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A DLUME XXI NO. 6 HURRICANE CONNIE BRINGING DISMAY ALONG THE COAST Summer Residents Move Out As Dismal Broadcasts Continue To Urge Haste. The radio wailing about Connie the hurricane has completely drowned out the sound of any cash registers along the Dare coast. It has been a glorious week all week for the radio commenta tors, who most of the time have nothing to say, but this week, with a hurricane lolling around in the South Atlantic, they have had a field day. They don’t have to think, at all, but just turn to another re port. And how they have chewed those reports over and over, and then they ad lib in between some thing like this: “Reckon you folks out there must get tired of hearing us saying the same thing so much. Doesn’t seem like there is much else to talk about. Yes, I guess most any body gets tired of anything too much. How about you boys here in the station. You reckon they get tired of hearing about ere thing so much. Weil, we’ll now have another weather re port, but just a word from our sponsor ” Uplanders living on the coast began to be frightened away early in the week as the slow moving hurricane continued its lazy move ment northwestwardly up from the Carribean. By Thursday morning, the Dare County coast had seen little and heard little of the storm, other than the radio wailings and the inanities of the commentators. The sep had been higher than us ual, so that at high tide combers rolled over the beaches, and in some places had crossed the road on Hatteras Island. But it is to be expected the water would cross the road, since it was built lower than high, tide levels, a ditch having been dug out in which to build the road. The result, for some miles, at a spot north of Hatteras, north of Ruxton, and on each side of Avon ction, there was water as much B aur inches deep on the road. ost folks realized that the jrm could become mighty serious, and wisely took no chances. In a couple of days nearly all the cot tagers and hotel guests had either gone back home, or were taking temporary refuge in motor courts on Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City and other nearby towns, hoping the storm would blow over shortly and enable them to finish their vacations. Connie came at a most unfortu nate time, it being the peak of the season, when all hotels and courts on the coast were full, staggering under all the business to be handled with overworked staffs. It is esti mated that SIOO,OOO a day was be ing spent on the Dare Coast until Connie closed the pocketbooks. ICTHYOLOGISTS TO VISIT BILLFISH WATERS OF GULF STREAM OFF HATTERAS Hatteras. A distinguished group of ichthyologists and ang lers, headed by Luis Rene Rivas, University of Miami Marine Lab oratory, will spend late August and early September/ exploiting the billfish famous waters off the Cape Hatteras region, it was learned here today via Allan Cor son, fishing editor, The Miami Herald. Frank Stick, artist and ichthyol ogist of Kitty Hawk here on Dare Coast, a close friend of Rivas, had helped in planning the timing of the expedition. Rivas is in charge of the blue marlin research program of the Miami Marine Laboratory, a move ment which has a number of im portant sponsors, one of which is the Charles F. Johnson Founda tion, which is known in the two Carolinas for its charitable work. "This particular expedition,” said carson, “will be sponsored and underwritten by Bob Maytag, Ponte Vedra, Plorida.” Plans call for -ig a luxury X game cruiser, zippered by red Captain Eddie Moore, into / Hatteras area. It was from xldie’s boat that a number of blue marlin marks have been set, in cluding the world record credited to Axsel Wichfeld. Interested in the blue marlin and tuna fishing off Cape Hatter as is the Woods Hole Oceanogra phic Institution of Massachusetts which is engaged in a program of tagging tuna and marlin. “We hope that this program will add to the general knowledge of the migrations and populations of these important game fishes,” said Ed H. Smith, director of the lab oratory in a recent communication with Dare County Tourist Bureau, in Manteo. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA TO SPEAK AT BUXTON AND HATTERAS CHURCHES Coming to Hatteras, the Rever end Wade Goldston, will be guest speaker at the Buxton Methodist Church August 28, at the eleven o’clock service, also he will be speaking at the Hatteras Metho dist Church at the 8 o’clock service. Rev. Mr. Goldston is Professor of Town and Country Work at Louisburg Collejge, Louisburg, N. C. This is a new work established at Louisburg College in 1954, to help College orient its life and min istry more definitely towards the needs of small town and open country Methodist churches within the area of the North Carolina Conference. Mr. Goldston is a teacher of religion at the .college and a part of his time in extension work with smaller churches. It is anticipated that later other instructors will be added, and this Town and Country work expanded into a department of the college. THREE BIG EVENTS ARE SCHEDULED IN DARE NEXT WEEK Three big events, the annual ob servance of Virginia Dare’s birth day including the dedication of the Eliizabethan Garden, on Thursday, August 18 and the National Avi ation Day observance on Friday, August 19. Then late on after noon of August 19 will be the an nual Daniels’ Clan meeting. The events of Thursday will fea ture such speakers as Capt. H. C. Lydon, representing the British NATO division of Norfolk, and others. Dedication of the Garden is expected to be a very impressive event with cast members of The Lost Colony and its chorus taking part. 1 On Friday, August 19, National Aviation Day will be observed at Kill Devil Hills with Congressman Herbert C. Bonner as a principal speaker. Highlights of the observ ance will be the swearing in of 120 or more Air Force recruits, music by the Air Force band of Langley Field, Va. and a flyover of Air Force planes. The exerc : ses begin during early afternon. See EVENTS, Page Ten ZONING BOARD MEETS AUG. 17 AT KILL DEVIL HILLS There will be a meeting of the Zoning Board of the Town of Kill Devil Hills Wednesday night, August 17, 1955 at 8:00 p. m. in the Town Hall to consider the follow ing- requests: 1. Request by the Kill Devil Hills Realty Corporation to rezone blocks 36, 41, 42, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60 for light industry. 2. Request by Ocean Acres. Inc. to rezone the north 800 feet to Wrightville Avenue of their prop erty from residential to business. 3. Request by Avalon Beach Realty Company to rezone lots 319 and 320 on Bayside from resident ial to business and to rezone the Private Beach for business. All interested parties are urged to attend. TO SEEK INFORMATION ON PART-TIME WORKERS Special supplementary questions designed to find out whether un employed persons are seeking full time or part-time work will be asked in the August Current Pop ulation Survey, according to Supervisor Clinton C. Oldham of the Census Bureau’s district office at Charlottee, N. C. The Current Population Survey is conducted in Hyde and ,Dare Counties and in 229 other areas of the country each month to collect up to date national figures on employment and unemployment. The survey will be carried out during the week of August 15-19, 1955. Current Population Survey infor mation will be collected locally by Mrs. Alva G. Wise of Stumpy Point. BROWN CORRECTING FALSE REPORTS IN HURRICANE HYSTERIA Tourist Bureau Manager Calls Score On Many Ridiculous Reports That Have Been Circulated Aycoek Brown, on Thursday morning sent from Manteo to news agencies, a wire correcting some of the misinformation that has gone abroad, and to offset what some are describing state of hurri cane hysteria created as result of tremendous and elaborate coverage press and radio is giving Connie. First.—Wright Memorial Bridge on U. S. Highway 158, entrance from Currituck County to Dare beaches, Roanoke Island and Outer Banks is not closed and common sense would indicate that this bridge, which is connecting link with Outer Banks and mainland will not be closed. Second—Upper Dare Beaches re sorts of Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk and Southern Shores in less than 48 hours changed from bustling vacation region with population of up to 15,000 persons to ghostlike region with population of only about 1,000 persons. Ninety eight per cent of summer cottages boarded up and closed, but several hotels still have many guests and this goes for few of motels. Third—Tides have been above normal, but they have not covered road in Nags Head region as yet. They have covered road in some of low lying sections of Hatteras Is land. Seas still running high. Fourth—C. A. Wardman, Chief Meterologist in charge Hatteras weather station where new hurri cane tracking unit was installed on July 31 this year reported that barometer eight o’clock this morn ing was 29.78 as compared to 29.92 Wednesday a.m. same time. Wind velocities Easterly 20 to 25 miles per hour Wednesday &.m. eight o’clock as compared to 25-30 miles per hour today eight o’clock. Chief Warrant Officer H. A. Glynn, commahding Hatterasl group U. S. Coast Guard stations from Oregon Inlet to Ocracoke re ported anemometer there had re corded winds of about 30 miles Thursday morning at 8 o’clock with gusts up to 45 miles. Same condi tions prevailing at Diamond Light ship thirteen miles southeast Cape Hatteras in constant radio contact with Capt. Gynn’s Cape Hatteras Station Headquarters. He stated that flood tides had flowed over beach in areas between Avon and Buxton and between Frisco and Hatteras, lowest lying areas of highway on Outer Banks of Hatteras Island. He stated that tides had not affected sand barri cades built recently at New Inlet > between Pea Island and Rodanthe See BROWN, Page Ten I DRINKWATER MEETS OLD FRIENDS ON 80th ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY JI — (■BBB w w —... | ""ST ? : k * W® e r ■ W* ISIBI » IS K *•. JRxf - ” Rr : r .Bl ~ MH ■- R •* * s * S. < ■'■‘x . ■ ; /’■ ALPHEUS W. DRINKWATER, famed as telegrapher, weatherman, and friend of man is here shown with some of the boys of the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Sunday afternoon at the Sea Ranch. First is Harry P. Moore who has worked for the newspaper more than 50 years, and who wrote the first story of the first airplane flights. Next Mr. Drinkwater, then Ralph Pool, and R. K. T. Larson of the Pilot staff. Aycock Brown Photo. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1955 SECRETARY OF STATE TO SPEAK AT WANCHESE HON. THAD EURE, Secretary of State of North Carolina is to be principal speaker Friday afternoon August 19th at the Annual Daniels Day reunion at Wanchese Metho dist Church. The speaking will be followed by a picnic supper on the grounds., Members of the Daniels family will come from far and near, and will include sons of the late Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, who was a faithful visitor at the reunions during his life. The occa sion this year is expected to be bigger than ever. RULES FOR NEW TERM OF DARE CO. SCHOOLS I Mrs. Mary L. Evans, Superin tendent of Dare County Schools, calls attention to several matters concerning the opening of schools: 1. It is necessary for a child to become six years of age on or be fore October 15 in order to enter school. The Attorney General has ruled that any child born on Octo ber 16 would become six on October 15, and would, therefore, be eligible for admission to the first grade. 2. All children entering the first grade must have been immunized against typhoid, whooping cough, and diptheria and vaccinated for small pox. 3. All first graders must present birth certificates upon enrollment. The Dare County schools will be gin the 1955-56 school term on Tuesday, September 6. On Monday, September 5, at 9:00 a.m., all prin cipals will meet at the Manteo Schol for a pre-school conference. Generally speaking, all students' will attend the same schools which they attended last year. A few specific assignments to different schools have been made: 1. Manns Harbor and East Lake students in grades 5 through 12 ' have been assigned to the Manteo ' School. 2. All students living on Hatteras , See SCHOOL, Page Ten I GOLF COURSE FOR SOUTHERN SHORES NEAR, KITTY HAWK Second 18-Hole Course An nounced Recently For Dare Coast By AYCOCK BROWN Kitty Hawk.—An 18-hole golf course is planned for the rolling dunes and woodlands and beach flats of Southern Shores, and work on the project will begin at the end of the current summer season, says Frank Stick, whose company created swanky Southern Shores on the north coast of Dare Coun ty. The company, which includes John McMullan, N. Etlon Aydlett and Cyrus Aydlett of Elizabeth City, would make available 150 acres of land for the course with an additional 200 acres if neces sary. “This course will be the highest coursfe above sea level south of the New Jersey highlands, and it will be the only course, I believe, which will have a view 1 of the ocean,” said Stick. The initial outlay is planned to take in "about one and one quarter miles north and south, west of '.he present cottage development. Ini tial cost of the project has oeen estimated at $200,000, and Stick stated “we plan to have the course ready by the summer of 1956.” Mr. Stick stated sponsors of the I proposed golf course included such names as Leo Kernan, Princess Ann Golf Course professional, John J. O’Donnell, Va. State Cham pion Golfer, of the Sewalls ?oi.<t Golf Club, Billy McDowell, Eliza beth City businessman and presi dent of the Sea Ranch Beach Club here, W. S. Braithwaite of the Duck Realty Company, Virginia Beach, and Montague and Miller, realty agents of Charlottesville, Va. Mother Vineyard Course Guy H. Lennon of Manteo an- See COURSE, Page Ten FHA SUPERVISOR NAMED FOR EIGHT-COUNTY AREA This county has a new area supervisor for the Farmers Home Administration, it was announced this week by state FHA officials. William E. Henry, whose head quarters will be in New Bern, will serve an eight county area, which includes Dare, Hyde and Beaufort counties. Mr. Henry, a 1949 graduate of N. C. State College, has been with the FHA for six years. Since 1950, he has been stationed in Sampson County. The FHA now has sixteen field men throughout the state as com pared with four previously. Ac cording to the announcement this week, no change is planned in the county set-up. CHICAMACOMICO CELEBRAT’N POSTPONED 2 WEEKS ACCOUNT OF WEEK’S HURRICANE SCARE Same Program To be Followed, Friday, Saturday " and Sunday, August 26th, 27th and 28th; Two Weeks Allowed to Avoid Conflict With Other Events Scheduled in Dare County. SUNDAY A.M. SPEAKER AT LOST COLONY Bri DR. CLYDE A. MILNER, Presi dent of Guilford College, Guilford, N. C., will be the guest minister at the seventh of a series of Sun day worship services at the Lost Colony which will take place at the Waterside Theatre Sunday morn ing, August 14, at 11 o’clock. His sermon topic will be “Perpetuating Our Christian Heritage”. A native of Tennessee, Dr. Mil ner received his Doctor degrees from Hartford Theological Semi nary and Wilmington College. He has travelled and done rehabilita tion work in Europe, was Dean of the college and Professor of Phil osophy at Guilford College before becoming its President in 1934. Dr. Milner is an active member and leader of various organizations such as the Greensboro Rotary Club, Greensboro Chamber of Com merce, Fine Arts Festival Asso ciation of Guilford County, and many others. In addition to the speaker the famous Lost Colony Chorus under the direction of Nena Williams and Hedley Yost at the console of the organ, will furnish the music for the service. DRINKWATER TELLS CROP INSURANCE GROUP ABOUT STORMS AND Ist FLIGHT i Alpheus W. Drinkwater, Dare County’s No. 1 citizen, was princi pal speaker at a convention of the Federal Crop Insurance folks meeting here at the 4-H encamp ment on Roanoke Island. Drink water told more than 100 persons attending the convention about hurricanes, and first flights of the Wright Brothers in 1903 and 1908. Preceding Drinkwater at the talk fest on Thursday noon was Aycock Brown, manager and news director of Dare County Tourist Bureau. Blown gave some historical and current figures and information about this great water-county’s founding and development as a vacation resort region. Julian Mann, native of Hyde County who had made arrangements for the convention meeting, introduced Drinkwater and Brown. The Crop Insurance folks plan to be here until Saturday and hope to see a performance of The Lost Colony, despite Connie or Diane before they leave. MORE LIVING MEMBERS OF OLD LIFE SAVING SERVICE In addition to those previously published in these columns, the following list of names of former members of the old U. S. Life Saving Service has been received by the committee for the Chica macomico Celebration. Napoleon B. Etheridge and Joe Etheridge of Knotts Island, N. C., E. t). Hooper, 301 Windmere Ave., Norfolk, Va., Edward Drinkwater, Joe Barco Capt. A. L. Barco, Capt. Henry N. Holmes, Capt. C. H. Wroten, Capt. T. J. Barnes, Roy V. Dudley, and John Rainey of Virginia Beach; Peter T. Henley and E. W. James, Oceana, Va.; Commander James A. Price, 605 N. Road St., Elizabeth City; Wil loughby Olds, Grandy, N. C., Joe Evans, 615 Manteo St. Norfolk, Va., John Etheridge, Norfolk, Va.; Dal Bowden Creeds, Va. and Capt. Richard B. Ireland, Nags Head, N. C. These men with the others pre viously listed, have been invited to be special guests at the celebra tion. Single Copy 7(t The celebation scheduled for three days this week at Rodanthe, honoring the veterans of the Life Saving Service and the Coast Gaurd, for which all plans had been completed, has been postpon ed for two weeks, Chairman W. W. Edwards announced Thursday morning. The celebration will now be held on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, August 26, 27 and 28. Mr. Edwards said he anticipated unsettled weather, resulting from this week’s hurricane might deter many people from attending this week end. Two weeks are given to permit of plans for the occasion, and an earlier date would have conflicted with events scheduled at Roanoke Island on August 18 and 19. Mr. Edwards believes the origi nal program will be followed in its entirety, provided none of the principal speakers have other en gagements, in which event, substi tutes will be obtained. Plans are going ahead for the event, and a large boxing ring and speakers’ stand is under construc tion. The high seas which will roll in for several days after the hurri cane wculd have interfered with some of the drills. These seas will be down in two weeks, it is hoped, and everything should be more favorable for an enjoyable day. Persons having interest in the celebration should communicate with W. W. Edwards, P. 0. Box 75, Rodanthe, N. C. GREAT TRAVEL INCREASE TO SEASHORE PARK AREA By AYCOCK BROWN Nags Head.—By private motor vehicles, airplanes and boats, a total of 75,304 persons visited Cape Hatteras National Seashore here on the Dare Coast, and Ocra coke Island, during the month of July, according to official counts released today by Superintendent Allyn Hanks’ office at the admin istrative headquarters of America’s first oceanside recreational area of the National Park Service. The total number of visitors during July alone this year was only some 35,000 less than the en tire number visiting the area throughout the whole year of 1954. Estimated number of visitors to the National Seashore during 1954 was 110,000 persons. The 75,307 persons entering the National Seashore this year in July, pushed the total attendance or visitation to 181,542 persons during 1955 since January 1. Park Service officials believe that the total visitation this year, judging from counts during the first seven months will reach 350,000 to 500,- 000 persons. “August,” said Hanks, “is usual ly the peak travel month for this coastal region, and our total count this month should run higher than in July.” “But August does not mean the end of the travel season on the Dare Coast,” he added, “as Septem ber and October are also favorite vacation months along the Outer Banks.” July travel figures for the Na tional Seashore showed an increase of 74.3 percent of visitors over June this year, the report showed. An increase in number of visit ors was also shown at Fort Ra leigh National Historic Site dur ing July 1955 and compared to July 1954. The number of visitors (including Lost Colony patrons) during July this year was 34,741, as compared to 33,742 in July 1954. During the month 20,436 persons | visited the area to witness per formances of The Lost Colony. Visitors counted at Wright Brothers National Monument at Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, during July was approximately one-third of the number counted entering the National Seashore area. During the month of July, according to Horace Dough, super intendent, a total of 25,466 persons were counted at the site of the Wrights’ first flight. REBEKAH MEETING The regular meeting of Manteo • Rebekah Lodge No. 52 will be held on August 15, at 8:00 p.m., at ■ which time twelve candidates will > be initiated. All members are asked to be present.
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