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UME XIX NO. 32 STRATTON GETS TRANSFER FROM SEASHORE PARK Charles Marshall To Take Over Management of Land Acquisition Office A. Clark Stratton, lahd acquisi tion officer for the National Park Service who has been in charge of Cape Hatteras National Sea shore Recreational Area work here for the past two years, will return to the regional office in Richmond on March 1. Taking over the land acquisi tiin duties here will be Charles Marshall who has been Stratton’s assistant during the period that lands have been acquired for America’s first oceanside national park. Stratton was no stranger on the Dare coast when he came here to supervise the purchase of lands between Nags Head and Ocracoke Inlet for inclusion in the National Seashore. During the 1930’s he nad been in charge of National Park Service beach ero sion work along the Outer Banks, was formerly connected with the His successor, Mr. Marshall, National Park Service in York town, Va. The General Superintendent of the area is Allyn F. Hanks who will take over March 1, and main tain an office at Fort Raleigh. NATIONAL SEASHORE MUSEUM IS PLANNED FOR CAPE HATTERAS A building originally built to house the keepers of America’s tallest lighthouse at Cape Hat teras is scheduled to become a maritime museum of the Nation al Seashore Recreation Area which is now being created be tween Nags Head and Ocracoke Inlet. Clark Stratton, land acquisi tion officer of the National Park Service has indicated that the museum would be ready for . by early summer of Located near the base of fa mous Cape Hatteras Lighthouse the museum will be within sight of Diamond Shoals, one of the most dreaded bodies of water, by masters of sailing vessels. Dia mond Shoals was long known as the “graveyard of the Atlantic,” because so many ships were lost in the area. A more modern name to the general area off Diamond Shoals during World War II was “Torpedo Junction,” because so many merchant and war craft were attacked and sunk there by enemy submarines. The term “torpedo junction” was first coined by the skippers of Coast Guard Patrol craft operating from Ocracoke and Morehead City Section Bases in the sub marine-infested waters off Cape Hatteras. In addition to the museum which will contain many mari time objects and relics Cape Hat teras Lighthouse will be open to the public for supervised tours under the supervision of the Na tional Park Service. The museum site is adjacent to the new all-paved highway which branches from the Nags Head-Hatteras highway as it ap proaches Buxton village. The museum area has long been noted for its maritime history and also for its excellent surf fishing. DARE CO. BOYS BADLY HURT IN CAR MISHAP Serious injuries were received Friday night by two young men, well known in Hatteras, when a 1953 Plymouth driven by Ivy Peele, 20, of Hatteras ran off the road on U.S. 158 near Elizabeth City, and after traveling some 600 feet and turning over for another 100 feet was a total wreck. The driver’s companion, Don L. Austin, 21, of Elizabeth City was critically injured. Both young men were thrown from the car, which while out of control, knocked down two sighs, a telegraph pole part of a fence. T Austin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Austin, formerly of Hat teras, and Peele, his cousin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. U. Peele, of Hatteras. Austin is in Albemarle Hospital. An investigation was made by Patrolman Hawkins. 11* RED CROSS TO MEET Miss Jewel Graves, head of the Red Cross for the Ist Dist. is to be the speaker at a meeting in the Community Building in Manteo, on Feb. 11, at 8 p.m. All those who are interested are asked to attend. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA OLDEST BUSINESS MAN HAS A HEART ATTACK -a ■SIWMMIIIIfefe'yS >* :< <<ss>: (' aS THEO. S. MEEKINS, former Re presentative-and Manteo’s oldest business man is seriously ill in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City following a heart attack sus tained last week.'He is 84 years old, and had worked steadily up to the time of his illness. He is widely known for his real estate interests. He was reported on the critical list Thursday. * GROSS “MISCARRIAGE” OF JUSTICE, SAYS THIS DEFENDANT A rank miscarriage of justice prevailed in trial of several men in Manteo charged with violation of the game laws, according to Z. F. Wilson of Kitty Hawk. This trial was reported in our paper last week ,and Mr. Wilson has written a letter stating his posi tion in the case. It was not stated in the paper that Mr. Wilson had any part in assaulting any game protecter, as he seems to infer. We are glad to print Mr. Wilson’s statement for general informa tion, and which is as follows: Editor The Coastland Times: In regards to the Coastland Times of January 29, 1954, Page one, Column 7, pertaining to game law violation, I would like to state here and now that I happened to be one man that was sober in this party and that I had no part of assaulting any game protector. In your column it stated that Justice Balance tried nine cases. Justice Balance only heard evidence in one case; that was a man from Winston-Salem, N. C. All the other cases was given the same preference as I had; submit to the charge and pay a fine and cost or go to fed eral Court. Also to the game law violation according to a statement of game protector, Jack Balance, prior to January 9, that it was lawful to shoot Blue Peter ducks from a boat without a motor. I was not violating any game law; how ever, I paid the fine and cost I would like to outline briefly just what happened to me and my friend, William Twiford, on January 9, 1954. We were hunt ing in Kitty Hawk Bay from a small boat (without a motor), when game protector Thomas and Sommerell came to our boat and asked to see our hunting li cense which we showed him im mediately. From these license he wrote our name down in a little book. A short time later Jack Balance’ game protector, appear ed on the scene and told the group of men that if we wanted to be tried in State Court meet him at his house at 6:00 pm. We all went to Jack Balances’ house and waited for him until about 6:30. Then he came. He said for everyone to get into their cars that we were going to Manteo to a Justice of the Peace office. He was asked which one; he said he didn’t know. I asked him to take the case to Justice of the Peace Bill Anderson at Kitty Hawk, N. C. of which he refused. He said we will go to Manteo. We wfent to Manteo to the home of Robert Balance, Justice of the Peace. After Justice Bal ance, game protector, Thomas, Balance, White and Sommerell went outside of the room and got their heads together, they came back inside. Justice Balance said he did not have proper authority to try these cases. After talking for some time, I finally asked him to try me to prove my inno cense or guilt of which he re fused to do. He said if I would submit to the charge the fine and cost would be $17.00. He gave me a preference to submit to the charge or go to Elizabeth City to Federal Court. I told him in that case I would rather pay the $17.00, but I was not guilty. I think this is the largest wholesale miscarage of Justice I have ever seen, and I think the proper authorities should in- See DEFENDENT, Page Eight LAWSUIT WAGES OVER 5J INCHES OF OCEAN FRONT Three Cases Settled This Week In Dare County Court One of the big lawsuits for which a special term of court was called this week in Dare County is a dispixe over 5*6 inches of land, near Kitty Hawk old Coast Guard sration. Along with 15 other cases of the 19 for which this term was called, the case was continued this week. R. S. Carr of Edenton some years ago brought suit against L. N. Hollowell of Hertford, because Mr. Hollowell had got across the line and built a house which occupied 5*6 inches of the Carr land. The Hollowell property has later been sold, but the suit stays on the books. The principal case actually heard, was a dispute between M. L. Burrus and Frazier Peele of Hatteras involving a boundary line, but this case was finally settled out of court and a con sent judgement signed. Another case was settled by consent judgement, wherein E. P. Brinkley was awarded S2OO for work done on property of and for L. G. Hemley of Nags Head. Cora Mae Basnight was award ed a divorce from St. Clair Bas night. Save for this case, no jury was needed, and 16 of the 19 cases were continued until next term of court. MALACHI’S CHAPEL FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH IN TYRRELL DATES BACK OVER 100 YEARS > Art Interesting Account Os A Landmark Which This ,Week Entertained Many Churches IN Union Meeting. By J. C. MEEKINS Prior to the War between the States the “Old Sharon Meeting House” in Tyrrell County was the seat of practically all relig ious activities in the county with in a radius of eight or ten miles of the Town of Columbis. It was built as a “Free Church” and was used by all denominations that chose to worship there. Several outstanding churches of the county today had their origin at the Sharbn Meeting House. Among the most outstanding were the Columbia Missionary Baptist Church of Columbia, and the subject of these comments. Malachi Chapel. Under the leadership of Elder Malachi Linton, for whom the church is most appropriately named, the Free Will Baptist of Sharon was duly organized on February 23rd, 1874, and, at this organization meeting the follow ing men, all prominent and out standing in the religious and social life of what was then, and is still known as “Rider’s Creek Neighborhood” of Tyrrell County, were elected the first officers of the new church as Sharon: Abram Swain, deacon; William W. Dillin and James Litchfield, ruling Elders; Charles Brick house, Clerk, and David Cooper, Treasurer. “Our church then being or ganized according to the rules of the Free Will Baptists, we then chose Elder Linton to be our pastor for twelve months”. Thus eighty-seven years ago was be gun what was destined to devel op into one of the most outstand ing and most influential religious organizations in the entire coun ty.. Regular services were con tinued at the Sharon Meeting House for a period of some fifteen or sixteen years, and the pro gress of the church was rapid. Its membership steadily increas ed and its influence was felt throughout the entire community and the records disclose that on September 29th, 1890, John W. Hopkins and wife Mary Hopkins, executed a deed of conveyance to J. Warren Swain, G. W. Litch field and J. T. Alexander, trust ees of Free Will Baptist Church conveying to them as such trust ees “One acre of land” at what was known as “Cooper’s Fork”, and the present location of the church. This deed appears of re cord in the Public Registry for Tyrrell County, North Carolina, in book 38, at pages 314 etc. Having purchased a building site in a location much more centrally located in the com munity served by the church, the church fathers obtained permis sion from the proper authorities to use the school building which was located on the land immed iately adjoining the church prop erty, and, in October, of 1890 the church was moved to its present location and the name changed MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1954 MANTEO GIRL TAKES OHIO UNIVERSITY JOB -Hr" JBibj MISS NATALIE GOULD, who for several years has been in a highly responsible position with the National headquarters of the National Educational Associa tion, this week went to the job of Secretary to the President of Bowling Green State University at Bowling Green, Ky, a city of 12,000 22 miles west of Toledo. Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, is pres ident of the University, and Miss Gould was his secretary for many years. During World War II Miss Gould served overseas in Europe and North Africa with the American Red Cross. She is the daughter of Mrs. Eliza Gould of Nags Head. to Malachi’s Chapel for its first pastor, Malachi Linton. Work was immediately started on the erection of a house of worhsip, and due to the vim and determination characteristic of its founders, the building was com pleted and paid for in the early part of 1892, and in the summer of that year it was regularly de dicated under the name of Mal achi’s Chapel. Interest in the church did not relax with the completion of the building, and in 1914 an additional half acre of land was purchased by the church for a cemetery. This land was acquired by deed from G. W. Barnes and wife to W. E. Spen cer, J. T. Alexander and W. H. Hopkons, trustees for Malachi’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church, dated March 11, 1914, and re corded in the Public Registry for Tyrrell County, North Carolina, in Book 65, at pages 499, etc., and in that same year—l9l4—the membership of the church and church attandance having out grown the building, fourteen feet were added to the length and eight years later, an annex was built across the rear of the build ing providing nine large, well equipped Sunday School rooms, and again in 1939 the front of the church was remodled and a steeple erected, and all of the major improvements were paid for as made. This record of con tinuous improvement and ad vancement is indicative of the deep interest that has been mani fested in the church and its work by both men and women of the community from its very begin ning to the present time. The people of Rider’s Creek are justly proud of their church, and its welfare and advancement is al ways their first consideration. The old members, apparently sowed the proper seed, and, as they pass on, the following gener ations have taken over and car ried on in a most credible man ner. From the very beginning the founders of what is now Mal achi’s Chapel assumed full res ponsibility of building up and maintaining a moral and religious standard among their people second to none in the entire county. How well they performed their self-imposed duties is re flected in the present church or ganization and in the high type of citizenship of the residents of Rider’s Creek Community, and in the present activities of Mal achi’s Chapel. The Church is lo cated in one of the most thickly populated sections of Tyrrell County, and the men and women living within the scope of the Church’s influence are, unques tionably, the most progressive, independant and God-Fearing citizens in the entire county, as a whole. Always manifesting a keen interest in, and a sincere devotion for one another and S-'e CHURCH, Page Eight DARE BEACH RESIDENTS HAVE FLYING TROUBLES > Two Close Friends, Usually To gether Have Engine Trouble in Separate Planes, in N. C. A news item of unusual in terest to people of the Dare Beaches, who know the parties, concerns Luther Gurkin of Ply- Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morton of New York City and Syd Trott of Staunton, Virginia: On Monday, January 18th, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Morton, of New York City, who have a cottage on Oregon Inlet Road, were flying to the Florida Keys on a fishing trip with Luther Warren Gurkin, Jr., of Ply mouth, North Carolina, also owner of a cottage on Bodie Is land. Morton, a New York news paperman, was piloting the air plane, a Bellanca Cruisair. At 2,000 feet over the little town of Chinquapin, North Carolina, in the Swampland west of Wilming ton, the engine failed, requiring a hazardous forced landing into a muddy ploughed field. No one was injured and the airplane was undamaged, and now is at Man teo Airport for minor engine re pairs. The three Nags Head sum mer residents were fortunate to escape injury, having landed in one of the few, if not the only dry field in Duplin county. On Wednesday, just two days later, Syd Trott, of Staunton, Virginia, owner of Trott’s Sports wear on the Nags Head beach, was injured in the crash of a twin Beech airplane at Charlotte, sustaining two fractured verte brae. Mr. Trott was a passenger in the twin-engined executive aircraft, having elected to leave his own single-engined Navion in Charlotte due to instrument weather bonditions. It was the second air crash he has survived in two years. Oddly enough, Trott and Mor ton, close personal friends, usual ly fly together. Despite being in different aiirplanes in different parts of the state they went down >_in similar crashes. The cause in both' cases' tvas engine failure. MRS. MINNIE JENNETTE 71, DIES AT BUXTON THURSDAY Mrs. Minnie Scarborough Jen nette, 71, member of a prom inent family of Hatteras Island, died at her home Thursday, Jan. 28, and was interred Saturday in the Quidley cemetery at Cape Hatteras. The funeral was con ducted at 2 p.m. Saturday after noon by Rev. Dan Meadows of the Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. Robert Rayle, Holiness pastor. She was the daughter of the late Richard and Rebekah Scar borough of Avon. She was the widow of the late Alaska D. Jennette. She was a member of the Methodist Church. For several years she had oper ated the Pine Grove Tourist home at Buxton. One sister survives her: Mrs. U. B. Jennette of Buxton. BOYETTE ANNOUNCES FOR HYDE REP’SEN’TIVE Ocracoke, Feb. I. C. F. Boy ette, long-time resident of Ocra coke, has announced his candid acy for the Hyde County seat in the House of Representatives. This announcement pleases his many friends here at Ocracoke and has brought forth favorable comments from many of Hyde County’s mainland citizens. Mr. Boyette is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Class of 1918; a native of Wilson County, but spent most of his life in Johntson County. He taught in the North Carolina Schools for seventeen years, and it was in the capacity of teacher and principal that he came to Ocracoke in 1941. For the past ten years or so, he has been manager of the Wahab Village Hotel, here at Ocracoke. RODANTHE BOY COMPLETES COURSE IN COAST GUARD CAPE MAY, N. J.—William D. Midgett, 18, seaman recruit, USCG, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jethro Midgett, of Rodanthe, is scheduled to complete the 12-week course of recruit training at the U. S. Coast Guard Receiving Center in Cape May, N. J., early next week. The course schedules the basic duties encountered as a member of the nation’s oldest seagoing force. Midgett was graduated with the class of 1953 from Ocracoke High School. He was sworn in as a re cruit in the U. S. Coast Guard on I September 28, 1953. He is the hus band of the former Lou Elie Spen cer of Ocracoke. BOBBY OWENS WITH CG IN BALTIMORE '■Mil jSt ' * a B ROBERT V. OWENS, JR., if he keeps up the energy and love of work for which his father and mother were noted ought to go a long way in life. He is now sta tioned on the Coast Guard ship Apalachee in Baltimore, having finished his Coast Guard training in Cape May, N. J. during the holi days .after which he visited his ' mother, in Manteo. He is the son 1 of Mrs. Clara Owens, and the late J R. V. Owens, and he will be missed ‘ this year around the Owens Tour- ' ist Court where he was his J mother’s mainstay. Bobby is 21, ! and he finished Manteo High J School in 1951, after which he attended school at State College ' and ECC Greenville, until Sept- j ember 1953 when he enlisted. < ZONING COMMISSION , FOR DARE BEACH AREA , i County Board Adjusts Tax Mat- t ters; Additional Welfare t Office Provided t I The Dare County Commissioners t named four new members to the 1 Zoning Board for the Dare Beach < area Tuesday. Leo Midgett was a i member of the Board and the 1 folowing were added: W. H. Me- j Cown and W. A. Williams of Nags Head; T. J. Harris, and W. H. Smith, rJ., of Kitty Hawk. j The Board ordered that the , space in the community building ] recently vacated by the Health De- | partment be turned over to the Welfare Office. ] It was voted that $96 be contri- ; buted toward the rent of the N.C. « Revenue Collector in Elizabeth ] City. The Board voted to ask the Na- < tional Park Service through Con- 1 gressman Bonner's office for year- < round lighting of the Wright ] Brothers Memorial. ( TURKEY DINNER TO AID 1 MARCH OF DIMES FRIDAY , A turkey dinner at $1 will be ' served in the Manteo Methodist . Church annex (This) Friday even- , ing from 5:30 to 8 o’clock, the pro ceeds to go to the March of Dimes. ■ Mrs. Raymond Wescott is chair man of this drive in Manteo. Mrs. Wescott says that workers for this cause will make a house to house canvass Sunday February 7 be- ' tween the hours of 1 and 2 p.m. to solicit further contributions. MRS. LAURA ROGERS BAUM BURIED AT KITTY HAWK Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon in Elizabeth City for Mrs. Laura Rogers Baum, 69, a native of Kitty Hawk, who died Saturday as the result of burns sustained Tuesday of last week when her clothes caught fire from a cookstove. Burial was in the Austin Cemetery at Kitty Hawk. She was the wife of A. C. Baum, and is survived by two daughters: Mrs. Mary Pritchard and Mrs. Clyde Liverman of Elizabeth City; I four sons, Tommy Baum of Nor i folk, A. D. Baum, Oscar and Earl Baum of Elizabeth City. Three sisters, Mrs. A. C. Harris of Kitty Hawk; Mrs. T. W. Perry of Ocean View, and Mrs. J. H. Fulcher of Currituck. A brother, Will Rogers of Kitty Hawk. KITTY HAWK PLANS A MARCH OF DIMES DANCE The Kitty Hawk Home Demon stration Club is sponsoring a square dance Saturday, February 6. The proceeds from this dance will be turned over to the March of Dimes. There will be a door prize, a cake walk, a cake raffle, and home made cup cakes and fudge will be for sale. Mr. Bob Smith, county agent, will be on hand to call figures for the dance. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance for this worthy cause. The committee for the Kitty Hawk March *of Dimes are Mrs. Jesse Baum, chairman: Rev. Greg ory, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitfield and Mrs. Linda Walker. Single Copy 70 SEASHORE PARK MANAGER NAMED; BEGINS MARCH 1 Allyn F. Hanks Will B& Ad ministrative Official Os Banks Area and Fort Raleigh Allyn F. Hanks has been named Superintendent of the Cape Hatteras Natioal Seashore, and will have charge of the proj ect which plans the expenditure of something like a quarter of a million dollars next ye-r i; the development of the park. This office is separate from the land acquisition office operated from Manteo, and which is under the direction of Charles Marshall. Mr. Hanks, whose family claimed kinship with Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln, since January 16, 1953, had been assistant superintend ent of Everglades National Park in Florida. He will assume his new duties with temporary headquarters in the John White Cottage at Fort Raleigh on March 1, until new headquarter facilities are com pleted this spring at Bodie Island near the north boundaries of the National Seashore at Nags Head ad Oregon Inlet. In the begin ning he will have, in addition to secretarial personnel already em ployed, three rangers working with him. They are Gus Hult man, chief ranger, and Charles Lamb on Hatteras Island and Balfour Baum of Manteo north of Oregon Inlet. Shortly after taking over his new duties, Hanks will begin ex pending monies on new develop ments within the park area. A total of $270,000 has been allotted this development beginning with the new fiscal year. In the mean by the National Park Service for time, such projects as converting the old Bodie Island Coast Guard Station into a park service build ing to serve as headquarters un til a new administration building is constructed, and finishing touches to a marine museum building, will continue. The Uia rine museum will be locatecr in one of the former light house keepers’ quarters at Cape Hat teras Lighthouse. For his initial training with the Park Service which began in 1928 Mr. Hanks attended forestry schools in Montana and Colorado. He served as a park ranger in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton in Wyoming. He was a chief boatswain in the Coast Guard during World War II and later was superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Monument Park before his trans fer to Everglades last year. Mr. Hanks is married and they have one child. The family will move to the Dare Coast when he takes over his duties as superin tendent of America’s first ocean side national park. TO HEAD DARE COUNTY YOUNG REPUBLICANS Philip Hale Quidley is President of the Young Republicans of Dare County and will be presented the Dare County charter of the Young Republican Club of Dare County, he will also participate in the con test that will be held in the con vention, the subject of this de clamation the “Republican party for the future.” according to an nouncement by County Chairman, V. G. Williams. Quidley is a Bap tist Minister, now living at Nags Head, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hale Quidley of “Baum town.” There was a meeting of the Dare County Republican Execu tive Committee on Saturday even ing at 8 o’clock, the following of ficers were elected V. G. Williams Chairman, L. V. Gaskill Commit teeman, Blucher Scarborough Com mitteeman, the purpose of the meeting was to nominate a com mittee to attend the State con vention which will be held in Char lotte, N. C., on Feb. 20, 1954, the following delegates will attend, L. V. Gaskill, V. G. Williams, Ray Jones, and Philip Hale Quidley. MRS MARY G. WILLIAMS 86 AGED AVON RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Mary G. Williams, 86, an aged lifelong resident of Avon died in Manteo at 12:20 a.m. Wednes day, where she had been a patient for some time. She was twice mar ried, her last husband, the late Irving Williams having been dead for many years. She was a mem ber of the Methodist Church. She is survived by a son of her first marriage, Baxter Gray, of Elizabeth City, and by four grand children and four great-great grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday from St. John's Methodist Church at Avon, by the pastor, P. M. Porter.
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