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JME XXI NO. 5 FORESEE OREGON INLET BRIDGE IN’5 YEARS RODANTHE CELEBRATION NOW APPEARS TO GROW GREATER THAN FIRST PLANNED FOR Aid Coming in From Other Communities To Aid Small Villages on August 12-14 to Stage Events Honoring the Coast Guardsmen and the Old Life Savers. Navy Chaplain To Speak. The list of old veterans is grow- j ing. Plans for the celebration are growing. It’s going to be a much bigger affair than was first anti cipated when the committee got together about a month ago. But August 12-13-14 will be big days in the memory of the Coast , Guard, when the programs come 1 off at Rodanthe. It’s been a big undertaking for the communities ‘ of Rodanthe and Waves, number- ' ing only about 200 people. Fortu nately, their friends in neighbor ing towns have come to their res cu.e, and the committee now sees | financial daylight again. From Norfolk, Elizabeth City, | and Manteo, as well as from Bux- I ton and Hatteras, have come sev- I eral contributions of cash to aid I • with expenses. Mostly these are I from firms who enjoy the patron- | age of the people of Hatteras Is- | land, and have enjoyed long busi- 1 ness friendship and wish to help ’ a good cause. Many more names have come to the committee swelling the list of old Life Savers who are being invited as special honor guests. All Coast Guardsmen, retired and active are honor guests, and ex pected to come and be honored, but the old boys are something special indeed. It may be the last annual round up for some of them, i •r names will be found in a V column. Committee considers itself nate in . having for the speaker Sunday the closing service of the program, Capt. Roy E. Bishop, USN, Chaplain of the Atlantic Fleet, who will speak in honor of the old men Sunday mom- * ing, August 14 at 11 a. m. at Fairhaven Methodist Church. At this service, Robert H. Midgett of • Manteo will be guest soloist. i LATEST LIST OF THE OLD TIME LIFE SAVERS 1 i The committee for celebration ] for the Coast Guard at Rodanthe , August 12-14, have received the ( names of the following men who , have served at some time in the old Life Saving Service, which was ( consolidated with the Coast Guard . in 1915. These men will be invited J ■ as honor guests at Rodanthe, Aug- . ust 13 th: . Davis Littleton Gray, and Arthur V. Midgett, Waves, N. C. W. Benfbury Miller, Eugene G. Gray, James W. Scarborough, Nel- | son'Gray, of Avon. N. C. Clarence P. Brady, Nasa F. Jen nette, Warren Midgett, Bernice R. Ballance, Cyrus H. Gray of Bux ton, N. C. Charlie S. Styron, of Hatteras, N. C. Horatio J. Williams and Leonard D. Williams of Ocracoke. Willie H. Austin of Oriental, N. C. John Marchant Meekins, Claude C. Jones, Edward W. Etheridge, Walter Otis Dough, Washington Franklin Baum, Christopher Co lumbus Midgett, Samuel Alonzo Stowe, Otho C. Ward, Clyde Has sell, W. Van Lewark, Roscoe Bur rus, Sr., and John Alfred Farrow of Mantee, N. C. Joe Etheridge Midgett of New York. Arthur J. Fulcher, 3118 Cottage Toll Road, Norfolk, Va., Jess M. Rogers, 804 E. 26th St, Norfolk, Va. Request is made that names of "irmer veterans of the Life Service be sent to the Chic a|B jieo Committee, P. O. Box ’ danthe, N. C. SEA BEE SERENADERS TO PLAY AT RODANTHE DANCE The Sea Bee Serenaders is the name of a new orchestra on its way to popularity on Hatteras Is land. This orchestra, which will play at the dances on Friday and Saturday nights, August 12 and] 13th at Rodanthe, is composed of Don F. Bradley, Duane W. Sayre, Bob Stapleton, and Dave Bennett. Their address is Buxton. Herbert Midgett is in charge of the pro-, gram at the Rodanthe dance. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA BIG DRUM FISH CATCHES IN PEA ISLAND AREA ■KsMM CAPT. ZEKE MIDGETT of Ro danthe is shown here with a 40 pound drumfish caught Saturday night by Selby Gaskins. Mr. Gas kins caught many fish, ranging in weight from eight to 40 lbs. Many other fishermen made big catches, some fish weighing 28 to 30 lbs. Fishing was good in the vicinity of the old wrecks near Rodanthe and Waves and has kept good all this week. It is estimated that nearly 50 drumfish were caught by anglers Saturday night. Reuben Etheridge and Wallace Shannon of Manteo made good catches. MANTEO OCTOGENARIAN FETED AT BIG PARTY Alpheus W. Drinkwatar Receives More Than 150 Guests On Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday Manteo’s beloved Alpheus W. Drinkwater, retired Coast Guard telegrapher, celebrated his 80 th birthday on Sunday, July 31, with a party and buffet supper at the Sea Ranch Hotel at Kitty Hawk, and more than 150 guests enjoyed his hospitality and paid him hom age during the evening. The host ess was his daughter, Miss Dorothy Drinkwater. Mr. and Mrs. H. Travis Sykes, owners and operators of th% Sea Ranch, assist ed her in making the evening a most memorable occasion. Among the notables present for the occasion were Lindsay Warren of Washington, N. C., former Comptroller General of the United States; W. E. Debnam of Raleigh, radio commentator; and Edmund Harding of Washington, N. C., all of whom paid vocal tribute to the honoree at the microphone, with Mr. Harding acting as master of ceremonies. Many other well-known persons, too numerous to list, were on hand for the party. Mr. Drink water responded graciously to the homage paid him. , • Known for the last 50 years and more as the telegrapher who sent out the first news of the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kill Devil Hill, and always a booster of the I Wright Brothers tradition, Mr. Drinkwater received, among other messages a telegram from Mamie Eisenhower, wife of the President, which read as follows: “Although it is not possible for the President See PARTY, Page Five COUNTY LAND SOLD FOR LESS THAN TAX EVALUATIONS Kitty Hawk Tract Sold By Com missioners for Less Than $4 Per Acre; An Old Custom in Dare The County Commissioners of Dare are making progress, for county land is not being sold now at ten cents an acre, but following the old custom of just about giving it away, the board this week sold the 52-acre Gallop tract of land near Currituck Sound in the Kitty Hawk area to Hallett Perry for S2OO. Without asking any questions, or seeing what the land might bring, they sold it for less than the tax values they put on neighboring land, which ranges not less than $5 and up to $lO per acre. A peculiar situation has develop ed in the county, whereby a man who owns only a few acres of land, pays twice as much taxes per acre as the man who owns 50 or more 1 acres. The little fellow’s land is valued on the books for twice as much as the big fellow’s. The land sold this week was one of several pieces recently deeded back to the county by the State of North Carolina, and was formerly owned by the county, and deeded to the state some 12 years ago, for inclusion in the contemplated sea shore park. The county had fore closed it for taxes, and the' taxes involved in the foreclosure was far greater than the price the Board sold it for this week. It is esti mated that the land sold for S2OO would easily bring one thousand dollars. There are a number of other county owned tracts which will probably go the same cheap way. It is an old custom, giving away the county’s land. It just seems County boards lack back bone to break it. Among other business transacted this week was the closing of a por tion of Norfolk Avenue at Kill Devil Hills on the Diane Frank property. The Board heard a dele gation from Kitty Hawk asking for aid toward the development of a small harbor for the community in the Poor Rid-ge section. A bid was extended to the State Association of Commissioners and Clerks of Court to hold their 1956 Annual convention in Dare County. Notice was received that the state has approved hard surfacing of a road near the Walter Etheridge home in the Burnsides Section of Roanoke Island, and known is the Etheridge road. The Board expressed no devia tion from their unanimous decision to continue with their wasteful scheme calling for the eventual expenditure of more than SIOO,OOO for a new jail at Manteo and at Buxton, which proposition was contrary to the decision of the voters of the county on July 9th. See LAND, Page Four THIS IS THE BIGGEST DARE COAST ATTRACTION IN SUMMER t "k < - ' ■ • • ' urnnii rvmi, i mi,3? 0 . Sportsfishing, The Lost Colony and other attractions bring summer vacationists to the coast of Dare between Kitty Hawk and Hatteras, but the one thing which brings more people than anything else is the cool, cool waters of the ocean’s surf. A typical surf of the Dare coast is shown in this photo by Aycock Brown, which he made recently on assignment from one of the nationally distirbifted magazines of the nation. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1955 STATE BEAUTIES LEARN ABOUT SAFETY CAMPAIGN OF S-H-P Sin Lu ri nl • • • ■ .■ ■ : L > jhh HL Ji bB& |||> Kitty Hawk, N. C. Aug.—With Sergeant Logan Lane of the State Highway Patrol, on their recent Dare coast visit, Miss North Carolina of 1955, and her runnerup, stopped at the east approach to Curri tuck Sound bridge at Kitty Hawk to take a close-up look at the “Slow Down and Live” banner, one of several which members of Sergeant Lane’s patrol u.iit has erected during a safe driving compaign. Faye Arnold of Raleigh, (Miss N. C.) and Pat Cowden, also of Raleigh, her runnerup, displayed interest in the sign and campaign and each congratulated Sergeant Lane and his patrol in their efforts to curb fast driving—the kind that kill. (Aycock Brown Photo) THREE CASES SUBMITTED BEFORE DARE RECORDER Louis Frank Sykes of Columbia submitted to a charge of failure to dim lights, and paid the costs in Judge Baum’s Dare Recorder court in Manteo Tuesday. Steve Manuel submitted to being dis orderly in Nags Head casino and was fined $5 and costs. Wm. Grandy Whaley of Eliz. City submitted to drunken driving and driving in excess of 75 mph, was fined SIOO and $25 and the costs of court. Total $133.20. CORRECTING ERROR IN QUOTING DARE BUDGET A mistake occurred in the set up of figures in 1955-56 budget items for Dare County, reported in our paper last week. It was re ported that the increase in the bud get of the Register of Deeds is $1,930 when the correct sum is $1,430. Os this sum S6OO is for the purchase of a new map book. We regret the error in typesetting. It is not our desire to report any thing incorrectly. GUEST SPEAKER DR. C. SYLVESTER GREEN, Vice President of Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, will be guest minister at the sixth of a series of Lost Colony season Sunday wor ship services in Waterside Theatre here, Sunday morning, August 7, at 11 o’clock. Dr. Green’s topic for his sermon will be “Religion is a Relation”. For several years Dr. Green edited the Durham Morning Herald before becoming Executive Vice President of the Medical Founda- See SPEAKER, Page Ten SCHEDULED ANNOUNCED FOR SECOND POLIO SHOTS Dr. W. W. Johnston, health officer for Currituck and Dare counties, has announced that the second batch of polio vaccine for the two counties has arrived, and that the schedule for Currituck county has been set up as follows: Aug. 8, at the Currituck health center from one to four p.m.; Aug. 9, Knott’s Island school house at 10 a. m.; Aug. 10, Powell’s Point clinic, from one to four p.m. All parents who wish their chil dren to have the second polio shots are asked to have their children at these point on the dates stated. No other shots will be given before school opens. The schedule for Dare County will be announced at a later date. Single Copy 7# FERRY INADEQUACY RAPID GROWTH OF TRAFFIC FACTORS Rapid growth of traffic across Oregon Inlet now leads to predic tions of early construction of a highway bridge at this point. Some well-informed people predict the bridge will be built in three years. The more conservative say it will take longer. Hon. Lindsay C. Warren of Washington, N. C. is one of the conservatives. Mr. Warren believes the bridging of this,inlet may be expected in five years. Usually Mr. Warien has predicted pretty ac curately about the outcome of things, in this section. To Mr. Warren goes the credit for having been for 30 years, just about the most effectively helpful friend of the coastland. He fathered the Kill Devil Hills memorial project, and many other things, including the legislation that made possible the development of the Lost Colony the Cape Hatteras National Sea shore Area. His influence develop ed projects in sand fixation, and caused the expenditure of millions for the improvement and protection of our coast, and which came dur ing the depression years in the mid thirties, when employment thereby proved a life-saver for so many of our people. It’s the wide advertising given the area by the National Park Service, or resulting from the Park services’ activities, and the boost ing done by the County tourist bu reau, all of it growing out of tour ist business that is going to force the bridging of Oregon Inlet. Five years sounds mighty good, and while some are eager to see it bridged this week or this month, reasonable people realize that these things don’t happen overnight. The fight for the bridging of Croatan Sound took 20 years; it took a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of work. It took the ablest and united leadership of many counties to finally sell the worth of the idea to the State and to the Governor. The advertising resulting from this long battle created a lot of traffic in the area to be served by the bridge, but finaaly the inadequacy of ferries proved a convincing argument. If ferry boats proved inadequate over Croatan Sound, then the sit uation is much worse at Oregon Inlet where traffic is doubly heavy on the more frequent schedules now operated. Three converted Navy craft are in service and a fourth is under reconversion in Norfolk. But all these boats are ten or more years old, and were not designed for long lasting pur poses. In the next five years, they may all well be out of commission by reason of age. In the next five years, the traffic demand might be ten or 20 times greater than to day. And there will be no more free Navy boats to convert into ferries. One may easily predict without much imagination, that the con struction of new boats to handle this traffic would run into millions of dollars. A bridge is the only answer, and a bridge it will have to be before five years run out, or there is going to be a tremendous bottleneck of traffic. Citizens of Hatteras Island are generally very anxious for a bridge. They make repeated appeals to various county and state offi cials at all levels. Harrassed otii cials try to find excuses to stave them off, sometimes to give them the “runaround.” See INLET, Page Five BOARD OF EDUCATION SETS UP PLANS FOR NEXT TERM The Board of Education last week in Dare County made plans to bring the students of Stumpy Point school to Manteo this fall. Heretofore, they have gone to Engelhard. Mrs. Grace Hooper, who has previously taught in Engelhard will teach this year in Manteo. Parents of the children, petitioned for a change. The first to fourth grades will continue to be taught at Stumpy Point, until the bridge is completed. Miss A.rlene Venable was elected to teach in the Kitty Hawk School. It was decided to dispense with the use of gutters on the Cape Hatteras High School, since it appeared they would cost $4,360 and more. The Commissioners had included $15,000 in their budget for a school site at Kill Devil Hills, but Mr. Parker of the Kitty Hawk District moved that request be made for an additional SIO,OOO. His motion received no second.
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