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VOLUME XXI NO. 39 PLANS CONTINUE FOR BIGGER AND BETTER JAMBOREE Many Unusual Features Shaping Up For A Bigger Festival April 27-29 By AYCOCK BROWN A bigger and better Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree has been prom ised by committee chairmen work ing on various phases of the event planned this year for the second time, as a Spring vacation launch er. Ten thousand copies of the pro gram of events which begin at Hatteras on Hatteras Island, Fri day April 27, and moves into the Dare Beaches Sector on the fol lowing day and night, to be con cluded with jeligious services at Fort Raleigh and boat races in Manteo Harbor on Roanoke Island Sunday, April 29, were printed this week by Times Printing Company for the sponsors. These programs, fore runner of a compact souvenir booklet pro gram will be distributed through out the state and nation. The initial program printed in colorful red and black ink on yellow paper will be available in reasonable quantities to any person or vaca tion operator who may wish same to use as an enclosure with letters going to potential patrons. Copies of the program will be included in the hundreds of letters now being processed each week by the Tourist Bureau from persons who are planning vacations to the Dare Coast. Governor Will Be Here Governor Luther Hodges who attended the first annual Pirates Jamboree last year, and had a big time, will be present again this year. W. H. McCown, chair man of the Jamboree Steering Committee stated Tuesday, fol lowing a telephone conversation 'with the chief executive of the State that he planned to arrive on the Dare Coast Friday after- . noon and go to Hatteras for the Waterflront Carnival and Dance planned there on that night. He will then take in several of the events in the Dare Beaches area on the following day, before ful filling other commitments he has while in the East. Pre-Jamboree Events There will be several pre-Jam boree promotional events during April, the most important perhaps, being the big Street Dance and Pirates Frolic in Elizabeth City on Friday night, April 13, and the pre-Jamboree dance and party at the Shrine Club on Saturday night, April 21, when the buccaneer king and queens will be selected. This year contestants for the distinc tion of becoming the pirate king and pirate queen will be judged largely by costumes and beards of participants. This will be an all county event and committee chair men north of Oregon Inlet have been assured that many persons from Hatteras Island would be in the competition. In addition to the foregoing events, Dare Coast “pirates” will be appearing as guests on num erous radio and television shows in North Carolina and Virginia during April, each appearance de signed as a promotional deal for the Jamboree. Taking part in some of the guest appearances will be Manteo Rotary’s famous “Pi rate” quartet. Pirate Money Within the next few days one of the most unusual shipments of money to reach the Dare Coast since the days of piracy during the 18th Century will arrive from Puerto Rico. From San Juan will come a batch of genuine “pieces of eight” the loot which early buc canners shed blood for on the Spanish Main and the Coast, of Carolina. The coins will be avail able—at a price. Already received this week was the first shipment of silver dollars from the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond to the Bank of Manteo. The silver dollars will be distri buted to merchants of Dare who in turn will give them as change to customers during April. The first shipment of shiny silver dol lars numbering 2,000 were made in 1923—a significant year for the Dare Coast and the United States. It was in 1923 that the late Gen eral Billy Mitchell, commanding a squadron of planes based on the beach at Hatteras, proved that sur face craft were vulnerable to bombing attacks by air craft. In September of that year two battle ships, the USS New Jersey and the USS Virginia were sunk off Cape Hatteras. Hatteras Jamboree ■ events will be held mostly on the spot where the planes were based. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR HODGES TO VISIT OCRACOKE ID. Ocracoke, March 26.—1 f present plans work out, Governor Luther H. Hodges will visit Ocracoke Is land on Friday, March 30th, be tween speaking engagements in Morehead City and Elizabeth City. Governor Hodges plans to make the island trip on common carriers, by mailboat “Dolphin” from At lantic, to Ocracoke on Friday aft ernoon and by mail truck Saturday morning from Ocracoke to Hatter as Inlet and across the inlet by ferry. This will give the Governor the opportunity to assess present transportation to and from Ocra coke at first hand. With Governor Hodges will be Col. Harry Brown of Atlanta, Georgia, Advisor on hurricane rehabilitation. Several officials of the highway depart ment will also be at Ocracoke that day. Materials and machinery for the new road to be built on the island are arriving by barge and are bein.s unloaded at the old navy base. CANADIAN VISITOR LIKES CLEAN HATTERAS BEACHES • W. G. Cowing of Hamilton, Can ada, who has been spending sev eral days on the Dare Coast with his wife and two sons, returned home with good impressions of the fine clean, uncluttered beaches of Hatteras Island, which he visited Wednesday. The family stopped at the Beacon Motor Lodge at Nags Head, and were impressed with the quality of accommodations and service to be found in Dare. They enjoyed meals at Jockey Ridge, and went back boosters of this area. Mr. Cowing is Comptroller of American Can Company of Canada, and is a native American. FixhingaWtiunting j j AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN R -- - - L. C. PARKER OF SKYCO LANDS FIRST STRIPERS L. C. Parker of Skyco, trolling with bucktail lures, landed the first striped bass reported caught with rod and reel this spring. He made his catches early this week in Croatan Sound near his home on the west side of the island. The striped bass (locally called rockfish) weighed from one to 14 pounds each and his total catch for the day was four fish. NATIONAL PRIZE WINNING FISH CAUGHT IN DARE Seven out of 10 prize winning channel bass entered in the na tional- Field and Stream contest during 1955 were landed in Dare Coast or Ocracoke waters. Only two fish, a 62-pounder landed at Ocean City, Md., and a 61-pound, 15-ounce specimen caught at Wachapreague, Va., topped the national third prize 60 pounder boated by Forrest Dunstan of Elizabeth City last April 6 while he was trolling from aboard Capt. Jesse Etheridge’s cruiser Cared wynn. Three of the prize channel bass were landed at Cape Hatter as, two at Hatteras and one at Ocracoke, according to the Field and Stream listing. Only one blue marlin, a 631- ed by Al Plews of Glen fiumie, was taken along the United States coast during the year that was larger than the 464 pounder boat ed by A IPlews of Glen Bumie, Md., with a broken rod ' from aboard Capt. Email Foster’s Al batross off Hatteras on May 28. Plews did not enter his blue mar lin in the national contest, it not being eligible due to the broken rod. Largest fish of this species MANTEO TALENT SHOW BENEFITS ATHLETIC ASS'N. Audience Overflows Auditorium To Hear Local Talent Program An audience which overflowed the Manteo school auditorium at tended the talent show put on last Friday night by the school, and netted approximately $l7O for the high school athletic association. Prizes were awarded as follows: Grades one through three, first prize, Gale Brown, Lorna Fields, D’Andrea Midgett, Janet Mann and Frances White for singing “You, You, You”; second prize, Nevin Wescott for singing “Davey Crockett”; third prize, Ben Lassi ter for a “Human Frog” aet. Grades four, five and six, first prize, Chris Payne for “Tutti Fruitti”, a song and dance act; second prize, Nicky Sapone, Rob ert Midgette, Sandy Robinson and Horace Midgett for “Letter Trou ble”, a stunt; third prize, Sarah Tillett, Janice Etheridge, Nancy Midgett, Linda King and Mary White for singing “Yellow Rose of Texas”. Grades seven and eight, first prize: Tommy Jack Wood, Eugene Smith, Preston Clark and Raymond White for “Rock Around the Clock”, a song and dance act; second prize, Linda Wise, Betty Ruth Flowers, Elaine Brickhouse and Dorothy Ward for a skit “Little Brown Cabin”; third prize, Nancy Glynn, Linda Mann, Pauline Leary and Evelyn Toms for a Song “We’re Moving On”. High school: first prize, Ruth Cudworth for a song “Birth of the Blues”, second prize, Mary Blanche Meekins for “Prelude in G. Minor”, a piano solo; and third prize, Jo Ann Ballance for a tap dance. Ruth Cudworth was, awarded the overall award for the entire school. Assisting between acts were Sidney Shaw at the piano; and' Al Wright with song and guitar numbers. Judges were Miss Shirley West, Mrs. Allyn Hanks and G. P, Hult man. Pre-school talent was represent ed by Susan Krider and Frankie Williams. STUDENT PREACHER Guy Whitley, a student of Ro anoke Bible College, Elizabeth City, will fill the pulpit at Roa noke Acres Church of Christ April Ist at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday School at 10:30 a.m. The public is cordially invited. was a 727%-pounder landed at Walker Keys in the Bahamas on March 22. Honorable mention prize ifras awarded William Culp II for a 352 pound blue marlin he landed from an Oregon Inlet-based cruiser, the Cherokee, operated by Capt. Ken Ward, on September 2. NORTHERLY WINDS DAMPEN EASTER FISHING PROSPECTS Northerly winds and wintry conditions generally which envel oped the Dare coastal region this week dampened prospects for good rod and reel fishing during the current Easter season week end. This has been a tough break for many anglers who came a long distance to match their skill against such fish as the rugged channel bass of the Outer Banks inlets and surf and also striped bass or rockfish, which were ini tially caught this week in waters near Skyco, with rod and reel. In the meantime, anglers may rest assured that the channel bass are back in coastal waters because a number of big ones have been caught in pound nets at Hatteras and by Wanchese cbmmercial fish ermen. Old time piscatorial prog nosticators believe it will take about three or four days of south westerly winds and clearing wea ther to start the channel bass tak ing lures and baits of anglers. Several excellent catches of large mouth bass have been re ported from Kitty Hawk, Curri tuck, Colington and Dare main land waters during the past month. The first channel bass of the season last year was caught in the surf at Cape Hatteras on April 3 and the first with rod and reel at Oregon Inlet was landed on April 6. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1956 TILLETT BUYS LARGE GROCERY BUSINESS OF ARCHIE BURRUS Former Owner Gives Full Time to Tourist Court at Nags Head One of the largest and most suc cessful businesses in Manteo is changing hands. Andrew and Mar garet Tillett and their son Jack, operators of a bottled gas busi ness in Manteo are buying the Archie Burrus grocery business and Mr. Burrus’ half interest in the building housing it, which is owned jointly with Bob and Mary O’Neal. Jack Tillett will be the manager of the store. After serving in the Marine 'Corp he returned home and entered business with his father. He married the former Lydia King and they have one child. Mr. Burrus will remain with the business for several weeks while the transition is being made. The business was established more than 12 years ago by R. H. O’Neal and the late Roscoe Bur rus and was a success from the beginning. It was the first gro cery to innovate the self-service feature, with goods marked on the shelves. About ten years ago it was sold to Archie Burrus who had been associated with his father in the grocery business at Hat teras before entering the armed forces. Archie Burrus will now devote his full time to his successful mo tel, the Sea-Oatel at Nags Head. He says trying to find time enough for both businesses is just too many hours in the day. BONNER TO ADDRESS THE MANTEO GRADUATES R. H. Stone, Principal of Man teo School, has announced that honorable Herbert C. Bonner, con gressman from the First Congres sional District will be the princi-, pal speaker at the graduation exer cises Manteo High School on June 1. There are 27 candidates for graduation in this year’s sen ior class. ANDY GRIFFITH BUYER OF BARACH ESTATE ON ROANOKE ISLAND Andy Griffith, who has been rising in fame in New York, radio, stage and TV circles, has nego tiated the purchase of the splendid home on Roanoke Island, built by the late Dr. Joseph H. Barach of Pittsburg and who died two years ago. The property is on a hill overlooking Roanoke Sound and Nags Head, and is two miles from Manteo. It includes a* large acre age and wide shore front. The property has been in caretaker status since Dr. Barach’s death. Griffith is well known in Dare County, where he was a member of the Lost Colony cast for a number of years, playing among other parts that of Sir Walter Raleigh. Mrs. Griffith, the former Barbara Edwards, played the role of Eleanor Dare in the Lost Col ony. Griffith is a native of Mount Airy. Mrs. Griffith’s home was in Troy. Both are graduates of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ' ORVILLE BAUM TO SEEK COMMISSIONERS’ PLACE. Orville Baum of Kitty Hawk stated this week that he will seek the post of commissioner from Atlantic Township in the Demo cratic primary of May 26. Major J. L.' Murphy, former mayor of Kill Devil Hills, is also a candidate. With only two weeks to go before the'filing time ends, there are ru mors of other candidates coming out for this post, as well as for the Board of Education. There are reported prospective candidates from Wanchese and from Nags Head for county com missioner, and also from Hatteras township. "AH SAY, MISTER, IS YOU JESUS?" ■r BEHIND THIS FEROCIOUS LOOKING BRUSH is the physiognomy of jovial Thomas Chears Jr., Manteo lawyer, who is doing his part toward making sure that the Dare Coast Pirate’s Jamboree has the right atmosphere come April 27th. Mr. Chears has one of the finest beards among the many that are being raised for this occasion. It speaks highly for the resolution of any married man who can mani fest such devotion to the cause of publicising the coastland. But Mr. Chears has more trouble with his whiskers when away from his own castle, for in Edenton when he appeared at the door of his mother in law, he wasn’t allowed to come in the house until he found witnesses to prove his identity. He got quite a different reception when he strolled down the street, for not one of his old friends of a lifetime paid him more than curious notice, taking him to be one of those peri patetic missionaries from the House of David. A more kindly interest came from one old Negro woman unknown to him, but who cocked her head sidewise and said to him in all seriousness: “Ah say, Mister, Is You Jesus?” The excellent portrayal of this- fierce face was done by Dan Mor rHl, operator of the studio next to Mr. Chears’ law office. Watch this paper next week for another beard of the week, as seen by Mr. Morrill’s faithful camera. RETURNS FROM TOUR OF. REBEKAH GROUP MEETINGS Mrs. Sue Ballowe of Manteo re turned this week from a series of visits to Rebekah district meetings in the state. Mrs. Bal lowe is a state officer, being a Warder of the ■ Rebekah Assembly of the lOOF'-of N. C. Among dis trict meetings held were those at Swan Quarter, Asheville, Greens boro, Goldsboro, Havelock, and at Concord last week, from where she went to Charlotte to spend the week end with her sister, Mrs. H. S. McChesney. She was accom panied on the lodge visits by the State President and Vice-President, Mrs. Inez Ramsey of Greensboro, and Mrs. Treva Kunckle of States ville, respectively. Prior to this tour, Mrs. Ballowe had spent several weeks in Florida, visiting her brother, Rubin Mid gett, and renewing old acquaint ances on the East Coast. She at tended the Gasparilia celebration at Tampa, and spent four days in Nassau. DOUBLE FERRY SCHEDULES AT INLET ON WEEK END Ferry services will be doubled at Oregon Inlet, starting Friday aft ernoon, making round trips each half hour with two boats operat ing, it has been announced, in or der to take care of Easter week end traffic. Governor Hodges, who will visit Ocracoke Friday, will be a visitor at Hatteras Saturday en route to Elizabeth City, and may get ac quainted better with the situation, where the residents are requesting night ferry trips at Oregon Inlet. SCOUTS BEGIN PAPER DRIVE; SECOND SAT. EACH MONTH On Saturday, April' 14, Boy Scouts of Manteo Troop 165 will begin a paper drive in , Manteo and the surrounding vicinity. The pick-up will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will be repeated the second Saturday of every month.. The public, is asked to leave any old paper, magazines, of corru gated board that is no longer of use, on their front porches or steps and it will be picked up by the Scouts. The money derived from the sale of this paper will be used for camping equipment, etc., which is needed by the troop. The co operation of every one will be appreciated. MANTEO WOMAN TO TAKE OFF FOR HAWAIIAN IDS. H >-•' '-*'-7 ■ . r ’-. ! i BUJ 1 gm ■^A‘*-'' r H MRS. MARVIN ROGERS of Man- ; teo, who will take off on April 6th for Honolulu where she will ] visit her sister, Mrs. John H. Lee, whose husband is with the armed forces. She will stop over at the Denver Airport for a brief visit with her son, Capt. Aubrey Rogers of the Air Force, and will pay him . a visit also on her return flight from Honolulu. The flight to mid- Paoific will require only a little over a day. TWO BOUND OVER FOR THEFT IN DARE COUNTY Dorian Mitchell Washington and Paul Lawrence Davenport, young Manteo negroes were held for Su perior Court Tuesday by Judge Baum in Recorders Court, who found probable cause. They were charged with robbing the car of S. C. Bethea, taking away clothing valued at $l4O. Washington’s bond in the amount of SSOO was signed by his employer Belton Burrus, but Davenport went to jail. Leland Reese Midgett of Waves was fined $25 and costs for driving without a valid operator’s license. Harry Miller Gray of Avon, who had no license plate, was taxed with the costs, $8.20. Donna White Beasley of Kitty Hawk was fined $lO and costs. She was drunk on the highway. Calvin Beasley of Manns Har bor paid $lO and costs for passing a school bus, and George Thomas Johnson of Wanchese, for driving with improper lights was fined $5 and costs. Single Copy 70 IMPROVEMENTS IN MANTEO AREA ARE MANY AND VARIED Despite Winter's Apparent In activity Many Definite Gains Are Being Made. - • The general complaint every winter is that business is dull in Manteo. Dull business is all the more acute to so many, following the hectic rush of summer busi ness that leaves no one time to think just how good or how bad business conditions may be. When the let down comes after Labor Day, folks have more time for re flection, and by comparison with what has gone before, the winter season always looks bad indeed. Speaking for the Manteo area, things don’t look so bad after all. For more than a year, the big $3,000,000 bridge project across Croatan Sound has employed many people. It’s been a big thing for Roanoke Island; for those employ ed on it, live here and pay board here, buy groceries and one or two of the newcomers will buy homes and remain here. In addition to several new homes recently completed or now being built in Manteo and vicinity, there are other indications of im provement and progress. One of the most greatly needed improve ments which should result in great benefit to the community generally is the clinic now under construction by Fearings, Inc. This building, when complete will en able a physician to locate in Man teo under ideal conditions for mod ern practice. This firm’s efforts are very creditable for a commu nity of this size. In the business area, the Daniels Oil Company, having purchased a part of the Wahab Building, is creating what will be the finest offices in Manteo. This building will house two larges offices adja cent to a warehouse for the sale and promotion of petroleum prod ucts. The offices will have modern heat and air conditioning units. Some 100 seats, a modem wide screen, and many other improve ments will be made possible by the large addition that H. A. Crees is completing for his Pioneer Theatre. This will give Manteo a showhouse unexcelled in a town of similar size in the state. Just as are the improvements in the theatre, so are improvements of the, most modern type being made in numerous homes on Roanoke Island. MANNS HBR. RURITAN CLUB HOST TO MANY OLDER FOLK At their regular meeting March 31st, the Ruritan Club of Manns Harbor had a 100% attendance record. At this meeting the club was host to 9 local residents whose average ages were 74 years and 4 months. Among those attending the meeting were: Mrs. Mary Midgett 80; Mrs. Sallie Gard 82; C. W. Mann 80; Raynor Twiford 81; Mrs. Sina Mann 76; Mrs. Alice White 73; Mrs. «Hattie Mann 66; Clyde Twiford 65; and Lonnie Ambrose 66. Plans were made for the club to attend the Easter Sunrise Services of Mt. Carmel Church. At the kids party which the Ruritans sponsor the Ist Friday night, 33 children and 3 mothers attended the party. LITTLE BEASLEY CHILD OF KITTY HAWK DIES While her parents were home from State College on a visit, Stavia Jill Beasley was taken ill at Kitty Hawk Friday and died Sunday morning in the Elizabeth City hospital, following a bron chial infection. She was the five months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Beasley. Her father, a former service man is now studying at State College. Besides her parents, she is sur vived by her twin-brothers, Michael and Danny Beasley; her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvah O’Neal, all of Kitty Hawk; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall J. Beasley, of Norfolk. The body was taken from the Twiford Funeral Home, Manteo, to the Austin Cemetery, in Kitty Hawk, for graveside services by the Rev. W. B. Greg ory, pastor of the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church, Tuesday at 2 p.m. LOW BID FOR U. S. 264 IMPROVEMENT $159,487?W The low bid submitted this week for improving and surfacing the new stretch of road a distance of 2.57 miles east of Washington on U. S. 264 was submitted this week by Rea Construction Company of ! Charlotte. The amount of the Hd was $159,487.60. The bid calls for • fine grading of the new stretch, I and a 20-foot roadway paving of sand-a sohal L
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