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OUR SEASHORE NEWS
Doings of the Communities of the Dare County Coast,
Duck, Kitty Hawk, Caffeys Inlet, Kill Devil Hills, Nags
Head, Colington, Whalebone, Oregon Inlet, and Corolla
in Currituck.
Edited by MISS SARAH HALLIBURTON
Kill Devil Hills, N. C.
MOTOR COURT
NEW MANAGER
TAKES CHARGE
Experience Fishing Here
Draws Z. F. Wilson to
Beach to Make Home
Kitty Hawk. Twelve years
«f fishing trips to the Nags Head
beach and Kitty Hawk bay so
endeared the area to Z. F. Wil
son that he and his wife have
moved here from Portsmouth,
Va., to take over management of
Journey’s End. They expect to
stay the year around, keeping
the motor court open the full 12
months.
Although he has been living in
Portsmouth since the war, and
for a time worked at the naval
base at Norfolk, Mr. Wilson is a
North Carolinian. His home for
merly was in Salisbury.
Journey’s End, owned by Basil
B. Wells of Baltimore, Md., is
located on Highway 158, a little
way around the curve to the
Currituck sound bridge. This is
its second season of operation.
At present, the court, all under
one roof, is made up of two bed
room units. In a remodeling pro
gram to be undertaken after the
end of the season, some of these
will be converted into one-bed
room units, in order to provide
a more flexible arrangement.
An additional unit also will be
added, with two bedrooms which
will have twin beds, a utility
room and a maid’s room.
The present apartments have
electric refrigeration, gas stoves
for cooking and gas heat for
winter. The floors are tiled, the
walls finished in wood paneling.
Inside doors are of the fan fold
ing type. Furniture is of a mod
ern type, with plastic upholster
ing. 1
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MORRISON ADDS
NEW EQUIPMENT
AT DAIRY QUEEN
Extra Freezer and Topping Cabi
net Will Speed Service, Make
More Flavors Possible
Kill Devil Hills. Two pieces
of new equipment, designed to
increase the service, have been
installed at the Dairy Queen by
Herbert Morrison, the owner
and operator.
One is a new freezer, so that
two flavors of that soft ice cream
can be made. In addition to van
illa, strawberry flavor will be
provided Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday; Chocolate Thursday,
Friday and Saturday. On Sun
day, due to the press of work,
only vanilla flavor will be made.
However, all three flavors can
be secured in pints and quarts to
take home, as they are kept in
the deep freeze.
The other piece of new equip
ment is a topping cabinet, which
will hold the various toppings
for sundaes. Its use will speed
up service to waiting cusomers.
The Dairy Queen is open from
11 in the morning until 12 at
night.
VIRGINIA BEACH
COUPLE OCCUPIES
NEW HOME HERE
Kill Devil Hills. Mr. and
Mrs. S. J. Faris of Virginia
Beach, Va., moved into their new
cottage at the north end of the
Kill Devil Hills area, Tuesday.
The new cottage contains two
bedrooms, living room, kitchen
and bath, and has a large screen
ed porch. It is one of the few
cottages on the beach that is air
conditioned.
Mr. and Mrs. Faris have a
little girl, 4 years old.
POND ISLAND’S
OASIS BOUGHT
BY NEWCOMERS
Grays Plan to Start Fishing
Center, Build Motor Court,
Develop Private Lake
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gray, who
have operated the Oasis restau
rant on Pond Island, near the
little bridge, have sold the busi
ness to Carlos O. Gardner and
Henry L. Law, South Carolinians
who more recently have been
living in Norfolk and Hampton,
Va. The new owners already
have taken charge.
“It is our determination,” said
Mr. Law, to maintain the super
ior standards the Grays have
set in the operation of the Oasis.”
They will be assisted by Mrs.
Gardner and Mrs. Law. In addi
tion, the new owners plan to re
tain the same staff. This in
cludes Mrs. Tessie Rogers, Mrs.
Fannie Payne, Mrs. Hettie Cud
worth, Mrs. Doll Gray and Miss
Edna Dowdy as waitresses, with
Mrs. Emma Hayman, Mrs. Ale
thia Hickman and Mrs. Elva
Simpson in the kitchen, besides
colored help.
The new owners will keep the
Oasis open until 10 o’clock or
later at night. Beginning July 1,
they will serve breakfast from
8 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Gray, who own
Pond and House islands, plan to
remain there. He will proceed at
once toward building a fishing
center, and in the fall they in
tend to build a motor court.
In preparation for the fishing
center, Mr. Gray is going to
close up the sluice between the
two islands and eventually in
the center of the space will de
velop a 26-acre lake, seven feet
deep, surrounded by a park.
For this year, Mr. Gray ex
pects to prepare fo<r bank fish
ing, handling tackle, and renting
boats. For this phase of the busi
ness he expects to be ready by
the middle of July. By next sea
son he plans to have a pier built
After the season closes this
fall, the Grays plan to erect a
motor court, which will give
them time to have the grounds
landscaped before 'next spring.
Pond Island includes 37 acres
north of Highway 158 and 47
acres on the south side. Os the
acreage, 19 is already in a lake.
House Island includes 49 acres.
BROADCASTERS
IN CONVENTION
AT NAGS HEAD
Picnic at Hatteras Light
house Adds Zest to En
tertainment Features
of Meeting
Nags Head. The North Caro
lina Association of Radio Broad
casters started its sessions Wed
nesday at the Carolinian and will
continue them through Saturday.
Approximately 120 are in at
tendance, with T. H. Patterson of
Washington, N. C., presiding.
A feature of the four-day event
will be a trip to Hatteras by
chartered buses. The Carolinian
arranged to serve a picnic lunch
eon at Hatteras lighthouse.
THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO. N. C.
FIRST BEACH FASHION SHOW
EARNS GUESTS’ APPROVAL
Nags Head. This beach’s
first fashion show, held Satur
day under auspices of the Roa
noke Island Music Club, proved
so popular that the four parti
cipating beachwear shops plan
to repeat it next year. The event
was held at the Caroliniian ho
_fel, in connection with a lunch
eon in the Driftwood and Dog
wood dining rooms.
With Trafton Robertson of a
Norfolk radio and TV station as
master of ceremonies, local mo
dels showed the last word in
beachwear, as offered by the
Beach Mart, Gray’s Gifts and
Beach Accessories, Nags Head
Sportswear and Trott’s Sports
wear. As Mr. Robertson describ
ed the fashions and introduced
the models, Mrs. Wallace F. Mus
tian of Kill Devil Hills supplied
background organ music.
Models were Miss Maggie Dan
iels, Miss Elva Rae Mann, Miss
Shirley West, Mrs. Bette Thomp
son, Mrs. Stanley Tillett, Miss
Jeanette Tillett, Mrs. Sarah
Berry, Miss Molly Fearing, Mrs.
Dot Frye, Miss Tracy Midgette,
Miss Pat Everton, Miss Audrey
Keene, Mrs. Bemie Griggs, Judy
Utz, Diana Ward, Susan Oneta,
Griffin, Knox Crutchfield,
Jack Marshall, Leslie Tillett, Jan
Oneta, Walter Gray, Jr., and
Larry Gray.
After the style show, Mr.
Robertson introduced Ernest
Beale, Mrs. Walter Gray, Mrs.
H. E. Bowen and Mrs. Margaret
Coville of the four participating
beachwear shops. He also pre
sented Mrs. Lucille Purser and
Julian Oneto of the Carolinian,
who made many of the prepara
tions for the style show.
The fashions presented a de
finite trend to femininity in
beachwear for girls and women,
in such features as soft shirring,
hour glass silhouettes, fitted
robes and tiny skirts on bathing
CO-OPS AHEAD
ON PAYMENTS
AGAINST LOANS
North Carolina REA Manag
ers, Accountants Conclude
Convention Sessions
Nags Head. Representatives
of most of the 32 North Carolina
REA cooperatives concluded
their three-day convention at the
Carolinian Tuesday noon, after
discussions of rural electrication
financing and other business
problems.
The association, made up of
managers and accountants of the
cooperatives, elected Rudolph
Sexton of Tarboro chairman to
succeed David Moss of Red
Springs and Mrs. Alda Womack
of Rutherfordton was made sec
retary to succeed Mrs. Barbara
Deverick of the Blue Ridge
cooperative.
Among speakers was D.Philli
pi of Washington, D. C., an
REA representative, who talked
Monday afternoon on proposed
changes in procedure and contin
uing property records. Another
REA man to speak was William
R. Shertzer, general field repre
sentative, whose subject was
“Employer and Employee Rela
tions.” Mr. Sexton, Mrs. Dever
ick, John Morton of Jacksonville
and Mrs. Womack, William T.
Crisp, Jack Parton and Miss Mil
dred Sloan were other speakers.
A question and answer discus
sion of work orders and material
accounting was led by a panel
which included J. J. Hart, Reid
Harris and Mrs. Eloise Scull.
In discussing REA develop
ment, outside the convention, Mr.
Shertzer pointed out that of the
money borrowed from REA by
locally owned cooperatives, less
than two-thirds of 1 per cent was
in default. Not a single North
Carolina REA cooperative is in
default and many are paying off
their loans faster than is requir
ed. One, he said, paid off its
$270,000 loan 17 years ahead of
schedule.
Mr. Shertzer said that of every
dollar spent to bring electric
power to rural areas, the con
sumer spends $4.50 for electrical
appliances. Since the cost is
around $450 for each consumer,
that would mean that consumers
averaged spending more than
$2,000 each on appliances.
Rural electrification has raised
the standard of living in rural
areas and at the same time bene
fited town business, Mr. Schert
zer asserted.
DISHES ARE BOUGHT
BY P-TA MEMBERSHIP
Kitty Hawk. When school
starts next September, the sup
ply of cups and saucers in the
lunch room will be more ade
quate. This week the Kitty Hawk
Parent-Teacher unit bought 50
plain white cups and saucers.
These will* be placed in the
school, with the understanding
that they may be borrowed by
the church when needed. Mrs.
Herbert Morrison was chairman
of the committee which bought
the dishes.
suits. One of the newest notes
in style was a bib’n tucker swim
suit. Fabrics were found to vary
all the way from gold metallic
cloth to terry cloth for bathing
suits. Sail cloth toggle jackets
with pedal pushers, bra, hat and
bag to match, vied in interest
with dainty twilight hour dress
es, Bermuda shorts with checked
blouse, wrap around skirts over
shorts, three tiered full skirts,
reversible stoles, little boy shorts,
walking shorts, and a swim suit
that zips up the front.
A sweater girl set involved a
swim suit with matching sweat
er; a toreador outfit included
pedal pushers fitted and laced
lat the knee and a loose and gaily
decorated blouse.
Styles included not only be
witching modes for the slim
young things, but becomingly
smart fashions for the more ma
ture women. For all, colors were
fresh as the wind off the ocean,
and garments were fashioned
with an eve to the practical.
Although the swim suits shown
were highly decorative, they
were meant to wear in the water
as well as lounging on the beach.
For the most part, the men’s
beachwear styles were designed
for sheer comfort, such as twill
walking shorts with White terry
jacket, silk and prima cotton
sports shirts, cabana sets with
frantic plaid shorts below a
white shirt, or coodinates of
slacks, walking shorts, T shirt
and beach shoes.
Todays beachwear is designed
with an eye to a vacation with
no work. Many of the fabrics
require no ironing, yet have none
of the “rough dried” look. By
adding a skirt, a. sWim suit be
comes a sun dress, or shorts and
top turn into a dress suitable
for wear almost anywhere.
After the style show, pictures
were taken for television by a
telenews film photographer.
BUILDING MOVED
FOR REMODELING
FOR TOWN HALL
Mayor and Commissioners Want to
Provide Place Where Public
Can Attend Meetings
Kill Devil Hills. A workshop
' used by carpenters who built the
home of N. B. Hardee on the
oceanfront, this spring, has been
moved to a site across from Kill
Devil Hills postoffice. It was do
nated by Mr. Hardee for re
modeling as a temporary town
hall. Use of the site also was do
nated by the Manteo Furniture
Co.
Decisions about repairing and
remodeling the building for use
as a temporary meeting place for
the Kill Devil Hills mayor and
commissioners will await the re
turn of the mayor, Maj. J. L.
Murphy, who is now in a hospi
tal in Washington, D. C.
The city administration has
maintained that a municipal
building was needed, so that the
public could attend sessions of
the mayor and commissioners,
which is not practical in a pri
vate home. Although hotels in
the community earlier offered
use of their dining rooms, they
are now occupied until too late
for commissioners’ meetings.
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DOLPHIN LANDED DESPITE
STORMY COAST WEATHER
Nags Head. Despite stormy
weather, Gulf Stream boats on
choppy waters off the Dare coast
during the past week end made
fair catches of dolphin, a few
amberjack and plenty of bonita.
One of the best catches made
on Sunday when the weather
was at its week end worst was
brought into Oregon Inlet Fish
ing Center late Sunday by G. B
Engelburton, Bill Curtis, Earl
Biggers and J. E. Kaiser of New
port News, who had spent the
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BIBLE SCHOOL EXERCISES
The Daily Vacation Bible
School of Mount Olivet Metho
dist Church in Manteo will hold
its closing exercises at eight
day fishing from Capt. Willie
Etheridges Jr.’s cruiser Chee
Chee of Wanchese.
These four anglers landed 77
dolphin and two nonita. The
largest dolphin weighed about
18 pounds each. Dozens of boats
in the fleet of Gulf Stream craft
here had headed Gulf Stream
ward on Sunday morning, but
few Remained out all day. Those
got near the blue warm
waters of the stream caught fish.
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GRAVEYARD OF
THE ATLANTIC
By DAVID STICK
Factual Accounts of Numerous
Shipwrecks Along the
Outer Banks.
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from the Dare Press,
Kitty Hawk, N. C.