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THE COASTLAND TIMES
CATHERINE D. MEEKINS, Secretary-Treasurer
Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Since July 4, 1935
The Weekly Journal of the Walter Raleigh Coastland of North Carolina,
Foremost Region of Recreation and Sport, Healthful Living and
Historical Interest On The Atlantic Seaboard
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VICTOR MEEKINS, Editor
Vol. XXI Manteo, N. C M Friday, September 9, 1955 No. 10
BUYERS MARKET-SELLERS MARKET
SOME FACTS ABOUT ADVERTISING x
By DAVID STICK
A Sellers Market is when a lot of people with ready
cash want to buy something that is in short supply, or is ra
tioned. That's when the businessman can sit back and take
it easy and watch the money roll in. The storekeeper does
n’t have to wrap up the packages if he doesn’t feel like it, or
give a lollypop to a housewife for her child, or display his
goods neatly ... or advertise. The business is coming to him
anyway.
A Buyers Market is when there are a lot of places trying
to sell something and only a limited number of people are
interested in buying. That’s when the businessman has to
get up off his chair, and maybe cut his prices some, and tie
up the packages real nice, and smile at everybody who comes
through the door. He has to display his merchandise, too,
and he has to dig down into his pocket—into his savings,
if necessary, or even borrow on the building—in order to’
advertise what he’s trying to sell.
Here in Dare we’re in the middle of a Buyers Market;
one that has resulted from too many hurricanes, too many
bugs, too many other things to attract the same tourists we
want down here. We can sit on our chairs if we like, and
cross our fingers and hope that next year will be better.
We can do that, but we’d better not. Instead we’d better do
what business people do all over the world when they are
caught in a Buyers Market. We’d better dig into our pockets,
or our bank accounts, or even borrow if necessary, and ad
vertise what we’re selling in Dare County.
Several years ago a Dare County businessman made
the statement that he was against advertising, because ad
vertising attracted more people, and when a lot of people
came down here some were sure to go into business in com
petition with him.
Maybe it sounds like good sense at first glance. But the
problem is that new businesses are going up all the time
even if more people don’t come down.
Each year since the War there has been an increase of
at least fifteen percent and as much as fifty percent in the
number of tourist facilities in Dare County.
This means, quite simply, that each year in order for
all business establishments to just break even with the pre
ceding year, we have to get at least fifteen percent and as
much as fifty percent more people down here. About the only
way to do that is to flood the newspapers and magazines and
radio or television with stories and pictures about Dare
County, as the Dare County Tourist Bureau has been doing
for the past four years.
HOMECOMING AT EAST LAKE CHURCH.
There will never be anything to take the place of the
old fashioned Sunday School picnics, church homecomings,
and similar festivals as have through the century meant
so much in the lives'of rural folk. It is the sort of thing that
makes everyone glow with affection for his fellowman, and
it has inspiration to spur one on to better living. The annual
East Lake Methodist homecoming is one of these, and it is
so highly successful because of unique circumstances that
surround those who were once the community of East Lake.
This year, the homecoming will be held on Sunday, Sep
tember 25, which is the last Sunday of the larger summer
ferry schedules, so nobody may expect to get left.
The larger part of the population of East Lake commu
and Manteo, these people having left home with the decline
nity of 30 years ago, now lives in Norfolk, Elizabeth City,
of the timber industry, in search of a livelihood. Many of
them are dead, but those who live have happy memories of
East Lake as it used to be, with its well kept homes and
farms, and the fun and fulness of living that came from its
forests and streams. It was home, where good neighbors
lived and where friends indeed were friends in need. To this
never-to-be-forgotten land of childhood, they return in num
bers, and the annual affair is one of the best of its kind
held anywhere in Eastern North Carolina.
LET’S HAVE NEWS WHEN IT’S NEWS.
We mention it occasionally, but we still continue to get
pictures and long write-ups of weddings, some of them clip
ped from other papers, which have happened several weeks,
sometimes a month and even longer, before they are sent
to us.
It costs several dollars for an engraving, and several
dollars to set the type, consequently, it is an unjustified
expense to expect of a newspaper—to carry an item of this
kind, which every interested person has long since learned
about.
The home paper likes to print items about homefolks.
In fact, it is the only paper that gives a whoop about home
folks. It looks like homefolks would be sufficiently interest
ed to see the home paper got the news, if not first, then
not later than other papers.
Our charge for printing a reasonably long account of
a wedding, that is more than two Greeks old. including a two
column cut of the bride, is $7, cash with order. We have had
people who got our quotation, and<promised to pay, but hav
ing gotten their article in print, ignored the statement. Can
you beat it?
SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Marrow,
Misses Kay and Joan Simpson,
have returned to Robersonville
after spending their summer in
Swan Quarter.
Mrs. O. L. Williams visited in
Greenville Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cahoon and
children of Washington, D. €.,
visited her mother, Mrs. Nat
Credle during Labor Day.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hayes
have returned to Kinston after be
ing at their home here several
weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams of
Portsmouth visited Mr. and Mrs.
S. O. Jones during the week end.
Miss Jean Woodley attended
the funeral of her grandmother,
Mrs. Lida Kemp Walker, in Colum
bia Sunday.
Mrfc Elaine Ballard of Hender
son is visiting Mrs. Kathleen
Gurganus.
Reg. and Mrs. A. H. Stone,
Susan and Mary Stone, have re
turned home after vjsiting in
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Mrs. W., G. Joyner and sen,
visited )ier parents in Seven
Sprirtgaffluring the week end.
MsMßNfjWmk Percy Harris and
children of South Norfolk visited
their parents during Labor Day
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. John Madison
Berry and daughter of Portsmouth
visited Mr. and Mrs. John Lee.
Miss Della Harris visited Mr.
and Mrs. E. D. Credle in Green
ville.
WAVES PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Newcomb and
children and Mr. and Mrs. Bob
Riddick of Norfolk visited Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Edwards.
Dorothy Midgett of Windsor
spent the week end end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Mid
gett.
Mrs. Salina Midgett and Shirley
visited S/Sgt. and Mrs. Calvin S.
Midgett of Savannah, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Blucher Scar
borough and son have returned to
Elizabeth City after visiting Mrs.
Rowena O’Neal.
Mrs. Gaston Midgett and son
visited her mother, Mrs. Calvin
Midgett Saturday.
Mrs. R. N. Quidley of St.
Petersburg, Fla. visited Mr. and
Mrs. D. A. Midgett.
Leland Midgett of Elizabeth
City spent the week end with Mr.
and Mrs. D. B. Midgett.
Tazwell O’Neal of Norfolk is
spending his leave with his family.
Mrs. Luther Gray of Salvo visit
ed her daughter, Mrs. Calvin Mid
gett. ,
Maj. and Mrs. B. W. Williams
and children and Mr. and Mrs.
James Maddrey of Norfolk spent
the week end with Mr, and Mrs.
D. A. Midgett.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Darden of
Norfolk spent the week end with
Misses Annie and Mordecia Mid
gett, who accompanied them back
to Norfolk Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Carlee Lowry and
family of Lumberton are spend
ing the winter at the Alston Mid
gett cottage. Mr. Lowry is a mem
ber of the school faculty at the
Cape Hatteras school.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon Davenport
and daughter Bessie of Creswell
spent the week end with Mr. and
Mrs. Elroy Midgett and family.
Mrs. Salina Midgett and Shirley,
Mrs. Gaston Midgett and son, Gas,
Jr., and S/Sgt. and Mrs. Calvin
F. Midgett and son, Stephie ot
Savannah, Ga., visiited Mrs. Luther
Gray and Mrs. W. E. Whidbee and
family of Salvo Saturday.
Alvey Midgett has returned to
Norfolk.
Asa Gray Jr. and Rudy spent
the week end in Norfolk with Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Smith and
visited Mrs. Gray, who was a pa
tient in De Paul Hospital.
Mrs. Mollie Midgett and Luke
Midgett of Norfolk, have returned
home after visiting Mr. and Mrs.
D. A. Midgett.
S/Sgt. and Mrs. Calvin F. Mid
gett and son of Savannah, Ga.,
have been visiting Mrs. Calvin
Midgett.
Mrs. Coulter Tillett and children
of Virginia Beach have returned
home after visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Dorland Midgett.
Lance Midgett of Loran C. G.
Station spent his liberty with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Mid
gett.
Shirley Midgett has returned to
Norfolk after visiting her mother,
Mrs. Salina Midgett.
BUXTON PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Gilligan and
Mrs. Deloras Gilligan of Beaufort
visited Mr. and Mrs. U. F. Jen
nette.
Mr. and Mrs. Ross Fulcher of
Norfolk, Va. and Mr. and Mrs.
Walton Fulcher of Pennsylvania
visited Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Fulcher.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Barnett
have returned to Elizabeth City.
Their father, Joshua Dailey will
be here a week.
Mrs. Neva Woods, Mrs. Lonie
Tolson, Mary Tolson, Lawrence
Woods and Mrs. Paula Fulcher
visited Elizabeth City.
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Midgett
have moved to Elizabeth City to
their rented apartment. Mr. Mid
gett is employed at the Elizabeth
City C. G. Air Base.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Barnett and
granddaughter Jo Anne of Norfolk
were home several days.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Brady are
home after a visit in Portsmouth.
Mr. and Mrs. Ra,scom Gibbs of
South Norfolk, Mr. and Mrs.
Ranny Jennette of Durham, Mr.
and Mrs. Almey Jennette and Mrs.
Olive Peek of Elizabeth have been
visiting here.
Mrs. Florence Barnett and son
have returned to Norfolk.
Mrs. Retta Quidley is home from
Portsmouth, Va., where she visited
Mr. and Mrs. Manson Meekins.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Fulcher and
children of Portsmouth spent some
time here with Mrs. Fulcher’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Bradey.
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Wilmouth
and daughter Gene, and Mrs.
Keith Gaskins and daughter of
Richmond spent a few days with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Quidley.
William (Billy) Hehl, Jr., USA,
after three years in California, is
here with his wife. They soon will
leave for France for duty.
Mrs. Eula Quidley is in Albe
marle Hospital in Elizabeth City.
She is hie mother of a month old
son, her fourth child.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Parr’s
guests for the week, their daugh
ter Lucy and children of Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson of Vir
ginia .Beach are visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Williams.
SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS NOTE
Principal R. H. Stone of the
Manteo school requests that any
one in the Manteo area qualified
to do substitute teaching get in
touch with him as soon as possible.
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COLONY
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actor that brings out a point not
noticed before. Everyone should
see the Lost Colony not only once
but many times —as many times as
possible, and each time he will
find anew that he will never be
bored, because it is so tremendous
in its conception and its interpre
tation that it will never grow old.
Among the audience at this
year’s closing performance were
three young Englishmen on their
first trip to the United States.
They became interested in the
show through Mr. and Mrs. D. H.
Smith of Alexandria, Va., and
Nags Head, and as guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Smith and their daughter
Mesa attended the drama Sunday
night. Also in the audience was
a group of nuns attending in a
body. They were from the Catholic
high school in Raleigh and from
Elizabeth City. It was their first
time at the Lost Colony and they
expressed themselves as very much
impressed.
LADY
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she was able to recognize before
sne lapsed into unawareness.
But not merely was she mid
wife, she was neighbor and friend
and sound counsellor, gentle and
kindly and keenly intelligent. She
was vigorous of both body and
mind and withal independent. Until
five years or so ago she lived
alone in her own house down on
the sound side some distance from
the new highway, but at the in
sistence of her family she allowed
the house to be moved out to the
highway, to a site next door to
her son and within sight of her
grandson.
Mrs. Quidley was the widow of
David G. Quidley, who died 53
years ago. It was remembered in
the community that Mr. Quidley,
who was later a member of the
crew at Creed’s Hill Station, was
the first contract mail carrier on
the Island, making the trip from
Chicamacomico to Hatteras on
horse back when postoffices were
established here during the 1870’s.
The trip along the Island, with the
mail in saddle-bags, required a day
in each direction.
Abraham Lincoln was not a
month dead when Mrs. Quidley
was born. It is not wholly clear
whether she was born on the Is
land or on the mainland in Hyde
county. Many of the Islanders,
with southern sympathies, had
been compelled to flee the Island
after the invasion during the
Civil War. But she returned to the
Island in infancy and was but
rarely away from it in the suc
ceeding years of her long life.
Mrs. Quidley was ’ accorded an
honor rare on Hatteras Island
when as a mark of respect, Group
Commander Harold Glynn directed
that a detachment of Coast
Guardsmen, under the command of
BM3c Elton Farrow, whom she
had brought into the world, act as
pall bearers. The five sons tha»
she had raised followed their
father into the service and the
family devotion to the Coast
Guard continues nopr into the third
and fourth generation.
Funeral services were held from
the Methodist Church, of which
she was a life-long member, and
were conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. Dan Meadows, assisted bv
the Rev. Aaron Tyson, pastor of
St. Paul’s Church at Avon. The
church was crowded to the doors
for the service, despite the in
clement weather. Interment was
beside her husband in the family
cemetery.
Surviving children ari Guy C.
Quidley, Buxton; Thomas D.
Quidley, Pamlico, David E. Quid
’°v, of Camden, Mrs. Ersie G.
Wise of Kinston and one stepson,
Amasa G. Quidley, of Buxton.
There are 28 grandchildren and 73
great grandchildren.
HYDE FARM BUREAU
HAS A MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE UNDER WAY
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Hyde County Farm Bureau pres
ident R. L. McKinney reports that
the Farm Bureau is this week
conducting a membership drive,
and emphasizes that farmers can
benefit greatly by organizing and
cooperating.
Legislation secured by the Farm
Bureau during the last legislature
will mean great savings to farm
ers; a 3% tax on farm machinery
has been discontinued, which is ex
pected to result in a saving of
over $1,000,000 for the state's
farmers.
It is also estimated that North
Carolina farmers will save over
$1,330,000 on their potash, as a
result of the opposition of the
Farm Bureau to a $lO-a-ton duty
that was proposed to be collected
on potash imported into the United
States.
POWER
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tors to rotate some whose terms
have expired and to name a new
set of officers. Mr. Turner has had
the job two years and Harrison
Meekins has been secretary-treas
urer two years. They will very
likely be re-elected if they ever
get a membership meeting to
gether, but mostly Oden and
Turner wanted the members to
know that at last the company is
making its living.
Herbert Oden, who learned about
electricity from Tom Eaton when
he built a village plant down at
Hatteras years ago, has been
superintendent of the plant since
it went into production seven
years ago last June. The company
is ten years old, having been or
ganized in 1945 and plans made
for the erection of a plant here
that would serve the six villages
of the Island above Hatteras.
Afterward the company bought
the Eaton interests at Hatteras
and extended its lines to include
that village, completely replacing
the transmission lines. About the
same time the U. S. Coast Guard
established its Long Range Navi
gation station on the Cape, and
that became and continues the
largest single user of current on
the Island. Presently the genera
tors are supplying power and
light for the U. S. Naval Facility,
both at the Seabee living site and
at the building site just north of
the Lighthouse.
But it is in the domestic use of
current that the company has
made progress that is reflected in
the newly booked and banked
earnings. There are now 570 con
nected customers as against about
350 when the generation and dis
tribution of power began in June;
1948. More and more people are
using electricity for all sorts of
domestic purposes, cooking, wash
ing, refrigeration. The extension
of tourist facilities <n the Island
has also brought about extended
power consumption.
President Turner, reading Oden’s
report which has not been made to
the members yet, says that the
most valuable asset the company
has is Oden himself. The mainte
nance of lines on the Island,
reaching from Chicamacomico to
Hatteras, most of it in an exposed
situation, has been remarkable
and the interruption of power
flow throughout the system has
been low beyond any expectation.
Briefing the general manager’s
report, Oden states that not only
is there cash in the bank, with al)
current obligations in full and on
time, but the comnany has a plant
now valued at $431,214.17 and that
unless calamity befalls the plant,
built with borrowed money, will be
paid for in due course—and with
some accumulated earnings that
may, from time to time, result in
reduced charges for power.
Ben Dixon Mac Neill
BEACH TOWN'S ZONING
ORDINANCE IS AMENDED
Kill Devil Hills Commissioners Vote For
Light Industrial Zone; Conduit To
Drain Highway Discussed
The regular meeting of the
Board of Commissioners of the
Town of Kill Devil Hills was held
on Tuesday night, September 6, at
eight p.m. All of the commission
ers wee J present and the meeting
was preside 1 over by Mayor Emily
Mustian.
Mrs. Diane Baum Frank,
through her attorney, J. H. Leßoy
of Elizabeth City, presented a pe
tition to the Board of Commis
sioners of the Town of Kill Devil
Hills asking for the abandonment
of Norfolk Street located in her
development known as Kitty Hawk
Shores and which is wholly owned
by herself. There was no one pres
ent at the meting who opposed
the abandonment of Norfolk
Street, neither were there any let
ters received by the board oppos
ing this matter which had been
duly posted for one month. Mrs.
Frank’s petition was approved and
by resolution the commissioners
abandoned Norfolk Street, in Kit
ty Hawk Shore Development.
Mayor Mustian introduced an
amendment to the town ordinance
for the creation of a light indus
trial zone. The ordinance is to re
strict and regulate the type of
buildings and the type of indus
tries for this zone. David Stick,
chairman of the zoning board, pre
sented the recommendation of the
zoning board. The recommenda
tions made by the zoning commis
sion regarding the industrial zone,
and accepted by the town commis
sioners, and incorporated into the
ordinance will exclude from the in
dustrial zone all lands within 1000
feet of the U. S. Highway 158,
1000 feet from the normal high
water line on the Sound Side, and
1000 feet from the boundary of
the Wright Memorial National
Park.
Wallace H. McCown, town at
torney, read the ordinance creat
ing a light industrial zone, and
explained it by paragraphs. Sever
al suggestions were made by those
present which were incorporated
into the ordinance. Commissioner
Morrison made a motion that the
amendment to the zoning ordi
nance creating an industrial zone
be accepted. It was seconded by
Commissioner Twiford and was
unanimously adopted.
The industrial area set up by
the board for an industrial zone
was also unanimously adopted.
The industrial zone will be locat
ed in the Kill Devil Hills Realty
Company which is bounded on the
north by the. county road, on the
south by the Tillett tract, on the
west by the Baum tract, thereby
forming a triangular area and in
cluding all or parts of thirteen
lots, more or less.
Mayor Mustian reported that
she and the commissioners were at
present working with the high
way department endeavoring to
have a conduit opened in the vi
cinity of the town hall and the
Kill Devil Hills Coast Guard sta
tion. Such a conduit would drain
the highway and all adjacent land
in this area. The prospect of this
conduit, leading from the west side
of highway 158 and to the ocean,
seems very favorable.
The commissioners voted to ex
tend another 60 days the motion
passed on June 7th, giving the
fire department authority to an
swer fire'calls outside the limits
of Kill Devil Hills. Mrs. Mustian
stated that in so doing the fire de
partment would be acting under
governmental function.
PUPIL ENROLLMENT FOR
YEAR IN DARE SCHOOLS
All schools in Dare County open
ed Tuesday morning, September 6,
and Mrs. Mary L. Evans, county
superintendent, has released the
following figures on enrollment,
including all schools in the county
with the exception of the Cape
Hatteras High School at Buxton,
which had not reported full at
tendance.
Roanoke School: elementary 56,
high school 17, total 73; Manns
Harbor: 45, (grades one through
four); Stumpy Point: 19 (grades
one through four); Wanchese: 121
(grades one through eight); Kitty
Hawk: elementary, 157, high school
44; total 201; Manteo: elementary
263, high school 141, total, 404.
Grand total for county, not includ
ing Cape Hatteras school, 863.
The Cape Hatteras School is a
modern new building, just being
completed, and for the first time,
accommodates all the pupils of
Hatteras Island under one roof.
Last year small schools were
operated at Hatteras and Avon,
but these have been discontinued.
POLIO
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statement issued by the National
Foundation which showed that the
1955 March of Dimes for the coun
try fell short by approximately
$12,000,000 of meeting polio needs
of this year. Through the call for
surpluses to 1,781 chapters which
are in the black, it is expected
some $10,000,000 will be made
available for 1,274 other chapters
that are now in the red because of
heavy inroads to help polio pa
tients. ,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1955
ARTISTS PARTY HONORS
MRS. JOSEPH P. KNAPP
William Vandeveer Kughler, the
distinguished artist, now painting
murals at Roanoke Gardens, the
home of the Albert Q. Bells, was
host at a midnight buffet supper
honoring Mrs. Joseph P. Knapp
last Friday night. The occasion
marked the unveiling, so to speak,
of the first in a series of murals WF
designed to adorn the walls of the
auditorium of the Knapp Memorial
Building to house the Institute of
Government Building at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Among
the distingushed guests present
were Mrs. Knapp, widow of the
late philanthropist, and her sis
ter, Dr. Elise Rutledge of McComb,
Mississippi.
Also present were local resi
dents and members of The Lost
Colony cast who have been mod
els for Mr. Kughler as he placed
on canvas, painted personages de
picting English-speaking Ameri
ca’s beginning in the New World
of the Sixteenth Century.
The idea for the paintings,
which in mural form will cover
some 1,500 feet or more of the
Knapp Memorial Building at the
University in Chapel Hill, was con
ceived by Mrs. Knapp. In collabor
ation during the present phase of
the work has been Albert Q. Bell,
British-born resident of Roanoke
Island, who with Mrs. Bell, owns
Roanoke Gardens, and Dudley
Bagley of Currituck, in whose
family cemetery at Moyock is bur
ied the late Mr. Knapp. Mr. Bag
ley is a member of the board of
directors of the Knapp Founda
tion. Mr. Bell, through his undis
puted knowledge of Elizabethan
England, has acted as a research
er for the distinguished artist on
the first mural.
McCOWN
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publicizing and promoting the
the region in an impartial man
ner. While there have been some
financials set-backs with a Bureau
treasury that has been at one of
its lowest ebbs in recent weeks,
the directors studied the financial
report of W. H. McCown, secre
tary-treasurer, which reflected
that enough uncollected pledges of
responsible vacation operators re
mained for the current year, end
ing on September 30, -to meet all
obligations for this rugged sea
son. Members of the board of di
rectors studied the list and agreed
they would personally visit per
sons whose pledges are not paid
in full and urge payment of same.
The bureau manager’s report in- I
dicated that from June 14 through
September 5, a total of 7,451
pieces of mail was sent out as fol
lows: 1,636 letters with stories to
newspapers; 583 newspictures; 31
special negatives to newspicture
services; 2,628 letters answering
inquiries addressed to the Bureau
and 2,573 weekly Inquiry Sheets
to operators of vacation facilities.
During the period, hundreds of
clippings, estimated to be about
10 per cent of actual number of
stories published were received.
The report also contained data on
the role the Tourist Bureau has
played in assisting magazine
writers, newspaper reporters and
photographers here on special
assignments.
SEASHORE
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which did no material damage iq
the Dare Coast region in August,
but hit hard, the thickly populated
late summer and autumn vaca
tioning regions of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York and
New England, from which much
of the Autumn Outer Banks va
cationists come, the visitation
count in the National Seashore
area, is likely to be not as great
as originally estimated. The Tour
ist Bureau estimates, however,
that at least 350,000 persons will
have entered the National Sea
shore by the end of the travel
year, an increase three times
greater than the estimated travel
last year.
August Increase at KDH
To date this year, that is,
through August 123,654 persons
had visited the Wright Memorial
Monument area at Kill Devil Hills.
In July this year the manual count,
by an inexperienced employee of
the National Monument area only
25,466 persons entered the area.
In August, automatic counters re
flected that 57,142 persons had vis
ited the site of the first flight.
Superintendent Horace Dough in
charge of the Wright National
Monument believes the 1955 count a
will equal 1954.
FT. RALEIGH ATTENDANCE
DROPS DURING AUGUST
The storms of August which af
fected all \ vacation business and
visitations in Dare County also
lowered attendance at Fort Ra
leigh National Historical Site, it
was learned here today. A report
of the National Park Service of
ficials reflected that in August
1955 there were 21,932 persons vis
iting Fort Raleigh which compar
ed to 37.812 during August 1954,
which marked the first full month
in which the admission charge of
25 cents had been effective at the
site.