LUME XIX NO. 21
HOUSING AID FOR
DEC. 17 OFFERED
BY NAGS HEADERS
Chamber of Commerce To
Assist In Getting Rooms
For Visitors
By AYCOCK BROWN
Persons wishing to make re
servations in Nags Head, Kill
Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk
hotels, inns or motor courts
should make application for same
to the Wright Brothers Celebra
tion Committee, care: Nags Head
Chamber of Commerce, at Nags
Head, it is announced by Miles
L. Clark, chairman of the cele
bration committee.
Demand for accommodations
has resulted in sell-outs at the
largest hotel and the largest
motor court on the beach, it was
stated. But there will be plenty
of extra accommodations, either
in hotels, motor courts or cot
tages.
If all local accommodations
are taken, persons applying for
reservations will be advised of
the nearest rooms available in
the Roanoke Island, Elizabeth
City or Norfolk area.
The celebration this year is ex
pected to bring the largest num
ber of persons to ever visit the
Dare coastal region during the
winter months. Most of the per
sons applying for reservations
are planning to spend the entire
four days here. Program of the
celebration follows:
Monday, December 14: 10:15
A. M. to 4 P. M.—Memorial cere
mony, wreath placing, memorial
flight, dedication of reconstructed
site of the Wrights hanger,‘work
shop and living quarters at Kill
Devil Hills, glider salute, lunch
eon (by invitation) followed by
press reception and briefing.
First day of the celebration will
be Pioneers and Private Flyers’
Day.
Tuesday, December 15will be
* "Ration Industry Day with the
beginning at 10:15 A. M.
Tffcluding the memorial cere
mony, wreath placing, memorial
flight, world flag raising, tour of
recontructed site, luncheon with
press reception and briefing.
Defense Day on December 16
will bring in the first review of
air power, following the mem
orial ceremony and wreath plac
ing. A tour of the reconstructed
site, luncheon and press recep
tion and briefing will conclude
the day’s program.
Biggest day of the celebration
will be on December 17, with the
program beginning at 9:45 A. M.
with the anniversary ceremony,
followed by a wreath drop, taps
and memorial flight, re-enact
ment of the first flight, span-of
f light demonstration, introduc
tion of guests, airpower review,
anniversary luncheon, glider
soaring, air rescue, utility flying
and sunset patrol.
Some of the biggest names in
aviation will be on the various
programs, including General
Doolittle of “flight over Tokyo
fame.”
A. W. Drinkwater and Aycock
Brown are co-chairmen of the
press committee. •
The celebration here at Kill
Devil Hills this year will con
clude the golden anniversary of
aviation year. Sponsors of. the
celebration are Kill Devil Hills
Memorial Society, the Air Force
Association, National Park Ser
vice and the N. C. Commission to
observe the 50th anniversary of
powered flight.
PLEASE HELP US WITH
WELL-WRITTEN COPY
No matter how much we beg
our correspondents to stop num
bering news items: to writing on
both sides of the paper; no
matter how much we beg them to
use “and” and not in place
of and; no matter how much we
ask them to double space their
there will be some who
JSep doing it, and when there is
•Tot one with the time in the
office to do it all over again, it
gets thrown away, and doesn’t
get printed. Notes come written
on the opposite side of a piece of
news. We have to cut the note off
and put on the office hook.
Therefore the news diesn’t get
set up, it’s lost.
We love to print the news, but
words must be spelled out. When
such symbols as “sect.” or “sec,”
“nite” and many other things
are used; we have to leave out
the whole thing, for there is no
body to write all over again,
what might have as easily been
done in the first place.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
BOARDING HOMES
RENDER DISTINCT
AID TO NEEDY
Manteo Has One, Widely Rec
ognized As Sanctuary for
Aged White People ’
By GOLDIE H. MEEKINS
Superintendent of Public Welfare
Dare County has one of the
209 licensed boarding homes for
adults in North Carolina which
pre providing congenial sur
roundings and a sense of inde
pendence for over 2,100 older
citizens of our State.
Here as in every one of the 100
counties over the State these li
censed boarding homes are super
vised by the county departments
of public welfare. Residents in
these 209 homes include persons
from nearly every walk of life.
Some are paying their own way;
others are aided by relatives and
friends; and still others, who
have no resources of their own,
are receiving public assistance
which permits them to pay their
way in the home.
These boarding homes are a
logical result of the outstanding
efforts being made in North
Carolina to provide for the ever
increasing number of older peo
ple. Since 1947 the number of
homes has steadily increased
each year. The changes in the
economy and standards of living
in North Carolina, as well as in
other states, have resulted in
smaller homes in which it fre
quently becomes impossible to
provide room for any persons ex
cept the immediate family of par
ents and children. In addition,
the advances of medical science
have extended the life span of
many more people to the older
years, thus increasing the size of
this segment of citizens of the
State and nation.
Many types of boarding homes
are included in the 209 over the
State; about 80 per cent are for
white persons, 20 per cent for
Negroes.
A number of counties in the
State have assigned special case
workers to work with older peo
ple. In Dare County, special case
work services are rendered to our
aged population residing in the
“Beacon Boarding Home”.
Rates for accomodations in the
licensed homes over the State
range from about SSO per month
to more than $l5O, depending on
the service rendered. Persons 65
to 85 years of age form by far
the largest segment of the popu
lation of the homes throughout
the State though there are some
residents in these homes under
l 40 and even some over 95 years
of age. Counselling with the aged
person himself or with his fam
ily permits placement in a board
ing home which meets the spe
cial needs of the individual.
Licensing by the State Board
of Public Welfare, as provided
by State law, assures the careful
supervision of these homes as to
health and welfare factors and
the maintainance of fire safety
standards. The State Board en
courages the establishment of
these homes and works with the
operators as they -seek to attain
licensing standards. From time to
time the State Board holds work
shop meetings especially for the
operators of the boarding homes
as an aid to maintaining high
standards of service to the aged.
Typical situations over the
State which have been aided by
the boarding home plan included
these: family stress and strain
was resolved for one of North
Carolina’s families recently when
counselling and placement ser
vice helped the mother to a per
sonally satisfying life of in
dependence from her children’s
lives ;an elderly gentleman
whose reactions to the controls
and criticisms of his own family
were bringing about symptoms of
poor mental and physical health
was placed in a boarding home
suited to his needs and became
relaxed and happy; a woman long
a patient in a State Hospital but
no longer needing treatment was
placed in a boarding home in
familiar surroundings which in
cluded a few well-loved personal
belongings and made a most
satisfactory adjustment.
In Dare County our greatest
need in the matter of boarding
homes for adits is «the licensing
of two additional homes.
MANTEO PTA WILL MEET
MONDAY NIGHT, NOV. 23
The Manteo Parent Teacher
Association will meet Monday
night, November 23, at eight
o’clock in the school auditorium.
Mrs. Lawrence Swain urges all
parents to attend. A special pro
gram has been arranged.
LANDS IN U. S. AFTER
two Years in korea
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WALTER C. O’NEAL, JR., of
Ocracoke has landed in Califor
nia after two years in Korea. He
has written his parents he ex
pects to be home for Christmas.
He is a corporal in the Marine
Corp.
TURKEY SHOOT BEING
HELD TOMORROW
Birds Being Given Away in Time
for Thanksgiving Dinner
Manteo Post 9959, Veterans of
Foreign .Wars, are staging their
annual turkey shoot tomorrow,
Saturday, the 19th. The shoot is
to be at the Manteo waterfront, |
at 1 p. m. . •
Twelve birds in all will be
given away, and the price for
shots will be SI.OO for men, and I
50d for the ladies. Guns may be
brought, but shells will be fur
nished. Twelve gauge guns only
are to be used.
STRIPED BASS CATCHES ON
UPGRADE AFTER STORM
Wanchese. Striped basa.
catches which made such sensa
tional news in the Wanchese area
during November 1952 seems to
be picking up now following
several days of rough waters and
stormy weather generally, it was
reported Monday by Mack Ether
idge, operator of Mack’s Fishing
Center here.
All boats out from here on the
week end brought back fish, but
none in great numbers.
“Capt. J. F. Turner’s party
landed 19, the top catch of the
day on Sunday,” said Etheridge.
“All during November lasj
year the parties were bringing in
good catches everytime they
went after striped bass,” said
Etheridge.
Last year in November, striped
bass fishing was so good at times,
that parties chartering boats
caught so many fish that they
would often sell enough to local
fish houses for enough to pay
their boat charter fee and still
have enough left over for their
own use.
MRS. ALICE R. HAYMAN
Mrs. Alice Rodgers Hayman,
57, a native of Duck, Dare Coun
ty and a resident of Grandy for
the past two years, died Monday
afternoon in Elizabeth City.
She was the daughter of the
late Stephen and Elizabeth Bunch
Rodgers and a member of the
Baptist Church.
She is survived by her hus
band, Mathias Hayman of Gran
dy; four daughters, Mrs. Mary
Outlaw of Grandy, Mrs. Edna
Hewitt of Virginia Beach, Mrs.
Bertha Thompson of Norfolk and
Mrs. Ola Van Austin of Philadel
phia; four sons, Chapman Hay
man of Boston, Larry G. Hay
man of Philadelphia, Frank Hay
man of Norfolk and Norman
Hayman, U. S. Navy, stationed at
Bainbridge, Md.; two sisters,
Mrs. W. G. Toler of South Caro
lina and Mrs. Alethia Litchfield
of Virginia Beach; and seven
grandchildren.
BAPTIST MEN GUESTS
AT CHICKEN DINNER
The men of the Manteo Baptist
Church were special guests of the
Clara Tarkington Sunday School
Class last Friday evening, when
they were entertained at a fried
chicken dinner in the church’s
recreational room. Chrysanthe
mums and fall foliage were used
as decoration.
Men of the church present were
L. D. Tarkington, W. W. Tarking
ton, Frank White, Frank Cahoon,
Wayland Fry, Bill Swindell, Roy
King, R. Bruce theridge, Clyde
Biggs, Dorian Quidley, Henry B.
Parker, Rev. H. V. Napier, St.
Clair Basnight, Donald Bliven
and Frank White, Jr.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1953
BIG CHANNEL BASS
HIT SURF WATERS
OF CAPE HATTERAS
Beautiful November weather
has resulted in the biggest and
best chahnel’bass catches of the
Autumn season during the past
week end here at Cape Hatteras.
Largest of the species landed was
a 52-pounder taken by Leland W
Clodfelter of Winston-Salem.
Clodfelter was fishing i?i the
surf at the Point of the Cape in
company with H. Asa Snyder of
Denton and Elmer Ball of Lex
ington. In addition to the big fish,
a number of smaller channel bass
were landed by this party.
Runnerup to the Clodfelter
fish of 52 pounds was one that
scaled at exactly 50 pounds land
ed by Mrs. Howard L. Valentine
of Whiteville. Her big fish too,
was caught in the surf at the
Point of Cape Hatteras. She was
fishing with her husband and
with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dyer,
Sr., of Whiteville. In all, this
party shared in the catches of
more than 20 channel bass weigh
ing above 30 pounds each, were
taken.
' George Fuller, owner-operator
of Cape Hatteras Cottage Court
here stated that hundreds of
channel bass ranging from puppy
drum size, in the five to 15-pound
class to the larger specimans go
ing over 30 pounds each.
Fishing the surf has been pro
ductive in other areas of Hatteras
Island from Hatteras northward
to Waves and Rodanthe. Charles
Williams, Jr., of the Cape Hat
teras Hotel at Avon reported
guests at his hotel during the
past week end had brought in
channel bass and also had fair.
luck with trout and flounder. |
In the Nags Head region big
channel bass were being caught
on the week end from Jennettes
Pier southward to Oregon Inlet.
MANNS HARBOR LOSES
A BELOVED CITIZEN
Avery Belove Tillett, 65, a life
long resident of Manns Harbor,
died of a heart attack Monday
afternoon at 5:30 o’clock at Lake
Landing while hunting. He was
the son of the late Avery and
Mary Walker Tillett, and was a
member of the Mt. Carmel Meth
odist Church. He was a commer
cial fisherman at Manns Harbor.
He was one of the most popular
and helpful men of the commun
ity.
He is survivied by his wife,
Mrs. Dorothy Pinner Tillett; one
daughter, Miss Mary Tillett; two
sons, Thelbert Tillett and Chester
Tillett, all of Manns Harbor; two
sisters, Mrs. Clark Mann, of Man
teo, and Mrs. Frances Jones, of
Baltimore, Md.; two brothers,
Will Tillett, of Manns Harbor,
and George Tillett, of Elizabeth
City; five grandchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the
Mount Carmel Methodist Church
at Manns Harbor by the Rev. A.
G. L. Stephenson. Burial was in
the family cemetery.
BEAR HUNTING ON
MAINLAND BELOW PAR
Big game hunting generally
and bear hunting in particular
has been below par during the
current big game hunting season.
Reports of kills this year have
not been as frequent as last year.
Ken Ward, who guides anglers
on big game fish forays into the
Gulf Stream during the summer
months and big game hunters
after deer and bear in the winter
when the season is open, stated
this week that in his opinion the
bear hunting was below par due
to lack of food for the animals.
Most of the bear in the big
woods of Dare are killed in the
Millcreek and South Lake re
gions while the are feeding on
cypress and gum berries. This
year there has been a shortage
of beries and recently great
flocks of robins in the woods have
just about cleaned out the berry
crops, according to Ward. This
has resulted in the bear remain
ing deep in the woodlands and
swamps and away from the easy
to penetrate areas.
HEARD IN DARE COURT
IN NON-SUPPORT CASE
Having failed to maintain his
payments of S2O per week for the
support of his three children at
Salvo, W. J. Midgett, Jr., was
heard in Dare County Tuesday,
and his payments reduced to S6O
per month on assurance of his
father that he would see that
payment is made on time here
after.
This was the only case heard
by Judge Baum Tuesday.
PARK SERVICE
PASSES 18,000
ACRE LAND MARK
The Board of Commissioners of
Dare County, at their August
meeting, voted to transfer title
of a large tract of county-owned
land to the National Park Ser
vice for inclusion in the Cape |
Hatteras National Seashore Area. I
The tract, located on lower Bodie j
Island about 2 miles north of i
Oregon Inlet, contains over 600
acres. The County was unwilling
to make an outright donation of
the land so the National Park
Service has agreed to pay $50,-
000.00 for the property.
The resolution adopted by the
Dare Cofmissioners to transfer
ownership of the land indicated
that is was to be used in the de
velopment program of the Na
tional Seashore Project for the
material and recreational benefit
of all the people of Dare County
and their visitors. It was under
similar conditions that the county
accepted the property as a gift
from the late David L. Lindquist'
in 1942.
The addition of this acreage to
that already acquired for the
Seashore Project will bring the
total to over 18,000 acres. The
balance has been acquired by
purchase, condemnation, gift
from public spirited citizens, and
by transfer from the State of
North Carolina. When the ac
quisition program is completed,
a total or approximately 28,500
acres will be included within the
seashore boundary. These bound- |
aries were set jointly by the ‘
North Carolina Cape Hatteras
Seashore Commission and the
National Park Service and ap-1
proved by the Secretary of the I
Interior last October.
The addition of the Dare Coun
ty property will aid materially
in the completion of the acquisi
tion program for the National |
Seashore, which was authorized'
by Congress in 1937.
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ROANOKE ID HISTORICAL
SOCIETY MEETS DEC. 2
By AYCOCK BROWN
Roanoke Island Historical As
sociation Inc., the state agency
which sponsors Paul Green’s
symphonic drama The Lost Col- J
ony will hold its annual meet-1
ing in the Manteo Room of the
Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh on
December 2, says R. E. Jordan,
general manager.
Purpose of the meeting is to
hear a report on the current
year’s season and to make plans
for 1954 and the opening of the
drama which is tentatively sche
duled for June 26 with plans to
run the show nightly except
Mondays through September 5.
The drama, first of the outdoor
type of symphonic dramas,had a
successful year this season, ac
cording to the local management.
The Lost Colony has been seen
by more than 600,000 persons.
DEER SEASON OPENS
ON HATTERAS ISLAND
Hatteras. lt is open season
for the “pigmy” or “toy” deer of
the Cape Hatteras Woods but no
reports of kills have been re
ported since November 2 when
it became legal to hunt the little
animals until November 30. The
deer population of the woods
here is estimated to be anywhere
from 50 to 100 animals by local
residents.
Most of the hunting for the an
imals is done by local and island
residents. Instead of using large
deer hounds to locate and chase
the animals, beagle hounds are
used. Only a few deer are killed
in the area each year and a
movement is underway to give
them complete protection the
year around.
MISS SANDFIDDLER TO
BE ELECTED IN MANTEO
The staff of the 1954 Sand
fiddler (the Manteo High School
Annual) is sponsoring a contest
to choose the Miss Sandfiddler
of ’54. The candidates were
selected for talent and personal
ity. The candidates are: Grade
ei g h t—J ani c e Scarborough;
Grade 9 A—Ann Dowdy; Grade
9 B—Theresa Crees; Grade 10—
Betsey Midgett; Grade 11—Bebe
Daniels; Grade 12—Linda Gas
kill.
Tht Annual staff is sponsoring
this contest to raise money to
publish their ’54 Sandfiddler.
Posters have been placed in all
stores both in Manteo and Wan
chese with boxes in which to
place the money for voting.
TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION
MONDAY ON REPLICA OF
WRIGHTS’ EARLY HANGAR
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Park Service to Construct Rude Buildings to
Simulate the Living Quarters Used by Wil
bur and Orville Wright When They First
Flew at Kill Devil Hills.
By AYCOCK BROWN
Monday of next w ! eek will
make history again. It will be
the day the Park Service begins
the construction of two rude
wooden buildings that will look
just like those in which Orville
and Wilbur Wright lived and
housed their first plane back in
1902, and from where they flew
in 1903 on December 17th for the
first time.
The project is part of the plan
of getting ready for four days of
celebration next month.
The year-long, world-wide ob
servance of the Golden Anniver
sary of Powered Flight will be.
climaxed by a four-day celebra
tion, December 14-17 at Kitty
Hawk and Kill Devil Hills here
on the North Carolina coast at the
actual site of the Wright Broth
ers’ conquest of the air on Dec
ember 17, 1903.
With all phases of aviation
participating, the four day cele
bration will include special tri-1
butes to pioneers and private
Flyers Day; Tuesday, Industrj’
Day; Wednesday, Defense Day;
and Thursday, December 17, ‘
Golden Anniversary Day.
A feature event of the celebra- I
tion will be the unveiling and
dedication of the reconstructed
site of the birthplace of Powered
flight. Under the supervision of
the National Park Service, one
of the four sponsoring agencies, ’
work was scheduled to begin on
the building of the Wright Broth
ers’ hanger and living quarters
this week. These buildings will
be refurnished as they appeared
in 1903. The wooden mono-rail
used to launch their rugged plane
will also be constructed on the
original site.
Airplane development will be
demonstrated when a 1912
pusher-type plane re-enacts the
first flight of 12 seconds at 10:37
o’clock on December 17 over the
Wright Brothers’ original course,
at a speed of less than 50 miles
per hour, followed by modern jet
fighters breaking the sound bar
rier. Scores of the latest tvpes
of military planes will participate
in the Air review.
In addition to the Park Service
the four day celebration is joint
ly sponsored by Kill Devil Hills
Memorial Society, Air Force As
sociation, and the North Carolina
50th Anniversary of Powered
Flight Commission. Miles L.
Clark, oil executive of Elizabeth
City is chairman of the joint com
mittee; Ralph V. Whitener, AFA,
Washington is national coordina
tor and Carl Goerch is State
coordinator. Aycock Brown is
local coordinator of the celebra
tion.
WILDFOWL GATHER BUT
HUNTING NOT TOO GOOD
Nags Head. Wildfowl is
plentiful in Dare coastal waters
and also in Currituck Sound, but
hunting parties have not been
having very good luck during re
cent days, primarily because the
weather was too good for good
hunting.
The coast of Dare is one place
where a sportsman who cares to
do so can usually get his limit
of wildfowl in the morning and
catch plenty of fish during the
afternoon. In the Kitty Hawk
area in recent years some hunt
ers bring guns and tackle, fish
ing for large mouth bass when
their bag limit of game has been
obtained. Others try the salt
water fishing after a morning in
the blinds.
GOOD LUCK ON CROATAN
While fishing aboard the
“Libby” in Croatan Sound this
past week with owner and wife,
Lee and Fanny Dough, Mr. and
Mrs. Ivey Evans had extra spe
cial fishing luck. Trolling and
with hand line the party made
port with a catch of 71 rock, each
weighing between five and eight
pounds, in fact the fish were so
anxious to join the party that
they were coming in two at a
time.
Mrs. Evans stated that the day
was so enjoyable and exciting to
her that she was still fishing in
her sleep that night.
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DOZEN WHITE MARLIN
TAKEN WITH ROD-REEL
OFF-DARE COAST—I9S3
By AYCOCK BROWN
Hatteras. The big game bill
fishing season catches of 1953
have definitely put the Dare
coast of North Carolina in the
spotlight for those who are in
terested in blue and white mar
brought lin and sailfish. Twelfth
white marlin to be taken in
waters of the Cape Hatteras re
gion was brought in Saturday by
Dr. Jesse C. Overbey, Norfolk,
Va., dentist who made big game
fishing news in a national way
recently when he hooked and
brought in a blue marlin that
weighed almost 600 pounds.
Dr. Overbey had actually come
to Hatteras on the week end to
get his cruiser the Snapper II
and take it back to Norfolk for
overhauling. He arrived here in
Spring-like November weather
and decided to take one more
trip offshore.
With Capt. Wpeeler Ballance
as his guide, he started trolling
in Hatteras Bight, caught a few
dolphin and bonita and decided
to go on offshore and use the
small fish he had taken as bait
for a possible billfish catch.
No one expected to catch a
white marlin so late in the sea
son, but when one hit the bait
fish he started reeling and min
utes later had boated a 71-pound
white marlin, one of the largest
of the species taken off the Dare
Coast this season. His catch
brought the total bill-fish catch
of 1953 to 12 white marlin taken
off Hatteras and Oregon Inlet;
three blue marlin landed off Hat
teras and approximately 35 sail
ish landed by anglers fishing off
Hatteras and Oregon Inlet.
RURITANS MEET
The Stumpy Point Ruritan
Club met at the club room
Wednesday night. Rev. A.G.L.
Stephenson presided. Officers for
the coming year were elected as
follows:
Rev. Stephenson, president;
Melton Hooper, vice-president;
Carvil Wise, Sec.; Calvin Payne,,
treas.; Mrs. Tom Wise, pianist.
The speaker for the evening was
Leon Ballance of Engelhard. The
subject was “The Weather For
casts”. Mr. Ballance explained
the cause, the whys’ and wheres
of weather conditions as he
learned them while studing the
subject while in the service.
Slides were shown to further ex
plain the atmospheric conditions.
Ladies of the WSCS served a
chicken dinner to the 15 members
and visitors present.
WOMAN'S CLUB HAS
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Mrs. D. E. Evans, Dare Coun
ty’s superintendent of education,
was speaker Tuesday evening at
the meeting of the Manteo Wo
man’s Club, when a program on
education and public affairs was
presented to the club. In addition
to the talk she made, Mrs. Evans
passed around a quiz which
showed how many things par
ents do nOt know about the way
the schools are run.
The project chairman was in
structed to look into the matter
of providing a special table for
the new Dare County health cen
ter.
The hostesses, Mrs. Wayland
Fry, Mrs. Fred Basnight, Mrs. W.
L. Warren and Mrs. Theo. S.
Meekins, Jr., served refreshments
of cookies and sherbet. Mrs. Eliz
abeth Peterson was a guest of
the club.
MISS IRENE SHEARIN
88 YEARS OLD SUNDAY
Miss Irene Shearin of Manteo
celebrated her 88th birthday
quietly last Sunday at her home
in Manteo. Many friends called
on her during the day, with good
wishes and gifts. Miss Shearin,
who is a member of Mount Olivet
Methodist Church in Manteo, has
not missed a Sunday morning
service in three years.