VOLUME XXI NO. 41
BULLDOZER DEEDS
BRING BIG DAMAGE
ON DARE BEACHES
1 Protecting Barriers Gone, Sea
Comes Over and Damages
Many People During
Storms
The bulldozer happy people who
disregarded the advice of veterans
of the seashore, and leveled off
the barriers that protected their
property and that of others are
beginning to get a belly full of the
results of their stupidity. This
week far greater damage than in
any storm resulted from the on
rush of the sea which came over
in new places, swept down inside,
on the highway. Water was deeper
than ever before, six miles of the
road inundated, and tremendous
damage done to innocent as well
as the guilty.
The hard winds of Wednesday
brought very high seas from
Hampton Roads, where the tide at
' night was four feet above normal,
to lesser tides further down the
coast Hatteras village did not suf
fer from sea tides, but the north
ern end of the island was plagued
by waters which ran down the
highway from some two miles
north of Rodanthe, after coming
across the low places where the
sand barriers built years ago had
been without repair for many
years.
Diminishing of the shore line
was reported at Nags Head. Much
damage in low places resulted
from flood waters in the cottage
settlements in the low beaches, the
result of lack of drainage. A trawl
er was reported ashore on the
beach near the Virginia line, and
Coast Guardsmen went to the
scene.
Much damage resulted to nets
of pound net fishermen, due to
the low tide and rough waters in
the sounds. Fishing, of course, end
ed during the period of the blow,
and there was considerable loss of
income.
It is becoming all the more ob
vious, that some resriction must
be put upon the tendency to bull
doze the beaches. Governmental
control, may be necessary to save
innocent from damage resulting
from the whims of those having
no practical knowledge nor consid
eration for others, are guided only
by their desire for level land about
their premises.
DREDGING CONTRACTS LET
FOR MANTEO. ENGELHARD
AND STUMPY POINT JOBS
The low bidder for three dredg
ing jobs in this area was Atkin
son Dredging Co. of Norfolk when
bids were opened at the office of
the District Engineer in Wilming
ton, Tuesday. The jobs call for
maintenance dredging of the chan
nels in Shallowbag Bay, Manteo,
Far Creek at Engelhard and
Stumpy Point channel. The jobs
will cost $95,375.
Several weeks are expected to
elapse before work begins on the
projects, maybe about May 20, and
work will require 20 days to com
plete.
THOUSAND DRUMFISH TAKEN
IN NETS AT HATTERAS
A catch of nearly 1,000 drumfish
or channel bass was reported from
Hatteras last week. Charlie Dan
iels and crew of Wanchese were
the lucky fishermen. Prices paid
were reported at three cents a
pound.
Several similar catches are re
ported each year in Pamlico
Sound. The big fish travel in
schools, and by surrounding them
with a long seine, most all of
them can be caught at a single set.
Some weeks ago, a school of
stiped bass and other varieties was
caught in Alligator River by
Hughes Tillett and party of Wan
chese. The value of this catch was
reported at $1,900. The next day
the value of the catch dropped to
$l9O.
BOOKMOBILE SCHEDULE
FOR KITTY HAWK
The BOOKMOBILE will contin
ue to go to Kitty Hawk on the
Third Tuesday of each month,
barring severe storms or a break
down of the machine, in which
case it will make its rounds on
the next clear day.
POST OFFICE: From now on
the Bookmobile will make a thirty
minute stop at Kitty Hawk Post
Office from 11 to 11:30 a.m.
All customary stops will continue
as before.
See next week’s paper for
Avon, Buxton, Frisco, Hatteras,
Rodanthe and Salvo.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
HATTERAS COLLEGE GIRL
WINS 15-YR. CHURCH PIN
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MISS SHEILA GIBSON of Hat
teras, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Scotty Gibson won an unusual
honor last week while home for
Easter. She was awarded a pin
by her Methodist Sunday school
for 15 years of perfect attendance.
Although having attended school
in Elizabeth City, and is now a
student at Chowan College, Mur
freesboro, she has not failed in
attendance at Sunday School, and
this is considered by members of
her church the best report since
the system was started in the
church school.
MANTEO ROTARY CLUB
TO ENTERTAIN FOREIGN
EXCHANGE STUDENT
On Monday evening the Manteo
Rotarians and Rotary Anns will
be host to Eduardo Estez, a stu
dent from Argentina, who is spon
sored by Rotary District 278, of
which the Manteo Club is a mem
ber. Eduardo is a student at Wake
Forest College, in undergraduate
school, and will study in this coun
try through the college year end
ing in June of 1956.
During his stay in North Caro
lina, the student visits all the Ro
tary clubs of the district, speaking
on the customs and traditions of
his own country, and impressions
of America. Upon his return to
Argentina, he will be called upon
by Rotary to act as an ambassador
of good will for the United States,
and Rotary International.
District 278 has sponsored ten
students during the last few years,
who have studied at Wake Forest,
University of North Carolina,
Duke University, Meredith Col
lege, Louisburg College, and other
educational institutions of the
area. The students have represent
ed a variety of countries, and have
given to the individual Rotarians
a clear picture of the international
benefits of Rotary service.
THOMAS P. MIDGETT
MANNS HARBOR NATIVE
Thomas Pritchard Midgett, 73,
died Tuesday at 5:15 a.m. as the
result of a fall from the roof of a
house he was painting Monday
afternoon in Elizabeth City.
He was a native of Manns Har
bor but had been resisding in Eliz
abeth City for the past 20 years.
He was the son of the late
Thomas Monroe and Sarah Mann
Midgett and the husband of Allie
Rhodes Midgett. He was a mem
ber of the Christian Church of
Portsmouth.
Besides his wife, he is survived
by one son, George Midgett, of
Elizabeth City Route 3; one step
son, Stephen Smith, of Portsmouth;
one daughter, Mrs. Fred Burton, of
Norfolk, Va.; one stepdaughter,
Mrs. J. V. Bell of Alamatos, Calif.;
five half-sisters, Mrs. Edward Co
nery, Mrs. J. A.- Liverman, Mrs.
Clarence Bonney and Mrs. Morgan
McCloud, all of Elizabeth City, and
Mrs. Lee Ashton, of Holland, Va.;,
two half-brothers, Charles G. Twi
ford, of Wildwood, N. J., and
Clyde P. Twiford, of Mashoes, and
four granchildren.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday at 3 pun.
ATTENDING MEETING
Mrs. Thomas Chears, Jr., of Kill
Devil Hills, and Mrs. Russell Perry
of Kitty Hawk are in Fayetteville
this week, attending the annual
meeting of the Episcopal Woman’s
Auxiliary of eastern North Caro
lina. They went as representatives
of St.-Andrews-by-the-Sea of Nags
Head.
FILING TIME FOR
CANDIDATES ENDS
SATURDAY NOON
Citizens Little Interested in De
voting Time to Public Office
in Dare County
With the last date for filing for
nomination in the primary only a
day off, there seems little interest
among the people of Dare County
in the important question of devot
ing time to serve in public office.
The filing date closes at noon,
Saturday of this week.
Up to now, candidates have filed
for county commissioner in only
two townships. Newcomb Midgett
has filed for commissioner from
Kennekeet Township. The incum
bent, James W. Scarborough, has
also filed. In Atlantic Township
three candidates seek the post of
commissioner: Major J. L. Murphy,
former mayor of Kill Devil Hills,
Orville L. Baum, businessman and
rental agent, and Morris M. (Bob)
Meekins, widely-known retired
steamboat engineer. The two last
named are residents of the Kitty
Hawk community.
The post of representative is
again sought by R. Bruce Ether
idge of Manteo, a successful veter
an of a half century of public life,
for many terms a member of the
General Assembly, and well quali
fied for the post. Having a state
wide acquaintance gained through
the years in office in Raleigh as
well as in Dare, he finds the Leg
islature enjoyable, and far easier
to cope with, than it would be for
most men.
The following incumbents in of
fice appear will be nominated to
succeed themselves without opposi
tion: Chairman Claude Duvall of
the Board of Commissioners;
Commissioners L. L. Swain of
Manteo, E. P. White of Buxton;
all the members of the board of
education: Chairman Harvey Best
of Stumpy Point, Members Ellis
Gray of Avon, Elwood Parker of
Kill Devil Hills, Lloyd Scarbor
ough of Buxton and R. O. Ballance
of Manteo.
R. E. Jordan and P. J. M. Bayne
of Nags Head have filed for com
missioners of the Dare Beaches
Sanitary District.
One Republican has thrown his
hat in the ring. Sumner M. Scar
borough of Avon has filed for nom
ination for the board of education.
JULIAN E. BAUM, NATIVE
OF WANCHESE DIES IN
VETERANS HOSPITAL
Julian E. Baum, 56, a native of
Wanchese, the son of Mrs. Mary D.
and the late Josephus Baum, died
Wednesday morning in the Veter
ans Hospital at Kecoughtan, Va.
He had formerly served in the
Coast Guard, and was custodian of
the Norfolk Postoffice Building at
the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Blanche Wallace Baum, a son and
a daughter; his mother; two broth
ers, Joseph Baum of Norfolk and
Moody Baum of Philadelphia; a
sister, Mrs. Ralph Fleming of
Portsmouth, Va.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at the Holloman-Brown Funeral
Home in Norfolk Friday afternoon
April 13 at 3 p.m. and friends of
the family are invited to attend.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn
Cemetery, Norfolk.
PROCLAMATION
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THAT WHEREAS the economic future of the Town
of Manteo and the County of Dare is dependent to a
large extent upon the tourist trade and industry and the
visitors who come to the area to enjoy the historic and
recreational facilities which are available to them here;
AND WHEREAS we appropriate and spend large
sums of money from both private and public sources to
attract tourists and vacationists to come to our town;
AND WHEREAS it is vitally important that the Town
and surrounding area present a clean, orderly and well
kept appearance indicative of a progressive community,
and that it be attractive to our visitors, prospective in
dustry and citizens;
NOW, THEREFORE, as Mayor of the Town of Manteo,
I do hereby proclaim the week of April 16th, 1956 as
CLEAN-UP PAINT-UP FIX-UP WEEK and do here
by call upon all citizens and property owners of the Town
of Manteo to clean up, paint up and fix up their resi
dences, businessess and vacant property, and to resolve
to establish habits of cleanliness and beauty which will
continue thereafter and thereby insure a bright future
for the Town.
This the 11 th day of April’ 1956.
MARTIN KELLOGG, JR:
MAYOR
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1956
PUBLIC HEARING IN
TYRRELL COUNTY ON
BRIDGE. WEDNESDAY
Engineers Will Listen to Argument
on Draw or No Draw Over
Scuppernong River
Plans have been perfected for a
public hearing to be held at Co
lumbia in Tyrrell County April 18
to determine whether the State
should be permitted to build a fix
ed or draw span bridge across the
Scuppernong River at Columbia.
The Scuppernong River is a nav
igable stream and thus comes un
der jurisdiction of the Army.
Highway officials are in favor
of a fixed bridge but local inter
ests are urging a drawbridge to
accommodate possible future in
dustrial development upstream
from the proposed site. In past
years chief traffic on the stream
in the immediate area has been
logs and grain.
The proposed new bridge is
about 300 feet upstream from the
present bridge which will be re
tained. The Federal project for
navigations ends at Cherry some
14 miles above Columbia.
The hearing will convene at 9:30
a.m. in the County Courthouse
with Colonel R. L. Hill presiding.
This will be one of Colonel Hill’s
final public appearances in the
State. His three-year tour of duty
here ends this summer but his next
assignment has not been announc
ed. He will be succeeded by Colonel
Henry C. Rowland, a 1937 gradu
ate of Yale University.
CLEAN-UP,
PAINT-UP
WEEK IS SET
April 16-21 Official Time Desig
nated For Dare Coastland;
Get Ready for Sum
mer Season
Safety-proof your home during
Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up time,
the Manteo Rotary Club urged to
day.
“Check up during Wean Up
Time’ is a good Sasfety motto for
every household,” the club advises.
“Be sure all your steps are cleared
of boxes, paper, mops, etc., that
stair treads are nailed down se
curely, and that the stairway is
adequately lighted. A sturdy hand
rail is a good guard against acci
dents. Get rid of scatter rugs or
have them fastened down, espec
ially in homes with children or eld
erly persons. All rugs and carpets
should be free of rips and tears.
“Be a detective and look for
conditions which can cause acci
dents to your loved ones. Then
Clean Up—Paint Up—Fix Up—
Light Up and make your house
a safety star home.”'
The week of April 16 through
21 has been designated as Clean
Up—Paint Up week in all commu
nities of the Dare Coastland.
KITTY HAWK SINGERS
TO APPEAR IN CURRITUCK
The Kitty Hawk Glee Club will
take part in a program to be put
on at the Currituck School at Cur
rituck on Monday evening, April
16, at 7:30. The girls and boys will
sing a football song, as the pro
gram will include numbers to rep
resent each month of the year, and
the Kitty Hawk group is to repre
sent October.
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PAT BAYNE of Nags Head, operator of the famed Jockey Ridge
Restaurant, wears one of the most distinguished looking of the array
of Pirate beards now prevalent along the Dare Coast in preparation
for the spring jamboree beginning April 27th with a fish fry at Hat
teras. Here is a picture of it, made by Dan Morrill’s camera in Manteo.
The Jockey Ridge Restaurant, has been built by a public-spirited trio,
Mr. and Mrs. Bayne and Mrs. Margie Suthard, who came to Dare
from Washington, D. C. Many people who have not yet visited it,
have heard of it through its fame for the coins which pleased patrons
have stuck overhead in the cracks in the ceiling where hundreds of
various size pieces of money look down on the diners. The coins that
come loose and fall out are donated to St. Andrews, the local Episcopal
church of which the Bayne family are communicants.
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now stationed at Parris Island, S.
C. Lloyd is a graduate of Manteo i
High School class of 1955. He was '
home during Easter time. (Photo !
by Dan Morrill) .
MUSTIANS TO LEAVE MAY I
FOR TRIP ACROSS PACIFIC
Kill Devil Hills Couple to visit Son in
Japan After Cross Country
Tour by Automobile
Dr. and Mrs. Wallace F. Mustian
of Kill Devil Hills, and his wife
Mayor Emily Mustian will leave
May 1 for a trip that will take up
three months and will be the cul
mination ,of many years of plan
ning and saving. They will set out
by automobile for San Francisco,
visiting the National Parks of the
southwest, enroute.
From the Golden Gate, they will
fly to Honolulu for a short visit,
and then on to Tokyo to visit their
son and daughter-in-law, Captain
and Mrs. W. Frank Mustian. On
their return trip they will arrive
at Anchorage, Alaska, taking the
leisurely inside voyage down to
Vancouver, B. C., and Seattle.
They will pick up their car in San
Francisco, heading home by the
Northern Route, visiting on the
way the Northwestern National
Parks. They expect to be home
about August 1.
GLYNN TO HOSPITAL
CWO Harold A. Glynn, USCG
retired was taken ill at his home
near Manteo Wednesday night, and
carried to the Marine Hospital in
Norfolk by Walter Harris in Twi
ford’s ambulance.
NEW YORK LOST COLONY
APPEARANCE ON MAY 7
By AYCOCK BROWN
Cast members of Paul Green’s
stream-lined version of The Lost
Colony consisting of four acts will
be presented at the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York as part
of the N. Y. Journal American’s
oratory finals program on May 7.
Most of the actors taking part
in the New York production are
well known to people who have
seen The Lost Colony here in
recent years. Each of the principal
actors having roles are now living
in or near New York City with a
few exceptions.
“One exception will be Mary
Wood Long, formerly of Raleigh
Little Theatre but now at Win
throp College in Rock Hill, S. C.,
who will go north to play the role
of Queen Elizabeth in the Queen’s
palace scene. Others appearing in
this scene with the dynamic 16th
Century Queen will be Oliver Link
as Sir Walter Raleigh and others
who have played the roles for this
scene on the local stage.
The “Voice of the Historian”
will be Frank Groseclose, a vet
eran of this role here at Water
side Theatre.
Indian dancers will be headed
by Marvin Gordon, currently cast
ia the Broadway production “Dam
yankees” who choreographed the
Lost Colony last year. He will
play Uppowoc, the dancing Indian
medicine man and other Indians,
maidens and braves, will include
Gloria Chavlis, Claire Williams,
Odette Blum, Charles Nicoll, John
Cripps and Edwin Kim Ying.
Cripps hnd Nicoll will also play
Chief Manteo and Chief Wanchese
in the Roanoke Island Indian Vil
lage scene.
In the Chapel Scene David
Singleton will be cast as Father
Martin and lantha Smart will have
the role of Dame Coleman, Charles
Millard will be cast as a messenger
in the acts.
Irene Rains, official costumer of
The Lost Colony for many years
will have charge of the costuming
in New York at the Metropolitan
and Hedley Yost, the drama’s
assistant organist will be cast
as organist during the Oratory
Finals showing.
Two Dare residents will be cast
in the show. They are Dorris Fry
and Grace Jordan who are making
the trip at their own expense and
who will be Ladies in Waiting to
the Queen.
The Metropolitan Opera version
of the drama is being produced
through the cooperation of Jim
Morton of Nags Head and New
York, promotion manager for the
sponsoring New York Journal
American. Clifton Britton of Golds
boro, who has been director of the
Lost Colony for several seasons
will be the director.
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FIRST IN SERIES
OF PRE-PIRATE
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Street Dance In Elizabeth City
And Song Shop To Be at
Nags Head
By AYCOCK BROWN
First in a series of several pre-
Pirate Jamboree events will be
launched this week with a colorful
street dance planned for Eliabeth
City on Friday night and a Bar
bershop Song Shop at the Caro
linian at Nags Head the following
evening, it was announced here to
day by W. H. McCown, chairman
of the second annual Dare Coast’s
spring vacation launching event
steering committee.
On Sunday the first of the mot
orcades, which will take Dare
Coast pirates in costumes on trips
through Carolina and Vir
ginia towns and cities, will culmi
nate in Washington, N. C., where
also the first of several television
and radio programs promoting the
coming three-day Jamboree on Ap
ril 27-29, will be presented.
Programs planned to lead up to j
the main event were discussed by
various committees at a Nags
Head meeting Sunday afternoon at
which more than 75 persons heard
enthusiastic reports. Discussions
by committee chairmen of the var
ious programs scheduled for Hat
teras Island, the Dare Beaches and
Roanoke Island was also held.
Already the month of April has
been designated as “pirate month”
on the Dare Coast and evidence of
it all is being shown in costume
fitting, the distribution of some
20,000 silver dollars as change to
visitors and shoppers in the area,
the appearance of Jolly Roger
flags and other buccaneer souve
nirs.
On the week end sponsors of the
event received its first shipment
of genuine pieces of eight, the 8
reales of 17th and 18th Century
Spain, which have long been
known as the coins of earlier day
pirates, arrived from Puerto Rico.
They are being disposed of at pre
mium prices, the premium going to
help defray the costs of staging
the Second Annual Dare Coast Pi- |
rates Jamboree.
The bearded buccaneers, most of
whom have been cultivating their
present chin adornments since
early January will experience a
sort of pay-off next Tuesday night,
April 17, when they are entertain
ed at a special dinner for bearded
pirates only, at the Carolinian Ho
tel on Nags Head.
On Saturday night, April 21, a
pre-Jamboree costumed dance will
be held at the Dare County Shrine
Club to the tunes of live music and
a feature of this occasion will be
the selection of the pirate king
and queen, a regal title they will
have for a full week before coro
nation ceremonies scheduled as
part of the grand pirates ball on
Saturday night, April 28, in Nags
Head Casino.
Distinguished visitors at the
Jamboree this year again will be
His Excellency the Governor of
North Carolina and the State’s
First Lady—Mr. and Mrs. Hodges.
MRS. LONIE BARNETT DIES
IN NORFOLK HOSPITAL THUR.
Mrs. Lonie Jennette Barnett,
76, head of a large family in Bux
ton, widow of Walter Loran
Barnett, died Thursday in a Nor
folk hospital after an illness of
several years. She was the mother
of Mrs. Bill Hehl, Mrs. Jarvis Bar
nett, Mrs. Randolph Barnett, Mrs.
Tom Evans, Mrs. Joe Barnett, and
the following sons: Walter Bar
nett of Norfolk, Ernest Barnett,
Aundra Barnett, Floyd Barnett.
Lawson Barnett, one of her sons,
was lost in the action in the Pa
cific during World War 11.
She was the daughter of the late
Isaac and Hosanne Williams Jen
nette, of Buxton. One brother, Jun
ius Jennette of Buxton, and two
sisters survive her. The sisters are
Mrs. Delora Stowe of Washing
ton, N. C. and Mrs. H. J. Gray of
Buxton.
HURT IN FREAK ACCIDENT
Mrs. M. C. Mitchell of Manteo
suffered a fractured vertebra in
a freak accident recently while
she was accompanying Mrs.
Frances Gray of Manteo to the
Marine Hospital in Norfolk. As
she sat in a chair beside Mrs.
Gray in the ambulance, a sudden
stop threw her off balance and
the injury occurred. She will be
in the Marine Hospital for several
weeks. Mrs. Gray will also be a
patient there for some time.