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UME XXI NO. 3 >ziANT MACHINERY SEEKS SECRETS OF STORMS AT CAPE Quarter Million Dollars Worth of Gadgets on Island to Aid Expert Forecasters Hatteras, July 21.—Provided this year’s anticipated crop of hurri canes can control their impatience past this Island’s traditional anni versary of August Fourth, they will find set up here and waiting for them the world’s most power ful Hurricane Observation Center with about $250,000 worth of the most modern gadgets ready and waiting to pry their secrets out of them and broadcast them, in warn ing, to threatened areas ahead. More powerful and with a great er range than even the most noted hurricane warning center at Miami, Fla., the new installation here can poke its fingers into the core of a hurricane 300 miles away and calculate its intensity, its direction and its velocity. And even if the winds interrupted surface com munication there is standing by a radio transmitter that will enable technicians here to talk directly with the clearing center in Wash ington. Under the joint direction of C. A. Wardman, meteorologist in charge of the Station and Law rence Hendrickson, electronics technician who will operate the machinery during times of emer gency, the Scott Construction Co., of Newport News, is today put ting the finishing touches to the 65-foot tower that will carry the antenna of the radar housed in a newly air-conditioned room in the weather bureau building. Another room for housing other gear, is air-conditioned and de-humidified because of the delicacy of some of the new instruments that will be brought into action, come a hurri cane. Most of the equipment being in stalled here was taken over from the Navy Department and where necessary, re-designed to meet the requirements of the new set-up. the 65-foot tower is borrowed _ i stored equipment and will be | only temporarily until the ▼ .e layout is moved, sometime .ver the hurricane season, to a location nearer the center of most of the weather-breeding done in the North Atlantic. Tentatively the plan is to use 100 feet of the See STORMS, Page Four FOURTH CRAFT FOR INLET FERRY IS JUST RECEIVED The State Highway and Public Works Commission has received a fourth Navy craft for conversion into a ferry boat for the Oregon Inlet run, Ferry Supt. John Wilson said this week. The boat is now located in Norfolk, and was ob tained some months ago from the Navy Department, which “loaned” it to the National Park Service for use on this run. The boat had to be stripped down by the Navy, and it will now go to a Norfolk shipyard for con version to ferry uses. It is the fourth craft of the kind furnished this run by the Navy. Three other boats of the same type are used on Croatan Sound and Alligator River. The boats now at Oregon Inlet are the Governor Umstead, Con rad Wirth and Lindsay Warren. The boats used at the Dare Mainland are the Governor Cherry, Governor Scott and Sandy Graham. ' MANNS HARBOR RURITANS VISIT CLUB AT WANCHESE The Manns Harbor Ruritan Club was liberally represented at the Wanchese Club Friday night when they met in joint session as guests of Wanchese. W. S. White, Manns Harbor president spoke to the meeting. Lawrence Swain of Man teo spoke to the club on behalf of the Dare County Tourist Bureau, and several expressions from Wan chese favored the work of the bu reau. At the close of the meeting - "ote was taken indicating unani • approval of the bureau. isual, an excellent meal was a, and the ladies given a ris vote of thanks for serving it President Melvin Daniels reported on the progress of the Harbor proj ect, which has been one of the main objectives of the club for several months. Manns Harbor club agreed to share with Wanchese club the cost of 500 stickers to be used in the highway safety campaign. Mr. Daniels told the club the county had provided SIOO a month to em ploy a deputy sheriff living in the community, and asked the coopera tion of the citizens for this officer. He also reported he had been given assurance the remaining two dirt roads in- the community would be hard-surfaced shortly. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MANTEO'S NEW PASTOR LIKES TO HUNT AND FISH w | Bjl REV. LOUIS ALLON AITKEN, 32 year old pastor, newly arrived at Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in Manteo ought to soon feel at home in this area. He came with a fine new boat, for his sports are hunt ing and fishing. He preached his first sermon Sunday and was well received, and he is pleased with the splendid, well-furnished par sonage he found ready for him., Mr. Aitken is married to the for mer Elda Dagger of Aurelia, lowa, and they have two girls, Marsha Sue, age 7 and Linda Joe 4. He spent 42 months in the air force, in the Pacific, during World War 11. He is a former resident of Ohio and Pennsylvania, studied at Morris Harvey College at Charles ton, W. Va., got his B. A. degree at Buena Vista College at Storm Lake, lowa, and his Bachelor of Divinity degree at Duke Univer sity. His former pastorates were Poca, West Va., Larabee, la., Tim ber Lake, and Durham, N. C. MIGHTY MOSQUITO MOVEMENT HEADS FOR HATTER-A-S Looks Like Navy WiU Launch Attack at The Cape When Legal Obstacles are Cleared By BEN DIXON MacNEILL Buxton on Cape Hatteras, July 21.—1 tis not lawful in North Carolina to kill a mosquito, except when he attacks you personally, without permission in writing of the mosquito’s owner. This dismaying fact of law was brought home to the residents of Hatteras Island this week when the U. S. Navy sent one of its top entomologists here to inquire into the possibility of doing something to protect 150-odd members of a Seabee battalion currently in resi dence here while they erect a super-secret Navy facility. Here for the investigation were Lt. Cdr. F. R. DuChanois, known throughout the tropics and the far north, where mosquitos are worst, as one of the most effective mos quito eradicators in the world. With him was Chief Hospital Corpsman H. F. Alters. Both are from Unit No. 1 USN Preventative Medicine Corps based at Jackson ville, Fla. From Jacksonville the unit ranges outward to where ever the Navy has men at work and whose work is hindered by insects. They were ordered to Cape Hatteras when Lieut. H. W. Wenke, com manding the Seabees here reported officially that his men were hav ing a pretty bad time with mosqui tos. They have been and continue to be a problem along the entire North Carolina Sea frontier and have been especially bad this sea son. It took Commander DuChanois and Chief Alters less than a day to discover the source and extent of the trouble here—and to discover that it is not lawful to do any thing about it without the written permission of the man who owns - the mosquito and his breeding place. Unless Attorney General W. B. Rodman and the County Com missioners find a loop-hole through which the Navy can work. There are two sorts of mosquitos here—the “white” or fresh water mosquito and the “black” or salt marsh mosquito. It is the black villain who is biting the Seabees, the tourists and the natives of the Island and, until they get used to them, making life a torture. Because of the unusually dry weather that has prevailed in this region this year the fresh water mosquito is no problem. They fail ed to find any. The ponds are pretty well drained and the fish that are in the have eaten the crop down to the vanishing point. But the same condition that has eliminated the fresh water mosquito has aggravated the black boy. Millions See MOVEMENT, Page Four CALLING ALL OLD MEMBERS OF LIFE SAVING SERVICE May Be Last Round Up For Some of the Old Heroes at Rodanthe August 12-13; Names Wanted The Committee for the Chicami-, comico Celebration to be held at Rodanthe, wants the names of all the living members of the old Life Saving Service, who served in North Carolina in this service prior to 1915 when it was amalgamated with the Coast Guard. Anyone who has been a member of the Life Saving Service, or who knows of such members are re quested to convey the information at once to the Committee, Post of fice Box 75, Rodanthe, N. C. They are to be the honor guests at the August celebration. Even at Rodanthe, where most all the menfolks at one time were in this service, only two are now living. They are Davis Littleton Gray, and Arthur V. Midgett. W. B. Miller may be the only one liv ing at Avon. A. J. Fulcher of Norfolk, for merly a Frisco merchant was once in this service. On Roanoke Island, those living number only about six: They are Van Lewark, Marchant Meekins, Claude Jones, Otho Ward, Ned Etheridge and Clyde Hassell. OFFER FOR FREE MOST VALUABLE LAND IN TYRRELL Columbia Merchants Wish to Re tain U. S. 64 Down Its Main Street and Offer Seven Feet. Believe or not, some strips of the highest priced of all land in Tyrrell County is being offered free, provided the State Highway Commission will take it, and keep U. S. 64 where it is, right down the middle of the town’s main street, in Columbia. The business men have offered a seven foot strip on each side of the street, giving permission to shear off seven feet from the fronts of their buildings, if the state will only let the road alone. Forecasting a tremendous boom in traffic when the Croatan Sound bridge is completed, the Highway Commission sometime ago made plans for building a new bridge, and a new by-pass south of Columbia, fearing that the narrow street of the town would be a bottleneck to slow up traffic. Completion of the bridge is ex pected to be followed by greatly in creased feryy service over Alliga tor River, all of which observers say, will only make for so great a congestion of traffic as to de mand a bridge at this point. FIRE EARLY THURSDAY CAUSES MINOR DAMAGE AT ARLINGTON HOTEL A fire at the Arlington Hotel at Nags Head early Thursday morn ing was quickly extinguished and only minor damage was sustained. The fire, in a basement room used for the storage of trash and garbage, was discovered at 3:45 a.m. when Thelma Bowen, a hotel employee sleeping in a nearby room, awakened and smelled smoke. The blaze was quickly extinfp uished with a garden hose and a couple of fire extinguishers. The Manteo fire department was sum moned, but the blaze was out by the time the fire truck arrived. Dewey Hayman, operator of the Arlington, said that the damage was mostly confined to a small area of the shingles covering the outer wail. Mr. Hayman said that .the fire sprang up suddenly, as Norwood Davis, night man at the desk, passed by the room at 3 o’clock to punch a watchclock and there was no sign of fire at that time. WANCHESE MASONS GIVE FISH FRY TO 150 GUESTS Wanchese Masonic Lodge was i.»st to el cut 150 Mi >ons from ten lodges in the flr.t district A’eCnesday night at the Shrine ’ome at N:«gs Head, wnet. Grand Master Dr. Charles H. Pugh of Gastonia Attended. Dr. Pugh made the principal address. The address of welcome was by Willett Tillet, Master of the Lodge. Short talks were made by Mebin R. Daniels of Wanchese, and Roscoe Winn of Elizabeth City. Grand Master Pugh is on a tour of lodges in the east, and visited Columbia Lodge on Tuesday. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1955 JOHN L. STICKLEY TO BE AT LOST COLONY SAT. NIGHT vn it ■ JOHN L. (JACK) STICKLEY, first vice-president of Lions Inter national, will be featured on the Lions International Night pro gram of The Lost Colony in Wa terside Theatre on Saturday night, July 23. With him will come mem bers of the State Council and other high ranking personalities of Lions International from this and other states. The Charlotte resident, now vice president of Lions International, will also be accompanied by a group including Hugh Monteith, Asheville; E. B. Graeber, Char lotte; James R. Morrill, Jr., Win ston-Salem; Lyman D. Austin, Albemarle; W. Paul Lyman, Ra leigh and H. K. Houtz, Elizabeth City. In addition to state and national Lion officials, members of many clubs, especially in northeastern and Piedmont Carolina have indi cated they would send delegations and groups, according to Norman Trueblood of Elizabeth City, State secretary-treasurer of the N. C. Lions State Council. A special program by the Lions will precede the performance of The Lost Colony. N. C. BEAUTY QUEEN AT LOST COLONY TUESDAY NIGHT Faye Arnold, Miss North Carolina, and Runner-up Pat Cowden Make Guest Appearances When Dtiss North Carolina, Faye Arnold, and runner-up Pat Cow den, of Raleigh, took part in Tues day night’s performance of The Lost Colony they made their first guest appearance after winning the titles last week end in Wil mington. The two beauties were interviewed during intermission by General Manager R. E. Jordan, who presented each girl with a Virginia Dare commemorative half-dollar, as gifts from the Roa noke Island Historical Association, the Lost Colony’s sponsor. The coins were handed to Mr. Jordan by Betty Dee and Lovie Lee Ward, twin sisters who take the part of the Queen’s flower girls in the show, who were in their flower girl costumes. One of the largest audiences of the summer attend ed the show that night, when the visitors took part in the fish net scene in the second act. The two State beauties left Ra leigh at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday after noon via Capital Airlines and rr rived at Elizabeth City at 4:40. There they were greeted by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, posed for photos, were interviewed by press and radio, and went through the town with a special State Highway Patrol escort to the Dare Coast. At the county line, on East- Wright Memorial bridge, the girls posed for more pictures, this time in cooperation with the Dare “Slow See BEAUTY, Page Four ANDY GRIFFITH TO APPEAR ON STAGE OF LOST COLONY BETWEEN ACTS SATURDAY During intermission at The Lsot Colony on ® atur<^a y night, July 22, two celebrated North •"* Carolinians will apear on the stage of the great : ’ i Waterside Theatre on Roanoke Island. John L. - < Jack ’ Stickley, first Vice-President of Lions I International from Charlotte, North Carolina, I w ' ll *** honored by North Carolina Lions as can- W<. ~ didate for Lions International Presidency next year. The Lost Colony’s own Mount Airy-born ■WWB O “Deacon” Andy Griffith, (shown in photo) star of stage, television, and Capital records, will act as master of ceremonies and will introduce Stickley during the brief intermission activities. Andy and his wife, Barbara, are spending a few days at a cottage on Nags Head beach, along with Andy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grif fith of Mount Airy, North Carolina. When asked to appear at the Lost Colony on Saturday night, Andy said he would be delighted and would welcome an opportunity to add a few more of his footprints in the sand on the stage of Waterside Theatre. When his brief vacation is over, he expects to go to New York to begin rehearsals as “Will»Stock dale,” the lead in the Maurice Evans stage production of “No Time for Sergeants,” which opens on Broadway this fall. PARK SERVICE TO SPEND $336,000 ON HATTERAS PROJECT Funds Set Up For Fiscal Year Just Begun Show $161,900 For Construction The National Park Service has funds totaling $336,620 set up for development and administration of the Cape Hatteras National Sea shore during the present fiscal year, acording to Allyn F. Hanks, Superintendent of the area. Os this total, SIOO,OOO will go to improve the docking facilities on Ocracoke Island at Silver Lake. At the point of Cape Hatteras, comfort stations, a utilities house and shelter will be built at a cost of $26,700. The lighthouse and vi cinity will get $3,100. Parking areas along Oregon In let and Hatteras highway will get $12,500 for grading and surfacing. At Fort Raleigh grading and sur facing of walkways will cost $lB,- 800. Management and protection of the area will cost $69,960. Forestry SIOOO. Soil and moisture control $10,400. Roads and trails $8,770. New buildings and utilities will cost $85,390. These figures are based on prob able costs. Plans for construction are now being made. OCRACOKERS HOPE TO SEE THEIR OLD STATION RESTORED Sand Fixation Project at Hatteras Inlet Following Efforts of Congressman Bonner Ocracoke, July 21. —In a final effort to save old Hatteras Inlet Lifeboat station from the inroads of the sea work will be underway next week on the erection of sand fences around the partially dis mantled site under an arrangement negotiated here with Frazier Peele, of Hatteras, who will work with personnel assigned by the U. S. Coast Guard Ith funds allocated at the direction of the command ant. Contract for the work was sign ed at the partially abandoned sta tion when Congressman Herbert C. Bonner came down with Vice Ad miral Richmond, commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Russell E. Wood, commander of the fifth District, Capt. Ira Eskridge, and CWO Harold Glynn, commander of Cape Hatteras Group. The trip was made by helicopter and the group were luncheon guests at the Coast Guard Station here after the visit at the old station 15 miles east of Ocracoke. The station, with the sea eating away the shoreline on one side and adverse currents building up land on the other until its boat docks were a mile from water, was vir tually abandoned more than a year ago and its personnel transferred across the Inlet to the one-time Gooseville Gun Club which was traded to the Coast Guard by the National Park Service for two abandoned stations on Hatteras Is land. The gun club was virtually rebuilt and a new channel dredged for the service of its boats. Vigorous protests were lodged with Congressman Bonner by resi dents of Ocracoke Island and he promised them that he would put forth every effort to have the old Hatteras Inlet station restored and re-manned. The situation has been surveyed and appraised at least three times with invariably nega tive result until Mr. Bonner in vited the Commandant himself to come down and look it over. Mr. Bonner pointed to the fine results obtained by sand-fixation and grass planting at Cape Hatteras Leighthouse which was in even worse condition when it was abandoned in 1938 for a See STATION, Page Four COLUMBIA CRABBERS, OTHER FISHERMEN ENJOY NEW INCOME ATTRIBUTED TO BUGGS ISLAND How A Project Designed to Produce Electricity and Control Floods I 50 Miles Away May Make For New Prosperity For Fishermen is Now Evi dent in Albemarle Sound EPISCOPAL CHAPLAIN TO PREACH JULY 24 r - • I W. 4 ■ ■ $9 i ■ A * , : ... The Rev. Charles Leslie Glenn, Rector of St. John’s Church, Lafay ette Square, Washington, D. C., will be guest pastor at the fourth in a series of Lost Colony season Sunday worship services at the Waterside Theatre Sunday morn ing, July 24, at 11 o’clock. A native of New York City, the guest pastor has been Rector at St. John’s Church since 1940 and has maintained his interest in stu dent work founding the Church Society for College Work of which he was President for some time. He is chaplain of— the -U» S. Naval Reserve and served in the Navy at the U. S. Midshipmen’s School in New PArtrCity and on the U.S.S. Alabama. He has been a leader at Camp Dudley, the Y. M.C.A. Camp at Westport, N. Y., and is a Trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky. He is also active in the Rotary and in many civic groups in Washington. His Sunday morning service here at the Waterside Theatre will be gin at 11 o’clock. E/\ST LAKE MAN IS WOUNDED BAD BY A VICIOUS BOAR Henry Louis Smith of East Lake can testify that a vicious boar is a dangerous beast. Mr. Smith this week had the satisfaction of see ing himself recovering and nine stitches withdrawn from his right thigh, and four fixtm his leg, the result of an encounter about a week ago, when he was attacked by the big boar hog which belong ed to his neighbor, Turner Twiford, and which strayed over into the lot of Mr. Smith. According to reports, the boar must have been laying in ambush for Mr. Smith, for it swooped down on him without warning while he was walking across the. lot. It got in several lusty bites. Mr. Smith was treated by Dr. H. J. Liverman in Engelhard. HYDE NEGRO KILLED IN FALL AT CROATAN BRIDGE Elmo Moore, Engelhard Negro, Killed Friday, Negro Laborerj Jtrilte Unsucceufully For More P-V Elmo Moore, a Negro laborer employed on the Croatan Sound bridge, about 45 years old, died when he fell 15 feet to the waters of Croatan Sound last Friday. He had been pushing a small truck which jumped off the track, when he lost his balance and fell. Work ers below grabbed him after he reached the water, but he either suffered a heart attack or was in jured in the fall. Moore had lived in the Manteo area most of the time since the war. Early this week, some 25 Hyde County Negro laborers employed by the T. A. Loving company, bridge contractor, decided to strike for more pay. Some think the strike was precipitated by their fear of working over the water, after the death of Moore. They returned to work after two days without any increase in pay. Com pany officials said they were pay ing better than the general local wage for this class of work, and their contract having been based on such prices, would not justify the increase asked. Single Copy 7< Some 50 or more fishermen in the Columbia area are enjoying new prosperity because of the first invasion of blue crabs in the upper Albemarle Sound, and fishermen from a distance of 60 miles away are making big catches in new waters at the head of Albemarle Sound near the Roanoke and Cashie Rivers. The reason for this new invasion of fish is attributed to the Buggs Islland dam well up the Roanoke River, 150 miles away, and thereby hangs quite a story. The Buggs Island dam was created to control floods on the Roanoke, principally to benefit farmers, and to create cheap electric power. The dam holds back the water, and doesn’t let it spill out all at once in flood seasons, but it drops over gradually, and the fresh wa ter flows down river on the top level, while the heavy salt water from the ocean flows up river on the bottom level. The absence of the former strongly laden fresh water tides flowing east in Albemarle Sound, now replaced by a heavy inflow of salt water coming up Roanoke and Croatan Sounds, has caused so large an invasion of crabs up the sound to Edenton, as to make catching them profitable. More than 50 men in the Colum bia vicinity are now engaged in crabbing and they earn up to SSO a day. One man made a catch of 2,000 pounds of crabs in a morn ing this week, which sold at the rate of three cents a pound. Crab bers go out early in the morning, -and come in and sell out before noon. North Carolina crabs are in great demand among buyers from Virginia and Maryland. For sev eral years it has been an important industry in Manns Harbor, Wan chese and many other points to the south. But they were not in suffi cient number to be profitable in Albemarle Sound before recently. Fishermen at Manns Harbor have been saying for sometime that that their fishing for striped bass, flounders, white perch, and some other varieties of fish which alternate between salt, fresh, and brackish waters as a matter of habit, has been rapidly growing less profitable, they having noted See CRABBERS, Page Four THE MAN WHO STARTED RENTING ROW BOATS IN DARE COUNTY DIES Stewart Marvin Rogers, 75, a man well known throughout East ern North Carolina, who died at his home in Elizabeth City Satur aay after a long illness, was a man who left his mark in Dare County, which he left a few years ago. For many years a travelling salesman, he decided to cast his lot in Dare and he began a new business, the first of its kind in the county. At the Roanoke Sound bridge he built a store, and pro vided many row-boats, and these boats were rented. He was the first to foresee the future in this busi ness. Some said it would fail, no body had ever tried to rent a row boat there before. But he had to rent the first boat to someone, and once boats and bait and tackle were provided, they went like hot cakes. His was the forerunner of several successful businesses of this type now operating. Mr. Rogers made a great success of his business so that when fail ing health overtook both himself and wife, he was able to retire and move to Elizabeth City and live in comfort., Mr. Rogers is the son of the late George W. and Carolyn Rogers, formerly of East Lake. He is sur vived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Simpson Rogers, a daughter, Miss Evelyn Rogers of Elizabeth City, a son, Marvin Rogers of Manteo, See ROGERS, Page Four SARAH HALLIBURTON HEADS MOSQUITO WARFARE CORP. Miss Sarah Halliburton of Kill Devil Hills was name d President of the newly organized Dare County Mosquito Control Corp, at its meeting Friday night Bill Morgan is Vice-President and W. H. McCown, Secretary and Treas urer. The directors are Archie Burrus, Warren Jennette, J. E. Ferebee, W. L. Edwards, George Crocker, Jim Scarborough, P. L. Powell, W. H. Smith, Jr. and Sarah Halliburton.
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