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VOLUME XXI NO. 21 ALL-SEASHORE GROUP MEETING AT NAGS HEAD Association to Convene Tuesday at 12:30 At the Carolinian Aycock Brown and Wally Mc- Cown of the Dare County Tourist Bureau are putting in a lot of work to make a success of the meeting of the All-Seashore High way Association which will meet Tuesday at 12:30 at the Carolinian at Nags Head, and Joe Dußois of i Morehead City, prime mover of I the Association urges those who • attend to stay over for the night. Mr. Dußois plans a tour of | Nags Head, Manteo, Kitty Hawk and Hatteras for all who will stay over for Tuesday nifeht. The purpose for which the Asso ciation was founded was the pro motion of a highway all the way along the coast byway of Hatteras and Ocracoke. As the group gain ed momentum it became interested in other things, such as mosquito control, etc. Emmett Winslow, first district highway commissioner of Hert ford, has accepted an invitation to attend a meeting of the board of directors and other interested par ties of the All Seashore Highway Association at The Carolinian Ho tel on Tuesday, November 29, at 12:30 o’clock, it was announced to day by W. H. McCown, president of Dare County Tourist Bureau and member of the All Seashore board. The All Seashore has as one of its primary long range objectives the construction of an oceanside highway that would eventually ex tend from Virginia to South Car olina. Since its organization one such link in the objective has been realized with state approval and the early construction of a paved road by the State on Ocracoke Is land. Also in the initial planning was the hopes for the establish ment of a ferry service between "racoke and the mainland of Car et County to connect with U. S. ghway 70, thus eliminating an ■‘sting dead end for auto travel the Outer Banks. Similar plans are proposed for other sections of North Carolina in the Cape Fear region and north eastern North Carolina. Glenn Tucker of the Wilmington area is currently president of the All Seashore Highway and Joseph Dußois of Morehead City’s cham ber of commerce is its secretary and principal promoter. It was Du bois who conceived the idea for organizing the grout) which has in the past two or three years at tracted attention of State officials and coastal county representa tives. In addition to highways, the All Seashore Highway Association is also active at present in proposals for beach erosion projects, and mosquito control. It was this or ganization which played a leading role in getting legislation passed during the last General Assembly in Raleigh for mosquito control measures. The meeting at Nags Head on Tuesday will be the first held in the association’s first district which includes northeastern Caro lina counties and the Outer Banks. In addition to the regular mem bers of the board of directors in Dare and Currituck and other coas tal counties, invitations have been extended to several persons prom inent in the development of north eastern North Carolina, and the meeting will be open to any per son who wishes to attend. The meeting will begin with a Dutch treat luncheon in the Dogwood Room of The Carolinian, EDENTON WOMAN KILLED ON US 64 NEAR CRESWELL Mrs. Charles Sutton of Edenton Killed, Three Other Injured Near Creiwell Mrs. Charles Sutton of Edenton was killed about 11 a.m. Saturday i an auto collission about seven w iles west of Columbia, near reswell, on US 64. She was riding in a car driven by her husband when it collided with a car driven by Howard Simpson, 24, Negro of Roper, Route 1. Sutton was hospitalized with possible internal injuries and a fractured arm and a cut lip. Johnnie Sutton, his four-year-old son, is hospitalized with a head injury. Simpson has internal injuries and still was unconscious this afternoon. Mrs. Simpson died of head in juries, apparently instantly. _ Simpson will be charged with manslaughter, investigating High way Patrolman L. L. Walters said. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA ON PAR C COAST VISIT BAYLOR ..f America’s most outstanding pho tographers, who is on the staff of National Geographic Magazine, Washington, D. C., is spending the Thanksgiving holidays at Nags Head with his family. For Roberts it is a return trip to the Dare Coast which he photographed so magnificently at intervals in 1954 and earlier this year to illustrate the Geographic’s “October Holiday in the Outer Banks’ 1 which was published last month. Joe Roberts is one of the original members of the Honorary Tar Heels. During the early part of his career he was a press photographer on the old Washington Times Herald. Since becoming a member of Geo graphic's staff he has traveled throughout the world to make pic tures in color or black and white to illustrate stories Appearing in the magazine. As matter of fact since he started the assignment, which culminated in illustrations for “October Holiday” he photo covered stories in Japan, Indo- China, Canada, New England and throughout America. (Aycock Brown Photo) Keeping the Lights Burning Still Big Job for 4-Man Crew By THOMAS E. SPENCER in The Virginian-Pilot Officer-in-Charge Howard Gil man Brumsey sfniled with pride. “Our outfit has the largest terri tory of any aids-in-navigation sta tion on the Upper Carolina coast,” he said. (Mr. Brumsey is a nephew of the late General Samuel T. An sell, who died last year in Wash ington after a distinguished mili tary career). He was referring to the Light Attendant Station in Belhaven serving 42 lighted aids, two day beacons, and three lighthouses. A cool easterly breeze blew off the Pungo as we stood on the water front with the men of the Belhaven aids-in-navigation sta tion. They were busy putting a new coat of paint on the upper portions of their vessel. Tomorrow they may be in Engel hard or up the Pamlico River to Indian Island. 74 Years’ Service The crew, composed of three men besides Brumsey, represents 74 years of accumulated service. Brumsey’s helpers are R. W. Mills, of Pamlico, assistant keeper; L. R. Dosier, of Manteo, and William Morgan, of Fountain. The last two are enlisted Coast Guardsmen. The Belhaven station has a 38- foot Coast Guard picket boat at its disposal for covering some 230 miles of territory on the west side of Pamlico Sound. It is upon this crew that the men who work on the water de pend for the lights that flash across the sound and waterways at night to guide them to harbars up and down the coastline. Twice a month the men check the lamps and batteries of the beacons and lights to assure coastal fishermen safe guides. The job of directing the work falls on Brumsey, modest civilian keeper, who bears the title of officer-in-charge. A native of Coinjock in Curri tuck County, Brumsey is a veteran of the Lighthouse Service, later taken over by the Coast Guard with the development of automatic equipment. Mr. Brumsey. married Miss Sop hia Tillett of Wanchese. Served on Chesapeake Bay Brumsey has been with the service for 30 years. Before com ing to North Carolina and Bel haven, he served in the Chesa peake Bay area of Maryland. Highly regarded in Belhaven, where he is known for chewing tobacco and whittling, Brumsey also is secretary of the Belhaven Whittlers Club. His father, Horace, has been postmaster at Barco for many years. Duty comes first with Brumsey. HATTERAS ISLAND DELEGATION ASKS MORE FERRY TRIPS Civic Club of Rodanthe Leads ] Group to Confer With Com missioner Winslow Today A delegation from Hatteras Is land armed with petitions signed by just about every resident of Ocracoke and Hatteras Island are scheduled to confer with High way Commissioner Emmett Win slow in Hertford today (Friday) to see if the Oregon Inlet ferry schedules can be improved. The citizens feel that service ui ‘utb xis ■}« uiSoq pjnoqs and 4 a.m. in summer and continue through to midnight with hourly schedules simultaneously on the hour from both sides of the inlet. The service now begins at 7 a.m. from the north side and at 7:30 a.m. from the south side, with service ending at 4 p.m. from the northside and 4:30 p.m. from the south side, which permits only nine hours of ferry service during the day. This, the citizens say, creates a hardship for those who wish to make a round trip to towns off the island in normal course of business, and aslo is in sufficient for the tourist business coming to the island, in some in stances having to leave cars in ex cess of the capacity of the boats, which is 20 cars, but due to the large number of trucks now using the ferry the full amount of cars cannot be loaded on a large part of the trips. The movement is being led by the Civic Club of Rodanthe- Waves, and the committee named for ..this conference consists of the County Commissioners E. P. White and James Scarborough, R. D. Owens of Rodanthe, and Geo. Fuller of Buxton, and Woodrow Edwards, club president. BRUMSEY—LIGHT-KEEPER ' Howard Gilman BrurYisey, one of Belhaven’s pals and particular ly of fire chief Reginald Windley. Pet of the Whittier’s Club also. He believes in keeping the lights burning and putting out fires. See story by Tom Spencer. Photo courtesy Virginian-Pilot. But on days in port with a little time to spare, he often stops by at the Riddick-Windley store to pass the time of day whittling away—making nothing, in accord ance with the rules of the Whit tlers Club here. Except for the old-timers—and those with more time for practice —Officer-in-Charge _Brumsey is considered the best. Servicing 42 lighted aids and three lighthouses is a pretty big job. The lighthouses are located at Pamlico Point, Brant Island and Gull Shoal. Their territory stretches from Long Shoal River in the north and Brant Island to the south and includes parts of the Pamlico River and the Pungo River. “The manually operated light houses were abandoned a genera tion ago,” Brumsey explained Pamlico Point Light was made automatic in 1935. Brant Island and Gull Shoal lights went auto matic in the 1920'5. The present structures • are of steel. They no longer have quar ters for the keeper as was the case in the old days. “That is about the story,’* the keeper stated as we said good-bye. Officer-in-Charge Brumsey spit across the bow of his picket boat. Not an old man by any means. But really an old salt—a veteran of the Lighthouse Service. Some years ago, the late Capt. See BRUMSEY, Page Eight MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1955 MANTEO TROOP I65'S SCOUT OF THE MONTH Mjk; jb H ■jHwjj&ij " " J G. G. BONNER 111, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Bonner Jr. of Man teo, has been named Boy Scout of the month for the month of Octo ber. He is a member of Boy Scout Troop 165, Manteo. G. G. is 11 years old and joined the Manteo troop in February, 1955. He attends Manteo School and is in the sixth grade. At the present time he holds the rank of Tenderfoot, but is working toward Second Class. As his award he will receive a Boy Scout first aid kit. EIGHT CASES DISPOSED OF BY DARE RECORDER Judge W. F. Baum disposed of eight cases in Dare Recorder’s Court Tuesday. Garland T. Beach am was tried on a warrant issued Sept. 14, 1954, with failure to sup port his wife, Ruby Jean, and three] children. He had been living in] Florida, and was apprehended in] Norfolk Saturday. The court gave him a suspended two-year jail sentence and ordered him to pay his family S2O a week for their support. He is under a SSOO per formance bond signed by his fa ther, Roy Beacham of Kitty Hawk. Clayton Bowser and Frank Stewart, colored, were tried for stealing SOO from their friend Charles Whedbee. Stewart drew a 60-day suspended road sentence and a fine of SSO and half the costs, and must pay Whedbee S4O at the rate of $5 per week. Bowser got a 30-day suspended road sen tence and must pay half the costs, a $25 fine and S2O to Whedbee at the rate of $2.50 per week. Norman Cahoon of East Lake paid $25 for reckless and careless driving. Richard Baum of Kitty Hawk, for driving without opera tor’s ticket $25 and costs. Geth semane Gallop of Manteo paid S3O and costs for driving with improp er license plates. Jimmy Darrel Simpson of Williamston paid $lO and costs for driving without car tags. Charles Lee Scarborough of Wanchese forgot to renew his op erator’s ticket and paid $25 and costs. Wilbur Lee Berry paid sls and costs for driving at 70 mph. Richard (Cy) Scarborough of Wanchese was ordered to resume payments for the support of his children. Norman Brantley was put under S2OO appearance bond for Dec. 22nd to answer charge of non-support. NEW FERRY IN SERVICE ACROSS OREGON INLET The state’s new ferryboat, the Herbert C. Bonner, which is equip ped for night operation, went into service across Oregon Inlet Thanks giving Day, and is operating this week end. This boat is considered the best one in the entire fleet of similar craft numbering seven whicch the state now operates in Dare County waters. The new craft was completed in a Norfolk shipyard two weeks ago. ROANOKE ID. HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MEETS NOV. 30 Annual meeting of the Board of Directors and members of Roanoke Island Historical Association will be held at the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, in Raleigh, next Wednesday, November 30. As usual the meet ing which will be held in the Eliz abethan or Manteo Room of the Sir Walter, will begin with a Dutch Treat luncheon. Purpose of the meeting will be to make plans fn* The Lost Col ony’s 16th season scheduled to be gin on June 30, 1956. Martin Kel logg Jr., chairman of the nssocia t!on will preside and R. E. Jordan, gem-ral manager will .make-ins re. port to the directors. Several mem bers of the board of directors from Roanoke Island and other Eastern Carolina cities are planning to at tend the meeting. ELECTRIC SHOCK IN BATHTUB KILLS A COLUMBIA WOMAN Mrs. Betty Frances Reynolds. 49, of Columbia, died at her homr early Thanksgiving morning while taking a bath. The coroner, C. E Walker, who investigated hei death, ruled that she died as the re sult of an electrical shock, due tc the water heater in the room hav ing fallen over against the tub causing a short, charging the tub and water with electricity. Charles Reynolds, her husband, heard the water running about 4 a.m. and going to investigate found his wife’s body. Although he stood in his shoes, he felt a shock when he removed her from the tub. Mrs. Reynolds, a native of Tyr rell, was the daughter of William and Fannie Etheridge. She is sur vived by two sons, Ronald and Daniel Reynolds of Columbia; ‘four brothers, William of Tarboro, Wes ley of Creswell, John of Columbia and Daniel of Roanoke Rapids; two sisters, Mrs. Daisy Cahoon of Columbia, Mrs. W’orth Brickhouse of Morehead City and three grand- See DEATH, Page Eight COLINGTON BOY IN AIR FORCE IN TEXAS Hly Hr . ? I Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.—Bryan D. Meekins, 17, son of Orlando S. Meekins, of Coling ton, is completing his Air Force basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base. He entered the Air Force in impressive ceremonies ' held at Kill Devil Hills in the summer. His Lackland training is pre paring him for entrance into Air Force technical training or for an Air Force duty assignment. The course includes a scientific evalu ation of his aptitude and inclina tion for following a particular career field. | Fishing W Hunting J SPORTS ODDITIES ALWAYS OCCURRING ON DARE CO VST Nags Head.—When nine year old Jan Oneto of Nags Head went squirrel hunting recently in Nags Head woods he got the surprise of his life. Spotting what appeared to be the gray tail of a squirrel at the top of an oak tree he aimed his .22 and fired. What fell to the ground dead was not a squirrel, but a raccoon. The Rev. L.- I. Aitken, pastor of the Manteo Methodist Church, had landed two flounder which he hung overboard on a string to k°ep fresh. Suddenly he saw a 10 lout hammerhead shark heading to wards his catch which he started pulling in but not quick enough. The hammerhead snatched the flounder and the Rev. Mr. Aitken, fishing at Oregon Inlet did not argue with the shark. Last week Capt. Will Lewark Lolling for striped bass in Albe marle sound, saw a crippled goose, cast his home made buck tail and caught goose. BIG CHANNEL BASS CAUGHT AT HATTERAS Hatteras.—Large channel bass are running in the surf and as Ralph Gray proved Monday using cut mullet for bait he landed four channel Bass weighing 40, 41, 42 and 47 pounds respectively. This was the best catch reported since last week end. On Nov. 15, the great school of big channel bass were near the Point of Cape Hatteras and anglers MITCHELL-HEDGES DOES ANOTHER ADVENTURE BOOK ■PI ||||||| ! %- flHKlll FREDERICK A. MITCHELL HEDGES, the British explorer and writer who lived for nearly two years near Hatteras in 1935- 36 is now 72, and winding up his active and colorful career of roaming around the world. In his quest for ancient relics, in big game hunting and fishing, he has lived in Canada, Mexico, Hondur as, Panama, Africa. Norway, and many other distant places. DANGER MY ALLY is the name of the book published for him this year by Little Brown and Company 34 Beacon St., Boston, priced at $3.75. Some of its con tent seemed familiar to us who have read most of his other books. He has a facile style of writing which is easy to read and to under stand, and it offers a good eve ning’s entertainment. It’s literary style is fine, but as an adventure book is not illed with intense sus pense. It is informative as to ways and customers of the peoples in the lands he visited. During his stay at Frisco, Mr. Hedges bought quite a lot of prop erty which he sold when he went to England in 1936. There was a ] bad storm tide in September of that year. Later he went on ex plorations to the Pacific Islands near the Canal Zone, and since I World War II he has made an expedition to South Africa. He is now 72 and settled down in a cas tle in England, as he says “His heart is wonky; throat trouble has left him husky, and an attack of lumbago has made him hobble.” He makes the following interest ing comment on men: “They spend their lives struggling for money, position, prestige or power, and when they die, they call upon the religions they have largely ignor ed in their lifetimes to hallow their memories with a little brief immortality. . . . men. “has de veloped his inventive powers to such a degree that no inventive See J! ITCH ELL, Page Eight wading into the surf for better casting risked being knocked down by the big fish. A hundred or more anglers landed more than 200 of the big fish weighing from 30 to 52 pounds each between noon and sunset. W. W. Weber of Baltimore, caught a 52 pounder and Mrs. Maude White, postmaster at Bux ton, reeled in a 47*4 pounder. Weber’s fish and also Mrs. White's were runnerups for the largest of the species to be taken with rod and reel by male and female anglers this year on the Dare coast. Last spring Forrest Dunstan of Elizabeth City landed a 60 pounder near Wanchese and about three weeks ago Marion Cunning ham of Haddonfield, N. J. reeled in a 49 pounder. ANGLER MAKES RARE CATCH IN SURF AT NAGS HEAD Nags Head.—Henry G. Felton Jr. of RFD No. 1, Norfolk, landed two striped bass (rockfish) with rod and reel from the surf Wed nesday night, in one of the rarest catches made here, because striped bass, plentiful for trollers when they' school in Croatan, Roanoke and Albemarle Sounds, just nor mally won’t be attracted in the surf. Last recorded catch of striped bass in the surf north of Oregon Inlet in the Nags Head region was made back in 1926 by Jim Van note, who now lives in Manteo. “We were using calico crabs as bait,” he said. Felton who landed a seven and half and a five and See FISHING, Page Four Single Copy 70 SLOW PROGRESS FOR OREGON INLET CHANNEL PROJECT Jo Need To Be Discouraged, Says A. H. Ward, Jr., C.hng Gains Made The deepening of Oregon Inlet .or the benefit of the fishing in- Justry is of vital interest to the people of Eastern North Carolina, it is too important to give up, al though we may expect discourage ments. It is a long range project, and many projects of similar value sometimes take a lifetime to ac complish. If it was worth start ing, it is worth working for now. Such is the opinion of Alvah H. Ward Jr., Manteo ice manufac turer, who has come forward to stand in the shoes of his late father, the man who until his death three years ago, led the campaign to get channel improve ments to Oregon Inlet. He spent a lot of his time and money in this campaign, and enlisted the unani mous support of all interests of Eastern North Carolina, and through the able work of Congress man Herbert Bonner, a bill in Con gress authorized the project to be built by Army Engineers. But the Korean War and defense sentiment in this country at the time stood in the way of Oregon Inlet, and the money needed'for the t job, more than a million dollars, was never appropriated. That's now the big question—getting the money appropriated. Young Mr. Ward is now as keenly interested in the inlet proj ect as was his father, but says he is new to the political factors in volved and finds himself confused in the Governmental red tape that surrounds things of this sort. Last week he accompanied Register of Deeds Melvin Daniels, and Com missioner Lawrence Swain on a trip to Norfolk, seeking to get additional endorsements from Navy officials in hope of giving the project a shot in the arm. The party found there nothing they could do, except submit a brief, which already had been done sev eral times, having already resulted in the Navy’s blessing. In fact, voluminous briefs have been prepared on the subject sev eral times, one of which during Mr. Ward’s lifetime was presented to the Committee on Appropria ; tions at the Nation’s Capital. To finance the project, the late Mr. Ward’s Committee had raised a fund of several thousand dollars through the years. The Dare Coun ty Commissioners have contri buted during the past six years nearly $2,000 to carry on the cam paign. The longest and hardest task was finished during the life of the late Mr. Ward. It is therefore important, Mr. Ward thinks, that the fishing in trests do not give up the fight. It must be remembered too, he says, that there are some 17 projects in eastern North Carolina in the million dollar class for which local interests are clamoring, and other untold projects throughout the state and nation, all demand ing aid from Congress. Many of these projects come under flood See PROGRESS, Page Eight MRS. EI) PAYNE DIES; BURIED AT STUMPY POINT Mrs. Daisy Elma Payne, 70, died Sunday in the Albemarle Hospital at 9:20 a.m. following an illness of three weeks. She was a native of Dare Coun ty, but had been residing at 800 Second Street, Elizabeth City for the past 34 years. She was the daughter of the late Annie Hooper and W. B. Payne and the wife of Edward Francis Payne. She was a member of the Pearl Street International Holiness Church and a membei of the Women’s Mission ary Society. Besides her husband, she is sur vived by two sons, Major E. Payne, of Portsmouth, Va., and R. Elmer Payne of Muncie, Ind.; two sisters, Mrs. Graves Midgett of Salvo, and Mrs. E. M. Daniels of Norfolk, Va., and three grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Monday at 11 a.m. in the chapel 1 of the Twiford Funeral Home. Dr. * L. Sigsbee Miller, pastor of the 1 Pearl Street International Holiness Church, officiated. Burial followed in the Stumpy Point Methodist I Church Cemetery. 1 “Rock of Ages”, “Does' Jesu9 ‘ Care” and ‘Good Night and Good ■ Morning” were sung by Mrs. E. ' R. By rum Jr., Ambrose Toler and William Cooper. Mrs. Eugene 1 Scott accompanied at the console 1 of the organ. The casket was cov ! ered with a pall made of pink ■ roses, white carnations, Easter * lillies and fern. Active pallbearers * were Curtis Jennings, Rufus Chap -1 pell, Wilson Jennings, Archie 1 Perry, Jep Boyce and Stew'art Hooper.
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