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VOLUME XXI NO. 38 RE-SALE BRINGS MORE MONEY FOR BUXTON SCHOOL Highway Shops to Be Built on School Site at Buxton; $6,350 Netted The re-sale of school property at Avon and Buxton recently confirmed by the Dare Coun ty Board of Education net ted nearly a third more money than the original bids. The Avon property brought a total of $4,500, and the Buxton property $1,850, or a total of $6,350. The money will be used for the im provement of the new Cape Hat teras Union school at Buxton which needs equipment for its all purpose room, auditorium and also landscaping of the grounds for recreation pur poses. The Buxton property was sold , to the State Highway and Public Works Commission for highway shop purposes, for maintenance and operation .of equipment on Hatteras Island and Ocracoke. Harry McMullan Jr. of Washing ton, N. C. bought the Avon prop erty which is adaptable to a hotel or motor lodge, and has valuable acreage in beach property, suitable for development into home sites. TORNADO DESTROYS HOME; DAMAGES OTHERS IN HYDE Sudden Disaster Strikes Near Swan Quarter and Makes Midgetts Homeless. As a severe thunderstorm ac companied by hail as large as mar bles passed over Hyde County Sunday afternoon, a small but powerful tornado completely de stroyed one home in the Oyster Creek section near Swan Quarter at 6:10 p.m. and damaged several others, one seriously. There were no deaths, and only one minor in jury was reported. The frame home of John Small Midgett was a total loss, as were practically all the household be longings. The Midgett family was away visiting in Engelhard at the time. Some nearby cabins belonging to Dan Gibbs were moved slightly from their supports, but escaped any major damage. Mrs. Gibbs took refuge in a nearby ditch with her child, and in doing so, received a slight injury to one side of her face. The twister then struck the home of Mrs. Mamie Rice, ripping .the front porch from the house, knocking the kitchen off its blocks, tearing shingles off the roof, and breaking window panes, along with other damages to the inside of the house. Mrs. Rice and her son, Zion Evans Rice, having seen the approaching tornado, huddled together •in the dining room and were not injured. Power transmission lines were severely damaged, and the entire Swan Quarter area was without electricity until aout 5 a.m. Mon day. Other damage included shin gles tom from the homes of Co lumns Carawan and E. A. Wil liams, with some sheds and fences being damaged also. Red Cross workers Monday be gan assisting in the rehabilitation of the unfortunate persons. TRAVEL DIRECTORS TO MEET AT BUXTON WED. APRIL. 28 Members of the Board of Direc tors, Dare County Tourist Bureau will meet at Cape Point Restau rant, Buxton on Wednesday morn ing, March 28, at 10 o’clock, says W. H. McCown, president of the Bureau. The Spring meeting of the organization has been held on Hatteras Island each year since the Bureau was established five years ago. Luncheon will be served to the group. During the Spring meeting each year plans for late spring and summer promotional activi ties are discussed, including the Pirates Jamboree scheduled for late April. u - MASONS ATTEND SERVICES AT KITTY HAWK CHURCH Members of the Manteo and Wanchese Masonic Lodges are urged to attend church services at Kitty Hawk Methodist Church, Sunday March 25 at 7:15. Sheriff Frank Cahoon and Edwin Midgett of Manteo, the committee for the two lodges on church attendance have issued notices that “every Mason is not only invited but urged to attend this worship serv ice.” This meeting is in keeping with a long-standing custom of visiting various churches in the area from time to time. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA PLEASING NEWCOMERS SETTLE AT BUXTON Hr r L; JhL it V : ’ C' I -* Sfßk ' ■ \ .fl HAROLD B. FULLER has finally acceded to the call to come to Cape Hatteras, and he and his young wife are building a cottage near the Fuller Shopping Center, in which they have purchased an interest with Mr. Fuller’s brother. The Outer Banks got a go-getting team as the result of George Ful ler’s marriage to Miss Ormond White, and during the visits of Harold to see his brother, he and his wife too, fell in love with the Cape. This winter they came down to stay and to make the Island their home . The Fullers have one of the most up to date stores bn the whole is land. They operate a good market, and Mrs. George Fuller runs a successful ladies shop. George Ful ler and a Raleigh pirtner, Gordon Vaughan own the Cape Hatteras Cottage Court, which has been highly successful and has been continually enlarged during the past four years. George Fuller is now completing two beautiful du plex apartment cottages overlook ing the ocean, commanding a view of the lighthouse and the beach ip all directions. Now that he has teamed up with his brother Harold the Outer Banks may expect more and more developments by them in the Cape Hatteras area. pleasing newcomers CURRITUCK FOLKS , _ f CONTINUE TO PAY MORE FOR GROG ABC Store Proposal Voted Down Saturday for Majority More than 100 t-- ■\■■ *• ■ * i ‘ i / Numbering 1,350 votes, t Curri- tuck County people decreed Satur- • day that those of their neighbors 4 ' w * sb some toddy must go to ask extra expense of getting it rom t * ie * r ne >Bhbors, Norfolk, Elizabeth City and the stores in Dare County, all of which will get . the profits. It was the third time . Currituck had voted down the k I stores, but this time the opponents | 4vV , of tbe **<l uor stores numbered a Vs- AL V * *'”‘•l n* a Jority of silghtly more than < * it I The unofficial vote by precinct was: Jarvisburg: 36 for, 30 against; Powells Point, 104 for, 94 &■•tß| against; Gibbs Woods, two for, 12 B against; Knotts Island, 41 for, 31 against; Narrow Shore, 41 for, 40 HAROLD B. FULLER has finally “gainst; Moyock, 64 for, 118 acceded to the call to come to against; Shawboro, 59 for, 131 Cape Hatteras, and he and his “gainst; Courthouse, 101 for, 69 young wife are building a cottage “gainst; Coinjock, 69 for, 74 near the Fuller Shopping Center, “gainst; Churches Island, 32 for, in which they have purchased an 14 against, and Grandy, 60 for, interest with Mr. Fuller’s brother. against. The Outer Banks got a go-getting team as the result of George Ful- KILLED AT NAGS HEAD ter s marriage to Miss Ormond |N COL LISION WITH White, and during the visits of di ic ciimhav cvcKiinr Harold to see his brother, he and BUS SUNDAY EVENING his wife too, fell in love with the _ . ‘ Cape. This winter they came down ® eas^e y» a native to stay and to make the Island S ®“ _9 ull > a resident of Eliz their home . abeth City, died soon of injuries The Fullers have ohe of the most sustained when he drove his auto up to date stores bn the whole is- from a side road into the land. They operate a good market, southbound Virginia Dare bus and Mrs. George Fuller runs a “ eaa ed for Manteo. The bus was successful ladies shop. George Ful- dnven by Rowan Quidley, a vet ler and a Raleigh partner, Gordon eran employe of the company, who Vaughan own the Cape Hatteras as ln J u red and hospitalized. Cottage Court, which has been There were four passengers on the highly successful and has been bus ’ an l on< [- tbem Carther Liver continually enlarged during the J" al ? of Manteo who suffered past four years. George Fuller is ... now completing two beautiful du- A Negro teacher complained of plex apartment cottages overlook- a scr “tehed knee. The bus was ing the ocean, commanding a view damaged and the car was of the lighthouse and the beach a to tal loss. It was a Carolina ip all directions. Now that he has Company bus under lease teamed up with his brother Harold to J' he , a * company. the Outer Banks may expect more m. Fun ? la ® ervices W, H be held and more developments by them “ftarnoon at two o’clock in the Cape Hatteras area. ™ H “?P to n cemetery in Waterlily. ALVAH WARD JR. NAMED ON WATERWAYS COMMITTEE ■ Alvah H. Ward Jr. of Manteo will attend a meeting on water ways and drainage at Morehead City March 29th with the Gov ernor’s Council on Hurricane Re lief. He has been appointed a dele gate to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington on May 11th and 12th. Mr. Ward planned this week to accompany Lawrence Swain to Washington when a hearing will be heard before the Senate com mittee on appropriations, and their appearance was scheduled to lend support to Congressman Bonner in interest of the Oregon Inlet project. NEWCOMB MIDGETT TO RUN FOR DARE COMMISSIONER Newcomb Midgett of Waves stated white in Manteo this week that he had decided to be a can didate for Commissioner of Dare County from Kinnekeet Township, in the primary on May 26. “So many people have asked me to run, in view of the big vote given me last year, which lacked only six of nomination,” he said. “Futhermore, I believe in dividing the offices between the upper and lower sections of the township, in order to give reasonable represent ation. Both the member of the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education now reside in one community. If elected, I shall try to help manage the county af fajrs in every honest and fair manner, and subject to the wishes of the people of the county.” THOMAS D. TATE, LIFELONG DARE RESIDENT PASSES Thomas Douglas Tate, 71, of Duck, Dare County, died in a Nor folk hospital Friday p. m. after a short illness. He was a> native of Dare County, and had lived here all his life. He was the son of Daniel and Mrs. Elizabeth Tate. He was a member of the Methodist Church. He is survived by one son, Daniel Tate, of Barco, N. C.; one daughter, Mrs. Etta Bowden, of London Bridge; one half-brother, Samuel D. Tate, of Duck; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The body was removed to the Derry Twiford Funeral Home, and taken to Kitty Hawk for burial in the Austin Cemetery at Kitty Hawk. Services’at the grave were conducted by the Rev. W. B. Gregory, pastor of the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church. EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE PLANNED AT CAPE The third Easter sunrise serv ices to be held at Cape Hatteras will come off on April 1, acord ing to’ Rev. Dan Meadows, Metho dist pastor. All churches will unite in the choir and there will be a visiting speaker. Four states were represented last year, Mr. Meadows says. This year’s choir will be directed by Lt. J. C. Gaunt, USN and the guest speaker will be Chaplain Richard Tillery, both of whom are station ed at Cape Hatteras. All local ministers of the various faiths will participate in the services. TO SPEAK IN DARE ON CHILD WELFARE Nags Head. Mrs. Myrtle Wolfe, state director of child wel fare, Raleigh, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Dare County unit of the North Carolina Educational Association here on Saturday, March 24 says R. H. Stone of Manteo High School. The meeting will be in form of* a luncheon in the Dogwood Room of The Carolinian Hotel at 11:30 o’clock. Stone also announced that Mrs. Vera Midgett, 3rd grade teacher, Manteo School andj Mrs. B. P. Ward, high school teacher of Kitty Hawk had been selected as dele gates of the Dare NCEA to a 3- day meeting of the state organiza tion in Asheville this week end on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. PRE-SCHOOL REGISTRATION IN MANTEO ON APRIL 11th For children who will be enter ing school for the first time next year, there will be a pre-school clinic and registration in Manteo on April 11, it has been announced by Principal R. H. Stone. All chil dren planning to enter the first grade next Fall must be six years of age on or before October 1, he stated. In addition to registration at the local school building health examinations will be given the children at the Dare County Health Building. t MASONIC PLAY A play “To Entertain Stangers,” is to be presented by members of Norview Masonic Lodge of Norfolk in the hall of Wanchese Lodge No. 521, A. F. & A. M. Saturday eve ning March 24th at 8 p.m. Mem bers of Manteo and Cape Hat teras Lodges are invited to attend. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1956 RED CROSS DRIVE LAGGING IN DARE; MERE S9OO QUOTA « / County Which So Heavily Shared in Its Funds Hasn't Chipped In. The effort of Red Cross workers to raise the mere S9OO quota for the whole of Dare County has met little response, and it may indicate a shortage of ready cash, which is the case in some communities. Fishing has been poor this season. Furthermore, there are many drives for money at this season. There are several building fund campaigns underway for various organizations. This situation will call for more liberal donations on the part of those best able to give. It will not do for the memory of our citizens to be too short, for during the past several years, those who have felt the fury of hurricanes, have found help they wouldn’t have gotten in any other manner. Many people have been given new nets so they could return to work; new homes have been given some people and many homes restored and repaired. Last week we published the name of the committee working in the various communities for the Red Cross drive. The campaign this year is headed by J. Gordon Kellogg of Manteo. Chairmen of committees for the various commu nities of Dare County are as fol lows: Stumpy Point, Mrs. Woodrow Best, Chairman; Manns Harbor, Mrs. Grace Mann; East Lake, Mrs. Emily Smith; Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo, Asa Gray; Frisco, Mrs. Lois Rollinson; Hatteras, Mrs. Vera Robinson; Dare Beaches, Mrs. Nel son Chears; Roanoke Island, Wal lace R. Gray. CHURCHES OF CHRIST TO MEET IN MANTEO, APRIL The Hyde County District Con vention of the Churches of Christ will meet with the church on Roa noke Island April 28 and 29th, ac cording to announcement by Burl S. Brinn, pastor of the local church. At the Saturday morning l opening on April 28th, Malcolm Cox, the president, will start the meeting. Devotion will be by Ralph Carawan, prayer by Cecil Berry, address of welcome by J. C. Groce and response by Joe C. Bishop. The sermon will be by Joseph A. Brickhouse. At the Saturday after noon service devotion and prayer will be by Lenda Berry. On Sunday, April 29th, the invo cation will be by Kenneth Gray; and sermon by B. Neal Puckett. DARE COAST PIRATES’ JAMBOREE PROGRAM FRIDAY-SATURDAY.SUNDAY APRIL 27. 28. 29. 1956 Friday, April 27 Hatteras Island 6 A.M. to 11 A.M. Surf Fishing Contest 12 Noon World’s Biggest Salt Water Fish Fry 2 P.M. Banker Pony Races and Exhibitions (By Ocracoke Island Mounted Boy Scouts 3 P.M. Jalopy Races 8 P.M. Waterfront Carnival and Dance The Hatteras Island Schedule of Events Will Be, Held at or near Hatteras Village Saturday, April 28 Dare Beaches Area 9:00 A.M. to 2 P.M. Model plane Contests, Wright Mem orial Monument at Kill Devil Hills 10:30 A.M. Children’s Treasure Hunt Kitty Hawk Road . 11:30 A.M. Blue Marlin Unveiling Journeys End Motel; Concert: By Elizabeth City H. S. • “Pirate” Band 2:30 P.M. Blackbeard and crew land Kitty Hawk • Bay Officials welcome him. Give Key to Outer Banks Serenade by Elizabeth City H. School Pirate Band 3:30 P.M. Jeep Obstacle Race Jockeys Ridge, Nags Head 4:30 P.M. Jalopy Race Near Jennettes Pier on Beach 9:30 P.M. Grand Pirates Ball at The Casino. Crowning of Pirate King and Queen Grand March. Costumes. Sunday, April 29 v Roanoke . Island 11:00 A.M. Religious Services Fort Raleigh Dr. Sylvester Green V.P. Wake Forest College, Speaker 12:15 Noon Speed Boat Races, Manteo Bay Every *ls Minutes •' Finale VISITING EVANGELIST |||. ■■ rlr' J The Hatteras Methodist Church plans to climax its church school Evangelistic program with a youth revival beginning on Mon day March 26th, and running through Easter Sunday. The Rev. Thomas Collins, Executive Secre tary of the Conference Board of Missions and Church Extension, will be the visiting evangelist. Mr. Collins spent several years in youth activities while seiwing as a pastor in the Eliabeth City Dis trict. Every youth is invited to take a special part, each night there will be singing before the service. GOVERNOR HODGES TO SPEAK AT CONVENTION OF N. C. POSTMASTERS Governor Luther Hodges will address the annual convention of National Association of Postmas the North Carolina Chapter of the ters when they meet here on June 12-14, says Mrs. Effie Brickhouse, president of the North Carolina Chapter. Other state and national officials will attend the convention, it was stated. All N. C. Senators and Congressmen have been invited, and some have indicated they will come. Headquarters for the con vention will be the Arlington Hotel and all meetings will be held in the Dare County Shrine Club. “We are expecting at least 400 persons for this convention,” said Mrs. Brickhouse. “They will come from all parts of North Carolina and already reservations for rooms are being made. In addition to The Arlington, several other hotels and motels on Nags Head will share in patronage from this convention group, the largest scheduled for the Dare Coast so far this year. MEETING MARCH 30 TO DISCUSS WATER SYSTEM FOR BEACH Report Made to County Board on Activities This Far; Problem Considered Vital Consideration of a vital prob lem on the Dare Beaches, an ade quate and safe supply of water is the object of a meeting sched uled for Friday night March 30 at 8 p.m. at the Kill Devil Hills Town Hall. R. E. Jordan, Chairman of the Dare Beaches Sanitary District has made a report of a recent audit of the Commission during the past six years, to the County Board of Commissioners. The re port shows that $11,500 has been collected in taxes to carry on this work, and that the assets now on hand are $4,868.80. Due to previ ous help from the Government, the surplus of excess over revenues is thus represented. All residents of the District are asked to attend this meeting. The Sanitary District Engineers, Com missioners and State and County Health Department Representa tives will be present to answer questions and discuss the proposed district bond election. BIG TALENT SHOW IS LINED UP IN MANTEO Many Fine Numbers Expected To Attract Large Crowd Friday Night A talent show for the benefit of the Manteo High School Athletic Association will be put on in the school auditorium at 7:30 o’clock Friday night, March 23, by the Manteo school. A small charge will be made for admission. The public is invited. Following opening numbers by the Manteo rhythm band, the king and queen of Manteo School will be chosen from members of the first and second grades and crown ed. Then the talent show will begin in earnest. Grades one through three will be represented by Eliz abeth Kellogg, Marc Basnight, Nevin Wescott, Ginger Powell, Betty Midgett, Alta Paschall, Wanda Buchanan, Ben Lassister, Gale Brown, Loma Fields, Shirley White, D’Andrea Midgett and Janet Mann. Grades four through six will be represented by Claudia Long, Nancy Basnight, Nancy Midgette, Carol Ann Ernst, Judith Willis, Robert Midgette, Sandy Robinson, Horace Midgett, Nick Sapone, Sarah Tillett, Nancy Midgette, Janice Etheridge, Linda King, Mary C. White, and Chris Payne. From grades seven and eight the following will take part: Linda Wise, Betty Ruth Flowers, Rachel Morgan, Gwena Clark, Dorothy Ward, Elaine Brickhouse, Dorothy Taylor, Nancy Glynn, Linda Mann, Pauline Leary, Evelyn Toms, Tommy Dowdy, Raymond White, Jack Wood, Eugene Smith and Preston Clark. Numbers from the high school will be given by Ruth Cudworth, Marjorie White, Judy Etheridge, Bebe Burrus, Jo Ann Ballance, Mary Blanche Meekins and Jo Ann Hooper. Several other numbers from adults will intersperse the numbers put on by school students. The pre-school group will be rep resented by Susan Krider and Frankie Williams. WAVES GIRL WINS PLACE ON DEAN'S LIST Notice that Miss Jacqueline Joy Farrow of Waves, Dare County has been placed on the Dean’s list at the University of North Caro lina has been received by her moth er, Mrs. Nellie M. Farrow, who is now living in Manteo. The dean of the school of Education writes that “this honor comes because of good scholarship during the last semester, and carries with it cer tain privileges.” Miss Farrow has long had a record for poficiency in her school work. MISS ORA CARTWRIGHT Funeral services for Miss Ora Cartwright, 79, who died Wednes day at the Beacon Nursing Home in Manteo, will be conducted Fri day morning at 11 o’clock at the Twiford Funeral Home Chapel, Elizabeth City by the Rev. W. W. Finlator, pastor of the First Bap tist Church. Burial will be in Hol lywood Cemetery. Miss Cartwright was a native of Pasquotank Coun ty; daughter of Enoch and Odelia Thornton Cartwright l and a mem ber of the First Baptist Church. She was employed at the Cart wright Bakery in Elizabeth City for a number of year. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Carl McCleese, Norfolk, Va., and one brother, W. T. Cartwright, Route 2, Elizabeth City. Single Copy 70 CAPE HATTERAS ELECTRIC PLANT TO BE ENLARGED .New $95,000 Unit To Be Added to System Serving Hatteras Island Customers Welcome news to the 560 cus tomers of the Cape Hatteras Elec tric Membership Corp, at Buxton, is that a new generator of 250 kva is to be added to the plant at a cost of about $95,000. The plant which now has a peak load of 540 kva has four motors Cap able of generating 800 kva, but new Navy installations are expect ed to consume mest of the reserve. The four motors in service in clude two of 150 and two of 250 kva capacity. Outside of the high school with a light bill of about $175 per month, the Navy is the largest customer on the island, its bill for current running up to about S7OO per month. Most all the customers are small customers, being principally homes. Since cur rent must be generated by diesel motors, the cost of manufacture runs almost as much as the rates usually charged by the big power systems on the mainland, and it will take considerable growth in business to make possible a re duction. Very few motors are used, the single large one in serv ice is a 50 horsepower motor uifed by the military. . The motors now in use include three Superior diesels and one Chicago Pneumatic. Some of these motors had been in service else where for eight or ten years when the Cape Hatteras plant got them ten years ago. At the present rate of growth, it looks like peak load will be up to capacity by the end of summer. The plant has four engineers and a book-keeper employed and a superintendent, who are doing a good job keeping up the system from Rodanthe to Hatteras. Last year was the first time the sys tem got out of the red, netting » about $1,500 after expenses. It’s total income from the sale of elec tricity, is about SBO,OOO a year. The entire capital for building the plant and the lines was loaned to the Cape Hatteras EMC by the Federal Government It has made possible the development of ac commodations on the island cost ing hundreds of thousands of dol lars for the accommodation of the many visitors pouring into the newest National Park, and the fu ture prospects of the island had great weight in enabling Congress man Bonner to aid the pursuit of the cause of the light plant. Re cently another $55,000 loan was authorized to this plan for the use of customers in buying electrical' equipment and appliances. MAJOR MURPHY OUT FOR COMMISSIONER OF DARE Major J. L. Murphy of Kill Devil Hills has thrown his hat into the political ring in the county, and seeks the nomination of County Commissioner from Atlantic Town ship, Major Murphy, formerly county surveyor, and former Mayor of the town of Kill Devil Hills says he will make k vigorous cam paign and pledges himself to businesslike practices in county af fairs. Major Murphy is a retired mem ber of the Marine Corp, and has made his home in this area for more than 25 years. He is active in wildlife conservation circles, and devotes much time to various related causes. Capt. W. H. Lewark, present member of the County Board is reported not to be a candidate to succeed himself. He has been in the Marine hospital for several weeks, and is reported to be im proving. MANTEO MASONIC LODGE TO BE HOST TO Ist DIST. Manteo Lodge No. 682, A.F. & A.M., will be host to the Masons of the First Masonic District, on Wednesday night, March 28, when they will hold their regular quar terly meeting. There are ten lodges in the dis trict and all are usually well rep resented. The meeting will be held in the Manteo Lodge Hall and the District Deputy Grand Master Robert O. Ballance will preside and the Rev. Louis Aitken of the, Mount Olivet Methodist Church, Manteo, will be the guest speaker. There will be refreshments after the meeting and all master masons are urged to be present. MASONIC LADIES NIGHT A joint meeting of Wanchese and Manteo Masonic Lodges will observe ladies night with a dinner at the Wanchese Hall on Satur day, April 14th at 8 p. m.
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