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VOLUME XXII NO. 19 DESPITE BLUEBIRD WEATHER, HUNTERS FIND MANY DUCKS Much Fine Sport Reported All Around on Dare County Coast Wednesday Ute opening day of the Wildfowl season brought usual bluebird weather to the Dare County coast, despite which some duck hunting ’ was reported from various sec tions. In the RoSanthe area, Capt. Levene Midgett came ashore with his limit of ducks, which took most of the day, so far away were they flying. L. E. Parker, Portsmouth, Va. furniture dealer, who spent the night at Mirlo Beach Lodge, Ro danthe, accompanied by Charles R. Lively, went hunting with Bill Meekins, and went back to Ports mouth at lunch time with two ducks. Bad luck came to Fulton Whid bee and Arvin Midgett of Manteo, when duck hunting was so good north of Oregon Inlet, they got above their limit and were prompt ly picked up by a Federal warden, and like many another during a season, they will have to pay be fore a U. S. Commissioner next week. From Kitty Hawk and Caffeys Inlet came reports of shooting which was considered good for the kind of weather which prevailed. The wind being light, few geese were flying, although the rest areas are full of them. There are an estimated 50,000 geese strutting around the Pea Island Wildlife Refuge at Rodanthe, and the 1 greatest number of ducks noted there in recent years. Several Manteo high school youths who like their hunting bag ged their limits of duck before school took in on Wednesday morn ing. Another good kill of ducks and coots (or blue peters as they are locally called) was made by 82- year old Alpheus Drinkwater of Manteo, his son-in-law, John Booth, * Navy chief warrant offi cer stationed in Norfolk and I. H. Tadlock of Norfolk and Virginia Beach. The duck population this season sems up to par or better as com pared to previous years but there seems to be fewer geese in some localities however W. G. Cahoon, refuge manager at Lake Matta muskeet estimated that more than 60,000 Canadas had arrived in that famous Hyde County shooting area by last week end. FRED W. LEWARK DIES AT KNOTTS I.; NAGS HD. NATIVE Fred Woodson Lewark, 52, hus band of Mrs. Frederika Waterfield Lewark and son of the late Lew is Lester Lewark, died at the resi dence, Knotts Island. Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by two daughters, Misses Alice W. Lewark and Mary E. Lewark; two sons, Joe Earl Lewark and Ralph W. Lewark, all of Knotts Island; four sisters, Mrs. Edith Bowden of Norfolk, Mrs. Essie Webster of Great Bridge, Mrs. Lethia Ferguson and Mrs. Amanda Payne, both bf Nor folk; two brothers, Roy W. Lew ' ark of Harbinger, and Claud Lew ark of Norfolk; four grandchil dren. Mr. Lewark was a native of Nags Head and had - been a resi dent of Knotts Island for 33 years. MRS. BURRUS TO VISIT IN LOUISIANA THIS MONTH Mrs. Kate Austin Burrus of Hat teras plans a visit to Louisiana this week to visit her son, M. Sgt. D. H. Austin who has recently been given command of a oleasure boat, the Q-23 which is stationed at Cameron, La. This boat is re served for deep sea fishing by mil itary personnel. She will be ac companied by her son, Bert, who is o nihs way t oSan Antonio, Texas, and has been home for 30 Swiss mothers in the Canton of Valais carry their babies on top of their heads. The baby is truss ed inside a wooden cradle, which rests on a thick cushion perched on the mother’s head. With her hands thus freed, the woman does her knitting as she jogs up and down steep rocky paths, the Na tional Geographic Society says. SOCK DANCE FRIDAY A soek dance will be staged Friday night in the gymnasium in Manteo by the 10th grade of the Manteo High School, funds to go into the class treasury. The danse will begin at eight o’clock, and each person going is to take his or her own sorts. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR AND OTHER OFFICIALS DISCUSS FIRE CONFERENCE ■I $ shb jH|y. I 'NO CWWW J AWVAL If fOP.ESI FIRE LOSS Governor Luther H. Hodges (seated right) and three visitors to his office discuss a November 14 event which will seek means of curtailing North Carolina’s 35-million-dollar annual loss to forest fires. The event, to be held in the N. C. State Fair Arena at Raleigh, will be the Governor’s Conference on Forest Fire Prevention. A program of short talks, exhibits, demonstrations and entertainment is being arranged for the occasion. Shown with Governor Hodges (left to right) are: Roger W. Wolcott, State Forestir; and Dean R. J. Preston of the State College School of Forestry. SCARBOROUGH FAMILY TO LIVE IN GREECE Missenf Passport Causes Unscheduled Trip to New York by Manteo Woman So Her Sister Can Sail Mr. Ornd Mrs. Phil Scarborough and seven-months old son, Fields Lee, sailed We-’nesday morning from New York City for Rhoades, Greece, where they "will live for two yeas while Mr. Scarborough is stationed there with the U. S. ■two years while-Mr. Scarborough' and son met Mr. Scarborough in New York this week after having been taken to Richmond, Va., by Mrs. Scarborough’s mother, Mrs. Cora Mae Basnight, and her broth er-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Wayland Fry. On arriving back in Manteo Monday night Mrs. Fry discovered that her sister’s passport, which was to have been sent to New York for her to pick up there, had arriv ed instead in Manteo. Early Thurs day morning Mrs. Fry left for Norfolk, from which point she flew to New York with the pass port, leaving at 8:35 a.m. and ar riving back in Norfolk at. 11 p.m. She brought back a report of the greatest crowds she -had ever seen in New York, where she has visited on a number of occasions. Being election day, it seemed that the en tire populace was out. The streets were crowded and the stores were jammed. The baby, unaccustomed to crowds, had a wonderful time pulling the hair of passersby and snatching for neckpieces before his mother and aunt could stop him. The crowds were so dense the baby couldn’t be kept out of reach of the things that interested him, but, according to his aunt, everyone in volved took it good-naturedly and laughed back at the baby. Mrs. Scarborough is the former Sally Alford of Manteo. Mr. Scar borough was formerly from Wan chese. DELEGATES TO ATTEND FOREST FIRE MEETING Approximately 60 delegates from eight northeastern counties will attend the Governor’s Confer ence on forest fire prevention in Raleigh Wednesday, Nov. 14, it was stated in Manteo this week following a checkup with county farm agents in Dare, Hyde, Tyr rell, Chowan, Perquimans, Pasquo tank, Camden and Currituck. The farm agents of the various coun ties are serving as co-chairmen on travel arrangements for persons planning to attend the conference which begins at 10:30 o’clock in the morning and concludes at 3 o'clock the same afternoon with an inter mission at noon for the delegates to enjoy a gigantic free barbecue luncheon. DARE DRIVERS LICENSE EXAM OFFICE TO CLOSE The Dare County drivers license examiner’s office is to be closed next Thursday and Friday, No vember 15th and 16th. Mrs. Syble Etheridge, the examiner, will at tend an Institute of Government examiners’ school at Chapel Hill during that time, leaving Monday and returning Saturday. Regular schedule will be resumed the fol lowing week. FISH FRY NEXT FRIDAY AT MANTEO M.E. CHURCH The Men’s Club of Mt. Olivet Methodist Church is raising funds to pay for a club-sponsored addi tion to the church. A real treat is promised in their fish fry to be held next Friday evening, Nov. 16 on the church grounds from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Cost for the treat will be $1 for adults, 50 cents for chil dren. Money raised from this project will be applied toward paying for the installation of loudspeakers in the church auditorium for the hard-of-hearing. LOST COLONY ORGANIZATION TO MEET DEC. 6 IN RALEIGH Roanoke Island Historical Asso ciation, sponsoring organization of The Lost Colony will have its an nual meeting in Raleigh on Thurs day, December 6 at the Sir Walter Hotels, says General Manager R. E. Jordan. Dr. Robert Lee Humber of Greenville, chairman of the board of directors of the association will preside at the meeting which will begin with the annual luncheon at 12 noon. Included in the agenda for the meeting will be the appointment by Governor Hodges of two new members of the board of directors. These new directors will replace M. Keith Fearing, Sr., of Manteo who died recently and Russell Grumman of Chapel Hill who has resigned as result of his health. SAMUEL AVERY PERRY, 83, DIES; KITTY HAWK NATIVE Samuel Avery Perry,- 83, died Thursday night at 6 o’clock in Manteo following a long illness. He was a native of Kitty Hawk and had lived in Dare County all of his life. He was the son of the late Dempsey and Belinda Tillett Perry and husband of the late Levetta Rogers Perry. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church in Kitty Hawk. He is survived by four daugh ters, Mrs. Deatrice Midgett of Norfolk, Mrs. Bell Parker of Nags Head, Mrs. Truxton Midgett of Kitty Hawk and Mrs. Ernest Hay wood of Kill Devil Hills; two sons, Walter D. Perry of Kill Devil Hills and Jesse Perry of Kitty Hawk; one brother, Zenith Perry of Kitty Hawk, 14 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 at Ihe graveside in the Austin Cemetery in Kitty Hawk. Long known as one of the pillars and landmarks of the community, Mr. Perry’s passing will be widely noticed. His funeral was conducted at the graveside Sunday after noon by Elder J. P. Tingle of the Primitive Baptist church, assisted by Elders G. G. Jerethan and J. S. Connor of Portsmouth, Va. “While Sorrow Encompasses Us Around," and “Asleep in Jesus were sung. The casket was covered with a pall of red and white car nations and ferns. The active pall bearers were nephews of Mr. Perry: Hallett and Colon Perry, Elton Twiford, Ervin Hines, Eld ridge Beacham, Willie Rogers and A. D. Baum. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1956 DETERMINED TO WORK FOR ALLIGATOR TOLL BRIDGE Small Group to Urge State to Bring Tolls Back to the Southern Albemarle Region By AYCOCK BROWN If efforts fail for the construc tion of free bridges across Alli gator River on U. S. 64 and the Cape Fear River on U. S. 17 at Wilmington, a joint committee of the Southern Albemarle and Cape Fear regidns will’ ask the North Carolina General Assembly to ap prove a bill that will enable bonds to be issued, proceeds from which will be used for the construction of toll bridges at these two sites, it was announced by Melvin R. Daniels, president of the Southern Albemarle Association. The proposed action for con struction of the bridges, toll or free, was taken at a meeting of the executive committee of the associ ation in Belhaven last week. Daniels also stated that shortly after the current elections, county representatives in the General As sembly from Dare, Tyrrell; Wash ington and New Hanover would go to Raleigh and confer with Gover nor Luther Hodges relative to tjje two bridges. These county repre sentatives include R. Bruce Ether idge of Dare, Lewis Combs, Tyr rell; Dr. J. M. Phelps, Washing ton; and Addison Hewlett, Jr., of New Hanover. “Already the State Highway and Public Works Commission has con ducted initial planning for the two bridges by making test pile driv ings and other surveys,*’ said Dan- See SAA, Page Four A WEEKLY REVIEW OF CIVIL DEFENSE ACTIVITIES IN NORTH CAROLINA AND DARE COUNTY By AYCOCK BROWN Utilizing the wealth of retired military service personnel in this area, a program for the establish ment of an independent Civil De fense communications center has been launched here in Manteo by the establishment of a radio school for the purpose of qualifying nov ice radio operators for a general operators license. "This will enable them to oper ate and maintain a CONELRAD station for the State or National Civil Defense Network,” said Rob ert K. Gunn, director of, the coun ty’s civil defense program, who is assisted by Fred Trew. Goodrich Williams, a retired Coast Guard radioman who lives in Manteo’s “Kinnakeet community” has volun teered his services as instructor and 14 members have been enrolled in the first classes which are now being held at the home of Good rich where he already has a radio setup. Gunn, whose regular employ ment is that of district sanitarian for the health departments of this and adjoining counties, stated that later classes will be open to men and women and younger persons of responsible age. Some of the class members here are also members of the Boy Scouts. While the communications set up is the first phase in the Dare County Civil Defense program oth er volunteers throughout the area are submitting their names for training and assignments in a medical and surgical' program to KITTY HAWK MIGHT LOSE SOME $70,000 IN SCHOOL FUNDS A movement has been started on the behalf of other districts in Dare County seeking the re-alloca tion of some $70,000 in school funds heretofore set aside to ap ply on construction of an elemen tary school at Kitty Hawk, accord ing to reports reaching this news paper. / The movement is said to be bas ed on the desire of citizens in the Kitty Hawk district to remove from Dare and be a part of Curri tuck County, and it is contended, if, as, and when this happens, Kitty Hawk District will not be entitled to funds from Dave Coun ty’s share, and this money should revert to children who remain in Dare County’s school system. Citizens of Kitty Hawx district are now arranging to hold a spec ial election, on January 5 next, with a new registration of voters for the purpose of voting a $200,- 000 bond issue io build a $270,000 building at Kitty Hawk. Previous ly, after a spirited fight for ccn struction of a high school, they had started a movement to with draw from Dare County. This week they appealed to the Currituck Board of Commissioners for as sistance in making this transfer. It is reported th it there is very little favor in Currituck County, toward this move, inasmuch as Atlantic Township withdrew from Currituck and became a part of Dare about 35 years ago. The big fight that is expected to loom in case this movement is continued, is the objec.im that will be raise! to th? citizens of Kitty Hawk in thri." 0f,..:t ’ car ry back with them to Currituck, a large part of Dare Couity which was not with Atlantic Township at the time it came to Dare County, and which area includes Colington Island, a part of Nags Head and the Kitty Hawk area. The area t’ne Kitty Hawk group seeks to take to Currituck claims a valua tion of about six of the 17 million dollar property valuation in Dore County. Ihe entire movement followed disappointment over the defeat of the high school project sought by See KITTY HAWK, Page Four CATHOLIC LADIES TO HOLD RUMMAGE SALE IN MANTEO The Ladies of St. Cecelia’s Altar and Gift Society of Holy Redeemer Church of Kill Devil Hills, will hold a rummage and thrift sale Saturday morning, November 10th at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the com munity building in Manteo. The purpose of the sale is to raise funds for church activities and improvements. Recently the church gave a television set. Chances were taken mainly by tourists who came to the coast dur ing the summer. The winner of the set was a tourist from Coral Gables, Fla. Taking part in the sale to be held Saturday will be the following members of this society: Mrs. Harold Glynn, Mrs. Isabel Murphy, Mrs. Vivian Ryder, Mrs. H. A. Crees, Jr., Mrs. Beatrice Lewark, Mrs. George Sides, and Mrs. Julian Oneto. be directed by Dr. W. W. Johnston of the Dare, Hyde and Currituck counties health department and Dr. Wallace W. Harvey of Fear ing Memorial Clinic in Manteo. In discussing the civil defense programs and the team of Gunn and Trew have been doing plenty of that before civic clubs, in schools and elsewhere, Gunn said, “For sometime the strategic posi tion of Dare with respects to the effects of any national or military emergency has been realized. Therefore the current program i which is gaining considerable mo mentum, is being developed to aid and abate the potential threat that could be created by any unforseen catastrophic situation. CHANNEL BASS CATCHES A lingering northeaster has made the surf too rough for good fishing along the Dare Coast re cently but channel bass which us ully attract many anglers to the beaches at this season of the y-ar are being caught at Hatteras In let. Best report from the Hatter as sector occurred last week end when a group of Greensboro ang lers accounted for seven weigh ing up to 43 p.u-ids each. E. P. White of Buxton who in Man teo this to attend a com missioners meeting stated that most of the big hannel bass each year are caught from the surf during Nbreusbe.v DEMOCRATS IN DARE COUNTY TAKE JOLT AS EISENHOWER CARRIES NINE OF 16 PRECINTS Republican Strength Manifested in Commission ers Race; Ike's Majority in County 188; Total Lack of Activity by Democrats in Tuesday Election; Fairly Large Vote Cast. COUNTY BOARD SERVES NOTICE ON AUDITOR Dare Commiuionen Minutes Show Aud it Not Made for Past Two Yean Although the Grand Jury week before last put in their report just what they were told, that audits of county affairs in Dare are reg ularly made and on file for people to see, the minutes of the Board of Commissioners this week show that no audits have been made for two years, just as we have been telling in these columns. Up to date audits have not only not been made, but contrary to law, no audits have been published by the county Board during the past five years. This week the Board put it in their minutes to order the County ac countant to stop paying out money to R. O. Howard, the contract audi tor, and also to notify the auditor that the contract will be null and void unless the audits are com plete and in the hands of the Board not later that January Bth next. The minutes say the audits, accord ing to contract should be completed by October 1 each year. The Board voted to remit tax penalties for failure to list against Mrs. Alwilda Culpepper and Sher man Culpepper of Nags Head on the ground that they were in Flor ida at tax listing time this year and had left word with Register of Deeds Daniels to list their taxes and he forgot to do so. The Board also remitted sls tax es on the C. C. Miller estate of Buxton on the ground that the property involved had been bought by the National Park Service. A. H. Ward Jr. of Manteo was named a director of the Dare County Tourist Bureau succeeding Gordon Kellogg who resigned. It was ordered that three trans formers of the Manteo Airport be sold to Roanoke Utilities, for $450 and rent charged against them for the past ten years while in use by the company be cancelled. Manager Wallace Gray was instructed to settle with the utilities company for a long, standing light bill at the airport. FUNERAL KENNETH BAUM HELD AT KITTY HAWK Funeral services for Kenneth Le- Roy Baum were held Monday aft ernoon at 2 p.m. at the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church by the pastor, Rev. W. H. Montgomery, and Rev. J. D. Young, pastor of the Ann St. Methodist Church of Beaufort. Mr. Baum, a Chief Boatswain of the U. S. Coast Guard was officer in charge of Fort Macon Station, and died Friday at the Morehead City hospital after a short illness. He was 51 years old. Burial with military honors was held at the Austin cemetery. The pall bearers were Julian Gray, Henry Peel, Eric G. Bragg, •T. E. Hunt, J. C. Daniels, Wilbur Simp son, all chief warrant officers of the Coast Guard active or retired. The body lay in state at Twiford Funeral Home in Manteo until time for services. Mr. Baum was a native of Kitty Hawk, the son of the late Elsworth and Adelia Owens Baum. He was the husband of Mrs. Shirley Baum. He is survived by his wife and three children: Mrs. E. W. Chappel of Norfolk and sons Nelson Ondra, USAF, and Kenneth Jr. of the home; a sister, Mrs. Theron Corbell of Kitty Hawk, and a half-brother, Isaac Baum of Petersburg, Va., and by one grandson. He had served in the Coast Guard 23 years, and beside his service at Fort Macon and other stations, he served on the USS Bayfield during the invasion of Normandy and Southern France. LANDS BIG SHEEPSHEAD Mrs. G. S. Stallings of Ports mouth, Va., fishing with her hus band near Turner’s store at the south shore slip of Oregon Inlet ferry on Hatteras last week end landed a 1014 pound sheepshead, the largest fish of this species taken by a woman angler along the Dare Coast this year. Fishing, especially for sheepshead is very good at the southshore ferry slip at this time. Single Copy 7< The smugness of many Demo crats in Dare County who have been taking for granted that the party is invincible got a severe jolt Tuesday when nine out of 16 precincts went for Eisenhower, and he wound up with 188 major ity over Adlai Stevenson. Ike got a vote of 1028; Stevenson 840. Likewise, in the only contest in the county, and one not fought hard was the vote of Republican Victor Daniels, with 838 votes r gainst Democratic incumbent fcr County Commissioner Lawrence Swam who got 921, a majority of only 83. Daniels got every vote in East Lake precinct and carried also Wanchese, Hatteras. Rodanthe, Duck, Kill Devil Hills, and Avon. On the ticket, but with no cam paign made, Sumner Scarbor ough, seeking to oust Ellis Gray for the Board of Education, got 546 votes while Gray got 1,084. Representative R. Bruce Ether idge, and four members of the Board of Commissioners who had no opposition carried the strength of their ticket, normally some 1400 votes of those cast. The voters of the Dare Beaches Sanitary District decided to drop the two members of the board who sought re-election. R. E. Jor dan, and C. A. York. They elected O. C. Sanderlin of Kitty Hawk, Pat Bayne of Nags Head and W. H. Smith of Kitty Hawk. Governor Hodges got a vote in Dare of 1,336 votes, while his Republican opponent, Kyle Hayes, got 426 votes. Congressman Her bert Bonner got 1,271 votes against 398 for Republican Rat cliff. The largest vote was cast at Manteo box which gave Stevenson 272 votes and Eisenhower 259; Swain 339 votes, Daniels 174. Dan iels got his biggest vote at his home box of Wanchese, 159 to Swain’s 38. Bonner led the ticket in Manteo, getting 422 votes to 80 for Ratcliff. Too late for this week, tlia com plete returns by precincts will be published next week. Democrats Disappointed While disappointment was ex pressed by many Democrats at Dare’s being about the only coun ty east of Raleigh which went Republican, it was no more than should have been expected. An in- See ELECTION, Page Four SEEKING MORE FUNDS TO REPAIR SAND FENCES L. L. Swain, member of the Dare County Board of Commissioners and in charge of current sand fix ation work between Kitty Hawk and Hatteras, says efforts will be made to get additional funds im mediately for maintenance and re pairs to some of the areas where recent storms have caused the ocean to break through the ab briers. A similar proposal brought to the State Highway Commission this week in Winston-Salem brought on action. The project under Swain’s su pervision has involved the expend iture of approximately $66,000 in building up sand ridges backed up with paneled brush fences designed to stop moving sands and build up dunes. The money was made avail able through the Civil Defense Ad ministration in cooperation with Dare County. In addition to the county’s proj ect, the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area re cently announced that it would spend approximately SIOO,OOO on similar sand fixation work along its 70 miles of beaches extending from lower Nags Head to Ocracoke Inlet. “High water during the past 23 days from northeast winds have caused a situation which has been very damaging. In many places the beach has built up two feet or more because of the protection af forded by the recently constructed sand barriers. However, the dune system in many places suffered se vere damage,” Swain stated here Monday. Hatteras Island has experienced considerable damage because the National Park Service had been unable to build its barriers to date. Swain stated that the Civil De fense Administration has suggest ed that the damage resulting from recent storms be surveyed imme diately toward making application for funds to effect repairs. And this was being done early this week on the coast of Dare.
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