VOLUME XXI NO. 18 GOLF COURSES PLANNED FOR BOTH ROANOKE ISLAND AND SOUTHERN SHORES IN DARE Mother Vineyard Yacht & Country Club Project Has Many Subscribers in First Meeting Thurs day Night in Manteo; Southern Shores Owners Set Up 400 Acres In Project Estimated at $425,000. I Golf, the little four letter word that has given much concern to the forward looking people in the Dare Coastland for several years, has finally come to the front in big letters, and it looks as if something is going to come of it. In Dare County, where so often things don’t get done by halves, in this case it will be doubled. All in one week, one group on Roanoke Island and another w, eld hunters say. It will begin a hall hour before sunrise Monday morn ing, November 7th, and close on January 14th. That’s one fine part, sportsmen say; it gives ten more days of shooting this season. In the Mattamuskeet area where many farmers enjoy income from sportsmen who hunt in their fields, large crops of grain were left after being blown down by the huri canes. In many instances these crops rotted because water stayed so long over the land. But in many other cases there was an abund ance of grain which survived and is attracting many fowl. Hunters in Hyde say ths sport will be as good as ever. In Currituck County some crops were damaged and some grain left in the fields. But this county has been long famed for its sport on the waters, and hunting in the fields is almost nil. Currituck Sound still has an abundance 3 impregnable fortress of its subterranean vitality and emerges with the first solicitation of spring. “Sown by the winds, by the wandering birds, propagated by the subtle agriculture of the elements which are its mistress, minister and servants, it softens the rude out-line of the world. It bears no blazonery of bloom to charm the senses with fragrance or splendor, but its homely hue is more en chanting than lily or rose. It yields no fruit in earth or air, yet, should its harvest fail for a single year famine would depopulate the whole world." Keep Ours A Land of Freedom Perhaps that is what will hap pen or be the result if another war comes and th’e Atomic and Hydrogen bombs are released on the world. Not only the people but nature’s wonders of beauti ful woodland, sages, marshes, meadows, fields of grain and the grasses will be ultimately destroy ed. We must be serious pbout these thoughts for we could easily lose it all. However, we also must be able to get along, and forget long enough to enjoy November’s beauty and. to remember what the years, the mpnths, the weeks and days hold for us for summer is passed, therefore soon, we’ll be sitting by the fire-sides, listening to the Christmas songs and too, will bundle up considerable when out-of-doors we go. We would do well if we could keep thiis good land—this Ameri- See GLORY, Page Four MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1955 DARE COUNTY'S MEN HEAD SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE MELVIN R. DANIELS HON. MELVIN R. DANIELS of Wanchese was chosen unanimously as president of the Southern Albemarle Association at Williamston Friday so he could head up a celebration about the Croatan Sound Bridge next fall. He has previously served as president, several terms as Vice-President, a term as secretary and is a faithful and vigorous worker in the association since its beginning. He nominated for his successor as Dare County’s Vice-President of the Association, Hon. Stanford White of Manns Harbor, who servecT as Vice-President in 1948. The meting at Williamston was highly praised by many, as well as the fine dinner and the program arranged by retiring president A. Corey of Jamesville. KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS WHEN TIRE EXPLODES Donald Bliven of Manteo, em ployed at Manns Garage, was knocked unsconscious and suffer ed injuries to his hand Thursday morning when a tire he was in flating blew up. Dr. C. F. Harris rendered prompt first aid, and said he expected no serious damage from the injuries which were painful. CHURCH OF CHRIST M. L. Knight will fill his ap pointment at the Church of Christ, Manteo on Sunday, November 6. Service commences at 41 a.m. All are invited to attend. HUNTING CLUBS AND WHAT THEY USED TO MEAN TO OUR COASTLAND COUNTIES Hunting of wildfowl used to be a big industry in Eastern North Carolina and dozens of hunting lodges dotted our lonely marshes, mostly owned along with vast acreage, by business men from the North. These clubs employed care takers, and other help in season, spent money with local merchants, often the members were asked and did contribute to local churches and other local affairs. They paid considerable in taxes to the coun ties and were often heavily asses sed by local officers who imposed on them. As the old timers died out, no one came to take their places for younger men had other interests and other business men didn’t see it was good business in late years, with the short goose season, and small bag limit, to spend a lot of money for personal accommoda tions when they could go out for a day or week, and find modern homes and courts to take care of them. But there is a wealth of human interest in remiaiscenses of the old hunting clubs and the men who owned and used them. There are only a handful of them left. There used to be a dozen in Dare County alone, and in Currituck and Hyde. Now in Dare County there is only the Mirlo Beach Club at Rodan the, the Duck Island Club near Wanchese, the Durant Island Club near Mashoes, and the remains of the Gull Shoal Club in Pamlico Sound. Read about the offer elsewhere in this paper about prizes for let ters concerning these old clubs and the men who owned and used them. Then watch for the articles to be printed later. $25 IN PRIZES FOR BEST LETTERS ABOUT OLD TIME HUNTING CLUBS SEND IT TO THIS NEWSPAPER BEFORE NOVEMBER 30th. The old time hunting clubs and what they meant to the com munities of the Coastland can be the subject of an interesting article, if you will write of them as you recall them. COAST LAND NEWSPAPERS will give three prizes for the best letters of not less than one thousand words and not more than 2,500 words that are mailed us by November 30th. For best letter sls, for second best $lO, and for third best a two-year subscription to the paper. We reserve the right to keep all letters, and for any other letters of the length above mentioned, we may later publish, we will give a year’s subscription to the paper. If suf ficient response is not shown to this offer, we reserve the right to cancel it. I ADDRESS YOUR LETTER IN CARE OF THIS NEWSPAPER J® ESP' IHr -'Ji ' W. S. WHITE UTILITIES COMMISSION TO HEAR COMPLAINTS ABOUT BEACH PHONES The State Utilities Commission has set Tuesday, November 22nd 2:30 p.m., Raleigh, as the time for hearing a review of the rate struc ture of Norfolk Telephone & Tele graph Company’s Kill Devil Hills Exchange which affects telephone subscribers of the beach area of Dare County. The commission advised resi dents of the beach area who at tended last year’s hearing on gen eral rate increases for the area served by the phone company, that the Kill Devil Hills Exchange rates had been set on a trial basis in the absence of prior operating ex perience of an exchange similar to the one serving the Dare Beaches, and that the rates would be sub ject to future review. See UTILITIES, Page Four f FishingwHunting A M AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN M ■E» ...litug .firi» ~ i ~ - MfoWlTOaMw LARGEST CHANNEL BASS OF SEASON, AT HATTERAS Largest channel bass of the sea son reported taken by a woman angler was a 49-pounder landed at Hatteras Inlet Sunday morning in the surf by Mrs. O. B. Cunningham of Hatfield, N. J. It was a 49- pounder. Willie Newsome reported that Biill Davis and party of Win ston-Salem, fishing one afternoon landed five channel bass, the largest a 44 pounder. “Channel bass are getting larger and larger in the surf now,” said Newsome, “and the big ones will be available in coastal waters of Dare until early December. WEATHER OR NOT, THAT’S WHAT HUNTERS DREAD When the hunting season for mi gratory wildfowl begins next Mon day, hunters should find plenty of geese and ducks to shoot. The ref uge managers of Pea Island and Mattamuskeet report plenty of wildfowl. It is the same story from the Currituck and east Al bemale Sound region. Whether hunting is actually good on first day of season and during the cur rent month depends on whether the weather is suitable for ducks —or suitable, for bluebirds. GOVERNOR HODGES HAS KIND WORDS FOR ALLIGATOR BRIDGE AND ADVICE FOR FUTURE Suggestions Made at Southern Albemarle Con vention at Williamston for Development of Home Industries; Care for Forests Urged; As sociation Meets For 20th Birthday in Roanoke Country Club. 19-DAY PERIOD IS OPEN ON CERTAIN OYSTER GROUNDS Other News of State Department of Conservation and Devel opment Activities Raleigh.—Two areas for the tak ing of oysters commercially in Pamlico Sound waters will be open from November 1 to 19, Director Ben E. Douglas of the Department of Conservation and Development announced today. Douglas said the Back Bay area at Cedar Island in Carteret County waters will be open for the 19-day period for tonging only of oysters. The area around Raccoon Key and Swan Island north of a line from Stumpy Point to Red Nun buoy No. 2 at the south end of Swan Island Shoal in Hyde county waters will be open for the 19-day period for dredging as well as tonging of oysters. Decision to open the two areas, Douglas said, was made on recom mendation of C. Gehrman Holland, State fisheries commissioner, and Dr. A. F. Chestnut, director of the Institute of Fisheries Research at Morehead City for the University of North Carolina. Douglas said a recent survey by Dr. Chestnut of the oyster-produc ing areas in the State’s coastal waters indicated rather widespread damage was done young oysters by the recent hurricanes hitting the coast. At its fall meeting recently in Waynesville, the State Board of Conservation and Development di rected Douglas and Holland to proceed with the planting of seed See OYSTER, Page Four NAGS HEAD FISHING TOURNEY SUCCESSFUL Yankee fishing teams won top honors in the fourth annual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament which ended last Sunday attracted more persons than ever before to the piscatorial classic that has ad vertised the Nags Head-Kitty Hawk area more than any other single event of its kind. Margate City’s South Jersey Anglers Club with 246 points for 157 fish of assorted varieties won first place in the team competi tion and in addition to gold medals for each team member, the club won the handsome new trophy which had been given the Nags Head Fishing Club as first prize offering by Henry Stelwagon, president of the International As sociation of Surf Anglers Club. To retain permanent possession of the big trophy a team must win it two years in succession. That is what the Elizabeth City team had done last year, the reason a new grand trophy was necessary this year. Runnersup in the team compe tition was the Cornwell Heights, Pa., Fishing Club’s team with 201 points for 134 fish and coming in third was the Dover Fishing Club of Philadeljjjiia with 197 points for 109 fish. Elizabeth City Fish ing Club chalked up 194 points for 163 fish caught. Leonard Wil liams of Pepnsauken, N. J. team caught 49 fish and thus won the Carolinian trophy. In the individual tourney Mrs. R. S. Cook of Kill Devil Manor won first place for the largest fish taken—a puppy drum weigh-I ing less than 10 pounds. During the three-day tourney more than 250 persons participated and the contestants came from Wilming ton, N. C. to Brooklyn, N. Y. DEER CROP FALLS OFF Reports from the Dare main land forests indicate that bear hunters have been having good See SPORT, Page Four Single Copy 70 Meeting for the 20th time since its organization in 1935, the Southern Albemarle Association in annual session at the magnificent Roanoke Country Club near Wil liamston Friday had as its guest of honor, Governor Luther Hodges. Governor Hodges commended the organization on the good work it had done in the past 20 years, and urged it to continue the good fight. “You will always make progress so long as you work for the good of the whole and never surrender to selfish interests he said. He urged our people to plan for the future, develop home indus try and take not less than a 20- year view of the our forests, other wise he said, “we will not be doing our duty by those who come after us.” > The governor came to help the association observe its 20th anni versary, said almost what the folks wanted to hear. The association long has been dedicated to the task of securing bridges across Croatan Sound and the Alligator River and the Three Mile Croatan Sound Bridge now is under con struetion and slated for comple tion next summer. A bridge across the Alligator, said the governor, “is a vital link in our state high way system which we need and must eventually have. “It will require a structure 2.75 miles long at a cost of approxi mately $3,000,000. While we realize the need, of course, there are not sufficient highway funds to handle the project now.” He recalled that recently he allocated $20,000 from the highway surplus for a prelimi nary study of the Alligator Bridge. It has been suggested, he said that the bridge be constructed and paid for through tolls. I frankly do not know the ans wer at this time but I hope that something constructive can be done in the not too distant future, he continued. In his talk, the governor called attention to the fact that per capi ta income in all six counties of the southern Albemarle was below the state average of $1097 last year. In Beaufort it was $863; in Dare, $650; in Hyde, $647; in Martin, $827; in Tyrrell, $654; and in Washington, $1,020. I hope you keep this in mind,” he said, “be cause you and I are going to do sometjjing about it.” Clarence Griffin of Williamston, former Martin County representa tive, introduced the governor. Wil liamston Mayor Bob Cowen, wel comed the governor and the dele gates to the meeting. A. Corey of Jamesville, the outgoing president, presided. With the Croatan Bridge in the bag, and Alligator hopes high, the association set out after new game. It approved a resolution authoriz ing a committee to approach agen cies of the federal government and confer with the state about a com bined effort toward bridging Ore gon Inlet in the Cape Hatteras national seashore section of Dare. The group also voted to establish a committee to promote agricul tural and industrial development and another committee to promote the tourist business. It adopted a resolution urging the Highway Commission to continue maintain ing the Old Scuppernong River Bridge at Columbia after a new bridge and by-pass are completed. It also favored a telephone line for Gum Neck in Tyrrell. By some odd streak of chanee the Southern Albemarle Associa tion Friday chose for its top offi cers, former officers of the Asso ciation, entirely overlooking all the new blood and younger blood in the six-county group. It also abandoned the rotation system, giving Dare the presidency out of turn. For President it chose Melvin R. Daniels of Dare, a former presi dent and a vice president, and in all other counties but Washington and Dare, it named a former presi dent as County Vice President. On nomination of Melvin R. Daniels, Dare’s Vice-President is former vice-president, W. S. White of Manns Harbor. Harry W. Pritchett of Creswell again becomes the Washington County Vice-Presi dent. Vice Presidents for other counties have served as president in previous years, and are as fol lows: Hyde, W. W. Watson of Lake Landing; Beaufort, Dr. W. T. See SAA, Page Four