VOLUME XXI NO. 40
APPROVE VOTE ON
'’i $250,000 SCHOOL
ISSUE IN MANTEO
Board of Education Acts on Pe
tition of 223 Qualified
Voters Tuesday
The Dare County Board of Edu
cation Tuesday gave its approval
to an election to vote on whether
to issue $250,000 in bonds to erect
a high school building in Manteo.
A petition was presented the
Board signed by 282 persons of
whom 223 are qualified voters. The
territory to be included in the bond
issue as now constituted consists
of all of Roanoke Island, the Dare
County mainlairii, the beach area
south of the Nags Head Soundside
road extending to Oregon Inlet.
Further consideration on the
question of taking in the addition
al territory to the northward on
the beach in Nags Head township
will be given at a public hearing
to be held in Manteo on May Bth.
The Board agreed for another
year to continue the cooperative
school supervisor program with
Hyde County, completing a two
year term, after which Dare Coun
ty will have the supervisor for two
years. Miss Bettie Swindell of
Hyde is the Supervisor at this
time.
W. M. Meekins and J. O. Bas
night of Manteo were named mem
bers of the Manteo School Com
mittee replacing Mrs. Estelle Til
lett and C. D. Biggs, resigned. The
Board gave time to discussing of
the budget for the forthcoming
year, and this will come up later
for consideration.
Tentative approval was given re
election of practically all teachers
in the schools, excepting those in
the Manteo school, which awaits
action of the new committees.
Three bids were received for
transportation of coal to the
schools of the county this summer.
This did not include the Hatteras
school which burns oil, nor the
Stumpy Point School which re
quires stove coal. Bids submitted
were as follows: O. Burrus, $768;
Rudolph Peele, $850; and Willie
Rogers, $1,152. Mr. Burrus was al
so low bidder on supplying the coal
and hauling it to the Stumpy
Point school in the amount of
$168.00.
MRS. JULIAN D. BROTHERS
PASSES AT WANCHESE
A faithful resident of the Wan
chese community for the past 42
years was laid to rest in Cudworth
Cemetery following services Sun
day at 2 p.m. conducted by Rev.
C. W. Guthrie, her pastor. Mrs.
Sarah Esther Davis Brothers, 66,
wife of Julian D. Brothel's, Sr. died
Friday afternoon in a Norfolk hos
pital, following an illness of 17
days. She was a native of South
Mills, daughter of the late Charles
and Jane Eason Davis.
Beside her husband, she is sur
vived by two sons. J. D., Jr. of
Wanchese and John M. of Norfolk;
a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Ross of
Virginia Beach; two brothers,
Harry Davis of South Mills and
D. D. Davis of Portsmouth; a sis
ter, Mrs. Bessie Grainger of South
Mills.
The funeral services were large
ly attended and there were many
flowers.
Hymns sung were “Beautiful
Isle of“ Somewhere,” and “Whisper
ing Hope,” by the church choir.
Mrs. Rena Tillett, organist. The
pall was of Easter lilies, pink car
nation and fern. Pall bearers were
Earl Willis, Steve Tillett, Geo. A.
Daniels, Bo Tillett, Herbert Til
lett, and Geo. H. Quidley.
MANTEO BAPTISTS PLAN
SPRING REVIVAL APRIL 15
The annual spring revival of the
Manteo Baptist Church will begin
Sunday, April 15 and run through
Friday night, April 20, says Henry
V. Napier, pastor. Visiting evan
gelist will be the former pastor of
Mr. Napier, the Rev. J. C. Meigs of
Pageland, S. C., and who for many
years was pastor of the Polkton
Baptist Church. He comes well
qualified as an evangelist, hav
ing preached in an average of four
to six revivals each year during the
past several years. He is a gradu
ate of Wingate Junior College and
Wake Forest College. He was for
merly on the board of trustees of
Wingate Junior College, Wingate,
N. C. and has served on the general
board of the Baptist State Con
vention.
The public is given »a cordial
invitation to all services, to be
held each evening at 8:00 preceded
by a period of prayer beginning
at 7:80. Services of Sunday, April
15 will be held at 11:00 in the
morning and 8:00 in the evening.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
FREEBOOTER'S PART IS EASILY SIMULATED
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THE USUALLY benign countenance of Lawrence Swain, County Com
missioner of Dare, Choir member in the Methodist Church, and civic
and club booster would not be expected to lend itself to this malevolent
pose. It all goes to show that most anybody’s face with the right make
up, can be made to express most any sort of character. This pose of
course was captured by Dan Morrill’s camera in Manteo last week, as
part of the plan to draw attention to the forthcoming Pirate Jamboree,
beginning at Hatteras with an all day and night program on April
27th, at which time the world’s biggest fish fry of ocean fish will be
held, for countless visitors expected for the three day event which will
continue on the Dare Coast, its entire length of 85 miles. Some dozens
of men in Dare County have gone to great lengths, even risking domes
tic strife, that they might grow beards to take part in this celebra
tion. Next week we will show you another prominent citizen, as seen
by Mr. Morrill’s camera.
MOTORIST KNOCKS
DWELLING AWRY AT
MANNS HARBOR
Vigilant Children on Easter Egg
Hunt Cause Capture of Car
Thief at Wanchese
David Gerald Newby of Norfolk
submitted and paid $25 and costs
in Recorder’s Court in Manteo
Tuesday, as result of the collision
of the car he was driving, into the
home of John Tom Ambrose on
March 29th at Manns Harbor.
Coming up U. S. 264 the car didn’t
make the turn at the right angle
intersection at Manns Harbor, and
the Ambrose home was damaged
to the extent of some S6OO and the
Newby car demolished.
The vigilance of a group of chil
dren on an Easter Egg hunt Mon
day at Wanchese, resulted in the
capture of an ex-convict wanted
for theft of a car. Phillip Murray
of Fayetteville had worked on
Roanoke Island while a member
of Maple prison camp, and he
brought the stolen car into the
woods at Wanchese. The children
suspected something wrong, they
notified Deputy Sheriff Darrell
Daniels. He notified Sheriff Ca
hoon in Manteo, who with Patrol
man Fields went to the scene and
caught the man. He will have to go
back home for trial, but Judge
Baum gave him a 30-day road sen
tence for good measure.
Amos Carter Brown, worker on
the Croatan Sound bridge project,
paid $5 and costs for driving a
truck with no license. James T.
Mattahews of Wanchese paid $25
and costs for driving without oper
ator’s license. Shelton D. Midgett
paid $lO and costs for speeding at
65 mph. Elbert H. Kizer of Nags
Head paid $25 And costs for driv
ing with an old expired plate of
another state, after having lived
See COURT, Page Five
BEARDED CONTESTANTS
TO BE HONORED BY DINNER
Dare’s Pirate men will hold a
pre-Jamboree dinner on Tuesday
evening April 17th. The Carolin
ian Hotel will be host to all beard
ed contestants in the Jamboree
Beard Growing contest, including
contestants from Roanoke Island,
Dare Beaches and Hatteras Is
land. Julian Oneto, Dare Beach
Chairman of Jamboree activities
announced that Orville Baum and
Pat Bayne, in charge of the beard
growing contest will welcome con
testants and size up the competi
tion * for this year beginning at
6:00 in the evening of April 17th,
at the Pine Room of the hotel.
Dinner is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
Wallace McCown, Jamboree Chair
man requested all persons plan
ning to attend this event notify
him so that the approximate num
ber in attendance can be deter
mined prior to April 17th.
YOUNGEST TALENT
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SUSAN KRIDER, five-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Krider of Manteo, was the young
est entrant in the recent talent
show put on by the*Manteo school.
Susan and Frankie Williams rep
resented . the pre-school group.
Susan gave a recitation. In last
week’s account of the talent show,
it was inadvertently omitted that
Henry Parker and Elizabeth Crees
were crowned king and queen of
the primary school.
FIRST PLANTINGS BEGIN
IN ELIZABETHAN GARDENS
Manteo.—Albert Q. Bell, owner
of Roanoke Gardens here, this
week began planting in the Garden
Clubs of N. C.-sponsored Eliza
bethan Gardens. Already the proj
ect, sponsored by several thousand
North Carolina garden club mem
bers, has been dedicated and al
ready too, much rare and historical
statuary has been erected at the
site which is adjacent to Fort Ra
leigh and in the immediate vicinity
of the site where first attempts
to establish an English Colony in
the New World was made during
the late 16th Century.
Bell, who recently completed the
reconstruction of America’s first
glass works at Jamestown in Vir
ginia, has played an important
role in the bringing the unusual
Elizabethan Garden to its present
status.
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RE-ENTERS HOSPITAL
Capt. W. H. Lewark of Kill Dev
il Hills, who was recently dismiss
ed from the Marine Hospital, Nor
folk, Va., returned Thursday for
further treatment.. •
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MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1956
GOVERNOR HODGES
PUTS IN A BUSY
DAY AT HATTERAS
Greeted By Many Coast Guards
of Pact and Present on Sat
urday Visit.
Engineman First Class Preston
Quidley’s eyes widened and he
took a second look at the man he
was detailed to instruct in the
rudiments of surf-casting. This
was no amateur and to the defer
ence that is proper for any man
to have for the Governor of North
Carolina Qiudley added the respect
that one sound fisherman has for
another. Fisherman Luther Hodges’
first cast from the Point of Cape
Hatteras landed far and true.
Although the most disagreeable
month in the Island’s book was
taking its leave with lamb-like
gentleness it was no day fishing
and the Governor and his teacher
tumed-pupil returned, a little late,
to the U. S. Coast Guard Station
and the Island’s only disappoint
ment in Fisherman Luther Hodges’
informal visit was in that he didn’t
get the first fish to be taken this
season. There has been keen rival
ry about that since surf-casting,
See GOVERNOR, Page Four
DARE SANITARY
DISTRICT WILL
BE EXPANDED
Old Nags Head and Avalon
Beach Included; Other Areas
May Petition For
Entry Later
The Dare Beaches Sanitary Dis
trict has been expanded to include,
in addition to the sections original
ly in the district, Avalon Beach,
back to Kitty Hawk Bay; and Old
Nags Head on the Sound. Begin
ning at Anderson’s curve at Kitty
Hawk and continuing to the point
where Highway 158 curves toward
Manteo, everything on the east
side of the highway and every
thing 700 feet on the west side,
was included in the original plan.
Additional areas may petition to
be included later.
On next Monday night the com
missioners of the Sanitary District
will meet to decide whether or not
an election will be called for a
vote on a bond issue of $972,000
for the establishment of a water
and sewer system.
Last Friday night an informa
tion forum was held in the Kill
Devil Hills town hall, with ap
proximately 60 interested people
in attendance. At that time ques
tions of all sorts were answered
by the commissioners, R. E. Jor
dan, C. A. York and Orville Baum;
and by Martin Kellogg, Jr., attor
ney for the commission; M. O. Ca
ton, W. C. Lackey and Robert K.
Gunn of the Public Health Serv
ice; and R. D. Stout and J. A. Tay
lor, consulting engineers.
The proposed water system, ac
cording to the engineers, will be
sufficient to take care of all needs
of the beach area for the next 20
or 30 years. In addition to provid
ing health protection, the proposed
system will also provide fire pro
tection and the insurance rates
will automatically drop to a lower
bracket.
Property owners were told that
if the low bid on the project was
higher than the specified amount
to be expended, all bids would be
rejected.
Pre-Pirate Jamboree Events
Shaping Up On Dare Coastland
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Street Dance, Barber Shop Quartet Competion, Baqquet for
Beard Growers and TV-Shows
Many pre-Pirate Jamboree
events are being planned here on
the Dare Coast and some of them
will take place in cities away from
the coast, such as motorcades,
musical TV-programs and dances.
Announced this week to take place
on Saturday evening, April 14, will
be the Nags Head Barber Shop
Song Shop.
Manteo Rotary Club’s bearded
Pirate Quartet will challenge all
comers in competition at that time,
and already six singing groups
have accepted the challenge, one
being an all-girl quartette from
Elizabeth City. The competition
will be staged in the Cypress Room
of the Carolinian Hotel beginning
at 8 o’clock.
Three Virginia groups, the South
Chords of Danville, the Tag Tones
of Petersburg and the Newport
News Hunt Club quartet have been
invited and accepted invitations to
be present. In addition to the Ro
tary bearded quartet of the Dare
Coast and the Girl’s Quartette of
Elizabeth City, a male group of
singers from Elizabeth City and
Brack Dawson’s singers from
Washington will also be present.
COMMISSIONERS TO
PROCEED ON THE
COURTHOUSE JOB
"Now You See It and Now You
Don't" Job For Office and
Jail Favored This Week
The Dare County Board of Com
missioners Tuesday followed the
plan in which they had been led
by their boss and decided to pro
ceed with the $85,000 job of re
modeling the courthouse and build
ing a new jail on top. Lawrence
Swain, member from Manteo said
the decision was made, the only
absent member being W. H. Lew
ark of Kill Devil Hills. The archi
tect, Ed Pugh Jr., of Elizabeth
City, a Wanchese native who had
been selected by an old neighbor
for this work, met with the Board
and took all the blame for pro
ceeding to ask for bids some three
weeks ago, and said he had acted
on what he thought was the wishes
of the Board.
No record of Tuesday’s action
will be put in the minutes, Mr.
Swain said, so it will be easy for
the Board to change its mind
again. A little review of the proj
ect may be in order at this time.
Ever since the county got a gift
of $50,000 in cash about two years
ago, there have been numerous
schemes for spending it. Finally,
the Board was told to spend it for
some plush offices for the county
officers, and for badly needed
vaults, and the least used thing
in the county, a new jail.
The promoters went ahead and
hired Mr. Pugh, and drew plans,
although they had an adequate set
already made and paid for, but
which only called for spending
$25,000 or less, and this wouldn’t
give them a chance to spend all
the money. When they got through
with the new plans, which their
confreres had led them into, they
found the job would cost $85,000,
including a jail at Buxton. Os
course it has always been the cus
tom to spend a lot more in Dare
than any plans call for, but they
agreed to go ahead and undertake
the job, provided the people of
Dare County would approve it and
the issuance of bonds to the tune
of $35,000 more in a special elec
tion July 9. The voters didn’t ap
prove it however, and turned it
down by two to one, and the Board
then said they would build it any
way.
Now this project had as one of
its first promoters the Register of
Deeds and County Manager, Mel
vin R. Daniels, supported by Sher
riff Cahoon, and Commissioner
Swain. Once having gotten into it,
the rest of the Board went along
with them. Commissioner White of
Buxton was a new man on the
Board and had nothing to do with
cooking up the project, although
he wanted to get along on the
Board and get support for his own
See COURTHOUSE, Page Four
PRE-SCHOOL CLINICS
Pre-school clinics will be held for
Dare County as follows:
Manteo School at Health De
partment, Manteo, Wednesday,
April 11,10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Manteo-Colored Schocrt at Health
Department, Manteo, Friday, April
13, 2 p.m. All parents with chil
dren starting school next year
please bring them to the clinic for
their check-up, according to W. W.
Johnston, health officer.
Street Dance Carnival
On invitation of Mayor L. S.
Blades and the Elizabeth City
Town Board, the Jamboree spon
sors will present a street dance
and carnival in the Pasquotank
capital on Friday night, April 13.
Highly amplified Hill Billy Music
and the music of Elizabeth City’s
famous High School “Pirate”
Band will be featured.
Junian Oneto, chairman of the
Nags Head Committee on Dare
Beaches events has announced that
several pre-Jamboree TV programs
with Dare Coast participants have
been arranged. These appearances
are scheduled for Petersburg, Va.,
Norfolk, Washington and Green
ville, N. C. and probably other
cities. On days that TV programs
are planned there will be motor
cades with costumed pirates tak
ing part traveling through numer
ous North Carolina and Virginia
towns and cities.
All persons growing beards for
the Pirate King competition to be
held at the Dare County Shrine
Club on April 21, will he entertain
ed at a banquet by the Carolinian
Hotel on Tuesday, April 17, with
Mrs. Lucille S. Purser as hostess.
LOST COLONY DRAMA TO BE
PRESENTED IN METROPOLITAN
OPERA HOUSE ON MAY 7TH
Will Be Feature of 14th Oratory Finals; Jim Mor
ton, Part Time Dare Resident, Helpful in Mak
ing Arrangements.
FRISCO BOY IN AIR FORCE
AT LACKLAND, TEXAS
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LEE WAYNE TANDY, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Tandy of Frisco,
Dare County who is now at Lack
’and Air Force Base, Texas. He is
18 years old. With him in Texas
is Conrad Burrus of Buxton, son
of Mrs. Calvin and the late Mr.
Burrus.
BIDS SOUGHT FOR
$42,785 DISASTER
JOBS IN DARE CO.
Commissioners to Open Bids
April I Oth For Roanoke Is
land, Mainland, Banks
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Work is expected to begin soon
on the diking and drainage proj
ects authorized for Dare County
by State and Federal Disaster re
lief agencies to the amount of
about $42,785, and bids will be
opened on April 10th, next Tues
day, by the Dare County Commis
sioners.. '
This money will be spent under
the supervision of the Government
agents, but representing the Coun
ty Board is Lawrence Swain, Com
missioner in Manteo.
Funds approved for this work
for spending somewhere near the
following sums of money: Stumpy
Point $9,425; Manns Harbor, $13,-
500; Roanoke Island Colored area,
$10,700; Avon, $1,460; Frisco,
$2,700; Kitty Hawk, $5,000.
JAMBOREE COMMITTEES
TO MEET SUNDAY 3 P.M.
AT CAROLINIAN HOTEL
All ’Dare Coast Pirate Jamboree
committee members from Kitty
Hawk to Hatteras, including Ro
anoke Island, Nags Head, Kill
Devil Hills and Buxton, are urged
to attend a meeting at The Caro
linian Hotel on Sunday afternoon,
April 8, and all are urged to wear
their costumes, it was announced
today by Julian Oneto, chairman
of the committees in charge of
events scheduled for the Dare
Beaches.
“It is very necessary that all
committees be represented as prog
ress on plans for all phases o£ the
Jamboree must be known and dis
cussed,” said Oneto.
“At least one TV station repre
sentative (WTAR-TV will
be present at the meeting under
present plans and they plan to
make a 15 minute program for
transmission over the Norfolk TV
station,” said Oneto.
Committee members include
those in charge of the surf fishing
contest, fish fry, beauty show and
costume contest, banker pony
events, beach buggy races and the
waterfront carnival and dance on
Hatteras Island; the model plane
contest, children’s treasure hunt,
blue marlin unveiling,,pirate land
ing party, jeep obstacle race, ja
lopy races and grand pirates ball
on the Dare Beaches; and, the re
ligious services and speedboat
classics scheduled for Roanoke Is
land.
Oneto stated that committee
members who would find it im
possible to be present, should make
every effort to be represented by
some one in order to give a prog
ress report to date. Other commit
tee officials urged to attend in
clude those in charge of costumes,
souvenirs, and finances. Other in
terested persons are also invited
to attend and all who can do so
are urged to wear their costumes
for the TV-filming, Oneto stated.
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Manteo, April 5. America’s
foremost symphonic drama, “The
Lost Colony,” enacted every sum
mer here at the site of the first
English settlement in the New
World, will be presented in part,
at the Metropolitan Opera House
in New York City on May 7 as a
feature of the N. Y. Journal-Amer
ican’s 14th Oratory Finals.
Announcement of Paul Green’s
famous play making its first ap
pearance on a New York or any
stage, other than Waterside Thea
tre at Fort Raleigh here, was made
this week by Jim Morton, editorial
promotion editor of the New York
newspaper which has the largest
afternoon circulation in America.
Morton who commutes between
New York between that city and
his summer honje on Nags Head
spent the Easter Holidays on the
Dare Coast with his family and
while here completed plans with
Lost Colony Manager Dick Jordan
for presenting America’s longest
lived outdoor production, or sever
al scenes from the show, in New
York.
Jordan stated that Roanoke Is
land Historical Association, spon
sors of the drama which begins
its 16th season on June 30 this
year, had given full sanction to
,plans for staging important
scenes from the show in New
York. “We believe it will be one
of the greatest promotional moves
in the history of the drama which
has attracted more than 750,000
paid customers to Roanoke Island
and the actual site of the original
happenings of the story it tells.
Roanoke Island Historical Asso
ciation agreed to the New York
presentation of The Lost Colony
“in view of the statue of the Ora
tory Finals, a youth event spon
sored by the Journal-American,
and its patriotic and cultural ben
efits to young people.
Green, the Pulitzer Prize-win
ning North Carolinian, who creat
ed the symphonic drama as a new
concept of theatre art, has written
qtn abbreviated version of The Lost
Colony expressly for the Met pa
geant.
It includes a primitive Indian
dance to the Corn God by Uppo
woc, a medicine man of the Roa
noke tribe, acted by Marvin Gor
don, currently in the smash stage
hit cast of “Damyankees.”
Next comes a scene in which Sir
Walter Raleigh presented two
Roanoke Indians at the court of
Queen Eliabeth, and introduces to
her strange wonders of the New
Work—tobacco and an edible root
called the potato.
There follows the baptismal
scene of Virginia Dare, first child
of English parentage bom in the
land that became America, and fi
nally the powerfully dramatic in
cident in England that doomed the
colony to eternal oblivion.
No trace was ever found of the
150 settlers at Fort Raleigh, and
the incidents beginning in 1584 and
ending three years later in 1587,
has become one of the world’s
greatest history-mysteries.
It will be this drama, lifted in
authentic detail from history, that
New York will see for the first
time at the 14th Oratory Finals
in the Metropolitan Opera House
on May 7.
A cast of up to 60 persons, in
authentic costumes of the Eliza
bethan period, will be in the per
formance, many of the principals
being Lost Colony actors, now liv
ing in the New York and New Jer
sey area. Many North Carolinians
and Honorary Tar Heels will be
special guests at the event.
GROCERY STORE SALE
IS NOT NEGOTIATED
Last week The COASTLAND
TIMES carried a news story to
the effect that Archie Burrus of
Manteo had sold his grocery store
to Andrew and Margaret Tillett
and their son Jack, also of Manteo.
That story has been found to be
erroneous, as the sale, which was
in process of being negotiated,
did not go through. Mr. Burrus
is still operating his store.
ON GOLD STAR DRILL TEAM
Montague Pennystone, son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Pennystone of
Manteo, is a member of the Gold
Star Drill Team of Oak Ridge
Military Institute, Greensboro, and
will go with the team to Wilming
ton this week end to participate
in the azalea festival.
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