LUME XX NO. 6
Manteo Man Returns From Iceland;
Upsets Popular Misconceptions
About Its Climate and People
Erwin White, Jr. Back Home After A Year With Army
Base on Tight Little Island; It’s A Warm Place and
They Even Grow Bananas and Grapes # and
Tomato Plants Eight Feet Tall
By Laura Credle
The first question ‘Erwin White
Jr. of Manteo says he Has to ans
wer when some one discovers he
has just returned from a year in
Iceland is “Didn’t you nearly
freeze?’’ That, he says, is the first
of a series ,of misconceptions
about Iceland and he confesses
he had them himself before he
spent a year working on an army
air base there.
No, he says,the climate is little
colder than here. About like that
of Western Europe. An island of
about 40,000 square miles, only
slightly larger than Ireland, the
northern end of Iceland lies
within the Arctic Circle. In the
south the warming effect of the
gulf stream keeps average Jan
uary and July temperatures at
about *3O and 50 degrees. In the
north the weather is colder and
about one fifth of the land is
covered with glaciers. Some
snow does fall in the south, Mr.
White says, but strong winds
quickly blow it away. He con
siders it ironical that this land
of temperate climate bears the
name Iceland while its neighbor,
ice covered and uninhabitable,
is called Greenland.
Another false idea about Ice
land he finds everywhere is the
belief that the country is inhab
ited by Eskimos. On the con
trary, the Icelanders are Scandi
navian,generally tall and fair.
The first Viking settler, the an
cestor of present day Icelanders,
came to Iceland in 874, 192 years
before William the Conqueror
invaded England.
Mr. White went to Iceland on
June 13, 1953 as a civilian elec
trician to work on an army air
base under construction there.
He thinks the income first at
tracted him. “The pay scale is
no higher in Iceland,” he ex
plains, “but we got time and a
half for overtime and everyone
worked overtime.”
Mrs. White and their five chil-
\ originally planned to join
White in Iceland but illness
the family made it impossible
for them to go. They lived in
their home in Manteo during his
absence. While in Iceland Mr.
White made a collection of
slides which, Mrs. White says,
“the children never tire of see
ing.”
Their children range from 13
year old Margie to four year old
Joseph. The middle ones are
Raymond and Mary Charles and
Shirley Frances. The whole fam
ily has become Iceland conscious
and even little Joseph can give
pertinent facts of Icelandic geo
graphy.
Mr. White with his corps of
assistant lecturers will explain
that Iceland is a republic 600
miles northwest of Great Britain.
It is considered a part of Europe
and has a population of 133,000.
Its capital, Reyjavik, in the
south-west is the ffnly really
large town with a population of
50,000.
The country is largely rocky
and barren although along the
coast and in the valleys one finds
fertile soil. The island is, geo
logically speaking, of recent ori
gin built up by volcanic erup
tions. During the 100 years that
the country has been settled 100
eruptions from 20 volcanoes
have been reported.
Even today, Mr.
White, Mt. Hekla continues to be
active, sending up clouds of vol
canic smoke. In March of 1947,
he savs Mt. Hekla erupted with
terrifing force. He can testify to
the lava rock soil, Mr. White says
grimly. “I wore out a pair of
shoes in two weeks on the sharp
loose rock. Then I slipped and
seriously injured my shoulder on
the same rocks.”
Mr. White shows a number of
pictures of hot springs, evidence
of seething volcanic activity un
set- the soil. Iceland is famous
_ her hot springs. The Ameri
word ‘geyser’ had its origin
Wf Icelandic ‘Geysir’, the name
jf the country’s most famous
spring. Unlike Yellowstone’s Old
Faithful, Geysir doesn’t spout on
schedule but at unpredictable
intervals will send up a spout of
over 200 feet.
Unable to get a picture of Gey
sir in action, Mr. White has sev
eral pictures of smaller springs,
some caldrons of boiling mud,
some as clear as mountain lakes
and others sending up fountains
of as much as 15 feet.
Mr. White describes an mgen-
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
ious heating system used by the
Icelanders. They tap the hot
springs and pipe the water to
nearby cities where it is used to
provide clean, efficient, central
heat for the homes as well as a
constant supply of hot water.
“The Icelandic growing season
is too short to provide many veg
etables and fruits”, Mr. < White
says, “but by using the heat from
the hot springs they are able to
grow bananas and grapes and to
mato plants eight feet tall in hot
houses.
Describing the climate as tem
perate, Mr. White reminds one
that Iceland never-the-less bor
ders the Arctic and that days and
nights follow the Arctic pattern.
During the short summers there
are days, he says, when the sun
never sets and on the other hand
winter nights are long. Time did
not permit Mr. White to describe
the beautiful northern lights.
“Some Irish Monks were the
first settlers,” Mr. White outlines
the history of Iceland. The
monks were driven out around
870 by the mighty heathen vi
kings who came, first for raids
and then for settlement, from
their Scandinavian homes.
By 930 enough settlers
had arrived for the country
to establish itself as a republic
with a constitution. Government
was through a national assembly
(Alpin) meeting annually. The
republic lasted 300 years. Finally
Iceland fell under Danish rule
as it remained until June 17,
1944 when it was separated from
Denmark and again became a re
public, he sketches.
Mr. White says that 60 inches
of rain fell in the area where he
worked during his stay. As
might be expected from such
high rainfall, he says that Ice
land has many rapidly flowing
rivers and beautiful waterfalls.
He has a number of colored
slides of Iceland’s most famous
Golden Falls, arched over with
misty rainbowsT
The Icelandic standard of liv
ing, Mr. White describes as high.
“There are no rich and no poor,”
he says. Fishing is the main
See WHITE, Page Four
MRS. MARTHA A. MIDGETTE
DIES IN NORFOLK
Mrs. Martha Alice Fulcher
Midgette of 8053 West Glen
Road, Norfolk, Va., aged 71
years, died at her home at 11:55
a.m. after an illness of five days.
She was the widow of Little
Bannister Midgette, a native of
Dare County, and the daughter
of William T. and Mrs. Joanna
Wright Fulcher. She was a na
tive of Powells Point but had
lived in Norfolk for the past 38
years.
Surviving are one daughter,
Miss Joanna E. Midgette, of Nor
folk; three step-daughters, Mrs.
I. V. Willis of Harkers Island,
Mrs. Rebecca Miller of Coling
ton, Mrs. A. Perry of Ports
mouth: three sons. Washington
F. Midgette and William W. Mid
petto of South Norfolk, arfe Hen
ry G. Midgette of Norfolk; three
stepsons, Watson Midgette of
Norfolk, Ryan H. Midgette of
Wanchese and Marvin L. Mid
gette of Kitty Hawk; one broth
er, John Fulcher of Currituck;
two half brothers Dock and Lin
wood Fulcher, both of Currituck;
six grandchildren and several
sleD-grandchildren.
The body was taken to the
Graham Funeral Home where
funeral serves were conducted at
3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
Burial followed in the Forest
Lawn Cemetery.
HATTERAS NATIVE DIES
Mrs. Ida Willis Stowe, 83, died
Wednesday at 1 p.m. at her
home, 708 Raleigh Street, Eliza
beth City, after a long illness.
A pative of Hatteras, she had
lived in Elizabeth City for 30
years. She was the wife of the
late Benjamin Franklin Stowe
and a daughter of Samuel and
Mrs. Nancy Ballance Willis. She
was a member of the Hatteras
Methodist Church.
Surviving are one daughter,
Mrs. Luther Lassister, of Eliza
beth City; two sons, W. Roose
velt Stowe, also of Elizabeth
City, and Samuel Stowe, of Hat
teras; one sister, Mrs. Curtis
Stowe, also of Hatteras; nine
grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren.
GUEST MINISTER AT
FORT RALEIGH SUN.
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REV. W. R. STEVENS, pastor of
the Chestnut Street Methodist
Church in Lumberton, N. C., will
be minister at the Lost Colony
worship services at Waterside
Theatre next Sunday, August 8.
He is widely known in Methodist
Church work in North Carolina.
In addition to the sermon by the
Rev. Mr. Stevens, music will be
furnished by The Lost Colony
Chorus under the direction of
Nena Williams with James Lit
ton at the console of the organ.
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COMMISSIONERS SET
INCREASED TAX RATE
IN CURRITUCK C’NTY
A tax rate increase of five
cents per SIOO valuation of pro
perty was decided upon by Cur
rituck County Commissioners
Monday. A total budget of slsl,
695.27 was approved and the new
tax rate of 90 cents per SIOO unit
of property set.
The J. M. Cleminshaw Com
pany of Cleveland, Ohio has be
gun work on revaluation and
equalization of the tax program
for the county, the board was in
formed. With the county reval
uation board the company will
set up a dollar "value for a good
acre of land as against a poor
acre or a house without plumb
ing against a house with plumb
ing .
The board approved a raise of
S2O a month for the secretary to
the county Health Department.
S. C. Chandler, superintendent
of county schools was chosen to
direct civil defense in the county.
NAVAL MEN RESCUED
AT INLET ON SUNDAY
Oregon Inlet Coast Gurdsmen
rescued two anglers near Nags
Head early Sunday morning
when the outboard motor-pow
ered boat they had gone fishing
in at Oregon Inlet capsized near
the offshore break. Lester Ken
nedy and B. G. Atkins, Naval
personnel of the Norfolk area
were the two men saved. Ken
nedy’s home is in DeKalb, Texas
and Atkins is from Arkansas. It
was reported that the boat over
turned at 6:20. The two men
were sighted a few moments
later by the lookout at Oregon
Inlet. The motor lifeboat was dis
patched from Oregon Inlet at
6:50 o’clock and the two men
were hauled from the water and
landed at the station at 7:20
o’clock. The motor was lost but
the skiff was saved.
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MOZART REQUIEM TO BE
PRESENTED SUNDAY, AUG. 8
The requiem by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart will be per
formed Sunday afternoon, Au
gust 8, at four o’clock in the
Manteo school auditorium by
the chorus of the Lost Colony
of Fine Arts.
The chorus is made up of about
35 voices, being members of the
Lost Colony choir, other mem
bers of the cast and other singers
who followed the course during
its summer session. Miss Nena
Williams, director of music for
The Lost Colony, has been cho
ral instructor and will conduct
the Sunday afternoon perform
ance.
The public is invited to attend.
LT. CLIFT IS ASSIGNED
TO MOFFETT FIELD CAL.
Moffett Field, Calif. (FHTNC)
—Navy Lt. John W. Clift, hus
band Os the former Miss Norma
L. Scarborough of Wanchese has
reported to the U. S. Naval Air
Station here. He has been assign
ed to the Supply Department as
Officer-in-Charge of the Com
missary Store.
Lt. Clift attended Cambridge
High School and entered the
Navy in December, 1953.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1954 .
COMMISSIONERS NAME
ASSISTANT TO JUDGE
OF RECORDERS COURT
Ail new buildings in Dare
County will be required to have
wiring inspected in accordance
with state law, by vote of the
County Board of Commissioners
at their regular meeting Tues
day.
The board appointed Wallace
Gray of Manteo Assistant Re
corders Court Judge. Mr. Gray is
a native of Buxton, coming to
Manteo in 1953.
R. E. White was named wiring
inspector. A fee of $5.00 will be
charged for the inspections
which became compulsory for
buildings dating from August 3.
Requests to the United States
Park Service and the North
Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles for dumping areas and
a driving license examiner for
the south banks area were voted.
Land previously used by the
Hatteras Island villages for
dumpings has been taken over
by the Park Service.
BUXTON MAN GUILTY
- OF STRIKING CHILD
Gilbert Farrow Tried on Tuesday
for Whipping Nephew;
Speed Cases Tried
.Gilbert Farrow of Buxton was
found guilty in Tuesday’s ses
sion of Dare Recorders Court of
striking his sister’s twelve year
old son, Jerry Gray. The sister,
Mrs. Mary Bell Gray, had her
brother indicted for the whip
ping that took place on Saturday.
Farrow pled not guilty to the
charge of “willfully and unlaw
fully” striking the child but ad
mitted giving him a “good whip
ping”. The whipping was admin
istered, according to Farrow’s
testimony, with his belt, as pun
ishment for fighting between
Jerry and his son. Faerow said
he gave a “good whipping” to
both boys.
Judge Baum handed down a
judgement of a $25 fine and costs
of court. Farrow appealed to the
Superior Court but later request
ed permission to withdraw his
appeal.
Three speeding cases were
found guilty tiiis week. Edward
Lance Gray of Avon, charged
with driving 70 miles an hour,
paid a fine of sls. A Suffolk
man, John Edwin Williams, paid
a fine of $25 for driving 60 miles"
an hour in a 35 mile zone.
Edward Jackson Smith of
Portsmouth was convicted on
two counts, driving 85 miles an
hour on the highway between
Nags Head and Oregon Inlet and
failing to stop at a stop sign. He
paid fines totaling SSO.
KANNAPOLIS SCOUTS
CAMP ON THE ISLAND
Eighteen Boy Scouts from
Kannapolis, N. C. are camping
this week at the Fort Raleigh
parking lot on Roanoke Island as
a part of an annual educational
tour. Under leadership of Scout
Masters Paul Cannon and J. C.
Hodge the boys will see the Lost
Colony, visit Wright Memorial
and other historical points, visit
Cape Hatteras and go on a deep
sea fishing trip.
The troop, 45, sponsored by the
Lakewood Baptist Church of
Kannapolis, visited Roanoke Is
land four years ago. Other tours
have taken them to Washingtop,
D. C., Chattanooga, Tenn., and
the Smoky Mountains. Arriving
on the island Wednesday they
will remain until Saturday
morning.
CHARLES THOMAS TILLETT
DARE NATIVE DIES
Charles Thomas Tillett. 76, of
609 Colonial Avenue, died Satur
day morning on arrival at a Nor
folk hosMtal after having suf
fered a heart attack. A native of
Manns Harbor, N. C.. and a for
mer resident of Elizabeth City
for a number of years, he had
been a resident of Norfolk for
the past five years.
He was the son of the late
Nancy and Willis Tillett of
Manns Harbor.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Lovis Burrus Tillett: one daugh
ter, Mrs. Havel Woodard, of
Maple, N. C.; four sons, Thomas
Leslie Tillett. of Elizabeth City,
Robert Earl Tillett, of Baltimore.
Md., Burrus McMullen Tillett of
Compton, Calif., and Norman
Charles Tillett, of Silver Springs,
Md., and eight grandchildren.
A sister, Mrs. Guy Hudgins of
Elizabeth City also survives.
He was a member of the City
Road Methodist Church of Eliza
beth City.
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AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN
OCEAN PIERS PRODUCE
SPOTS AND TROUT ON
SURF OF DARE BEACHES
Kitty Hawk—Despite unfavor
able weather, fishing from the
new ocean pier here at Kitty
Hawk was producing bushels of
spots, plenty of trout and a
variety of other surf feeding
species. It was the same story
at the other two ocean piers
down in the Nags Head area.
Warren Jennette, operator of
Jennette’s Pier in lower Nags
Head predicted better fishing
during early August than anglers
had experienced on the piers
during late July. He based his
opinion on the tides.
Jennette’s Pier has entertained
thousands of anglers this year
and in addition to the small va
rieties landed, there were reports
of hooking tarpon and king
mackerel, but neither species
had been taken to date. A few
small channel bass or puppy
drum have been landed.
Fishing news from the Nags
Head pier about midway be
tween Kitty Hawk and lower
Nags Head was about the same
as at the new ocean pier here at
Southern Shores and Kitty
Hawk Bdach and the Jennette
enterprise.
DOLPHIN AND AMBERJACK.
’ BLUES, KING MACKEREL
Hatteras— No billfishes were
landed here during the week
ending Tuesday, August 3, but
plenty of dolphin, amber jack,
king mackerel, bluefish and
Spanish Mackerel have been
boated.
Fishing Center operators pre
dict that the billfishing for sails
and marlin will pick up now that
August has arrived and the
warm waters of the Giilf Stream
have pushed closer inshore.
All party boats going offshore
have returned with catches of
dolphin if they trolled the sur
face near the edge of the Stream
or amber jack if they fished over
wrecks or reefs. In the same wa
ters king mackerel have also
been taken along with false alba
core, oceanic bonita and other
varieties.
Trolling the Inlet waters at
Hatteras has produced plenty of
blues and Spanish Mackerel and
fishing for these varieties in the
Diamond Shoals area has also
been very good.
SAILFISH LANDED
Oregon Inlet—M. J. Belanger
of the USS Nantahaula (AO-60)
boated a six foot sailfish off Ore
gon Inlet Saturday, second land
ed during the vyeek and the fifth
of the species to be taken with
rod and reel in the Oregon Inlet-
Hatteras area this season. Belan
ger was trolling from Capt. War
ren o‘Neal’s boat, the “Pearl.”
HOTEL MAY BE BUILT
AT KILL DEVIL HILLS
ON HOLLOWELL TRACT
A new ocean front beach hotel
at Kill Devil Hills may be built
on the Charles Hollowell tract
that sold last week for approxi
mately $200,000, according to
reports.
It is understood that a group’
known as the Larchmont Cor
poration being organized under
North Carolina laws will under
take the project. The Larchmont
Corporation is headed by Robert
A. Murphy of Larchmont, N. Y..
brother of Kill Devil Hills’
Mayor J. L. Murphy.
Bernard B. Spigel, Norfolk apr
chitect, is drawing up plans for
a 50 guest-room hotel to cost ap
proximately $275,000. Features of
the proposed hotel include air
conditioning for year round
operation and a swimming pool.
If the hotel is built, construc
tion may start in late summer
and be completed by next spring.
LICENSE OFFICE CHANGES
The branch office cf the De
partment of Motor Vehicles in
Manteo has been transferred
from the office of Manteo Mo
tors to the Town Hall. Mrs. Juan
ita Parker is replacing Mrs. Ren
nie Williamson, who has resign
ed, as agent. The office is in
charge of vehicle licensing.
CHANNEL BASS FISHING
REPORTED GOOD IN SURF
Buxton—Channel bass were
being landed in the surf from
one end of Hatteras Island to the
other during the past week end,
with the biggest specimans reel
ed in scaling at 30 to 35 pounds.
Dozens of smaller bass in the 10
to 15 pound class were caught.
At the same time anglers trol
ling in the Oregon Inlet area
were also catching channel bass.
George Dykstra at Dyke’s fish
ing Center on Roanoke Island
reported one catch of 13 being
boated in one day with rod and
reel. “They are back in the inlet
earlier this year than I have ever
known tthem to be in the past,”
sail Dykstra.
Usually channel bass, the first
real game fish to make an ap
pearance in Dare Coast waters
during the spring, move into the
sounds and seldom return to the
inlets and surf until early au
tumn. This year is an exception.
Edgar Hooper, Buxton mer
chant who accounted for five of
the copper fighters during the
past week end while squidding
for them with Hopkins lures,
stated that surf casters from Ore
gon Inlet to Hatteras Inlet were
bringing in fish. Hooper’s largest
bass was a 30 pounder. Another
Buxton angler Raymond Basnett
also accounted for five channel
bass, the largest weighing ap
proximately 35 pounds.
Record for channel bass along
the Dare Coast so far this season
was a 62% pounder landed by
Linwood Quidley of Hatteras on
the north shore of Hatteras Inlet
early in July. His big fish, the
first channel bass he had ever
landed, is likely to be in the
national prize money, if not first
place winner this year. It weigh
ed one pound more than the na
tional record for 1953.
BILLFISH BLITZ EXPECTED
ON DARE COAST IN AUGUST
Nags Head.—Every variety of
bill fish known to inhabit the
waters off North Carolina's Dare
Coastland have been landed this
season. The score as of August 1,
two white marlin, one taken off
Hatteras Inlet the other south
east of Oregon Inlet and five
was one blue marlin, landed off
Hatteras in June, a 44Z-pounder;
sailfish. The white marlin have
averaged seven feet each, the
sails about six feet each.
The big blitz for bill fish is ex
pected in August. Usually there
are more marlin and sailfish
taken with rod and reel during
August when the warm waters
of the Gulf stream move closer
inshore, than any other month of
the year.
ROBERT G. SCARBOROUGH
WANCHESE NATIVE DIES
Robert G. Scarborough, 40,
died Wednesday night in the
Veterans Hospital, Kecoughtan,
Va., following an illness of three
months.
He was a native of Wanchese
and had been living in Virginia
Beach for the past four years.
He was a carpenter* veteran of
World War 11, having served in
the U. S. Army and was a mem
ber of the Wanchese Methodist
Church.
He was injured in *he attack
on Pearl Harbor December 7,
1941.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Velma Taylor Scarborough
of Virginia Beach; one son, Jo
seph Lee Scarborough, one step
daughter, Carolyn Sue Scar
borough, both of Virginia Beach:
his parents, Ignatius and Izetta
Gaskill Scarborough of Virginia
Eaach; five sisters, Mrs. Mar
mot Evans of Texas, Mrs. Earl
Flora at London Bridge, Va.,
T in. J. H Napier of Virginia
Beach, Mrs. W. R. Malbon of
Dam Neck and Mrs. Donald Mar
shall of Virginia Beach.
Funeral services were con
ducted Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock in the Wanchese Metho
dist Church by the Rev. C. W.
Guthrie, pastor. Burial followed
in the Cudworth Cemetery at
Vanchese.
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DANIELS FAMILY
TO HOLD ANNUAL
AUGUST REUNION
Annual Wanchese Event Was
Organized By Josephus
Daniels in August 1941
Lieutenant Governor of North
Carolina, Luther Hodges, will be
principal speaker at the thirteen
th annual Daniels Day reunion
August 19 in Wanchese accord
ing to Melvin R. Daniels, Dare
County register of deeds, chair
man of the event.
Around 400 members of the
Daniels clan from as far away as
Canada, California and Florida
are expected to attend the re
union in the Wanchese Metho
dist Church at 4:30, Mr. Daniels
states. A short service will be
held in the church with a pro
gram of music and a picnic will
follow on the church grounds. 20
members of the Elizabeth City
band will provide music.
The reunion was organized by
the late Josephus Daniels of Ra
leigh in 1941 and has been held
annually since. His sons, Jona
than and Josephus Daniels, will
attend the event this year. The
Daniels family is said to have
had its American Origin on Ro
anoke Island.
Last year Luther Daniels from
California came the greatest dis
tance to attend the reunion.
Each family will bring a pack
ed dinner for the picnic and the
Daniels of Raleigh will provide
ice cream.
BALL PARK PROJECT
WILL BE READY SOON
FOR NIGHT FOOTBALL
A Manteo ball park project
started in a casual conversation
in a dojyn town filling station
last September has begun to take
form and what was just an idea
last fall will be a lighted ball
park for football games this year.
Sparked by the efforts of Mc-
Coy Tillett, the original group
of six men, minus a few who
have dropped out and plus a few
who have joined, has almost
completed the S2OOO job it set
out last fall to do. The park near
the Manteo water tower has been
leveled and grassed and lights
have been erected. When the
lights are connected within a few
weeks the original project will
be complete.
Manteo high school and pro
fessional baseball teams have
already used the field for day
games and, according to Tillett,
the field will be lighted in time
for evening football games.
The six man group which
adopted the project included Mc-
Coy Tillett, Robert Ballance,
John H. Long, Donnie Twine,
Elworth Peele and Jack Wilson.
Tillett has been managing the
project with John Long as sec
retary and treasurer.
After numerous loads of sand
proved futile in leveling the high
school field it was abandoned.
The present park is on land be
longing to the city.
Mr. Tillett leveled the field
and planted grass last winter. He
continues to do maintenance
work at his own expense. Poles
and lights costing a total of
$1152 were erected by Ray
Lewis with the aid of baseball
team members this spring. As
soon as transformers arrive and
wiring is done the lights will be
ready for night games. Free
electrical service has been offer
ed by Billy Cox.
“This project will mean a lot
to Manteo,” says Robert Bal
lance, original committe mem
ber. “Our baseball team will
probably join the Albemarle
League with such teams as Col
rain, Hertord, Elibabeth City
and Edenton next year. The
school teams will be able to play
See BALL PARK, Page Four
CURRITUCK WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Maggie Beasley Curies
Powers, 68, died Wednesday at
her home in Waterlily. She was
a native of Sea Gull, Currituck
County, the daughter of Soloman
and Cynthia O'Neal Beasley. She
was the wife of Charlie Powers
and had lived at Waterlily for
the past 50 years. Surviving be
sides her husband are one daugh
ter, Mrs. Lucille Lee of Eliza
beth City; two sons, Pemell
Curies, U. S. Coast Guard,
stationed in New York, and Gil
bert Curies, U. S. Coast Guard,
stationed at Norfolk; one sister,
Mrs. Mary Whitson of Waterlily;
four brothers, Elwood Beasley
of Waterlily, Cars Beasley of
Poplar Branch, Jim Beasley of
Kitty Hawk and Sdlomon Beas
ley of Currituck Beach; 12
grandchildren and three great
grandchildren. 1