VOLUME XXI NO. 49
MISS UNIVERSE COMPETITION
TO SELECT LOVELIEST GIRL
IN STATE IN DARE JUNE 27-29
By AYCOCK BROWN
All contracts have been arrang
ed and North Carolina’s first state
wide pageant of pulchritude for
the purpose of selecting the love
liest and shapeliest to compete
in the internationally-famous Miss
Universe contest at Long Beach,
California, during the summer of
1956, will be held at Nags Head on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
June 27, 28 and 29, it was announc
ed by Tom Briggs today.
Briggs, who is operator of the
Croatan Hotel at Kill Devil Hills,
is also president of the Nags Head
Chamber of Commerce and the lo
cal contest will be under the spon
sorship of that organization. At
least 12 and maybe up to 25 of the
prettiest girls in North Carolina
will be in the competition.
Just how many will compete for
the Miss North Carolina, Miss Un
iverse honors will depend largely
on the initiative of Buck Colling
of Virginia Beach who has been
in several conferences with the lo
cal chamber members in maxing
plans for the event of which he will
be the chief promotion agency.
Colling has just completed a some
what similar assignment in a con
test to select a Miss Virginia-Miss
Universe representative. The con
test was held last week and Col
ling had to do with the promotion
al aspects of the successful event.
There is no connection between
the Miss Universe contest and the
Miss America pageant and require
ments for competition are differ
ent. For the Miss America contest
one must in addition to beauty and
igure, have some unusually good
talent of one kind or another.
The Miss Universe contest goes in
good talent of one kind or another,
strictly for beauty and figure, and
the contestants are judged for
poise and facial beauty and also
for shapely statistics.
polling who has had several con
tacts with local chamber of com
merce members, has emphasized
the fact that the Miss Universe
contest today receives far more
publicity throughout the world
than the Miss America beauty-tal
eni contest.
The competing beauties will be
entertained by vacation operators
while they are on the Dare Beach
es, there will be special parties
See CONTEST, Page Six
MANY EVENTS MAKE
Lip a busy week
ON DARE COAST
I Next week wijl be a busy week
■or vacation operators and sports
■ishing interests on the Dare
Eoast.
I On Monday at Nags Head one
Bf the most unusual schools in the
world, an institute for sportsfish-
Irmen, sponsored by N. C. State
Kollege Extension begins, and the
■ession which will feature classes
■board charter boats operating at
Rregon Inlet, in the Gulf Stream
■nd aboard smaller craft in the
Bresh water bays and sounds of
Ipper Dare County.
I The Sportsfishing Institute will
Hantinue for five days and this
■ear, because both fresh and salt
water fishing will be included in
■ie course of instruction and be-
Huise it is being held at Nags
Bead, more students than have ev-
B- before attended the school will
B* taking part in the classes. In
Bidition to the piscatorial stu-
Knts, there will be l a faculty of
Bcperts in the art of fishing, tackle
Bid technique generally, of inter-
Bt to anglers.
Postmasters* Convention
B Beginning on Tuesday a three
fly session of the North Carolina
Biapter of the National Postmas
flr Association will begin at Nags
flead. Governor Luther H. Hodges
Mio will address the opening ses
fln, heads a long list of disting-
Hshed state and federal officials
Hat will take part on the various
Hograms.
■Approximately 400 persons will
I present for the convention and
Hssions will be held at the Dare
Hunty Shrine Club and in the Ar-
Hgton Hotel where the convention
Hidquarters will be.
Branded trawler burned
■ BEACH AT WASH WOODS
■laving < stripped the stranded
flwler Cherokee of everything of
Hue, the owner, B. F. Forrest of
Hmpton, Va., set it afire and
■med most of the vessel last
■k. The boat went ashore April
B One of the crew members died
B exposure. The old boat was
Hit for sub-chaser during World
■r I and is nearly 40 years old.
■ boat was once used as a
Highter between Baltimore and
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA
HIGH POSTOFFICE OFFICIAL
COMING TO THE COAST
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HON. ABE McGREGOR GOFF,
Solictor to the U. S. Postoffice
Department in Washington, D. C.,
will be the guest speaker next
Thursday, June 14, at a banquet of
the North Carolina Chapter, Na
tional Association of Postmasters
in their annual convention at
Nags Head. The two day event
will be of especial interest to all
Postmasters in North Carolina.
POSTMASTERS OF
STATE MEETING
IN DARE COUNTY
Governor and Postal Officials on
List of Speakers at Three
Day Convention on
Beach
One of the important conven
tions coming to Dare County this
summer is the three-day session
at Nag? Head and Kill Devil Hills
next week, June 12-14_ of the N.
U. Chapter of the National Asso
ciation of Postmasters. Mrs. Effie
A. Brickhouse is state president
Mrs. Maude M. White of Buxton
is District President, and with the
host postmasters, Mrs. Catherine
Perry of Kitty Hawk, Mrs. Elton
Twiford of Kill Devil Hills and
R. R. Kessinger of Nags Head, a
lot of hard work is being done to
get ready for the event
Governor Hodges is on the pro
gram for a speech. Registration
will begin Monday at the Arling
ton Hotel from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
An executive committee meeting
will be held Monday afternoon, a
reception for postmasters and
guests at 9 p.m.
On Tuesday the convention will
be called to order at 9:30 a.m.
Welcome address will be made by
Melvin Daniels, Register of Deeds,
Mrs. Maude White, and Mrs. Cath
erine Perry, of Kitty Hawk, repre
senting the Host postmasters. The
response to these addresses will be
made by J. Tracy Moore of Greens
boro.
Others listed on the program
now are W. H. Rima Jr., U. S.
Civil Service Representative of
Atlanta, Ga., Jane D. Miller, Vice-
President of the, and H. B. Dean,
regional directors, of Atlanta, Ga.
ELECTION ON $250,000
MANTEO SCHOOL BOND
ISSUE SET FOR AUGUST
The date for the vote on a school
bond issue for $250,000 to erect a
high school in the Manteo vicinity,
has been set this week by the
County Commissioners to be held
AugUst. 11th, a>Saturday.
The issue will decide the interest
of a majority of voters in the
school district in levying a special
tax to erect such «a building to
serve the lower end of Nags Head,
Roanoke Island, and the Dare
Mainland, which constitute the
district. Kitty Hawk district, whose
high school children will attend
Manteo next year, is not included
in the district, as the citizens in
that area are planning to hold a
$200,000 election to erect a high
school in their district. The datej
for this election has not been set.
COMMISSIONERS TO OPEN
COURTHOUSE BIDS FRIDAY
Bids for construction of a new
jail and vaults for the Dare Coun
ty courthouse are scheduled to be
opened Friday. The project is to
be financed by $50,000 on hand
paid the county by the National
Park Service, and an additional
tax on property in the county.
Cost of improvements have been
estimated at $75,000 to SIOO,OOO.
This project was voted down by
the people by a two-to-one vote
last July.
BONNER TELLS HS
1 GRADS ALL GOING
WILL NOT BE EASY
Many Awards Given in Class of
27 Who Heard Congress
man Friday Night
Going through life will not all
be easy, Congressman Herbert C
Bonner warned the 27 graduates of
the Manteo High School Friday
night. Mr. Bonner spoke to a full
house, which turned out for the
exercises, despite one of the worst
downpours of rain in many a day.
Prior to Mr. Bonner’s speech,
Principal R. H. Stone presented
the following awards: valedictory
award, Carl Hayes; salutatory
award, Thelma Jean Williams;
danforth awards, Preston Sears
and Thelma Jean William; libr
ary award, Judy Etheridge; bus
drivers’ safe-driving award, Jo
Ann Hooper; school service
awards, Davis Ballance, Marion
Woodward, Billy Best, Carol Walk
er, Donna Forbes, Hope Ambrose,
Randie O’Neal, Ann Daniels and
Janice Scarborough; French
award: Richard Shannon, Jr.; Sen
ior athletic awards, Carol Walker
and Woody Woodward; citizenship
award, Davis Ballance; typing
award, Marion Woodward; the Bal
four award for loyalty, scholarship
and achievement, Thelma Jean
Williams; school safety patrol
awards, Raymond White, Joseph
Boyce, Donald Sessoms, John San
ders Robinson, Ronnie Payne and
Billy Crumpacker. It was also an
nounced that the Woman’s Club
scholarship had been won by Thel
ma Jean Williams, the Fearing
scholarship by Marion Woodward.
Mr. Bonner, who was introduced
at length by Mrs. Mary L. Evans,
County Superintendent of Schools,
gave thanks for the fine introduc
tion, and then delivered the fol
lowing speech:
The tenor of my talk tonight
may be considered unorthodox by
some; however, when you stop and
think it over, you’ll probably real
ize that truth is often considered
at least slightly daring. I’m not
here to tell you that you are the
hope of the world (although I am
silently praying that you will
prove to be just that); nor shall
I rashly state that with a combi-
See BONNER, Page Six
REHEARSALS BEGIN
FOR LOST COLONY
16th SEASON MON.
By AYCOCK BROWN
Manteo. The Lost Colony,
world’s original symphonic drama,
goes into rehearsals here on Mon
day, June 11 for its 16th season
opening at Waterside Theatre on
Saturday evening, June 30. It will
be a mammoth undertaking for Di
rector Clifton Britton to swing the
show into shape for its premiere,
because this year there are several
new faces in the lineup of princi
pals.
The play, already seen by almost
800,000 spectators, is unusual in
more ways than one. Written by
Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Green,
it is the only drama presented on
the exact site of the original hap
penings of the story it tells. It was
here at Fort Raleigh that English
speaking America had its spiri
tual beginning in the 16th Century
New World and it was here that
the brave colonists lived and died
and then vanished without leaving
a trace. It was here also that Vir
ginia Dare, first child of English
parentage was born in America on
August 18, 1587. She too disap
peared and had a role in what has
gone down as one of the greatest
history-mystery incidents of all
time. ' '
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MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE
PAT KEE COMPLETES HIS
C. G. TRAINING COURSE
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WALTER PAT KEE, USCG, 18,
the son of Mrs. W. M. Jolliff,
Manteo, has completed the 12-week
course of recruit training at Cape
May, N. J. and will be home for
10 days’ recruit leave prior to re
porting to his first duty station:
the Fifth Coast Guard District,
with office in Norfolk, Va. Kee
was graduated from Manteo High
School in 1955. He attended North
Carolina State College for one se
mester before - entering the na
tion’s oldest sea-going service
March 7, 1956.
He is married to the former Miss
Bebe Daniels of Wanchese.
AFTER 43 YEARS
AS ESSO DEALERS
OPENS NEW OFFICE
Daniels Oil Company in Manteo
Looks Back On Long Struggle
and Ahead to Future.
After 43 years as the distributor
for Standard Oil" products in the
Manteo area, the Daniels Oil
Company can look back on a lot
of struggles and tight times, as
they move in their handsome new
offices and warerooms designed to
serve the company for many years
in the future.
They are holding open house to
invite the public to join them in
a celebration of the appreciation
merited by a splendid patronage.
The Daniels Oil Company has been
successful, but all the going has
not been easy. Back in 1913 when
M. L. Daniels took over the
“Standard” agency as it was then
known, there wasn’t much sale for
the products, except in competi
tion with other dealers for the
fishing Boat trade.
For many years M. L. Daniels
had been working on boats, and
his last job by water was on the
Str. Hattie Crees. He had gone
into a modest store business with
the late Ed Midgett of Manteo,
and as he will tell you, “we start
ed with a bag of potatoes and a
bunch of bananas.” This business
now operated as Ben Franklin
Store, is one of the largest retail
stores in the aita.
The coming of automobiles, and
later the household fuel business
has made for steady growth in the
oil trade. The Company, always
awake to possibilities in the oil
business, expanded by building a
tanker, and then two, so as to be
able to freght oil to other dealers
throughout Eastern North Caro
lina and Virginia.
Their boats ply south to Beau
fort at times, and regularly serve
communities on the Outer Banks,
including Ocracoke, Hyde County
points, and others on the upper
See DANIELS, Page Six
TWO GOVERNORS.
HON. TAR HEELS
NOW AT NAGS HEAD
Nags Head. Governor Luther
H. Hodges and former Governor R.
Gregg Cherry of Gastonia are
guests this week end of The Caro
linian hotel at Nags Head along
with one of the world’s most ex
clusive membership groups, the
Honorary Tar Heels. Also here to
help Mrs. Lucille S. Purser and
Julian Oneto of the Carolinian en
tertain the group is State Maga
zine Publisher Bill Shafrpe, Ra
leigh, chairman of the Dept, of
Conservation and Development’s
advertising committee, Hugh Mor
ton of Wilmington, and the Gover
nor’s Secretary, Ed Rankin.
Members of the Honorary Tar
Heel group are persons who in the
past have aided in the promotion
of North Cardlina’s vacation and
industrial attractions. They are
mostly magazine writers or edi
tors, top-ranking news men and
columnists and outstanding pho
tographers.
If not the first, it will be one
of the few times that former Gov
ernor Cherry has met with the
group since his term of office ex
pired. But most of the Honorary
Tar Heels are old friends of Gov
ernor Cherry just as they are good
friends of present Governor Hodg
es who met with the group here
last Spring and again with them
in New York during the past win
ter.
It was during the Governor
Cherry administration that he and
Bill Sharpe, the latter then head
of the Dept, of C and D State
News Bureau,''thought up the idea
to do something for the State’s
non-residents who were responsi
ble for so much excellent publicity
that North Carolina was getting,
both from the vacation standpoint
as well as industrially. Since then
succeeding Governors have assist
ed in keeping the organization
alive along with the assistance of
Morton and Charles J. Parker, Jr.
of the State Advertising Division.
During the years the group
have met in Morehead City, where
famous Restaurateur Tony Se. -
mon, also here this week end, help
ed entertain them, at Wilmington,
and Cataloochie Ranch near
Waynesville where Tom Alexander
who is also here, entertained the
group. They have also met at Fon
tana and each winter there is a
special meeting in New York City
where another famous restaurant
owner, Joe Massoletti, owner of a
vacation lodge at Hatteras, helped
make the group feel at home. Mas
soletti is one of the few members
who is not connected directly with
magazines, radio, newspaper or
photographers . . . While here
they will have no set program,
some will fish and others will just
relax for a few days.
Governor Hodges, former Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry, Bill
Sharpe, Tom Alexander and others
landed at the CG Air Base in
Elizabeth City at noon Thursday.
There they were met by highway
patrol who brought them overland
to the Dare Coast. The big Na
tional Guard C-47 which they were
aboard had left Raleigh at 11:50
with Manteo Airport as the desti
nation. Overcast weather conditions
See TAR HEELS, Page Six
TRUX SHELTON MIDGETT
RETIRES AT VA. BEACH
Trux Shelton Midgett, Cbm,
USCG, formerly assistant group
commander of the area was retired
on June 1. He is 45 years old, son
of Capt. T. E. Midgett and a na
tive of Kitty Hawk. For the pres
ent he is living at Virginia Beach,
in which area he has spent the
larger part of his service in the
Coast Guard.
SOME $350,000 EXPECTED FROM
FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDS FOR
DARE REHABILITATION WORK
Projects Approved To Date Amount to $87,669;
For Mosquito Control. Drainage, Beach Ero
sion and Building Dike Around Avon; $64,000
Had Been Previously Approved.
NOW IN COAST GUARD
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SEAMAN RECRUIT DONALD R.
BLIVEN, USCG, 20, and the son
of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Bliven, Man
teo, completed the 12-week course
of recruit training at Cape May,
N. J. last week, reporting to his
first duty station: the Center’s
Maintenance Division.
Bliven was graduated from
Manteo H. S. in 1954. He entered
the nation’s oldest sea-going serv
ice February 23, 1956.
MINISTERS LOOK
TO CONFERENCE IN
GREENVILLE SOON
Numerous Methodists in Coastland
Closing Successful Ministries
Methodist ministers and dele
gates from Dare and other coun
ties of Eastern North Carolina are
preparing to leave for annual con
ference which is to be held at
Greenville June 25-29. Some of the
smaller churches in the area hit
by hurricanes and storms are
finding it difficult to send their
ministers to conference with their
budget paid.
At the Manteo Methodist Church,
the Rev. Louis Aitken is finishing
his first year and a successful one.
The Rev. C. W. Guthrie is
rounding out his ninth year at the
Wanchese Church. Mr. Guthrie re
ports that he is retiring from
active service. Mr. and Mrs. Guth
rie have built a home at Wan
chese to the delight of their many
friends there.
On the Dare mainland the Rev.
A. L. G. Stephenson is finishing
his fifth year of service to the
Stumpy Point, Manns Harbor and
East Lake Methodist Churches. He
reports that he is expecting to be
transferred to another charge for
next year.
At Kitty Hawk, the Rev. W. B.
Gregory is finishing his third
year.
Other ministers in this area and
their years of service on their
charges are Rev. W. R. Hale,
Ocracoke, 2 years; Rev. Aaron G.
Tyson, Kennakeet Charge, 1 year;
Rev. Dan E. Meadows, Hatteras,
2 years; Rev. A. M. Cameron,
Mattamuskeet, 2 years; Rev. R.
N. Knight, Moyock, 3 years; Rev.
A. H. Stone, Swan Quarter, 3
years; Rev. W. A. Wentz, Jr., Bel
haven, 2 years. Rev. R. E. Couch,
Bath, 1 year; and Rev. R. H.
Eason, Columbia, 1 year.
On the Currituck charge, the
Rev. D. O. Guthrie resigned on
account of ill health and was suc
ceeded by the Rev. Robert Frost.
The Rev. C. Freeman Heath is
finishing his third year as district
superintendent. Mr. Heath was in
an automobile accident recently
and is reported to have been pain
fully injured.
GET POLIO SHOTS NOW
Polio shots for all children from
the age of six months through 19
years, inclusive, and for all ex
pectant mothers are being urged
by Dr. W. W. Johnston, Dare
County health officer. Polio, ac
cording to Dr. Johnston, is on the
increase in North Carolina, and he
advocates one shot immediately,
another four weeks later. Clinie
hours at the Manteo Health Center
are from 8:30 until five o’clock on
Single Copy
Approximately $349,948.34 is ex
pected to be spent in Dare County
as the final result of hurricane
relief surveys and projects worked
up, according to Lawrence Swain
of the Board of Commissioners
who is in charge of the various
erosion, drainage and mosquito
control projects that have been in
the making since August of last
year.
Frank B. Turner of Raleigh,
Assistant to Budget Director Dave
Coltrane came to Manteo Saturday,
and advised officials of the ap
proval of a grant of $87,669. In
cluded in this project is the build
ing of a dike at Avon in the
amount of $3,500.
The county board has worked
up projects of upwards of a half
million dollars for projects request
ed as the result of the past year’s
hurricanes, but anticipate about
$349,000 of this sum will be ap
proved, Mr. Swain said. It is large
ly as a result of his hard work in
this cause, that the grants have
been as favorable as they now
appear. Included in the recent
grants considered Tuesday by the
county board, is the sum of $15,165
furnished from county funds; the
balance coming from Federal
grants mostly, and some state aid.
The larger part of the money
may be spent on beach erosion
work. Recently the President allot
ted $200,000 for beach erosion
work in Hyde, Dare and Currituck
Counties as the result of a storm
on April 17. The $87,669 grant is.
Dare’s approximate share of this
fund, because of its long mileage.
It is planned to spend $80,059.68
on mosquito control, including Dare
County’s contribution of $12,805.
The total of projects worked up
for Dare County are now as fol
lows:
Drainage, including Dare Coun
ty’s contribution of $8,183, Total
$193,884.66 Erosion projects, $87,-
669; Mosquito control, $80,059.68;
Repairs to dikes, Avon, $3,500,
total $365,113.34, including coun
ty’s contribution of $15,165.00.
CELEBRATION NEXT
WEEK AT RODANTHE
HONORS LIFESAVERS
Plans are going forward at Ro
danthe for the celebration next
week, at which Congressman Her
bert ’Bonner will be principal
speaker on Saturday morning,
June 17th. David Stick of Kill
Devil Hills will give a review of
important events in which the men
of the Life Saving Service and the
Coast Guard have participated in
the Rodanthe area.
Lanier Edwards* orchestra of
Portsmouth will play at a sub
scription dance Friday night at
Chicamacomico Motel, and will
play during the program on Sat
urday.
Expected for Saturday’s pro
gram is Rear Admiral H. C. Moore,
commander Sth Coast Guard dis
trict, Norfolk, and other Coast
Guard officials. Also E. M. Lisle,
Assistant Regional Director Na
tional Park Service, Richmond, and
other Park Service officials. Also
a number of distinguished visitors
from out of town.
The program will include Coast
Guard drills, local boat races, hel
icopter rescue demonstration, etc.,
and will consume most of the day.
The program will start at 10 a.m.
Saturday. There may be a dance
on Saturday night.
A most interesting feature of
the celebration is the memorial
sermon to be delivered Sunday
morning at Fairhaven Methodist
Church, Rodanthe, by Capt Roy
Bishop, USN, Chaplain Atlantic '
Fleet. A solo will be sung by Rob
ert H. Midgett of Manteo, and the
ladies of the church will partici
pate in the musical program now
being arranged by A. H. Gray,
and the pastor, Rev. Aaron Tyson.
INCREASE IN APPROPRIATN
FOR DARE COUNTY LIBRARY
The Dare County Commissioners
this week agreed to appropriate an
extra $2,000 to support library
work in the county, following ap
pearance before the board Tues
day by Mrs. Rennie G. Williamson.
She outlined the library program
and its various benefits to the peo
ple of the county. The new pro
gram in the coming fiscal year
calls for an expenditure on the