VOLUME XXII NO. 3
A NEW DOCTORESTABLISHED
IN MANTEO IN FEARING’S
MODERN MEMORIAL CLINIC
Building Open Today Provides Vicinity With Un
excelled Medical Facilities, As Dr. W. W. Har
vey Jr. Begins Practice; Building Designed Un
der Approval of State Authorities.
After a year or more without a
resident physician in the town,
Manteo now has a doctor and he
is housed in a completely new and
modern building with the best of
facilities. Dr. W. W. Harvey Jr., a
■Duke graduate, son of a physician,
opened his new offices today in
the handsome Memorial Clinic now
being completed by the Fearing
Brothers of Manteo. Dr. Harvey
comes to Mantoo from the large
Grady Memorial Hospital in At
lanta, Ga.
Dr. Harvey is a native of Greens
boro where his father, Dr. W. W.
Harvey practices medicjne. His
wife is the former Margaret Nel
son of Portsmouth, Va. and she is
the cousin of Mrs. Nelson Chears,
wife of Attorney Thos. Chears of
Manteo. Dr. Harvey, in addition
to his work at Duke studied Gyne
cology and obstetrics at Baton
Rouge, La. and finished a residency
in general practice and surgery
in Atlanta. Dr. and Mrs. Harvey
are residing in the new cottage of
Mrs. Isabel Warren at Sunnsyside,
near Manteo.
The clinic is a brick building,
on Main Street back of the Fort
Raleigh Hotel, and is particularly
attractive and well-arranged inside.
It has a thermostatic controlled,
temperature regulating system for
summer and winter, has a large
waiting room and receptionists
room. Two bed rooms for patients,
and also a three-bed ward; kitchen,
X-ray room, nursery, two consulta
tion rooms, examining rooms,
emergency room, labor room, lab
oratory and supply room. The nec
essary rooms are finished in cera
mic tile, and the interior ceiled
with fire resistant materials.
This structure has been leased
to Dr. Harvey and is subject to
hi? management and control. Plans
for the building were drawn by
W. W. Tarkington of Manteo, after
extensive surveys made of other
clinics in towns of similar size in
North Carolina and Virginia, by
Keith Fearing Jr., druggist, and
his father, the late M. K. Fearing,
who died two weeks ago, while
looking forward to the completion
of this structure so greatly needed
in the community. Before the
building was constructed, the plans
were submitted for approval to the
N. C. Medical Care Commission in
Raleigh and the building erected
in accordance with the Commis
sion’s specifications.
Erection of this building and the
establishment of a doctor in Man
teo has long been considered a
prime essential in a locality with
a large transient population dur
ing the heavy summertime tourist
season. Visitors prefer the assur
ance of adequate medical care,
when they travel. The assurance
in Manteo now, of complete medi
cal facilities can prove a tremen
dous asset to the community
in the further source of comfort
it will give those who live here,
as well as those, who look forward
to making their homes here.
Dr. Harvey’s office phone is
number 11. It began to be busy
long before he got his office set
up.
TO OPEN BIDS ON ALLIGATOR
RIVER BRIDGE TEST PILING
Bids will be opened on July 30th
by the State Highway Commission
for the driving of test piling across
the Alligator River where it is
proposed a bridge be built. The
sum of $20,000 was provided 'by
Governor Hodges from state funds
last year to make a survey for
this bridge. On the basis of re
ports from this survey and the
pile driving job, estimates of the
cost of the bridge will be made.
It has been clear for sometime
that traffic will demand the con
struction of this bridge. It will of
necessity be built because of the
needs of coastal bound travellers
from all sections of the state. It
will be as vital as some of the
short cuts blasted through solid
rocks in the. mountains at a cost
of a million dollars a mile.
' Yet we have state officials, who
trading upon the impatience of lo
cal people for early construction
of the bridge, suggested to
us that we accept a toll bridge, and
agree to pay toll for generations
until the tolls pay for the bridge.
We have local people who peddle
this same theory of "selling us
down the river,” whereby the peo-
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
JUDGE GIVES NOTICE
INCREASE OF 150%
IN FINES AUGUST I
School Fund Tuesday- Shares in
Heavy Week End Activity
on Dare Coast.
People who get public drunk
and make spectacles of themselves
on the highways in Dare County
are going to share in the general
increase of prices which prevail
these days. They must pay more
for their folly. Judge W. F. Baum
in Dare Recorders Court Tuesday
gave notice that he would, begin
ning August 1, raise his standard
fine for this offense from $lO to
$25.
Those who may be interested in
getting under the wire, and have
this sort of good time which ap
peals to some people, have only
11 days left to take advantage of
the old low rate. The following de
fendants Tuesday paid $lO and
costs for this offense: J. P. Steven
son, and Louis Bowling of Nags
Head; and Frank A. Spencer of
New York City.
Tuesday’s court was one of the
,biggest and most profitable ses
sions this year, yielding more than
S7OO in fines for the school fund.
The caaes resulted from activity of
highway patrolmen and the un
usually heavy traffic on the week
end.
The court collected S4OO in fines
from persons convicted of driving
drunk. A fourth appealed to Su
perior Court where juries usually
acquit them after a long and ex
pensive trial. These cases are as
follows: Appeals: Julian Clark of
Bayside, Va. convicted and fined
SIOO, represented by Frank Aycock
of Elizabeth City. Paid up and
went their way: Alden H. Berry
of Buxton; James F. Hasty, Man
teo;- George E. Warren of Dunn
and Samuel McCleese of Manteo.
McClees was fined $25 more for
driving with no operator’s license.
For speeding at 55 miles in a
35 mile zone the following were
fined S2O each and costs: George
D. Felton of Scotland Neck;
Joseph F. Meekins, Elizabeth City;
Charlse F. Smith, Burlington, also
charged for passing at an inter
section, an extra $5 and costs;
lonathon Johnson of Elizabeth
City.
Sheldon Midgett White, and
Smith White and Geo. Jacob Mc-
Cleese were found together drink
ing in a car, and charged with pos
session of raw non-tax-paid whis
key, for which each paid $lO and
costs.
Carlton T. Brooks of Elizabeth
City had no operator’s license and
improper equipment on his car. He
got a 60-day suspended sentence
and paid fines of S3O and costs.
Tine Willis Jr. of Hatteras, up
on three counts: improper plates,
$5, careless and reckless driving
$25, speeding $lO and costs. F. L.
Peele paid $5 for using improper
plates.
James Burton Daniels, following
too close, $5 and costs. Wm. B.
Waddell Jr. of Wilson, driving 60
mph in 25-mile zone, $25 and costs.
Ervin Marshall Ballance of
Poplar Branch $lO and costs for
speeding. Tommy W. Ellis of Ty
ner, driving too close, $5. Terry
Lee Holmes of Edenton, speeding,
sls and costs. ■
pie of these northeastern counties
who would then be the only people
in the state thus discriminated
against, and penalized for use of
roads essential to their progress
and development—not to say live
lihood.
We welcome expressions from
those who would sell their people
“down the river.” We would like
to present such views as they
think will support any argument
why the people of this region
should be forced to take less than
other people take, since all are
now paying the same trriff for
use of highways.
SHOWER FOR BRIDE
Mrs. Barron Daniels, .recent
Manteo bride, was honored at
a miscellaneous shower at the
home of Mrs. Fred Wescott on
Friday evening, July 13. Games
and refreshments were enjoyed by
the honoree and the friends who
called during the evening.
SPEAKER AT LOST COLONY, ECC NIGHT FRIDAY
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Paul Green’s symphonic drama The Lost Colony will present the
first in a series of special nights during its current season at Water
side Theatre on Friday, July 20, when East Carolina College of Green
ville, N. C., will be honored. Speaker at the ECC night will be Dr.
John D. Messick, president of the college since 1947 who is pictured
above at his desk. His brief talk will come during a pre-performance
program that will also feature a musical prelude by East Carolina
singers in the Lost Colony chorus, directed by Dr. Elwood Keister,
and also the introduction of ECC officials and distinguished alumni
who will be attending. Among the group of distinguished alumni will
be Clifton Britton of Goldsboro, director of the famous history mystery
by Green, which has outlived all other outdoor dramas. Students and
alumni are urged to attend this special performance of The Lost
Colony, according to James W. Butler, alumni secretary who will em
cee the pre-performance program. Dr. Messick, the speaker of the
evening, is a native of South Creek, Beaufort County and attended Elon
College, University of North Carolina and New York University to
receive his various degrees and doctorates. He is one of the outstand
ing educational leaders of North Carolina and has been active in
educational, welfare and fraternity organizations for many years.
(ECC Photo)
COMMANDER PAYNE VISITS
OLD FRIENDS AT GULROCK
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COMMANDER ALTON W.
PAYNE, USN recently spent two
weeks at his boyhood home, Gul
rock, and saw most of his old
friends who are living. He was
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Warren B. Payne. Cdr. Payne was
an Engelhard HS graduate in
1936, taught for a term at Beulah
ville, and worked as business man
ager for a Charlotte chemical cpm
nany. In July 1941 he entered the
Navy at Atlanta, Ga., attended
elimination flight training school,
and was sent to Naval Air Sta
tion, Jacksonville, Fla. He won his
gold wings in August 1942, being
commissioned an ensign. During
World War II he served in Scout
ing Squadron No. 38, SAS Unit
11, where he was second in com
mand. He subsequently served as
communications officer, Naval Air
Station, Trinidad, BWI, attended
General Line School, Monterey,
Calif.; served as Intelligence ana
lyst in’ office of Chief of Naval
Operations, Washington; officer in
charge of Helicopter Squadron 11,
detachment one; Air Operations
Officer USS Aircraft Carrier
Antietam; and recently assistant
operations and planning officer,
Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Me.
On July 20th, he will report for
duty at San Diego, Calif., as Exe
cutive Officer, Helicopter Antl-
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1956
BIG DAY PLANNED
FOR NEGROES AT
FORT RALEIGH
Noted Negro Singer to Be On
Program on Friday,
July 27th
Bill Landford, nationally known
Negro singer of Portsmouth, Va., a
member of quartets that recorded
such hits as “Gospel Train is a
comin’ ” and “Remember Me”,
also “Above My Head,” and
“Praise the Lord and Pass the
Ammunition,” which were distri
buted by RCA-Victor and sold in
the millions, will be guest star
during a pre-performance program
in Waterside Theatre on Friday
night, July 27, when The Lost
Colony presents its annual Negro
Citizens’ night.
As a member of the Golden Gate
Quartet, and other groups, he has
also sang with Benny Goodwin and
Count Basie and for two years
John Hammond got the singing
organization on CBS from coast to
coast. Later Landford organized
his own quartet the “Southern
Sons” and was a radio feature over
Charlotte’s WBT until illness of
one of the members made it nec
essary to break up.
Professor S. D. Williams of East
Carolina Teachers College in Eliz
abeth City, who for the past sev
eral seasons has taken the leading
role in Negro Citizens’ night at
The Lost Colony, will not be pres
ent this year but he is working
with The Lost Colony’s manager
in making arrangements for the
special program which will pre
cede a full scale performance of
the drama on July 27.
NEWS OF REBEKAHS
Officers of Manteo Rebekah
Lodge No. 52 are urged to attend
a practice meeting Friday, Aug.
3rd at 8 p.m. at the lodge hall.
State officers of the Rebekah
Assembly of N. C. will be visiting
Manteo Lodge Monday, Aug. 6th.
A supper in their honor will be
at the Reef Restaurant.
It is requested that all members
interested in attending this sup
per, contact either Mrs. Lessie
Davis or Mrs. Dan Cannady by
Friday, Aug. 3rd. It is important
to know how many plates to pre
pare.
submarine Squadron 8. He is mar
ried to the former Joyce Hollings
worth of Kenansville, N. C., and
they have three children, Holly,
Alton Jr., and Susan.
[special program
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COLLEGE TONIGHT
Dr. John D. Messick, president
as East Carolina College and
Alumni Secretary James W. Butler
>f Greenville will be among the
principals taking part in a special
Cast Carolina College night at
r he Lost Colony on Friday night,
July 20, when special music will
presented at a pre-performance
program by Dr. Elwood Keister,
director of music at ECC and also
lirector of The Lost Colony
Chorus.
Locally, arrangements have been
made to entertain alumni and stu
lents- of East Carolina between 3
arid’ 5 p.m. at the Community
’uilding in Manteo. The afternoon
party featuring tea and refresh
nents has been arranged by ECC
klumni Goldie Meekins, Pat But
ler and Doris Bonner and a large
lumber of local residents are serv
:ng on the entertainment commit
tee.
In addition to Dare residents
ind visiting students and alumni
as the Greenville college, all mem
bers of the Clifton Britton directed
east of The Lost Colony and mem
bers of the Lost Colony company
vill also be guests during the
afternoon party. Britton, who has
distinguished himself as director
of the drama and also his Golds
boro High School Goldmasquers is
an alumni of East Carolina as are
many other members of the com
pany and cast.
For the convenience of those at
tending the party Friday after
noon, tickets will be available at
the Community Building at a spe
cial $2 rate which will entitle the
holder the privilege of occupying a
special reserved seat that would
normally cost $2.50.
On 78th Birthday, A Distinguished
Dare County Man Can Count Nearly
Sixty Years of Public Life in State.
R. Bruce Etheridge Soon to Observe an Anniversary, After Long
Enjoyment of Many Honors and Confidence of His Homefolks.
By EARL DEAN
Dare'County’s favorite son, Rob
ert B. (Uncle Bruce) Etheridge
will be 78 years old on the last
day of July. And he’s going back
to Raleigh next week and next
January to represent his county in I
the State Legislature where he,
first served 53 years ago.
Historians at some future day
will marvel at the long poltical
career of this genial gentleman
from Dare’ County who has served
his county and State ably and well i
for more than half a century.
Etheridge was born on July 31,'
1878, the son of the late Van Bu
ren and Matilda Etheridge. His fa
ther was for 35 years or more
keeper of Nags Head Coast Guard
Station.
He was graduated from Trinity
College in June of 1899 and in Ju
ly of the same year was elected
superintendent of the Dare County
schools, a position he held until
1907 when he became cashier of
the Banks of Manteo which he
helped organize.
Meanwhile he represented Dare
County in the General Assembly
in 1903 and 1905 and was in the
State Senate in 1907. His early
legislative career was interrupted
then until 1929 and he again re
turned to the Legislature as he did
in 1931 and 1933.
He held his position with the
Bank of Manteo through the years
and in addition branched out into
other local affairs serving as post
master at Manteo for eight years
and for a few years as clerk of
Superior Court in Dare County.
He and the late Theodore S. Meek
ins opened a realty and insurance
business in the early 1920’5. Their
business association lasted until
Meekins’ death in 1953.
In addition to this he held politi
cal positions for years as Demo
cratic chairman for Dare County,
then as a member of the State
Democratic Executive Committee,
which he now holds. He also has
served as Superintendent of
Schools in Dare County.
He married Elizabeth Webb, a
Chowan County school teacher, in
1908, and they had two children.
Webb, who died while in the Mer
chant Marine service during World
War ll,' and Mrs. Matilda Inge,
who has taught for many years in
the schools of the state and now is
a member of the Manteo school
faculty.
When he accepted the appoint
ment as director of the N. C. State
Department of Conservation and
Development at the beginning of
the" Ehringhaus administration in
1933, he asked for a leave of ab
sence from his job at the Bank of
Manteo.
“I expected to stay in Raleigh
NEW COMMANDER OF POST
NO. 25, AMERICAN LEGION
TRUXTON E. MIDGETT of
Kitty Hawk, popular retired Coast
Guardsman, church and community
leader was elected Commander of
Fort Raleigh Post No. 26 at the
Community building in Manteo,
succeeding Carlos Dowdy of Kitty
Hawk who was elected Chaplain.
Other officers elected are: J. W.
Davis, of Wanchese, First Vice-
Commander; Charlie Perry of
Kitty Hawk, 2nd Vice Commander;
Pennell A. Tillett of Kitty Hawk,
Adjutant; Alex Davis, Wanchese,
Finance Officer; Will Barnett of
Wanchese, Sergeant at Arms; J.
M. Vannote of Manteo, Service
Officer. About 25 members attend
ed, and they heard a talk by Rev.
Alvin Price, Pentecostal minister
of Wanchese, and response by the
new commander, dealing largely
with religious experiences.
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only four years,” he explained.
“No one else had remained in the
post longer.”
Instead he served for 16 years.
During all that time he roomed at
the Sir Walter Hotel in the same
room, 814, which the hotel assign
ed to him originally.
Mr. Etheridge was the third di
rector of the State Department of
Conservation and Development
since it was established by Gov
ernor Angus W. McLean.
The first was Major Wade Phil
lips, of Davidson County, who
served during the McLean admin
istration. He was succeeded by Col.
John W. Harrelson, who was ap
pointed by Governor O. Max Gard
ner.
When Harrelson returned to
State College in 1933 Governor J.
C. B. Ehringhaus, of Elizabeth
City, called upon his Dare County
friend Etheridge to take over the
post and Etheridge agreed. He had
been a member of the State Board
of Conservation and Development
from the beginning and was vitally
interested in its work.
He is proudest of the “general
development” made by the depart
ment while he headed it and which
had an appropriation of $29,000
for 1933 but had an annual apnro
priation of better than a million
dollars when he left it in 1949,
placing it among the major State
departments in North Carolina.
He was succeeded by George R.
Ross, a native of Randolph Coun
ty, on May 1,.1949, who was Gov
ernor Kerr Scott’s selection for the
post. During the campaign after
which Scott was elected Governor
of North Carolina Etheridge had
given his wholehearted support to
Charles M. Johnson, Scott’s oppon
ent.
Though he is now 78 years old,
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CAPE HATTERAS
PARK STRUCTURES
DEFY HURRICANES
By DAN MORRILL
A new trend in architecture is
featured in bath houses and recre
ational buildings of the Coquina
3each “day use area” of Cape Hat
teras National SeashoTe at Bodie
Island near Oregon Inlet. The
buildings under construction, sched
uled for completion in August are
as different from the old English
wattle and daub type of structures
Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonists built
at nearby Fort Raleigh during the
'ate 16th Century as day is from
night.
Workmen have just erected the
massive laminated shade structures
made of fir and red cedar specially
fabricated in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Here the firm of Shanaberger
and Daniels, general contractors,
are erecting the building at Co
quina Beach at a cost of approxi
mately $78,000.
The unique design of the shade
structures was conceived by Don
ald Benson, NPS architect, who re
ceived a nation award for his
creation. It is unlikely that any
thing less than a tornado will
change the modern designed build
ings at Coquina Beach. They are
designed to withstand hurricane
winds up to 100 miles an hour
without so much as lamming a
dent in the laminated braces of
the shade building. •
The day use area at Coquina
Beach is one of several attractions
completed or under construction in
the 70-mile long Cape Hatteras
National Seashore between Nags
Head and Ocracoke Inlet at pres
ent.
One of the first added attrac
tions in the region was the Mu
seum of the Sea in a former
keepers’ house at Cape Hatteras
Lighthouse on Hatteras Island.
Acquisition of Oregon Inlet Fish
ing Center as part of the NPS
holdings was next and Toby Tillett
who has the Center under lease for
10 years states that he has spent
somes3o,ooo on harbor work and
other improvements. Access roads
have been built on Bodie Island
leading to the day use area and
the lighthouse and a natural his
tory museum is soon to be opened
in a former light keepers house.
In cooperation with the Navy, a
new scenic parkway to the Point of
Cape Hatteras is being built and
former Navy Base piers at Ocra
coke,, now CHNSRA are being re
paired.
DESMOND ROGERS HEADS
LIONS CLUB OFFICERS
Paul Little, Past District Governor,
Speaker at Ladies Night; Phil
Sawyer Reports on Miami
Convention
Ladies night and installation of
officers made a big affair of the
meeting Tuesday night of the Man
teo Lions Club. The dinner was
served in the community building
with more than 50 people attend
ing. The speaker for the evening
was Paul Little of Elizabeth City,
past district governor, who made
a talk and installed the new offi
cers. Mrs. Little accompanied him.
Also present were Mr. and Mrs.
Phil Sawyer of Elizabeth City. Mr.
Sawyer, who is president of the
Elizabeth City club, and zone
chairman, spoke interestingly on
the recent Lions International con
vention in Miami, Fla. Other out
of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Wil
lard Jennings and Ellis Bell of
Elizabeth City; and Carroll P. Car
ter of Potomac Valley, Washing
ton, D. C. Manteo visitors were
Dr. and Mrs. W, W. Harvey, Jr.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Midgett,
Jr.
New officers installed were
president, Desmond Rogers; first
vice-president, Wayland Fry; sec
ond vice president, M. K. Fear
ing, Jr.; third vice-president, Wil
lett Tillett; secretary, H. A. Crees,
Jr., treasurer, R. D. Sawyer, Jr.;
lion tamer A. H. Ward, Jr.; and
tail twister, Ellsworth Midgette,
Jr. New directors are Ralph Umph
lett and Edwin Midgette.
CROWDER C. DAVIS IS
NEW MEMBER OF DARE
COUNTY FHA COMMITTEE
Crowder C. Davis of Wanchese
has become a member of the
Farmers Home Administration
county committee in Dare County,
it was announced this week by the
county FHA supervisor’s office in
Swan Quarter. Mr. Davis’s appoint
ment became effective July 1„ The
other two members of the county
committee, which determines the
eligibility of local farmers who
apply for Farmers Home Admin
istration loans, are Clarence R. Til
lett of Wanchese and Paul Mid
gett of Manteo.
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