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VOLUME XX NO. 29 ) RATE JAMBOREE , CALLED APT TERM FOR SPRING EVENT New Name Assigned to Opening Date of Vacation Season in Dare County in April By Aycock Brown Announced first as a "Spring Festival”, a three day mid-Spring celebration designed to launch the 1955 vacation season, the event, planned for April 29-May 1, has now become officially named “Dare Coast Pirate Jamboree.” The name was adopted by 13 members of a 17-person steering committee which met in Manteo on Wednesday to complete initial plans for the event. Mrs. Lucille S. Purser, chairman of Dare County Tourist Bureau’s board of directors had called the meeting. “Already interest in our event is gaining favor, not only here on the Dare coast but elsewhere,” she said. “Norfolk and Elizabeth City chambers of commerce, Bill Sharpe of The State Magazine, Charles Parker Jr. of State Ad vertising Committee in Raleigh have expressed their interest and pledged their cooperation, in addi tion to interest that is being shown by representative citizens along the Dare Beaches, Hatteras Island and here on Roanoke Is land.” Tentatively the schedule of events which will include just about every community in Dare will include surf fishiing contests and ‘the world’s biggest fish fry” on Hatteras Island plus, if it can be arranged a Banker pony race along the beach. These events would be held on Friday April 29, on opening day of the Jamboree. On Saturday in the Kitty Hawk- Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head region, model airplane contests, a beach-buggy and jeep race at Jockeys Ridge, plus a nag race (the nags adorned with lanterns around their necks), treasure hunt, a pirate’s brawl followed by a pirate’s dance would be fea tured. At the ball a pirate queen would be crowned and so would a bearded pirate. For those wishing to partici pate, the beard growing contest, planned to start on February 1, is expected to be one of those hairy-chinned events to end all v eard growing contests. In recent ars during anniversary celebra ns at various places in the na on growing beards have been featured. This one would not be as an anniversary, but an effort to determine if one can grow a beard that would in any way com pare with the one, which according to old wood cuts ,and prints, adorned the face of North Caro lina’s most talked about pirate. On Sunday afternoon commer cial and charter boat races in Shallowbag Bay along with fast speed boats would be featured. Members of the steering com mittee on Wednesday named com mittees to supervise most of the individual events. The committees for Hatteras Island have not yet been completed but is expected to be during the coming week. Present for the meeting Wed nesday were in addition to Mrs. Purser and the Tourist Bureau manager, tlje following: A. H. Gray, Waves, Dick Jordan, Lost Colony, W. N. Smith Jr., Kitty Hawk, Mrs. Diane Johnson, Kill Devil Hills, Abie Williams, Nags Head, Mrs. Wayland Fry, Manteo, L. L. Swain, County Board of Commissioners, David Stick, P. J. M. Bayne, Mrs. Isabel Murphy of the beach area and Allyn Hanks, Cape Hatteras National Seashore. TRY-OUTS MONDAY NIGHT FOR WOMAN’S CLUB PLAY The Manteo Woman’s Club is planning a play for February, and Monday night of next week at eight o’clock in the community building try-outs will be held, Mrs. Wayland Fry, president, an nounces. The funds to be raised from this play will be devoted to a worthy cause —a scholarship to a worthy student, and donation of a pediatrics table to the Health cen- 'ick Jordan, Lost Colony mana was guest speaker of this .b at its meeting Tuesday of this week, and showed lantern slides of Lost Colony scenes. MRS. MATTIE C. UMPHLETT Hertford. —Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie C. Umphlett, who died Sunday, were conducted Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Berea Christian Church by the Rev. Walter D. Perry. Burial was in the church cemetery. She was the daughter by a for mer marriage of the late J. D. Crawford of Manteo and a half sister of Mrs. Tom' Russell. ere, THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA GIRLS TEAM OF MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL F’w y w y t t ... ' A ' '■>*' • w t| ... t j s if" 1 t i I i - J Vv hrwsSL >H ON THE front row are: Helen Baum, Carol Walker, Jean Sears, Lois Sears, Sarah Alford, Becky Moul son, Betty Inge, and Mrdyth Midgett. Back row: Jennette Overcash, Margaret Pearce, Mabel Basnight, Janice Scarborough, Janet Wescott, Martha Rogers, Alice Midgett, Eileen Midgett, and Thelma Wil liams. Photo by Pratt Williamson. BOYS TEAM OF MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL PLENTY HEFTY j|l ®T'' : -q I Sal J 5 Hr JT »«r -■ ■ ■ ihH» Sr* Jk Han.lUuMl w ifIESB I H ■ nhfl wfl AAm i/* 1 KR* MB r > K 9 fj in XJ rUTII uIX fliß r k A- - .•“P’l itk > W^ J b FRONT row: David Simpson, Lloyd Walker, Murray Mann, Pat Kee, Ronnie Meekins. Back row, Coy Tillett, Jr., Davis Ballance, Carl Hayes and Woodie Fearing. MANTEO LEADERS PLAN BIG MARCH OF DIMES CAMPAIGN Mrs. Raymond Wescott, Chair man of the March of Dimes cam paign in Manteo announces plans for an elaborate campaign in the community, beginning Jan. 12th and ending February 6th, Sunday at 1 p.m. Assisting Mrs. Wescott are Nevin Wescott, Treasurer; Mesdames Leo Midgett, Belva Daniels, Camille Poldolski, John Long and Brown Etheridge. A short will be shown each week in the Pioneer Theatre. Cards and envelopes will be dis tributed at Sunday schools on Jan. 16th. Tube containers will be placed in stores and other public places and with each grade in school, to receive contributions. The house to house canvass will climax the campaign. MARCH OF DIMES SUPPER JAN. 15 BY VFW AUXILIARY _________ z The ladies of the Auxiliary to the Dare County VFW Post are busy planning their public service program for the coming year. Many new projects are on the fire. First on their program is a turkey supper for the benefit of the March of Dimes, Saturday night, January 15 at 6:30 o'clock. The supper will be held in the VFW hall, in Manteo; Tickets may be secured by contacting a mem ber of the VFW or the auxiliary. JOHN R. BALLANCE John R. Ballance, 75, retired 'isherman of Hatteras, died at his home Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock. He was the son of the late Wm. A. and Leah J. Gaskill Bal lance. He was a life long resident of the community, a member of the Hatteras Methodist Church. His survivors are, a daughter, Mrs. Herman Gaskins of Hat teras: three sons, Allen of Eliza beth City, Elmer of Hatteras, and Lenwood of Staten Island, N. Y. A half brother, C. C. Austin of Portsmouth, eight grandchildren’' and seven great-great grandchil dren. WAHAB SEEKS POLITICAL OFFICE IN PRINCESS ANNE Son of Ocracoke Man Expects To Be Commonwealth's Attorney Robert S. Wahab, Jr., 37-year old Virginia Beach attorney, has announced his candidacy for the post of Commonwealth’s Attorney of Princess Anne County subject to the Democratic primary in July. In his statement, he said: “I believe that the holder of the office should be in a position to discharge his duties for the best interest of all the people in an impartial manner unaffected by personal prejudices or factional differences. There should be an uncompromising enforcement of all the laws . . Simultaneously, the incumbent Paul W. Ackiss, announced that he would not be a candidate for re-election. He has held the office for 24 years. Wahab said: “I expect to have the support of the political or ganization of the county” His father, Stanley Wahab lives at Ocracoke, and he spent much of his life here. Wahab was bom in Norfolk and attended the' public schools, graduating from Maury High in 1935. He holds an AB degree from the University of Alabama. He attended the law school of the University of Virginia and passed the Virginia Bar in 1940. Later he took a law degree at the Uni versity of Maryland. For several years, he was ad ministrative assistant to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI. Dur ing World World 11, he supervised the German Subversive Activities See WAHAB, Page Two BART GARRISON RIDES BIKE FROM MANTEO TO WANCHESE Bart Garrison, 77 years old gets around pretty good for his age. and thinks nothing of riding 16 miles most any day on his bicycle, which is his usual means of span ning the distance between his home and Manteo. Mr. Garrison has been retired for several years. He is the last one of several chil dren of the late John Garrison, Wanchese merchant. MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 TWO $25 FINES LEVIED IN RECORDER'S COURT TUESDAY Two fines of $25 each consti tuted the grind of Recorders Court in Dare County Tuesday. Samuel B. Farrow and costs on submitting to a charge of driving without operators license, and Claude B. Gillikin of the Coast Guard Boat Chincoteague, was fined $25 and costs for careless and reckless driving, resulting in an accident. Witnesses testified the defendant drove his car into one driven by Elizabeth Ann Dan iels, of Wanchese. TO LEAVE SATURDAY FOR TRIP TO WEST COAST Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Midgett of *be First Colony Inn Nags Head, plan their winter trip this year to ’he West Coast. With Mrs. Lucille °urser of The Carolinian, they will leave Norfolk by Pullman Jan. 15th, going byway of Chica go and Denver. They will be gone two weeks and will return via New Orleans. On January 17th, John White, will round out his 27th year as major domo of the Midgett house hold, having previously been at Sand Ridge Lodge near Rodan the. John will remain behind to look after the household. The Midgetts have taken many trips in mid-winter, previously on occasion to Mexico, Cuba, Bermu da, etc. Last week they spent at their home in Rodanthe, being annual visitors to the Old Christ mas celebration. THE SAM E. MIDGETTS NOW OPERATING CLEANERS A recent change of hands of a Manteo business was the sale of the Manteo Dry Cleaners to Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Midgett of Man teo. Ray W. Jones of Manteo has operated this business on the Manteo waterfront for several years, and recently became acting postmaster. Sam Midgett, Jr. was to join the firm this week, upon his arri val from California. Young Mid gett has been working in the San Francisco section for some time, it is understood that he was anxi ous to come back home. MANY CHANGES IN DARE HEALTH, HOME, WELFARE OFFICES Popular Home Agent To Retire, Two Case Workers and Sanitarian Go Several changes are taking place in the Welfare, Health and Home Agent Departments of Dare County. Mrs. Mary Kirby Staton, the popular home agent for the past four years is going to quit her work and move to Raleigh where her husband, George Staton will enter a bigger field. He will thereby resign his place as case worker for the blind in Dare County. He will become a counse lor with the State Commission for the Blind. Recently Miss Elizabeth Saw yer, who for three years has been a child case worker for the Dare County Welfare Department re signed to take a full case workers job, with increased pay in Curri tuck County, which is nearer her old home of Elizabeth City. Her place has not been filled. Mrs. Goldie Meekins says it is difficult to find duly qualified people for this work, but they are fine peo ple her department is losing and she doesn’t want to see anything stand in the way of their promo tion. Another vacancy, Theo. H. Noe, sanitarian in Dare and Currituck Counties for nearly two years, de parts Manteo for Madison, Wis consin Tuesday of next week. Mr. Noe. scion of the famous family of Episcopal ministers in Eastern N. C. will be assistant to the State Health Officer of Wisconsin. His place in Dare-Currituck has not been filled. His work has won recognition here, and the family will be greatly missed. Another vacancy is taking place ; n the Welfare Depart. Mrs. Ben Crees is resigning as senior steno grapher to go home and take care of their two children. She is an other ■worker who will be missed by the department but wins re nown for her decision in this mat ter. Her place will be taken bv Mrs. Pat Miller Butler of Kill Devil Hills whose husband is in Korea, Mrs. Butler had planned to teach commercial work, but de cided to take work nearer home in order to be near her mother. IRA THOMAS STOWE IS BURIED AT WANCHESE Funeral services for Ira Thomas Stowe of Wanchese, who died in a Richmond, Virginia, hospital last Wednesday, were conducted Sat urday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the Wanchese Assembly of God Church by Rev. A. W. Price, as sisted by Rev. D. B. Lawrence, nastor of the Greenleaf Street Assembly of God Church. “Jesus Will Walk With Me” and “The Last Mile of the Way” were sung by the church choir. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken’ was sung bv Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Lawrence. Mrs. Joy Scarborough recited “Crossing The Bar”. They were accompanied by Mrs. W. A. Price at the piano. The casket was draped with the American Flag. George A. Daniels, Arnold Dan iels, Malcolm Daniels, Junior Stetson, Willie Etheridge, Sr., and Bobby Austin served as pall bearers Burial followed in the Tillett Cemetery, Wanchese FINAL RITES MONDAY FOR HAROLD B. LENNON Harold Bruce Lennon, 39, of Manteo, who suffered severe burns and shock last Thursday when a gas stove exploded in his trailer home near Manteo, died Saturday night at 9:30 in the Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth i City. A lifelong resident of Man teo, Mr. Lennon was the son of Robert Bruce Lennon and the late Mrs. Marv Midgett Lennon of Manteo. He was a veteran of World War 11. Besides his father, he is sur vived by his step-mother, Mrs. Gertrude Lennon of Manteo; a daughter, Miss Mary Bruce Len non of Casey, S. C.; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Garnett Len non of Manteo; and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Carolina Mid gett of Manteo. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at two o’clock in Mount Olivet Methodist Church, of which he was a member. Rev. H. R. Ashmore officiating. The church choir, with Mrs. Rennie Williamson as organist, sang “Rock of Ages” and “In the Haven of Rest”. Pallbearers were Allen Lee Mann, Jr., Ralph Davis, Mar vin Rogers, Billy Cox, Earl Green and Roy Wescott. Burial was in the Manteo ceme tery. MANY THOUSANDS ATTRACTED BY MANY HISTORIC SITES GOVERN MENT ADMINISTERED Dare County Enjoys Splendid New Income From Throngs of Tourist Visitors Resulting From Promotion of Our Beautiful Historic and Park Sites " Cape Hatteras Seashore Recrea tional Area and other National Park Service sites along the Outer Banks and on Roanoke Is land attracted many thousands of vacationists from each of the 48 states, the District of Columbia ad at least 29 foreign nations or possessions during the 1954 travel year ending December 31. Travel figures obtained from various sources on the Dare Coast reflecting these facts in year-end reports of Allyn Hanks, superin tendent of America’s first publicly owned oceanside recreational area the Cape Hatteras National Sea shore and Horace Dough, superin tendent of the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, Mr. Hank’s report also includes at tendance figures of Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, on Roan oke Island. Monument Visitors Visitors counted at Wright Brothers Monument exceeded the previous all-time high of 1953, the golden anniversary year of avia tion, by 186 persons, or a total of 184,514 visitors counted. Remark able, — for in December 1954 only 4.430 persons were counted at the Wright Monument as compared to 12,648 in 1953 when the big four day celebration was staged at Kill Devil Hills. Fort Raleigh Loses While attendance at Wright Memorial showed a small increase, the number of visitors at Fort Raleigh considerably decreased for the year, some say largely due to the admission charge. During the year ending Decem ber 31, a total of 115,664 persons visited Fort Raleigh; included in the count were 45.227 patrons of The Lost Colony. In 1953, a total of 166,385 persons were counted at Fort Raleigh. While some per sons may see cause for alarm in the approximately 50,000 drop at Fort Raleigh last year as com pared to 1953, it is general con ceded that many ‘visitors’ counted in former years were local resi dents who entered the fort merely for the ride or as a place to make a circle turn. (During the current winter there is no gate entrance fees at Fort Raleigh, but a charge of 25 cents is made to persons en tering the museum, it was stated.) National Seashore Cape Hatteras National Sea shore was probably the most visit ed area on the Dare Coast during 1954. Superintendent Hanks esti mates that 110,000 persons of those going to Hatteras Island had as their main purpose to visit the Seashore area. Under a cooperative arrange ment with the Coast Guard, the National Seashore has made it possible for tourists to visit his toric Cape Hatteras Lighthouse during certain hours and certain days of the week. In 1954, 10,308 persons visited the lighthouse. Since July 18, 1954, when it was opened to the public, a total of 12.940 persons have visited the new Maritime Museum at Cape Hatteras. No entrance fee is charged at the museum or light house, it was stated. Electric Counters On September 4, last year elec tric or automatic counters were placed at two turnoff roads with in the National Seashore area. From that date until December 31, a total of 10,471 vehicles crossed the counter on road from main highway to Cape Point at Buxton, or a total of more than 30.000 per sons estimated. At Oregon Inlet Fishing Center since September 4, a total of 9.082 automobiles were counted. These figures rep resent traffic in only one direc- On October 4 a counter was placed on highway at the National Sea shore headquarters and until the end of the vear, 19,655 auto- See THOUSANDS, Page Two MRS. MARGARET A. SIMPSON Mrs. Margaret Anderson Simp son, 74. who died Jan. 11, in Eliz abeth City. She was a native of Bertie County but had been living in Elizabeth City for the past 50 years. She was the daughter of the late Nanie Brandley and Jim Anderson, and the widow of Ed ward Simpson, and a member of the Penticostal Holiness Church. Surviving are two daughters, | three sons and two brothers, Jim B. Anderson, of Kitty Hawk, and Jodie Anderson, of Elizabeth City. Single Copy 7(fc OCRACOKE ISLAND IMPROVED BY NEW BUSINESS BUILDINGS Pupils Made Good Collections; Henry Garrish Dies; Social Happenings Ocracoke, Jan. 10.—Consider able building is going on at Ocra coke. Jesse Garrish is building a new store on land purchased from R. S. Wahab just east of the old building, known as the Commu nity Store or Garrish’s & O’Neal’s. When the new structure is com pleted Mr. Garrish plans to tear down the old building and build a new warehouse there. The Com munity Store was built in 1917 by the late Amasa Fulcher and operated by him until his death. In 1945 Capt. Ike O’Neal and Jesse Garrish took over the opera tion of the store. Jake Alligood is enlarging his soda shop for next summer’s busi ness. Jake, who is renowned as an Ocracoke fishing guide, has ap propriately named his establish ment “Jake’s Channel Bass Inn.” Ocracoke Electric Membership Corporation has completed quar ters for its offices, in a new build ing located between the electric nlant and the I. S. Garrish Store. The accounting office, manager’s office and Board meeting quar ters, will be located here. The for mer space used for the business office will be used as a sales dis play room for electric stoves, re frigerators, heaters, etc. March of Dimes Ocracoke School children brought in $162.82 for the March of Dimes on Tuesday, January 4th, collecting this in a whirlwind campaign on Tuesday afternoon. Children in the first, second, and third grades ran the fastest and got the most; those in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades came in a close second. Ocracoke Burial Association Ocracoke Burial Association elected its 1955 officers at a meet ing held at the schoolhouse on Wednesday, January sth. Junius Austin will serve as president; John Thomas ONeal as vice-’ president; Mrs. Nora Gaskill as secretary and treasurer. New members elected to the Board were Frank Teeter, Clinton Gas kill, and Taft Howard. Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon, January 6t’u. for Henry Garrish, age 71, who died on January 3 at Raleigh, following long illness. Rev. W. R. Hale officiated at the service, which was held at the Methodist Church. Burial was in the family graveyard. Mr. Garrish is survived by a sister, Mrs. Letha O’Neal, and two brothers, Preston and Charlie Garrish. all of Ocracoke. The Sophia Williams Circle held its first meeting of the New Year at the home of Mrs. Jesse Gar rish. Mrs. Rondthaler, leader, and Mrs. Virginia Esham, secretary treasurer, presented a report of 1954 accomplishments. It was voted to sponsor a Valentine’s Supper on Friday night, Feb. See OCRACOKE, Page Two SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER PLAY FOR MANTEO SENIORS After perusing several well known and popular plays, the Senior Class of Manteo High School has chosen for spring pro duction “She Stoops to Conquer,” an 18th century play by Oliver Goldsmith. Wherever produced, this play has met with instant popularity. The class feels that local theatre-goers, too, will find its humor immensely entertaining. Try-outs were held in Novem ber and a promising cast has been chosen. Those not in the cast have important duties, for the organi zation of a play, whether it be make-up, advertising, costumes, scenery, or acting, utilizes the tal ents of every member. Full of enthusiasm, the seniors I have already begun on the vari ous assignments, though actual re- I hearsals will not begin until late I February or early March. Lines are being learned, costumes and posters designed, stage settings planned, and make-up studied. With so much preliminary work accomplished, the emphasis at re hearsals will be on the presenta tion of a pleasing and well-acted play.
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