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XX NO. 8 September Surf-Fishing Contest Planned for Rodanthe-Waves Area By Hatteras Island Civic Club North End of Hatteras Island, North Carolina’s Far- East, To Boost Its Scenic and Historical Attrac tions During Three-Day Fishing Festival The most pastern spot of North Carolina, the Rodanthe-Waves area on the North end of Hat teras Island is getting ready to take its place in the sun as a tourist and fishing center, and made plans this week to under take a three day surf-fishing contest, topped by several valu able awards. The contest will be held late in September. Attending a meeting to discuss plans for this contest were sev eral men and women of the com munities, who met Monday af ternoon at Mirlo Beach Lodge near Rodanthe. A committee was appointed and plans will be worked out at once, with further announcements at the end of the week. The communities Civic Club is promoting the contest. Advocates of the contest con tend that this area, which is the most eastern point of the entire south Atlantic coast, has no peer for surf fishing. They cite many big catches made each week in the vicinity of the two steel ships wrecked abreast of the villages of Waves and Rodanthe, and only a little over a mile apart. Once the word gets around just how good their fishing is, they believe more fishermen and tourists will visit the area. This area, known as Chicami comico Banks, has not only scenery it was pointed out, but it has historical attractions, as well as appeal to those who love boating and bathing, either in the ocean, or the shallow waters of Pamlico Sound. As for History, it was stated that the majority of wrecks and SCHOOL OF ARTS I PRESENTS DRAMA MONDAY EVENING nell Stoneman Will Play . Leading Role in . Norwegian Play The Lost Colony Summer School of Fine Arts will present Paul Green’s American version of “Peer Gynt” Monday night at eight o’clock in the Waterside Theatre. Directed and produced by the school staff, the play is the cul minating project of the summer school. It is an annual event, operating on a limited budget and climaxing the studies of classes in chorus, choreography, dance, stage design, costuming, speech, and lighting. “Peer Gynt” is a Norwegian poetic drama by Henrik Ibsen taking as its hero the legendary Peer Gynt of Norse folklore. In the drama Peer Gynt is played by Donnell Stoneman of Greens boro, Father Martin of the “Lost Colony”. He possesses a riotous imagination, is a great braggart and egotist but always avoids any issue. In a long series of adventures that take him over the face of the globe, he proves his true character and comes back at last to Norway. There he finds Death, the but tonmolder, played by Robert Swain, “Lost Colony” technical assistant, waiting to melt him back to nothing and Solvig, the faithful love of his youth, played by Virginia Young. I Peer’s doting, scolding old mother, Aase, played by Jan Pratt, Lost Colony costumer, is a , prominent character and her death in the third act is an out standing scene of the play. The original Aase was forced to leave the cast with a back injury and Jan Pratt will play the role fol lowing one week of rehersal. The music, written for the play by Edvard Grieg is famous as the “Peer Gynt Suites” and especially well known is the st Suite Anitra’s Dance, etc.). > lerick Haley, Lost Colony mist, and William Forrest ~ .anged the music for the Wa terside Theatre performance. Rehearsals for the play began three weeks ago. In early stages of practice, the summer school schedule included two hours of morning rehearsal and two hours of class study with rehearsals following performances of the Lost Colony. This week the cast has rehearsed four hours in the morning and each evening after the show. Dress rehearsal will be Sunday night after the “Lost Colony” from 12 until two am. Stage manager for the pro- See SCHOOL, Page Four THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA rescues from shipwreck for which Hatteras Island is famed, occurred principally on the Chi camicomico Banks. Here trans pired some of the most brave and daring exploits of the Life Saving Service, later the Coast Guard. Near Rodanthe is the famous “Salt Spring,” now long aban doned but which was a pheno mena in ante-bellum days when it was a flourishing industry, from winch salt was extracted and exported to the mainland and other places. The committee working for the fishing contest are R. D. Owens, Don Morrill, Zeke Mid gett, A. H. Gray and Woodrow Edward. Mr. Edwards is Presi dent of the Community Club. The group which attended the meeting held on Mirlo Day, an niversary of a famed rescue on August 16, 1918, and which hon ored A. V. Midgett, one of the rescue crew, included the follow ing citizens: Capt. and Mrs. L. W. Midgett, Mr. and Mrj. W. A. Meekins, Dan Morrill, Zeke Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. Fred O'Neal, R. D. Owens, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Midgett, Dan Midgett, C. A. Midgett, A. L. Midgett, A. H. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mid gett, Elroy Midgett, Woodrow Edwards, Creeden Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Midgett and daughter, Dorothy, A. V. Mid gett, Miss Jackie Farrow, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Horatio Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. Dorland Midgett, Newcomb Midgett. I NEW ENTRANCE TO BE BUILT AT FORT RALEIGH Plans for building a new en trance to Fort Raleigh were out lined Wednesday at the annual meeting of the Roanoke Island His torical Association. V. Roswell Ludgate, regional landscape architect for the Nation al Park Service, told the associa tion that when funds are available the government plans to erect a new entrance to the Roanoke Is land historical site. The entrance would be designed to accommodate the three attractions, the Water side Theatre, the Elizabethan Gar dens, and Fort Raleigh. General Manager Dick Jordan gave a progress report to the As sociation on the Lost Colony. “Due to four rain-outs and three partial rain-outs,” he said,” attendance has not been as good this year as usual.” He continued that attend ance is expected to be better for the remainder of the season. Headed by Chairman Martin Kellogg, Jr., directors and others present were Russell Grumman of Chapel Hill, Dr. Christopher Crit tenden, head of Archives and His torical Department, Raleigh; Mel- Parrott from Berea, Kentucky, head of the Archives and Histori cal Department in Raleigh; Mel vin R. Daniels, Dare County Reg istrar of Deeds; Miles Clark of Elizabeth City; M. K. Fearing, Bruce Etheridge and Albert Q. Bell of Manteo; Samuel Selden; Allyn Hanks, Charles Marshall and I V. Rosewell Ludgate of the Na ■ tional Park Service; and a Mr. ' Parrott from Berea, Kentucky, where the outdoor drama, “Wilder- I ness Road” will be shown next year. MANTEO LIONS CLUB SPONSORS CAMPAIGN SLOW DOWN AND LIVE The Manteo Lions Club is sponsoring a “Slow Down and Live” program in Dare County in an effort to promote highway safety. “Slow Down and Live” is a nationwide safety campaign adopted by the Lions Interna tional and pushed by the North Carolina Highway Patrol. Patrol man R. C. Holt recently appeared before the Manteo Lions and re quested that they sponsor the program. T. H. Noe, Dare county health inspector, is chairman of the campaign and will direct placing of stickers on menus, in hotels, motels, restaurants and other prominent places. > The public, both drivers and pedestrians, are asked to take I part in this safety campaign. GOVERNOR UMSTEAD VISITS INFORMALLY • jw WML- i IEWSvW t t iF■ I || I wpLag a £> ties ME I 8 F S 3 ' ’’Sb -’ ■ ■! l 9 roHt J W I HI m • m COMING DOWN to the Coastland country for a week-end away from the rigors of up-State heat, Gover nor William B. Umstead came over to the Court House for an informal visit with county officials and oth er local people. Afterward there was this picture, which shows, left to right, in the front line, Keith Fear ing the Elder, Lawrence Swain, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, R. Bruce Etheridge, former Con servation & Development Commissioner; M. L. Daniels, chairman of the board of elections; the Governor himself, complete with his trade-mark bow tie; Melvin Daniels, Victor Meekins, and Dr. W. T. Ralph, May or of Belhaven and leader in the Southern Albemarle Association at the time the Croatan Bridge finally tame to reality. Just behind and between Dr. Ralph and Mr. Daniels, is Victor Meekins, first president of the Association and in the background, very modestly, Court Clerk Chauncey Meekins and Sheriff Frank Cahoon. The Governor, almost literally, took two mi Ilion dollars out of his pocket and handed it over for the bridge. LAST SCREW PILE LIGHT HOUSE IN N. C. GOING OUI Roanoke Marshes Light To Give Way to Beacon; Ralph Burrus in Charge The last of the famed “Screw Pile” lighthouses on the inland waters of North Carolina, is still in service in the middle of Croa tan Sound off Wanchese, but it too is slated for the discard at an early date, and with it will go three men to be replaced as have all the oth ers, by a mechanical light on a platform, which requires attend ance every few weeks only. Ralph W. Burrus is the present officer in charge of this lighthouse, a man of 25 years service with the Coast Guard, a native of Hatteras but now a resident of Manteo. The old lighthouse was built about 60 years ago, and is so named because it is built on steel piles screwed into the sand. Time was when Cro atan Sound was a busy thorough fare dotted with sails. But the Alligator River-Pungo Canal has diverted a larger part of the water commerce that has not yet surrend ered to trucks. A quarter a century or so ago, these lighthouses on which men lived the year round, and some times kept their families, number ed 20 or more in N. C. waters. They were a great comfort to boatmen; they rendered a great service. One by one, they have gone away, sold to junkers, and torn down. The lighthouses formerly stood at North River, the upper end of Croatan Sound, Long Shoal River, Gull Rock, Roanoke River, Wades Point, Oliver’s Reef, Pamlico Point See LIGHTHOUSE, (Page Four OPEN HOUSE AT DELRAY BEACH THIS WEEK END Will Show New Beach House for First Time at Kill Dev il Hills Development Open house is being held at Del ray Beach, Kill Devil Hill’s newest development, Friday (today), Sat urday and Sunday. Purpose of the showing is to acquaint all with the new type ranch-house beach home. “The Bellaire,” as the new home is called, was built by the Shana berger Lumber Co. of Kill Devil Hills. Many more of these homes are planned and construction will begin on these within a few days. “The Bellaire" offers many fea tures not usual for beach cottages, and it is understood that the pub lic is taking a liking to this new style of beach homes. Arrange ments may be made for building this home outside the Delray Beach area, should anyone desire. Delray Beach’s development was begun several months ago by W. R. Deaton of Kill Devil Hills. Streets were laid out and paved, property leveled, and sale of lots was begun Deaton announced plans this week 'or $250,000 construction of streets and homes during the next 12 months. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1954 ALPHEUS POTTS TO BE MINISTER AT FORT RALEIGH I fl ■ 1 1 1 Ww 1 iR The Rev. Alpheus W. Potts, pastor of the Huntington Court Methodist Church of Roanoke, Virginia, will deliver a sermon entitled “A Story of Creation” at the service in the Waterside Theatre Sunday at eleven o’clock. Music for the service will be by the Lost Colony choir under the direction of Miss Nena Wil- See SERVICES, Page Four PATROLMAN IS FINED FOR CARRYING A GUN Norfolk Officer Found Guilty On Concealed Weapon Charge In Dare Court Policeman Rondal Aliance Dowd Jr. of Norfolk found out this week that even policemen 1 have to carry their guns where they can be seen. Dowd, in an s unusual case of policeman on trial, was fined $25 in Dare re corders court this week for car rying a concealed weapon. Patrolmen found the gun when ■ they asked to see Dowd’s drivers • license and he opened the glove ’ compartment of his car revealing 1 the pistol. Dowd pleat not guilty ■ to the charge in the grounds that 1 as an officer he could carry the gun as he chose. 1 The court decided otherwise and, in addition to the fine, or dered, as prescribed in concealed weapon cases, that the pistol be destroyed by the sheriff in the presence of three witnesses, the register of deeds, a deputy sher iff and the clerk of superior . court. Dowd appealed the deci sion. Dr. Grayson S. Walrop of Ra l leigh was found of speed ing 80 miles an hour in a 35 mile i speed zone. This case had been oending since July 6. He was fined SSO. Four 50 miles an hour viola i tions in a 35 mile zone received : the same sentence, sls and costs See COURT, Page Four CAPE HATTERAS ELECTRIC CO-OP MEETING SEPT. 1 Nine Directors To Be Elected at Avon Wednesday Two Weeks Week after next, on Wednes day, September 1 at 7:30 p.m. the stockholders of the Cape Hat terg£ Electric Membership Corp, are being called into annual meeting for the purpose of elect ing nine directors for the coming year, and for reviewing the busi ness of the Coop, which now serves all of Hatteras Island. The meeting will be held at the Avon school. George H. Meekins of Avon, Secretary of the Corporation, has jnailed out notices dated August 10th, urging all members to at tend, and to hear the financial status if the co-op read. All con sumers or customers of the co-op ! are stockholders, and are en titled to be present. Nominations for Directors to be voted on, are now being made, the notice says; although add itional nominations may be made at the meeting. Voting will be by secret ballot. ROAD OFFICIALS MEET THURSDAY PLAN TURNPIKE North Carolina, Virginia Road Group Convene at Nags Head Virginia’s Coastal Turnpike Au thority met with North Carolina’s Carolina-Virginia Turnpike Au thority yesterday at Nags Head to work out final arrangements for building a toll road up the coast. One of the first chores of the joint meeting was to set dates for taking bids on the construction. Highway Chairman A. H. Graham, an ex-officio member of the North Carolina Authority, said the two agencies hope to open bids by the middle of September. If this can be done, Graham es timated, the contractor could start work in October or November, and the road might be finished and paved by the end of next summer, although it probably would not be open to traffic until later in 1955. The toll road, the first for North Carolina since the highway com mission was formed, would be about 54 miles long with 34 miles lying within North Carolina. It would begin at or near the pres ent intersection of the Duck road and U. S. 158, a few hundred yards east of Wright Memorial bridge; continue up Duck road for about three miles and then run north along the Atlantic shore. At the Virginia end, it would tie into a road which now runs south for about two miles from Virginia Beach. Graham said bids will be taken on three types of construction— a base of gravel with asphalt sur facing, a five-inch plant mix as phalt and a five-inch mixed-in- See MEETING, Page Four COASTLAND JUBILANT OVER UMSTEAD’S ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS FOR CROATAN BRIDGE Governor Sets Up $2,000,000 to Add to Last Year’s $750,000 Appropriation for Croatan Sound Structure and Makes Trip to Manteo and Hatteras During Week End. The Coastland is jubilant and I grateful over the action of Gov ernor William B. Umstead, who last week, earmarked two mil lion dollars for the construction of a bridge across Croatan Sound, which added to the original grant last year of $750,000 is expected to complete the job; which is also expected to begin this fall and be completed in two years. On the heels of this announce ment, the Governor came to Dare County for the week end, and made his home in the delightful atmosphere of the First Colony Inn at Nags Head, enjoying the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Midgett. Saturday morning he met with several citizens in the Dare County Courthouse, and discussed other highway prob lems, and received lavish praise from those present, spokesman for the group being Melvin R. Daniels. The Governor was quick to deny special credit to himself for his good deed for Dare Coun ty and vicinity. He said he was not giving us the bridge, but it is being built with the people’s money. He paid high tribute to Hon. Lindsay Warren of Wash ington, who has been continuous ly working for the bridge for i many years. “I do not not know I of any man whose love and con- I cern for the whole Albemarle is j greater than that of Lindsay j Warren,” he said. The Governor I later in the day recalled that he was a member of the House Ap propriations committee at the time Mr. Warren got through the legislation for the Kill Devil Hills memorial which has meant so much to Dare County. Mr. Umstead was specially in terested in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which he foresees will be of tremendous good for Hatteras Island and the whole area. He i$ anxious that the ferry service at Oregon Inlet be improved and that the road situation to Ocracoke be re lieved. “It will never do,” said the Governor, “for those people who wish to visit Hatteras Is land, to come and find the ferry inadequate, and be disappointed, l whereby they might tell and dis- See COASTLAND, Page Four DAVIS BROTHERS DO A GOOD DEED ON WATER FRONT Manteo Men Make An Im provement of Great Val ue to Boatmen It takes vision to see the Man teo harbor surrounded by high, drained land with homes and parks and perhaps a bathing beach on the point. After one has seen Manteo’s back yard from the water with its rotting piers, falling buildings and unpainted walls, it takes even more imagi nation to picture a thriving yacht basin with piers, lights and facilities for the yachtsmen and comfortable benches for tourists and townspeople. The Davis brothers, Vernon and Ralph, not only have the vision and imagination that sets them drawing sketches and plans and dreaming with half closed eyes, they have the practicality to start dredging and filling be hind their store. “The other is just a dream,” says Vernon Davis, “developing , the land around the bay. Some one with the money will do it some day but right now the cost is prohibitive”. He sees no rea son, however, why the Manteo water front can’t be improved this winter in time for yachts men next summer. He envisions a long interconnecting wooden pier built along the entire water front with finger piers extending out into the harbor. The idea occured to him as he was cruising through the harbor in his boat. “I noticed how nice the backs of Roy and Edward Wescott’s lots looked”, he says, “all grassed and filled. Then I noticed the disreputable appear ance of the rest of the water front.” When three yachtsmen asked asked him in one afternoon where they could tie up at a nice place Mr. Davis decided that See WATERFRONT, Page Four Single Copy 7# 400 PERSONS AT DANIELS REUNION HELD YESTERDAY News and Observer Editor Josephus Daniels, Jr. Attends Event Annual meeting of the Daniels Clan, a family which originated at Wanchese on the Dare Coast and spread to the four corners of the nation was held yesterday at four o’clock in the afternoon with Lieutenant Governor Lu ther B. Hodges as principal speaker. Head of the clan, Mel vin R. Daniels, the register of deeds of Dare County presided over festivities which included a meeting in the Wanchese Meth odist Church and a picnic on the church grounds. The gathering and meeting continued until early evening. Members of the Daniels family from many towns in North Caro lina and from many States at tended. At least one group from the Josephus Daniels family of Ra leigh was present. Josephus Daniels Jr., and Mrs. Daniels and their children arrived on the coast Tuesday to spend several days vacationing and to attend the reunion. The late Josephus Daniels, onetime Secretary of the Navy and Ambassador to Mexico, pub lisher of the News and Observer in Raleigh, attended the reunion each year that he was in this country during his lifetime. More than 400 persons were here for the annual reunion this year, according to Melvin R. Daniels, head of the clan. “MIRLO DAY” TO BE OBSERVED AT RODANTHE IN ’55 Coast Guard Rescue of 1918 To Be Featured By Celebration On Monday August 16, 1918, the late Capt. John Allen Mid gett, and five other Chicamico mico Coast Guards made a not able rescue of 46 crew members of the British Tanker Mirlo, tor pedoed by a German Submarine six miles off the North Carolina Coast. Monday of this week, the an niversary of the event, a group of people of the communities hard-by, met at Rodanthe and took note of this occasion, and gave rousing cheers to Arthur V. Midgett, of Waves, 80 years old, and one of the two survivors of the group of men who made this rescue. Next summer, the people plan to hold a celebration worth while; one that will not only ob serve this important event, but will honor the great record of the Coast Guard, which has made its most notable history in N. C. in the Rodanthe area. A committee has been appoint- See MIRLO, Page Four MRS. ROSA W. SCHALLER DIES AT 67 IN BUXTON Mrs. Rosa Williams Schaller, 67, of Buxton, died Saturday at 6 p.m. at her home after an illness of two years. She was a native of Avon but has been liv i ving in Buxton for many years. She was the daughter of the late Merchant and Mary Scarborough I Williams. She is survived by three sis ters, Mrs. Brittania Gray, and Mrs. Rebecca Farrow, of Buxton, | and Mrs. Sadie Peele, of Pamlico, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. in the Penticostal Holiness Church at Buxton, by the Rev. Robert Rail, pastor, assisted by the Rev. Dan Meadows, pastor of the Buxton Methodist Church. Burial was in the family plot in Buxton. “Face to Face”, “There is No Night There” and “After” were sung by the church choir. Pail bearers were Curry Miller, Lindy Miller, Vance Miller, Raymond Basnett, Almy Jennette and Loran Midgette.
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