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MRS. FANNIE NELSON 82
WAS HATTERAS NATIVE
Mrs. Fannie A. Nelson, 82, of
Beaufort, died suddenly Saturday
morning of a heart attack while
visiting Mrs. T. G. Willis of More
head City.
Funeral services were held at 3
oclock Sunday afternoon at the
T larshallberg Methodist Church
with the Rev. H. H. Cash and the
rev. J. D. Young officiating.
Mrs. Nelson, wife of the late
Leonard W. Nelson of Gloucester,
a as the eldest living member of
the Marshallberg Methodist
< hurch.
Surviving are her son, Edward,
v'ith whom she made her home,
two grandchildren, Daniel and
5 usan Nelson, and two nephews,
I hube Quidley of St. Petersburg,
Lla., and Norman Quidley of Hat
t ras.
A native of Hatteras, she was
a sister of the late Capt. Lev.
uidley of Hatteras, and her hus
band, the late Leonard Nelson
t as well-known to the fisher
i en. Like Capt. Quidley, he serv
e i for some years with the fisher
ies department of N. C.
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TRAVEL BUREAU
SPONSORS CLINIC
AT NAGS HEAD
By Aycock Brown
A tourist workshop clinic spon
sored by the State Travel Bureau
of the N. C. Department of Con
servation and Development will
be held at Nags Head on Wed
nesday, May 5, it was announced
today. The meeting will be held
at 2 o’clock in the new Cypress
Room of The Carolinian hotel.
The clinic is not local in scope
but embraces all of the north
eastern Carolina tourist land in
cluding the ocean resorts of the
Dare beaches, Elizabeth City,
Hertford and Edenton, Matta
muskeet Lake and Belhaven area
and the communities of Hatteras
Island in the Cape Hatteras Na
tional Seashore region, it was
stated by Fred Whitaker,„ mana
ger of the State Tourist Bureau.
Whitaker stated that the tourist
workshop clinic is one of several
held in resort centers of the State
or will be held at later dates. Al
ready clinics have been held in
the Southeastern beaches area
and Southern Pines.
Speakers on the program, each
discussing important phases of
North Carolina’s tourist industry
will include Ed Pickard, of the
Carolina Motor Club; Motor Ve
hicles Commissioner Edward
Scheldt; Marley M. Melvin of
the Association of Quality Res
taurants and Thompson Green
wood of the North Carolina Mer
chants Association. One other
speaker, to be announced as
plans are completed will also ap
pear on the program.
General Manager Dick Jordan
of The Lost Colony, a member
of the executive committee of
Dare County Tourist Bureau
which is co-sponsnring the Tour
ist Clinic with the State, will be
chairman of the meeting. Ben
Douglas, director of the Conser
vation and Development Depart
ment will also be present at the
meeting to hold a questions and
answers panel following the
speakers.
Cooperating in local arrange
ments for the clinic is Forrest
Jones of the Elizabeth City
Chamber of Commerce, Julian
Oneto of the Nags Head Chamber
of Commerce, R. W. Smith, Dare
Beaches Chamber of Commerce
and J. L. Murphey, mayor of the
recently incorporated Town of
Kill Devil Hills.
ENGELHARD WOMAN HURT
IN COLLISION WITH BUS
Mrs. Bruce Sadler, of Engel
hard, received painful cuts on
the face when the car in which
she was riding rammed another
car near Rose Bay on Monday
afternoon. The accident occurred
when a school bus approaching
i the two cars suddenly threw up a
stop sign. The first car came to
a sudden stop and the Sadler
vehicle plowed into the rear.
Bobby Sadler, son of Mrs. Sadler,
and Fred Marshall, the other oc
cupants of the car were not in
jured.
RECENT MANTEO BRIDE
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MRS. JIMMIE DANIELS of Nags
Head, who before her recent mar
riage was Miss Merle Jean Wes
cott, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edward M. Wescott of Manteo.
MANTEO PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Simpson
and two children from Hender
sonville arrived in Manteo this
week to spend about two weeks
with Mr. Simpson’s mother, Mrs.
Ellis Midgett.
Mrs. Pattie Smith has returned
from a visit with her sister, Mrs.
Ned Drink water and friends at
Virginia Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Craddock
of Manns Harbor visited in Man
teo Sunday. j
Woodson Fearing, Jr., has re
turned from the Albemarle Hos
pital in Elizabeth City and is
recuperating at his home in Man
teo from a recent leg injury.
Debra Tugwell of Norfolk is
visiting her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Holmes, and her
aunt, Mrs. J. V. Hobbs.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Jordan
spent the week end in Charlottes
ville, Va.
Mrs. Victor Meekins spent sev
eral days last week in Concord,
visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. B.
McNeely.
Wade Nixon of N. C. State
College, Raleigh, is spending the
spring holidays with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Rosser Nixon.
Mrs. Theo. S. Meekins is criti
cally ill in the Albemarle Hos
pital, Elizabeth City, having been
rushed there by ambulance Wed
nesday night.
Mrs. Elmer R. Midgette spent
some time recently in Buie,
where her father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. F. F. Hasty, have been
ill. Mrs. Hasty has been a hos
pital patient.
LOCAL TALENT FLOOR SHOW
A local talent show featuring
song, dance and comedy acts was
presented Saturday night at the
Shrine Club by Manteo High
School students.
Singing several selections were
Pat Baum, Carol Ann Allen, Jack
Burrus and Bobby Ballance.
Danny Mann did a mockup of a
“dragnet” act, and Lois Peterson
tap danced, Mrs. Robert Ballance
served as pianist.
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THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
25th DISTRICT
HOME CLUBS TO
MEET APRIL 1
Meeting At Roanoke Island
4-H Camp Features Ad
dress by Dr. Landis
Bennett
The annual meeting of the
Twenty-Fifth District Federation
of Home Demonstration Clubs will
be held at the Roanoke Island 4-H
camp April 1, according to Miss
Mary Kirby, Dare County home
demonstration agent. The 25th dis
trict includes the counties of Dare,
Pasquotank, Perquimans, Chowan,
Camden, Currituck and Gates.
The biggest attraction of the
morning session will be an address
by Dr. Landis Bennett of the visual
aids department of North Carolina
State College.
Also on the morning agenda will
be the welcome by Mrs. Edgar
Hooper of Buxton, president of the
Dare County council, and by Mel
vin Daniels, Dare County registrar
of deeds.
Lunch will be served by the Dare
County home demonstration clubs
at $1 per plate. All club members
have been urged to attend and
bring guests along.
Dr. Landis Bennett is scheduled
to give a talk on “Italy—lts Past
and Present.”
Dr. Bennett has been a member
of the State College staff since
1941, and is now head of the col
lege’s visual aids department, a
position he has held since 1946. He
has also served as secretary of the
North Carolina Crop Improvement
Association, and was a member of
the executive committee of the In
i ternatiional Crop Improvement As
sociation at one time.
Dr. Bennett went overseas on
December 1, 1952, at the request of
the Foreign Operations Adminis
tration (formerly Mutual Security
Agency), where he worked as a
visual aids specialist in Italy,
Greece and Turkey, and returned
to the United States on January 1,
1954. Dr. Bennett was accompanied
by his wife and two children. While
abroad, he took many colored slides
of the historical phases of the var
ious countries, as well as the peo
ple and the way they lived.
Other notable guest speakers
will be Miss Verna Stanton, assis
tant state home agent; Mrs. Es
ther G. Willis, eastern district
agent; Mrs. Tom Browne, 16th dis
trict president, federation of wo
men’s clubs.
On the committees are some
Dare County people: Mrs. Asa
Gray, Jr., of Waves, courtesy;
Mrs. Earl Keller of Kitty Hawk,
nominating; Mrs. John Wasali of
Frisco ,time and place; Mrs. Carrie
Baum of Nags Head, gavel; Mrs.
Leland Wise of Stumpy Point, re
solutions. Mrs. Raymond Wescott
of Manteo will serve as pianist.'
The 4-H ushers will be Mary
Blanche Meekins, Shirley Midgett,
Sonja Oden, Shelia Gibson, and
Betsy Midgett.
Commercial slaughter of the
important species of livestock in
North Carolina during January,
1954, amounted to 21.5 million
pounds liveweight, the second
highest slaughter since 1947 when
records began.
HARMON JONES AUSTIN 1
Funeral services for Harmon
Jones Austin, who died Saturday
morning at the family residence
in Hatteras, were coaucted Sun- <
day afternoon at 3 o’clock at the
home by the Rev. G. R. Thomas, ;
pastor of the Assembly of God ;
Church, assisted by the Rev. Dan
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Meadows, pastor of the Hatteras
Methodist Church.
Where We’ll Never Grow Old
and Shall We Gather At The
River, were sung by members of
the Assembly of God Church.
The casket was covered with a
pall of red and white carnations
and fern.
Pallbearers were Tine Willis
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954
Jr., Josephus Willis. Harmon Wil
lis, Daniel Willis, 'Amos O’Neal,
I Ephriam O’Neal, John Austin
and Herman Gaskins.
’ Burial was iin the family plot
at Hatteras.
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