VOLUME XVII NO. 33
SIX DRAW FINES
FOR DISTURBING
BUXTON SCHOOL
Youths on Rampage Assault
Principal; Plead Guilty
in Dare Court
Six young men ranging in age
m 17 to 21, pleaded guilty in
/ 'order’s Court Tuesday to
.arges growing out of a distur
bance they created on the school
grounds at Buxton, Cape Hatteras,
‘ last week, and were fined by Judge
Baum. They drew suspended sen
tences.
The principal, C. E. Word,
brought the charges to which the
sextette pleaded guilty. Evidence
shovyed that their disorderly con
duct forced the closing of the
school for the balance of the day.
David Barnette, who was charg
ed with assaulting Mr. Word,
when he attempted to get the par
ty off the school premises, and
with being drunk and disorderly
and creating a disturbance, was
fined $25 and the costs of court,
and was given a six months roao
sentence, suspended on condition
he keep off the school premises
for the balance of the term.
Ronald Midgett, for’ aiding and
abetting this affray, and for driv
ing an automobile without proper
license plate, also got a 30-day
suspended sentence and was fined
sls and costs.
Donnie Gray, for disturbing and
interrupting the school, was fined
$5 and costs. Joseph Farrow and
Darrell Austin, for aiding and
abetting this disturbance each
were fined $5 and costs.
Larry Farrow, who was charged
with being drunk and disorderly,
was fined sls and costs and got a
30-day suspended sentence.
Roger Hammond, member of a
Coast Guard crew, was fined $45
and costs and given a 30-day sus
pended sentence for speeding at 75
miles per hour, and having no op-'
erator’s license.
STUMPY POINT
TEEN AGE CLUB
IS SPONSORED
Junior Choir May Grow Out
of Recreatioh Project of
Home Demonstration
Club
Stumpy Point. Sponsored by
Home Demonstration club, a
n Age club was organized Fri
y night, the first facility of its
Kind to be provided for Stumpy
Point young people.
Adopted by the women as their
project for the year, the teen age
group will be supervised in its
weekly Friday night meetings. If
enough interest is shown, the
group may meet more often in the
summer.
The new club is expected to meet
some of the recreation needs of the
younger group. The movie in En
gelhard, 26 miles away, is the only
entertainment the young people
have and not all of them have the
opportunity to attend that.
The Home Demonstration club
has asked for contributions of
games and for money to buy seme
of the things needed to make the
reacreation center interesting to
eth teen agers.
Stumpy Point principal, Mrs.
Ruby Gray, will serve as house
mother. In addition, two club mem
bers will assist her each Friday in
supervising activities.
One of the first projects for the
younger group will be formation
of a junior choir. Some training in
crafts also will be offered. For this
the help of the men of the com
munity will be asked. The choir
suggestion came from a district
meeting which Mrs. Eloise Mo
nette recently attended in Eden
ton.
The Home Demonstration club,
of which Mrs. Woodrow Best is
president, had as its project remov
al of a partition in the school
lunchroom, to provide a large area.
Although this has been used thus
far only for Ruritan and Home
Demonstration meetings, it will
now open to the teen agers .
RUPERT PUGH, GULROCK MAN
DIES MONDAY; BURIED WED.
Rupert Pugh, 69, a native of
Gulrock, Hyde County, died in the
lelhaven hospital following a
N art attack, at ten p.m. Monday.
) >r many years he was in business
at Last Chance, and resided in this
section of Hyde County. He is sur
vived by five sons. One brother,
Joe Pugh of Gulrock; five sisters,
Mrs. E. T. Cutrell and Mrs. Char
lie Haynes of Lake Landing, Mrs.
Lida Payne and Mrs. Agness Gibbs
of Elizabeth City, and Mrs. G. C.
Cub ell of Middletown.
Funeral and burial were conduct
ed at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Gulrock.
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THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
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Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mann of Manns Harbor have good reason to be
pleased with the progress of their two sons who had taken Army life
for a career. Carl J. is married, and well anchored with a family, and
has them with him in France.
Carl J. Mann has been in Uncle
Sam’s Army ten years. He entered
the service in 1943 and took his
first training at Greensboro with
the Army Air Force, being dis
charged from the Air Force in 1946
with the rank of Sergeant. In June
1947 he re-inlisted in the regular
Army, deciding that Army life was
best of all. In 1948 he went to San
Jose, Canal Zone, with the Chemi
cal Corp, on a secret mission then
to Panama to await a transfer to
St. Thomas, Virgin Island the same
years. His wife and children join
ed him there for two years. In
1950 he was returned to the
states, where he served one year in
New Orleans in charge of the pho
to lab at the point of embarkation,
and while there was rated to Sec
ond Lieutenant. He went then to
Fort Eustis, Va. xVith the 55th
Heavy Truck Company, and with
the same outfit, went to Landes de
Bussac, France, where he is now
stationed. His family joined him a
year ago. He was commissioned a
First Lieutenant in November last.
See MANNS, Page Four
AGED ENGELHARD MAN
DIES MONDAY NIGHT
Funeral services for W. Richard
Midgett, 89, prominent citizen of
Engelhard in Hyde County, who
died at his home Monday night af
ter a short illness were conducted
Wednesday at noon and interment
was in the Fulford Cemetery. He
was a member of the Christian
church. He was a lifelong resident
of Hyde County, the son of the
late John and Mrs. Midgett. He is
survived by a daughter, Mrs. C.
Lee Gibbs of Engelhard; a son,
Charlie Midgett of Washington; a
sister, Mrs. Molly Sadler of Lake
Landing.' He was a well-known and
highly respected citizen. The Ber
ry Company, funeral directors.
BOY SLAYS SNAKE AND SAVES A LIFE
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HARRY NIZER, 13 of Roanoke Island whose quick wit caused him
to slay a cotton mouth moccasin which had bitten James Midgett, a
playmate last week, and to put a tourniquet on the wound to stop the
circulation of poison. Harry is shown holding the snake. Photo by
Aycock Browp.
HOUNDS TREE ONE
FOX; CATCH THREE
AND CHASE MORE
Treeing one fox in top of 20
foot myrtle bush near Nags Head-
Hatteras highway at Bodie Island
highlighted the fifth annual Val
entine Season Fox Hunt which be
gan Thursday morning and will
continue through Saturday. Two
packs of Walker hounds, owned by
the Watkins brothers of Oxford,
Jeff Coats and Ed Lamb of Rocky
Mount, jumped about 15 foxes dur
ing the first morning of hunt.
The hounds were followed by a
gallery of some 30 or more hunt
ers. Three foxes were bagged dur
ing the first morning hunt, but
Che one chased up a tree provided
more excitement.
The treed for also provided ex
cellent picture material for news
men and for Scott Seegers, an
Arlington, Va., free-lancer cover
ing the hunt this year on assign
ment from Parade Magazine, a
Sunday newspaper supplement
See HUNT, Page Four
MRS. MARY TOLAR MIDGETT
Mrs.- Mary Tolar Midgett, 89,
died Thursday afternoon at Wan
chese, where she made her home
with Mr. and Mrs. Bart Garrison.
Born September 9, 1863, Mrs. Mid
gett was the daughter of the late
T. T. and Bessie Ansel Tolar of
Wanchese and the widow of the
late C. N. Midgett. She is survived
by one half-brother, John Tolar, of
Wanchese; and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed Saturday afternoon at two
o.’clock by Rev. C. W. Guthrie,
pastor of the Wanchese Methodist
Church, of which she was a mem
ber.
MANTEO, N. C„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1953
CARRIES FAME OF
OUTER BANKS TO
GARDEN CLUBS
Stratton Predicts 200,000 Ad
ditional Visitors to Outer
Banks to See Park
A. C. Stratton, administrator for
;he Cape Hatteras Seashore,
spread the praises of the area
Tuesday when he spoke bofere
some 500 women, attending the
South Atlantic Regional Council
of Garden clubs at Pinehurst. In
this large group, were delegates
from 11 southern states .
Stratton predicted 200,000 more
visitors will tour the state’s Outer
Banks annually when the park is
completed. He explained plans for
recreation, including boating and
I fishing, and for other activities in
the area, such as botanical studies.
He noted that in the 1930’s the
picturesque Outer Banks were on
the verge of being lost because of
erosion damage. However, soil ero
sion and other conservation meth
ods have stopped this threat.
It is now the goal of the Cape
Hatteras project, Stratton contin
ued, to preserve the Outer Banks
in their natural condition.
When completed the Cape Hat
teras project will be the only na
tional seashore park in the U. S.
Park System, Stratton said. Plans
for the big project, covering more
than 30,000 acres and being devel
oped at a cost of $1,236,000, include
a museum to relate the story of
the sea and the heroic people who
have inhabited the Banks since the
early colonial days of Virginia
Dare, Stratton reported.
Stratton’s address at a luncheon
meeting of the host North Caro
lina Garden Club, was a highlight
of the opening day. The South At
lantic Region has more than one
third of the national council’s
membership.
Mrs. Karl Bickel of Sarasota,
Fla., regional president, reported
that the South Atlantic Region’s
junior membership now totals
more than 33,000. She presided
over sessions this afternoon at
which state presidents gave their
annual reports.
MORE ACCOMMODATIONS
RISING ON THE BANKS
Tourist Courts and Cases at Bux
ton Under Construction; Oth
ers’ Being Planned
Tourist courts and cases contin
ue to rise on Hatteras Island, so
confident are the people that a big
tourist business is on its way. If
the history of National Parks is
repeated, then there will be bi
business in providing food and
lodging for visitors.
George Fuller, enterprising mer
chant of Buxton, is now construct
ing a case to seat 75 persons ,at
Cape Hatteras. Mr. Fuller owns
a new cottage court completed last
year.
Walter D. Barnett, well-known
native of Cape Hatteras, retired
Coast Guardsman, and who owns
considerable real estate in Norfolk,
is to erect four cottages to be
known as Orange Blossom Inn.
These will be near the old home of
his father and mother, the late W.
Loran Barnett. His mother, Mrs.
Lonie Barnett, lives there now.
DARE MEN FIGHTING
IN KOREAN WATERS
Two Dare County men, Clarence
J. Hassell, seaman, USN, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hassell,
and husband of Mrs. Shirley M.
Hassell, all of Manns Harbor, and
Charlie V. Scarborough, stewards
• nan, USN, husband of Mrs. Myrtle
F. Scarborough of Manteo, are
•erving aboard the battleship USS
Missouri, on her second tour of
luty with United Nations forces
in Korean waters.
HATTERAS MAN, BOATSWAIN,
TAKES AMPHIBIOUS COURSE
Little Creek, Va. (FHTNC)—
Lester B. Ballance, boatswain’s
nate second class, USN, who is
he son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Ballance of Hatteras, was among
he 90 men qualified as assault boat j
coxswains in a course conducted I
at the Naval Amphibious Base, by
he Atlantic Fleet Amphibious
Force.
The new coxswains will be at
tached to Boat Unit 2, a large de
tachment which provides small
anding craft and crews for am
phibious landings. This unit is nor
mally based at Little Creek, but
•an be embarked aboard landing
'ships, attack transports or attack
cargo ships for maneuvers or ac
ual landings.
In order to qualify as an assault
boat coxswain, candidates must be
able to pilot boats up to 28 tons
through surf onto beachheads. The
'argest landing craft the coxswains
are taught to maneuver can carry
25-ton tanks or 120 combat-equip
ped foot soldiers. f
MANNS HARBOR SOLDIER
LIKES LIFE IN BRITAIN
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WILDON BURTON CRADDOCK
is finding life much different, liv
ing over in England where he is
Staff Sergeant with the 49th Squa
dron, Air Force. He is 21 years
old, and the son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. R. Craddock of Manns Harbor.
Distance didn’t keep him from
coming home Christmas; he came
to America by airliner to visit his
parents. He is now stationed in
Sculthorpe, England.
SEPTIC TANK
RULES ADOPTED
FOR 2 COUNTIES
Permits to Be Issued to Avoid
Cost of Uncovering Sys
tems for Inspection
The Currituck-Dare district
board of health, meeting recently,
adopted regulations governing de-,
sign, construction and use of sep
tic tank sewage disposal systems
in the two counties.
In the past, Dr. W. W. Johnston,
health officer, explained, builders
have constructed septic tank sys
tems according to their own ideas,
with little or no supervision. In
the sandy soil on the beach, these
have been satisfactory. With in
crease of building on the beach,
however, and the proximity of
houses on small lots, the problem
of maintaining a safe water sup
ply has become more pressing.
Water samples taken in the sum
mer of 1952 showed water pollu
tion in many cases.
To safeguard the water supply
for the beach, the board has asked
public cooperation in securing per-
See TANK, Page Four
WANCHESE MAN HAS A
CLOSE CALL AT CANAL
Luther Midgett of Wanchese had
a close call Saturday night when
his truck shot across the road and
headed for the canal on the south
side of U. S. 158 near its inter
section two miles south of Man
teo. All that saved him from going
into deep water was a small pine
tree that stopped the truck. A
passerby extricated him from his
imprisonment in the truck. Many
accidents have occurred on this
road, including several deaths.
ENGELHARD POWER MAN
ROTARY DIST. GOVERNOR
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ROTARIANS throughout Eastern i
North Carolina were genuinely
elated upon news of this election
Monday of P. D. Midgett, Jr., of
Engelhard to the post of Governor
of the 189th Rotary District in N.
C. Mr. Midgett, who is in the elec
trical power business in Engel
hard, is a native of Wanchese, for
merly taught school at Hatteras;
is a 1922 Duke graduate, generous
civic leader, and for 25 or more
years has been a moving spirit in
Rotary, having been an organizer
of the Engelhard club which spon
sored his candidacy for the Gover
norship. He has been an active
leader in many civic and religious
causes. His wife is the former Vir
ginia Brittain of Suffolk. He has
four childreh. 1
HYDE POWER SYSTEM TO BE
ENERGIZED BY 33,000 VOLT
LINE IN TYRRELL OF VEPCO
Pamlico Power and Light Company Makes
Contract Which Will Assure Consumers in
Two Counties of Unlimited Source of Ener
gy; Line Through Tyrrell to Cost $168,000,
and Hyde County Connections $60,000
More.
Expenditure of a quarter mil
lion dollars is contemplated soon
which will give Hyde County con
sumers of the Pamlico lee & Light
Co. at Engelhard the advantage of
an unlimited supply of power. The
Virginia Electric and Power Com
pany will build a 33,000 volt trans
mission line from Columbia to the
Tyrrell County line north of Fair
field at a cost of $168,000. The En
gelhard Company will spend some
$60,000 to modernize its lines and
to connect with the Vepco line
south of Kilkenny.
The new source of energy will
supplant the operation of the six
oil operated motors in Engelhard,
which supply upwards of 1,000
KVA to the 1,200 customers in
Hyde County, and the Dare Coun
ty communities of Stumpy Point
and Manns Harbor.
Company officials said this week
they are hopeful of putting the
new system into service by mid
summer, which is the peak season.
The move of the Pamlico Power &
Light Co .is in line with the grow
ing trend to hook on to super
power lines, where current can be
bought for much less than it may
be generated in the smaller plants.
Usually the rate to an operation of
like size is one cent and two mills
per kw. The town of Belhaven has
recently entered into a similar con
tract with Vepco for 20 years.
Present costs of manufacture in
plants of the type used in the
smaller system run at 2 cents and
up per kw.
A great advantage of the new
system of electrical distribution is
that customers may be assured of
any needed amount of current. No
industry need fear a shortage of
power, should it desire to locate in
Hyde County.
The Engelhard plant is the prod
uct of the vision and energy of
P. D. Midgett, Jr., who established
the business in 1935 and began op
eration with seven customers. The
business has grown through the
years from one motor to seven;
the lines have been extended over
most of Hyde County and to Stum
py Point and to Manns Harbor in
Dare and now serves 1,200 con
sumers.
ROADS ARE WATERWAYS
ON HATTERAS ISLAND
The heavy rains of early Febru
any have frequently covered most
of the new paved highway between
Hatteras village and Oregon In
let, but the water soon drained off,
■and at no time was traffic halted.
In Hatteras village, however, it
has been a different story with the
dirt roads through residential
areas. Heavy rains on the week
end made the roads impassable. ]
Some of the holes in the village 1
roads had two and three feet of
water.
During early January when the
rains flooded the Hatteras roads it
was necessary to mark the shallow
water with bushes and discarded
Christmas trees so motorists might
avoid drowning their motors.
“A group of Hatteras citizens
met with officials of the highway
commission recently asking for
better maintenance of the village
roads,” said Dan Q. Oden, local
merchant. “But they made no defi
nite promises to do anything but
did indicate that probably by sum
mer improvements may be made.”
Some residents have charged the
highway commission with building
paved roads in less populated
areas of the county in recent
months while densely populated
residential areas of Hatteras were
overlooked. One spokesman charg
ed that “favoritism” had been
shown in building paved roads in
the vicinity of properties owned
by “politicians” on Roanoke Island
during the past year while more
thickly populated communities
such as Hatteras having only dif
ficult sand trails had been over
looked.
McNABB IN HOSPITAL
Lt. George McNabb, USN (Ret.)
is in the U. S. Naval Hospital,
Camp Lejeune, N. C., where he
has undergone an operation on his
throat. Lt. McNabb is expected to
be a patient at the hospital for
the next three weeks. He formerly
| lived in Manteo and Cape Hatter
as, but the family now resides in
Portsmouth, Va.
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ANGLERS MAKE
SPORTSFISHING
RESERVATIONS
Under normal conditions the first
channel bass of the 1953 season
will not be taken with rojl and reel
from Dare coastal waters’ until
around April 1, eight weeks from
now, but already anglers are mak
ing reservations in local and beach
hotels with their arrival date con
curring with the arrival of the
channel bass.
A survey of hotel and tourist fa
cilities on the week end made by
Dare County Tourist Bureau indi
cated that more persons had made
reservations for fishing here dur
ing the mid-Spring run of channel
bass than in the history of the
county.
“Channel bass is not the only
fish that is resulting in current
reservations from anglers,” said
L L. Swain, chairman of the Tour
ist Bureau’s board of directors.
Quite a number of persons have
requested they be notified when
fresh water fish start biting.”
Usually the first fresh water
fish, (large mouth bass) are taken
with rod and reel about March 15,
it was stated. Large mouth bass
are taken in the fresh ponds of the
Outer Banks from Duck and Kitty
Hawk to Buxton on Cape Hatter
( as. Kitty Hawk Bay and Colington
I Island bays seem to attract more
fresh water anglers than anywhere
else in the county .
“Fresh water fishermen also
find the fishing good in the road
side canals and lakes of the Dare
mainland. The waters of the
land have been stocked at regular
intervals by the Wildlife Re
sources Commission in recent
years.
Channel bass appear simultan-
See ANGLERS, Page Four
BOY SCOUTS PRESENT
BIKE SAFETY PROGRAM
Manteo PTA Hears Talks From
Youngsters Instructed by
Patrolman Holt
Manteo Boy Scouts presented a
program on Bicycle Safety to the
Manteo Parent-Teacher Associa
tion Tuesday afternoon at the Feb
ruary meeting in the school audi
torium. The boys had been in
structed by Patrolman R. C. Holt,
and the scout group was represent
ed by Raymond Wescott, Jr., Lloyd
Wescott, Dannv Moulson and
Frankie White.
Mrs. Edna Bell gave a talk on
the meaning of Founder’s Day.
The PTA voted to complete pay
ment on the school typewriters
and announced that the new pri
mary school piano, which was pre
sented to the school by the organ
ization as a tribute to Miss Bonny
bel Evans, retired Manteo primary
teacher, had been installed in the
new building and was already in
use.
The following nominating com
mittee was appointed by Mrs. Ray
mond Wescott, president: Mrs.
Kenneth Ward, Mrs. Nevin Wes
cott and Mrs. R. D. Sawver.
LEAVE FOR PRE-INDUCTION
EXAMS AT FORT BRAGG
A number of Dare County boys
left this week for pre-iilduction
examinations at Fort Bragg. They
included Stanley Tillett, Nags
Head; Norman Ward, Manteo;
Thomas Cannady, Manteo; Erbe
Gallop, W’anchese; Alton Gard,
Jr., Manns Harbor; Harrie Willis,
Frisco; Harris Pledger, Manteo;
Lloyd Pendleton, Manteo, and Reg
inald Midgett, Manteo. The last
named was a volunteer.
Harley Murphy of Kill Devil
Hills was transferred to Wyoming,
Delaware ,and will be sent from
that selective service office. Dave
Coldiron, who has been living at
Kitty Hawk, was transferred to the
local board from Annapolis, Md. ,
Failing to report were Raymond
Miller, Buxton; and Julian Mid
gett, Manteo.
The chief reason for failure to
report is attributed by John Fere
bee, chairman of the local board,
to carelessness about leaving the
proper address with the board. Mr.
Ferebee stresses the importance of
sending a change of address im
mediately upon making such
I change.