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VOLUME XVIII NO. 43 WELFARE CLIENTS EXPECT’D TO EARN SOMETHING ALSO > -e Welfare Officer Says Able Recipients of Tax Funds Expected to Work Also “Members of families receiving aid to dependent children (ADC) are expected to work if they are able when suitable work is avail able,” said Mrs. Goldie H. Meek ins, county superintendent of pub lic welfare, in discussing the ADC program in Dare County, “We regularly review every ADC case each six montss or of tener in accordance with State-, wide policies,” Mrs. Meekins said. “We carefully consider such fac tors as continuing need and the availability of the mother or older children for suitable work. Mrs. Meekins pointed out that ADC case each six months or of to tide families over periods of crisis in which the welfare of chil dren is endangered. In half of the cases the aid is needed for less than 18 months. The Federal funds which are a part of this aid pro gram, it was stated, may be used only to help children in their own homes or in the homes of rela tives. Children cared for elsewhere may not receive Federal ADC funds. “The ability and capacity of the mother and older children for work within the requirements of the State Department of Labor, is con sidered in establishing need and determining payments in ADC,” Mrs. Meekins said. “A child over 18 in an ADC home ,or over 16 if not in school) must be working or registered with the employment of fice if he is able to work. 50 per cent of the earnings of a child (or $75 per month, whichever is the smaller amount) is considered a re source for the ADC home in figur ing the strict budget upon which the aid is given. We keep in touch with the local employment office and with the county farm agency concerning availablity of jobs. “The ADC program is intended to help people in need and we ex ct members of families receiv aid to' work as much as they O*' - s able. If a recipient refuses ,ork he is able to perform when it is available, payments will be terminated. Each case is consider ed on its own merits by the county welfare board which has legal re sponsibility for passing on all cases. The welfare of the children is given paramount consideration. “While the county welfare board is responsible for the administra tion of ADC in Dare county, it is the responsibility of all citizens to help the board carry out these pol icies fairly and equitably and with due regard for human as well as material values. We believe that our citizens want this aid to be available for children who are in need so they can grow up into re sponsible adults and good citizens. Many fine young men and women in Dare county today were given this aid as children when their families were in dire straits,” Mrs. Meekins concluded. BABY CONTEST WILL END THURS., APRIL 30 Operetta By Primary Children to Follow Crowning of Baby King and Queen • ■■ ■ The baby contest which is being sponsored by the Manteo Parent- Teacher Association will conclude Thursday, April 30, with a program in the Manteo school auditorium, beginning at 7:30. A very small admission will be charged, and it is expected that a large crowd will be in attendance. The evening’s entertainment will begin with a parade of all the ba bies entered tn the contest. This will be followed by the crowning of the king and queen, who will each have two attendants. Silver loving cups are being presented the boy and girl winners by an anonymous donor. A silver fork and spoon set will go to the second high boy and econd high girl. These are being > en by Selig’s of Eliazbeth City. -J 'oilowing the parade and crown- g, a short operetta “The Wed ding of the Painted Doll” will be put on by pupils of the Manteo first, second and third grades. PRESCHOOL CLINIC The Manteo preschool clinic will be held in the Community Building by the health depart ment on April 29, 1953 at 2:00 p.m. All parents with children start ing school next year are request ed to bring them to this clinic for their check-ups and immun izations. exo* THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA , HERMAN SMITH WITH HIS BIG FISH Ek * ' / Sib b ik -lt B i’ S W HERMAN SMITH is getting to be a champion fisherman. This shows him with his big catch of rockfish made several days ago in Manteo Bay. Herman knows where to find them. He is the son of Mrs. Pattie Smith of Manteo and the late Capt. H. C. Smith. POTATO FESTIVAL BAGS AVAILABLE FROM H. D. AGENT Clothing and Recipe Contests Must Be Entered Not Later Than May 1 Miss Mary Kirby, home agent, announces that she has 50 official Potato Festival bags in her office which may be purchased at 50< each for the potato bag costume contest to be held in Elizabeth City during the Potato Festival, May 29-30. There will be two contests, one for girls up to 18 and another for women over 18. An elimination contest will be held in Manteo May 6 at 2:30 p.m. at the community building. Costume may be street wear .sportswear and housewear to include aprons, smifcks, etc. “ Costumes will be judged accord ing to the following: originality, 35%, construction, 15%; suitabil ity, 15%; attractiveness, 35%. Another contest for potato rec ipes will be held at the same time. Entrants should present their rec ipes and dish at the elimination contest May 6. glasses of dishes are breads, desserts, vegetables, main dish, soup, salad and party refreshment. These will be judged according to attractiveness, 25%; tastefulness and flavor 35%, qual ity 15%, usefulness, 25%. Anyone wishing to enter either contest should notify Miss Kirby not later than May 1. A tasty recipe for potato rolls: 1 yeast cake dissolved in ti cup warm water. Let stand while you mix 1 cup cooked mashed Irish potatoes, 2/3 cup shortening, % cup sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 beat en eggs, 1 cup scalded milk. Add ' yeast mixture and enough flour (plain )to make stiff dough—about 5% cups. Knead lightly, pinch off pieces 3 to a muffin ring. Let rise. Bake at 425 degrees 12-14 min utes. Remainder may be kept in refrigerator 1 week—yield 2 doz- I en. PIER PROPOSED AT OCRACOKE ISLAND W. T. Boos, Ocracoke, North • Carolina, has made application for > permit for construction of a pier i in Pamlico Sound at Ocracoke, N. , C. I An open pile timber structure is : planned, 3 feet wide and 690 feet I long with a 30-foot ell at the end. The pier will not extend closer than I 60 feet to the channel leading to ■ Silver Lake Harbor. i Plans showing the proposed work ? may be seen at the post office at i Ocracoke, or the office of Colonel ; R. C. Brown, Corps of Engineers, r District Engineer, Wilmington, N. i C. t Please advise Col. Brown if you 1 have any objections to this work ' from the standpoint of navigation . or if you know of any person, firm, • or association who may be opposed - to such work. > Objections to the proposed work, > if any, will be received at the Wilmington office until May 18, 1953. APPLICATION APPROVED : The Bank of Manteo has been r notified that on Wednesday of this - week the state banking commission ) granted them permission to open a branch bank in the Nags Head - area. W. R. Pearce, cashier, stated - Thursday that plans are indefinite, ! but that they will open the new - branch as soon as details can be arranged. OYSTER SHELL DREDGE PLAN IS WITHDRAWN Murphy, Williams Among Those Presenting Objec tions to Proposal Kill Devil Hills.—Maj. J. L. Mur phy of Kill Devil Hills, vice presi dent of the North Carolina Wild life Federation, was among those who spoke at a hearing last week on a proposal to dredge dead oys ter shells from Currituck and Al bemarle sounds. The hearing re sulted in the firm withdrawing its proposal. A corportion with headquarters in Mobile, Ala., had asked the state for authority to dredge the dead oyster shells at the rate of 10 cents a cubic yard and the firm’s repre sentative said at a meeting that there was a strong possibility that a lime or cement plant would be located in the Albemarle area. It w - as estimated that the pay for the shells would net the state ap proximately $300,000 over a 10- year period. Opponents claimed that the dredging would destroy aquatic life essential to game and commercial fish and to wildfowl and thus would eliminate hunting and fishing in the sounds. These now attract many tourists, who are estimated to spend at least $lO a day each. Last year, licenses in Currituck county amounted to $41,000, which, over a 10-year period would total more than the amount the state would receive for the shells. Op ponents of the project said that as far as the suggested lime plant went, they were unwilling to trade the sportsmen’s business, the value of which they knew, for an indus try of unknown economic impor tance . The full board of the Department of Conservation and Deveolpment attended the hearing in Elizabeth City. Those speaking against the dredging proposal were Ira T. Quinn of Richmond, Va., director of the Virginia Fish and Game Commission; William Newsom, president of the Virginia Wildlife Federation; Roland McClamrock, director of the National Wildlife Federation; Dal H. Williams of Elizabeth City, president of the Nags Head Surf Fishing club; and Major Murphy. z Among the 300 attending the hearing were Congressmen Her bert Bonner and Thurman Chat ham, and Dr. Clarence Cottam of Washington, assistant director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Be sides some 250 from Currituck county, at least 50 from Princess Anne county and Tidewater Vir ginia sat in on the hearing. WIDOW, DAUGHTER AND MOTHER OF FAMOUS COAST GUARDS DIES Mrs. Josephine Gray Miller, 78, the widow and daughter of two of the most famed of the old time life-savers of the Outer Banks, herself a monther of several sons with long honorable records in the service, passed away at her home at Buxton Saturday night at eight o’clock after an illness of four years. She was the widow of the late Capt. Baxter B. Miller, long a keeper of Coast Guard stations, and the daughter of the late A. T. and Elizabeth Gray. She was born at Avon, but had lived at Buxton for nearly 50 years. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Retta Miller Jones of Biloxi, Miss; five sons, Cantwell T., Ed son and Olin Miller of Buxton; Mahlon S. Miller of Norfolk and See WIDOW, Page Eight FUNERAL MRS. MATILDA BAU The funeral of Mrs. Matilda Eth eridge Baum, 88, who died Wed nesday night of last week, was conducted at 3 p.m. Friday at the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church by the pastor, the Rev. W. J. Free man. The casket was covered by a pall of red roses, Easter lilies and fern. Mrs. Inez Parker, Vernon Parker and Mrs. Shirley Lynn, accompan ied at the organ by Mrs. Jesse Baum, sang “Good Night and Morning,” “Will The Circle Be Unbroken?” and “The Last Mile of the Way” at the graveside, in the Austin cemetery. Pallbearers were Aubrey Har ris, Jep Harris, Avery Tillett, Lio nel Shannon, Theron Corbell and Alonzo Harris. Mrs. Baum, the widow of the late George Baum, was a lifelong resident of Kitty Hawk, the daugh ter of the late Truxton and Emme line Gard Etheridge. Besides her daughter, Miss Nora Baum, and her son, Elijah Baum, she is sur vived by three sisters, Mrs. Dencie Partridge of Norfolk, Mrs. F. H. Midgett and Mrs. W. R. Perry and a half-brother, Edward N. Baum, all of Kitty Hawk. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953 TV PROGRAM FEATURES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF WRIGHT BROS. FLIGHT By AYCOCK BROWN Kitty Hawk.—The 50th anniver sary of powered flight will be cel ebrated by Dave Garraway on his “roday” program each morning during the week of April 27, through May 1, it was announced here today by Miles L. Clark, pres ident of Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association which was formed and operates to commemorate the achievement of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their first flight on December 17, 1903. The special featured program will be seen over WTAR-TV and other stations tel evising Garraway’s early morning news and special feattire programs, it was announced. The five-day series will touch on every facet of aviation in the United States, beginning with the first attempts to fly, both dramatic and humorous, including the W'right Brothers experiments here which began in 1900 and led to their successful (and the first pow ered flight) three years later at nearby Kill Devil Hills, and ending with the latest achievements of the supersonic age. During the week outstanding personalities, both civilian and military, will be interviewed. Among the air leaders who are anticipated are Eddie Rickenback er, president of Eastern Airlines, General Jimmy Doolittle, chairman of the anniversary committee, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd of Ant arctic expedition fame. Also prob ables, on the program will be Harry P. Moore, noted Norfolk newsman who reported the first story about the first flight, (a story which carried an 8-column stream er on page 1 of Virginian-Pilot, December 17, 1903, and A. W. Drinkwater, famous Coast Guard communication officer who helped relay the first message of the first flight when the noted brothers wir ed relatives back in Dayton that their powered flight had been suc cessful and that they would be home for Christmas. On the program Byrd will show films and discuss his flights to the South Pole; Doolittle will describe his daring 30-second raid on Tokyo during the last war and Ricken backer will be seen in remote con trol from Smithsonian Institution where he will present Eastern Air lines Douglas DC-3 to the collection of historic craft. Other aircraft to be shown from Smithsonian Institution on the Garraway program will be the ori ginal Wright Brothers’ plane, the “Kitty Hawk” and General Billy Mitchell’s World War I Spad and its German adversary, the Fokker. It was General Mitchell who, after World War I, proved that ocean going surface craft were vulnera ble to attacks by bombing planes and he conducted his experiments off Cape Hatteras in 1923 where on the 30th anniversary of his achieve ment this year near Hatteras vil lage, his landing field for the fa mous operations will be commem orated by the erection of a State Archives and Historical Division marker. The more modern but al ready obsolete Bell XS-1, first plane to break through the sonic barrier will also be featured on See PROGRAM, Page Eight MRS. HOLLAND PAYNE, 84, FROM MASHOES IS DEAD Levissa Holland Midgett Payne, 84, widow of the late Worth J. Payne of Mashoes, a lifelong res ident of the area, a member of the Methodist Church, died Thursday at 7:15 p.m. at the Beacon Nurs ing Home in Manteo where she had lived for the past four years, being the first patient to enter the home when it was opened, by Mrs. Lotta Midgett. Her father and mother were the late Thomas and Sally Caroon Mid gett of Mashoes. Her only immedi ate relatives living are J. T. and A. C. Gard of Elizabeth City, ne phews; and a niece, Mrs. E. O. Hooper of Norfolk, Va. Funeral services were conducted at one o’clock Saturday at Twi ford’s Funeral Home in Manteo by Rev. H. V. Napier, Baptist pastor. The £ody was taken to Mashoes sot burial in the family plot. DARE COUNTY SEAMEN RETURN FROM KOREA Long Beach, Calif. April 20 (FHTNC)—The USS Missouri re turned to the United States today after six months in Korean waters. Serving aboard the battleship are Clarence J. Hassell, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hassell and husband of Mrs. Shir ley T. Hassell all of Manns Harbor, and Charlie V. Scarborough, stew ardsman, USN, husband of Mrs. Myrtle F. Scarborough of Manteo. The “Mighty Mo” is the first U.S. battleship to complete a sec ond tour of duty with United States forces in the Korean theater. ATTRACTIVE MISS IN PALM BEACH SHOW • "W-- a——MKarx- • ■-—v - M 'xf MF wL | I SHAkON ANNETTE MIDGETT, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. Willard O. Midgett of West Palm Beach, Fla. She is a grand daughter of Ellis H. Midgett, U.S.C.G., retired, of Manteo. The picture shows her as she appeared in an Easter fashion parade at an exclusive 'Palm Beach hotel. This was an annual affair planned for TV and M.G.M. newsreel. TEACHERS PLAN HATTERAS EVENT NEXT SATURDAY Hatteras. At a county-wide teachers’ meeting here Saturday, plans for the closing of school, May 29, will be outlined by Mrs. Mary Evans, county superintend ent of schools. She will outline re quirements for final reports and other details. The meeting will be combined with a session of the Dare county unit of the North Carolina Educa tional association, when officers will be elected. L. G. Finch of Manteo, president this year, will report on a recent state convention he attended in Asheville. In connection with the business and discussions, the Hatteras Par ent-Teacher unit will serve lunch. Teachers north of Oregon Inlet will go by car to the inlet, ride across on the 10 o’clock ferry and be met on this side by a bus, which will bring them to Hatteras. The meeting will be over in time for these teachers to return on the 2:30 ferry. MRS. MARY MEEKINS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Mary Rebecca (Mollie) Ma son Meekins, 80, died in Elizabeth City after an illness of more than three years, Wednesday night at 6:16. She was at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Edith Hooper, 915 Pennsylvania Avenue. She had made her home for the greater part in Elizabeth City during the past 25 years. She was the daughter of the late Samuel Warrenton and Mary Mid gett Mason and widow of Davis Littleton Meekins. She was a member of the City Road Metho dist Church. Mrs. Meekins is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Claude Wise of. Manteo, and Mrs. Edith Hooper of Elizabeth City; six sons, Frank lin T. Meekins, Samuel Warrenton Meekins and William H. Meekins, all of Norfolk; the Rev. Earl R. Meekins, of Columbia; Garland E. Meekins and D. Littleton Meekins, both of Stumpy Point; 17 grand children and 15 great-grandchil dren. She is also survived by a brother, W. M. Mason of Manteo, two sis ters, Mrs. A. W. Hooper and Mrs. Frances Hooper of Stumpy Point, and many nephews and nieces. She was long a member of the Stumpy Point Methodist Church and the funeral will be conducted at 2:30 Friday from the church by Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson, the pas tor. Interment will be in the fam ily plot. SHRINERS VISIT POINTS OF INTEREST IN DARE J Hatteras and Ocracoke Hosts to Visitors Last Week End | 1 Ocracoke.—On Saturday, April j 18, between 50 and 60 Shriners ; enjoyed a day at Ocracoke, as part j of their caravan down the Outer | Banks of North Carolina. This j group represented the Sudan Tem- , pie east of Greensboro. Many of , the Shriners brought their wives i on the trip. Arriving by boat across , Hatteras Inlet, they were met by several Ocracokers, some of whom ] belong to the Masonic Order, and < brought down the 16 mile strip of , reef by automobile, stopping to see various shipwrecks and especially , the Ghost Ship wreck about seven , miles north of Ocracoke. ( They were taken on a tour of . the island, visiting the U. S. Coast , Guard station, the Cunningham (British) Graveyard, the Ocracoke . lighthouse, and the legendary hide out of the Pirate Blackbeard. At noon they were served lunch at the Ocracoke school library— crab stew, slaw, hushpuppies, and cold drinks. Shriner W ,T. Boos and Mrs. Boos were in charge of the plans for the tour and luncheon. At the school they enjoyed the ex tensive shell collection of the ele mentary grades, on display in the library. Though several here belong to the Masonic Order, Ocracoke is a “one man Shrine Club”, that Shrin er being W. T. Boos, formerly of Wilson, but now residing here and operating Sound Front Inn. It is possible that Ocracoke is the only one-man Shine Club in the United See SHRINERS, Page Eight CHARLES B. GREGORY Funeral services for Charles Burrows Gregory, who died at his residence in Rodanthe Wednesday night of last week were conducted Friday morning at 11 o’clock in the chapel of the Twiford Funeral Home, Manteo, by the Rev. P. M. Porter, pastor of the Fairhaven ' Methodist Church, assisted by the ’ Rev. H. V. Napier, pastor of the I Manteo Baptist Church. Members of the choir sang “Abide With Me”, “The Old Rug ged Cross” and “Now the Day Is Over’ ’accompanied on the organ by Mrs. Rennie Williamson. | The casket was covered with a pall of red roses and Easter lilies. Frank Cahoon, Frank Ausband, D. C. Dungan, Elmer Midgett, Jr., 1 Louis Midgett and Rudolph Mid gett served as pallbearers. Burial followed in the Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. Single Copy 70 OCRACOKE SCHOOL GROUP VISITS IN WASHINGTON, D. C. Students See White House, Capitol and Other Points of Interest By ALICE K. RONDTHALER Ocracoke.—All aboard for Wash ington, D. C.I And this didn’t mean a train or bus or plane to the eight students from the American his tory class of Ocracoke High School who enjoyed four days of schooling in Washington, D. C., last week. It meant getting up at 4:30 a.m. and being ready to climb into Charlie McWilliams’ truck at 5:15 a.m., riding up Ocracoke Reef in the cold morning hours, crossing Hat teras Inlet by boat, and then boarding the 7:45 a.m. bus for Manteo, thence northward by bus through Norfolk, Williamsburg, Richmond—arriving in Washing toon, D. C. at 8:55 p.m. that night. Located at the Sandridge Tourist Home on East Capitol Street, we were within walking distance of the Capitol and other government buildings, and no sooner had we settled our baggage than we were two and a half blocks down the street getting our first near sight of the beautiful Capitol dome. And for some of us our first sight of a trolley car, for though Ocracokers are familiar with jets and bomb ers and helicopters and pleasure planes and automobiles, thus far no clanging trolley car has invaded the Island’s isolation. But during our four days there, w.e .found the trolley a very useful medium of travel, especially good old No. 40 Lincoln Park, which al ways got us finally to and from home bases. And we found the conductors and the bus drivers par ticularly helpful in telling us how to get here and there, not only to the various government buildings, but to the shopping and theater districts. Rainy weather one day, cold the next, fair and cool the other two ,made no impression on us Ocracokers, accustomed as we are to squalls and hurricanes. We got between the drops to the House Office Building and down to No. 1015 to pay our respects to our Representative Herbert C. Bonner. He was down home in “Little Washington,” but his secretaries did all the honors—supplying us .with passes for the Senate and House galleries for use during our visit. Then off we went in the raih to the Bureau of Federal Investiga tion, so interesting, especially to the boys of the group, that we for got all about the weather discom forts. Then after lunch at Scholl’s, back to the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Supreme Court Building, where our guide not only told us all about the Jus tices, present and past, but showed us the beautiful marble staircase, the golden doors, the very, very long Venetian blinds, and the “longest zippers in the world” on the beautiful red curtaihs. Tuesday we were guests for the day of Ocracoke enthusiasts—Mr. and Mrs. Runyon, Mr. and Mrs. Owsley, and Mr. and Mrs. Meeker —all wanting to show nine Ocra cokers (oh yes, there were eight students and one teacher!) the sights of Mount Vernon, Alexan dria, Arlington, the airport, the Pentagon, historic Georgetown, and Washington Cathedral. Three cars and a well-planned itinerary by Mr .Runyon keep the group hap pily on the go from about 8:30 a. m. to 5 p.m. with time out from historic shrines for souvenir buy ing, lunch at the airport, shooting in the game room there, twenty three kinds of ice cream at a How ard Johnson, and many other inci- See GROUP, Page Eight NEW PAINTINGS HUNG IN FORT RALEIGH MUSEUM Museum To Be Closed for Repairs April 27 Through May 2 Visitors to the museum at Fort Raleigh National Park on Roanoke Island will be able to enjoy a group of 19 new paintings in oil, all copies of John White’s draw ings of the New World as he saw it in the 16th century. The pictures were installed this week by Paul Hudson of the Richmond office of , the National Park Service. Mr. ■ Hudson spent three days on Roa- ■ noke Island this week, attending ; to this matter. The pictures were painted by Sidney King of Tynor, Va., and were bought and given to the museum by the Eastern Na tional Park and Monument Associ ation and the National Park Serv l ice. A large oil painting, also done by Mr. King, of the baptism of Chief Manteo, has also been hung in the museum. Robert H. Atkinson, superinten dent of Fort Raleigh, announces I tha the museum will be closed from April 27 through May 2 for intern al repairs and painting.
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