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VOLUME XIX NO. 38 PARTIAL SLATE PICKED IN DARE BY REPUBLICANS County Chairman Says Com plete Ticket Will Be Of fered This Fall A partial slate for county of fices was picked Tuesday night by Dare County Republicans in Manteo, according to County Chairman, V. G. Williams, Mr. Williams says they didn’t get a full ticket, but they have until March 25th to fill it out, after which the candidates will file and enter the primary May 29th. Walter C. Gaskill, who is well known in Dare County, will be candidate for the nomination for Sheriff. No candidates were sel ected for Register of Deeds or Clerk of the court, for Repre sentative or Recorder, although L. V. Gaskill of Wanchese is ex pected to run for the latter of fice. The following have been en dorsed for Commissioner: Leo Midgett from Nags Head Town ship; Lundy Twiford from the Mainland District; E. B. Scar borough from Kennekeet; Isaac Jennett from Hatteras, and W. R. Toler from Atlantic Township. Sumner Scarborough of Avon, and Preston Basnett from Frisco for Board of Education. COCONUT PALMS MAY BE ADDED ON CAPE HATTERAS By Aycock Brown Buxton. Through the co operation of the sub-tropical re sort town of . Naples in Florida, : Cape Hatteras, the nearest main- 1 land point to the warm Gulf Stream north of southern Flor- : ida, may soon add coconut palms to the tropic foliage and plants already thriving here. As a result , of this, the largest seeds ever planted in North Carolina were this week placed in the soil at ~” xton and nearby Frisco. , e coconut palm seeds were lly un-husked coconuts, so ' i that they were sent here ' ..xdividually mailed from the Ad ’ Miller Associates of Naples, each seed bearing shipping labels and stamps on the gray-green cover- ' ing of the juice-laden seeds. Experimenting with the plant- ' ing of the seeds at Buxton is Mrs. Maude White, postmaster, owner of grapefruit and orange trees in her yard and Mrs. John Hooper, who has had excellent luck growing tangerine trees and several varieties of non-native cacti. At Frisco, H. L. Tandy, ; operator of a tackle shop and re creation center planted one of the | Naples palm seeds. Tandy, one time operator of his own nursery and green houses in Ashville, has lived on Hatteras Island for the . past 20 years and believes the . coconut palms can be developed ’ here with proper care. ( In addition to grapefruit, , oranges, tangerines and com quats, growing and producing fruit successfully in the Cape . Hatteras area, other sub-tropic ; plants which have grown wild along this section of the Outer Banks which enjoys a year , around Gulf Stream climate, in cludes fan palmetto, yucca or “Spanish bayonet”, and bear grass. Several varieties of wild cacti also thrives in the area which is now being developed as America’s first oceanside recre ation area, known as the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. SEASHORE MUSEUM FOR CAPE HATTERAS A maritime museum near the base of Cape Hatteras lighthouse will soon be one of the attrac tions of the Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore recreational area. J. Paul Hudson, National Park Service museum authority was here this week to arrange for temporary exhibits, with a per manent display of maritime ob jects planned before the year has passed. The museum building will be n-ound floor of the former jK ice of assistant keepers of vW Hatteras Lighthouse. It is jf two buildings in the im mediate area, the other being the present residence of Chief Ranger Gus Hultman of the Na tional Seashore. Hudson visited the site here with Clark Stratton, chief of op erations of the southeastern di vision of the National Park Ser vice and Allen Hanks, superin tendent of the National Seashore who arrived to assume his cur rent duties on March 1 from Everglades National Park in Florida where he had been serv ing as assistant to the superin tendent. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA DR. BARACH SUCCUMBS TO BRIEF ILLNESS Well-Known Summertime Resident Was Early Leader in Dia betics Research ■f JU DR. JOSEPH BARACH, 70, med ical director of Falk Clinic and world-famous authority on dia betes, died March 7 in Womans Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., after a brief illness. Dr. Barach is well known on Roanoke Island, where he has been a summertime resi dent for the past eight years at his "Mountain Hill Ranch” on the east side of the island. His home was at 6230 Fifth Ave., Pitts burgh, Pa. Dr. Barach was born in Cal vary, Poland-Russia, in 1883, the son of Zorach and Deborah Op penheim Barach. They came to the U. S. in 1888, and his citizen ship was derived from his fath er. A leader in medical research for more than a half-century, Dr. Barach participated importantly in high Government councils ov er the expenditure of public funds for research. Helped Found Clinic He had been medical director of the Falk Clinic since its be ginning some 20 years ago. He also was director of the Univer sity Clinics for the University of Pittsburgh. As an early leader in the fight on diabetes, he was one of seven American doctors chosen to ad minister insulin after its discov ery 30 years ago. He was president of the Amer ican Diabetes Assn., 1944-46, and a member of its Council from 1941 until his death. Worked on Arthritis With the United States Public Health Service, he was chairman from 1946 until 1951 of the Meta bolic and Endocrinology Section which steered the spending of research grants. As an outstanding expert in the field of public health, he was appointed in 1952 as a member of the national advisor council on arthritis and metabolism with the Public Health Service. Dr. Barach was associate pro fessor of medicine at the Univer sity of Pittsburgh’s Medical and Dental Schools. Authored Books He was the author of 150 con tributions to contemporary med ical journals and several books including: “Self Help for Diabetics,” “Di abetes and Its Treatment,” and “Food and Facts for the Diabet ic.” Following his graduation from Pitt’s School of Medicine in 1903 and internship at West Penn Hospital, he served as patholo gist for South Side and Eye & Ear Hospital, and was on the staffs of Presbyterian and Medi cal Center Hospitals. He was a captain in the Medi cal Corps in World War I, and was director of the Selective Service system in Pittsburgh during the second World War. Banting Medal Winner For his work in the field of diabetes, he was awarded the Frederick G. Banting Medal. His name was inscribed on the Wall of Fame at the World’s Fair of 1940 for notable contribution to “our living, ever-growing democ racy devoted to peace and free dom.” Surviving are his widow, Edna L. Barach; two sons, Joseph L., Montclair, N. J., and Richard L. New Haven, Conn.; one sister, Mrs. Leona Kirsch, New York, and one brother, Louis, of Pitts burgh. Family members asked that flowers be omitted, and said that contributions instead could be made to the Pittsburgh Camp for Diabetic Children. Checks may be made payable to L. L. Pen , nock, treasurer, 540 Medical Arts Bldg., Pittsburgh 13. REPRESENTATIVE FROM C&D DEPARTMENT TO HOLD MANTEO MEETING E. E. Huffman of the State Dept, of Conservation and De velopment, announces that a meeting will be held in Manteo Tuesday, March 23, 8:30 p.m. at the community building for discussion of the industrial pos sibilities for this area. This meeting is one of many being held throughout the state for the purpose of discovering new industrial potentials and the interesting of outside industry. County officials, officials of in corporated communities, Cham ber of Commerce representa tives, civic club presidents and other interested persons are in vited to attend. GOOSEVILLE GUN CLUB PROPERTY ADDED TO PARK Area To Be Designated As ‘Lyons-Stelwagon Area'; Purchased For $47,000 Secretary of the Interior Doug las McKay announced today that 735 acres had been acquired for addition to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area in North Carolina. The acreage is considered one of the choicest stretches of surf fishing frontage on the Atlantic Ocean. Purchase of the area is another important step in Secretary Mc- Kay’s program to expand the Hatteras project to attain the ultimate goal of 28,500 acres for this unique recreational area. It follows closely Secretary McKay's action of last week, ad justing the boundaries of Ever glades National Park, Florida to include 271,000 new acres, bring ing the park to 1,500,000 acres. The new Hatteras area, pur chased from Lyon and Wilson, Inc., of Detroit, Mich., for $47,- 000, extends from near the west ern boundary of the town of Hat teras to Hatteras Inlet and around to the north in an ex tensive “fishhook.” It includes beaches, dunes, and marsh. It is a favorite haunt of migratory waterfowl and a nesting area for gulls and other native birds. The property is known as the Gooseville Gun Club property. Previous owners stipulated in the purchase contract and deed that the lands will remain closed to migratory waterfowl hunting, unless at some future date the Secretary of Interior deems it advisable to alter this condition. Such action will be taken on joint recommendation of the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Na tional Park Service, both of the Department of Interior and the Wildlife Resources Commission of North Carolina. Boundary barriers and “keep out” signs will be removed from the area on May 1. Another spe cial provision of the site, speci fies the area will be designated as the “Lyons-Stelwagon area” in recognition of the interest of G. Albert Lyon of Detroit and See PARK, JPage Ten I CHANNEL BASS SHOW UP IN COASTAL WATERS Fairly Large Numbers Caught In Nets By Hatteras Fishermen Hatteras. Channel bass, a favorite game fish of salt water anglers have appeared in sizable schools here, but so far the only catches reported came from com mercial fishermen operating oound nets in Pamlico Sound or haul nets along the surf of Hat teras Island. Perry and Lawrence Austin and Cephus Willis of Hat teras are renorted to have caught large channel bass Mon da”. First catches with rod and reel are usually made in the surf dur ing late March. Almost simultan eously, the rugged fighters begin taking artificial lures trolled in the wake of party boats operating at Oregon Inlet. Channel bass caught in nets here during the week, numbered some 75 fish, each from 30 to 40 pounds. One crew caught 30 one morning, the smallest weighing 35 nounds. While channel bass are con sidered strictly game fish by ang lers who frown when they are caught in nets,' the species is known as one of the best food fishes in our waters. All 30 fish taken by one boat this week, were sold shortly afterward at a local fish house. Channel bass locally bring about $1.50 each when sold to residents here. This compares to 50 cents which until recent years was con sidered the regular price for one of the 35 to 40 pound fish. MANTEO, N. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1954 DIES IN NORFOLK 7 -/'Ma ' * > EDWARD McMULLAN MANN, 44, a farmer resident of Manteo, died suddenly at 5 p.m. Satur day of last week at the residence in Norfolk—46o Suburban Park way. He had lived in Norfolk for the past 13 years, following his departure from Manteo. He was bem in Elizabeth City, but his parents were Manns Harbor peo ple, and his father, the late Dan E. Mann, lived their last years in Manteo. They were the late Mr. Mann and Mrs Elma Fulcher Mann. Beside his wife, Mrs. Eda Simpson Mann, he is survived by a son, Michael Mann of Norfolk; five sisters, Mrs. Allen Mann, Mrs. Charles Evans, Mrs. Herbert Bliven, Mrs. Sherman Twiford and Mrs. Eloise Cartwright, all of Manteo, and two brothers, Marvin Mann of Miami, Fla., and Clyde Mann of Camp Lejeune. He was a supervisor at the Norfolk Navy Yard, and was a member of the Chesterfield Heights Methodist Church and charter member of the Methodist Men. He was active in fraternal circles, being a member of Wan chese Lodge 521, A.F. and A.M.; John Walters Royal Arch Chap ter 68, Grice Commandery 16, Knights Templar, and Khedive Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. MANY PROTESTS MADETOBONNER CONCERNING TAX Tax on Structures In Naviga ble Waters Being Re- Scheduled More than a thousand commu nications have been received by the U. S. Corps of Engineers in connection with the proposed schedule of fees for fishing per mits in and adjacent to naviga ble waters, according to informa tion released this week by Con gressman Herbert C. Bonner. Mr. Bonner, Representative from the first congressional dis trict of North Carolina, says he has received many letters pro testing the proposed schedule, and that he is vigorously oppos ing the schedule to tax net fish ermen. Under Federal laws, prior per mission must be obtained from the Department of Engineers be fore performing any work in or over a navigable water of the United States. The purpose of these laws is to protect the wat erways from any unreasonable obstruction to navigation. The permission is granted in the form of a permit for which, up to now, there has been no charge. Brig. Gen. E. C. Itschner, Dep uty Assistant Chief of Engineers for Civil Works, provided Rep. Bonner with the following reply and information concerning the matter: “Title V of the Independent Offices Appropriations Act, 1952 (Public Law 137 —82nd Congress) provides that any authority, li cense, or permit, issued by any Federal agency shall be self-sus taining to the full extent possi ble. The head of the agency is authorized by regulation to pre scribe such fees as he shall de termine to be fair and equitable. Bureau of the Budget Circular No. A-25 dated 5 November 1953 to the Heads of Executive De partments and Establishments di rected that the schedule of fees be implemented at the earliest possible date. The proposed fees are intended to recover to ad ministrative costs of issuing per mits and have been based on re ported costs from our field of fices. When a permit is issued, a single fee, determined from the proposed table as it may finally be approved and issued, will be See BONNER, Page Ten Mrs. Lucetta Montague, 85 Years Old, Has Delivered 900 Roanoke Islanders Married at 13, and With A Family of Eight Children, Mrs. Montague Still Lively As Ever By Roger Meekins It was a cold, dreary day—the year was 1900. Snow covered the ground, and icicles hung from the trees and eves of the houses. Someone had gone for the doctor, but he had been gone all night and hadn’t returned. There was no doctor about. Four women gathered around and drew straws to see who was going to be “head doctor.” The lot fell to Mrs. Lucetta Montague, and she led the group in deliver ing Mrs. Debbie Daniels’ baby. Since that time Mrs. Monta gue has delivered somewhere around 800 or 900 babies. Her re cords were lost when her home burned in 1936, and at that time the count was 700. Mrs. Lucetta Montague, now at 85, was bom October 19, 1865, the daughter of Nancy Cudworth and George Charles Daniels of Wanchese, and she has lived at Wanchese all her life. She mar ried McAllister Montague when she was 13. Mrs. Montague delivered her last baby when she was 76, with Dr. W. W. Johnston of Manteo attending. She had delivered two in the same day, one of whom was her granddaughter, Judy Powers. Os all the babies she has helped all the babies she has helped bring into the world, every one of them has been on Roanoke Island. She has never delivered a baby off of the Island. Many times she has delivered children of the first babies she helped bring into the world. And out of the 800 or 900 babies she has as sisted with, only one has been lost. But she never lost a mother. When her sister, Mrs. Lettie Tillett, now 76, was about to have a baby in 1918, Mrs. Montague was called on to help. Mr. Tillett had to come dig her out of her house—the snow had piled up so deep that she couldn’t get out. Thee years ago Mrs. Moneague broke her ankle in a fall, and the bone specialists told her she would never walk again. But what liers they were, for today Mrs. Montague walks around all by herself, with the aid of a walker to support herself on. She was out in the garden grubbing ground at the time, and fell over a stump and broke her brittle bone. She was 82 years old then. Last summer she spent four weeks visiting in Clayton and Raleigh, and about four weeks in Elizabeth City. She doesn’t have to stop and think twice about taking off on a trip to the beach, or to Norfolk. She is heady to goi most any time. Mrs. Montague has broken UNLAWFUL TO CLEAN SEPTIC TANK WITHOUT HEALTH DEPT. PERMIT Dare County has an ordinance forbidding anyone to clean septic tanks unless a permit has been issued to him by the health of ficer or his authorized repre sentative, it was pointed out this j week by the Currituck-Dare dis- J trict health department officials. I “Unauthorized persons are visiting homes in this area and I offering to clean out septic tanks I at excessive rates,” the officials stated, “and your health depart ment requests your cooperation in curtailing this offense. If any one approaches you about clean ing your septic tank make him show you a permit from the health department.” This law was passed for public protection. If all the residents of the county will cooperate, the department pointed out, this type of unauthorized service can be stopped. HENRY J. HOLMES, NATIVE OF EAST LAKE DIES Elizabeth City. Funeral services for Henry Jordan Hol mes, who died March 11, were conducted March 12 at the Twi ford Funeral Home by the Rev. D. J. Reid, pastor of the City Road Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. L. Sigsbee Miller, pastor of the Pearl Street As sembly. Pallbearers were Burn ette Basnight, Foster Basnight, Buster Brickhouse, Elmer Hol mes, Thomas Holmes and Melvin Dixon. Burial was in New Holly wood Cemetery. Mr. Holmes was a native of East Lake, but had lived in Eliza beth City for 40 years. I * ■ about every bone in her body, ex cept the neck, at one time or another. Her right arm has been broken in three places; several ribs have been broken, both arms, collarbone, shoulder, and both wrists. The muscles in her hands, since she broke her wrists, don’t permit her to close her hand completely, but that doesn’t stop her from making aprons for every one of her daughters at Christmas time. Dell Saunders, 69, is the oldest of her eight children. Next comes Lance, 65; Gus, 62; Sally Daniels, 59; Ophelia Daniels, 55; Bright Evans, 53; Rae Davis, 50; Nancy Atkinson, 47. She has 27 grandchildren, 56 great-grand children, and 15 great-great grandchildren. Out of all the babies she has delivered, Mrs. Montague has helped with only three sets of twins. Her busiest time was once when she went three days and nights without sleep. “I had al ready been up for two days and nights, and just got home,” Mrs. Montague said, “when somebody came to get me to go to another one. I told him I couldn’t do it— that I was too tired. ‘Well we’ve tried to get somebody else,’ the man told me, ‘and now I just don’t know what to do.’ So I got out of bed and stayed up another day and night,” Mrs. Montague told. She got her start back in the days before there was any doctor or nurse on Roanoke Island. “I used to have a little horse that I would ride around to get to the places,” she said. The first doctor to help her was Dr. Fox. Mrs. Montague says that Dora Davis is about the last living as sociate that she had when she was just a girl growng up. Mrs. Davis still lives at Wanchese too. FERRY TRAFFIC IS INCREASING ON DARE COAST Traffic over the three state operated, toll-free ferry services serving the Dare coast showed an increase in February over the month of January, according to | figures furnished the Tourist Bureau in Manteo by District j Highway Commissioner Emmett j Winslow. The report shows out iof state automobiles using the I ferries during the past month : was more than the number in January. Os the total of 6,725 vehicles using the ferries in February, 1605 bore out of state licenses, with the total df North Carolina li cense plates counted being 5,120. While in January 5,112 North Carolina licensed vehicles and 1,441 non-residents used the fer ries. Croatan Sound ferry, the water-link of U. S. Highways 64 and 264 hauled 3,036 vehicles during February and Oregon In let ferry the water-link of the new all-paved highway between Nags Head and Hatteras was a close runnerup with 2,876 auto mobiles. More than 400 more non-resident vehicles used the Oregon Inlet ferry than the Croatan Sound run. Increase in number of foreign cars on the Oregon Inlet ferry is credited to Cape Hattdras Nation al Seashore Recreational area which attracts tourists the year around. With the beginning of Spring sportsfishing along the Outer Banks, the ferry traffic at Oregon Inlet during April should more than double the February figures. By early summer additional ser ies are planned to be in operation at Oregon Inlet to take care of See FERRY, Page Ten Single Copy 70 NUMBER OF FIRES ENDANGER HOMES ROANOKE ISLAND Marsh Fires Believed To Have Been Started Purposely On South End Almost the whole south end of Roanoke Island has been burned over within less than a week, as a result of what is thought to be the work of vagrants. Last Thursday night a fire was started in the marsh at Skyco which burned almost all the way to Wanchese on the west side of the highway, destroying also a good amount of young timber near the highway. A high north east wind fanned the flames and spread them rapidly. The fire eventually burned itself out. Monday morning another fire was started on the east side of the highway a few hundred yards south of where the first one began at Skyco, and the Man teo fire department was called to protect property at Wanchese. A strong northwest wind pushed the flames southward across the marsh and into some of the woods at the north end of the village of Wanchese, destroying a considerable number of trees and endangering property on the extreme east edge of the village. Esman Gallop started a back fire to keep the flames away from his home, and the truck was called to Stand by. Later, the flames worked their way south ward across the eastern edge of the village and all the homes on that side were in some danger, but no property was destroyed other than woodland. The domesticated wildfowl at Mill Landing were driven from their home on the east side of the creek, and were somewhat un happy about it. The fire burned all the way to the south end of the marsh. Wednesday afternoon another fire brought out the fire truck to Wanchese again. This time it was a fire of somewhat lesser magni tude near the highway just north of Luther Daniels’ home. No great damage was reported. The fires first started last week on Wednesday when a large num ber of acres of timber was burned on the north end of Roanoke Is land west of the Brown Eth eridge home and westward to the Airport boundary. Many homes of Negro citizens were in danger, but the fire department was on hand to trevent loss. Many people have expressed the belief that the fires have been started purposely in the marsh, not really intending to do any damage. But nevertheless the fires spread and endangered val uable property in other areas of the Island. ALPHEUS DRINKWATER HOME FROM HOSPITAL After a month in Albemarle Hos pital, where he underwent surgery, Alpheus Drinkwater has returned to his home and friends who have crowded in to visit him find him astonishingly improved in health and spirits. Following some weeks of in creasing discomfort Mr. Drink water’s condition becaue acute a month ago, his illness being diag nosed as euremic poisoning. It required a week’s treatment to get him in condition for surgery and he reacted with a surprising energy after the removal of en larged glands that were obstruc ting the discharge of his kidneys. His condition began to clear up immediately and he was further re assured by laboratory tests that made certain that nothing of a malignant nature was present. Mr. Drinkwater’s daughter. Dor othy, a veteran of the Army Uurse Corps who served through the North African and Italian cam paigns was constantly with her father. He is up and around part of each day, sleeps well and is rap idly regaining his strength. The illness, he and his family now be lieve, was a silver-lined cloud—it finally got the Western Union office out of the house. Mr. Drink water retired as operator last year but the company just ignored him and left the office where it was un til the family just moved off and left it for a month. MONUMENT WEARING; BIDS INVITED FOR REPAIR The Wright Monument at Kill Devil Hills is wearing and needs repair. It is in a mighty bleak spot and bids are being asked for the work, which calls for cutting out and repointing joints in stone and brickwork, caulking and other related work. Information may be obtained on ' application to Horace A. Dough, Supt.
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