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VOLUME XIX NO. 49 WRITERS PARLEY TO BE HELD AT HATTERAS IN JULY Fifth Annual Event To Be Attended By Many Au thors The fifth annual North Caro lina’s Writers’ Conference will be held in Hatteras, Friday through Sunday, July 23-25, it has been announced by Dick Walser of State College, Raleigh, who has been in charge of ar rangements. Noel Houston, well known author of Chapel Hill is chairman of the conference this year. Headquarters for the various sessions planned by the writers will be in the old life-boat room of Durant’s Life Saving Station, now a privately owned tourist court owned by A. S. Austin. Housing arrangements have been booked for the Durants Cottage Court and Gibson’s Atlantic View restaurant will be the eating place for the group. The schedule calls for an in formal meeting of all delegates to the conference at Durant’s at five o’clock, July 23, followed by a meal at Scotty’s. During this first evening of the confer ence at 8:30 o’clock Aycock Brown of Manteo will talk to the group on the subject, “The North Carolina Coast Country.” Saturday’s schedule begins at 9:30 o’clock when William T. Polk, author of several books and on the editorial staff of Greensboro Daily News gives a discussion on, “The Writer and Today’s South.” Following this conference there will be ocean bathing, lunch and during the afternoon beginning at 2 o’clock Josefina Niggli of Chapel Hill will give a talk on “The Writer and His Techniques.” During the e’-“ning session Harry Golden of •'otte will speak on “The and His Conscience.” At | jck Sunday morning, Noel , _ston will lead a discussion I on “The Writer and His Mar- i kets,*’ followed by a short busi ness session which will conclude the conference. . . . “Enroute to Hatteras, many' of the writers will stop over in Manteo on Thursday night to see a perform ance of The Lost Colony,” said Walser. CONFERENCE ON CIVIL DEFENSE CALLED THURS. Governor Urges Attendance on June 10th at Meet ing in Raleigh Full explanation of every as pect of Civil Defense will be given by best available authori ties for the benefit of public of ficials invited by the Governor to attend a conference in Ra leigh at the Sir Walter on June 10, 1954, State Civil Defense Director Edward F. Griffin said today. ' Letters from Governor Um stead have been sent to Boards of County Commissioners, all Mayors and City Managers and Civil Defense Directors, urging attendance at a conference rela tive to development of a sound effective Civil Defense program in North Carolina. Director Griffin sent letters of invitation to all state department heads. N. C .highway commis sioners and division engineers, members of the General Assem bly and candidates for seats in the General Assembly. The program will interpret Civil Defense with relation to the national defense, picture, with relation to Aid Defense Command, it legal status, pre sent N. C. status and future ns. The possibility of germ • are will also be considered, eakers include H. L. Ait executive assistant to Fed eral Civil Defense Administra tor Vai Peterson; Brigadier Gen eral John C. Cary, commanding general of 35th Air Division: Assistant N. C. Attorney-Gene ral Wade Bruton; Dr. C. B- Ken s dall, State Department of Public j Health; Dr. C. D. Grinnells, N. C. State College; and General Griffin who will preside and re port on the present status of Civil Defense in North Carolina, and future plans. The conference is called for 10:30 a.m. on June IQ, and ac cording to Gen. Griffin will end at 1:30 p.m. with the showing of “Operation Ivy”, official film of the H-Bomb tests made in 1952. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MANAGER JORDAN ALL SET FOR DRAMA SEASON Lost Colony to Open Satur day Night, June 26; Sev eral Major Changes MF Mr H Bl "X General Manager Dick Jor dan of the Lost Colony stated today that everything is running smoothly towards the opening of the drama’s 14th season in Waterside Theatre here on Sat urday night, June 26. Full scale rehearsals will be underway next week and already the dan cers are here practising for the important parts they will play in the show. / As in recent years, the Lost Colony during its 14th season will be presented nightly (ex cept Monday) through Labor Day Eve which will come on September 5. There will be several major changes in the cast of the drama this year and even Waterside Theatre, under the direction of Associate Manager Al Eell, has been completely redressed for the 1954 season. Changes in the theatre have involved the elinii at ion of some of the seats in the rear of the ampitheatre, ' | where special landscaping has i been created. There have also been many changes made in the I general staging and the lighting system has been completely re vamped under the supervision of Lighting Director Jim Byrd and Carl Swaim, sound techni cian for the drama. FIRST SAILFIST OF SEASON Hatteras.—First Sailfish of the 1954 season was landed by Doug las Mann of Montclair, N. J. in the Gulf Stream off Hatteras on Monday .while he trolled from , Captain Edgar Styron’s cruiser “Twins II.” The fish measured , five feet and nine inches from tip to tip and weighed 22 pounds. Captain Styron reported that on this day they sighted several more of the same species but failed to connect with them. The party did get several dolphin, one of 30 pounds. TO RECEIVE DEGREE FROM UNC MONDAY I ' ' v.iuumiu i. JR., of Swan Quarter will receive a B. S. degree in Business Admini stration from the University of North Carolina, Monday, June 7th. “Bill ’ is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William I. Cochran of Swan Quarter and is a graduate of Swan Quarter High School, where he was active in school affairs and especially in Voca tional Agriculture. He is a mem ber of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at the university and has participated in many activi ties on the campus. “Bill” is going immediately to Wilmington, where he will be employed in the branch office of Jefferson Standard Life Insur ance Company. 50% INCREASE IN FERRY TRIPS TO HATTERAS ISLE State Gives No Increase In Service Over Alligator and Croatan New toll-free ferry schedules announced by the State High way Commission effective Sat urday, June 5, through Septem ber 30th, show a 50 per cent in crease above last season for the Oregon Inlet ferry', but no in crease in service over Croatan Sound, nor for Alligator River, which latter point was a sore spot last year because of inade quate service. , Oregon Inlet, with two boats, will run 18 round trips a day, beginning with the trip from the North side at 5 a.m. and ending with the trip from the southside at 7 p.m., which two trips will be discontinued August 15th. There will be no boat leaving Roanoke Island for Manns Har bor at 6 a.m. Instead, the first boat will leave at 7 a.m. Ferries will run every hour until 8 p.m., leaving Roanoke Island and Manns Harbor simultaneously. An earlier ferry will leave East Lake for Tyrrell County at 6:30 a.m. and the last will leave Tyrrell at 7 p.m. The new schedules are as follows: SUMMER FERRY SCHEDULES Effective June 5 through September 30, 1954 CROATAN SOUND FERRY tv. Manns Harbor tv. Roanoke Island 7:00 A M. 7:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 8:00 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 9:00 A M. 10:00 A.M. 10:00 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:00 A M. 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon 1:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M. 2:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 7:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 8:00 P.M. 12:00 Midnight * 11:30 P.M. (’Nightly Except Monday) ALLIGATOR RIVER FERRY Lv. East Lake Lv. Tyrrell County 6:30 A.M. 7:00 A.M. ’ 8:00 A.M. 8:30 A.M. 9:15 A.M. 10:00 A M. 10:45 A.M. 11:30 A.M. 12:15 P.M. 1:00 P.M. •1:45 P.M. 2:30 P.M. 3:15 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:45 P.M. 5:30 P.M. 6:15 P.M. 7:00 P.M. OREGON INLET FERRY Lv. North Shore Lv. South Shore 5:00 A.M. 5:40 A.M. 5:40 A.M. 6:20 A.M. 6:20 A M. 7:00 A.M. 7:00 A.M. 7:40 A.M. 7:40 A.M. 8:30 A.M. 8:30 A.M. 9:30 A M. 9:30 A.M. 10:20 A.M. 10:20 A.M. 11:10 A.M. 11:10 A.M. 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon 1:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M. - 1:50 P.M. 1:50 P.M. 2:40 P.M. 2:40 P.M. 3:30 P.M. 3:30 P.M. 4:10 P.M. 4:10 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:30 P.M. 5:30 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 6:10 P.M. 7:00 P.M. Note: The 5:00 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. Trips Will Be Discontinued August 15th. AGED COLINGTON WOMAN . DIES AT VIRGINIA BEACH Mrs. Mary Christine O’Neal, 87, of False Cape, died at the Virginia Beach Hospital Tuesday at 5 ajn. after an emergency flight to the Beach in a Coast Guard helicopter on Monday afternoon. In ill health for a long time, she was severely stricken and needed immediate hospitalization. She was taken aboard the helicopter at South Little Coast Guard Station and flown to the Beach hospital at j 1:44 p.m. | Bom at Bodie Island, N. C., she | had been residing at False Cape i 10 years. She was the wife of the late Thomas O’Neal. Her parents were Joseph and Mrs. Penelope Meekins Midgett, and she had spent most of her life in Coling ton. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. H Ray M. Beasley, of False Cape; five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. The body was taken to Coling ! ton Methodist Church Cemetery, near Kitty Hawk, for services at the grave and burial at 1:30 p.m. I ODDEST FISH IS CAPTURED Buxton.—When Belton Rollin son felt the tug on his line he probably thought the hook was snagged into a submerged wa ter-logged piece of timber. He played his “catch” carefully and kept reeling in and suddenly the oddest fish ever taken with rod end reel at the point of Cape Hatteras broke water. Fina’ly he had it on the beach. The strange fish was identified as a mola mola or ocean sun fish. They are tropical water varie ties and the specimen landed by RollinsorU probably came inshore from the nearby Gulf Stream. It weighed 125 pounds and had been landed with a Hopkins Lure. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1954 DARE COUNTY MEN COMPLETE AIR FORCE TRAINING , BIT fvjWWEf ///; ELTON H. HAYES LOUIS B. PAYNE Two Dare County men are completing their Air Force basic mili tary training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Hayes is the son of Marion Hayes of Colington, and Payne is the son of Folger Payne of Wanchese. STELWAGON, VOLLUM, WEEK-END AT HATTERAS Harry W. Stelwagon, and Chas. M. Vollum of Philadel phia, spent the Memorial Day week end at Austin’s Motor Court, ’Hatteras, where Mr. Stel wagon has been a visitor for some 30 years. Until recently, Mr. Stelwagon was half owner with Bert Lyons of the Goose ville Gun Club at Hatteras, and I which they sold to the National Park Service for a price favor- I able to the park, conditioned on it being always restricted to shooting. Mr. Stelwagon for several years was holder of various records for Eastern coast fishing as well as records for certain fishing in Carribean waters. Mr. Vollum last year caught the first record channel bass at Hatteras within a few minutes after first casting his line in the . surf. His fish, 56 Vz pounds was the largest caught. He held the Eastern U. S. championship in 1953 for distance tournament casting. When the Gooseville Club was established about 30 years ago at Hatteras, there were four members; Frank Cheek of the Maxwell House coffee fortune; Van Campen Heilner of New York, Mr. Stelwagon and Mr. Lyon. At the time of the sale of the property, the club was own ed jointly by Mr. Stelwagon and Mr. Heilner. Mr. Heilner, in business near Philadelphia, heads the century j old firm .of Stelwagon, Inc. manufacturers of roofing and other products, and on numerous houses along the Dare Coast are many roofs of his products specially designed to withstand the rigors of coastal weather. 1 Mr. Lyon for many years has , been spending the larger part of his time in Bimini, where he has been developing a large private estate, and had practi cally given up Hatteras many years ago. At one time he was most active in shooting and fish ing, and provided funds to build a large girl’s club, which was rather pretentious and out of keeping with the interests of the community. It has since been converted to the use of the U. S. Weather Bureau. THOMAS R. WILCOX DIES IN HOSPITAL Thomas Raymond Wilcox, 56, of Wanchese, died Sunday night in the Marine Hospital, Norfolk, Va., after a short illness. He was a native of Chicago, Illinois, a former resident of Portsmouth, Va., and had been living in Wan chese about one year. He was a member of the Wanchese Ruri tan Club, and a veteran of World War I. Survivors are his wife. Mrs. Beulah Midgett Wilcox; two sisters, Mrs. G. R. Wilson of South Bend, Indiana, and Mrs. Ruth Pruitt of Buchanan, Michi gan; and one brother, Bertrand i Wilcox. Funeral services will be con-1 ducted Friday afternoon at three i o’clock in the Wanchese Metho-, dist Church, with full military I honors. Buri' j£will be in the Cudworth cefi MANTEO TEAM PLAYS POPLAR BRANCH SUNDAY The Manteo Baseball Town Team will play the Poplar Branch Team Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. at the new ball field in Manteo. The proceeds will go toward development of the new field, it has been announced by Ray Jones. FINAL TRYOUTS FOR LOCAL ACTORS TUES. Important Roles Still To Be Filled; Rehearsals To Begin Wed nesday, June 9 Under the direction of Clifton Britton, final tryouts for local residents seeking roles in the cast of the Lost Colony this sea son will be held in the Manteo High School auditorium on Tuesday night at 8 o’clock it was announced today by General Manager Dick Jordan. Britton, director of the drama, who with Supervisory Director Samuel Selden have produced some of the best performances in the history of the show, will arrive this week end from Goldsboro where he heads the department of dramatic arts of the High School. There are several important roles to be filled by local actors this year, especially such parts as Indian braves, Indian women, and colonists. A preliminary tryout for most of the roles to be filled-by local actors was held several weeks ago in Manteo and at that time it was announced that the final casting would be immediately before rehearsals begin this summer. Rehearsals on a hard working, full-scale schedule will begin on Wednesday, June 9. ISLAND HOUSING BUREAU MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT An organizational meeting of the Roanoke Island Housing Bureau will be held in the Community Building at Manteo on Monday night, June 7, it was announced this week. Purpose of the meeting will be to elect new officers and complete for the placement of tourists and Lost Col ony visitors in local guest houses, motor and cottage courts and ho tels. The Lost Colony management does not operate the bureau. It is operated by the persons who are benefiting from the influx of sum mer visitors seeking overnight ac commodations on Roanoke Island. . The Lost Colony cooperates to the I extent of providing desk space in I the Community Building and also ; for a telephone. All letters from prospective Lost Colony visitors I seeking accommodation on Roa- I noke Island received by the drama’s office and Dare County Tourist Bureau are given the placement bureau for processing. I Officers of the organization last year included Mrs. A. E. Brown, president; Mrs. Milah Meekins, treasurer; and Mrs. Doris Rogers, secretary and placement desk man ager. All persons interested in the oneration of this Roanoke Island Housing Bureau are urged to at tend the meeting on Monday night or to be represented by proxy or their spokesmen. • DARE OFFICIALS RETAINED BY LARGE MAJORITIES BY VOTERS IN PRIMARY SAT. Kellogg Wins Highest Vote But Nosed Out of Senatorship as Ross and Owens Are Nom inated; Baum and Duvall Highest On County Ticket. Mostly by wide margins, in cumbent officials in Dare County won heavily over their challen gers in Saturday's primary. Mar tin Kellog. Jr. iji his race for State senator carried in the high est vote 1,183 but being nosed out in the seven-county race. L. H. Ross of Washington and Edward L. Owens of Plymouth being the winners. In Dare Ross got 297 and Owens 310 votes. On the county ticket, Judge W. F. Baum led all candidates, de feating Jesse C. Groce 950 to 337. Chairman C. C. Duvall of the county Board led the ticket for Commissioner, his vote being 809 against Ira Spencer of Manns Harbor. W. H. Lewark of Kill Devil Hills with a vote of 731 defeated Dan S. Harris, 220, and Sam Liverman 266 for Com missioner. The race between James Scar borough incumbent, and New- : comb Midgett of Waves for Com missioner was close. The for mer’s vote was 645 with 538 for i the latter. Dick Best incumbent of Stumpy Point, defeated Forrest ; Sawyer of Manns Harbor for a place on the Board of Education. Best 653; Sawyer 568. In the race for U. S. Senate, Lennon’s vote was 776 and W. Kerr Scott 538. For treasurer, Edwin Gill 696 and Joshua J James 202. For Insurance Com missioner Gold 462 and Fletcher 415. MELICKS CELEBRATED GOLDEN WEDDING IN DARE COUNTY SUNDAY Kill Devil Hills—Anne Town send Bragaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Goldsmith Bra gaw, of Washington, North Caro lina, was married on June 8, 1904, to Camden Weller Melick. The wedding took place at St. Peter’s Church, Washington, N. C. On Sunday, May 30, here at The Croatan, the Melicks, now residents of Elizabeth City, ob served their golden wedding an niversary. An interesting highlight of the occasion was an old letter which Mrs. Melick read aloud. It told of the golden anniversary of her grandfather, William Bragaw, who married Anna Townsend in Woodside, L. L, on January 6, 1820. The young minister John Goldsmith, performed his first marriage ceremony and the couple later named one of their sons, John Goldsmith; he grew up to be, Mrs. Melick’s father. In 1870 the William Bragaws celebrated their golden anniver sary in the same room of the old family home at Woodside, L. 1., where the wedding had taken place in 1820. At the celebration here on Sunday Anne Townsend Bragaw Melick used a cup and saucer which Anna Townsend Bragaw had used at her golden anniversary. Also carrying out the “gold” motif were a few pieces of gold flatware inherited by Mrs. Melick from her ances tor Churchill Cambrelong, who was minister to the Ccurt cf St. Petersburg during the adminis tration of Martin Van Buren. Present at the luncheon were the bride’s brother, John G. Bra gaw and his daughter Lalla, of [Washington, N. C.; Mr. Melick’s sister, Mrs. F. D. Viehe, of Arden Delaware; the Melick’s daugh ters and their husbands, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Brice, Charlotte, N. C-, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. S. Hayden and son Peter, Norfolk, Va., and See MELICKS Page Eight BREAKS COLLARBONE PLAYING WITH BROTHER Charlie Fearing, young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fearing of Manteo, received a broken col larbone last Saturday while at play with his brother, Woodson Fearing, Jr., at their home. Charlie was taken to the Albe marle Hospital, Elizabeth City, where a cast was put on the in jured bone, and he returned to his home Sunday night. Wood son Fearing, Jr., only last week had a cast removed from a leg with a multiple fracture, after being confined to his bed for almost three months. He also received his injury while at play. Both were freak accidents. ■ Single Copy 70 HATTERAS BUS LINE ADDS EXTRA ROUND TRIP SCHEDULE DAILY The Hatteras Bus line, which in the old days before modern highways was billed as “one of the toughest bus trips in the world”, now' operates the entire distance between Manteo (and connecting bus companies) and Hatteras, (a distance of approxi mately 60 miles) over modem highways. Beginning June 5, there will be two instead of one round trip daily between the Outer Banks village of Hatteras and all other communities on Hatteras Island and Manteo here on Roanoke Island, it was an nounced today by Stockton Mid gett. Midgett is one of three broth ers who have owned and opera ted the bus line since the days of no roads on the Outer Banks. The new schedules effective Saturday, June 5, call for bus departures from Hatteras daily at 7 a.m. and 1:10 p.m. From Manteo buses will depart at 9:45 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. With the new schedule ef fective it will be possible for a person to travel to south side of Oregon Inlet and spend time sportsfishing in the surf or visit ing Cape Hatteras Lighthouse I and the new maritime museum soon scheduled to be opened and return to Manteo on the same ds?y. Likewise it will give per sons on Hatteras Island an op portunity to visit Manteo or the Dare Beaches and return the same day. In addition to the improved bus service, the Midgetts also offer a jeep taxi at Hatteras in which visitors may take trips to Hatteras Inlet, Cape Hatteras and other places, along the surf and through the dunelands with out fear of getting stuck in the sand. SCHOOL FINALS HELD MONDAY AT ENGELHARD Principal Presents Diplomas to Eight Members of the Graduating Class Eight members of the graduat ing class of 1954 at Engelhard High School were presented di plomas by Principal M. C. Holland at the school’s graduation exer cises Monday night, after having heard Dr. Leo Jenkins of East Carolina College in Greenville make the address to the class. Sunday afternoon Rev. M. C. McKinney, pastor of the La Grange Christian Church and formerly a student at Engelhard High School, preached the baccalaureate ser mon. Due to the unusually small senior class this year, the usual class night exercises were omit ted. Mr. Holland presented the fol lowing awards to outstanding stu dents: the valedictory award, Syl- I via Midyette; the salutatory award, j Dorothy Barber; boys athletic award, Jimmy Cox; girls athletic award, Dorothy Barber; citizen ship award, Bill Farrow; agricul ture award, Edward Sadler; and , scholastic awards to Martha Mid gette, Franklin Swindell, and Edna Yoder. The members of the graduating class were Wesley Cuthrell, Billy I Farrow, Reginald Lewis, Wendell Midyette, Dorothy Barber, Sylvia Midyette, Mary Ann Payne, and Elsie Pugh. Bernice Cahoon, a pa tient in a Wilson sanitorium, will be given an examination to qualify her for a diploma. FINED SSO FOR SPEEDING AT 90 MILES PER HOUR In Dare Recorder’s Court Tuesday. Theo. Villarin sub mitted to a charge of speeding at 90 miles an hour and paid a fine of SSO and costs. i Ebert Gallop for failing to grant right of way paid $5 and costs. R. W. Gray of Portsmouth, who had been ordered in J. P. court to pay' costs and buy a : non-resident fishing license also appealed to Superior Court when the Recorder sustained. the judgement of the J. P. Gray j claimed to be a resident of Hali fax, N. C.