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OLUME XX NO. 23 DIST. RURITAN MEETING DEC. 9 AT NAGS HEAD About 150 Expected From Counties East of Chowan River Upwards of 150 Ruritans are expected at Nags Head next Thursday, December 9 for a Dis trict convention. The delegates will represent clubs from the counties east of Chowan River, including Dare, according to Dis trict Governor, James W. Davis of Wanchese. The meeting will be held at the Shrine Hall at Nags Head, and will start with a business meeting at 2 p.m., followed by a banquet at 6:30. A prominent speaker will address the dinner meeting. Among the visitors will be the National President, William H. Brake of Rocky Mount, and Na tional Executive Secretary, Mar vin Gray of Wakefield, Va. Mr. Davis, who is also president of the Wanchese club, reports that four clubs are active in Dare County, Avon, Hatteras, Wan chese and Manns Harbor. At one time an active club operated at Stumpy Point. Mr. Davis mentions also that the National Convention will be held at the Hotel Statler in Wash ington, D. C., January 23 to 25th at which time some 1,500 dele gates will attend. Ruritan has had a steady growth he says, pointing out that “Ruritan National con tinues to hold the sixth position in number of clubs and club mem bership among the nation’s civic organizations. Recognizing the needs of the small community and the necessity of farmer and busi nessman getting together, Ruri tan was formed twenty-five years ago. Once each month the many clubs (composed of one-third farmers, one-third professional, one-third optional) meet and en joy a meal together. This is the only civic club in America that re quires a certain part (one-third) of the members to be farmer. Af terward. the various committees report their progress on club ob jectives and projects, new busi ness is discussed and a program entertainment is enjoyed. The .nding committees cover all «ases of community life, and could well be described as a cham ber of commerce for rural Amer- See RURITAN, Page Four LATEST REPORT ON COASTAL TOLL ROAD Bonds Not Yet Sold, But Action Contemplated in a Short Time, Attorney Says The sponsors of the Nags Head- Virginia Beach toll road still have not sold their bonds. Harry McMullan Jr., Washing ton, N. C., attorney for the Caro lina-Virginia Turnpike Authority, said this week, however, that the sale may be made soon. McMullan explained that he is scheduled to meet in New York early next week with the bonding attorneys and bond house, which are to handle the bond issues, to make final arrangements. “All of them say,” he reported, “there is no question of there be ing a successful sale, that it’s just a question of workirw' out the de tails.” \ The Carolina-Virgil Turnpike Authority represents North Caro lina in the venture. Virginia is represented by the Coastal Turn pike Authority of Virginia Beach. Two bond issues will be floated —one in the name of the Virginia Authority and the in the name of the Coastal Tuxu pike Authority—for a total of ap proximately $3,500,000. McMullan said the fact that two separate authorities and two states are involved has created legal problems which must be clarified before the bonds are sold. The road will run for about 50 miles over a 24-foot wide pavemnt from a point north of Duck, above Nags Head, to a point south of irginia Beach. CARTHUR LIVERMAN HOME AFTER YEAR AT BLACK MTN. Carther Liverman, well-known Manteo man is home greeting old friends after a year and eight days in the sanatarium at Black Mountain, N. C. where he appears to have made a complete recovery from a tubercular attack. He re turned home November 5. He was praising the good work done at these institutions, of which Black Mountain is a large one with some 400 patients. He is mighty happy to be back in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas with his family, and expects to go to work soon. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA BAG LIMIT BEFORE BREAKFAST AT MIRLO BEACH „ „ . .. I ■ll~ Jr 50 MIR 1.0 B FAC H ** n Center . jr I3£ i ■r j ji p i t,fill -'EM®* T.j ' • —A ' ; LOOKS like hunting got its right start December 1. Picture shows Bill Meekins at Mirlo Beach Lodge near Rodanthe, with his limit of both ducks and geese bagged Wednesday morning before eight o’clock, leaving time for a day’s work. This hunting spot is a few hundred feet south of the Pea Island Wildlife line, and is considered very good dur ing cold, blustery weather, more than on still, calm, warm days. Several hunters have been doing well in this area. Fred O’Neal, Capt. Levene Midgett and his brother Andrew, Zeke Midgett and some others have prepared for a good season. The first three weeks of the hunting season got off slow because of beautiful weather, but now prospects are en couraging, old timers say. PENTECOSTAL GUEST SPEAKER IN MANTEO g: IB / ! ■ ® 'ft ■ DR. A. C. HOLLAND, prominent layman of the Assembly of God Church, principal of the Manteo High School, will be the guest speaker 7:30 Friday night Dec. 3 at the Manteo Church of this faith. The public is cordially in vited. Dr. Holland was speaker to the men’s fellowship meeting at the Wanchese church Wednesday night of this week. Dr. Holland came to Manteo this year. He served for 14 years as Supt. of Jones County Schools. MRS. MARY W. GRAY IS BURIED AT AVON Mrs. Mary W. Gray died at Avon Monday night, Nov. 22. Mrs. Gray was 78 years old and the wi dow of 'the late Oliver Gray. She is survived by two daugh ters, Mrs. B. P. Miller of Tucker ton, N. J.; and Mrs. Burgess Gray of Avon; six sons, Willard Gray and Ellis Gray of Avon; Watson Gray, Cyril Gray, Jack Gray of Norfolk.; and Oliver Gray of Amegansert, N. Y. Funeral services were conducted at the Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Lester C. Jarrett conducting and Rev. Couch, pastor of the Methodist Church, assist ing. Ushers were Fred Gray and George O’Neal. The pall bearers were Blutcher Scarborough, Earl Meekins, Luther Hooper, Moody Meekins, George Meekins and Mitchell Gray. CADET FROM ENGELHARD LISTED ON HONOR ROLL Major P. W. Collins Superinten dent of the Camden Academy in Camden, S. C., has announced that Cadet James Allen Gibts, son of Mrs. R. L. Gibbs of Engelhard, is listed on the Academic Honor Roll of the Academy for the three week period ending November 15 DAMAGED TREES EASY PREY OF TIMBER WORMS Blown Down Trees After Storms Casue Death of Many Others Dare County Ranger Frank Hemilright announces that the De partment of Conservation and De velopment, Division of Forestry’s Pest Control Forester, R. L. Scheer, has asked him to point out the danger of insect infestations in pine timber which was damaged by Hurricane Hazel. Due to the considerable quantity of timber which was blown down there is a strong possibility that bark beetles will build up to large numbers next spring and summer if we have another dry growing s.eason. The primary danger is from Ips engraver beetles accord ing to Mr. Scheeg. These insects are already scattered over most of Eastern North Carolina and seem to be unusually aggressive. Nor mally these beetles cause relatively little danger in standing pine, but the extreme dry weather for the last two or three years has weak ened the pine timber so that it is unable to resist an attack in a great many cases. County Ranger Hemilright ad vises and urges landowners to re move all down and leaning pines from their woodlands. Those with only a slight lean and little root disturbance can probably be safely left. Those trees with a portion of their- roots actually out of the ground, however, are a definite hazard and should be removed. Damaged timber should be sal vaged during the coming winter months. Where it has no salvage value, it should be removed and destroyed. If it cannot be destroy ed, the last resort would be to at least get it down on the ground and be sure that all roots are cut from the main trunks. This last procedure will probably have very little if any effect and therefore should not be resorted to except in extreme cases. Only one or two damaged trees in a stand of timber can serve as a center of infestation especially when surrounding timber is in a weakened condition as it appar ently is at this time. Consequently care should be taken not to over look any down or seriously leaning trees. MANTEO BASKETBALLERS TO OPEN SEASON TUESDAY Athletic officials at Manteo High School announced this week that the school’s basketball season will open next Tuesday night, De cember 7th, when both boys’ and srrls’ teams will meet teams from Swan Quarter High School. The first game is scheduled to get underway at 7:80 p. m. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1954 SURVEY URGES ALLIGATOR RIVER BRIDGE NEXT Long Range Plans Call for Shortening U. S. 64; Many Projects Cited A New York engineering firm has made a survey of North Car olina’s road needs during the next ten years, and in it is recommend ed a bridge over Alligator River to cost $2,980,300. Projects listed for counties of the First Highway District are as follows: Currituck—Rural roads, 46.65 miles of improvements, no new construction, $77,000 right of way costs, $807,000 construction costs; Municipal roads, no changes; Structures, two to be replaced, $98,700. Total for county, $982,- 700. Dare—Rural roads, 67.34 miles to be improved, 14.49 miles new construction, $173,500 right of way costs, $1,873,200 construction costs; Municipal roads, 5.1 miles to be improved, 4.7 miles new construction, $55,000 right of way costs, $395,100 construction costs; Structures, nine to be replaced, one new, $2,980,300. Total for county, $5,477,100. Hyde—Rural roads, 63.22 miles to be improved, one mile new con struction, $46,500 right of way costs, $1,340,00 construction costs; Municipal roads, 1,1 mile to be improved at cost of $25,000; Structures, 13 to be replaced, one new, $323,400. Total for county, $1,734,900. Tyrrell—Rural roads, 45.87 miles to be improved, $31,500 right-of way costs, $641,000 construction costs; Municipal roads, 0.73 miles to be improved, $11,500 construc tion costs; Structures, four to be replaced, $409,800. Total for county, $1,093,800. Washington—Rural roads, 36.82 miles to be improved, $84,000 right-of-way costs; $697,000 con struction costs; Municipal roads. 10 miles to be jmproved, $6,000 right-of-way costs; $150,000 con struction costs; Structures, two to be replaced; $34,800. Total for county, $971,800. i DARE RECORDER HEARS “MONKEY BUSINESS” Two cases had trivial endings this week before the Dare Record er, both resulting in dismissals. Surely the Judge must have felt like fining the complaining wit nesses who welshed when prosecu tion day came. S. C. Midgett had sworn out a warrant against his son S. C. Jr. for creating a disturbance in the father’s home. It must have been pretty rough going for a father to appeal to the law against his son. But the prosecution was not press ed, and the case ended in a nol pros, tantamount to dismissal. Mrs. Katy Hand, had her boy friend Desmond Rogers Jr. haled into court. She charged him with having stolen her pocket-book with SSO in it. This unhappy cli max of a romantic interlude had cooled off by court day and all hands moved for a dismissal. This motion was denied by the court, but later the Judge found Rogers not guilty and dismissed the case. This Mrs. Hand, it will be re called is a much-married defend ant, who was recently brought to court by a former husband, who charged she kidnapped their chil dren from a school in Illinois. The former husband c’aimed that he had been awarde ” stody of their children by a cou zrder. • NEW POSTMASTER ON JOB AT WAVES Mrs. Mattie Midgett of Waves, wife of C. A. Midgett, merchant, was installed Tuesday as postmas ter at Waves by J. P. Johnson, postoffice inspector. She succeeds retired postmaster, Mrs. Anne Midgett, wife of Dan Midgett. Mrs. Anne Midgett has served as postmaster continuously since the office was established 16 years ago. Waves is the easternmost point in North Caralina. Mrs. C. A. Midgett is a sister of Capt. Levene W. Midgett of Rodanthe. WOMANS CLUB TO HOLD BAKE SALE IN MANTEO The Manteo Woman’s Club is to hold a Bake Sale, Saturday, De cember 4th at Fearing’s Drug Store, to assist in raising funds for the pediatrics table recently bought for the Dare County Health Center at a cost of S4OO. The sale will begin at 9 a.m., it is reported. MAY COURT ATTENDANT GREENSBORO COLLEGE JET A J HF Mt. . f . . MISS MAXINE SCARBOROUGH, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Scarborough of Manteo, has re cently been chosen as senior at tendant for the May Court at Greensboro College, Greensboro, where she is a member of the senior class. Miss Scarborough was a May Court attendant year before last, and has had a number of other honors during her four years in the college. KELLOGG CONTINUES TO HEAD THE LOST COLpNY ■r 1 MARTIN KELLOGG, JR., of Manteo, Wednesday was reelected chairman of the Roanoke Island Historical Association at the asso ciation’s luncheon session held at the Sir Walter. Other officers, all of whom were reelected are: Rus sell M. Grumman, Chapel Hill,, vice-chairman; Isaac P. Davis, Winton, secretary; C. S. Meekins, Manteo, treasurer; and Richard E. Jordan, Manteo, general manager. DARE REPRESENTATIVE IMPROVES FROM ATTACK Good news comes that Hon. R. Bruce Etheridge, Representative of Dare County is rcovering in Rex Hospital, Raleigh, following a painful attack that occurred while eating a late supper in a Raleigh case, Tuesday night. He had gone to Raleigh with a group from Manteo, for a meeting Wednesday of the Roanone Island Historical Association, sponsors of the Lost Colony. His illness has not been diagnozed, although at first it was called a heart attack. He was reported Thursday as cheerful. His wife was with him, and friends called to see him. HIGH TIDES AT THE FISHING GROUNDS OREGON INLET FOR DEC. AM PM Wednesday 1 10:48 11:16 Thursday 2 11:39 Friday 3 0:14 12:36 Saturday 4 1:15 1:35 Sunday 5 2:18 2:38 Monday 6 3:19 3:41 Tuesday 7 4:20 4:40 Wednesday 8 5:17 5:38 Thursday 9 6:13 6:33 Friday 10 7:06 7:27 Saturday 11 7:58 8:19 Sunday 12 8:49 9:12 Monday 13 9:39 10:05 Tuesday 14 10:29 10:59 Wednesday 15 11:19 11:55 Thursday 16 12:11 Friday 17 0:52 1:03 Saturday 18 1:48 1:56 Sunday 19 2:43 2:50 Monday 20 3:36 3:44 Tuesday 21 4:25 4:35 Wednesday 22 5:10 5’22 Thursday 23 5:51 6:05 Friday 24 6:32 6:4f Saturday 25 7:10 7:25 Sunday 26 7:47 8:04 Monday 27 8:24 8:42 Tuesday 28 9:02 9:22 Wednesday 29 9:42 10:05 Thursday 30 10:24 10:53 Friday 31 11:14 11:55 RUINS OF FRANCIS YEARDLEY’S ENGLISH HOME MAY HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED ON ROANOKE ISLE Sun-Baked Brick Uncovered in Woods on Shannon Homeplace Near Manteo May Be Part of House Built 67 Years After Walter Raleigh’s Colony Disappeared in 1587. The discovery several days ago, of a quantity of what appeared to be ancient sun-baked brick, on the Shannon homeplace near Manteo, has given rise to a num ber of theories. Recollections of local residents offer little help in solving the mystery of the brick. Back in 1654, some 67 years after Raleigh’s colony disappear ed from Roanoke Island, Francis Yardley came down from Virginia, trafficked with the Indians, saw the remains of Raleigh’s fort, and built an English house on the is land. It is now believed remains of the foundation of this house have been dug up on the property now owned by the fam ily of the late John Shannon of Manteo. P. B. Zevely, a Canadian engi neer, who came to Nags Head this year and established a home for himself and wife, may have acci dentally discovered Yardley’s mansion. When Mr. Zevely learn ed of strange bricks being uncov ered through the years near the home of Ben Shannon, he became interested. With electronic detect ors he got enough reaction to con vince him that considerable COUPLE LOSE ALL AS HOME BURNS AT WANCHESE The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ster ling Paul of W’anchese was com pletely destroyed by fire shortly after 11 o’clock Tuesday morning. No one was at home at the time, and the cause of the fire is un determined. Mrs. Paul and her four children, the oldest of whom is five years old, had left a short time before to visit in the home of her father, Will Barnett. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Willie Etheridge, a close neighbor, who turned in the alarm. The Manteo fire department answered the call immediately, but the whole house was ablaze and the roof ready to fall in by the time they arrived. It was said the only articles saved were a small table and a pillow. The family lost not only the house, but all their furniture and cloth ing. A purse is being made up lo cally to help them through this time of disaster. Mrs. Paul before her marriage was Miss Almeda Barnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Barnett of Wanchese. Mr. Paul, who came from the Bath re gion, has been in the employ of the Daniels Building Supply Com pany for several years. MRS. BEULAH J. ETHERIDGE BURIED AT BUXTON MON. Mrs. Beulah Ray Jennette Etheridge, a native of Buxton, died Sunday in Granville County at 1:20 p.m. She was 68 years old, and the daughter of the late Ben F. Jennette and Mrs. Jennette of Cape Hatteras. She is survived by two sons, Pat and Ray; by three sisters, Mrs. C. P. Gray, Mrs. Frank Miller of Kill Devil Hills, and Mrs. Herbert D. Middleton of Charlotte; by three brothers, W. R. Jennette of Raleigh, U. C. Jen nette of Virginia Beach, and U. B. Jennette of Buxton. The funeral was conducted at 1:00 p.m. Mon day from the Buxton Methodist Church, and burial was in the family cemetery. FAIR HAVEN HOST TO OUTER BANKS SUB DIST. The Outer Banks M. Y. F. Sub district met at the Fair Haven Church, Rodanthe-Waves on Mon day night Nov. 29 th, with 75 vouth and adult workers from the 6 churches represented. A pro gram was given by the Fair Haven group. Sonja Odin pre sided in the absence of the presi dent. Announcements were made about the forth coming events of the year. Installatitn service was held for the sub-district officers. The installation service was pre sided over by Rev. D. E. Meadows, from the Hatteras charge. The next meeting of the sub-district will be held at the St. Johns Church, Avon, in January. The representatives of Little Grove Church in Frisco took back the Banner, which was the second time this year they have done this. Single Copy 70 “something” lay beneath the sur face of the ground at the loca tion. After making agreements with owners of the property, Zev ely began digging. His first thought was the possibility of finding buried treasure. After much digging no treasure was lo cated but several fragments of unusually large bricks were found. This spot was apparently the foundations of a residence many years ago. Aycock Brown has sent some of the bricks to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. for an opinion as to their origin. The report is awaited with inter est. In this connection, it is interest ing to quote here the letter writ ten by Francis Yardley to his friend John Farrar in England un der date of May Bth, 1654 about his journeys, and the house he built, and which is as follows: Virginia, Linne-Haven, this Bth May, 1654 Sir, My brother Argol Yardley hath received many letters from you, with animadversions and instruc tions to encourage him in the prosecution of better designs than that of tobacco, but myself never any: yet the honour I bear you, for your fervent affections to this my native country, commands me in some measure to give you an account of what the Lord hath in short time brought to light, by the means of so w-eak a minister as myself; namely, an ample dis covery of South Virginia or -Car olina, the which we find a most fertile, gallant, rich soil, flourish ing in all the abundance of na ture, especially in the rich mul berry and vine, a serene air, and temperate clime, and experimen tally rich in precious minerals; and lastly, I may say, parallel with any place for rich land, and stately timbers of all sorts; a place indeed unacquainted with our Virginia’s nipping frosts, no winter, or very little cold to be found there. Thus much for the country; the manner and means in the discovery follows: In Septem ber last, a young man, a trader for beavers, being bound out to the adjacent parts to trade, by acci dent his sloop left him; and he, I supposing she had been gone to Roanoke, hired a small boat, and with one of his company left with him came to crave my license to go to look after his sloop, and sought some relief of provisions of me; the which granting, he set forth with three more in company, one being of my family, the others were my neighbours. They enter ed it at Caratoke,* ten leagues to the southward of Cape Henry, and so went to Roanoke Island; where, or near thereabouts, they found the great commander of those parts with his Indians a hunting, who received them civil ly, and shewed them the ruins of Sir Walter Raleigh’s fort, from whence I received a sure token of their being there. After some days spent to and fro in the country, ■ the young man the interpreter 1 prevailed with the great man, and J his war-captains, and a great man of another province, and some oth er Indians, to come in and make their peace with the English, which they willingly condescend ed unto; and for the favour and relief I extended to the interpre ter in his necessity, in gratitude he brought them to me at my house, where they abode a week, and shewed much civility of be haviour. In the interim of which time, hearing and seeing the chil dren read and write, of his own free voluntary motion he asked me, (after a most solid pause, we two being alone), whether I would take his only son, having but one, and teach him to do as our children, namely in his terms, ■ to speak out of the book, and to make a writing; which motion I 1 most heartily embraced; and with • expressions of love, and many • presents, crediting with cloaths, . dismissed him. At his departure f he expressed himself desirous to c serve that God the Englishmen i served, and that his child might be so brought up; promising to • bring him in to me in four moons, : in which space my occasions call -1 ing me to Maryland, he came • once himself, and sent twice to See RUINS, Page Four
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