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VOLUME XXII NO. 8
DL GRAHAM SAYS
INSPIRING WORDS AT
DANIELS RE-UNION
Foimer Senator and .University
President Discusses World
, Subjects at Wanchese
Dr. Frank Graham, former
president of the University of
North Carolina and now United
Nations representative to Pakis
tan and India made the annual
■Daniels Day family reunion ad
dress here Sunday afternoon to
approximately 600 members of a
clan, an event which brought rela
tives and friends from this and
many states. Melvin Daniels of
Wanchese presided and introduced
the speaker.
Others taking part in the pro
gram held in the church between
4:30 and 6 o’clock, prior to the
big picnic spread were: J. Harri
son Daniels of Baltimore, who
traced the history of the Daniels
family from 1630 in New England
to Roanoke Island in 1951. The
Baltimorean has recently publish
ed a book on the family and is now
planning to bring out a subsequent
issue tracing the Daniels’ from
1951 to date.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daniels and
famrly of Raleigh were among the
guests. It was his father, the late
Josephus Daniels, who aided in
establishing the annual reunions
here several years ago. Frank is
advertising manager of News and
Observer.
Also having a speaking role in
the lengthy program was Mayor
Archie Daniels of Draper.
Dr. Graham touched on a touchy
subject during the talk—the Su
preme Court’s segregation deci
sion—but the distinguished and in
ternationally known humanitarian
got his point on the need for wis
dom, as well as good faith, across
to those gathered here.
Complete text of Dr. Graham’s
speech follows:
This place, this Daniels family
reunion and this Methodist Church
of Wanchese, on Roanoke Island,
remind us of the beginnings of
our country, the value of the fam
ily, the meaning of America and
the need of freedom and peace in
this imperiled world.
This place, historic Roanoke Is
land, upon which Sir Walter Ra
leigh stumbled, became a stepping
stone of the English speaking
people to both the American Union
?f States and the British Common
wealth of Nations. Virginia Dare,
•elebrated again yesterday in The
Lost Colony of Paul Green as the
’irst English child born in Amer
ca was the hopeful fulfillment of
m old family in a new world who
carried across dangerous seas the
incient heritage of a little island
o the fresh hopes of a vast con
tinent.
The Pilgrim families, clinging to
heir religious piety in an adven
turous voyage across the northern
icean to wintry shores, made
’lymouth Rock the foundation
tone of local self-government in
America. The tobacco growers on
he banks of the James River in
Id Virginia, in order to bargain
ollectively with the London Com
iany, founded the first representa
ive assembly in the new world,
’he Baptists in Rhode Island, the
latholics in Maryland and the
Quakers in Pennsylvania embed
ed religious freedom in the struc
ure of America. In North Caro
na, the men of Halifax first
uthorized an American colony to
sin in the Declaration of Inde
endence.
The standard of religious liber
y, political self-government, free
nterprise and national independ
nce, raised aloft in faith and
jurage on this continent, still
lies its flag free and high in the
lodern world.
This Daniels family reunion on
oanoke Island serves to empha
he meaning of the family as
le oldest and most important in
iitution in human history. The
vo oldest continuous civilizations,
idia and China, which have en
ured all the ups and downs, wars,
id crises of more than 6000 years
•om most ancient to modern
mes, have been based on the
lint family and the rural com
unity.
In the present abundance and
amour, haste and waste Ameri
m life there are developing poli
ce and trends which may under
ine the adventurous spirit and
idurance of our historic heritage,
ist strength and humane hopes.
This family reunion serves to
mind us of the need to preserve
id advance the equal rights and
ee opportunities of the families
i the farms, the families of
;tle business people, and the
.milies of the industrial worker,
ho altogether make up the main
urces and hopes of that family
died America. “A. E.” Russell, the
ish poet observed that the great
See GRAHAM, Page Seven
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
ODD FELLOWS PLAN
REVIVAL OF HISTORIC
DARE CO. LODGE
Some 40 Former Members of
Virginia Dare Lodge No. 3 to
Reactive Suspended Unit.
The historic Virginia Dare
Lodge, No. 3 Independent Order of
Oddfellows is to be reactivated
this month, according to James
S. Elliott of Alliance, Ohio, repre
senting the Sovereign Grand
Lodge. Mr. Elliott concluded ar
rangements in Manteo this week,
whereby some 40-odd former mem
bers will join in reviving the lodge,
which suspended shortly after
World War 11.
The Lodge, which was establish
ed in Manteo some 60 years ago,
has had many ups and downs. It
continued fairly active until a fire
in Manteo about 20 years ago
burned out-its hall and equipment.
Shortly afterward it was revived,
and flourished awhile, but finally
went down about ten years ago,
following the death of some of its
oldest and most active members.
Many of those remaining, affiliat
ed with an Elizabeth City Lodge.
The Grandmaster in N. C. at
this time is Baxter F. Finch, at
torney and Judge of Statesville.
The lodge was founded in Balti
more 137 years ago. It now main
tains 63 homes for aged people
and orphans, spending four and a
half million dollars annually for
purpose. It maintains an
orphanage at Goldsboro.
EXAMPLE OF’ NE ED
FOR AN AIRSTRIP ON
HATTERAS ISLAND
Buxton on Cape Hatteras, Aug.
23.—Lacking an adequate landing
strip upon which Governor Hod
ges’ borrowed aircraft could set
down the inhabitants of this island
and the Governor General of their
neighboring island of Bermuda 432
miles to the southeast had to con
tent themselves with waving at
each other at 2:45 Sunday after
noon, which both did with vigor
and enthusiasm for several min
utes before the Governor’s golden
winged aircraft climbed and head
ed westward toward Raleigh.
It was all done according to ar
rangement of the preceding after
noon. when Commander E. E.
Johnson, whose Seventh Battalion
of the Navy’s Seabees, with de
tachments deployed both here and
on Bermuda, extended to Sir John
Woodall, Governor General of
Bermuda, a hearty invitation to
come and visit the detachments
stationed here. The Governor Gen
eral had already visited the de
tachment engaged in the installa
tion of a Naval Facility on his
island.
Nothing, the Governor General
assured the Commander, could
possibly give him more pleasure,
since Cape Hatteras is the nearest
piece of dry land to his Crown
Colony. “We have so much in com
mon—nothing but the Gulf Stream
between us and I’ve always heard
of it. We have, about the same cli
mate—and we know and like your
people who have been stationed
with us. But I am not sure what
Governor Hodges’ schedule is for
tomorrow. Maybe we can fly over
it anyway.”
After canvassing the day’s
schedule and considering the pos
sibility of borrowing a helicopter
for the morning, it was decided
that the best that could be done
was to fly over, circle the Light
house and the Naval installations,
and the Point of the Cape which
points now almost directly toward
Bermuda, just across the Gulf
Stream.
“Tell Mrs. White and the boys
at the Coast Guard station and
my other friends on the Island
we’ll just have to wave to them
this time and wish they had a
landing strip down there,” Gov
ernor Hodges said regretfully, and
to the Deputy Secretary of the
Interior Felix .Wormser, who was
coming down for the day he added,
“Mr. Secretary, I hope you -will
see that my message is delivered.”
Secretary Wormser, who with
Mrs. Wormser and Allyn Hanks,
Mrs. Hanks and their son Bill,
came down for the day, delivered
the message and participated in
the hand waving as the Governor’s
plane circled low above the light
house. Secretary Wormser had
just experienced his first ride
along the surf, from the Point to
the Lighthouse, when the air visit
ors arrived. He made that trip,
with Mrs. Wormser, in a Navy
jeep piloted by Commander John
son.
Earlier the Secretary’s party
had been guests of Commander
Johnson at lunch in the Officers
Mess of the Seabee camp. The
Commander’s daughter. Miss Jac
queline Johnson, and Mrs. Virginia
Austin, with whom she is staying
See NEED, Page Seven
3ISHOP WRIGHT TO BE
AT FORT RALEIGH SUNDAY
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THE RIGHT REVEREND THOM
AS H. WRIGHT of Wilmington,
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese
of East Carolina, will be guest
minister at The Lost Colony Sun
day worship services in Waterside
Theatre at Fort Raleigh on Ro
anoke Island August 26.
Special choral music will be ren
dered by The Lost Colony choir
under the direction of Dr. Elwood
Keister, in charge of the drama’s
music this summer while on leave
from his similar duties as musical
director of East Carolina College
in Greenville. James Good will be
at the console of the organ.
Bishop Wright is no stranger
on the Dare Coast, or in Lost
Colony circles. He has long been
a member of the board of direc
tors of The Lost Colony and in
this connection his duties include
that of chairman of the Lost Col
ony Religious Services Committee.
HATTERAS CO-OP MEMBERS
TO MEET AT BUXTON SEPT. 1
The annual meeting of the mem
bers of the Cape Hatteras Elec
tric Membership Corp., the elec
tric co-op which serves the seven
villages of Hatteras Island will
meet Saturday night of next week,
Sept. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the High
School building. Reports will be
made at this time and nine direc
tors elected.
MRS. LOUVENIA O’NEAL DIES
MONDAY AT WANCHESE
Mrs. Louvenia Farrow O’Neal,
widow of the late George A.
O’Neal of Buxton, and a native of
Avon, died Sunday at 7:10 a.m. at
the family residence at Wanchese.
She was 75 years old. She was the
daughter of the late Sarah Maria
and John Farrow of Avon. She is
survived by a son, Randolph of
Wanchese, a sister, Mrs. Malinda
Gray of Buxton; a brother Rev.
John A. O’Neal of aMnteo; and by
five grandchildren. She was a
member of the Buxton Methodist
Church.
The body was taken from Twi
ford Funeral Home Wednesday to
the residence where funeral serv
ices were conducted at 2 p.m. by
Rev. Alvin Price of the Assembly
Church, and Rev. C. L. Warren,
Methodist pastor. Burial was in
Cudworth Cemetery.
NAGS HEAD CONVENTION TO HEAR TALKS ON HEART DISEASE AND CANCER
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DR. GEO. C. ANLYAN
The annual meeting of the First Medical District in Nags Head August 29 will hear talks by three
leading medical specialists op cardivascular disease and cancer. Dr. George C. Ham, Chief of Pyschiatry
at the University of North Carolina, will speak on the psychological factors in heart and blood vessel
diseases; Dr. James V. Warren, Professor of Medicine at Duke and Chief of Medical Service at the VA
Hospital in Durham, will outline recent advances in the knowledge of coronary artery disease; and Dr.
William G. Anlyan, Asssistant Professor of Surgery at Duke, will discuss some pitfalls in the recogni
tion of cancer.
Members of the arrangements committee for the meeting are Doctors Archie Y. Eagles of Ahos
kie and Allie McLeod Stanton and Leonidas P. Williams of Edenton. Sessions will start at 4 p.m. at
the Shrine Club jn Nags Head and will include a social hour and buffet supper. Meeting at the same
time will be members of the First District Medical Society Auxiliary, which has arranged a program
for doctors’ wives. , •
The First District is composed of nine counties: Bertie, Chowan, Camden, Currituck, Dare, Gates,
Hertford, Pasquotank and Perquimans. In addition to physicians from this area, doctors of the Norfolk
area have been invited to attend the meeting. An attendance of about seventy-five medical men is ex
pected. / , >
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MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1956
100 MILES AN HOUR
SPEED ADMITTED
BY 2 IN COURT
Numerous Cates Tried by Dare
Recorder Tuesday; Two
Held For Robbery
Speeds of more than 100 miles
per hour figured in trials of two
young men held for reckless driv
ing, and who were fined by Judge
W. F. Baum in Dare Recorders’
Court in Manteo, Tuesday. James
M. Tuggle of Charlotte, who led
officers a merry chase on the
beach at 102 miles per hour ad
mitted his guilt, and boasted that
officers would never have caught
him had his motor been working
good. He was fined a total of SIOO
and costs, and given a suspended
sentence of six months.
Leonard Perry Bump of Hoosick,
N. Y., a 17 year old sailor was
showing off in a Cadillac in Man
teo Monday night, and took off
down the highway at 100 miles
per hour. He said he would rather
spend his 60 days on the roads,
than to pay the $lO0 —even if he
had the money. So he was sent on
to prison.
Two cases in court were brought
by the employment Security Com
mission charging fraud. Harry W.
O’Neal of Ocracoke, father of
some ten boys, was found guilty
See COURT, Page Six
SOMETHING NEW IN
WORLD OF MUSIC
Premiere of Opera "Trista'' so be
Presented in Manteo, August 27th
A premiere performance of
“Trista* a one act opera, will be
presented in Manteo High School
auditorium on Monday evening,
August 27, by members of The
Lost Colony cast. The book and
lyrics of the opera are by Eliza
beth Lay Green, wife of the noted
playwright Paul Green of sym
phonic drama fame, and the music
by Charles McGraw of Troy, N.
C., who will be piano accompanist
for the performance.
The “Trista” story is about a
witch girl in early Colonial Amer
ica and takes place on the seacoast
of North Carolina during the same
era of the Salem witch trials when
superstition was rife.
Martin Gerrish, the John Borden
and male lead of The Lost Colony,
is directing the opera and singers
taking part in the cast are: Jan
Saxon of Charlotte; Margaret
McLarty, Kings Mountain; Hal
Furr, Charlotte; Dan Pressley,
Gastonia; and Harley Streif of
New York. A trio of neighbors is
sung by Russell Link, Marjalene
Thomas and George Trautwein.
Charles* McGraw, who plays
Uppowoc in The Lost Colony cast,
is directing the ballet choreog
raphy of the opera and the dancers
include Karen Wentworth, Sylvia
Zinnenblatt, Myrna Charles, David
Julian and Bill Dissler. ’
Designing sets and in charge of
lighting are Charles Josey and
William Casstevens of Lost Colony
technical staff. Bob Swain is stage
manager and Irene Smart has de
signed the costumes.
McGraw has successfully pro
duced a choral-ballet for which he
wrote the music for “Job” at the
St. Louis Municipal Opera and the
Amato Opera House in New York,
receiving excellent reviews at
each place.
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FINAL WEEK OF
THE 1956 SEASON
BEGINS TUESDAY
Paid Attendance To Lost Colony
To August 22, More Than
32,000
By AYCOCK BROWN
Manteo. Unless the weather
changes, more than 10,000 persons
will pay admission to see Paul
Gren’s symphonic drama The Lost
Colony, during the final 10 per
formances of the 1956 season.
More tan 32,000 persons had seen
the show during the first 45 per
formances of the current season,
or through Wednesday night this
week.
“We base our estimate on aver
aging 1,000 persons each night
during the final ten nights from
previous seasons,” said General
Manager Dick Jordan. “The last
week of the season comes each
year just after the tobacco mar
kets have opened in Eastern Nor|h
Carolina. From the rural areas, as
well as nearby metropolitan areas
such as Norfolk, come the big
crowds as the final performance
of the year approaches.” f
On Wednesday night, this week,
the attendance was 1,100 persons.
Only one performance during 1956
has been rained out. Last year
there were several rain or storm
outs as result of a wet July and a
hurricane-harassed August.
“While we are not expecting to
break any attendance records this
year, we should, if current fair
weather be well ahead
of last season when the final per
formance is presented on Sunday
night, September 2, or Labor Day
eve,” said Jordan.
Another encouraging note ex
pressed by Manager Jordan was
the fact that The Lost Colony is
financially in good shape as result
of this season’s operation.
He urged all persons who plan
to see The Lost Colony, with its
new actors of 1956 and a some
what ‘new look’ in performance
technique, to attend the show this
week, before the final performance
on Sunday, September 2. He em
phasized that the 32,000 persons'
attending so far this season rep
resented paid admission, and did
not include Roanoke Island His
torical Association memberships,
of which almost 700 were sold, or
complimentary passes issued to
members of the press, radio and
TV and their families.
WILLIAM McKINLEY PRICE
AVON VETERAN, DIES AT 60
William McKinley Price, 60, son
of B. B. Price and the late Mrs.
Sarah Jane Meekins Price and
husband of the late Mercedes Far
row Price, died at 9 a.m. Wednes
day after three months illness, in
the Marine Hospital, Norfolk. He
was a lifelong resident of Avon,
a member of the Methodist Church,
veteran of World War II and a
retired Coastguardsman.
He is survived by two sons,
William M., Jr., of Boston and
Selby U. Price of Avon, by a
daughter, Mrs. Alice Gray of
Avon. By two brothers, George
Price of Avon and Rev. Alvin W.
Price of Wanchese, and by a sis
ter, Mrs. E. P. Lorency of Norfolk.
The body was taken by Twi
ford’s Funeral Home in Manteo to
Avon, for funeral and burial
Thursday.
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DR. GEORGE C. HAM
TWO GOVERNORS SEE MANY
INTERESTING POINTS IN DARE
ON AUGUST 18TH OBSERVANCE
Governor Hodges Takes Bermuda Guests on
Flight Over Hatteras and Ocracoke Following
Visit to Lost Colony and Elizabethan Gardens,
and Ceremonies on Virginia Dare's Birthday.
By AYCOCK BROWN
Following a tree planting pro
gram at Elizabethan Garden Sat
urday, a visit to Alpheus W.
Drinkwater at his Drinkwater
Folly later, then enjoying a boun
tiful lawn supper at Roanoke Gar
den before appearing on the stage
of Waterside Theatre to pay hom
age to the memory of Virginia
Dare, America’s first child of
English parentage born in the
New World, Governor and Mrs.
Luther H. Hodges and their
guests, had a busy morning on
Sunday before taking off for Ra
leigh via private plane, at 2 p.m.
The flight was over Hatteras Is
land and Ocracoke in order to
give the visitors a view of the
National Seashore Park.
The guests, Lt. General Sir John
Woodall, Governor of Bermuda
and that island’s military com
mander in chief and Sir Stanley
Spurting, were much pleased with
their visit to Roanoke Island and
the Dare Beaches area.
On Sunday morning, following a
busy Saturday afternoon the Gov
ernor’s party visited the Wright
Brothers National monument, at
tended a religious service at St.
Andrews-by-the-Sea at which the
Rev. Peyton Williams, rector of
Christ Church and St. Lukes Epis
copal churches, Norfolk delivered
the sermon. Next they saw the
Bodie Island section of Cape Hat
teras National Seashore Recrea
tional Area. Os particular interest
to Governor Hodges were various
phases of sand fixation projects
in the Nags Head-Bodie Island
sector, each of which North Caro
lina through his cooperation had
sanctioned or sponsored.
Attend Celebrations
Governor and Mrs. Hodges left
the Democratic Convention in Chi
cago early Saturday morning via
commercial airliner for Washing
ton, where he met his distinguish
ed Bermuda guests and they flew
to Roanoke Island aboard a pri
vate plane, arriving here shortly
after noon. Governor Hodges told
news and radiomen at the Manteo |
airport that in addition to the of
ficial ceremonies in which he and
his guests were scheduled to take
part that he also wanted to give
them an opportunity to visit vari
ous sites of historical significance
here on the Dare coast. He added:
“And I am also very anxious
for them to meet Alpheus W.
Drinkwater before we leave tomor
row for Raleigh.”
Following luncheon at The Caro
linian where Mrs. Lucille S. Pur
ser was their hostess, the party
returned to Roanoke Island to take
part in a Virginia Dare day cere
mony at the Elizabethan Garden,
sponsored by Roanoke Island Gar
den Club.
Mrs. Sam Mitchell of Greenville,
district head of the Garden Club
of North Carolina, after words of
See OBSERVANCE, Page Six
FERRY SERVICE ACROSS
SOUND TO OCRACOKE IS
PROMISED IN A YEAR
Ocracoke Island, whose charm
has been its isolation, soon will
be just a ferry boat ride away for
tourists and their cars.
The State Utilities Commission
issued a franchise for the new
ferry service last week to Arthur
W. Daniels of Charlotte. He will
operate Cedar Island.
Daniels, a native of Carteret
who spends much of his time there
now on business, was the com
mander of a submarine chaser
during World War I, the Commis
sion said. He proposes to use fer
ries approximately 150 feet long,
40 to 50 feet wide and capable of
carrying as many as 28 cars at a
time.
The Commission said he will
furnish as many boats and trips
as public demand requires add ob
served he showed conclusively
he had the financial ability to de
liver, but it said he will need about
a year to get his boats, build
docks and start service.
The mainland terminal at Cedar
Island will lie at the end of US
70, about 15-20 miles northeast of
Atlantic. On Ocracoke the ferries
will connect with a section of US
158 now under construction on the
island.
Ocracoke now is served by a
boat operated out of Atlantic by
J. M. Saunders Jr. and Ansley
O’Neal. It carries passengers,
freight express and mail but does
not carry cars and trucks.
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OREGON INLET JOB
SET UP TO GO IN
LATE FALL MONTHS
Col. Rowland, District Engineer
Getting Ready to Construct
$57,000 Project
Wilmington, August 22. The
long-awaited Oregon Inlet im
provement project on the State’s
Outer Banks has been scheduled
to begin late this yaer, according
to a report by Col. H. C. Row
land, Jr., the Corps of Engineers’
District Engineer here.
Colonel Rowland said the Dis
trict had been allocated $570,000
for dredging a channel 14 feet
deep by 400 feet wide about three
miles long across the bar and
through the gorge to Pamlico
Sound.
From the three-mile point, a
channel (Old House Channel) 12
feet deep and 100 feet wide will
be dredged Tor seven additional
miles to deep water in the sound.
The work in the 12-foot channel
is set to begin December 1 with
the remainder to start next March.
The 14-foot portion will require
the use of a sea-going hopper
dredge because wave action and
generally rough water prohibit the
use of a pipeline dredge in open
waters.
The allocation does not include
funds for the 6-foot channel to
Manteo or for jetties to stabilize
the inlet channel.
Three additional new-work proj
ects are scheduled to get under
way within the next several
months, the report points out.
A sum of $179,000 is on hand
now for a channel 12 feet deep
and a basin 12 by 200 by 900 feet
at Engelhard in Far Creek. This
job consists of some 500,000 cu
bic yards of dredging and is set
to begin next January. Far Creek
has a current depth of seven feet.
Two waterway developments in
Carteret County are scheduled to
begin in early November. Plans
call for an entrance channel 6 by
60 feet and a basin of the same
depth and 100 feet wide by 600
feet long at Marshallberg. The
basin will start in Sleepy Creek
and extend eastward on lands own
ed by R. W. Neal, Irvin Moore,
Mrs. J. B. Jackson and Mrs. Leah
Hancock. A total of $27,000 has
been received to complete this
work.
Harkers Island, the second of
the Carteret projects, is scheduled
for two channels—one at the east
and one on the west end. They
See INLET, Page Six
GULF STREAM FISHES
COME CLOSE INSHORE
IN DARE COAST AREA
Kitty Hawk.—Gulf Stream fish
es, species which normally are
found only in the warm offshore
blue waters have been coming close
in shore recently here along the
Dare coast.
On Tuesday S. J. Richards, Jr.,
of Pittsburgh, Penna., surprised
many persons here on Kitty Hawk
beach when he east for a bluefish
from the bench and brought in a
one pound dolphin.
During the past week end, Billy
Brown, mate aboard the cruiser
Phyllis Mae, reported catching sev
eral frigate mackerel.
Capt. Chester Tillett, skipper of
the Spur, brought in some dolphin
on the week end from just beyond
the offshore bar of Oregon Inlet.
Usually dolphin are caught much
farther away, near the western
edge of the Gulf Stream some 30
miles southeast of Oregon Inlet.
Willie Newsome of Hatteras
who keeps check on all sportsfish
ing in his area, reported that more
king mackerel (or cero) had been
taken in the immediate vicinity of
Hatteras Inlet this year than from
offshore where king mackerel are
usually caught near the outer
edge of Diamond Shoals and the
edge of the Gulf Stream.
Another sluggish warm water
fish, one of the oddest looking
creatures that swims, the ocean
sunfish or mola mola, have been
caught in the surf and close to
shore in other years. This season
only one has been reported hooked.
It was released and not landed, by
an angler fishing aboard the Jer
ry, Jr., a cruiser skippered by
Capt. Omie Tillett.
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