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VOLUME XX NO. 16 GOOD FISHING FOR NAGS HEAD EVENT EASILY PREDICTED Channel Bass Caught During Past Week End Were Large; One 50-Pound er Taken If weather and fishing condi tions continue, as on the past week end along the coast of Dare County, the third annual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament scheduled for October 22-24 will not only attract the greatest number of club teams, but they will have an opportunity to catch more channel bass and other surf fish than during any of the pre vious contests. More than 25 teams have indicated they would participate in the third annual event this year, along with hun dreds of individual anglers who will compete for prizes on Sun day during the open events. Surf fishing following a mid week snap of stormy weather was perfect during the past week end. Previously the water had been too clear for perfect ang ling along the beaches. Scores of channel bass were taken on Sat urday and Sunday between Kill Devil Hills and Hatteras Inlet, the largest a 50-pounder reeled in by H. V. Pierce of Colerain, N. C., near the battered wreck of an LST abreast the village of Waves on Hatteras Island. Pierce, who entered his 50-pounder in the Waves Annual SIOO prize con test, also accounted for a 44 pounder. Kelly Stafford of Richmond, RFD 8, made one of the most outstanding catches at Kill Devil Hills when he brought in a 40 pound channel bass with spin ning gear loaded with 15-pound test monofilament camouflaged line on a Beachcomber reel by Airex and an B^2-foot All See FISHING. Page Eight ROTARIAN’S DRIVE FOR FUNDS FOR BOY SCOUT HUT GAINING HEADWAY Manteo Rotarians will contin —k the drive for funds for build- j the Boy Scout hut through out the remainder of October at which time it is planned to en courage the members of the local scouts to begin their house to house canvas. Due to a series of events, some involving drives for funds dur ing the past few weeks, the Ro tary project in behalf of the Boy Scouts has lagged somewhat. Some of the committees have reported partial results of, their canvassing. One or two individ uals of the club had contacted all persons assigned to their committee. The fund raised through cash donations to date, according to the “Drive Thermo meter" in downtown Manteo stands at approximately S6OO. The fund goal is $3,000. . E. E. Meekins, Treasurer o/ the Boy Scout Building Fund for the Manteo Rotary Club, reported last week the foolowing contri butions beside the $122 previous ly reported: By Martin Kellogg $100; S2O each by D. L. Hayman and W. R. Pearce; S3O each by O. J. Jones anl Lawrence Swain, and $lO each by Paul Gray, Allyn Hanks, W. A. Williams, Sam and Omie Tillett, Jess New man, P. J. M. Bayne and charles Marshall. $25 each by Ralph Swain, C. S. Meekins, R. D. Saw yer; $5 each by J. H. Deniston, Mrs. Georgia Howard, Bryan Cruze, Wynne: Dough, Mrs. Charles Evans, Mrs. Clara Owens, E. L. Brown, Jethro Mid gett, J. E. Harris, Paul Dykstra and Toby Tillett. $2 each by J. C. McCabe, Grace Jordan and Albert Dillahunty. $3 by Jim Scaroborugh, and $1 each by Millicent Osmon, and Balfour J. Baum. HOMER W. PATE. NATIVE OF SALVO DIES IN ELIZ. CITY ' Homer Wood Pate, 61, died Elizabeth City following a neart attack Saturday afternoon at 3:40 o’clock. He was a native of Salvo, Dare County, the son of the late Willie and Dorcas Pate, the husband of Mrs. Pearl Lane Pate; carpenter and a member of the Pentecostal Holi ness Church. He had lived in Elizabeth City for several years. He lived in Manteo several years. Surviving besides his wife are three sons, Merritt of Alex andria, Va., Carroll of Maryland and Gilbert Pate of Elizabeth City; one daughter, Miss Ruth Pate of Elizabeth City; one half brother, McKinley Midgett of Norfolk; one half-sister, Mrs. Marinna Hill of Elizabeth City; and four grandchildren. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA OCRACOKE WOMAN GREAT GREAT GRANDMOTHER f- ■■■’ ' .j BO w W < *' ‘W* * MRS. SAIDE GARRISH, age 84, (front' row right) is the proud great great grandmother of little Beverly Jean Preston, age six weeks, (front row left), who represents the fifth generation of her family at Ocracoke. Not only has “Miss Saide” lived here all of her life, but so has her daughter, Mrs. Walter C. O’Neal, and granddaughter, Mrs. Travis Williams, and great granddaughter, Mrs. Robert Preston. And baby Beverly undoubtedly is thinking, “It was good enough for them, and it’s good enough for me. I‘m going to be an Ocracoker.” DEEPENING MILL CREEK SUBJECT OF RURITANS Wanchese Group To Hear Army Engineers Friday Night at 7 P. M. The subject of deepening the channel from Pamlico Sound in to Mill Creek at Wanchese will be the principal item of business Friday night, this week at 7 p.m. at the usual monthly dinner in the schoolhouse. The club has been working on this project for several months, and will have as guests to explain the situa tion, representatives of the Corp of Engineers, Wilmington office. Congressman Bonner will be invited to attend, but having just returned from a long trip, it is doubtful he can be present. BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MEETING AT HERTFORD Saturday, October 16, on the courthouse lawn of Hertford, Boy Scouts from the seven coun ties of the Albemarle district will gather to show parents and friends- their knowledge of Scouting skills. The public is qor dially invited to attend this the hours of 11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Scout units from all over the Albemarle will be present to put on a free show for the pub lic. T. F. Lowry, chairman of the Fair committee, said he expects to have 15 tents full of Scouting activities going on at the same time. The Cub Scouts Xvill make handicraft items, work at their hobbies, and show their collec tions. There will also be a den Meeting. Boy Scouts will put on demonstrations of finger print ing, carpentry, woodcaring, sig naling, home repairs, civil de fense, Indian lore, handicraft, camping, conservation, cooking, first aid, public health, leather work, metal work, forestry, pioneering, and foundry prac tice. There will be ho admission fee and nothing will be sold or col lected. ROTARY PRESIDENT AT MANTEO CLUB MONDAY Egbert Peeler of Raleigh. Dis trict Rotary President, attended the meeting of the Manteo Club Monday evening, and made an inspiring talk on the ideals and performance of Rotary principles in action. Mr. Peeler visited the Elizabeth City club at noon. Sev eral out of town visiting Rotar ians were present. Following the meeting, a conference was held with the District President; this being his first official visit to the club. WEEK END TRAFFIC TOO HEAVY AT OREGON INL’T Week end traffic at Oregon In let ferry has proved much too heavy for the skimpy new sched ule of one round trip an hour, and many persons who would visit Hatteras Island were disap pointed during the week ends it has been in effect. On last week end, many people were unable to get on the boat. On Friday, Sat urday and Sunday, waiting lines of cars have been .so long as to cause many to wait over for a later boat, and the result is the last boat still leaves a few. At late hours, an extra boat was pressed into service Sunday, but no relief will be tn sight unless an extra boat is put into service earlier. Good fishing weather of the kind enjoyed die past several days will continue to bring large numbers of sportsmen. HOME AFTER 2 YEARS IN WOMAN’S AIR FORCE - K ■ MRS. FRANK HELPENSTILL, 1 who was formerly Helen Brittina Garrish of Ocracoke, is back home at Ocracoke after two years in the Woman’s Branch of the U. S. Air Force. She enlisted shortly after her graduation from Ocracoke High School and served at Denver, Colorado, and Lackland and Randolph Fields Texas. Mr. Helpenstill, A Texan, was also in the Air Force, but after getting out came East to enlist with the U. S. Coast Guard and is now training at Cape May. The couple hope to make their home in the East. LOW jIDS ANNOUNCED ON ROAD PROJECTS The State Highway Commission opened bids Tuesday on road proj ects ’ 29 counties. Low bids for the jects totaled $3,592,619,.38. Included in the list was o con tract for 0.9 of a mile of hydraulic embankment on U. S. 64, an ap proach for the new bridge to be constructed over Croatan Sound. This was readvertised after bids proved eecessive about a month ago. The low bidder this time was Nello L. Teer Company of Durham, which offered to do the job for $107,298. On a project calling for the re location of U. S. 264 at Scranton, n Hyde County, E. P. Brinkley of Raleigh turned in a low bid of $105,482 on grading, paving and structures; and Barnhill and Long. Inc., of Tarboro, handed in a low bid of $92,486.70 on the roadway. NEGRO FINED FOR INV ADING NEIGHBORS TRAILER HOME James Bryant was tried in Dare Recorder's Court Tuesday, charged vith trespassing in the trailer home of Leon (Shorty) Jones near Manteo, and while he pleaded not guilty, he was adjudged so by the 'ourt on two counts. For assault ing Jones, he was fined $lO and costs of court, and for stealing $9 f rom Jones, he was fined $25 and osts. Bryant claimed he went to Tones’ trailer seeking payment of a debt of $1.50 Jones owed him. He contended there was nothing to Tones’ accusations. WARREN AND WORTHY IN DARE DURING WEEK-END Two retired officials from Washington, N. C., Lindsay War rtn, formerly Comptroller Gen eral of the United States, and Ford S. Worthy, recently U. S. Marshall for the Eastern District of N. C. were visitors in Dare County during the week end. They stopped at Kill Devil Hills, and visited Manteo. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1954 DEER AND BEAR HUNTING SEASON OPENS TOMORROW The Usual Good Hunting Is Expected This Year In Hyde County The deer and bear hunting season opens in Hyde County to morrow, October 15, and runs through Saturday, January Ist. According to reports, it looks as if hunting this season will be as good as usual in the county. The deer population is believed to be about as large as usual, and the bear population seems to have increased, in view of a good many reports of damage to crops by bears. The squirrel season also runs from October 15 to January 1 in Hyde County this year . Bag limits this year are as follows: DEER: daily, 1; posses sion, 1; season 2; BEAR: daily, 2; possession, 2; season, none; and SQUIRREL: daily, 8; pos session, 16; season, 100 (may in clude 2 fox squirrel per day, 4 in possession, and 10 per season). Hunters are reminded that the law requires them to get a li cense before attempting to take any wild animals or'birds. The hunting license fees are: nonresi dent hunting, $15.75; state resi dent hunting. $3.10; combination hunting and fishing , $4.10; coun ty hunting, $1.10; and hunting guide, $5.25. These licenses may be purchased from numerous 'stores throughout the county or from any game warden . A free booklet containing condensed hunting and trapping regulations for the 1954-55 sea son is available from stores sell ing licenses, game wardens or the North Carolina Wildlife Re sources Commission in Raleigh. The waterfowl season opens on November 10th and runs throlgh Janhary Bth. Large num bers of geeese began arriving at Lake Mattamuskeet this week and the outlook for the season is very bright. An excellent breed ing season and an improved sup ply of feed for wildfowl has given rise to predictions of more ducks and geese thas ever be fore. HATTERAS MASONS AND WIVES MEET AT MIRLO About 65 Hold Dinner in Interest of Building New Lodge Hall at Buxton Some 65 Masons and their wives of Hatteras Island met at Mirlo Beach Lodge near Rodan the Friday night, and enjoyed a barbecue dinner arranged by the ladies Os the Eastern Star. Mrs. Cedric (Cecil) Midgett of Waves, the Worthy Matron spoke to the group. C. P. Gray, Master of the Cape Hatteras Lodge made an inspir ing address, and Lloyd Scar borough, lodge Secretary, was one of the speakers. Asa H. Gray presided, and called on Dick Job, Victor Meekins, Fab Dailey, Dick Darden and L. W. Midgett who responded with a few re marks. A review of the lodge at Cape Hatteras, which is less than a year old, was given. The plan of building a fine meeting place was outlined. The Lodge now has about 40 members and is going strong. During the meeting con tributions of some $35 was hand ed in. Proceeds from the dinner also went to the building fund. The meeting closed with group singing. CIRCUS COMING AGAIN TO NORFOLK, SAT.-SUN. The famed Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey circus is coming to Norfolk on Saturday and Sunday of this week with two performances each day, 2:15 and 8:15 with doors open, at 1 and 7 so that visitors may see the big animals and other sights and wonders. One of these rare attractions is the great hippopotamus, Colo nel Nile, who weighs six thous and pounds. Three tons is a lot of animal. There are hundreds of rare animals and hundreds of circus stars of international fame. Among the four great super-spectacles is Dreamland, which it is said cost more than $300,000 to produce. The great hippo has a mouth big enough to drop a, sugar bar rel into. He will show his great teeth for a peanut, but a square meal consists of a bale of hay, and several bushels of vege tables. There’s nothing like circus time for the kids, and seeing “The Greatest Show oh Earth” packs a world of thrills and edu cation and delight. CONGRESSMAN ASKS FOR BIG CROWD AT RALLY '3 Illi 'waHb - ' II .. JMHI CONGRESSMAN HERBERT C. BONNER, has sent out a call for a big attendance at the Demo cratic Rally to be held at Eliza beth City on Thursday, October 21, beginning at 5 p.m., and con cluding with a fish fry. Mr. Bon ner says this week: “Plans and arrangements have been completed for the First Congressional District Demo cratic Rally to be held at Eliza- • beth City on Thursday, October 21, at 5:00 p.m. at the S. L. Sheep school auditorium. “Elton Aydlett, Bill Dawson, Herbert Small, Lorimer Midgett, Jerome Flora, Sheriff W. L. Thompson and other good Demo crats of Pasquotank County are See BONNER, Page Four MYSTERY AT WAVES REMAINS UNSOLVED Snow White Buildings Changed To Battleship Gray Overnight October 2 Waves, Oct. 12—They’re still talking about the night snow white houses in this Outer Banks village changed to gray between sunset, October 2, and dawn, October 3. So far no one here and no visitors to the area who saw the results of the strangest phe nomena that ever occurred on Hatteras Island have been able to give a satisfactory explana tion. As it all was happening during the morning hours of Sunday, October 3, many residents here were almost stifled with an odor that many said smelled like sul phur. Mrs. A. H. Gray, Jr., a native of Hatteras Island, explained that not only was white paint changed to gray on the exterior of most of the homes, but inter-* iors were also discolored. Her living room still showed the ef fect of the phenomena a week after it happened, but the exter ior showed only streaks, 'mostly beneath the eaves, that remain ed. “It was an unusual odor. Smelled like a gunshell that had just been fired,” said Mrs. Gray. Mrs. Dan Midgett is postmaster here. Her home was one of the most heavily coated with what ever it was that changed white to gray. She explained that much of the gray matter had disap peared during the week. “The sunshine seemed to bleach the outside walls of houses back to their former whiteness," she ex plained. Still on the porches of her home in sections of the walls where the sun did not reach each day, the deep gray color remain ed. Newcomb Midgett, a retired Coastguardsman, believes the answer to the mystery lies with the great masses of eel grass that had accumulated on the sound shore following westerly winds in the wake of two recent hurricanes. The rotted grasses, did have a gaseous odor more or less sulphuric like. “Rotting eel grass along our shores has al ways smelled like this,” he ex plained. “I’ve noticed it for the past 30 years.” But Newcomb Midgett had never known the atmosphere to be so heavily laden with the odor that the color of paint would be changed overnight. Waves is two miles south of Rodanthe and two miles north of Salvo. Both Rodanthe and Salvo, like Waves, are on the sound shore. Each of the neigh boring communties had masses of eel grass along the shore —but there have been no reports of any unusual odors on the night of October 2, and the white paint on houses did not turn gray. Neither were there reports from other Hatteras Island com munities of similar situations. — Thus the mystery here at Waves has not been solved to every one’s satisfaction. BUXTON-FRISCO MAKE WAR ON GARBAGE-TRASH I The communities of Buxton 1 and Frisco -have undertaken a project of garbage and litter clean-up, which is already mak ing a marked improvement in the appearance of the Outer Banks. For a long time the Coastland Times, county offi cials, citizens and the visiting public have thought and talked jof the need for cleaning up the garbage and debris which has littered the beaches and road sides. Now a group of forward looking citizens have done some thing about it. David M. Barnett of Buxton has purchased a large truck and has arranged foi- garbage pick up twice each week in the com munities of Buxton and Frisco. Although the service has orily been in operation a short time he has already signed up the i greater portion of the residences I and business houses in these communities as well as the Cape | Hatteras Coast Guard installa | tions. For this service he charg i es $1.75 per month per residence I and has special rates for busi [ness establishments, based on the ; anticipated amount of material to be movd, with a minimum business fee of $2.50 per month. Barnett says that he plans to ex tend his pick-up service to Avon and Hatteras in the very near future and hopes that these com munities will respond to a suffi cient degree so that he can charge the same rates as in Bux ton, even though he has a longer hauling distance to his disposal field. Not content with simply “hid ing” the garbage, Barnett has se cured the auvice of experienced sanitation e perts and has de veloped his own dispo, 1 arer where the d; mpings arc burned, treated with lime and covered with dirt. All of the-public officials who have been advised of this pro gram have endorsed it most en thusiastically. Dr. ' Donald Thorp.e, the resident physician at the Cape Hatteras Health Cen ter, has long advocated programs to improve the health standards of the communities and he favors the project for that reason. The National Park Service is primar ily interested in the appearance of the island, as it is seen by its visitors, and park officials en dorse the program because they believe that it will pay big divi dends in the increased good will of the traveling public which is one of the Outer Banks’ greatest financial assets. Dare County Commissioners Lloyd Scarbor ough and James Scarborough and R. S. Smith, t-he county ag ent, are all high in their praise of the communities and especial ly of the citizens who have.pro moted the project. J. M. SPEIGHT, NORFOLK MAN DIES SUDDENLY Joseph Milton Speight, 68, husband of Sophia May Pierce Speight, died suddenly at Man teo, Saturday at 5:45 p.m. Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Speight Harris; a son, Comdr. Clarence Milton Speight, USCG; two sisters, Mrs. William Ogle, of Norfolk, and Mrs. J. C. Vann, of Corapeake, N. C.; two brothers, William C. Speight and James E. Speight, both of Norfolk, and four grandchildren. Mr. Speight was a native of Gates County, N. C., and had been a resident of Norfolk for 33 years, residing at 111 Elwood Avenue. He was a member of the Epworth Method ist Church, Wesleymen's Bible Class, Corinthian Lodge No. 266 A.F.&A.M., and Woodmen of the World. Funeral services were con ducted at the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home Monday. MRS. PRESTON BASNIGHT OF ROANOKE ISLAND DIES Roanoke Island lost a highly es teemed citizen Tuesday in the death of Mrs. Julia Amanda Pin ner Basnight, 65, who died Monday afternoon ip the Albemarle Hos pital after a long illness. She was a native of East Lake but had been residing at Manteo for the past 23 years. Mrs. Basnight was the daugh ter of the late John Pinner and Mrs. Phobe Crees Pinner. Besides her husband, William Preston Basnight, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Andrew Clark and Mrs. Willie Rogers both of Manteo; a son, Marvin P. Basnight of Manteo; a sister, Mrs. Lillie Bratton, of Manns Harbor; a brother, Fred Pinner, of Nor folk, and six grandchildren. Single Copy 7# LOW BIDS TOTAL $182,479 FOR NEW HATTERAS SCHOOL Lively Bidding for High School Job That Has Been Delayed Four Years Low bids totaling $182,479 for construction of a high school build ing at Hatteras Island were open ed Tuesday in tie office of the Dare County Boaro of Education. There were six bids on general construction; seven electrical bids; five plumbing bids and six heat ing bids. Low bids offered were as fol lows: General, Hunt Construction Co., $146,000. Electrical, New Home Appliance Co. of Elizabeth City, $9,650. Plumbing, Kennan & Corey $13,921. Heating, Kennan & Corey, $12,908. This building was made possible four years ago by Dare County’s share of the school bond issue voted under the leadership of Gov ernor W. Kerr Scott. Due to a fight between parties in Avon and Buxton as to where the school should be located and the timidity of the authorities in finally lo cating the school, its construction has been delayed and the children obliged to endure unfavorable ac commodations in the crowded school at Buxton. The new build ing is to be erected on a site some two miles west of the present school at Buxton, on a plot of ground opposite the home of the late A. D. Jennett. HUNTING, TRAPPING BOUNDARIES IN SEASHORE PARK Pursuant to the Act of August 17, 1937, as amended by the Act of June 29, 1940, and guided by the recommendations made by State of North Carolina and De partment of Interior representa tives in February 1954, the Sec retary has designated the Fed erally owned lands within Cape Hatteras National Seashore Re creational Area open to hunting. The only area that will be open to hunting or trapping within the boundaries of the National Seashore on Bodie Is land, according to Chief Ranger Hultman, is an area of approxi mately 1500 acres lying between the north dike of the Goosewing Club property and the north boundary of the Dare County tract. This area is bounded on the east by a line 2000 feet west of and parallel to the highway; on the west it is bounded by the mean high-water mark of Roan oke Sound and the property des cribed is presently in private ownership outside the jurisdic tion of the National Park Serv ice. The only areas open to hunt ing or trapping within the Na tional Seashore on Hatteras Is land are those strips of land in public ownership bordering Pamlico Sound for 250 feet to ward the ocean from mean high water and extending between the villages of Salvo and Avon, Avon and Buxton and between Frisco and Hatteras. These strips contain a total of about 500 acres. Provisions for hunting on all lands under the jurisdiction of National Park Serivce on Ocra coke Island were also provided in the 1940 amendment to the original Act creating the Nation al Seashore with the understand ing, of course, that all such acti vities would be in accord with applicable State and Federal laws. Any further information desired is available at the office of the Superintendent. MRS LOUIS COX WRITES POETRY OF COASTLAND Mr. and Mrs. Louis T. Cox, of Dundalk, Md., have opened their cottage, The Spindrift, at Nags Head, for part of October. Their son, Lt. Cdr. W. Robert Cox, U. S. N„ Mrs. Cox and their young son, Teddy Lee, are guests. Mrs. Cox, Sr., chairman of the poetry group" of the Dundalk Wo man’s Club, is a native North Carolinian and is deeply intrigued by the Dare Coastland. She has put to verse a tribute to stauch ships, courageous sailormen, and heroic surf patrols of the coffee clipper era. The Priscilla’s captain was a member of her family and Rasmus Midgett, of Gull Shoal Life Sav ing Station, was the lone surf patrolman who rescued, single handedly, the survivors, for which feat he received the Gold Life Saving Medal.
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