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'Mk. AUME XXI NO. 9 BONNER ADVANCES REASONS SEEKING AID TO FISHERIES Continued Rapid Decline in Sea food Industry Prompts Appeal For Governor's Aid The seafood industry, and fish ing of all kinds are mighty impor tant to North Carolina, Congress man Herbert C. Bonner believes, and he has addressed an appeal to Governor Hodges to give con sideration to the serious situation that is being faced by both com mercial and sport fishermen. Mr. Bonner, as chairman of the House Committee in Congress on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, presided over a week’s hearings in March in Washington, which stud ied reports on Fish and Wildlife in the United States. Along with the problems facing other sections of the country, he has witnessed a growing problem in Eastern North Carolina where all types of fish ing are particularly important to our people. Mr. Bonner believes a biologi cal study should be made of Pam lico Sound based on which, the sound should be divided into areas reserved individually for shrimp fishing, oystering and general fish ing. Many fishermen believe that so long as shrimp trawlers use the entire bottom, they destroy oyster beds, as well as natural fish foods which grow on the bottom. This subject will no doubt be one of the most important ones to come- before the meeting of the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commis sion at Nags Head on September 10th. In his letter to Governor Hodges this week, Mr. Bonner says: “We have a serious matter con fronting us relative to the rock fish, or striped bass, in the waters of eastern North Carolina. I am told by responsible people in the Wildlife Resources Commission that unless something is done this species will eventually become ex tinct. In fact, the decrease over the last ten years is plainly notice w de. Very low catch has been ex ■* See BONNER, Page Eight STATE WILDLIFE COMMISSION TO MEET IN DARE Entire Group To Hold Session at Carolinian at Nags Head Next Week, Saturday The North Carolina Wildlife Re sources Commission will hold a full business meeting in Dare County Saturday, August 10 at the Carolinian Hotel at Nags Head, according to O. L. Woodhouse of Grandy, a member of the Commis sion. Mr. Woodhouse says the group plan to arrive at the hotel Friday night of next week. As this is a business session, Mr. Woodhouse says all persons interested in any of the various aspects of wildlife conservation in N. C. are invited to come and dis cuss matters with the commission. This will be the first time the Commission has held a meeting in Dare County. The members of the Commission are: E. D. McGougan, Chairman, of Lumber Bridge; Thurman Briggs, vice-chairman of Lexington; C. T. Wilson, Secretary of Biltmore; G. E. Beal of Red Oak; Robert M. Carr of Wallace, ' James A. Connelly of Morganton; Floyd Crouse of Sparta; H. C. Kennett of Durham, and Mr. Woodhouse. Governor Luther Hodges will not be able to attend this meeting, as he will be in a conference in Knoxville, Tennessee on this date. This meeting will bring to the Dare County coast representative citizens from every district of the state. PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER TO PREACH AT FINAL SERVICE Manteo.—The Rev. Kenneth L. Hamilton, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Batesburg, S. C., will be the guest speaker at last service of the summer e hip series sponsored by the Colony at Waterside Theatre. 4 service will take place next ounday morning at 11 o’clock. The sermon topic will be “Job, God’s Man”. The Rev. Mr. Hamilton was born in Spartanburg, S. C., and is a graduate of Columbia Theological Seminary. During the war he served as Chaplain of the US Armed Services in Africa, Sicily and Italy. When he returned from overseas in 1946 he was called to the pastorate in Batesburg where he has been in charge of the Presbyterian Church. The music for the worship serv ice will be provided by the Lost Colony chorus under the direction of Nena Williams and Hedley Yost at the console of the organ. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA ATLANTIC FLEET CHAPLAIN TO SPEAK AT RODANTHE Wv MT ■ / | \ Hut Jr 17 Among the many events that are scheduled next week end at Ro danthe, none are expected to have greater appeal than the Memorial Service at the Rodanthe Church which is to be highlighted with a sermon by Capt. Roy E. Bishop, ( USN, Chaplain of the Atlantic Fleet, out of the Naval Base in Norfolk, and concluded by a solo sung by Robert Midgett of Manteo. This service will be held in Fair haven Methodist Church, Rodanthe, of which Rev. A. G. Tyson is pas tor. Capt. Bishop has quite a diversi fied record in the service. A native of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Chaplain Bishop grad uated from Sunnyside High School in 1926. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Randolph- Macon College in 1930 and his Bachelor of Divinity Degree from Union Theological Seminary at F-ichmond, Virginia, three years later. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Randolph- Macon College in June of 1950. Be fore entering the Navy Chaplain Corps in 1936, Chaplain Bishop was minister of the Methodist Church at Amherst, Virginia. Before the war he served as Chaplain of the USS Richmond, the USS Memphis and the USS Mis sissippi. Subsequently, he was as signed for two years to the U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. His war-time service was at the U. S. Naval Station Tutila, American Samoa, the Naval Train ing School for Chaplains, the Col lege of William and Mary, Wil liamsburg, Virginia and on board the USS Alaska operating in Pacific waters. For this duty he holds the China Service Medal, American Defense Medal, Navy Occupation Medal, as well as the World War II Victory Medal, and is entitled to wear the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Ribbon with three battle stars, the Phillip pine Liberation Campaign Ribbon, the American Theatre Ribbon and the National Defense Service Rib bon. Following the close of the war, Chaplain Bishop was assigned to the Naval Academy in December 1945. He was subsequently named Senior Chaplain of the Academy and continued to serve in this capacity until June of 1950. Chaplain Bishop was assigned to the USS Coral Sea in June of 1950 and for the next fourteen months, was senior Chaplain on this large aircraft carrier operating with the Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean waters. In September 1951, he was as signed to the Staff of the Chief of Naval Air Training with Head quarters at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. After serving almost two years as Staff See CHAPLAIN, Page Eight KILL DEVIL HILLS CASE BEFORE JUDGE C. R. MORRIS Whether the town of Kill Devil Hills can survive as an incorporat ed city as the result of an election held in May when a narrow mar gin of those voting, decided it must be dissolved, is a question to be passed on Saturday morning at ten o’clock by Judge Chester R. Morris, who will hear the case sit ting in chambers in Currituck courthouse. Clayton Tillett brought the ac tion to uphold the validity of the election which had been ruled in valid by the late Attorney General Harry McMullan. This ruling was based on a provision that an elec tion could help on this issue on petition of 25 per cent of those voting in the last election. But there had been no last election sihee thd town was created by the legislature. Mrs. Emily Mustian, the mayor, and the town beard elected in May, are contending the town exists and under their direction it continues to function as such. Opponents of the town idea have hired attorneys and are waging a vigorous fight ia their cause. SPORT FISHING IN MANNS HARBOR IS GOOD AFTER STORM Good Catches Report :n Croatan Sound and East Lake Region During Week End; Sport At Ne.v Bridge Some fishing fans got the idea that fishing would be poor after the storm. They read in the papers that hurricanes killed a lot of fish. Hurricane tides do cause a lot of fish to die because of leaving them stranded when the tide goes out. But recent reports show that re cent fishing has been best in many months in the East Lake and Manns Harbor area since the last hurricane. On Sunday, the 29th Earl Grant of LaGrr.nge made a fine catch of bass, some of them weighing pounds each. Marvin Harrell and Leroy Bar nell caught 50 gray trout, 1% to 2 lb. weight in Croatan Sound. These are very sporty fish. George Carpenter and party of Tarboro caught 300 white perch in South Lake. Payton Odom and a Mr. Norris of Erwin caught 50 trout in Croatan Sound and 150 white perch in South Lake. These parties stopped at W. S. White’s Croatan Motel at Manns Harbor. Many other parties whose names have not been furnished, made equally good catches in the vicinity. Much good sport with hook and line has continued at the Croatan Sound bridge ever since the storm. ILLNESS OF WIFE ENDS DARE OUTING FOR GREAT ARTIST Mr. and Mrs. Walter Russell of Waynesboro, Virginia Re turn Home Wednesday From Ocean House One of the world’s great artists chose the Ocean Hotel motel at Nags Head for the vacation of himself and wife, but was obliged to cut the vacation short Wednes day, due to the wife’s illness. Mrs. Lao Stebbin Russell was taken home in Twiford’s ambulance, ac companied by Miss Dorothy Drink water. The husband, Walter Russell, now 84 years old is distinguished as artist, author, sculptor and scientist. The couple owns that fabulous marble palace known as Swannanoa, a famed show-place m the Blue Ridge, near Waynesboro, Va., and which they bought several years ago and converted into a mystic religious shrine. Here the Russells teach classes in philos ophy, natural science and univ.-i --sal law. On the grounds of this magnifi cent home is situated the 30-foot high statue of Christ of the Blue Ridge. It is one of many that Prof. Russell ha£ designed. He was sculptor of the Mark Twain Memo rial at Hannibal, Mo., the John Phillip Sousa Memorial in Wash ington, D. C., the Franklin Roose velt statue at Hyde Park, N. Y. He painted many famous people m Europe and America, he was a leading magazine illustrator dur ing and since the Spanish Ameri can war, and is the author of sev eral noted novels, as well as <>ooks on scientific subjects. Miss Drinkwater recalls her de parture from the Russell horn? Wednesday night. His guests are not told goo.i-bye, but he plays beautiful music on an organ wh’le they wend their way down the mountain, and it comes to them softly by a sound system conceal ed in the trees and fades away when they reach the outer gate whose click actuates an electronic control. A NEW POSTOFFICE IN SERVICE IN BUXTON The growing postoffice business of Buxton has required a new building, so this week, on Monday, Mrs. Maude Miller White opened her new building, the finest post office on Hatteras Island. The building, which is 24 x 30 in size, is built of masonry, stuccoed and plastered, and has a rubber tile floor. It also has a bathroom, and private office space for the post master. First customers in the new of fice were out of town visitors: Bill and Sandra McGregor, Deborah Kelly, Gretchen Warren and Fitz Haffecker of Chestertown, Md. Mrs. White has been postmaster for 19 years. Her mother and fa ther had previously served as post master. The six other postoffices on Hatteras Island are Rodanthe. Waves, Salvo, Avon, Frisco and Hatteras. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1955 PRIZE WINNING LOST COLONY PHOTOS tsiF "A' ft»' MS L. MMr ■ -A: ’ ....., . ; I • ■’ ■ T This group of photos showing Lost Colony scenes during the current season were made by Dan Morrell, operator of the Island Studio at Manteo, and arranged to form a montage. The layout depicts four scenes from the play and the entrance to Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. Upper left shows Ananias Dare, Old Tom and Wanchese. Top center; Dame Coleman and then Queen Elizabeth with Governor White kneeling. Eleanor Dare and her baby Virginia and the historic site entrance at the bot tom. Morrell won a prize of $25 for this group. ONLY THREE MORE PERFORMANCES OF THE LOST COLONY Fifteenth Season Ends Sunday Night; Started Well But Crowds Kept Away By Hurricane Scares Those who wish. to.see the Lost Colony this season have only three more nights in which to do so. The final curtain rings down Sunday night for the 1955 season. It’s been a good show this year, and things started off well, but at peak of mid season Hurricane hysteria intervened to break down attend ance, and resulted in curtailing lousiness all through the month of August. Before the hurricane scares record crowds were visiting the Dare beaches. Promotion and pub licity for the area was paying off in greater patronage. Never before did the beaches have the volume and quality of accommodations which awaited visitors this season. Adequate ferry service to Hat teras Island for the first time, re sulted in enormous travel to that area, although most of it was for the day’s journey only. Surely about three fourths of the travel appeared to be visitors who were domiciled in the Nags Head area. Sightseers to Hatteras Island be lieved they could see everything worth while in that area in a one day trip, and even less. Only those who had planned to enjoy the great sportsfishing remained over. This has to do with people living tempo rarily in the Nags Head area. Os See COLONY, Page Eight MANTEO SCHOOL BEGINS FALL TERM SEPT. 6 Fall term at Manteo school will commence Tuesday, September 6, at 9:15 a.m. with short exercises in the auditorium. From there pu pils will disperse to the various classrooms for an abbreviated schedule. The largest enrollment in the history of Manteo School is ex pected this year with an increase sufficiently high to justify two more teachers than last year, ac cording to R. H. Stone, principal. The faculty for the 1955-56 school year, elementary, is as fol lows: Ist grade, Mrs. Etta Mid gett of Kitty Hawk; 2nd grade, Mrs. Mellie Pearee of Manteo, 3rd, Mrs. Vera Midgett of Kitty Hawk; 4th, Mrs. Essie Westcott, Manteo; Sth, Mrs. Bertie Ward, Manteo; 6th, Mrs. Mary Meekins, Manteo; 7th, Mrs. Grace Hooper, Stumpy Point; Bth, W. H. Fry of Carthage and Nags Head. High school: Mrs. Matilda Inge, social studies, Manteo; Mrs. Jean Ward, English, Manteo; Pete Mav rommatis, Greece and Manteo; A. O. Ayers, physical education and social studies, Manteo; Mrs. W. J. Crumpacker, commerce, of Dur ham and Manteo; R. H. Stone, principal, science. Teacher of mus ic with the Manteo School is Miss Holland Westcott. t Fishing wtlunting A i M AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN Q SPORTSFISHING ON UPGRADE IN DARE Following two or three weeks of choppy seas and rough weather generally, sportsfishing in Dare waters was finally on the upgrade as August ended and September began. It was not until this week that Gulf Stream anglers could return to blue water and while catches have not been large, a few land ings were above par. The third sailfish of season to be taken off Oregon Inlet was landed during the past week by Bill Perkins of Charlottesville. Since then dolphin and false al bacore catches have been fair with a few large specimens reported, but none as large as those taken earlier in the season before the storms of August began harrass ing fishermen in this sector. Best catch reported this week was a 50 pound wahoo. It was caught by Charles A. Abel «f Oaklyn, N. J., on Wednesday. Abel was trolling from the cruiser Phyllis Mae, skippered by Capt. Joe Berry, which berths at Dykes Fishing Center, when the big wahoo was caught. Billy Brown, his 14-year old mate, who was shorter than the fish was long, gaffed the wahoo and brought it aboard after Abel had played the fish alongside the cruiser’s cock pit. Warren Gallop of Oregon Inlet Fishing Center, reported fair catches of dolphin and false alba core and a few amberjack. He pre dicted that unless there was a sud den change in the weather that sailfish would be taken before the week end. “This is sailfish weather,” he said. Mack Etheridge of Mack’s Fish ing Center at Wanchese reported several catches of bottom varieties being caught at this time by party boats operating from there. Trout and flounder seemed to be the most numerous. v From Hatteras waters Capt. Ed gar Styron of the Blue Marlin docks stated that as offshore wa ters calmed down this week anglers going to the Gulf Stream were bringing in fair catches of dolphin ahd small tuna. “The tuna are school-size bluefins, ranging to 15 nounds each,” he said. Dr. J. C. Overbey, only person to land a blue marlin in Hatteras waters since the recent storms, stated this week in Norfolk that he planned a return trip there on September 3 and would remain until September 12. The blue mar lia he landed two weeks ago scaled at 270 pounds. It was his seventh of this species landed off Hatteras during the past three years. Willie Newsome of Sportsman’s Headquarters in Hatteras reported See FISHING, Page Eight FISHING TOURNEY AT NAGS HEAD ON OCTOBER 28-30 Fourth Annual Contest of its Kind For Kill Devil Hills-Bodie Island Area Sponsored by the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club and held under the Association of Surf Anglers Club, the fourth annual Invitation inter-Club and Open Individual Surf Fishing Tournament will be held this year on October 28-30 along the beach between Kill Devil Hills and Bodie Island, it was an nounced this week by Major J. L. Murphy. He is secretary of the sponsoring club and tournament. Already several clubs, mostly from the New Jersey, New Eng land area, have indicated they would enter five-man teams again this year in the inter-club compe tition. This competition will take place on Friday and Saturday, October 28-29. Individual competi tion which normally attracts scores of anglers, including members of the competing clubs will be fea tured on Sunday, the final day of the tournament. Major Murphy stated that a program of events and prizes would soon be off the press and ready for distribution. In the meantime, any person or club wishing to enter the tournament this year should advise Murphy at his Kill Devil Hills, N. C., post office address. Teams scoring greatest number of points will be awarded tke Nags Head championship trophy. Other awards include the Carolin ian trophy, and many handsome prizes. Headquarters for tourna ment will be at Jennette’s Fishing Pier and the official tournament dinner will be at The Carolinian, it was ataced. Scoring of catches will be made on a point basis as in the past. All entries, regardless of species of fish, must be at least seven inches in length, Fish on which suggestive weights and points will be listed in the official program include channel bass, flounder, bluefish, croaker, weakfish and kingfish. One point per pound is See TOURNEY, Page Eight DANIELS ADDRESS ROTARY Archie Daniels, Mayor of Snray, N. C., who is spending his vaca tion here with his mother, Mrs. John T. Daniels, addressed the Manteo Rotary Club Monday night, emphasizing a program for youth. An accomplished speaker, he Jias been called on many times to speak in churches and Sunday schools during his stay here this month. Single Copy 70 FIRE BUGS BUSY. SET BRIDGE AFIRE ON DARE MAINLAND Attempts to Set Two Fires On Property of West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company On Tuesday of this week, a fire was set with intent to destroy a bridge on one of the roads built by West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company through their property near Stumpy Point. John A. Twid dy, an employe of the company, discovered the fire and by toting water in his dinner pail, was able to extinguish it before much dam age was done. Mr. Twiddy also discovered in another place a burning ball of oil soaked waite, apparently put out with intent to start a forest fire. Due to the wet nature of the land at this time, it appears that some person of low mentality must be the fire bug, as there is little likelihood of developing a fire while the area is so wet. It is the opinion of bystanders that the fires were set by some person who wanted employment with the timber company. The im pression is abroad on the Dare mainland, that the company will employ any person suspected of setting fires in order to keep on his good side. Many people believe the company had done just this in several instances, figuring it to be the least expensive method of fire control. However, the question is, will it bring in more people of the same ilk seeking jobs? Some say it has already done so. MAN IS FINED SSO BY COURT IN WALLET THEFT Tuesday in Dare County Record er's Court beiore Judge W. F. Baum, Johnnie Moore, colored, of Elizabeth City, was convicted of stealing a wallet, belonging to Mrs. Ester Rogers and containing $11.25 cash, from the premises of J. Winslow, xtiooie was seii teced to 60 days in jail, suspended upon payment ul line and costs. David Richard Brisbon, Nags Head, convicted of improper use of dealer's plates on a motor ve nicle, paid tne costs of court. James E. Murpny, Kill Devil Hills, on a charge of speeding d 0 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, was ordered to pay a fine of sls and costs. John Guerard Scott, Graham, on a charge of speeding 50 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, was ordered to pay a tine of sls and costs. William E. Baum, Kitty Hawk, for failing to yield the right-of way, was fined $5 and costs. George Werant Midgett, Nor folk, Va., submitted to speeding 50 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone and paid a sls fine and costs. Carlton Price Hocutt, Elizabeth City, submitted to operating a mo tor vehicle with inadequate brakes and paid a $5 fine and costs. Ann Yvonne Perry, Zebulon, submitted to operating a motor vehicle with expired drivers li cense and paid a $25 fine and costs. William Vernon Giles, Jr., Lynchburg, Va., submitted to operating a jeep without registra tion plates and without registra tion plates on trailer in tow and paid costs of court. George Thomas Griffin, Camden, submitted to speeding 50 m.p.h. m a 35 m.p.h. zone and paid a sls fine and costs. Charlie Vincent McClease, Man teo, submitted to a violation of drivers license restriction of no glasses, and no brakes, and paid a $lO fine and costs. Carroll Lester Daniels, Wan chese, submitted to improper pass ing and paid a $5 fine and costs. Eleanor Sutton, Windsor, sub mitted for failing to have turn signals and paid a $5 fine and costs. KITTY HAWK SCHOOL TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 6 B. P. Ward, principal of Kitty Hawk School, announces its open ing on Tuesday morning, Septem ber 6, at nine o’clock. The program will begin in the school auditorium. Rev. Gregory, pastor of the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church, will con duct a devotional. Friends of the school are cordially invited to be present. Tuesday and Wednesday, the school will operate on an abbrev iated schedule with a full day’s program and lunches beginning on Thursday. MANTEO REBEKAHS TO MEET The Manteo Rebekahs will meet Monday evening, September 5, at eight o’clock. Mrs. Tracy Ward, Noble Grand, urges all members to attend.
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