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VOLUME XIX —NO. 9 ELECTRIC GROUP MEETS AT AVON NEXT TUESDAY Seventh Annual Meeting of Cape Hatteras Member ship Corp. I I Buxton on Cape Hatteras, Aug. 28. Gathering in the school house at Avon next Tuesday night for their seventh annual meeting the stockholders of the Cqpe Hatteras Electric Member ship Corporation will hear, for the first time, an operational re port written in black ink. The company has started to make some money, above operating and other expenses. And at the same time they will hear, from John Asher, Jr., dir ector of the North Eastern Area, suggestion that the corporation amend its by-laws to the end that if and when operational surpluses justify it, the proceeds may be turned back as cash rebates to the stockholders in the company, and rates be lowered accordingly. Now grown to 487 members, in 50 per cent increase since busi ness began, the meeting will re quire the presence of at least 49 members before new matters may be determined upon and it is the hope of President E. E. Miller and Secretary-treasurer George Harrison Meekins that there will be a 100 per cent atten dance. Besides listening to the black ink report and considering the suggestions of Mr. Asher the stock-holders of this one of two REA organizations in North Carolina that manufactures its own power-rthe other is at Ocra coke—will name a new board of directors for the coming year. The report of the nominating committee will be presented, but anybody can make his own nom inations from the floor. '’’his past month of July has -*K the most successful in the ry of the company since it an to produce and distribute current to the Seven Villages of Hatteras Island in 1948. During the month the plant manufac tured 149,400 KVH and sold 117, 963 of them at a profit of $533.22 after deducting operating ex penses and payments on both in terest and principal of its debts and setting aside the lawful re guirements for depreciation. Discrepancy between power development and power sold is accounted for by line leakage, mostly in the outmoded lines in the village of Hatteras which have been in service for about 20 years. These leaks will be almost wholly eliminated in the re-con ditioning of these lines, which were bought from the Tom Eaton enterurises about three years ago. Contracts have been awarded for the rehabilitation of these lines. The nominating committee which will report its slate at the meeting next Tuesday night is composed of Anderson Midgett and Donald Oden, of Hatteras; Arthur Stowe of Frisco; C. R. Farrow and Raymond Basnett of IJuxton; Goodrich Williams and G.’ W. Meekins of Avon: Cecil Midgett of Waves and Charles Meekins of Rodanthe. —Ben Dixon Mac Neill TYRRELL SCHOOLS TO OPEN WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2. M. L. Basnight, Supt. of Public Education for Tyrrell County, an nounces that the Schools in Tyr rell will open on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 8:45 A.M.; that all teachers have been employed, with one exception: i. e. English Teacher in Columbia High School; Mr. Powell will fill the position as Athletic Coach, left vacant on the resignation of Woodrow W. Westall. TERAS RURITAN CLUB HAS TURKEY DINNER The Ruritan Club met Thurs day night with Anderson Midgett presiding in the absence of the president. The men invited their wives to a Turkey dinner, which was pre pared by Snowden Quidley, Mur ray Styron and Frsfrik Gaskins, which was enjoyed by everyone. KITTY HAWK VISITOR Mrs. Florence Best of Brockton, Mass., is visiting Mrs. Mary Best at her home in Kitty Hawk. The two Best families are not related, but friends. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA CAPE HATTERAS NATIVE BECOMES A LAWYER • ' •* -■k J n ■ % J-'" « < aIUL ~ ' IHklol WALLACE R. GRAY of Buxton, Cape Hatteras is the first resi dent of the stormy Cape to enter the legal profession, and unlike many native boys who get a good start, he doesn’t want to go away from home, but desires to remain in Dare County and perhaps practice law in Manteo. Wallace came of a family of students, and finished Buxton High School with good marks. After his dis charge from the Coast Guard following World War II he en tered N. C. State College in 1946, where his father had graduated. He interrupted his college train ing in February 1947 for business purposes, but in. September 1948 enrolled in the University of N. C., where he received his A.B. degree in liberal arts in June 1951. He continued his studies at the University in the school law, receiving his Bachelor of Laws degree in January of this year. ' He has recently passed his State Bar Exams. The new lawyer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Gray of Buxton, and a member of a pop-! ular and prominent family on ( both sides of the house. His pater nal grandfather was the late Ben i Jennette, and one of his uncles is Capt. U. B. Jennette noted re tired lighthouse man. MRS. HERMECCIE GASKINS DIES AT AGE OF 93 Hatteras, Aug. 22. Mrs. Hermeccie Wade Gaskins, 93, died Friday at 8:15 p. m. at het residence in Hatteras after an illness of two weeks. She was a native of Hatteras and widow of the late Steve Gaskins. She was the daughter of Nevale and Mrs. Jellice Holt W’ade. She was a member of the Hatteras Methodist Church. Mrs. Gaskins is survived by one daughter, Mrs. George Blake, of Swan Quarter; two sons, Hol vey B. Gaskins, of Norfolk, Va., and Joe W. Gaskins, of New York City, 10 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren and seven great great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternon at 2 o’clock in the Assembly of God Church at Hatteras by Rev. G. R. Thom as, pastor, assisted by Rev. W. B. Gregory, pastor of the Metho dist Church of Hatteras. “I Won’t Have To Cross Jordan Alone” and “Goodnight and Goodmorning” were sung by the church choir, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Snowden Quidlev. At the graveside “Zion’s Hill” was sung by the choir. , Pallbearers were Robert Aus tin, Eph O’Neal, Dennis Robin son, Stockton Midgett, Charlie Ballance, Jr., and Hollas Foster. Burial was in the Midgett Cemetery at Hatteras. CHRISTIAN CHURCH BEING ORGANIZED IN MANTEO Work was begun in Manteo August 1. 1953, for the purpose of establishing a Church of Christ. Burl S. Brinn of Swan Quarter, and a graduate of Roa noke Bible College, Elizabeth City, class of '53, is the minister who heads the work. He is sup ported by several churches in eastern North Carolina and the Tidewater area of Virginia. These churches are known as Christian Churches or Churches of Christ Services were conducted in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jayhue Armstrong August 16 with 14 present and again August 23 with 18 present. Services will be con ducted in the Armstrong home September 6 at 3:00 P. M. The minister is planning to conduct a revival meeting in the near future. The public is invited to attend all services. Plans‘are being made to pur chase a lot as soon as possible and build a place of worship. PUBLIC HEALTH ASS’N TO MEET AT NAGS HEAD Large Attendance Expected September 10, 11, 12; Many Prominent Speak ers Scheduled The North Carolina Public Health Association will hold its 42nd annual meeting at Nags Head on September 10, 11 and 12. It is expected that approximately 800 people will be present, in cluding public health nurses, lab oratory workers, health educa tors, nutritionists, sanitarians, secretaries and public health in vestigators. Speakers will include Mrs. Louise P. East, president of the association; Dr. E. H. Ellinwood, vice-president; Dr. Wingate M. Johnson of Winston-Salem; Dr. Ellen B. Winston, Dr. I. C. Greer and Dr. Bertlyn Bosley. Earl Hubbard, Louis A. Young and J. M. Jarrett will make a prog ress report on stream sanitation. These will speak at the first and second sessions. At the third session William McW Cochrane will deliver an address on “Legal Problems in Public Health in North Carolina”. At this session entertainment will be provided by a group from the cast of Paul Green’s Lost Colony. The first session will be held in the Nags Head Casino on Thursday, September 10; the se cond session Thursday afternoon. The third session will be held at eight P. M. in the Dare County Shrine Club. On Friday, September 11, a business meeting will take place, and the State Board of Health, ■ will have a meeting. The annual banquet and dance will follow in the Casino Friday evening. The final session will convene Saturday morning, and Dr. J. W. R. Norton, secretary, and state , health officer, will make a re port. I Headquarters for the meeting will be the Carolinian Hotel. Officers of the association are Mrs. Louise P. East of Asheville, president; Dr. John J. Wright of Chapel Hill, past president; Dr. E. H. Ellinwood of Greensboro, vice-president; Mrs. Louise Young Workman of Charlotte, secretary-treasurer. AVON'S REMINDER OF WW II IS LIFEBOAT HULK Avon. A grim reminder of how close World War II came to the North Carolina coast 11 years ago is an old metal lifeboat on the beach in Avon, Dare County, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The bullet-riddled hulk of a lifeboat, from one of the many ships of commerce sunk off Cape Hatteras during World War II by enemy submarines of the Axis Powers, is the only one left on the island’s long beach which extends from Oregon to Hatteras Inlets. After the waters off Cape Hatteras became a “Torpedo Junction” during 1942, the beach was littered with lifeboats, and the broken debris from many ships. In this metal lifeboat were the bullet holes of enemy shells, indicating how the survivers aboard that boat had fared. There are many accounts, in War diaries, of how survivors seeking safety in their lifeboats following a torpedoing, were fired upon by the crew of the enemy submarine which had already sunk their ship. HYDE SCHOOLS OPEN THURSDAY, SEPT. 3 All schools of Hyde County will open Thursday, September 3, Supt. N. W. Shelton said today. By request of the school commi ttee, th grade Fairfield pupils will be carried to Swan Quarter, due to the teacher allotment hav ing been cut from three to two. School principals are as fol lows: Swan Quarter, G. W. Joy ner; Engelhard, M. C. Holland; Fairfield, Mrs. W. O’Neal; Slades ville, Mrs. Mabel Credle and Ocracoke, Theo. Rondthaler. Colored principals are: Slades ville, O. A. Peay; Engelhard, J.E. Spruil; Fairfield, Marietta Wil son. Hie Engelhard school is to be called Davis High School in honor of the late Chi Davis. Due to the unfinished state of the new building at Swan Quar ter, it is necessary to transport the colored students this year to Sladesville to the old training school building. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1953 MITCHELL MARKER IS READY FOR ERECTION AT CAPE HATTERAS Officials of the Dare County Tourist Bureau were advised this week that the State Historical Marker which has been cast in commemoration of the exploits of Brigadier General Billy Mit chell is now ready for erection and that the State Highway and Public Works Commission would place same alongside the high way near Hatteras village within the ngxt few days. Edwin A. Miles, researcher for the State Department of Archives and History stated that the mark er reads as follows: BILLY MITCHELL Brigadier general of the Army Air Service demonstrated air power by bombing battleships off coast September 5, 1923. Landing Field Was Here. The American General who first proved that surface craft were vulnerable to bombing attacks from airplanes, based his Martin bombers on a landing field he had established on the beach abreast of Hatteras village. On September 5, 30 years ago, he sank two battleships, the USS Virginia, and the USS New Jersey. His exploits received little credit from his government at the time, but in the years since, hiis experiments have proven very true in modern war fare. The marker to be erected at Hatteras is the first recognition North Carolina has ever paid the famous general. It is planned to unveil the marker with appropriate cere monies on September 5 this year, an official of the Tourist Bureau stated. DARK OF THE MOON PLAYS TO BIG AUDIENCE Drama Class of Roanoke Is land School of Fine Arts Presents Mountain Folk Play Playing to an audience of more than 500 people the folk drama “Dark of the Moon” was present ed Monday night in Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island. The play, which was written by North Carolina-born Howard Richardson and William Bernev, has a western North Carolina set ting, high in the Smoky moun tains. The stage of Waterside Theatre lent itself admirably to the staging of the drama, and the lighting and sound effects were most realistic. The audience accepted the play with different reactions. A number thought it sacrilegious in spots, a little vulgar and raw in other spots. Those who are fam iliar with folk lore, and who understand the emotions of a primitive people in their native habitats, and their superstitious beliefs in the supernatural, en joyed the intense drama of the show. Both groups were agreed that the acting and staging of the show were excellent. Most of the actors are seasoned mem bers of the Lost Colony cast, and interpreted the emotions and ac tions of the characters with a realism not found in an amateur production. Especially outstanding were the performances of Barbara Griffith as Barbara Allen, the heroine of the story (Barbara also plays the part of Eleanor Dare in the Lost Colony); Dan Reid as the witch boy; Lynn Townsend as the conjur woman; Ruby Wiggins as Miss Metcalf; Jerry Ammons as Uncle Smeli cue; Nena Williams as Mrs. Sum mey, the midwife; Mary Wood Long as Mrs. Bergen; Lillian Prince as Mrs. Allen (Mrs. Prince plays Queen Elizabeth in the Lost Colony); George Spence as Mr. Allen (George is Simon Fernando in the Lost Colony); Charles Hadley as Preacher Higgins (Charles is Master of the Queen’s Ceremonies in the Lost Colony); Charles Boyens as the conjur man; Joseph Hall as Floyd Allen; Betty Spence as Edna Summey; and Gene Ross as Marvin Hud gins. Lois Zierck, as the fair witch, and Virginia Young, as the dark witch, displayed an easy grace and precision in their dancing: their acting was outstanding, and they drew extra rounds of ap plause from the audience as they disappeared out of the moonlight into the mist. Others taking part in the drama were Robert McCulloh, Lindy Millard, Mary Blanche Meekins, Ben Etheridge, Madge Marshall, Charles Billings, James FoutS) Jan Pratt, Carol Ann Al- See PLAY, Page Ten TARHEEL BEAUTY TO BE LOST COLONY GUEST / •> / 1 IO /- |g M :: ? ‘ ‘ fI ' M \ i I S / -iff / Fi - 5 Jr ' - - / l I ’ JF ’-J *.? BEAUTIFUL BARBARA ANN CROCKETT of Winston-Salem, “Miss North Carolina of 1953” will be a guest performer in Paul Green’s symphonic drama The Lost Colony on Friday night, August 28. It will be the second time in less than a week that The Lost Colony has presented a State beauty as a guest per former of the drama which is now in its 13th season at Water side Theatre on Roanoke Island. Last Friday Anne Clegis. “Miss Virginia of 1953” was a guest per- FORMER MANTEO MAN LAID TO FINAL REST SUNDAY Gilbert Duvall, former Manteo man,- who was living in Balti more, Md., and shot to death in j Baltimore Thursday of last week j by his stepson, was brought to . Manteo for funeral services and ; burial. Mr. Duvall was the son of i the late Ephraim and Mae Odell 1 Duvall of Manteo. He is survived by his wife of Baltimore; two | brothers, Calvert H. Duvall of Baltimore and Maynard B. Du vall of Fort Pierce, Fla. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock ! in the chapel' of the Twiford Funeral Home, Manteo, by Rev. Henry V. Napier, pastor of the Manteo Baptist Church. Mrs. Camille Podolski, Mrs. Henry Napier, John Long, and Roland Sawyer, sang “Face to Face” and “Rock of Ages” accom panied on the organ by Mrs. W. R. Pearce. The casket was covered with a pall of purple asters and fern. Ben Crees, George Crees, Ed ward Etheridge, Belton Burrus, Earl Green and Henry Parker served as pallbearers. Burial followed in the Manteo Cemetery. FIRST FORT RESTORED ON ROANOKE ISLAND Manteo. Visitors to Roanoke Island where the first attempts to settle the New World were made, now may see historic Fort Raleigh as it stood when built in 1585. The earthen fortifications— perhaps the earliest building done by Englishmen in America —which guarded the tragic Lost Colony of Sir Walter Raleigh have been completely restored. Earth from the original ditch or dry moat around the fort was used to build up the parapet, as the colonists did. It was at the site of the fort that Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage to be born in America, was born in 1587. The story of the colonists and their tragic disappearance is told in Paul Green’s symphonic drama “The Lost Colony”, pre sented from July to September each year in the open-air Water side Theatre near the fort. VISITING IN WASHINGTON Miss Natalie Gould of Wash ington, D. C„ who has been visit ing her mother, Mrs. N. E. Gould, at Nags Head returned Tuesday to Washington. She was accom panied by her sister, Mrs. Al Mathers of Memphis, Tenn., who is also visiting Mrs. Gould, her niece and nephew, Mrs. Raymond Parent and Michael Hayman, of Nags Head. They plan to return to Nags Head the last of this week. former. Miss Crockett will fly from her home in Winston-Salem on Thursday, be met in Elizabeth City at the airport by General Manager Dick Jordan. An official welcome will be given her at the airport by officials of Elizabeth City and she will also be inter viewed there for radio. Next week “Miss North Carolina of 1953” will go to Atlantic City to compete for the “Miss America” title at the national beauty pag eant. (Photo by Jefry Schumacher.) NEW PARK RANGER GOES TO CAPE HATTERAS, The National Park Service has lannounced the appointment of , Charles G. Lamb, of Selmer, Ten nessee, as a Park Ranger on the ! Cape Hatteras National Seashore. , According to Project Manager iA. C. Stratton, Mr. Lamb has served with the Park Service | since 1940 at various areas in cluding Shiloh National Military Park, Kings Mountain National Military Park and Chickamauga ! and Chattanooga National Military ' Park. Mr. Lamb entered on duty this week on Hatteras Island where he and his family will make their home in Buxton. The Lambs have five children. One son is stationed at Fort Bragg in the 82nd Air borne Division and another son in the 3rd Air Wing United States Marine Corps at Miami, Florida. MANTEO IL S. STUDENTS TO REGISTER SEPT. 1 The following announcement has been made by A. O. Ayres, principal of the Manteo school: High school students in grades 10, 11, and 12 are requested to regis -1 ter for the fall semester’s work at Manteo High School on Tuesday afternoon, September 1, 1953, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Both par ents and students are urged to cooperate in helping to get a full registration. Students in other grades are not required to register until the opening day of school, September 8. RETREAT ATTENDED * BY BUXTON GIRL Donna Hehl and Mrs. L. L. Gibbs of the Buxton Methodist Church attended the Methodist Youth Fellowship Retreat at Lake Landing, August 5-9. The theme was “To know him Is To Share Him”. The visiting Staff members were Miss Mabie Doane, Headmistress of Metho dist girls High School, W. Pakis tan: Mrs. L. L. Gibbs, who led Christian outreach, citizenship and Christian fellowship: and Hubert Odom, secretary of miss ionary personnel. RETURN FROM N. Y. VISIT Mrs. Nancy Moore and her son, Bobby, who are the daughter and grandson of Mrs. Bill Baum of Kitty Hawk, have returned from a two weeks’ visit in New York. While away they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Baum and Mr. and Mrs. William Ottoway in Brooklyn; and Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Baum and family of West Hamp ton, Long Island. Mrs. Moore and her son are visiting in Noirfolk this week. Single Copy 7£ SANITARY BOND ISSUE DEFEATED BY K. D. HILLS Measure for Water System and Fire Protection Both Fail Tuesday By the decisive majority rolled up in the newly incorporated town of Kill Devil Hills in Tuesday’s election, the proposals for a water system and fire-fighting depart ment got a staggering defeat, and the achievement of a safe water supply for the miles of fast de veloping Dare Beaches is indefi nitely postponed. Os 102 voters registered at the Kill Devil Hills box, only 19 per sons voted for the water system,! and 78 against it. For the fire fighting system there were 24 vote-; and 73 against it. Nags Head voted strongly for the measures, but had fewer votes registered for this election. Os 56 registered voters, there were 35 for the water works and 14 against it. Thirty six voted for the fire department, but 14 voted against it. Water lost by 98 votes in all; fire protection by 71. The measures were therefore defeated about two to one. One thing that may have caused the round up of so many voters in Dare’s newest precinct is age-* old objection to additional taxes. The Kill Devil Hills area has been recently incorporated into a mu nicipality, and its property owners are being assessed now with town taxes, which is something new and additional. However, the area had more to lose through lack of the modern sanitary facilities, for it has more hotels, and tourists courts than any other like area, whose property values might se riously decline in event of a ca tastrophe brought on by lack of modern facilities. DARE COUNTY MEN ON DUTY IN THE ARCTIC Resolute, Cornwallis Island, CNWT. (Delayed) (FHTNG). Three ships participating in oper ation NANOOK arrived here early in August to discharge a year’s supply of food, equipment, petroleum products and supplies to the Joint Canadian-U. S. wea ther station and RCAF Base. Among the visitors were a white seaman, Moody A. Meek ins, Engineman Ist class of Avon from the icebreaker USCG West wind, and also Noah C. Mann, negro seaman, USCG, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther M. Mann of Manteo. N. C., from the icebreak er USCG Eastwind. HEARING MON. ON RULES FOR CURRITUCK FISHING A hearing on a proposal to change fishing regulations on carp and catfish in Currituck i Sound will be held at the Poplar Branch School in "Currituck County on Monday, August 31. The hearing will start at 10 a.m. The hearing will be conducted by Eric W. Rodgers of Scotland Neck, chairman of the commer cial fisheries committee of the State Board of Conservation and Development, and members of his committee. C. D. Kirkpatrick of Morehead City, head of the commercial fisheries division of the Department of Conservation and Development, will attend the meeting. A proposal to change the pre sent regulations on summer carp and catfish in Currituck Sound was placed before the C. & D. board at its recent meetings in Morehead City and Raleigh, but before any action was taken Chairman Rodgers suggested that a hearing be held in Currituck County. All commercial fishermen in terested in keeping the regula tions as they now are, or those desiring a change, are invited to attend the meeting at Poplar Branch School. SEVERAL CHANGES IN DARE SCHOOL TEACHING STAFF According to announcement this week from the office of Dare County’s superintendent of educa tion, Mrs. Mary Langston Evans, the vacancies which existed when the list of county teachers was published in the July 31 issue of the Times have been filled. They are as follows: Kitty Hawk school: principal, Ernest W. Bryan; 7th -Bth grade, Annie Mae Bryan. In the Buxton school resigna tions have been handed in by Henry Speight and Mrs. Mary S. McCarthy. Added to the Buxton list are: Horatio La Fevers, Wil liam A. Moye and Pasco Davidson.
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