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VOLUME XIX NO. 3 TAX VALUATIONS IN DARE RAISED TO OVER $16,000,000 Assessments Jumped This Year an Additional $3,- 304.242; Last Year’s Valuation $13,050,- 000 Assessments totaling more than three million dollars have been put onto the property val ues in Dare County this year, raising the total assessment to $16,354,242. This is a gain of $3,204, 242 more than last year. The valuations for 1952 were for all townships a total of sl3, 050,000. Four years before, in 1949, the total valuation for all townships came to $11,167,000. The gain since the last re-valua tion has been over five million dollars —total gain in four years $5,187,342. Substantial gains were shown in most townships; and gains in all but Croatan Township were noted. This township comprising the villages of Mashoes, Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point were reduced in valuation about. J 5%. The loss in valuation was sll, 650 less than the $811,465 valua tion of four years ago. The asses sment this year is down to $799, 815. Smallest gain in any township was noted in East Lake township. In this township there are no new buildings, much of the tim ber has been logged off, yet by upping assessments on lands, a gain of $58,069 went on the books. The new valuation is $832, 495. The 1949 assessment was $774,426. Largest percentage of gain was in Kennekeet township where nearly $600,000 was added, most • ly on the values placed on beach lands. In Hatteras township $415,179 was added to property values above the 1949 figure of $720,688. Homes were not raised, and in some cases reduced, as in Kennekeet, and there has been much new building. The amount added in Kennekeet Township s $599,136 more than the 1949 7*\ lation of $369,839. lr‘ argest amount of gain was in aantic township where the val uation jumped to $5,389,726, or $2,600,843 more than the 1949 figure of $2,788,883. Next largest amount in volume was in Nags Head township. The total amount of increase, added on the books is nearly two and a half million dollars —$2, 495,149. In 1949 the total assess ment in Nags Head township was ' $4,732,115. This year’s assess is $7,227,364. Normally, the amount of taxes levied is about SIIO,OOO each year. Last year the rate was rais ed from 90 cents to SI.OO. This year, to raise a similar amount ■ of money, a rate of about 75 cents will do the job. In other i words ,the people may now have 1 a right to expect a 25 per cent i reduction in their taxes, be cause of the extra amount of val uation on the books. A lower tax rate would be wel comed in Dare County. The cost of operating the county has been . run by many departments on an j extravagant and some cases a i wasteful basis. With assessments . ‘ run up so high in some cases, ' equity demands a sharp reduc- j tion and any one versed with i county affairs, can see that a 75 rate is now justified. t But few taxpayers will be better off. The general run of I people will be paying as much or more on these new valuations with a 75 cent rate, than they paid on the old valuations at the $1 rate. WANCHESE NATIVE DIES AT KILL DEVIL HILLS Funeral services for Lloyd S. Daniels, 70, of Elizabeth City, who died Monday at Kill Devil Hills where he was vacationing, . '»-e conducted Wednesday at 11 at the Toxey, Berry and, h Funeral Home by the Rev. l j. Jerome, pastor of the First x.iethodist Church. Burial was in ( Hollywood Cemetery. Mr. Daniels was a native of ( Wanchese but had lived in Eliza-1 beth City for a number of years. He was the son of the late ( Ezekiel R. and Eugenia Pugh Daniels and the husband of Mrs. Lily Mann Daniels. He belonged to the First Methodist Church and was associated with the. Globe Fish Company. Surviving, besides his wife, are , a daughter, Mrs. Warren T. i Thompson, of Washington, D. C.; I a sister, Mrs. Frank Harris, of Elizabeth City; two brothers, A. S. Daniels, of Elizabeth City, and M. P. Daniels, of Wanchese,, and a grandchild. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MANNS HARBOR BOY SERVES ON CO CUTTER Byj WILLARD R. SUTTON of Manns Harbor is a popular young son of the happy village. He is serving on the Coast Guard cutter “Bibb,” out of New York. He en tered the service in March of 1952. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Sutton. . » MANTEO SCHOOL IS UNDERGOING MANY REPAIRS Much Needed Facelifting Un derway as School is Clos ed for Summer Extensive repairs and a much needed paint job are underway in the Manteo school building, now I that school is out for the sum mer. Earlier this year a water proofing and paint job was done !on the wings and back of the main building and the gymna sium. The waterproofing is guar anteed for a life-time, and it is hoped that the seeping of mois ture into the building can be per manently stopped. A large room for a science lab oratory is. being provided and ; I equipment will be installed be- i fore school begins in the fall. Several rooms have been re modeled, partitions taken out, and others put in, thus creating the large science room, a first-aid room which will open out of the principal’s office, and a large storage room. There will be am ple cla§sroom space for other classes. Among other improvements, the rest rooms are being put in first class condition. Ceramic tile floors and tile covering the walls to a height of several feet, will improve the sanitary conditions. A drain is being put in the cen ter of each rest room, in order facilitate washing and cleaning the floors. Repairs are being made to walls and ceilings, and new paint, in two shades of green, fe being applied throughout the in terior of the building. LINDSAY AND EMILY ARE VACATIONING IN DARE Hon. Lindsay Warren, Comp troller General of the United States, and Mrs. Warren, (Emily) of Washington, D. C., are spend ing their usual myi-summer va cation at the Croatan Hotel at Kitty Hawk. Mr. Warren is meeting many of his old friends of the Coast Guard he has known through the years, and other citizens of this region. FINAL RITES MONDAY FOR THOMAS DIXON ETHERIDGE Thomas Dixon Etheridge, 61, died suddenly Saturday morning at his home near Manteo. Funer al services were conducted at 2:30 Monday afternoon in the Manteo Baptist Church, Rev. H. V. Napier officiating. The church choir, with Mrs. W. R. Pearce as organist, sang “Face to Face” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee”. The casket was covered with a pall of red roses. Pallbearers were Frank Cahoon, George Hale Quidley, George Powell, W. M. Meekins, Benja min Shannon and M. L. Daniels, Jr. Burial was in the Etheridge cemetery near Manteo. Mr. Etheridge was a native of Dare County. He was the son of the late Augustus and Roxie Etheridge, and was the owner and operator of the Roanoke Inn near Manteo. He was a member of the Roanoke Island Baptist Church. He is serv iv e d by his widow, Mrs. Zenovah Ether idge; one son, Augustus Ether idge of Manteo; four daughters, Mrs. R. H. Atkinson of Manteo; . Mrs. Richard Salet of Mankateo, j Minn.; Misses Annie and Natalie Etheridge of Manteo; two grand-; children; and one sister, Mrs. Lea Dough of Manteo. I HAYMAN CLAN TO HOLD FORTH ATI WANCHESE TODAY Reports from the special com-| mittee on arrangements headed i by Mrs. Ethel Hayman Tillett, i indicate that plans have shaped up well for the big reunion of the Hayman Clan of North Caro lina, to be held at the Wanchese Methodist Church today. Mem bers of the Clan are expected to descend upon the friendly Wan chese community early Friday morning, July 17—and by ten o’clock the grounds at the Meth odist church will be filling up with Haymans and their friends from every nearby community and from distant parts of this and other states. The Committee has notified the President of the Clan that everything will be in , readiness for the gathering on Friday morning, July 17th. The desire of the officials and . members of the Clan this year I is to extend a cordial invitation j to the community of Wanchese— , regardless of blood-kin and to • all other communities to join the Clan in making this a big day, and a time to renew old ac- j quaintances—both among the kin folk and the hundreds of ' friends of the Haymans'. Those I living nearby, are invited to share in this first reunion of the I Clan Meeting on Roanoke Island I ' —and to share, also with their j picnic baskets and all have lunch together. In general the program will consist of registrations on ar rival, get-acquainted-half hour, the devotionals and indoor busi ness session, followed by picnic dinner on the grounds. There will have to be a short afternoon session to hear the report of the Committee on nominations for I See CLAN, Page Ten OLD TIME HORSEMEN OF THE OUTER BANKS By MARVIN HOWARD, Ocracoke, N. C. We hear a lot about the fish ermen of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, but few stories deal with the equestrians of the Outer Banks. Surely some of them deserve to be proclaimed as among the world’s best for their daring feats at horse-pen ning occasions. This is particular ly true of the old days when as many as two hundred ponies were penned on Ocracoke Island alone. As you know there have been Wild Horses roaming the Outer Banks since the landing of the Sir Walter Raleigh adventurers. None of these wild horses were ever large except the Pea Island pony which I believe came from the original Quarter-bred Horse. (The quarter-bred horse which has been developed as the finest Cow-Pony ever known originally came from the Carolinas where they were bred for the Quarter- Mite race.) However the ponies of the Outer Banks did vary in weight from ,500 to 800 pounds. They lived on the range the year ‘round as wild as deer or wild horses can ever be. For susten ance they had only the salt grass, the boughs of live oak and red cedar, and when the winters were severe they dug in the sand hills with their hoofs to get the succulent roots of the sea oats. These ponies no doubt had strains of Arab steed for in num bers of them there was untold beauty in color and build. Or perhaps they were of Spanish origin. In any case they were fleet of foot, hardy, well lined full of muscle. They made fine saddle horses when properly trained. In my lifetime two Ocracoke horsemen stand out. One was my father, Homer Howard; the other was Munroe Bragg. I un derstand that these two were equals, but I never had the op portunity of seeing Mr. Bragg in action. I did see my father per form many times, and he was an equestrian par excellence. There are many people on Ocracoke who can recall his daring feats. I myself have traveled pretty much the world over. I have seen jockeys in America and England; I have been to numerous horse shows, carnivals, circuses, fat stock shows, and rodeos in Cali fornia, Texas, and Mexico. But Ocracoke on the Outer Banks is the only place where I have wit nessed the catching of wild horses with bare hands. My grandfather, Capt. Jim I Howard,, was keeper of Hatteras | Inlet Life Saving Station for a good many years. He owned , quite a few cattle and wild pon ies on Ocracoke. When I was a boy grandfather Jim bought a MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1953 iWILL CONDUCT REVIVAL ! AT WANCHESE ASSEMBLY til |g ' ' Hb ? M C i P 1 I hctmL ' iHHHhHHHHIII EVANGELIST MALVIE MUS GROVE of Jacksonville, Fla., | who will conduct revival ser- I vices at the Wanchese'Assembly ' of God church. The services will ■ begin Sunday, July 19, and con tinue through August 2, and will be held at eigh to’clock each | night. ELIZABETHAN GARDEN PROGRESS IS NOTED i Manteo. Considerable pro j gress is being made here on the creation of the Elizabethan Gar dens at the site of The Lost Colony and adjacent to Fort Raleigh. Workmen have already started landscaping the area, building paths and roads, re moving some shrubbery, and laying the foundations for the famous Elizabethan statuary giv en the Garden by the Jock Whit- I ney Foundation. The Elizabethan j Garden is a project of the Gar den Clubs of North Carolina. - AN OLD MARINER TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY Er ? ' KgLi ■■ ■K ' X’ Im 1 * .. . CAPT. MARVIN W. HOWARD of Ocracoke, whose interesting story of the old-time pony pen nings is carried in our columns and recommended to our readers. He is now enjoying life on the happy island of Ocracoke, having retired after long service with the Navy and U. S. Army Engin eers. two-year old Arabian horse from somewhere on the mainland. My 1 father, Homer Howard, broke and ’ trained this horse for running the wild cattle and penning the wild ponies. His name was j “White Dandy”, though he was mottled with grey. On White Dandy my father on many occa sions started at the north end of j the Island in the cool of the , morning, driving the herd of ( wild ponies south. He rode mer- ( rily along across Tar-Hole Plains, j There he would come upon a , second herd of ponies headed by j “Old Wildy”, a long, rangy stal- . lion. This herd, too, he would , start driving southward. The j third herd he encountered at . Scraggly Cedars, then the Great J Swash. After passing Great , Swash, he came to Knoll Cedars, , where the sheep pen used to be, ( and from there on southward the , driving got touchy and more < strenuous for the herds from the | north were reluctant to go far- ( ther south and would try to cut i through the thickets or sand hills ; back northward. There were about two hundred wild ponies in 1 those days. They had to be driven i over sand-hills, through bogs, i across creeks, through marshes and through woodland thickets 1 of myrtle, cedar, oak, and yau- i pon. At about ten o’clock in the i morning of pony-penning day, : ftee HORSEMEN, Page Five JOHN GASSNER TO BE GUEST AT LOST COLONY Distinguished Senior Editor of Theatre Arts Magazine to Be Visitor at Tues day’s Performance By AYCOCK BROWN John Gassner, senior contri buting editor of Theatre Arts Magazine, will be a distinguished guest of The Lost Colony on Tuesday night, July 21, it was announced today by Supervi sory Director Samuel Selden. His appearance at The Lost Colony comes on the drama’s re gular Tuesday Celebrity Night, and he will be interviewed from the great stage of Waterside Theatre during intermission to give his opinions about America’s longest-lived outdoor production, and similiar symphonic dramas of the nation and world. Gassner has been a member of the New York Critics Circle since 1936 and in New York he is also lecturer in dramatic arts at Col umbia University and associate professor of English at Queen’s College there. One time head of the play department of the Theatre Guild, Gassner today is qne of the most widely known and celebrated critics in the world. In addition to being author of such books as “Masters of the Drama,” “Producing the Play,” and anthologist of “A Treasury of the Theatre” he also had to do with the production of the “Best Plays” series. Gassner has also been a Broadway producer. Celebrity Nights bring out standing personalities to The Lost Colony on each Tuesday during the current 13th season. The special nights which have re - sulted in the appearance of per sons ranging from beauty queens, orchestra leaders, diplomats and British Lords. On Tuesday this week it was Elizabeth City night at The Lost Colony and the Pas quotank’s mayor, its outstand ing beauty queen, a noted lec turer, and the City’s famous high school band and majorettes were featured. ELIZABETH CITY RECTOR COLONY SPEAKER SUNDAY Rev. George F. Hill, rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Eliza beth City since January 1919, will be guest minister at the Lost Colony’s Sabbath worship period in Waterside Theatre here next Sunday morning, July 19, at 11 o’clock, it was announced today by General Manager R. E. Jor dan. A feature of the morning wor ship will be the choir made up of The Lost Colony Chorus under the direction of Ralph Burrier with Gordon Fleming at the organ. During the past 34 years the Rev. Mr. Hill has become wide ly known as a theologian in northeastern North Carolina. He is a native of Choccowinity, N. C. After attending Trinity Pre paratory School, he studied at the University of North Caro lina and later graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia at Alexandria. LOST COLONY IS LUCKY WITH RAIN The luck of The Lost Colony, insofar as raincoats are concern ed, has continued during a spell of bad weather which ended early this week. As matter of fact, despite threatening and coolish weather brought on by a lingering northeaster, attendance at the drama on the past week end was the best of any week end in recent years with approxim ately 2,000 persons paying to see the show on Saturday and Sun day nights. One show has been rained out this year, and it was only the 16th rainout during the drama’s 13 season history of more than 600 performances. “What happens when it rains briefly during a Lost Colony perfor mance?” is a frequent question asked the management by per sons coming to the show for the first time. The answer is that the audience moves to the spacious rain shelters on either side of the vast amphitheatre. If it rains be fore intermission patrons are refunded their money or given rainchecks. If after intermission rain stops the show, only rain checks and no refunds are given. NEW DIAL PHONE SYSTEM FOR BEACH IS ANNOUNCED; TO BE READY IN SPRING Subscribers Will Be Able to Dial Direct to Others in Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk Without Additional Toll Charges, Company Reveals HIS FIRST VISIT WITH MANTEO ROTARY CLUB MN) y.. jr ill > ‘W JrL •jK * gggPjk PELEG DAMERON MIDGETT of Engelhard, a Roanoke Islander who went away from home and has done pretty good for himself, as well as doing a lot of good for others, is coming to Manteo Monday night, July 20th, to visit and address the Rotary Club. He has recently taken office as Pres ident of the 189th Rotary District, and his first official visit to a club will be at Manteo. He takes his running jump from the club in his old home sector because of a special invitation from the club to thus honor it, and to make a good start, for his term as Dis trict Governor. BONNER AND WINSLOW PAY NAGS HEAD VISIT Seeking Another Large Ferry Boat for Oregon Inlet, Through Interior Department Hon. Herbert C. Bonner First | District Congressman and Hon. J Emmett Winslow of Hertford j spent the week end at the Arling- j ton Hotel at Nags Head, follow- I ing a visit in Hertford where hearings were held on proposals to abolish practice bombings by the Navy in the Albemarle Sound area. While here, Mr. Winslow and Mr. Bonner discussed the possi bility of getting another surplus landing vessel for conversion in to the second 22-car ferry for the Oregon Inlet traffic, which has been largely created because of interest in the National Park be ing created on Hatteras Island. Mr. Bonner was of the opinion that the best approach to obtain, one of these vessels would be 1 through the Interior Department. ! The ferry now under conversion I for use next month to be called the “Governor Umstead” was ob tained for the State by the Inter ior Department as a result of Conrad Wirth, director of Nation al Parks, coming to the rescue of I the State which had about given ' up efforts of obtaining another i craft of this kind. MRS. SARA E. RANKIN DIES AT HATTERAS Mrs. Sara E. Rankin, 72, died at her home in Hatteras Satur day afternoon at 6 o’clock. She*! was a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., and had resided in Hat teras for the past five years. She was the daughter of the late Richard H. and Barbara T. Banks and the widow of the late James V. Rankin. She was a member of the Church of Christ of Tracy City, Tenn. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W. M. Ham il of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Miss Rhoda Alverson of Los An geles, Calif.; one son, Joe Sewell of Hatteras; five sisters, Mrs. Margaret Clark of Jasper, Tenn., Mrs. Alice Lee of Harriman, Tenn., Mrs. Dora Blancitt of Chicamaugh, Ga., Mrs. Elva Ac uff of Victoria, Tenn., and’Mrs. Ida Oliver of Lookout Mountain, Tenn.; two brothers, Houston Banks of St. Elma, Tenn., and John Banks of Dayton, Ohio. I Funeral services were held Mon day morning at 10 o’clock in the , Hatteras Methodist Church, Rev. j W. B. Gregory, pastor, officiating. The body was sent from Hatteras ! to Tracy City, Tenn., where bur- . ial followed in the Tracy City ! Cemetery. Single Copy 7£ Dial telephones for the beach will become a reality next spring, according to an announcement ’ made today by the Norfolk & Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. The announcement came from the Elizabeth City office. The new dial system will ser : ve the entire beach and Kitty ; Hawk village, and will be de ; signed so that it can be expanded ; as more telephones are installed. Under the new system, Nags ; Head, Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk subscribers will dial dir ectly, without extra toll charges, between those communities. Un : der the present set up, calls have i I to go through Manteo. In addition, a group of long i diistance lines for the exclusive use of the beach dial system will be installed between the beach . and the Elizabeth City toll office. . There a new intertoll dial switch- I ■ ing system is being installed, to be ready for operation Jan. 1,. Associated with the intertoll dial system will be a network of long ’ distance lines for nationwide operator long distance dialing directly to distant subscribers’ phones. Long distance calls to all major cities will be dialed dir ectly by operators from all ex changes of the Norfolk & Caro lina company, thus saving time and improving service. Since Kill Devil Hills is the approximate center of the area as far as wires are concerned, j the new dial exchange will be erected in that part of the beach. The company plans to erect its * own building, but has not yet selected a site. Every type of service is to be i available to commercial and pri j vate customers, the company has announced. That will include in dividual lines, two, four and multi-party lines. As yet rates have not been announced, but , the company has explained that these will be based on location, i class and grade of service. | Announcement of plans for the new dial system follows expen- W sive tests made over a long per iod of time. “Atmospheric conditions at the beach create special problems,” Harry Dewey, manager, said to day. “We believe we have solved See PHONE, Page Ten MISS LUCY SMITH BURIED IN MANTEO SATURDAY Funeral services for Miss Lucy Bryan Smith, who died in her sleep Wednesday night of last week at her home in Norfolk, were conducted at 2:30 o’clock • Saturday afternoon in the Twi , ford Funeral Home chapel in I Manteo. Rev. H. R. Ashmore, pastor of Mount Olivet Methodist Church, officiated. Mrs. E. R. Wescott sang “Sunrise Tomor row”, Mrs. Rennie Williamson was organist. Miss Smith was a native of I Manteo, the daughter of the late j Robert W. and Elizabeth Midgett Smith, and had lived in Norfolk for about 30 years. She is sur vived by one niece, Mrs. Walter Harris of Manteo; and four neph- I ews, Luther Dixon Midgett of Wanchese, Robert and Keith Stevens and John Small Cal- I houn, all of Norfolk. Pallbearers were A. L. Mann, D. V. Meekins, of Manteo; Brian Smith of Harbinger, John Small Calhoun, Fred Hall of Norfolk; and Henry B. Parker of Manteo. TWELVE TRIPS DAILY BY OREGON INLET FERRY Hatteras. Five additional round trips daily added to the summer schedules of Oregon In let ferry has resulted in additidn al hundreds of persons visiting Hatteras Island this summer but on the week end the service now operated by the State is fre quently criticized, as many autos are left waiting for the 11- car capacity craft to make a round trip before it is possible to find a place on the craft. The first ferry leaves the north shore i at 5 o’clock in the morning and the last northbound ferry leaves I Hatteras Island at 7:15 o’clock More relief for autoists making i th< i. tr l P to and from Hatteras i will be effective soon by the ; addition of a larger 20-car craft , Already the special slips for the ) new craft are being built.
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