VOLUME XXI NO. 48 GREAT SUCCESS ATTENDS CLOSING OF FIRST YEAR IN NEW HATTERAS SCHOOL Graduation Exercises Tonight Mark Final Series of Programs Commemmorating Island's United School Serving Seven Villages. Senior Class of 22 First Year. Great success has attended the operation of the united high school for the seven villages of Hatteras Island whose graduation exercises will be held Friday night, June 1. Under the leadership of W. R. Lingle, the Principal, and an active PTA, there has been exceptional unity and support of the school, and this the first year when the combined school population of seven villages have enjoyed a mod ern $200,000 building is an example worthy the consideration of many people. On Friday night, (tonight), Dr. W. Amos Abrams, a distinguished Educational leader in this state will address the Senior class. Dr. Abrams spoke at Kitty Hawk Thursday night. Diplomas will be t presented by W. R. Lingle. Lloyd Scarborough is the valedictorian; Grady Austin and Sonja Oden, Salutatorians. The Cape Hatteras Foundation Scholarship will be presented by M. L. Burrus. The following constitute the Senior Class: Grady Stone Austin, Shirley Ann Barnett, Irene Gaskins Barnett, Connie Dean Basnett, Leven Bur rus Fulcher, Jr., Warren Davis Gray, Sylvia Florence Gray, Donna Marie Hehl, Anna Marie Hooper, Milton Hugh Meekins, David Schroeder Moore, Earl Taft Miller, Janice Midgett, Sonja Ray Oden, Lida Allen Stowe, Meleitta Rose Scarborough, Harold Russell Stowe, William Lloyd Scarborough, Jr., Ralph Vernon Twiddy, Jr., Edward Byrum Veal, Cenith Mae Willis, Joseph Fagley. Many people from end to end of Hatteras Island have commented on the. fine spirit of unity that is prevailing between the villages in supporting, the new modern school where the children enjoy finer quarters and greater advantages than under the old system. Des pite the long drawn out contention over the location of the school, which finally resulted in its con struction in the Cape Woods, there now seems to be little bitterness left, and the citizens have resolved their differences in the noble and glorious effort of seeing that there is continued improvement in the building and a school of which , their children may be proud in years to come. There is great unity Os effort toward campaigns to raise funds for still more facili ties, aqd additional equipment for their children. The baccalaureate See SCHOOL, Page Four MRS. DIANE JOHNSON CONTINUES HEAD OF DARE BEACHES GROUP Dare County’s, pioneering Dare Beaches Chamber of Commerce » met this week at its information booth at the north end of the beach and planned its summer ac tivities, continuing in office until the annual September meeting the present officers. Mrs. Diane Baum Johnson, of the Wilbur Wright Hotel, who has headed the asso ciation with energy and vision for several years, continues as presi dent, and Jesse E. Baum will be secretary. Vice-President, and Mrs. Clayton Tillett, secretary. The treasurer is Mrs. Susie Briggs Os the Uroatan Hotel. The membership fee for busi ness firms is S2O with a partici ’ pating membership for wife or husband sCt at $5. The information booth will be open from now on, rendering an invaluable service to tourists, and particularly strangers arriving at the beach for their first visit ’ \ CONGRESSMAN TO ADDRESS k CLASS AT MANTEO TONIGHT Fourteen years ago Congress man Herbert C. Bonner addressed the graduating class of the Man teo High School. Friday night 6f this week he will address the class of 1956. The class this year has 27 mem bers. Carl’Hayes is valedictorian and Thelma Jean Williams saluta- I torian. Baccalaureate services were conducted Sunday night with Rev. L. A. Aitken: as. speaker. Assisting ministers were Rev. Frank ’B. Dinwiddie, Rev. <3. W. Guthrie and Rev. A.L.G.'Stephenson. Mr. 'Bonner, with a group of friends will arrive Friday after - noon at the Manteo Airport. On . Saturday, they i plan tofish uat Oregon: Ihlet. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA SPEAKER AT BUXTON AND AT KITTY HAWK Sa* : .■Khj *, DR. AMOS ABRAMS who spoke at Kitty Hawk graduation Thurs day night, and will speak tonight, Friday, at the Cape Hatteras High School at Buxton. Dr. Abrams, a native of Pinetops, graduated from Duke, and from Cornell with Phd. in English. He has been a college teacher and editor of Educational publications, author of Elizabethan plays, is a Shakespearean lecturer; lecturer on folk songs, and has held many offices of distinction, civic, fraternal and educational. FERRY SCHEDULES STEPPED UP AND INCREASED TODAY All Three Ferries Operate' More Often Beginning June First Through -Summer Season. Raleigh.—The summer operating schedules of the Manns Harbor- Roanoke Island, Alligator River and Oregon Inlet toll-free ferries which are operated by the State Highway Commission are announc ed by Chief Engineer W. H. Rogers, Jr. The schedules go into effect Friday, June 1, and will continue through September 30. To take care of the anticipated traffic increase this summer, ferry service at Oregon Inlet has been stepped up from crossings each way every 40 minutes to every 30 minutes during the day time opera tion. This summer from the north shore, the first ferry will leave at 5 a.m. and the last one will leave at 6 p.m. The ferries will leave the north shore nt 30-minute intervals between the first and last trips. From the south shore of Oregon Inlet between Nags eHad and Hatteras, the first ferry will leave daily at 5:30 a.m. The last one will leave the south shore daily at T p.m. Femes will leave the south shore at 30-minute intervals between’ the first and last trips. This summer four converted Navy LCD’s the GOVERNOR UMSTEAD, the CONRAD WIRTH, the LINDSAY WARREN, and the HERBERT C. BONNER—wiII be assigned to the Oregon Inlet crossing. The Highway Commis sion will operate two of the big boats on a double schedule with a ferry leaving each side every half hour. The third boat will pick up cars left on either side between scheduled operations while the fourth boat will be used as a spare when either of the other three is broken down. During 1955, some 93,267 vehicles and approxi mately 171,397 passengers were ferried across Oregon Inlet. Rogers said that from August 15 through-September'3o, the first trip from the north and south shores will be one hour later; and the last trip from the north and south shores will be one'hour ear lier. He urged motorists to keep the ferry schedules in mind when planning any excursion in that area of eastern Carolina. “Visitors to the south side of Oregon Inlet should by all means try-and take an early ferry back. Our largest ferries caix-only carry 18 vehicles on one trip. If the last ferry back at 1 p.m. is filled, you -may be left to spend the night on the Hatteras side of the* Inlet. We hope that a proper consideration of the ferry schedule will avoid the nec essity for this. We have added eight more daily.round tripe to, the schedule to prevent anyone' be- FOREST FIRE CASE IN DARE WINDS UP IN ABORTIVE EFFORT First Attempt to Apply Law to Suspects Ends in Acquittal of One Man Thursday The mountain labored and brought forth a mouse. After two days a lengthy trial in Dare Coun ty ended Wednesday in the freeing of one of the young men from Stumpy Point who were charged with maliciously setting a fire on the land of the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company on Sunday, April 29th. The two men, Martin Buren Twiford, and Thurston Gray, one time employes of the company’s forest conservation program on the Dare mainland, were suspected of ill-will toward their former em ployes. The state attempted to show through the testimony of wit nesses that circumstantial evidence implicated them in the crime. The case called for many witnesses and much work on the part of attorn eys. After Judge Frizelle had charged the Jury, a motion was made by defense attorneys for a non-suit as to Buren Twiford. The motion was granted. The case went to a jury impressed with the circum stance of one of the men they were trying having gone scott free. The jury deliberated at some length, came out and got lunch, and stayed in their room all after noon, indicating possibility of a hung jury and probable mistrial. Larceny Case Next Final case on the docket at the term of court winding up Thurs day was that in which Hubert Ambrose and Amos Crain of Manns Harbor were charged with the larceny of a force pump and battery with an estimated value of $177. The property belonged in a boat owned by the Durant Island Club which was at the time of the theft in the custody of Albert Ward of Manns Harbor. Crain, as in Recorders Court, admitted taking part in the theft. Ambrose had pleaded not guilty. In Superior Court this week, Crain cbfftimied his plea, couched in the Latin phrase, nolo contendre, meaning he could offer no defense and threw himself on the mercy of the court. He was represented by Attorney Wallace Gray, while Am brose wap represented by McCown and McCown of Manteo, and Carl Swain of Plymouth. Five Divorces Granted Earlier in the term five divorces had been granted, three of people from Hatteras, one , from Kitty Hawk, and one to a Negro resi dent of Manteo. Minerva Stowe Fagley was divorced from Joseph Fagley; Shirley Job Albrecht from Edward Lee Albrecht and Florence Stowe Layne from James A. Layne. Doris M. Hansen from Olaf J. Hansen. Charlie V. Scarborough fr6m Myrtle F. Scarborough. (Further Court News Page Four) f Fixhmg