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VOLUME XXI NO. 50 PARADE OF BEAUTY FOR'MISS UNIVERSE IN DARE JUNE 27-29 Three-Day Event in National Con test To Find a Winner to Send to Hollywood By AYCOCK BROWN Kill Devil Hills.—Tom Briggs, manager, of Croatan . Hotel and president of Nags Head Chamber of Commerce, will head the wel coming’ committee the first statewide Miss North Carolina for Miss Universe competition sched uled to be held on the Dare Beach es June 27-29. Committees were announced Wednesday night when Buck Cowling, Virginia Beach, and Miss Jeanne Asbel, who rep resented Virginia in the Miss Uni verse contests last year, met with the group. They include George Crocker, chairman of the local pa geant committee, George Fearing, chairman of entertainment com mittee and Miss Sarah Halliburton, secretary of the Nags Head Cham ber of . Commerce in charge of housing. Wade Williams of Vir ginia Beach will also work closely -in preparations for the local con test,” Cowling said. The three-day program will be climaxed by the beauty show and selection of Miss North Carolina for Miss Universe. It begins Wed nesday, June 27, with a buffet luncheon and swim pool party, to be held at Beacon Motor Lodge. On Wednesday evening at the Surf Club, George .Fearing will present a special dance and get-acquainted party for the contestants. A buffet breakfast between 9 and 11 on Thursday morning will be followed by an unusual surf side parade Thursday afternoon between 3 and 5 o’clock, it was stated. The parade will begin at Southern Shores and extend to Jennette’s Pier, some 15 miles southward and each of the queens will be riding aboard a gaily dec orated jeep. Immediately after the parade, there will be rehearsals for the pageant events and this phase of the attractions will be under the supervision of Miss As bel. Another dance will be present ed on Thursday night. Friday morning begins with an ocean beach party at the Croatan Hotel, and a buffet luncheon. The contestants will have the afternoon free and next and final event on the program will be the beauty pageant and coronation ball at Nags Head Casino, beginning at 8 o’clock.” Cowling said the object of the competition is to select the most beautiful woman in North Caro lina to represent the state at the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, California. Winner will be given an all-expense paid trip there. Persons eligible for compe tition must be over 18 years this year and under 28. Married or sin gle women may enter and com plete details may be obtained from Nags Head Chamber of Commerce. VISITS OF FHA MAN TO DARE SCHEDULED Regular visits of a Farmers Home Administration supervisor to Dare County have been scheduled twice each month, it was announced this week. The schedule, which is effective immediately, will have the FHA supervisor in the offices of Bob Smith, Dare County Farm Agent, in Manteo on the third Tuesday of each month between , 10:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., and in the county on field work on the first Tuesday of each month. The visits to Dare will be made by ei ther Leon G. Ballance, FHA Super visor for Hyde and Dare counties, or W. J. Lupton, Assistant Super visor for the two counties, both > of whom have headquarters in Swan Quarter. TRAFFIC CASES TRIED IN . DARE RECORDER’S COURT Several cases brought into court by highway patrolmen constituted about all of the docket Tuesday before Judge W. F. Baum. John Langston Daniels convicted for the second time recently for driving without an operator’s license was fined $25 and costs, sentenced to 60 days on the roads, suspended on condition he doesn’t come back in court on a traffic charge in two years. Arthur R. Chapell was found not guilty of driving drunk. Maurice T/ Hayes was fined $lO and costs for driving at 65 mph. Gilbert S. Burrus sls for driving at 70 mph; C. W. Harris for failing to yield right of way when entering road from private property, $2 and costs. Wilbur L. Lime for failing to observe a stop sign, the costs of court. I. N. Davis, for driving a truck at 57 mph, sl2 and costs. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA ON EUROPEAN TOUR B: a ■ ■ ► . MISS LOIS PEARCE of Manteo, who sailed on June 8 from New York for a trip to Europe with her aunt, Mrs. Madge Barber of Phildelphia, Pa., who conducts European tours for the Brownell Tours. This is Mrs. Barber’s 30th season with the company, and this summer’s trip will include 11 coun tries: France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Den mark, Sweden, Norway, Scotland and England. Miss Pearce, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pearce of Manteo, and who will be a senior at Wake Forest College, Winston-Salem, next fall, will act as one of Mrs. Barber’s assistants during the tour. DIRT HAS BEEN FOUND WITHOUT ROBBING STRAND 1- Bottom of a Reflecting Pool For Lighthouse, Offers Sand To Fill A Roadway Buxton on Cape Hatteras, June , 14.—After some months of con , fused searching for fifty-odd thou j sand cubic vards of dirt with which to build a road everybody concern ed In the matter this week dis covered that there is dirt in the bottom of a hole—and that the hole, filled with water, would make a fine reflecting pool for the Lighthouse, so providing as drama tic a scenic spectacle as there is to be found on this continent. Coming south over the new ap proach to the core of Cape Hat teras National Seashore the visitor, rounding a long, sweeping curve, will come upon it—the massive, spiral-striped tower standing against the sky-line and completely mirrored in the dark water of a pool 500 yards long and 200 yards across, and the road over which the beholder rides is coming, very largely, out of the depths of the pool. Dredging of the reflecting pool began this week under the direc tion of Lieut. Blake Van Lear, Jr., operations officer of Seventh Bat talion, Seabees, and Chief Con struction Driver Odell Hardee, both Tar Heels and both with their roots pretty deep down in Wake county. By Tuesday earth was coming up from the bottom of the pool at the rate of 400 cubic yards an hour and moving in massive machines to its place on the road way. Completed the pond, west of the Lighthouse, will look very like it used to look before it began to stagnate because of clogged drain age and grass began to grow in the water. Twenty years ago the area was under drainage but dur ing and since the war the system has been allowed to disintegrate, resulting in occasional serious flooding in the -vicinity of Na tional Park Service Maritime Mu seum. Finding earth for the fill on the new approach road, which will by pass the U. S. Navy Facility to the west presented problems both to the engineers and to the land scape architects, the latter being unwilling to sanction borrow-pits that would leave scars on the land scape. Others were unwilling to disturb the present aspect of the over-grown ponds, although this solution was advocated by Allyn Hanks, park superintendent and others. The matter' began to be resolved four weeks ago when Huntington Cairns, a potent figure in the development of the Sea shore, explored the scenic and his toric aspects of the matter. Dredging of the big pond is be ing done with one of the Navy’s biggest drag-lines, igith a boom reach of 120 feet and with a three yard bucket Four massive drag pans, with 12-yard capacity, have been brought in to move the dirt when it is brought out of the pond. Nominally the earth spends less than five minutes in place after it is dumped by the drag-line and on See POOL, Page Twelve ATTENDANCE OF 300 ESTIMATED WHEN POSTMASTERS MET All Parts of State Represented In Sessions Which Closed Thursday From all sections of North Carolina, an estimated 300 post masters and postal officials and employes gathered at Nags Head for their three day annual con vention which closed Thursday night of this week. This conven tion, based at the Arlington Hotel, used the Shrine club for business and entertainment. During their stay here, they were addressed by Governor Hodges on Tuesday. From the local angle, Melvin Dan iels of Wanohese made the address of welcome; responses were by Mrs. Maude White of Buxton, the First Distinct Chairman, and Mrs. Kathryn Perry, the Kitty Hawk postmaster. Mrs. Effie Brickhouse of Columbia is the State President. The convention closed with a banquet Thursday evening, and at this meeting the following new of ficers were installed: Ben S. Houston of Mooresville, N. C., President; Joe Ray of Mur phy, First Vice-President; Leonard S. Daniel of Warrenton, Third Vice-President, and Marvin Carver of Rougemont, Fourth Vice Presi dent. Mr. Carver’s wife is the for mer Iva Jennette of Manteo. James T. Martin of Liberty was re-lected Secretary-Treasurer. Mrs. Effie Brickhouse, the re tiring president and Gordon Alfred of Climax were elected directors of the National Association of Postmasters. During the convention addresses were made by W. H. Rima, Civil Service Commissioner, Atlanta, Ga., Jane D. Miller, Vice-Presdent Na tional Association of Postmasters, See MEETING, Page Twelve A LARGE ADDITION TO THE BANK OF MANTEO The- work of erecting walls for a large addition to the Bank of Manteo’s main buiding is well un derway. The addition to the build ing, will more than double the pres ent floor space of the bank. It is located to the rear of the bank, on Lodge Street, and will contain a second vault and offices. The Bank of Manteo operates a branch at Nags Head. NEXT WEEK’S TOP EVENT AT NAGS HEAD IS THE MIDGETTS' GOLDEN WEDDING BHw HUH Iliigg EBfT . .-- ■ A •- s .-=□ =dMUDH K H ■- ■ i B , I B ■ujl ■ ■ < ' ■ ■ R « 1 ' • - ■ H I# 31 ' >jCT- u ; r as* Wr>' < “ taBaBKMwW»WMffIMjM«BiWWWMWMwMW W ~.< * \ 7 wS.-sZ.I a JOs I ■<& * ■• 'S-ffo'* '■ >-s' - -"•". ; -Wk’. x.. s^gc- - fe K* ? B>4 ■ -•• ■ ' K ■ «b r - "WiH«»| .jr . ,T! y b fife yrs £ r i^jL'-" 11 " llsrt ■ a ■■■*■■ ■uu ; .' m W '- : '- K W ■ •’'•'-"• ‘ : \” - T Time doesn’t seem very long when we look back on it We can remember when Daisy Harrison, a Currituck County schoolteacher down on Hatteras Island captured Cornelius Payne Midgett at Rodan the. Next week, June 20th, at Nags Head this couple will observe their golden wedding. They have had • glorious life and it has been a life spent in mutual enjoyment with a world for friends. They have MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1956 SIXTY YEARS OF MARRIED LIFE FOR RODANTHE COUPLE A. '’ : . . .. Mr. and Mrs. Zenas F. Midgett, a beloved Rodanthe couple have been happily married for 60 years. On May 27th, their anniversary, their children and grandchildren met with them aqd celebrated the day with a dinner at their home. Many friends called to wish them well. This party included their son, Mr. and Mrs. Ara E. Midgett and Len of Grandy; their other son Elmer V. of Norfolk, with son Edward, wife and baby; their other grandson, Elmer V. Jr., wife and two sons of Manteo; grand son Edson Midgett, wife and two children; granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph Umphlett and husband; Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Meekins, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Midgett, Mrs. Rowena O’Neal, Mrs. E. R. Midgett, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Midgett, and their pastor, Rev. Aaron Tyson. Mr. Midgett is 82 years old, his wife is 81. She does all her house work including cooking and wash ing, and looks after her husband who has not been too well during the past year, but has now great ly improved and is active. Mrs. TOMAHAWK MOTEL SOLD BY PARKER, NEAR K. D. HILLS Sale of the Tomskwk Motel owned by R. E. Parker of Kitty Hawk was consummated this week. It is located near Kitty Hawk Beach, and is one of the newer establishments of the Dare Coast. The buyer is Foye Hedgepeth of Rocky Mount. Consideration is in dicated by revenue stamps, to be $30,000. lived their life in comfort the fruit of thrift, work and good manage ment; they have travelled widely each year, and they have maintain ed a constant association with hun dreds of close friends throughout North Carolina and along the At lantic Coast Their good fellowship is a by-word. The fine food at their hostelry is famed the country over. , They are remembered long and afar as the finest of hosts. Next 1 Wednesday will be a great day Midgett says she always did enjoy washing. Each of them was of a family of nine children. LOWEST BIDS FOR JAIL AND REPAIRS TO C. H. $72,820 Dare Commissioners Open Bids Friday; Local Contractors Show Interest Low bids on proposed courthouse renovations and tearing down the Dare County jail and combining a new one with the present court house were opened Friday by the County Board, and total about $72,820 for construction, heating, plumbing and electrical installa tions. Construction bids were as fol lows: W & M Construction Co., Edenton $51,400; Hassell Const. Co., Elizabeth City, $53,718.50; J. E. Turson and Co., Winston-Salem, $64,260. Heating: Atlantic Sheet Metal Co., Eliz. City, $5,995. W. M. Jol liff, Manteo, $6,200. Plumbing: W. M. Joliff, $5,200; Hopkins Bros. Eliz. City, $5,546.27; McGinty, Maxton, N. C., $7,000. Electrical: Hermon L. Hoy, Eliz abeth City, $2,425; Ervin White, Manteo, $3,350. Steel Work: Manly Jail Works, Atlanta, Ga., $9,990; Roanoke Iron and Bridge Works, Roanoke, Va., $7,800. Indications now bear out for mer predictions that a finished job will run up to SIOO,OOO. for ‘Neilus and Daisy Midgett operators of the Fiftet Colony Inn at Nags Head. They will hear many fine and sincere things said to them about them, all of which will come from the heart. Added to that is the satisfaction that they have spent 50 glorious years together, years that have been greater and finer than favor the average couple on the N. C. Coast. The photo is by Dan Morrill of the Island Studio, Manteo. CELEBRATION AT RODANTHE SATURDAY PROMISES MORE EVENTFUL NEWS FOR AREA A Get Together For The Outer Banks and Their Friends From Across The Water To Pay Tribute to the Old Timers, and to Plan for Progress and Development of Social and Economic Life of Outer Banks. ARMED FORCES BEAUTY TO ENJOY DARE COAST a K w ■ Beginning Sunday evening at Cape Hatteras Court, Buxton, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Fuller, this Virginia beauty will spend a week in Dare County, first four days at Cape Hatteras, the rest at Nags Head the guest of the Nags Header Hotel. She is Mrs. Jackie Eure, who on May 18th, won the title of “Armed Forces Day Queen,” at the Nor folk Naval Shipyard. While at Cape Hatteras, she will be guided to choice fishing spots along the beach by Fate Midgett, flown on a trip to Ocracoke Island by Bill Cochran, go on a fishing trip to the Gulf Stream with Fatio Gray, and learn first hand of the friend liness and hospitality of the people of Cape Hatteras. She will arrive at the Cape Hatteras Court Sun day afternoon, accompanied by her husband. VIRGINIA MAN BUYS SEATONE MANSION FOR RESIDENCE Handsome Home Site on Roanoke Sound Near Manteo Sold By Mrs. O. J. Jones. Sale of Seatone, the attractive homeplace of Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Jones was sold last week by the owner to Donald M. Leary, a re tired businessman of Gloucester, Va. who plans to make it his year round family home. The property was built a few years ago on Roanoke Sound, in a beautifully wooded tract, during the active life of Mrs. Mabel Evans Jones as a teacher, and who operated it as a summer retreat for young people. Following her retirement and marriage to Mr. Jones, Manteo businessman, they have used as their residence. The house, built of stone, brick and choice woods is on three levels. From its windows may be seen Nags Head, Kill Devil Hills, across Roanoke Sound. On the property were several cottages, one of which will be used as a residence by Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Stamps on the deeds of transfer indicate the property was sold for $24,000. The sale was made by E. E. Meekins, Manteo realtor. LOST COLONY CHORUS GUESTS AT. ST. ANDREWS Nags Head. The Rev. A. C. D. Noe, rector of St. Andrews by the Sea, Protestant Episcopal Church here, will return to the altar of his charge for snecial services on Sun day, June 18, for early morning Communion services at 8 o’clock and morning worship at 11 o’clock. A feature of the services will be singing by The Lost Colony chor us under the direction of Elwood Keister with James Good at the console of the organ. Mr. Noe, who is spending the summer at his home on Pamlico River near Bath, where he was for many years vicar and then rector of St. Thomas, North Carolina’s oldest church edifice, agreed to re turn and be the minister at the special services. Otherwise, during the current summer, visiting rec tors representing Episcopal churches over a wide-spread area will be guest ministers for the 8 a.m. communion services and the 11 o’clock services each Sunday. Single Copy 7£ FISHING CONTEST THREE DAYS FOR CASH AWARDS Friday night, this week, June 15 marks the official opening of the Chicamacomico Celebration, and at nine p.m. a dance will open for the entertainment of young and old, at the Chicamacomico Motel, which is on the ocean side near Rodanthe. R. D. Owens, Chairman of the Celebration Committee said “The Knights, a nine-piece orchestra from Portsmouth, Va. had been engaged for this dance, and would remain over to play during the Saturday morning program. The orchestra is directed by Lanier Ed wards, and it successfully appeared at the Pirates Jamboree dance in April. Mr. Owens said that a three-day fishing contest, closing Sunday eve ning was being conducted, but resi dents of Hatteras Island would not be eligible for the cash awards. First award for biggest fish is $25 cash, and second award for ■ext largest fish is $lO cash. Rec ords, will be made of parties catch ing greatest number of fish. Offi cial entry place and weighing sta tion is at the Chicamacomico Res taurant, Rodanthe. The telephone number is 113. The principal program is plan ned for Saturday, beginning at 10 a.m. with music and speaking at the same site where a speaker’s stand has been erected. Chairs will be provided for honor guests. The principal speaker of this program is Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner, and a short address will be made by David Stick on coast guard history of this area. Wood row W. Edwards, officer in charge of Oregon Inlet C. G. Station, will make the address of welcome. Other notable men expected to at tend this celebration are Rear-Ad miral H. C. Moore, commander sth Coast Guard District, Norfolk, Va. During this program, all notable visitors will be recognized, and particularly those visitors who served in the former Life Saving Service, which was merged with the Coast Guard in 1915. There are only 25 or 30 of them now living in N. C. and nearby Virginia. Sev eral died during the past year. Many of them are too infirm to attend, and have written express ing regret and disappointment at being unable to make the trip. These, and other Coast Guard personnel, as well as the children of those men, of Rodanthe, who in 1918 made the daring rescue of the crew of the British ship Mirlo off the Rodanthe coast, will be special guests at a luncheon fol lowing the ceremonies. Joining them at this luncheon will be the speakers, official visitors, and their wives. Taking part in the Mirlo rescue, which was one of the most famous and daring feats of World War I, were the following men, led by Capt. John Allen Midgett. Zion S. Midgett, Prochorus Lee O’Neal, Clarence E. Midgett, Arthur V. Midgett and Leßoy S. Midgett of Wanchese, who is the only living member of the crew. Arthur V. Midgett died a few weeks ago at the age of 82. He had looked for ward to this event. Following the speaking the in vited guests will be given a lunch eon, 100 at Mirlo Beach Lodge and 100 at Chicamacomico Restaurant. At two p.m. the program will con tinue, with rescue, boat and heli copter drills by the U. S. Coast Guard. The rescue drill by beach appar atus will take place at 2 p.m. The rescue by air with helicopter crew from the Coast Guard Air Station See CELEBRATION, Page Twelve THREE CONGRESSMEN DUE AT CHICAMACOMICO TONIGHT Coming to Rodanthe Friday, for the Chicamacomieo Celebration this week end are three North Carolina Representatives in Con gress. They are Herbert C. Bonner, Woodrow W. Jones and George Shuford. They will stop at Mirlo Beach Lodge, Rodanthe, and dur ing their stay will fish out of Oregon Inlet with Chief Sheldon O’Neal of Kill Devil Hills. They will return to Washington Sunday afternoon.
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