VOLUME XXII NO. 5
CASH CONTINUES
SCHOOL FUND FROM
RECORDER'S COURT
July Traffic Fines Yield $2,500;
This Week's Court Con
tinues Profitable
The cash income from fines to
the Dare County school fund dur
ing the month of July amounted
t 052,500, according to the records
of the Clerk of the Court. This
week’s business was equally as
good as the two previous weeks,
which yielded about S7OO a week.
In Tuesday’s court, the following
cases were tried or submitted and
fines levied:
For speeding at 55 miles per
hours in a 35-mile zone, S2O each
and costs by J. Thos. Gasbett, a
Pittsburgh policeman, Richard L.
Knowles, Buxton; Theo. R. Meek
ins Jr., Manteo.
For speeding at 50 mph; Gra
ham P. Johnson of Weldon, Lynn
C. Taylor, Roanoke Rapids, Jacob
Mitchell; South Mills, Arnold S.
Aiderman, Tarboro, James R,
Oliver Jr., Paces, Va., Helen C.
Lofton, Charlotte, Eileen S. Sul
zer, Richmond, Gurney S. Boren,
Greensboro, each paid sls and
costs.
Other drivers paid as follows:
Sidney T. Blanchard, Coinjock; sl2
and costs; Charles V. McClees,
improper equipment; Jack D.
Wise, Baltimore, reckless driving,
S2O; Dermott K. Kavanaugh, Belle
ville, Ontario, disregarding traffic
sign $5 and costs; Doyle B. Terry,
Va. Beach, no operator’s license,
$25 and costs. Mary A. Mass,
Pittsburgh, improper passing $5
and costs. Lonnie F. Sykes, Colum
bia, failing to dim lights, $5 and
costs.
For driving drunk, J. H. Cope
land, Ahoskie; E. M. Etheridge,
Manteo; Jack C. Trimble, Aydlett,
William F. Hill, Grandy, each paid
SIOO and costs for drunken driv
ing. In addition, Trimble paid $25
extra for not having a driver’s
license. In addition to these four,
a bond of $l5O was forfeited by
Carl R. Taylor of Arlington, Va.,
who failed to show up to answer
a charge of driving drunk on July
21st.
Fines of $lO and costs for speed
ing at 45 mph were assessed
against Raymond K. Woodard of
Portsmouth, Va., and Lent L.
Abbott of Richmond.
For being drunk on the highway,
E. R. Headley and Lathan Mann
paid $lO and costs. Murray T. Gil
iken who failed to answer a charge
of speeding at 55 mph, forfeited a
S3O bond. Larry Edmondson was
rodered to pay a S3O bad check
and pay costs of $8.20.
In court last week,' Harris Pled
ger, colored, of Manteo had to
confess he had neglected to pay
the money due his two illegitimate
children by a woman named Mabel
Burton and he owed $922. The
court says he has to serve his six
months suspended sentence, and
this darky had rather do time on
the roads and leave his children
to be supported by the taxpayers,
a custom which is constantly en
couraged by the Welfare Depart
ments of the state.
ONE OF HIS BEST PARTIES
OF ALL FOR DRINKWATER
ON HIS 81 st BIRTHDAY
In celebration of his 81st birth
day, A. W. Drinkwater was guest
of honor Tuesday afternoon at a
garden party given by his daugh
ter, Miss Dorothy Drinkwater, at
the Drinkwater home in Manteo.
The other daughter, Mrs. John
Booth of Norfolk, together with
Mr. Booth and their two sons, was
home to help entertain. Grandson
Billy Cox assisted in serving, aid
ed by wife Wanda.
A bountiful buffet table with
a centerpiece of yellow mums
and gladioli, was set up on
the lawn, and a large num
ber of friends many from
distant places, gathered to do
honor to Manteo’s veteran te
legrapher. The Drinkwater birth
day party has been an annual
event in Manteo for many years,
and is one of the social highlights
of the summer season.
An estimated 200 friends called
at the. party and partook of the
many hors d’ oeuvres, which in
cluded native clams, and crabmeat,
country hams, smoked panned oys
ters, etc.
FORMER BUXTON WOMAN
SURVIVOR OF SHIPWRECK
Buxton.—Mrs. Martha Barnett
received word her daughter, Mrs.
Grace Barnett McLean was back in
Norfolk, after being a survivor of
the Andrea Doria disaster. Mrs.
McLean made a trip to Europe to
visit her husband, Lt. J. P. Mc-
Lean in Spain, and was returning
home on the Andrea Doria.
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA
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HERE’S ANOTHER MAN AND WIFE team of the many who are
making successes in business in the Coastland. Not far from the beach,
just across the Wright Memorial Bridge and up the Currituck road a
half mile or so will be found the Anchor Inn, operated by Mr. and Mrs.
John W. Smith. Mr. Smith is a native of Pasquotank, but Mrs. Smith
is from Massachusetts and there isn’t any “southern cooking” that
outdoes the things she turns out in her kitchen, especially pies. The
Smiths bought the property in 1953, and have built it up into a popu
lar place for those who love good food. They also have rooms for tour
ists, and for fishermen and hunters in season. In the picture is shown
two of the waitresses. On hte right, Miss Barbara Ann Gallop, a foster
daughter of the Smiths and a family pet. She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clinton Gallop of Point Harbor. On the left is Miss Grace
Twiford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Twiford.
AN EASIER LIFE PLANNED
BY THIS COASTLAND FRIEND
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MILES L. CLARK of Elizabeth
City steps down this week after
46 years steady going with the
Texas Company. His retirement
August 1, means an easier life
for one who has worked hard,
achieving a tremendous success
for his company, while through the
years he has become one of the
region’s most widely known men,
and has won great affection and
esteem for countless deeds of un
selfish service for its people on
many fronts. Mr.' Clark came to
Elizabeth City from Hampton,
Va. in 1910 from’ State College,
Raleigh, going into business with
his father, transporting motor
fuels in some boats they had
bought, and they'introduced Texa
co products into every community
on the sounds and rivers of East
ern North Carolina. When he took
his first position in the summer
of 1910, with the company, he did
not know then he had come to
stay, and save for a year in World
War I in the Naval Air Force,
he has been constantly on the job.
During the early years he acquired
a fleet of tank steamers on his
own in which he transported the
products of his company. In 1934
he sold out his fleet of seven
tankers to the company, and they
continued operating from Virginia
to Southport, N. C.
His vision and energy has estab
lished Texaco products in the
coastland with great success. More
than any other one man, he has
made a substantial contribution of
time and money to worthy causes
for the upbuilding of the rea. He
contributed greatly to the Lost
Colony, and numerous other things
in this community. He and Mrs.
Clark, the former Pauline Bever
idge of Elizabeth City, own a cot
tage at Nags Head, and Mr. Clark
has bought much real estate about
the coast. His great single philan
thropy is more than SIOO,OOO pro
vided by him to develop and sup
port the nationally famous high
school band in his home town of
Elizabeth City. Many times Mr.
Clark has sent his band to play
at public events in all the South
ern Albemarle region.
ANDY GRIFFITH TO BE
GUEST LOST COLONY
800th PERFORMANCE
Andy Griffith, an illustrious
alumni of Paul Green’s symphonic
drama The Lost Colony, will be
the master of ceremonies in Water
side Theatre, Wednesday, August
8, when the drama, oldest outdoor
production in the country, pre
sents its 800th performance.
Griffith, a native of Mt. Airy,
N. C., for several seasons played
the role of Sir Walter Raleigh in
The Lost Colony, before he sky
rocketed to fame for his recorded
monologues and as the .star of the
successful Broadway production,
“No Time for Sergeants.” In New
York a few weeks ago he com
pleted 335 performances, -without
a miss, in “No Time for Ser
geants.”
On August 10 he leaves his beau
tiful summer home he recently
purchased here on Roanoke Island
for New York enroute to Arkansas
where he will be starred in the
making of his first moviq, “A Face
In the Crowd” written around a
small town boy’s career in dra
matics, similar to the unusual and
successful career he has had. Bud
Shulberg, noted Hollywood scenar
io writer, is author of the movie
and it will be produced by Elia
Kazan who directed the Academy
Award production of “On the Wat
erfront.”
On Wednesday, in addition to
Griffith as master of ceremonies
others taking part in the 800th
performance celebration will be his
See GRIFFITH, Page Five
ROANOKE ISLAND ANGLERS BRING 'EM IN FROM OREGON INLET
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Une of more than 65 white marlin caught by parties fishing out from Oregon Inlet during July
were caught by Roanoke Islanders. Shown here with their catch are Gordon Kellogg, John Allen, Jack
Wilson, Carrol Berry, Robert Shannon and their skipper and mate Billy Daniels and Capt Moon Tillett
from whose boat “Bumbaloo” they fished, while landing the seven and half foot marlin. (Photo by Ay
cock Brown)
MAhITEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1956
HATTERAS ISLAND
PEOPLE VIEWING
FUTURE PROBLEMS
Strong Sentiment Growing For
Organizing Civic Group or
Chamber of Commerce
The fast development of Hat
teras Island has brought forth so
many new problems of interest to
the whole Island, that many citi
zens are awaking to the need for
a strong and efficient civic or
trade organization to work for the
interests of the island as a whole
and to keep abreast of the times.
There are many other problems
expected to arise in the not too
distant future, and effective dis
position of them may not be ex
pected without a strongly united
group to represent the island. One
of them is the undependable ferry
service, at times the despair of
and a sore spot with residents and
tourists.
Business interests of the island
are much concerned with the ru
mors making the rounds, that
there are insufficient accommoda
tions for tourists. They Relieve a
lot of business has been kept
away, bcause this old out-dated lie
keeps in circulation, and occasion
ally gets fresh circulation from
jealous competitive interests.
Business men of the island are
leaning more and more to the idea
of advertising and boosting the is-
See HATTERAS ID., Page Five
OCRACOKE MAN WINS
PRAISE FROM AIR FORCE
T/Sgt. Walter P. Garrish of
Ocracoke has been making quite a
good name for himself, as may be
seen in a letter sent his mother,
Mrs. J. D. Garrish, this week by
his commanding officer, Col.
Glenn W. Martin, Commander of
the Walker Air Force Base at
Roswell, New Mexico.
Sgt. Garrish is with the 47th
Air Division. The letter to his
mother reads as follows:
“It is with pleasure that I in
form you of the selection of your
son as the Outstanding Non Com
missioned Officer of the 509th Air
Refueling Squadron for the per
iod 1 January 1956 through 30
June 1956. In earning this honor
he has exhibited those traits which
have long characterized the best
of military men.
“During a recent period of TDY
he proved himself to be an out
standing non commissioned officer
by the professional manner that
he demonstrated in supervising
See GARRISH, Page Five
DANIELS DAY AT
WANCHESE TO BE
HELD AUGUST 19
The annual Daniels Day pro
gram and dinner at Wanchese
Methodist Church will be held this
year.on Sunday, August 19th, ac
cording to Melvin R. Daniels, mas
ter of ceremonies. An attendance
of up to 500 is expected, judging
from, previous observances. Mrs.
Dallas Tillett will preside at the
organ, and Dr. Frank Graham, for
mer U. S. Senator will speak brief
ly-
Archie Daniels, Roanoke Island
native and now Rockingham Coun
ty welfare officer is one of the
promoters of this day, too. The
late Josephus Daniels attended the
celebration several times. One of
his sons will be expected this year.
Gov. Luther Hodges has been in
vited, and asked to bring his guest,
Sir Stanley Spurting, Goveror Gen
eral of Bermuda.
In other days the name was
spelled without the penultimate
“S” on the end, and this form of
spelling is kept up by many fam
ilies in this and other states, it
no doubt having been the original
and correct form. Some 150 or
more years ago, one of them
settled on Roanoke Island from
whom came the large branch in
N. C. Very few people on Roanoke
Island who do not have some an
cestor of this family. And the
same of course may be said of the
Midgetts, the Etheridges, the
Baums and other old families.
RECORDS BROKEN
AT OREGON INLET
AND HATTERAS
Sixty or More White Marlin;
Other Big Fish Through Last
Week Since July I
By AYCOCK BROWN
Sixty or more white marlin have
been boated off Oregon Inlet and
Nags Head by anglers skipping
bait out of Oregon Inlet since
July 1, an average.of approximate
ly two each day and the peak of
this billfishing for the season was
reached last week when 27 were
boated and brought into port.
During late July a dozen or
more sailfish have been landed,
along with three blue marlin and
dolphin w’hich are largest brought
in, in numbers so great during
the history of fishing in waters
off Nags Head and Oregon Inlet
and Hatteras.
Capt. C. L. Stallings, skipper of
the cruiser Carrov, at Oregon In
let, said one of .the reasons so
many marlin have been caught is
because skippers are now skipping
bait more consistently. “That is
the way to catch a billfish,” he
said, “skip the bait from outrig
gers.” But, all the billfish have
not been caught on skipped bait.
Some have been landed on artifi
cial lures of nylon, trolled in wake
of boats for dolphin, at the time
marlin have hit. Capt. Sam Tillett,
skipper of the cruiser Gat, and his
son and mate Tony have made big
catches without skipping bait. On
Sunday, with T. H. Old Jr., Great
Bridge, Va., aboard along with H.
H. Thomas and Julian Greenough
also of Great Bridge, accounted for
a 285 pound blue martin and a
six foot white marlin. Old boated
each of the fish and he caught
them without using skipped bait.
See RECORDS, Page Four
PROGRESS ON HARBOR JOBS
UNDERWAY, ENGELHARD AND
STUMPY POINT BEGIN SOON
Some Ocracoke and Hatteras Jobs Out of The
Way; Wanchese Job Being Completed; Ore
gon Inlet Project on This Year's List Includes
12-Foot Channel To Cost $570,000.
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP
TO OFFER HIGH MASS
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BISHOP WATERS
His Excellency, the Most Rev.
Vincent S. Waters, D. D. of Ra
leigh, Roman Catholic Bishop of
North Carolina will offer Solemn
Pontifical High Mass for World
Peace during the morning worship
at 11 o’clock in Waterside Thea
tre, Fort Raleigh, August 5. Rev.
James Randolph Jones, priest in
charge of Holy Redeemer Catholic
Church at Kill Devil Hills, will be
master of ceremonies.
The sermon will be preached by
Monsignor Herbert A. Harkins,
rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral,
Raleigh and assistant priests dur
ing the services will be the Rev
erends Walter Tierney P. O. St.
Monica Parish, Raleigh and Fran
cis Smith of St. Anne’s Catholic
Church in Edenton.
In cooperation with the manage
ment of The Lost Colony, the Rev.
Mr. Jones and Richard E. Jordan
and the drama’s director of the
choir, Dr. Elwood Keister, special
music has been arranged featuring
solos by members of the famous
Lost Colony chorus.
His Excellency, Bishop Waters,
is widely known in North Carolina
and adjoining states and his ap
pearance at the special Solemn
Pontifical Mass for World Peace
is expected to attract many wor
shippers to Fort Raleigh on Sun
day morning.
PEA ISLAND CAMPGROUND
STORE OPENS AT INLET
An interesting store has recent
ly been opened at the Southside
ferry slip at Oregon Inlet by
James S. Turner and Bateman P.
Miller. The property, which was
erected by J. B. Tillett some years
ago, has been leased to the opera
tors by the National Park Service
which now owns it. The operators
will sell lunches, groceries and
fishing supplies for the conven
ience of campers in the Oregon
Inlet area.
Mr. Miller, a retired Navy man
has been residing for several years
at Buxton. He married the former
Lillie Miller, whose brother, Bate
man Miller has recently retired
after several years service in the
Coast Guard in New Jersey. Mrs.
Miller is the former Lillian Gray
of Avon. These four operate the
business and reside in the build
ing.
MRS. ADELIA MANN TWIFORD
BURIED THURS. AFTERNOON
The funeral services for Mrs.
Adelia Mann Twiford, a beloved
woman of Manns Harbor, who died
in Manteo Tuesday at the age of
84, were conducted from the Meth
odist Church Os which she was a
member, by Rev. A. L. G. Stephen
son, the pastor, at 3 p.m. Thurs
day, and interment was in the
Twiford cemetery.
She was the widow of the late
Walter V. Twiford who died 18
years ago, and the daughter of
the late John and Catherine Wise
Mann of Manns Harbor, but her
birthplace was Stumpy Point on
February 22, 1872.
She is survived by three sons,
W. S., R. E., and Royce Twiford
of Manns Harbor, and a sister,
Mrs. Laura Hopkins of Elisabeth
City.
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Wilmington, Aug. I. Heading
the list of channel and harbor proj
ects for 1956-57 in Eastern North
Carolina is a request of some
$570,000 for a 14-foot channel
through Oregoh Inlet on the Outer
Banks, according to a report by
the Corps of Engineers’ District
Office here.
The Oregon Inlet request also
includes a channel 12 feet deep
from the inlet to deep water in
Famlico Sound. This two-fold proj
ect was authorized by Congress
seven years ago but no funds have
been appropriated to do the work.
Other improvements asked for
include seven-foot channels at the
east and west ends of Harkers Is
land, a six-foot channel and basin
at Marshallberg, and a 12-foot
channel in Far Creek at Engel
hard.
Already under contract with
dredging scheduled to begin Sep
tember 1 is a three-way job at
Hatteras. This includes two six
foot channels, one from the Pam
lico Sound to the basin and a sec
ond from Hatteras Inlet to the
basin, and enlarging the basin to
approximately 150 feet by 1000
feet and six feet deep. Completion
is set for October 31.
The 1.5 million 34-foot project
in Wilmington harbor, begun ear
lier this month, is expected to con
tinue for the next 15 months de
pending on weather (hurricanes)
conditions. This is a 6.5 million
cubic yard job underway by the
Government Dredge Henry Baeon.
Funds are requested to complete
studies of the Northeast Cape
Fear River, Neuse River and Core
Creek above New Bern with the
view of determining whether or
not these wateways merit drain
age work such as removal of snags
and fallen trees.
There are indications, the Dis
trict advises, that some money will
be made available this year to
start the first phase of the Mason
boro Inlet project at Wrightsville.
This project was authorized in
1950 but, like Oregon Inlet, funds
have never been put up to do the
work. The first phase consists of
improving Banks and Motte chan
nels from the Inland Waterway to
the inlet and a basin at the inlet
to provide turning space for a
hopper dredge. Wave action pro
hibits the use of pipeline dredges
at inlets and similar areas.
Although it falls short of local
wants, the 750-foot stone break
water to protect craft in Hatteras
harbor is 70 percent complete.
Seafaring folk at Hatteras see
great benefits resulting from the
barrier, particularly during storms
when wave action from the Pam
lico Sound exacts heavy toll in
damage to boats and waterfront
structures. Some residents, how
ever, contend that the breakwater
should be extended to prevent ero
sion as well as offer protection to
dwellings from sound waters. Such
extensions do not come -within the
realm of navigation but rather
shore erosion.
Within the month a three-way
maintenance dredging job was
completed in the Ocracoke area:
a seven-foot channel in Wain
wright Slough, a ten-foot channel
in Silver Lake Harbor at Ocra
coke and a 12-foot channel in Wal
lace Channel opposite Ocracoke In
let.
Underway now at Wanchese is
a new harbor 200 by 200 feet and
six feet deep, and an entrance
channel six by 100 feet. Follow
ing the completion of the project,
the dredge will restore seven-foot
channels at Stumpy Point and En-
See DREDGING,, Page Eight
I BILLFISH HEAVY IN
GULF STREAM OFF DARE
Nags Head.—Many billfish, un
paralleled in the history of the
blue warm waters at the western
edge of the Gulf Stream have been
caught in the past severtfl weeks.
Many white marlin, blue marlin
and sailfish have been landed
aboard cruisers operating from
Oregon Inlet and Hatteras Inlet.
Some 100 white marlin, most
boated in any season off North
Carolina were caught during July
and were being landed still during
early August
Inshore fishing for flounder,
trout and other bottom species
I and for Spanish Mackerel and
bluefish has been better than usual
i during the first two summer
months of 1956.