PAGE EIGHT NOTED NATIVE MINISTER OF HYDE COUNTY DIES A man who had made his mark in the ministry', following his upbringing in TSladesville, Hyde County, passed away Fri- PIONEER THEATRE MANTEO, N. C. SATURDAY, NOV. 21 “THE VANQUISHED” with JOHN PAYNE SUNDAY : MONDAY “ THE DESERT RATS" with RICHARD BURTON TUESDAY : WEDNESDAY "CRUISIN’ DOWN THE RIVER” with DICK HAYMES THURSDAY' : FRIDAY “JAMAICA RUN” with RAY MILLAND What Could Be Better to Make the Home Complete? THAN A Platform Rocker PLASTIC fzSWI __ , TAPESTRY ALL p.. .* *• COLORS ■r ■•z that’s Van Heusen! RKS. T. M. FOR CHRISTMAS S Proof 1— The Van Heusen Century Shirt. .. with the soft collar that uwi’t wrinkle ... ever! A new Van Hensen Century free if yours ever shrinks out of size! Whites, colors. Regular and spread collars 1 . Proof # 2 —Van Heusen [g pajamas— with the Zg exclusive "Flexibelt” ’jS waist—that won’t let L gFj&Srjffl) them slip or slide. 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Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lizzie Roper Sawyer and two daughters by a former marriage, Miss Lucy Sawyer of Washing ton. D. C. and Mrs. Mary Morton of Baltimore, Md.: two grandsons, John and Douglas Clarkson; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Bell of Belhaven and Mrs. A. S. Cooper of Raleigh. Mr. Sawyer was a former member of the Belhaven Pantego Lions Club and a member of the Belhaven Masonic lodge, No. 509 and a member of the York and Scottish Rites bodies, and of the Shrine. Some scientists believe that brick was manufactured as early as 12,000 years ago. LIGHTHOUSES AT HATTERAS A History of Famous Dare County Guardians of Ship ping at Sea The history of the lighthouses of the world that stand guard on stormy and isolated seacoasts to flash out warning signals, to those who go down to the sea in ships, of the perils that lurk in hidden reefs and treacherous shoals is a long and interesting one. In the annals of the U. S. Lighthouse service there is perhaps no more fascinating a record than the story of the Lighthouse towers at Cape Hatteras, whose warning beacons of light have saved countless ves sels from doom and destruction on the dreaded Diamond Shoals, the “Graveyard of Ships.” Cape Hatteras, eastermost land point in North Carolina, and long noted for its frequent and danger ous storms, was the scene of soma of the world’s most frightful and disastrous shipwrecks in the days before the first lighthouse was built there in 1798. Here the warm Gulf Stream, in its serpentine course up the Atlantic Seaboard now within 15 miles off shore lur ing coastwise vessels toward the coast at this point where men j acing fingers of sand reach out over 10 miles into the sea. Seamen of all nationalities have been dri ven ashore in leaking ships during winds of gale force and their ves sels splintered on the sandy shoals. George Washington, early in his presidency, was among the first to see the need of adequate ly lighting the most dangerous points along the coast of the in fant republic to protect shipping. ' Cape Hatteras, and the scarcely I less received special attention as I both were on direct routes of i commerce. Storms and reefs (made them equally dangerous to ! navigation, while at Cape Hat i teras extreme differences in tem perature and atmospheric condi ; tions between the hot airs of the Gulf Stream and the breezes from shore created freakish j weather conditions, onsequently |no point on the entire Atlantic ! seaboard was more dreaded by ■ mariners than the North Caro ' lina coast at this point because j frequent storms exacted a heavy I toll of life and ships. Early Beacons The first lighthouses were per- I haps bonfires of driftwood built on the beach. There was a light house on Little Brewster Island at the entrance of Boston harbor. I erected by the British Govern ment as early as 1716. At the time the United States declared their independence from Eng land there were only 10 light houses owned and operated by the colonists. All of these had been built between 1716 and 17- 89 but five more went under con l struction and Virginia had gath [ ered materials for her lighthouse at Cape Henry. The first light house built after the formation of the American republic was at Cape Henry, Va., at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. Fish oil. whale oil, lard, kerosene, gas and lastly electricity served as a fuel in the lanterns of lighthouses. Sixteen of the original lighthous es are still in operation today in cluding the light on Little Brew ster Island which was rebuilt in 1793. First at Hatteras It was not until 1797 that the new congress appropriated funds for the erection of a lighthouse at Hatteras. The following year a sandstone tower, an amazing feat of engineering in those days was built on the sands of the Cape and lighted for the first time. While its light was poor and hardly visible more than a few miles at sea, it nevertheless help ed reduce the growing toll of the sea off rhe stormy point. In 1854 a decided improvement was made with the installation of fresnal lens and new revolv- ■ $2.001 pirn $3.20 J fifth I I | M proof. 7t% Grata Nootrd Spirits | I Austin^Uchols! L aes aa ■■ MrlimMua ■■ as art THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. ing reflectors which greatly in creased the candelpower of Hat teras light. During the War be tween the States, however, both the lens and lantern were des troyed by union forces during the Battle cf Hatteras Inlet. In 1863 new illuminating apparatus was installed but the moderate height of the tower greatly re stricted its usefulness as a light for nautical purposes. New Lighthouse In 1867 congress again appro priated funds to rebuild Hatter as light to a greater height. The site selected was 600 feet to rhe north of the old tower, and, at that time, more than a mile in shore from the frighwater mark. Now the sea, which has been creeping up for over 50 years, and has gotten close to the light, but the sea's inroads have been arrested somewhat by the work of the beach erosion project. Cape Hatteras lighthouse was constructed of brick and stone on a foundation of yellow pine timber laid six feet in the sand beneath blocks of octagonal granite. It was completed Dec ember 16, 1870, and its lantern 193 feet above the sea level, was lit for the first time. The next year the old sandstone tower, its light extinguished and no longer of any use, and in danger of fall ing during a severe storm, was dynamited. The new lighthouse was first painted red above the 30 feet level and white below but in 1879 the painting was white spiral bands that charact erize it. Days are Numbered When it was thought this tow er was slowly being undermined by the steady encroachment of the sea and the erosion of ’he beach before it, they built a tall skeleton-steel structure some dis tance to the west housing an electrically-lighted beam of the bull-eye type which, though smaller, throws warning signals out over .the ocean farther than the rays of the old oilburning lan tern. The earth, having a curved surface makes the height of any lighthouse have a considerable difference in the distance from w’hich it can be seen. A light house of from 150 to 200 feet high can usually be seen on a fairly clear night ’at a distance of from 18 to 20 miles at sea. By the same token a 1,000 foot structure would throw a beam visible aproximately 40 miles out at sea. Years after the construction of I the first lighthouse tower at : Cape Hatteras, the lighthouse board, in the late 80’s, tried to build a tower on Diamond Shoals.. But after spending some thing like $250,000 and having several vessels swept away in storms and the lives of two work men lost in the broiling current. Here are two points to remember when you buy a car!'... CHEVROLET CHEVROLET VALUE PRICES » 111811 tCT »vn *!* »I filfJS Cl fl I I fcll i itltS Hit* of any line in its field! -HwmMMBEp 1 a^ssswc"s»cess tng smoothness, more road- on "Two-Ten" and Bel Air models .. . Power THAN ANY OTHER CAR! Stability and more safety protection with Steering and E-Z-Eye Plate Glass available on all " WIHtK VAKI this stronger, heavier, longer lasting carl models ... at extra cost. Hassell & Creel Motor Co., Inc. PHONE 87 MANTEO, N. G the idea was abandoned. Today, a first class lightship rides at anchor off the extremity of radio-beam as well as the ra dio compass ashore at Buxton, N. C„ supplemented by the Hatteras light and the efficient Coast Guard patrol have reduced to a minimum the toll of life and pro perty taken at sea in former years. Each in turn has served the shipping of the nations of the world with warning flashes a gainst the dangers of the North Carolina coast. Similar towers, though smaller than the brick tower at Hatteras, guard the coast at Cape Lookout, 63 miles southwest of the Cape Hatteras light, at Currituck Beach, at the mouth of Cape Fear River. The Hatteras Tower is the highest brick structure of its kind in the world. But like the Hatteras tow- O /• jp beyond I I clescribtion— I 5:7/ A'V\ ! : J /' i v P A superlative nightdress and negligee combina- / 1 d 7 t ‘ on nylon tricot . . . designed for delight- ' s / It/iLI com f° rt f res h b eaut y- jI / •11 P er f ect f° r occasions—free from dry j | cleaning and pressing. Permanent pleated gown /// all-over nylon lace bust and voluminous /ieL f Mlragl I j . ' | HI | I Gown Sizes 32-12 Negligee S-M-L LLjjH mil FEARING’S INC. CL H l /fl On YOUR COMPLETE SHOPPING CENTER l ILj! Phone 16 or 28 Manteo er they are destined to become obsolete as an advancement of modem times has been the aban donment of the old cone-shaped towers of masonry and the sub stitution, whenever possible, of skeleton-steel structures, which cost less to maintain, withstand wind pressures better, and are in less danger of damage from constant exposure to heavy storms. There is something romantic and fascinating about a light house that conjures up wild and stormy nights at sea when the waves, rising to fury and moun tainous heights before strong gales dash against barren coasts. Likely as not, some frail vessel, caught in the path of the storm, may be driven in on Diamond Shoals and dashed to splinters on the treacherous reefs. Then the native sons of Hat- FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1953 RANSOMVILLE NEWS The Free Will Baptist Youth for Christ held their regular meeting at their hut in Ransom ville on Tuesday night, with Ann Paul, president presiding. The devotional leader, Edward Paul, read the eighteenth psalm. The scripture identification contest for the evening was won by David Burbage. teras rise to the occasion. Coast Guardsmen at Hatteras Inlet, Chicamicomico, Nags Head and other life saving stations on the beach, who have been decroated by foreign knigs for acts of hero sim in saving lives of foreign seamen from sinking ships off the North Carolina coast, take up where the warning signals of lighthouse and lightship are no longer a match for the elements.