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OLUME XX NO. 5 THOUSANDS OF DOLPHIN TAKEN IN GULF STREAM Many People Now Consider This Species A Table Delicacy Rod and reel angers who used to catch dolphin in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Dare County and then throw their cat ches overboard after bringing them in to fishing centers to show off or be photographed, now take catches back home with them. During the past week a con servative estimate of the num ber of dolphin taken on all Gulf Stream cruisers operating from Oregon and Hatteras Inlets would run into many thousands. No longer is it considered un usual for a party of five aboard a charter boat to return with anywhere from 75 to 250 or more of the colorful and fast swim ming fishes which are most num erous in offshore blue waters from late July until September 1. There was a time when the angler would hesitate to take a dolphin home for food. There was an old adage along the coast that these fish were poisonous to a certain extent, unless a per son knew exactly how to cook them. The proper way to cook them according to old time sail ors and residents along the Banks was to boil them in water to which had been added a piece of silver. That is why some of the older residents today along the Outer Banks will say that a “dolphin ain’t fitten to eat un less a pure silver spoon or silver dollar has been placed in the pot where the fish was cooked. The modern epicure has long since learned that the dolphin is not poisonous. As a matter of fact some of the better hotels along the coast now feature the filets from these almost boneless fish, at the top of their seafood menu. x The fact that “dolphin are poison,” may have arisen from ' the fact that unless the fish is thoroughly cleaned and unless it is washed thoroughly after matter from the gall of the fish ay give it a bitter taste and, ' x n bring on illness, if eaten by >erson. Modern methods of aning the fish have changed me old adage. “Therefore,” said one of the guides, long in the business here on the Dare coast, “anglers this year sharing in the catches of many thousands of dolphin, are See DOLPHIN, Page Eight HATTERAS MAN FALLS OFF BOAT IN NORFOLK Jasper Willis Drowns in Accident • Sunday; Body Recovered By Coast Guard Jasper Willis, 49, of Hatteras,’ relief mate aboard the tug Louisiana, drowned early Sun day morning when he fell over the side of the vessel moored at the east end of Willoughby Avenue, Norfolk. Va. • Willis, an employee of the Gulf • Atlantic Transportation Com pany, drowned at approximately 12:40 a.m. His body was recover ed by the Coast Guard at 2:52 a.m. According to a Norfolk Police Division report, Willis was sleep ing on a cot in the cabin on the top deck. He apparently went on deck and fell accidently over the side of the tug. Daniel O. Selby, of Ransom ville, was down below and heard the splash. When he came on deck he saw ripples in the water where the relief mate fell. A lifelong resident of Hatteras, Willis was the son of Mrs. Wed more Gaskins Willis, of Elizabeth City, and the late Dave Ellis Willis, and husband of Mrs. Re becca Ballance Willis. Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by four daughters, Mrs. June Davis, of Pearl City, Hawaii, and Misses Cenith Mae Willis, Betty Jean Willis and Re becca Ann Willis, of Hatteras; six* sons, Jack Milboum Willis, nmy Allen Willis, Robert MR me Willis, Eugene Carol Wil- William Vincent Willis and .ymond Virgil Willis, all of Hatteras; three sisters, Mrs. Vance Lewis, of Roper, and Mrs. Lois Burrus and Mrs. Dorcas Austin, of Hatteras, and three brothers, Hobson Willis and Hay lon Willis, both of Frisco, and Roscoe Willis, of Atlantic. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Hatteras Methodist Church. Burial was in the family ceme tery. The body was taken to the church one hour before the funeral. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA NATIVE SON OF DUCK, N. C. PROMOTED ■/ * -] ■■ : MtBBBMK. ■ '¥ ■’T - ’» W ft Norfolk, Va. (FHTNC) —Jackson L. Curies, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. (Juries of Route l,Box 225, Kitty Hawk, N. C., and husband of the former Miss Lulu M. Direk of Devon, Colo., is advanced in rating to boilerman third class, UgN, while serving with the U. S. Naval Administrative Command, Armed Forces Staff College here. He at tended Kitty Hawk High School before joining the Navy in Novem ber, 1952. WANCHESE AF CADET HOME ON A WEEK END A .. s « ■ ••• t ■* MM PETE POOLE DANIELS, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Pete Daniels of Wanchese, - and an Air Force ROTC Cadet at Universiy of North Carolina, prepares to take off on an orientation flight in an Air Force T-33, a 2-seat version of the F-80, “Shooting Star”. Cadet Daniels, who has been visiting his parents the past week end, completed his junior year in Advanced Air Force ROT C and is attending four weeks of summer training at Tyndall Air Force Base as part of his reserve officer training at col lege. While at summer training, Cadet Daniels observes and act ually participates in Air Force operations. Following graduation at Uni versity of North Carolina, he will be eligible for appointment as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force Reserve. DARE RECORDERS COURT HELD AFTER TWO WEEKS An improper passing charge against John P. Holmes of Man teo occupied Dare County Re corders court for almost two hours Tuesday. Court had not been held for two weeks in the absence of Judge W. F. Baum. Judge Baum has been ill in Duke Hospital and returned last week. The case involved an accident taking place during the Fourth of July week end. Holmes at tempted to pass a car driven by Lulu Tillett as she was turning into Kelly Midgett’s yard one mile south of Manteo. The cars collided with damages to each between SIOO and $l5O. Holmes was found guilty and given a fine of ten dollars and 'costs of court. 14 speed cases we re tried. The defendents plead guilty or were found guilty in each case and paid fines ranging from ten to SSO and costs of court. Three other traffic violation cases completed the docket. Each was found guilty and paid fines five to 25 dollars. ANOTHER BIG TUNA Nags Head—P. T. Hodges, trolling from aboard Capt. Hughes Tillett's charter boat the “Gat” this week landed a 45- pound yellowfin tuna. The siz able fish is the second largest of the species to be taken with rod and reel off the North Carolina coast this year. Record tuna taken so far this season was the 170% pounder landed by A. M. Payne of Esmount, Va., who was trolling from the Chee Chee, skippered by Capt. Willie Ether idge when he made his catch. 186 ACRES SOLD TO CORPORATION FOR $200,000 186 acres of Kill Devil Hills property changed hands this week to become the biggest land transfer in terms of price ever transacted on the beach. Charles B. Hollowell and his wife of Elizabeth City sold the tract including 900 feet of ocean frontage to a North Carolina Corporation, Ocean Acres, Tues day for approximately $200,000. It is understood that part of the 18, fifty foot lots of ocean front property will be used to build a hotel costing around a fourth of a million dollars. The tract extends 900 feet in width west of the’ highway to the soundside. The same tract that sold this week for $200,000 brought J. B. Cheshire of Raleigh SIOOO when he sold it to Ernest Meekins of Manteo in 1926. Meekins sold the property in 1927 to Henry R. Osborn of New Jersey. Last December Hollowell bought the land from Osborn for about $90,000. Tuesday, six months later, in his sale to Ocean Acres, Hollowell more than doubled his investment. DRINKWATER RECALLS MANY SHIPS SAVED Omar Babun Not First Ship to be Saved from Sands of Outer Banks Rodanthe.—While it may have not happened in the memory of older residents living in the Hat teras Island region, the matter of “winching” a ship into deep water after it became stranded in the surf or on the beach has happened before. There are two instances on Ocracoke Island where ships were saved by em ployment of the winches or cap stans and hawsers attached to anchors buried offshore. Latest ship to be saved in this manner was the Honduran freighter Omar Babun which carqe ashore three miles north of Rodanthe during a mid-May gale in the vicinity of Mirlo Beach properties. The Honduran ship, according to Wreck Commissioner A. W. Drinkwater in Manteo was in sured for $128,000, her cargo for $120,000 and the “captain’s freight” for $12,000. It is not known here whether the owners ever collected the insurance, but it is known that E. A. Canipe and associates of Havelock, N. C., operating as the United Salvage Company, purchased the beach ed vessel and then proceeded without too much difficulty in removing much of the cargo. The cargo consisted of heavy ma terial originally consigned to a steel mill in Cuba, according to reports immediately following the beaching of the craft. Even with the freight removed old timers shook their heads and declared that the vessel could never be refloated. The craft be came a temporary tourist attrac tion. In the meantime the Cani pes and their employees con tinued working on saving the vessel. All of the water was pumped from her holds, and then, despite the fact that it had been originally reported to be in a leaking condition, the vessel seemed to remain absolutely dry. That is when the main part of the ship-saving operations be gan. She was gradually moved to the Outer Reef and across same. That was on the past week end. The Pauline, a Moran Towing See SHIPS, Page Eight MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1954 COMMISSIONERS VOTE INCREASE IN ADVERTISING The final Dare County budget was adopted by the County Com missioners meeting in special session Monday night. The ap proved budget includes $985 more than the $205,949.60 pro posed at the last meeting. An SBOO increase was voted for the County Advertising appro priation. The original appropria tion was $2,000, considerably less than the S3OOO appropriated last year. Urged by letters and a del egation, headed by Mrs. Lucille Purcer, the Commissioners in creased the appropriation to S2BOO. Os that amount $2300 will go to the Dare County Tourist Bureau. Increases totaling $lB5 were voted for farm and home agents. A tax rate of 90 cents on SIOO was approved . Following the recommenda tion of J.Henry Vaughn, Secre tary to the Staje Association of County Commissioners, present at the meeting, the Commission ers decided to invite the State Association to meet in Dare in 1955 or 1956. The board voted to request the Department of Motor Vehicles to assign a full-time license exam iner to Dare County. Sheriff Frank Cahoon was instructed to collect Bingo licenses from two beach places where they had not been paid for. OREGON INLET WATERS YIELD FIRST MARLIN Nags Head, N. C.—Saturday noted a seven foot white marlin, second of the species to be land ed off the Dare Coast this year and the first to be taken by an angler fishing out of Oregon In let. The fish seven feet long weigh ed about sixty pounds, was caught by C. E. James of 362 Cavalier Boulevard, Portsmouth; Va., from the cruiser Tony, skip pered by Capt. Slim Hayes of Wanchese. This was the sixth bill fish taken along the coast of Dare County this year. Previously three sailfish, one blue marlin and two white marlin had been boated. One of the white marlin, fhen the first of the season was taken off Hatteras by an angler trolling from Capt. Edgar Sty ron’s Twins 11, one of the newest cruisers in the fleet. ' DARE NEGRO KILLED IN 4-CAR COLLISION Alfred Winslow Burton Sideswipes Car Which Crashes Two Parked Vehicles Alfred Winslow Burton, 32, of Manteo died on the way to the hospital following a four-car crash on the beach highway at I Kill Devil Hills at 12:45 Satur . day morning. | Burton was driving a pickup truck belonging to his employers of the Twiford Funeral Home when he sideswiped a 1949 Chev rolet driven by Solomon Clag thom Bethea of 1600 Southern Avenue, Elizabeth City . Doran Washington and Lion eal Scarborough of Manteo were with Burton. The truck sheared a telephone pole and turned over throwing its three occupants from the cab. Bethea’s car traveled 189 feet from the collision striking a sta tion wagon belonging to Frank W. Lawerence Jr. of Richmond, Va. parked in front of his beach cottage. The station wagon crashed into Lawerence’s 1954 Dodge a l so > n the parking area. Burton was the only one in jured. An eye witness stated that the truck was traveling at a high rate of speed when the accident occured. Damage to the parked vehicles totaled $2300. Funeral services were conduct ed at 3:30 Sunday afternoon at Haven Creek Baptist Church, Manteo, by Rev. Joe White, and Rev. Kelly Golden. Burial was in the Baptist church cemetery . Burton, who was the son of the late Daniel B. and Cora Mc- Clease Burton, is survived by his wife, Mrs. Eloise Golden Bur ton; two sons, Alfred Jr., and Haywood Burton; one daughter, Clarinda Inez Burton; one step daughter, Malinda Golden; one brother, Wilbur Burton; seven sisters, Lovie B. Bethea, Mabel, Ethel, Gloria, Connie Mae, Pris cilla and Aquilla Burton. MANNS HARBOR BOY AT FLORIDA AF BASE DALTON LEE MANN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mann of Manns Harbor, and an Air Force ROTC Cadet at East Carolina College, prepares to take off on an orientation flight in an Air Force T-33, a 2-seat version of the F-80, “Shooting Star”. Cadet Mann, who completed his junior year in Advanced Air Force ROTC is attending four weeks of summer trailing at Tyndall Air Force Base as part of his reserve officer training at college. While at summer training, Cadet Mann observes and actually participates in Air Force operations. Following graduation at East Carolina College, he will be eli gible for appointment as a sec ond lieutenant in the United States Air Force Reserve. LEVENE MIDGETT HOST TUESDAY TO LINDSAY WARREN Former Comptroller General, Lindsay C. Warren, who with Mrs. Warren, is vacationing at th eCroatan Hotel, Kitty Hawk, was the honor guest Tuesday evening when his old friend, Capt. Levene Midgett of Rodan the, with a number of friends, was host at a dinner, and pre sented Mr. Warren with a hand some rod and reel. Mr. Warren, showing signs of improvement from his recent long illness, was greatly moved by the tribute of affection shown him, and so expressed himself to the party. Attending the dinner were, be side Capt. Midgett, A. W. Drink water, R. Bruce Etheridge and Ellery C. Midgett of Manteo; Frazier Peele of Hatteras, Allyn Hanks, Supt. of the Cape Hat teras Seashore; Nevin Wescott and Sheldon O’Neal of the Coast Guard, Capt. W. H. Lewark of Kill Devil Hills; and Capt. Rus sell Griggs. CAR STRIKES BICYCLE; KILLS COINJOCK MAN Edmund Lee Jones, 48, of Coinjock was killed Monday at 7 am. in an automobile-bicycle accident a mile and a half south of Coinjock. The accident occur red within 20 feet of the spot where his father was killed in an automobile accident 12 years ago. Jones was riding on highway 158 in front of the Roy Midgett home when he turned into the path of a car driven by John Leonard Richardson of Norfolk. Investigating officer, O. L. Wise, said that evidence showed Richardson driving at a high rate of speed and recommended that he be placed under bond for ap pearance at the next term of Su perior Court. Richardson, 19, is a life guard at the Ocean View Motor Court at Nags Head. Jones is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Lee Jones. He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Parker of South Norfolk, Va. and Mrs. Nola Askew of Ger many. The funeral was conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Coinjock Baptist Church by the Rev. Mark Alexander, pastor. Burial was in the church ceme tery. HATTERAS NATIVE DIES Ronald* G. Rollinson. a native of Hatteras, died in a Thomas ville, Georgia hospital July 21 of a heart attack. Funeral services were held in Georgia on Friday, July 23. Mr. Rollinson is survived by his mother, Mrs. S. M. S. Rollin son, three brothers, John W., Alonzo M. and Harry G. Rollin son of Savannah, Georgia and one sister, Mrs. Harry Kramer of Elizabeth City. tl Cape Hatteras Maritime Museum Reveals Many New Attractions One of Several Projects Planned by National Seashore For The Outer Banks * 1 " ■■■ ■ Cape Hatteras —The story of the Outer Banks, the old U. S. Life Saving Service and modern Coast Guard, the lighthouses, fishing industry and the geo graphical features of the area are told here at Buxton-on-Cape Hatteras in the new Maritime Museum, now open to the pub lic. The Maritime Museum is one of the first major projects in the develoment of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area. The Museum is located in a former ‘keeper’s quarter of far famed Cape Hatteras Light house, America’s tallest light house structure and the tallest brick structure of its kind in the world. Superintendent Allyn Hanks of this new oceanside Seashore Recreational Area stated today that the museum facilities had been installed under the super vision of Paul Hudson by Na tional Park Service Preservation Specialist Harry Wandrus and Exhibit Specialist David Lillis. The history of the Outer Banks, : as shown by the display in pic- ; tures and old time apparatus of : the Life Saving Service is in two i rooms of the building. Later 1 LANDS 56-POUND DRUMFISH FROM SURF WEDNESD’Y A 56-pound drumfish grabbed a fresh mullet bait and was land ed in 20 minutes Thursday morn ing by T. G. Hendricks of 4411 Providence Road, Norfolk, an employee of the Virginia Bridge Division. The fish was weighed soon after being landed at the Oregon Inlet Coast Guard Sta tion. Mr. Hendricks was fishing in the surf on the South side of Oregon Inlet, which he considers is the best fishing place along the coast, that and the beach be tween there and Waves, where two old wrecks are rusting away. He caught one other drumfish weighing nine arid a half pounds, and lost one. He was accompan ied by Leston Tolson, formerly of Buxton, who now lives at Vir ginia Beach. Mr. Hendricks fishes often in this area. MRS. MEEKINS DIES IN ELIZABETH CITY A Native of Rodanthe, Mrs. Meek ins Had Been Living for 55 Years in Manteo Mrs. Rosa Midgett 'Meekins of Manteo, 73, died in the Albe marle Hospital, Elizabeth City, at 4:30 o’clock Friday morning, following a lingering illness. She was a native of Rodanthe but had been living in Manteo for the past 55 years. She was the widow of the late Theodore S. Meekins, Sr., and daughter of the late Thomas P. and Sarah S. Midgett. She was a ihember of Mount Olivet Metho dist Church, Manteo, and a mem ber of the Woman’s Society for Christian Service. She is survi ved by three sons, Ernest E. Meekins and Theodore S. Meek ins, Jr., of Manteo, and Percy W. Meekins of Washington, D. C.; 1 one daughter, Mrs. Alma Reich ] of Manteo; one brother, George Bright Midgett of Manteo; one sister, Mrs. Moncie L. Daniels, Sr., of Manteo; three grandchil dren, seven great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church by the Rev. H. R. Ashmore, pastor. Pallbearers were Charlie Evans, Keith Fearing, Sr., Martin Kel logg, Jr., W. H. McCown, Leigh Hassell and C. S. Meekins. Burial was in the Manteo Ceme tery. A EDWARD MASON CHOSEN DARE DEPUTY SHERIFF Edward Mason of Manteo has been appointed deputy sheriff to work on the beach. His head quarters will be in a police build ing shared with the Shore Pa trol. Mason succeeds Dan Cannady who has been employed by the Town of Manteou Mason is a former Manteo policeman. Recently he has been special policeman at the Nags Head Casino and life guard at le El Gay Court Single Copy 7< other rooms will be added to the museum with additional exhi bits. The new maritime museum is located near the base of the famous spiral-painted Cape Hat teras Lighthouse. The Light house is open to the public most of the time through the coopera tion of the National Park Serv ice and the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard Station. Thousands of persons each month climb to the top of the historic structure. . The museum is one of several developments already completed for the new Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore Recreational Area. At Oregon Inlet, near Nags Head, the Seashore Area owns a modern fishing center, from which most of the anglers going fishing in the upper Dare region secure boats. It is leased to a private operator. . . Here at Cape Hatteras the National Sea shore authorities have been in strumental in the construction of a paved by-way to the point of fabulous Cape Hatteras. During the heavy tourist season this summer several National Park Service Rangers are operating in the area from Seashore head quarters at Bodie Island near Nags Head. NOVEL BY MATHIS TELLS STORY OF “LOST COLONY” “The Lost Citadel,” Two Years in the Making By Well-Known Citizen After two years in the writing, Alexander Mathis’ novel, “The Lost Citadel” is off the press and is a gripping story of the early English settlements at Roanoke Island, and the events surround ing the efforts by the English at founding a new home in the New Wnrld. I Mr. Mathis, who now lives in Norfolk, Va. where he is engaged in industrial engineering, lived for several years on Roanoke Is land. He and Mrs. Mathis own a home one and a half miles north of Manteo. Mrs. Mathis is the former Martha Brothers of Eli zabeth City and is a woman of rare talent and ability, with long experience in theatrical produc tion. She was one of the pioneer developers of the Lost Colony drama when Roanoke Islanders began to stage it back in 1936. The couple is highly popular in this vicinify. The new novel, of some 275 pages, was produced by Pageant Press. Inc. of New York, and sells for $4. Mr. Mathis has the extraordi nary ability of making historical events and figures living and vi brant. The reader shares all the excitement and wonder of the English explorers as they set foot, in the New World—a world of beautiful countryside and colorful Indians. Under the wise and kindly leadership of Arthur Barlow, the English make friends with the Indians, es pecially with the two little In dian boys, Manteo and Wan chese. So strong does the bond between white man and Indian become that manteo and Wan chese are taken to Elizabethen England to meet the Queen and I to give her court an opportunity Ito see what the natives of this English colony are like. j Thus the future of the Roanoke Island settlement seems bright. But the picture changes when Sir Richard Grenville is put in charge of the second expedition to the colony. Easy to anger and lacking maturity and under standing, Sir Richard believes in using force on the Indians, not friendship. His disastrous policy is encouraged by his subordinate, the treacherous Fernando, whose secret aim is to pave the way for Soanish domination of the New World. Thus is brought about a breach between Indian and white man which is never to be healed, a breach which makes bitter ene mies of Manteo and Wanchese, the two cousins who had been so close during childhood. For Man teo casts his lot with the English and remains their faithful friend, while the embittered Wanchese becomes their implacable foe. The struggle of the colonists to survive, their fight against hos tile Indians, hunger and the other perils of a pioneer coun try, and the ultimate fate of the settlement are depicted by the author with unforgetable real y See NOVEL, Page Eight
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