
She is survived by her husband,
G. N. Walker of Coinjock, one son,
Terry Lee; her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert E. Lee; two sisters,
Mrs. Margaret Cartwright and
Miss Mary Lee, both of Norfolk;
and three brothers, Vernon- and
Wilbur Lee of'Norfolk, and Aaron
Lee of Elizabeth City.
Investigating the accident were
Sgt. L. B. Lane, Corp. R. A. Tripp,
Pfc. R. C. Holt, and Patrolman O.
L. Wise, all of the highway pa
trol.
A RARE DUCK CAUGHT
AT KILL DEVIL HILLS
Kill Devil Hills.—Charles Nun
nemaker, local cold storage plant
operator makes a hobby of do
mesticating wildfowl and this
week he added a specimen to his
flock that no one could identify
immediately. It looked somewhat
like a female mallard, but was
much larger in size.
The duck which was fast be
coming domesticted is believed
to be a “Ring-neck” a species
which is not commonly killed
along the coast and usually is
found in flocks of other species
of wildfowl.
Nunnemaker also has a snow
goose he rescued from the
'ocean's surf near here. The snow
goose was in a dying condition
I when found but has since being
placed in the Nunnemaker pen
and pond regained its health.
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MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1953
DRAMA MANAGER MAKES
PLANS 'FOR '53 SEASON
I
iKipv
R. E. (Dick) JORDAN of Nags
Head, general manager of Paul
Green’s symphonic drama THE
LOST COLONY, will be in Chapel
Hill this week end conferring with
Samuel Selden, supervisory direc
tor of the show. He will also meet
with Bill Hardy, last year’s manag
er of the drama in connection with
moving Lost Colony office equip
ment and files to the Community
Building in Manteo where a year
around business headquarters is
being established by Jordan. Pre
viously for the past several years
the “off-season” business office has
been in Chapel Hill at the Carolina
Playmakers headquarters. (Lost
Colony Photo).
RESEARCH
BACKED BY
POLIO FUND
Recent successes in the search
for an effective, safe and perma
nent preventive of paralytic polio,
have intensified the need for
March of Dimes funds to explore
and exploit the findings, accord
ing to Basil O’Connor, president
of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis.
“Certainly the discoveries con
cerning gamma globulin did not
mean the end to polio problems,”
Mr. O’Connor said. “While they
solved some problems, they also
created many new .ones.”
The two main findings, Mr.
O’Connor said, were that (1) gam
ma globulin provides marked pro
tection of a temporal nature a
gainst paralytic polio and (2) it
may modify the severity of polio
during the late stages of the in
cubation period of the disease,
even though it may not prevent
the disease completely if given
after the infection has taken place.
Limitations Cited
Mr. O’Connor cited three im
portant limitations to the use of
gamma globulin.
.... I—lt gives only temporary
protection. Thus the search for a
permanent vaccine must contin
ue.
2GG is in very short supply.
Techniques for increasing the
supply for reasonable use must
be developed.
3 Gamma globulin research
is incomplete. It must still be de
termined, for example, if GG will
permit the mild, inapparent form
of polio infection that leads to
an active long-lasting immunity.
Large sums of March of Dimes
money must be invested before
solutions to the above problems
are found, Mr. O’Connor pointed
out.
May ‘Smother’ Epidemics
“Our scientists insist that all
we can reasonably hope for at
this point,” he said, “is that gam
ma globulin may be used in at
tempting to ‘smother’ polio epi
demics in hard-hit areas. The fi
nal answer will still have to be
a safe and effective vaccine that
will provide relatively long-last
ing immunity. Efforts to produce
such a vaccine for widespread hu
man use are being hopefully pur-
See POLIO, Page Five
BRINKLEY WILL LEAVES
BULK OF ESTATE TO WIFE
Under the will of Z. V. Brink
ley of Manteo, his wife, Mae L.
Brinkley becomes the sole owner
of the majority of the stock of the
Bank of Manteo, of which Mr.
Brinkley was principal owner at
the time of his death. Mr. Brinkley
also left to his wife, the homeplace
for life, with such income as might
accrue for her only use, his yacht,
and all other personal property he
might own.
To his two daughters, Mrs. Ar
nold Schiffman of Greensboro and
Mrs. Frank Turner of Raleigh he
left all other real estate he owns,
which includes land on Roanoke
Island, Cape Hatteras, Mashoes
and at Nags Head. To these daugh
ters will go also the home place
to which Mrs. Brinkley has a life
estate.
ZEB. V. BRINKLEY
DIES SUDDENLY Al
HOME SATURDAY
Manteo Banker, Rotary Club
President and Well-Known
Citizen Suffers Heart
Attack
Zebulon Vance Brinkley, 70, died
suddenly at his home in Manteo
at noon Saturday, while talking to
some neighbors in the back yard
of his home. He was the son of the
late William T. and Lavinia Brink
ley and was born at Manteo March
8, 1883. At the time of his death,
ne was president and principal
owner of the Bank of Manteo;
| president of .the Manteo Rotary
I Club. He was a member of Wind
sor Castle Masonic Lodge, London,
where he lived for several years
prior to 1920 when he was the Eu
ropean representative of the J. B.
Williams Company. He retired
from employment with this com
pany in 1946 after 45 years serv
ice.
Beside his wife, Mrs. Mae Roe
Brinkley, he is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Frank B. Turner
of State College faculty, Raleigh,
and Mrs. Arnold L. Schiff man of
Greensboro, and by seven grand
children. He was the last survivor
of his parent’s children, a sister,
Mrs. Herman Drinkwater of Vir
ginia Beach having died two
weeks ago.
Apparently in good health, he
was talking to Raymond Wescott
and Earl Green, shortly before
noon, when he swayed, told them
he was going to faint, and asked
them to catch him. They caught
him and let him down to the
ground, but he died instantly. He
was assisting in the building of a
home' for his daughter from
Greensboro, and was planning a
power line to the new house on the
waterfront.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday at 2 p.m. in Manteo at
the Twiford Funeral Home, by
Rev. H. V. Napier, and burial W'as
in the Manteo Cemetery. Pallbear
ers were W. H. McCown, William
Harris Midgett, Woodson Fearing,
W. R. Pearce, Frank Cahoon and
R. H. Atkinson. The Rotarians at
tended the funeral in a body and
acted as honorary pallbearers. Mu
sic was by the Rotary quartet, who
sang “Crossing the Bar”, with
Mrs. W. R. Pearce as organist.
John 11. Long sang “The Lord’s
Prayer”.
Mr. Brinkley’s father, the late
Sheriff W. T. Brinkley, was one
of the founders of Dare County
and a substantial business man.
Mr. Brinkley had considerable fi
nancial and realty interests in
Dare County at the time of his
death. He was highly regarded as
a public spirited citizen, a former
Chamber of Commerce, director,
and at one time had operated a
dairy business. He lived at his
father’s old homeplace, a choice
spot on Manteo Bay, and he enjoy
ed his fine yacht which was tied
up at his waterfront 4 - He gave
mtich of his time to the Bank of
Manteo, and to the Rotary Club.
CAA OFFICIALS CONFER
ON K. D. HILLS PLAN
Further study of the proposed
airplane landing strip at Kill Devil
Hills which is part of a project
suggested by the Kill Devil Hills
Memorial Society in connection
with an aviation museum, was
made last week by two CAA offi
cials. On Thursday a survey of the
site was made by W. L. Seeley of
Atlanta, chief of Planning Branch
of the Airports Division, and Joe
Norwood of Wilmington, the dis
trict airport engineer.
CAjPE POINT ROAD TO BE
BUILT ON HATTERAS ID.
Buxton.—A paved road from the
Hatteras Island highway to Cape
Point here will be constructed dur
ing the spring, it was stated to
day by A. C. Stratton, of the Na
tional Park Service with offices in
Manteo. The highway spur will
pass close to the ocean beach from
Hatteras Lighthouse to the Cape,
where a parking area for automo
biles will be constructed.
This will be one of the first phy
sical changes to be made through
the former State Park lands
which during late December was
deeded to the Cape Hatteras Na
tional Seashore Recreation area.
Contract for building the road has
already been let, it was stated.
In addition to the new road
through the Cape area, plans are
underway to develop a museum in
the former lighthouse keepers’
quarters near the base of the mon
ument and also to make arrange
ments for tourists and others in
the area to be privileged to climb
to the top of America's highest
lighthouse, it was stated.
KILL DEVIL HILLS SEEKS
LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY
TO INCORPORATE SECTION
Petition Signed by Practically All Permanent
Residents of Area Will Be Submitted to
Representative Etheridge Asking for Local
Bill; Mayor, Three Commissioners Proposed
to Govern With Zoning as Primary Objec
tive.
Kill Devil Hills.—Before many
months, this beach community
may have the right to put on
city airs. If, as Kill Devil Hil
lians hope and believe, the leg
islature acts favorably on a spe
cial local bill, this will become
an incorporated town, with a
mayor, three commissioners and
the right to pass zoning ordi
nances.
The movement has gone as far
as circulation of a petition. W.
H. Lewark, Atlantic township
county commissioner and one of
the leaders in the incorporation
movement, is circulating a pe
tition. With two permanent res
idents of the community out of
the state, all but three or four
eligible voters will have signed
the petition when it is submit
ted in the next week to Rep. R.
Bruce Etheridge. The petition
requests that he prepare and
push through the legislative a
bill providing for the incorpor
ation of Kill Devil Hills.
Providing that all goes well
and the bill passes, as it is con
fidently expected to do, Kill
Devil Hill will then organize as
a town, with the election of a
mayor and three commissioners.
These officers’ first and perhaps
i only task for some time wil be
Ito make a study of the beach
'section involved and follow that
up with zoning ordinance.
“We aren’t interested in severe
restrictions,” Mr. Lewark ex
plained. “What we want is some
protection against the type of
buildings or businesses that
would destroy the value of our
property investments.”
Mr. Lewark explained that
Kill Devil Hills property own
ers recognize the value of some
types of business and have no
desire to ban them from the area.
On the other hand, they want
assurance that no entertainment
or business projects that would
disturb the neighborhood or low
er the value of property be
allowed to creep in.
“We aren’t against bingo or
dancing or other entertainment,
but we don’t want it in residence
areas,” he explained. “As a mat
ter of fact, some of us would
welcome a good movie house.”
For the immediate future, at
least, no tax assessments are
I anticipated. Mr. Lewark ex
plained that if the incorporation
goes through, Kill Devil Hills
would have refunded to it 25
per cent of the taxes its property
owners pay to the county. The
town might also get a share in
such tax allotments as the state
makes to the county for roads,
he predicted.
“That should be enough to
take care of our requirements
.now,” he explained. “If the time
should ever come when the peo
ple want to have police protect
ion, or if we should get a water
system and could have fire pro
tection, then would be time
enough to think about a town
tax levy.”
Only permanent residents of
the Kill Devil Hills community,
who will be eligible to vote in
the next general election, may
sifen the petition. This excludes
those who have homes on the
beach but do not live here most
of the year nor vote here.
Being excluded from signing
the petition, however, has not
kept these non-resident proper
ty owners from being actively
interested in the incorporation
movement. Some of them have
See AUTHORITY, Page Five
MARCH OF DIMES DANCE
AT HIGH SCHOOL GYM
Cake Sale Saturday All Day Next
Rogers Barber Shop; Dance
Next Thursday Night
A cake bazaar to raise funds
for the March of Dimes will be
held all day Saturday in Manteo,
next to Rogers Barber Shop, ac
cording to Mrs. Wayland Frye,
Manteo chairman.
Mrs. Frye is arranging a dance
also for next Thursday night, the
22nd, in the Manteo High School
gym, and it will be a square dance,
for which she is bringing a hill
billy orchestra from Currituck.
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SO. ALBEMARLE
GROUP MEETING
IN ENGELHARD
Executive Committee Meet
ing Announced for
Wednesday
A six county executive meeting
of the Southern Albemarle Asso
ciation is announced for Engel
hard, Wednesday, January 21, by
Lawrence Swain, President, of
Manteo, and Leon Ballance, vice
president for Hyde County. From
all indications this will be tne most
important meeting of the Southern
Albemarle Association this year
and it is expected that all mem
bers who possibly can will arrange
to attend. The meeting will be
called to order in the High School
Auditorium at exactly 10:30 a.m.,
and the following is the agenda
for the day:
10:30 a.m., invocation; 10:35,
call to order; 10:40 a.m., Standing
committtee reports, special com
mittee reports; 11:30 a.m., commit
tee appointments; 11:45 a.m., com
mittee caucus for the appointment
of chairman and to map out pro
gram for the year; 1 p.m., lunch
at the Hotel Engelhard; 2 p.m.,
[Convene for afternoon session;
'2:05 p.m., Dr. W. T. Ralph, chair
man of the Roads and Bridges
I Committee, will lead discussion on
the Alligator River and Croatan
Sound bridges; 3 p.m., adjourn
i ment.
It might be expected tnat this
j meeting might run into extra time
I and that adjournment may be de
i layed, but if we are prepared for
submission of reports and can keep
the meeting moving the agenda
will not be impossible. Please be
prepared and to the point.
Since all counties will oe asked
to participate in the legislative
program to the extent of the full
annual dues the members of the
executive committee are hereby re
quested to pay for their lunch in
dividually. It is felt that it would
be a little too much to ask the host
county to also pay the full bill for
the entertainment of the quarterly
and annual meeting of the execu
tive committee and of the associa
tion.
It is also urgently requested that
those who plan to attend will noti
fy Leon G. Jlallance, vice-president
for Hyde County, just as soon as
you receive this letter. It is easy to
forget such notification and also
almost impossible to arrange for a
group that the number in attend
ance cannot be depended upon. Mr.
Ballance has set January 17 for
the deadline for such notification.
“DICK” JORDAN HEADS
MANTEO ROTARY CLUB
Monday Night’s Meeting Devoted
to Tributes to Late President
Vance Brinkley
R. E. (Dick) Jordan, vice-pres
ident and the President elect of
the Manteo Rotary Club presided
Monday night at the regular
meeting which was devoted to a
memorial program for Vance
Brinkley, club president who died
Saturday .
O. J. Jones made a short speech
in splendid tribute to Mr. Brink
ley, his citizenship and his club
service; and secretary Wally Mc-
Cown read an advance copy of this
week’s editorial from the Coast
land Times. Rev. Henry Napier
closed the meeting with a poem
and a prayer.
There was no formal business
attended to at this meeting.
WANCHESE MAN RECEIVES
BURNS IN HOME ACCIDENT
Clarence Payne of Wanchese re
ceived bad burns on one leg and
slight burns on the other in an ac
cident at his home Monday after
noon. Opening the lower draft on
a coal heater and standing close
by to get warm, the young man’s
clothing caught fire when the draft
in some way sent the flames
through the draft on to his clothes.
After a futile attempt to smother
the flames, he went to the kitchen
and drowned the fire in a pail of
water. He received first aid from
a Manteo physician.