FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1954
Americans Discover Cape Hatteras
By ROLAND SAWYER, In the Christian Science Monitor
Hatteras. lf you stand at the
tip of Cape Hatteras at dawn,
you will see the sun rise out of
the , ocean. If you stand in the
same spot at sunset, you will see
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the sun sink into the same
ocean. Cape Hatteras reaches that
far out into the Atlantic. From no
other spot in the United States
does such a phenomenon occur,
National Park Service men be
lieve.
At this point, too, you can
watch the Labrador current and
the Gulf Stream collide at your
feet. Here waves from the North
and South, propelled for thou
sands of miles, roll smack into
one another. Even on a moderate
day the turbulence is exciting.
Spray explodes into the air two
or three stories high as the con
verging seas smash. As far as one
can see and beyond, for 50 miles,
this collision of two great ocean
currents goes on, day upon day,
night after night.
Air currents flowing over these
waters, collide off Hatteras, too,
You feel pretty sure that a lot of
weather is manufactured out
here in the Atlantic where strong
winds, coming from one direction
or another, never cease. This is
a shore of violence. Here the ir
restible force of the Atlantic
meets the immovable object of
North America. Before Cape Hat
teras lies 3,000 miles of ocean and
Africa beyond. Behind Cape Hat
teras lies the huge continent
where the United States has been
created. They begin at Cape Cod
in the North, at the tip of Florida
in the south, and here in the
center.
Few Americans have seen Cape
Hatteras. To this day it is one
of the most inaccessible areas of
North America. Many in the past
AUCTION SALE
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An auction sale of the Big
Sel-Mal Farm project which has
been underway at New Lake in
Hyde County for three yars, and
on which vast sums have been
spent for buildings and machine
ry, is advertised for this week,
Saturday, Jan. 16 at 11:30 a.m.
Included in this sale is the
modern residence, out-buildings,
6,650 acres of land, including 80
acres cleared. It is being offered
as a whole or in part.
who saw the Cape and its adja
cent beaches must have wished
otherwise. For many who did
were dashed upon its beaches in
open boats from wrecked ships
or washed up by the waves. In
300 years there have been more
than 600 recorded wrecks north
and south of Cape Hatteras along
the outer banks, the outlying is
lands of shifting sand on the
North Carolina Coast.
Alexander Hamilton ordered a
lighthouse built at Hatteras in
1796; it was replaced in 1870 by
the tallest brick lighthouse ever
built in North America. 193 feet.
And there is a LORAN station
here today, providing ships at sea
with accurate long-range naviga
tion, an electronic system created
in World War 11. There have been
only two wrecks on these shoals
and beaches since World War 11.
This LORAN station is a sym
bol of the changes that are com
ing along the beaches that stretch
150 miles from Cape Henry, in
Virginia, to Ocracoke Inlet, 21
miles southwest of Hatteras. A
hard-surfaced road has been built
all the way to the village of Hat
teras, beyond the Cape.
For once the National Park
Service has come ahead of tour
ists. It is beginning to create the
Cape Hatteras National Seashore,
a recreation area project. It has
acquired nearly 70 per cent of
the land reaching south of Nags
Head to the tip of Ocracoke Is
land. It will begin the organiza
tion essential before tourists can
come to Cape Hatteras in any
numbers.
Cape Hatteras is people and
fauna and wild life as much as
sand and sky and sea. It has
seven villages named Rodanthe,
Waves, Salvo, Avon, Buxton,
Frisco and Hatteras. The
2,000 people in these five ham
lets have lived apart from the
American world for 200 years.
These towns have no govern
ments, no policemen, no “authori
ties” except those of Dare Coun
ty. And the county seat is way
back at Manteo behind two fer
ries. (Now only one ferry and a
bridge.) For generations the peo
ple earned their living fishing,
from plundering the shipwrecks,
and from the payroll the Coast
Guard stations brought.
In the future they will earn
their living from fishing and
form tourists. The Coast Guard
stations are vanishing and there
are no more wrecks.
The National Park Service will
assist in this transition. It has
acquired no land in the towns
or adjacent to them; plenty of
room is left for the establishment
of various tourist enterprises. But
much of the land is forever pro
tected. It is time. Few spots along
the coastlines of the United States
have escaped the inevitable scars
of the competitive tourist indus
try. Less than 1 per cent of the
coastline has been preserved for
public ownership. «
Cape Hatteras is still an un
spoiled island. Its beaches are
spectacular but not very safe for
swimming. It is a bird sanctuary.
At this time of year you can see
gray Canadian geese, black ducks,
and white swans and herons feed
ing in the marshes. It has a fas
cinating combination of fauna
trees from the North such as
scrub pine, live oak, holly, and
cedar; and trees and plants from
the South, such as orange and
grapefruit, yucca, palmettos, and
Spanish moss. Anc the sea, where
porpoise swim in inlets between
the islands, yields marlin, sail
fish, bluefish, rock fish, and chan
nel bass.
The work of preserving this
island sanctuary has begun. It
will take the National Park Ser
vice several years to organize this
remote, unknown, and beautiful
section of the United States, this
country that has only one dimen
sion, the horizontal strips of flat
land, ocean vastness, and an im
mense and inspiring sky.
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“RIGHT OF WAY” LOOKS DIFFERENT
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“Go ahead, you’ve got the right
of way!”
Whispered in your ear by the
accident gremlin, these are the
most famous, last words of all.
They generally precede many—
too many—of all serious traffic
accildents. And nearly 25% of all
accidents, say insurance people,
are caused by drivers who think
they have the right of way—but
don’t.
Usually, the man who assumes
he has the right of way is in a
l hurry—full of that impatience
that makes us bull our way
through to save a few seconds.
Or to think we save a few
seconds. Actually, “haste makes
waste” is a proverb doubly ap
plicable to driving—it wastes
both lives and time.
It’s been proved, too. A famous
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Prison Band As Novelty Show
Proves Successful At
traction
The Central Prison Variety
Show played to an appreciative
audience on the John A. Wilkin
son High School auditorium on
Saturday night, January 9th.
Sponsored by the Activity Bus
Committee of the P.T.A., the
show added $l5O to the Activity
Bus Fund.
Warden K. P. Bailey of Central
Prison was introduced by Albert
Gaylord. Acting as master of
ceremonies, the warden pointed
out that the production, which
has appeared in many North
Carolina towns, is a part of the
rehabilitation program of the
prison, designed to make useful
citizens of the prisoners upon
their release.
The show offered an amazing
variety of talent, ranging from
a hillbilly band to a fire dance,
and the professional quality of
the numbers surprised the au
dience. Only two of the musicians
were professionals, said Warden
Bailey in an interview after the
show. The Negro dancer who
performed the fire dance is also
an ex-professional. Raymond
Hair, whose case is receiving
fresh publicity because his name
is now before the parole board,
was a member of the swing band.
The trumpeter who led the swing
band has learned the instrument
since entering prison, and his
proficiency was demonstrated by
his solo performance of Clyde
McCoy’s “Sugar Blues”.
An outstanding performer with
the hillbilly band was Mike
Kazak, whose rendition of “Chea
tin Heart” brought down the
house.
Another outstanding performer
was the nimble-fingered young
pianist, who was obviously highly
nervous and never faced the au
dience.
A group of Negro minstrel per
formers put on several skits, sang
spirituals in beautiful harmony,
and gave a jitterbug exhibition.
Their obvious enjoyment of their
own roles added to the pleasure
of the audiience.
There were no armed guards
in sight, and it was hard to be
lieve that the show was being put
on by men who are paying with
their freedom for crimes com
mitted against society. Many of
the audience expressed shock at
the youth of the mojority of the
performers. These men are all
honor grade prisoners, said War
den Bailey. They work in various
capacities about the prison and
many are learning new trades.
Two of them are linotype opera
tors; others work in the library,
she hospital, and in other jobs
calling for skilled training.
They were transported to Bel
haven by bus and station wagon,
and began the return trip to Ra
leigh immediately after the show.
The warden said that they would
stop for a sandwich on the way
home.
\ Despite droughts and high
winds United States farmers pro
duced the country s fV ' : rd highest
crop yields during 1953.
racing driver tried it not long ago. ;
He made two 10-mile drives I
through city traffic—the first at |
the greatest possible speed, push- i
ing lights, bending and breaking
most traffic laws—the second I
over the same route, but driving
carefully and observing all laws
and the rules of courtesy.
Yet his “fast” trip saved less
than 30 seconds over the one in
which he observed all the laws!
Even if you saved ten times
that by taking chances in bulling
through against both law and
courtesy—it just wouldn’t be
worth it. You’d be risking life and
limb—yours and those of others
—for next to nothing.
The right of way does you no
good—if the other driver doesn’t
know you have it!
WADES POINT NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bass of
Nashville were visitors of Mrs.
Vann Gregory and Mrs. Hubert
Wilkins here Sunday.
Mrs. Joe B. Voliva and father,
George Foreman, and Marie
Foreman were visitors in Bel
haven Tuesday of last week.
Reden Davenport of Belhaven
visited Pamlico Beach Tuesday of
last week.
Charles Gregory and mother,
Mrs. Vann Gregory, and Mrs.
Bunco Mercer were shoppers in
Belhaven Thursday.
Henry Rose of Pantego visited
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I Curtis Sawyer of the U. S. Air
Force in Norfolk spent the
I Christmas holidays here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Saw
yer.
Cpl. William Daniels, Jr., of
Fort Devers, Mass, spent the
Christmas holidays here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Dan
iels.
Miss Elizabeth Sawyer, who is
in nurses training in Richmond
spent the Christmas holidays
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Sawyer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Squires and
family of Elizabeth City visited
Mrs. Squires’ parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Wilkins of Wrights
Creek, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Weston and
son, Al, of Washington visited
Mrs. Weston’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. P. Quidley, Sunday. Mr.
Weston returned home while
Mrs. Weston and son are spend
ing a few days with her parents
of Wrights Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Potter and
family of Elizabeth City visited
Mrs. Potter’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Mike Sawyer, Sunday.
Charles Gregory was a visitor
in Belhaven Saturday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Voliva
of Washington visited Mr. and
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Rev. R. V. Thomas of Rocky
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