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VOLUME XV NO. 27 BROKE SENTENCE, SENT TO ROADS FOR 12 MONTHS Teen-Ager of Wanchese Involved With Two Others in Taking Wheel and Thorwing Away A young teen-age boy, John Williams of Wanchese has gone to the roads for 12 months, but not for the stealing of a tire and wheel at Nags Head, for which he was arraigned Tuesday in Recorders Court in Manteo. He went because he was under a suspended sentence from Superior Court over trouble he got into in July. ! Arrested with Williams were Robert Sanderlin pf Wanchese, and his cousin, Jimmy O’Neal of Ro danthe. O’Neal was dismissed by the court after he pleaded not guilty. Sanderlin was fined SSO and costs after he and Williams plead ed guilty. They admitted to offi cers they took the tire and wheel from Wayland Fry’s car at Nags Head, and took it down the beach and threw it away. They told where to find it, and it was recovered. William R. Shanaberger was fined $5 and costs for operating a car with Virginia license. Clayton E. Bowser got a 60-day road sentence, suspended on pay ment of SIOO and costs, for driving while drunk. Charles Wallace Gregory, plead ed guilty to operating a car after his license had been revoked and was fined SIOO, half the usual fine, and the costs; he also got a 90-day suspended sentence. • Dalton W. O’Neal, of Norfolk for abandonment and nonsupport of his wife Betty Ann and two chil dren, pleaded guilty of contributing inadequate support and was order ed to pay through the court, $25.50 a week for their support. Kenneth Lee Vines., a Seabee, pleaded guilty to driving while drunk and transporting too much liquor, and was fined SIOO and costs. , Ralph D. Beasley of Colington was fined sls and costs for speed ing at 70 mph. Capiases were or dered for James Bryant, and C >rge Albert McClees for failing t. ply with judgements. -xarry D. Johnson, pleaded guilty to speeding at 65 mph and was fined $lO and cqsts. DANIEL B. MIDGETT, SON OF FAMOUS LIFE SAVER Daniel Bannister Midgett, 61, a lifelong resident of Dare County, died at 8:26 a.m. Tuesday in the Norfolk Marine Hospital after an illness of five years. A son of the late Capt. L. Bannister Midgett and Mrs.. Sabrina M. Midgett, he was a member of the Fairhaven Methodist Church and retired from the U. S. Coast Guard. He made his home at Waves, and he was the son of one of the famous old time Life Savers. He was highly regarded by a wide circle of friends. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Anna Eva Midgett; four sisters, Mrs. C. H. Barnett, Mrs. W. V. Lewark, Mrs. Cecil Simpson and Mrs. Robert Midgette, all of Man teo, and one brother, J. Etheridge Midgett, of Freeport, Long Island, N. Y. The funeral services were con ducted Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. at Fairhaven Methodist Church by Rev. Aaron G. Tyson, the pastor, and burial was in the family cemetery. A. BROWN OFF TO RALEIGH TO SHAPE UP TRAVEL PLANS Aycock Brown, Director of the Dare County Tourist Bureau, and public relations head of the Lost Colony, missed his annual attend ance at the Old Christmas celebra tion at Rodanthe this week be cause he had to go to Raleigh. There he attended a meeting of the new State Travel Council where a slate of directors was nom inated, and plans completed for a statewide meeting of the council on January 16th. He will also at tend a meeting this morning of the State Advertising Board to discuss the 1956 National adver tising schedule. MANTEO MAN INJURED SUN. WHEN STRUCK BY MOTORIST Roland S. Meekins, 65 of Man teo was painfully injured Sunday afternoon at 3:10 p.m. while walk ing across Wilson Road near Cam postella Road in Norfolk. He was struck by a car driven by Jerald L. Tower 27, who was bound for Portlock but gave a 38th St. ad dress in Norfolk. Mr. Meekins is undergoing treatment at Norfolk General Hospital. Several stitches were required in a scalp wound , and he suffered many bruises on . limbs and body. Mrs. Meekins is staying with him in Norfolk. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA Hunting Lodge "Camp Foster" Operated By Asa V. Evans Recalled by L. D. Hayman s Retired Southport Minister Recalls Days of 55 Years Ago at this Popular Place, Near the "Little Bridge" . on Roanoke Sound. By REV. LOUIS D. HAYMAN, Southport, N C. Perhaps one of the oldest hunt ing camps or lodges within Dare County and about as little known, was a place owned and operated by Mr. Asa W. Evans, of Manteo, and the owner-operator of the Tranquil House. The place was known as “Camp Foster,” which name, the writer is not able to give further description other than the impression that Mr. Evans in dicated on the occasion to the writ er that because of his admiration for one of his hunting guests, he gave the name “Camp Foster” to the lodge. To reach this hunting place, one traveled by sail boat in those days—and from Manteo Bay out by Ballast Point; thence down Broad Creek Channel to a point where the Midget Hammock dwell ings were erected on the marshes along the channel way running close along the shoreline, a dis tance of a mile or two. From there the boat headed eastward across Roanoke Sound and over the shal low waters to the marshy islands on the beach or eastward side of the sound. On the sheltered site of one of the islands, Mr. Evans erected his camps as he called them. There were three camps in the group. Two were used exclusively for hunting guests—mainly from the North in those days. These were fitted with comf6Vtable built-in berths, and with sitting room and heat for winter comfort. The larg er camp was some thirty feet in length and about 16 feet wide. In the rear, was the “bedroom” for Mr. Evans and his helpers. The middle room was a store room and kitchen, the front part was used for entry and dining room— where the guests ate their meals. Back of the “main building” was the goose and duck pen—the en closure for keeping the live decoy Canada geese and the black duck mallard decoys also. Part of this enclosure was sheltered by a framework and then covered with bull rushes as a sort of protection from the bad weather. The enclos ure had plenty room and the de coys had a choice of shelter or the open as desired. Wildfowl—ducks of many kinds and in rough weath er the Canada geese hovered' over the marshes. At times excellent shooting could be had. Nice blinds were arranged on the several points of marsh in the island, and exposed to creeks and larger bod ies of water. The area of these marshes constituting the hunting grounds stretched from about where the main highway crosses Roanoke Sound southward for some three miles, and then nar rowed down to the beach land and stretched onward towards Bodies Island hunting ponds an club house. Mr. Evans confined his hunting chiefly to the two or three miles of marsh, creek land. Some times going over on the beach side to hunt brant or snow geese. He could tie out three hunting par ties att the same time with the number of geese and duck decoys. And in threat’ning weather, the kill would be pleasing to his par ties. The writer and his brother, the late Capt. Dan Hayman, worked with Mr. Evans as his helpers in the winters of 1901 and 1902. My brother and I were just in our ear ly teens. We applied for work Mr. Evans being in need of help for that week, stated that he would give us a try-out. If proved satis factory, he would employ us on a regular paying basis, about three dollars a week apiece. However, he offered as a “bonus” the use ot his decoys when he had no parties at the camp, provided we would remain over there, feed and attend to the decoys. To this we readily agreed. We had a small row skiff there about fifteen feet in length and with this we ferried the de coys back and- forth from the blinds. At times we would return to Manteo with Mr. Evans and assist him in getting up supplies for Camp Foster and feed for the geese .The boat we used mainly was a flat-bottom sail skiff about twenty feet long and named the “Bonny Belle” in honor of hie daughter Bonny Belle—a very fine and lovely young teen-age girl at that time. . * A sad experience for my brother and I took place on one occasion when Mr. Evans went to Manteo and left us in charge of affairs. That night bad weather set in and next morning every appear ance of a good hunting day was in evidence. The habit of Mr. Evans was to tie out his decoys some eight to ten of them, and thei take one nice gander off to him self and stake him out. This, t< make the goose honk’ frequently for his mate, and thereby attract any possible wild geese within range of his honking. On this day we followed the same course. As night came on, we took up the de coys, packed our guns and the two geese we had killed, into our boat and forgetting the lone gander, made our way back to camp. Next day, Mr. Evans came down and brought three hunters. It was late in the afternoon when the hunters arrived—too late to tie out the decoys. So Dan and I were direct ed to take the party over to the nearby marsh so the men might shoot meadow lark, snipe and per haps a duck. It was the island where we had tied out the gander and left him the day before. Pres ently, a shot rang out, and the man had downed a goose. He wad ed out to pick lip his game, and found the bird tied to a stake. He told later that he thought at fiisc it was one of Mr. Evans’ ways of placing hunters where “game abounded.” Dan and I were in for See HUNTING, Page Four THIS WAS MANTEO 41 YEARS AGO Turmoil, strife and fist fights en sued in the town of Manteo during the week of July 31, 1914, all caus ed by a bond election for the build ing of a new school house. But friends of the measure were grati fied that it carried by a majority of 72 to 38 votes. Out of the 120 registered voters only 10 failed to vote. The building is now Leo Midgett’s apartment house. “I can and will satisfactorily ex plain the past financial troubles of Dare County, and will show from the books of the county treasurer that at the end of my former term the county was better off financial ly than ever before,” said J. D. Hayman, a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Dare County early in July, 1914. George W. Farrow of Frisco was opposing him in the race 41 years ago. On August 13, 1914, the big news was that a telephone line was just about completed between Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point. And in East Lake a neighborhood line was run. At the Dare County Democratic Convention held Friday afternoon, September 5, 1914, A. H. Daven port was nominated for sheriff; S. L. Dosher, Register of Deeds; John W. Evans, Clerk of Court; Will S. Baum, Murray Sawyer and N. F. Jennette members of the board of commissioners. No treasurer was nominated but J. D. Hayman was recommended for the job “in view of his inability to do any manual labor.” Quite a little fracas stirred the usual quiet of East Lake on Sep tember 8, 1914, when 39 Russians who were there working for the Dare Lumber Company went on a strike and refused to work on the roads when summoned. Violence was said to have been headed off See MANTEO, Page Four CLOSE CALL FOR TOTTY; CAR SKIDS ON BRIDGE David Barclay Totty, 24, had a close call at 3:30 Sunday morning while returning from the beach fes tivities to his home at Point Har bor. His car skidded on ice on the Wright Memorial Bridge, and plunged against the rails, which required a days work of the crew to repair, and damaged the car about S6OO. The car turned around, and struck bridge rails on both sides. Driver escaped with only cuts on his forehead. DARE MARCH OF DIMES The 1956 March of Dimes will get off to a start this week in Dare County under the direction of Mrs. B. J. Baum of Manteo. Mrs. Baum estates that Mrs. A. H y Ward, Jr., will head the campaign in Manteo. All other places in the county will be taken care of by the home demonstration clubs in each community. DirHJ MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1956 OLD CHRISTMAS IN RODANTHE STILL HAS ITS APPEAL # Observance on January sth, Eve of Epiphany, Goes on in Usual Form Despite many illnesses and some funerals in the community, the celebration on the eve of Old Christmas, was scheduled at Ro danthe. The traditional date, held to be the true Christmas for many generations along the N. C. Coast land is January 6th, and it has long been custom for a celebration to be held at the schoolhouse the night before, which fell this week on Thursday, th sth. Many non residents came to Ro danthe this week to witness the celebration. The visitors included several newspapermen, as wll as a goodly sprinkle of homefolks from upper Dare County. These celebrations always attract many people from the lower part of Hat teras Island as well . Mt. and Mrs. John Herbert, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Gray, and several people from the communities of both Waves and Rodanthe took part in getting up the celebrations. A feature of this party was an oyster roast directed by Capt. Levene Midgett. A square dance, managed by Woodrow Edwards and with Bob Smith of Manteo Master of Ceremonies was the last part of the celebration. Among visitors from a distance were Richard Chase from Beech Creek in Watauga Counay, a folk lorist who is studying native songs and dances; and Chuck Hauser of the Chapel Hill Weekly, who is doing an article about the Cape Hatteras area. TRAVEL IN DECEMBER TO DARE PARK ATTRACTIONS TOPS QUARTER MILLION A total of 264,545 persons travel ing in 86,282 automobiles, buses, airplanes or boats, entered Cape Hatteras National seashore during its first full year of operation end ing on December 31, according to figures released this we»*i> by the office of Superintendent Allyn Hanks. During December 2,974 automo biles entering the area carried a total of 7,614. Included in the total for December were 13 airplanes and 57 boats as carriers. While the year’s total was not as much as anticipated, the de crease was charged up to three hurricane reports which slacked up tourist and vacation travel consid erbaly during late summer and early autumn. With the new system of auto matic counting in effect at Wright Memorial Monument, Kill Devil Hills, more persons are being counted as visitors there than dur ing previous years when the count was done manually. For the year ending December 31, 1955 a total of 184,599 persons were counted at Wright Memorial comparing with 184,514 in 1954. The number, no doubt would have been much greater in 1955 except for the hurricane reports. For December 1954 a total of 4,430 persons were counted at the Wright Memorial, while 11,225 were counted automatically, in December, 1955. DEATH CLAIMS 2 CITIZENS OF ISLAND OF OCRACOKE Ocracoke, January 2. Two deaths occurred at Ocracoke since news was last sent in: Steve Mon roe Styron, age 53, died suddenly on December 16th. Funeral serv ices were conducted at she home by Rev. Walter Whitaker and Rev. W. R. Hale. Burial was in the family cemetery. He is surviv ed by his brothers, Benjamin Sty ron, Elijah Styron, Jamie Styron, and sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Mey ers, Mrs. Emma O’Neal and Mrs. Zilphia Williams, all of Ocracoke. Stanley O’Neal, age 72, die.d on Sunday, January Ist. Services were held at the Methodist Church with Rev. Hale and Rev. Whitaker officiating. Burial, was in the Community Cemetery. He is sur vived by a step-daughter, Mrs. Hulda Gaskins, by a nephew, Mar vin Howard, two nieces, Mrs. Mary F. O’Neal and Mrs. Mattie Mid gett, and several cousins, all of Ocracoke. ROANOKE ISLAND MASONS TO ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY Announcement is made that the members of the Masonic Lodges of Wanchese and Manteo on Ro anoke Island have been summoned to meet jointly at the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in Manteo Sun day night, the Bth, to attend divine worship. The meeting will start at 7:30, and all visiting Masons are invited to attend. WILD PONIES OF OCRACOKE ISLE GET BIG SPREAD Two Pages of Color in Saturday Evening Post This Week Show Trotting Herd This week’s Saturday Evening Post must have been a glorious sight to Capt. Marvin Howard on his return from several months in South America. For Capt. Howard is the coastland’s foremost cham pion of the wild-pony, and the Post this week portrayed a small herd of the red ponies, trotting south ward along the shallow shores of Ocracoke Island. The photograph in color by George Tichenor is highly suitable for framing. Text beneath describes the scene, calling the ponies “among the first set tlers of America, dating from the early 1800’s.” Captain Howard recently pub lished in these columns an impas sioned plea that the wild pony be allowed to remain on his island, even though by law the cattle and hogs are soon to be banished. The Post gives him a splendid ally in his battle. It is a sight for sore eyes, and particularly for lovers of horses. COAST GUARD OFFICIALS TO HOLD HEARING ON NAGS HEAD STA. JAN. 11 A public hearing is to be held Wednesday, Jan. 11th at 10 a.m. at the courthouse in Manteo before officials of the U. S. Coast Guard on the question of abandonment of Nags Head Lifeboat Station of the Coast Guard. It is a station that has played an important role in Coast Guard annals for some 80 years. About six years ago an ef fort was made to abandon this sta tion, but the pressure of opinion, and efforts of Congressman Her bert Bonner stalled off the move. While having played a consider able part in rescue of shipwrecked men in the old days, this station has occupied a spot in the public eye, because, more than any other station, it has been the show win ■\dow of the Coast Guard in this section of coast. Countless visitors throughout the years have visited this station to observe methods used by the Coast Guard in rescue work. Many cases of assistance rendered have taken place on be half of these tourists, and through the influence of many of them, good things have resulted for the Coast Guard . There is expected to be some op position expressed as to its re moval, although the idea is not so new as it once was, and many sta tions have already been abandoned. It will be considered unfortunate if this particular station is abandon ed because it would leave the en tire area between Kill Devil Hills unprotected. And there is not an active station left between Kill Devil Hills and the Virginia line. KILL DEVIL HILLS COMMISSIONERS MEET Robert Young Appointed Mayor Pro Tem; Mrs. E. V. Melson .Member Zoning Board The Commissioners of the Town of Kill Devil Hills held their monthly meeting on January 3, 1956. Thomas H. Briggs, Jr. who recently resigned from the zoning board, was appointed town com missioner to fill the vacancy creat ed by the resignation of Herbert R. Morrison. Robert A. Young was appointed Mayor Pro-Tern. Mrs. E. V. Melson, an alternate member of the zoning board, was appointed a regular member. She will complete the unexpired term of Mr. Briggs. Two recommendations from the zoning board for rezoning property from residential to business zones were accepted by the town com missioners. Lot A on the Virginia Dare Trail in Lake Drive develop ment and Blocks 7,8, and 9 on Orville Avenue and Ludwell Street and an additional tract of 600 x 900 feet were all rezoned from residential zones to business zones. Sixty-one building permits were issued in the town of Kill Devil Hills during 1955 at a valuation of $205,800.00. TORCH SETS TANK AFIRE LEARY IS BADLY BURNED Dan Leary of Duck, well known as a huckster along the outer banks, and who for many years sailed with the Merchant Marine, is in Albe marle Hospital suffering from bad burns sustained while attempt ing to cut up an old automobile Monday in Colington, where he was collecting junk. He was at the home of Allen Gaimel, and he overlooked an important feature, the presence of gas in the old car, when he applied the torch. TO DIRECT LOST COLONY CHOIR IN 56 SEASON WWW 4 - i z " DR. ELWOOD KEISTER now in his third year as teacher of voice and chorus and director of the East Carolina College Choir in Greenville, will be director of a new chorus of The Lost Colony, during its 16th season beginning June 30 next, and the beginning of a chorus for the first time of North Carolina voices. Dr. Keister’s training includes study at the Eastman School of Music and Columbia University. He has been a member of the Robert Shaw Chorale and was one of those selected to sing the recorded ver sion of the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven under the direction of Arturo Toscanini. Before joining the East Carolina College staff in 1953, he had been teacher of voice and choral at lowa State Teachers College for five years. He has had extensive study in the field of music and wide experience as a teacher and professional musician. In North Carolina he has become known through tours as director of the East Carolina College Choir. Mrs. Keister, with a Master of Music Degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory, taught college piano and organ for five years. When Dr. Keister is not busy in the class room or at choir re hearsals and auditions, hepikes to fly. He owns a plane, which he flies extensively in making ar rangements for his tours. RECORDS SHOW ONLY ROUTINE BUSINESS Minutes of the Board of Com missioner’s meeting in Dare Coun ty Tuesday show only routine business transacted. Sheriff Ca hoon was instructed to use any necessary expense to extradite and bring one John Podolski to Manteo for trial for non-support. Lawrence Swain resigned as Co-manager of the Manteo Airport property with Wallace Gray, and it was ordered that the SIOO per month alloted for this task, be di vided now between Mr. Gray and Wm. Henderson, the operator of the flying service at the airport, as co-managers. The tax supervisor was instruct ed to ihspect a number of prop erties with a view to revision of valuations if required for 1956. CALEB B. BRICKHOUSE DIES MONDAY MORNING Caleb B. Brickhouse, 50, a na tive of Currituck County, but a resident of Manteo for the past 30 years, died at 4 a.m. Monday in the Norfolk Marine Hospital following an illness of less than a week. However, he had been a victim of chronic disease for sev eral years. He was born Jan. 15, 1905 at Harbinger. He is survived by his wife, the former Beatrice Midgett, and by two children, Caleb M. and Elaine, all of Manteo. Until recently, when he gave up his work, he had been engaged in operating earth mov ing machinery. Caleb Brickhouse was a man highly regarded, and universally liked by all who knew him. He was a friendly, big-hearted citizen, al ways obliging. He was the son of Mrs. Adithia Swain and the late Caleb Brick house, Sr., the mother surviving, and living in Norfolk. He was a member of the Powells Point Christian Church. In addition to other relatives, five sisters survive him: Mrs. Julian Perry of Virginia Beach; Mrs. Roswell Spruill of Elizabeth City; Mrs. James Ambrose of Portsmouth; Mrs. Joe Jones of Newport News and Mrs. Walter King of Norfolk. The funeral was conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, by the pastor, Rev. Louis A. Aitken. Bur ial was in Manteo Cemetery. Pall bearers were: Balfour Baum, R. D. Sawyer, Willie Etheridge, Robert K. Gunn, Henry Edens and Kenneth Ward. Single Copy 70 MUCH HUSH HUSH TURNS OUT MUSH MAYBE FLIM-FLAM Washington Sou rce Indicates Navy Has Put One Over on NPS at Cape Hatteras On Cape Hatteras there has been all kinds of speculation as to what the Navy Seabees are building al most within the shadows of America’s tallest lighthouse tower, one of the main attractions of the NPS Systems’ first and only Na tional Seashore Recreational Area. The native population and thou sands of visitors to the region have been wondering what kind of base is under construction but the only information they have gained has hinged around “something that is highly classified and in the top secret class”. It now appears the Navy “is building a mere oceanographic laboratory” according to the De cember 23 issue of Outdoor News Bulletin, published by-weekly by Wildlife Management Institute, 709 Wire Building, Washington, D. C. Under the caption “Navy Moves Into National Seashore Recreation al Area,” the Bulletin’s “Special Release” follows: Military Beach Head “A military beach head in the heart of an important part of the National Park system was uncov ered recently when it became known that the Navy had moved into the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area in North Carolina, according to the Wildlife Management Institute. The Navy installation was permit ted by the Interior Department of ficials when the NaVy insisted that it must have the area for security purposes. It now appears, however, that the the Navy may have put one over on the Interior Depart ment since it is building a mere oceanographic laboratory.” “This national recreational area was authorized and defined by Congress in 1937 as an area “per manently reserved as a primitive wilderness.” All of the 24,-000 acres of the highly prized coastal area were acquired with funds raised by private groups, and by the State of North Carolina, and given to the National Park Service—and many conservationists are wonder ing how the Interior Department could have permitted the Navy to take over without the consent of Congress.” “Coming at a time when Sec retary of the Interior Douglas McKay is receiving widespread ac claim for protecting the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Ref uge from an attempted grab by the Department of the Army, this latest disclosure is surprising. The See FLIM-FLAM, Page Four APPLICATIONS TO BE RECEIVED NEXT WEEK FOR SURPLUS PROPERTY A representative from the Civil Defense office in Raleigh will be in eastern North Carolina counties at the court house of each on the following date: Manteo, Dare County, January 10; Currituck, Currituck County, January 10; Swan Quarter, Hyde County, Jan uary 11; Washington, Beaufort County, January 16, with applica tion blanks to be used by farmers and small business men who are eligible for purchase of govern ment surplus property. On the same date a representative will also be at Currituck Court House. Only those farmers and business firms who actually suffered dam age or destruction of equipment as a direct result of 1955 hurricanes are eligible to apply. Business firm applications are restricted to those with less than 500 employees. Cities, counties and towns are not eligible to apply. Governor Luther Hodges points out that the property cannot be acquired for the purpose of re sale. It must be used for rehabili tation and the carrying on of busi ness and farm operations within the disaster area. Much of the property is new and unused. The purchase cost is 10 per cent of the amount paid by the federal government for the equipment The price is F. 0.8. from the gov ernment storage location. North Carolina’s civil defense director, Edward F. Griffin, is ad ministering the program. Applica tions must be made to his office. Representatives from his office will visit each disaster county ac cording to the announced sched ule. Application blanks will be dis tributed by said representatives to those who wish to purchase. As sistance also will be rendered ap plicants who need help in the ex ecution of the necessary papers. Co-operation from all publicity media in the matter of public in formation is being urged by Gener al Griffin.
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