(X LUME VI —NO. 21 COMMISSIONERS REQUEST DYKING AT STUMPY POINT Other Matters Taken Up At County Commissioners Meeting Tuesday At the monthly meeting of the Dare County Board of Commis sioners Tuesday, it was ordered that the State Highway and Pub lic Works Commission be requested to investigate the condition of the shore line at Stumpy Point, with the purpose of dyking the same in order to protect the present road. The shoreline has been washing away considerably recently, and it is thought that the road may soon suffer some damage. The commissioners also request ed that the Commission furnish enough gravel for approximately 300 feet of road leading into the community cemetery at Stumpy Point. Also at Stumpy Point, the board ordered that action on the creosote lumber used for dyking at the Stumpy Point canal be deferred until the June meeting. Other matters taken up at Tues day's meeting were as follows: The board voted to accept a re vision in the county school budget • presented by the superintendent, Mrs. Mary Evans. It was ordered that a map of the Buxton health center site be resubmitted to T. J. Jessup, to clear uip a point not clear on the map. Mrs. Goldie Meekins, welfare su perintendent, made the regular re port and requested funds to help a welfare case, for which the sum of $20.75 was appropriated. Also, for the Welfare Depart ment, it was ordered that a type writer be purchased from surplus funds accruing to the county from blind administration refunds, to be charged to the equipment account of the welfare administration bud get. The cost authorized was $207. The boards accepted the yearly county audit as presented by R. 0. Howard, for the year ending June 30, 1953. David Cox was appointed as a ~>ecial surveyor to survey entfftes j.v David Stick and Noah Price. t was ordered that the valuation " iee MEETING, Page Four MANTEO SENIOR PLAY GIVEN TO FULL HOUSE The senior class of Manteo High School presented the an nual play last Friday night to a full house.* Entitled “Going On Seventeen,” the play was direct ed by Mrs. Mary Meekins. It was written by Hilda Manning and produced by special arrangement with Samuel French. Members of the cast were as follows: Elsa, Edna Bruce Dowdy; Buddy Carhart, Meriest Simp son; Mrs. Carhart, Patricia Baum; Florence Carhart, Annie Laurie Kee; Craig Vincent, Webb Eth eridge; Tom Williams, Johnny Krider; Paul, Robert Ballance, Jr.; Shrimpie, Jerry Daniels; Joan Lansing, Louise Wescott; Lillums, Linda Gaskill;; Frank Carhart, Carlisle Davis; Helen, Dotty Davis; Daris, Jean Daniels; Agnes, Sally Alford. Extras were: Barbara J. Dan iels, James Daniels, William Wes cott, Margaret Jean Tillett, Don ald Bliven, Margarine Midgett, Danny Mann, Janet Basnight, Carolee O’Neal, Lottie Gallup. Technical staff was as follows: assistant director, Harry John son; stage manager, Quentin Bell; prompter, Ann Etheridge; advertising, Margaret Jean Til lett; property manager, Carolee O’Neal; lighting, Danny Mann; business manager, Harry John son; house manager, Elwood Pridgen. Ushers were: Lois Sears, Imo gene Shannon, Ruby Gallop, Shirley Midgett, Bebe Daniels, Emily Lou Tillett. Carol Ann Allen and Sarah Alford. Appreciation went to Manteo Furniture Company for furni ture used on the stage, and to the Coastland Times and radio station WGAI for publicity. Make-up was by Mrs. Matilda ”-vge and Mrs. Harriet James. - * MAN'S CLUB CAKE SALE FOR SCHOLARSHIP The final bake sale of the sea son will be held by the Manteo Woman’s Club Saturday, May 8, at Fearing’s in Manteo. At that time cakes, pies, cup cakes, can dies and other items will be of fered for sale. Proceeds will go toward the Woman’s Club schol arship which is annually award ed to a member of the graduating class of Manteo High School. The public is urged to patronize the sale and help along the good THE COASTLANH TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA ELIZABETHAN ACCENT TOLD ON THIS STUDENT X ■ - I MISS JACQUELINE FARROW, the daughter of Mrs. Nellie Farrow of Waves, vias rtceently written up in the “Who’s Who” column in the student newspap er at Louisburg College. Miss Farrow is also to be an attendant in the May Day Festivities at the college. Following is a reprint rs. the article in tne college pa I'g: “Everyone loves to listen uFJ certain girl on the campus talk because of her old English accent. Jackie Farrow hails from Waves, N. C., which is about the only place that people talk like their English-forefathers. Jackie grad uated as valedictorian of her class »at Cape Hatteras High School and certainly has not re linquished her enthusiasm for scholastic work here at Louis burg. However, Jackie is active in many other ways. During her first year she served as House President of the Woman’s Student Government, Secretary of the Junior Class and was a member of the Dramatics Club When se lecting the Student Council for the present school year, her friends voted her in as vice-pres ident, Jackie has been active in tht “Y” serving on the cabinet, is a rfiember Os Phi Theta Kappa of which she is secretary, and is a member of the 1954 May Court. “Jackie’s friendliness and help fulness are characterized by her actions for she is always ready to help in any way possible. Her good humour, willingness to help, friendly smile and sincerity will surely help her continue to win friends in the future as she-has won them here at Louisburg Col lege for her warm personality en dears her to the hearts of all who know her.” Practical Joke Goes Haywire; Mr. Fearing, Mr. Green On Outs Joke That Didn’t Go Off As Scheduled Resulted In Sheriff Being Called To The Scene By Roger Meekins It is whispered around these days that Edward Green and Keith Fearing, Jr., are not on the very best of speaking terms. Now Mr. Green and Mr. Fearing have been, all their lives, the very best of friends. And, as a matter of fact, they each own a cottage next to each other on Nags Head beach on thq Oregon Inlet road. But because of a little practical joke that went haywire, they are temporarily out of plea sant contact. It happened some thing like this. While Mr. and Mrs. Green (Annie) were dining with Mr. Green’s mother last Saturday night, Keith crawled through a window in Edward’s cottage and moved a rug and a couple pieces of furniture from the front into the back room. It was intended that the Greens would find the furniture misplaced and be puz zled as to how it jfot that way. But that ain’t the way it hap pened. Presently the Greens came to their cottage, opened the door, and discovered that some fur niture was missing, as planned. But, just before they approached the cottage, they remembered seeing a car pull out of their driveway. (Actually, it was from the driveway of the cottage next door). The car had turned and gone toward Oregon Inlet, a bot tleneck from which it couldn’t escape. So. Mr. Green set up a roadblock and called the sheriff and deputy, Frank Cahoon and Dan Cannady. Mr. and Mrs. Green hadn’t gone iftto the back room as yet In the meantime, Mr. Fearing had told his father, Keith Fear ing, Sr., what had happened, and Mr. Fearing, Sr., in turn told the story to Monde Daniels, Jr., who LYON PROPERTY AGAIN BECOMES PUBLIC DOMAIN Interesting Transfer of Shooting Club at Hatter as Opens Fishing Beach Buxton-on-Cape Hatteras, May 6. —Before the sun had set upon the three-way switch of ownership that transformed the last fishing club on the Outer Banks into a Lifeboat Station of the U. S. Coast Guard and the 1250 acres of its land into a public fishing ground under the auspices of the National Park Service the Coast Guard was call ed upon to lend a hand in saving three unwary recreationists from drowning. One era was ending and another just continuing. Ending was the era of plush club houses which once dotted the Out er Banks from Currituck to Ocra coke that in its heydey saw fifty such clubs grow and disintegrate until only the Gooseville Club over looking Hatteras Inlet remained. Title to the lands and keys to the luxurious building were turned ov er to the National Park Service and the lands, restricted to the use of club members for the past 25 years, became public domain. Continuing is the era of Coast Guard to the rescue. Within two hours after the keys were turned over to the Park Service they were handed to CWO H. J. Glynn, Cape Hatteras Group commander who dispatched members of his crew to take custodial charge of the prop erty until the legal formalities can be complied with to the last letter and work begin on conversion of the club house that will become the home of Hatteras Inlet station, al ready virtually abandoned because of the inroads of the sea. Almost at once guests of hotels and tourist courts on this Island, aware of the fact that fishing re strictions had been lifted from the area stretching from Hatteras vil lage to the Inlet three miles south west and before the sun was set the call came: could the Coast Guard come and do something about three people who were in a pretty bad fix. The Coast Guard went and nobody drowned. Gooseville and its lands have been owned by G. Albert Lyon, De troit millionaire manufacturer, since 1927, or since the late Rex Beach, in his day one of the more prosperous writers and sportsmen, induced him to buy it from Andrew S. Austin. i The National Park Service paid him $47,000 for it. A large part of this property once was vacant land, owned by the state of North Carolina, and See PROPERTY, Page Eight also owns a cottage on the same road. So. Mr. Daniels, thinking that something serious might happen, stopped Frank Cahoon on the way down the road and told him what had happened. The Greens still had not ven tured into the back room of their cottage. But the car which had gone toward Oregon Inlet now came back and was forced to stop at the roadblock. Mr. Green came beside the dri ver and began to question him. Mrs. Green climbed into the car and helped with the interroga tion. Some accusations were made. Mr. Cannady, who had not been informed of the true situa tion, arrived on the scene and began an investigation. Sheriff Cahoon arrived, looked into the ihatter, and discovered the missing furniture in the back room. It is said that Mr. Green was rather embarrassed to have to make apologies to the stranger, and because of this Mr. Green and Mr. Fearing are on the “outs.” But as usually happens in the case of a practical joke, time will mend the situation. NEW RAMPS NOW IN USE AT OREGON INLET FERRY i New landing ramps have been completed at both docks of Ore gon Inlet ferry and old hazards and boarding and unloading an noyances been eliminated. Ex tending the ramps makes for an easy approach to the ferry boat. State Highway officials here last week announced that an addition al ferry would be operating across Oregon Inlet on the new all-paved U. S. 64, Hatteras Highway by June 14 and a third boat ready for operation about July 15. The fer ries were recently obtained for the State by Ca"e Hattesas National Seashore officials. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1954 GARAGE BUMPER FOUND GUILTY RECKLESS DRIVING The Midway Garage between Manteo and Wanchese on Roan oke Island has been run into for the third time. David O. Latham, Negro, who knocked down the stop sign at Midway Garage and plowed through a cinderblock wall, was found guilty of reckless driving in Dare County Recorder’s Court Tuesday afternoon. Latham, who was driving a 1951 Oldsmobile, said he lost con trol of the car before he came up on the stop sign and could do nothing but let it go straight ahead. However, attorney Martin Kellogg pointed out that if the car had gone straigh ahead it would have gone straight into the garage across the road. As it was, the car went on the north side of the garage, knocking off the corner of the ladies rest room and foing through a wall adjacent to the station. The s}op sign which the car struck was thrown on the south side of the station across the road. George Hale Quidley, owner of the station, testified that Lat ham had already made arrange ments to pay for the damage, which was estimated ot $125, and that he had already been paid sls on account. Judge Baum ordered that the remainder of the restitution be carried out. The judgement was 60 days, suspended. Other cases on the docket Tuesday were: Davis Payne, drunk on the streets of Manteo, sls and costs. Sam Rogers, indecent exposure on the highway, sls and costs. Arthur Johnson, improper brakes, $5 and costs. Luther B. Outlaw, improper registration plates, $5 and costs. Carlton Shannon, reckless driving, $25 and costs. DELRAY BEACH IS DEVELOPING ON COAST OF DARE Kill Devil Hills, —Delray' Beach is the newest of several residen tial developments in the Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head area and W. R. Deaton, of Greensboro is the owner and developer of the properties. Al ready paved streets have been built through the area and ad ditional streets are proposed dir ect to the ocean’s edge in the swank “millionaire’s row” of this first-flight area which became an incorporated town last year. Like other residential devel opments which have been creat ed in the Dare beaches area in recent years, the new develop ment with the exception of its ocean privileges is located ad jacent to and on the west side of U. S. Highway 158. It is just north of the Wright Brothers National Monument. Deaton stated today that lots in Delray Beach averaged 75x 100 feet. The properties is ex clusively zoned for residences. TELEPHONE CO. TO EXPLAIN NEW SYSTEM The Norfolk & Carolina Tele phone & Telegraph Co. has an nounced that arrangements have been made for a meeting to be held in the Town Hall of Kill De vil Hills at 7:30 p.m., on Monday, May 10 for the discussion of the features of the new dial system for the Dare County Beaches, which is scheduled for service on or about June 1, 1954. All telephone subscribers re siding in Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk and Nags Head are invited to meet with representatives of the Telephone Company, who will be present to explain plans for the switchover from the pre sent type of service to the dial system operation. MANTEO ROTARIANS SEE PROGRAM OF THE BLIND The members of the Manteo Rotary Club Monday night en joyed a program shown by George Staton, and his wife, Mary Kirby Staton, following their dinner in the community building. Mr. Staton is the case worker for the blind in Dare County, and the picture illus trated the splendid work being done at the N. C. School for the Blind at Raleigh, in its program of bringing greater usefulness and enjoyment to the blind child ren of the state. The picture was in color, 'with commentary, and lasted about 20 minutes. Mrs. Staton is the Dare County Home agent, and the couple were recently married. SCHOOL BOARD SEES PLANS FOR BUXTON SCHOOL N. A. Toler Selected As School Supervisor; Teach * ers Re-appointed The Dare County Board of Ed ucation April 27 voted unan imously to sign a new contract with architect B. H. Stephens for the proposed Buxton School. His fee is to be six per cent, and Mr. Stephens must agree to can cel any obligation on the part of the board for work done by the architect on tne original plans of the building. Mrs. Mary Evans, superinten dent, presented Mr. Stephens’ work sketch of the building, and the boord instructed her to notify the architect that the plans would not be approved unless they included a separate lunch room and auditorium. The Board also authorized the transfer of funds to pay for sur vey and contour map of the new ly-acquired school site at Buxton. Other business taken up by the board follows: Noah A. Toler was elected as supervisor of Dare County schools for the 1954-55 term, sub ject to the approval of the state department of public instruction. Resignations of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. James of the Manteo school faculty and W. A. Moye of the Buxton school faculty were ac cepted, effertive at the end of the current school year. Teaahers and janitors in the schools of the county were re elected for the coming year. They are as follows: Wanchese: Mrs. Louise H. Til lett, Mrs. Milah Meekins, Mrs. Cleopatra Daniels; Earle W. Wil lis, janitor. Avon: B. F. Martin, Mrs. Mil dred Parks; Thomas Scarborough, janitor. Stumpy Point: Mrs. Ruby Gray. Hatteras: S. F. Wilkinson, Mrs. Violet Austin, Mrs. Inez D. Aus tin; Mrs. Vera Robinson, janitor. Manns Harbor: Stanley Mat thews, Mrs.’ Ivadean Wescott, Mrs. Bettie Twiford; Mrs. Mel rose Tillett, janitor Roanoke: W. E. Hall, Mrs. Lil lian T. Boone, Mrs. Eva Bethea; Quinton Dozier, janitor. Kitty Hawk: E. W. Bryan, Miss Alyce Sumrell, Mrs. Annie Mae Bryan, Mrs. Irene B. Midgett, See BOARD, Page Four 6 Fishing wHunting J m AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN PI 1954 BIG FISH CONTEST FOR WAVES-RODANTHE AREA Waves. Anglers fishing the shipwreck-strewn Outer Banks beach between Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo during 1954 will have an opportunity to enter their big fish in the second annual cash prize contest, it was announced here to day by Asa H. Gray, a local mer chant and member of Dare Coun ty Tourist Bureau’s board of di rectors. The fishing contest sponsored last year by Donald C. Todd of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a summer res ident of Waves offered cash prizes of SSO for the largest fish and it was a 40-pound channel bass land ed by a Colerain angler that won the money. This year cash prizes of SIOO will be offei-ed and sponsors of the 1954 contest will again be Todd of Pittsburgh and R. D. Owens, own er of the new Chicaroicomico Motor Court and Grill which has just opened for the season between Waves and Rodanthe. The prizes will be SSO cash for largest fish, .nd S3O and S2O for the two run nerups. The fish must be a game species, and will likely be a chan nel bass as these are the largest species taken by surf casters in the area. The prizes will be awarded on New Year’s Day, 1955, said Gray. THREE-POUND BLUES REPORTED TAKEN IN SURF Buxton. Bluefish up to three pounds each were landed in the surf at the Point of Cape Hatteras during the past week, according to George Fuller, merchant, and who caught many of them; he said most catches were made with Hop kins lures, and the average ranged between one and half and two pounds. He said Shelton .Williams, a local angler, hooked and landed a 37 pound channel bass in the surf during the ~ast week end. ‘MOVE FLIGHT CELEBRATION TO OCT. 17,’ SUGGESTED BY TOURIST WORKSHOP CLINIC Many Speakers Included On Panel To Help Local People Improve Accommodations for Tourists; Pointed Out That Dare Coast Has Best Fishing Anywhere In America. PULP CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT NAGS HEAD MAY 18 William Ernst of West Vir ginia Pulp To Conduct Tour Over Company Lands Representatives of the pulp and paper industry, pulpwood dealers and visitors from North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and part of South Carolina, will attend the Area IV meeting of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association at Nags Head May 18-19. The area delegates will meet the night of May 18. Area Chairman R. C. Barien brock, Mead Corporation, Kings port, Tenn., will preside at the meeting May 19. The program has been arranged by the Association’s Area Forester, J. D. Nicholson, Greensboro. The theme of the meeting is “Conservation and How To Sell It.’" Wood procurement field men rep resenting five member companies will exchange ideas on how they tell their conservation story. These men include B. E. Allen, Camp Manufacturing Company, Franklin, Va.; R. R. Richardson, Riegel Woodlands Corporation, Bolton; Nicholas Denesuk, North Carolina Pulp Company, Sanford. John L. Gray, Extension Fores ter, Raleigh, will give his impres sion of the attitude of the small landowner towards conservation. J. H. Keener, manager of Wood lands Division, Champion Paper and Fibre Company, Canton, will report on a recent survey made by the company on who does produce the pulpwood. The morning ses sion will conclude with a statement on the importance of utilizing waste materials by Maurice Walk er, H. M. Walker Lumber Com pany, Battleboro. A field trip over forest lands owned by the West Virginia Pulp See CONFEREFNCE, Page Four ACRES OF CHANNEL BASS BUT THEY WOULDN’T BITE Hatteras. Trolling with Capt. Edgar Styron aboard the Twins on Sunday, Mrs. Florence Young of Point Pleasant, N. J., finally hook ed and landed a 30-pound channel bass while drift-casting in Hat teras Inlet. “The water was clear and we actually drifted through acres of the big fish, but they wouldn’t take bait or lures,” said Mrs. Young. This is a situation anglers often discover shortly after the big schools of channel bass appear in the waters of Hatteras and Ore gon Inlets each year. Some of the guides believe the reason the big fish do not take lures is because they are in the throes of spawn ing activities—and are just not hungry for bait or lures. Scotty Gibson, manager and owner of Atlantic View Hotel here stated today that weather condi tions had been unfavorable for Gulf Stream fishing during the past week, although several spe cies, including dolphin, amberjack, tuna and albacore had been landed during late April and early May. BLUEFISH AND BLACK DRUM AT OREGON INLET Nags Head. —Weather changes following a cold front made spotty fishing for drum fishermen early this week in the Oregon Inlet area. Bluefish and black drum catches, the first of the season for these va rieties, were taken by trolVers with artificial lures in the Oregon Inlet area. ' One of the largest channel bass boated, a 41-pounder, was taken off Bodie Island bv Mrs. Helen Baum, who was fishing with her husband aboard the cruiser Butch. Single Copy 7£ “The Wright Brothers celebra tion on December 17 should be moved up to October 17,” said Thompson Greenwood at the Tourist Workshop Clinic held in the Carolinian Hotel Wednesday afternoon. “Thanksgiving has been moved, so why not the Wright Brothers celebration. People already know when the first flight was made.” Mr. Greenwood’s topic was “Coordinated selling in the tou rist area.” In respect to coordi nation, Greenwood said, “why not end the season on October 17 and get at least SIOO,OOO more than you have been getting for the last 50 years. Why every year for 50 years you have been hav ing a celebration down here on the ‘coldest day of the year’ for only a handful of people. Why not move the date ahead and, have 15,000, 25,000 or 45,000 peot ple here for the occasion. Wl\y not coordinate what you have with your season,” he stated. Aycock Brown, who was pre sent for the clinic, replied that plans have been considered for some time to do just what Mr. Greenwood suggested, but that they have not yet materialized. T. E. Pickard, Jr., vice-presi dent of the Carolina Motor Club, stated that auto clubs through out the country route approxi mately 12,000,000 tourists per year. "This year,” Mr. Pickard sta ted, “74,000,000 people will take a vacation, spending some $12,000,000,000. But the honey moon is over,” he went on. “Peo ple are squeezing the dollar, shopping around, and in order for -you to get your share of the i tourist dollar you must market your merchandise.” His topic was “Presenting your tourist mer chandise.” “Right here on the Dare coast you have the best fishing any where in the whole United States, yet people go fishing o ther places more; so than they do here. You get less people here because of a lack of advertising. Other places have overadver tised, and as a result they are getting the business that should come to you,” “The host in Hospitality” was the topic of Ed. L. Washburn, president of the Highway 301 Association. “The hotel or mo tor court operator should know his territory well, so that he may be better able to keep his guests a day or two longer.” He can let them know what the country of- See CLINIC, Page Four MANTEO LEGION POST MAINTAINS ITS QUOTA Fort Raleigh Post 26 of the American Legion has exceeded its membership quota for 1954 according to information received from State Headquarters of the American Legion in Raleigh. James W. Davis of Wanchese, Commander of the Post, has re ceived a letter from the Legion Adjutant, Nash McKee, express ing thanks to the membership chairman, all Post officers, and membership workers for their effort. W. L. McMillan, of Rocky Mount, Department Commander of the American Legion, issued a statement of high praise for the local Post. McMillan said, “I am proud to congratulate the officers and members of Post 26 upon this notable achievement. All of the programs and services of the Le gion are made possible through dues paid for membership and we appreciate tne great part play ed by Post 26 of Manteo. Sincere thanks to every member of the Post who had part in the mem bership work.” The quota of Post 26 is 70 and the membership for 1954 to date is 70. Quotas are assigned each Post by the State Headquarters and are based on the average membership of the Post for the past four years. “We do not intend to stop our membership drive now that we ; have reached our quota,” Post Commander Davis said. “There 1 are many more eligible veterans | who have not yet joined our Post . and we invite them all to become . members.”

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