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VOLUME XXII NO. 38 HATTERAS TRAGEDY DECLARED RESULT OF FAST DRIVING Jack Austin Dead, and Six Others Injured Sunday Evening at Night Spot. The tragic motor mishap which resulted in the death of John Si mon Austin of Hatteras and in jured six other people Sunday eve ning is attributed to the high speed of a car driven by Deryl Quidley, 21 of Hatteras. Quidley, who was bound north ward, drove a 1953 4-door Chev rolet which had been moving at an estimated speed of nearly 100 miles per hour. Some 800 yards down the road, as indicated by skid marks, it appeared he at tempted to slow the car, probably upon viewing the rear end of Aus tin’s car protroding into the high way. Quidley lost control of his car, it travelled 432 feet and ran into the dirt near Tandy’s place, where it ran another 280 feet and struck into Austin’s 1951 2-door Ford, bowling it over, and totally wrecking both cars, the Chevrolet burning up. Austin was killed. Allen McAbee 16, sustained a fractured hip. Ellis Willis 21, who was also in the Austin car, suffered a fractured knee and spine. Quidley suffered severe injuries. Myron Nelson (Clam) Stowe, who accompanied him, suffered a frac ture of the right hip, which had seriously been injured before. Darrell Merrill, 20, suffered from multiple face lacerations, shock anti loss of blood. George Haywood Goode, suffered a fractured right knee and other injuries. Tommy Goode 13, got out lightest with mere bruises. Coast guard helicopters were notified and took the injured men to hospitals in Elizabeth City and Norfolk. The funeral of J. S. Austin, was conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Hatteras Methodist church of which he was a member, by the pastor. Rev. Ray Sparrow. Burial See TRAGEDY. Page Four NARROW ESCAPE FROM HIGH SPEED ON BEACH | Racing Contributed to Car Damage at Nags Head Saturday Afternoon A severe motor mishap at Nags I Head Saturday afternoon, resulted lin some S6OO damage to a car Idriven by Wiley Glenn Beasley of I Kitty Hawk, a member of the Cape lHatteras Coast Guard crew, who Idrove a 1953 Hudson, and who ll:as been charged with following ■too closely, and passing unlaw fully. The mishap is attributed to lan alleged race between Beasley land an unidentified driver from ■Rodanthe. Beasley will be heard in ■Dare Recorders Court on April 2. ■lnjuries were confined to minor ■bruises. The other driver had slowed up land passed a car which was park led on the roadside, while the own er was changing a tire. When ■Beasley slowed up, he was too Klose, and in attempting to swing Lround the parked car, he faced ■mother approaching car. Sharp ■application of brakes caused his Hudson to overturn. The other car Involved did not stop, but contin ued on southward. I A group of women and children ■landing on the roadside, awaiting lhe ehanging of the tire narrowly Escaped being struck. BELOVED PT. HBR. COUPLE MARRIED FIFTY YEARS I Mr. and Mrs. James Griggs of Point Harbor, after 50 years of Bnarried life, were honored at a Reception on March 14th at the Rome of their daughter and son in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Marion I. Rlalco, and which was visited by Rnore than 300 people, attesting to Rhe great popularity and prestige Rf this couple in Currituck County Ind vicinity. They were married March 10, 1907 at Harbinger. I’hree of those who also attended ■he wedding 50 years ago were ■resent: Daniel Griggs of Pt. Har ■or, J. B. Owens of Elizabeth City, Ind Mrs. Janie Midgett of Wash ington, D. C. mtIED CHICKEN DINNER BY WSCS KITTY HAWK R A fried chicken dinner will be liven by the W.S.C.S. of the Kitty Kiwk Methodist Church in the litty Hawk school lunch room, on Saturday, March 23 from I p.m. Orders will also be made for those wishing to take them Kt. ■ The committee in charge of the Kpper is comprised of Mrs. Jack Kviofrd, Mrs. Orville Baum and ■rs. Jack Finn. Proceeds will go ■ the church building fund. ■ A charge of one dollar per plate Hill be made. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA MISS ROLLINSON WINNER OF CONTEST IN HAWAII |m! Mr v v JI Bni MISS SHIRLEY ROLLINSON, 17, a bright young girl with Hatteras ancestry, now living with her parents ni Honolulu, recently was declared the winner of a $450 scholarship for her five minute speech on St. Anthony’s home, an orphanage, and one of the agencies supported by the Honolulu com munity chest. Miss Rollinson, who is the daughter of C.G. Lieut. George Rollinson, and Mrs. Rollin son, is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. (Rocky) Rollinson of Buxton, Dare County, who are de lighted with the news of their granddaughter’s achievement. She is a senior in Sacred Heart Academy, a Catholic school and lives at 526 Pokele St., Honolulu, Hawaii. She hopes to apply her scholarship in entering one of the great Catholic universities in the U. S. Her speech paid high tribute to the manner and purpose of caring for children from disrupted homes. She won over ten other contestants. She won the territorial finals in December at Radio Sta tion KGU and was awarded a trip to Washington, D. C. to compete this year in national finals in the voice of Democracy contest against contestants from all the U. S. HIGHWAY GROUP TO BE FISHING PARTY GUESTS Wanchese Ruritans Enlist Six Boat Cap tains to Donate Their Services on April 26 Depend on the Wanchese Ruri tan Club to be doing something and not always talking about it. The club is taking the lead in arranging a fishing party for Highway officials and their wives when they come to Manns Harbor in April to the bridge dedication. On April 26, the group will be taken on a fishing trip out Ore gon Inlet, and the following six Captains have agreed to donate boats and services for this occa sion: Wayland Baum, Gilbert Til lett, Jesse Etheridge, Willie Ether idge, Ronald Tillett and Willie Etheridge Jr. A report from Mack Etheridge, who assisted in arranging this generous invitation, read at the club Friday night, said the party boat captains wished to show their appreciation for the many roads improved in their community, and the harbor improvements recently made. At this meeting, it was directed that a trophy case be provided to exhibit awards to be made by the club to outstanding students in the Wanchese school. Action was urged in improving the dumping area for the com munity. The dinner was a duck dinner, donated by George Hale Quidley and served by the ladies. DR. HARRIS LEAVES DARE FOR PRACTICE IN BEULAH Dr. Cary F. Harris, af*er sev eral year’s practical on Roanoke Island, has recently located in the community of Beulah, which ’’s on RFD 3 lust out of Mt. Airy, N. C., where is located a new clinic. About two years ago, Dr. Harris gave up his office in Manteo and set on an office in his residence at Wanchese, but found the com munity not large enough to sup port a full time nhvsician. Never theless, he was highly regarded at Wanchese, and one good lady said she cried when he left because he was considered a competent physi cian. In fact, Dr. Harris’ pleasant personality made him generally popular in Dare County, and re gret on his departure is wide spread. i; GAY NINETIES REVUE DRAWS BIG CROWD ON Ist APPEARANCE Local Talent Show So Well Re ceived There is Demand For Second Performance The Gay Nineties Revue put on by local talent Saturday night in the Pine Room of the Carolinian Hotel at Nags Head played to a capacity audience, and so great has been the demand for a repeat per formance that the show will be presented again Saturday evening, March 23, in the Manteo school auditorium. Robert K. Gunn of Manteo, as emcee, brought roars of laughter from the audience with his well timed jokes, with which he .inter spersed the more serious side of his introductions. • Mrs. Jessie Mann, who played for the theatre during the day of the silent movies, played many old favorites on the piano as an open er for the show. The Manteo Rotary quartet, whose members are Lawrence and Ralph Swain, John H. Long and Julian Oneto, sang several num bers of the Gay Nineties period, one number complete with barber chair and “customer” Orville Baum. Appearing with them in more Gay Nineties songs were Ollie Bell Swain, Virginia Swain, Lima Oneto, Ina Long, Bette Fearing and Dottie Fry. Susie Briggs appeared with Johnnie Long in a “Diamond Lil” number; and Mrs. Julia Gray as “Mrs. Riley Doolevitch” or “Touch-the-Button Nell” was featured in a humorous monologue. Mrs. Rennie William son was accompanist, assisted by Millie Brown for several numbers. Millie at the piano, Louis Aitken on the harmonica, and Francis Meekins or) his accordion played a number of old favorites of the Gay Nineties period “Just A Bird in a Gilded Cage” was effectively done by Nelson Chears and George See REVUE, Page Four MANNS HARBOR'S OLDEST RESIDENT DIES WEDNESDAY I * Aw*..- % f - LEONIDA'S ROSSER MANN, 92, oldest resident of Manns Harbor, a widely known and beloved citi zen of his community succumbed to a long period of failing health resulting from the infirmities of age, at his home Wednesday morn ing, at 10:40, after having been ill for six days. Until recently he had been very active for his age. He was the husband of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Mann, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Caroon Manti, and is survived by the following sons and daughters, Gaston Mann of Nags Head, Harry Mann of Lan caster, Calif; Guy Mann, Mrs. Ina Waterfield, and Mrs. Calvin Beas ley, all of Manns Harbor. Also by seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Mr. Mann was a retired fisher man, a business in which he had engaged all his active life. He was born Jan. 3, 1865. Early in Janu ary of this year, his children hon ored him as usual custom, with a party in his honor. Funeral services for Mr. Mann will be conducted at Mt. Carmel Methodist Church Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. A. L. G. Stephenson, the pastor. The re mains will lie in state at the church one hour prior to the serv ices. Burial will be in the Caroon cemetery, on the home acres of Mr. Mann. REEF TO ENLARGE CAFE NEAR THE LITTLE BRIDGE Among many improvements and enlargement jobs on various busi nesses m the Manteo area which serve the tourist trade is an addi tion being made to “The Reef,” the popular eating place operated by Mr. gnd Mrs. Paul (Dick) Gray near the little bridge between Ro anoke Sound and Nags Head. An addition is being built which will make a banquet room for 32 peo ple. Enlargements are also being 1 made in the main dining room to I increase seating capacity. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1957 CAN-CAN GIRLS IN GAY NINETIES REVUE AT NAGS HEAD an - ■k _dwW-• JR ■II mI w FOUR OF THE SIX LOCAL GIRLS who danced the can-can last Saturday night, as part of the Gay Nine ties Revue given at Nags Head, as a pre-jamboree event heralding the 1957 Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree. The show will be repeated Saturday night, March 23, in the Manteo school auditorium, at 8:30. Shown in the picture are, left to right, Ina Long, Virginia Swain, Bette Fearing and Lima Oneto, as they per form for last year’s jamboree King of the Pirates, J ohn Dontaho of Nags Head. Also taking part in the dance, but not shown in the picture were Dottie Fry and Margie Purser. SELECTIONS FOR BEAUTY CONTEST ON APRIL FIFTH To Choose Miss Dare County To Compete For Queen of South ern Albemarle on April 25 Pretty girls from the ages of 16 and 21 from each community of Dare County are being asked to appear in a beauty contest at Man teo’ School Auditorium cn Friday night, April 5, as one of the sea- of the Mt. Olivt Church sponsored Fashion Show. The win ner of the contest will become the Dare County beauty sponsor to take part in the William B. Um stead Memorial Bridge Dedication exercises on Thursday, April 25. Rules of the contest and entry blanks were mailed out this week to various communities along with letters over signature of Melvin R. Daniels, seeking cooperation in securing entrants for the contest. The contest is being conducted by a committee of the Manteo Ro tary Club of which Dan Morrill is chairman and Bill Ernst and Ay cock Brown are assistants. Community residents who have been requested to assist in lining up beauties in their area include: Mrs. Violet Austin, Hatteras; W. S. White, Manns Harbor; Mrs. Belle Payne, Stumpy Point; Mrs. Curtis Toler, Kitty Hawk; Mrs. Roy Basnight, East Lake; Mrs. Lois Bridges, Wanchese; Mrs. Evelyn Culpepper, Nags Head; Mrs. Ernest Haywood, Colington; Mrs. Elton Twiford, Kill Devil Hills: Mrs. George Meekins, Avon; See CONTEST, Page Four SAILOR FINED SSO FOR DRIVING 100 MILES PER HR. A mere SSO and court costs was the price charged for driving at one hundred miles per hour on the road to Wanchese. Clyde R. Barnes, a sailor attached to the Navy Fa cility at Duck in Dare County was brought in by Patrolman Fields before Recorders Court this week. David A. Gaskins of Wanchese paid $25 and costs for driving without an operator’s license. Raymond Escott Miller of Bux ton was fined $25 for public drunk enness at Nags Head, and $25 and costs for driving without an oper ator’s license. Samuel Brooks Jr., a negro, failed to report an accident, and paid $5 and court costs. Ted Day, Washington, N. C. fish dealer, an old offender in the business, was up again for giving worthless checks to Alton Best of Stumpy Point. He was dismissed on payment of court costs and making good the check. J. T. Coppersmith of Elizabeth City was l also ordered to make good a $lO worthless check given to Anderson’s market. Charlie McCleese of Manteo paid $6 for driving at a speed of 31 mph in Manteo. Jack L. Rutan Buxton paid sls for driving at 70 mph. Ed J. White of Nags Head radar stating, paid $5 for driving to left of center line. Norma Jean Gray of Stumpy Point paid $25 and Costs for driv ing without operator’s license. John Daniels, brought up for failing to keep up his payments of sl2 a week for the support of his child, and having fallen behind I some $250, was permitted to pay sl2, and promise^o_gtgtt_Egjung 1 _ AN OCRACOKE ANGLER WINS A SSO BOND Ocracoke, March 15. —Capt. Wal ter C. O’Neal, Sr., well-known hunting and fishing guide of Ocra coke Island, is the proud possessor of a SSO bond, presented him by Field & Stream magazine, for catching the second largest chan nel bass in 1956. Capt. and Mrs. O’Neal along with fifteen other anglers were casting at Ocracoke Inlet on the night of October 9th. No one had had any luck, in fact half the crowd including Capt. O’Neal were dozing in their chairs. A sudden jerk on the line quickly aroused Capt. O’Neal and in thirty minutes time he had a 56 lb. 2 oz. channel bass landed on the beach. It was the only one caught that night, in fact within a few minutes of the catch, the wind shifted to the northeast and stayed there for about a month with no good fishing weather for anyone. Capt. O’Neal used an Ashway dacron 50 lb. test line, mullet bait, Eagle Claw No. 10 hook. He is the only native Ocracoker who has ev er won a Field & Stream prize, and he can further brag that he and L. C. Gilbert of Smithville, Texas, made the biggest one-day surf-casting catch lO7 channel bass. SOLDIER INJURED IN FINAL WHACK AT REMAINS OF BRIDGE TURN STATION Time after time the' Midway Service station has been crashed into by hapless motorists, some sustaining serious injuries, and now that the State Highway Com mission has almost completely de molished it, it was thought motor mishans h«re would come to end. For the building was almost all removed to give way for some sort of traffic circle to make'tor more safety at this spot. But on Tuesday at about 11:30 p.m. of this week, the debris was the target of a 1953 Ford driven by Alton Bridges, a soldier attach ed to the Army radar unit in the former Nags Head Coast Guard Station. This young man was bound in from the beach, and over looked the stop sign at this junc tion. The car was badly wrecked. An unidentified companion was not Injured. Bridges, the driver, sustained serious injuries. He was taken to Albemarle Hospital by Twiford’s ambulance ■. HILARIOUS PLAY TO BE PRESENTED BY OCRACOKE PEOPLE First Entertainment in Newly Re modeled Recreation Hall Planned by PTA Ocracoke, March 18.—On Satur day night, March 23rd, Ocracoke P.T.A. will sponsor an evening of entertainment, marking the first use of the recently remodeled and improved recreation hall. Two one-act plays and a musical hit-parade will be features of the evening’s entertainment. The first play w'ill be presented by students in the high school. It is entitled “The Round-up of Minnie,” and centers around a confusion between “Minnie, the horse” and “Minnie, the old man’s daughter.” The lat- I ter part is played by Miss Carolyn Garrish, with Murray Fulcher playing Cowboy Spike, who wants the horse and ends up by getting both the horse and the daughter. Miss Ellen Marie Fulcher plays the part of a city gal, interested in Spike’s partner, Curley, played by Ray Waller. Edward C. O’Neal is Smith, Spike’s rival for Minnie, and Lindsey B. Howard, is the old man, whose horse and daughter cause so much confusion. The second one-act play is by members of the P.T.A.. It’s title is “Diet Begins Tomorrow”. It affords one good laugh after an other when five somewhat plump friends decide to start dieting on rye crisp and lettuce, but find that Lula, the colored cook, has pre pared their “specialty victuals” for dinner that night. Mrs. Bessie Howard plays Lulu, the lead part. Mrs. Lucile Garrish, Mrs. Fonnie Williams, Mrs. Doris Garrish, and Mrs. Mabel Gaskill are the dieters, but as the title prophesies “Diet Begins Tomorrow.” “Your Hit Parade”—Brought to you on Channel WHYW-TV and sponsored by the newest cigarette and home permanent on the market (those products will not appear in the Ocracoke stores until after the program), this show stars the world-famous Howard Sisters sing ers, Blanche, Etta Mae, Leia, and Lo’s Ann, and those two star co- See OCRACOKE, Page Eight MORE THAN SBOO RAISED FOR HEART FUND IN DARE Returns from the Heart Fund campaign, which ended March 1, are nearing completion in Dare County, and have been announced by Mrs. Gordon Kellogg, county chairman. A total of $811.19 has been collected, with several places yet to be heard from. The break down is as follows: Manteo, 8381.29; Wanchese, $48.09; Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills beaches, $90.35; Kitty Hawk vil lage, $54.73; Stumpy Point, $39.00; Manns Harbor, $45.42; Colington, $16.88; Manteo colored, $50.00; Rodanthe-Salvo, $37.18; Avon, $28.25; Buxton, Frisco, $20.00. SUFFERS HEART ATTACK , R. H. O’Neal, known to every one in Manteo as “Uncle Bob,” suf fered a heart attack Thursday afternoon and at press time was receiving treatment in his home, while arrangements were being made to take him by ambulance to Single Copy 7< NORFOLK FIRM TO MAKE ELECTRICAL SURVEY FOR TOWN Board Members Find Engineer Closer Home, Perhaps Less Expensive The Town Board of Manteo has retained the services of a large electrical contracting firm in Nor folk to make a survey of the elec tric power situation in Manteo, with the object of determining if the town shall go into business. 0. J. McColl, who lives at 3632 Mississippi Ave., Norfolk, visited Manteo Sunday and looked over the situation, according to S. E. Midgett, town board member, who says Mr. McColl represents the large contracting firm, Mechanical Engineering Co., of 232 Bank St., Norfolk. This firm has handled many large Government contracts, built power lines, etc., including installation of electrical equipment for the Navy at the Manteo Air port 16 years ago. Mr. Midgett says it was found the Norfolk man’s retainer of S3OO, for his visit is a saving of S2OO under the man from Charlotte, who couldn’t come right away. It is his hope to get the engineer’s report at an earlier date thereby, and there are several other advantages in finding someone closer home to do the job. Mr. Midgett and M. L. Daniels Jr. express the belief that it would be highly profitable for the town to go into the electric light busi ness when the present franchise of Roanoke Utilities expires in July 1959, whereby such profits would permit a big drop in prop erty taxes. At the last meeting of the town Board, Roanoke Utili ties offered to surrender its fran chise if the Board would grant one to Virginia Electric and Power Co., which had offered to buy out the Manteo company, and reduce rates, spend a large sum for rebuilding the lines, and give the town a $60,000 annual payroll. ETHERIDGE AND BAUM RESCUED AS BOAT SINKS “Chee Chee” Damaged As It Hits Sub merged Piling' In Core Sound One of the Oregon Inlet fishing fleet’s best known Gulf Stream cruisers, the “Chee Chee” of Wan chese, owned by Willie Etheridge, Jr., was damaged and sunk in the vicinity of Wainwright Slough be tween Ocracoke and Atlantic in upper Core Sound early Wednes day night, according to reports from Atlantic Life Boat Station near Sea Level. Chief Miller in charge cf the station stated that the Chee Chee bound south with Capt.'Etheridge and Harry Baum aboard, had struck a submerged broken beacon piling which had been replaced by a buoy. A hole was crushed through the bow and the craft was in a sinking condition but those aboard were able to steer her for a nearby shoal where the Chee Chee is now aground in about tour feet of water. A commercial fisherman from Sea Level, whose name was not obtained, rescued Etheridge and Baum and took them to Atlantic on the mainland aboard his boat the “Mike and Jim.” Complete details of the accident were not available here today al though relatives of Etheridge and Baum in Wanchese, stated that the See MISHAP, Page Four JAMBOREE MEETING MONDAY NIGHT 8:30 All persons interested in and participating in the arrang»m»nts on Roanoke Island and the Dare Beaches for the third annual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree are invited to attended a general onen meeting on Monday night, March 25, at 8:30 p.m. at the Carolinian Hotel, it was announced today by gen eral chairman, Wallace McCown. Most of the events for the three ’ day festival, following the dedica tion of the William B. Uinstead Bridge, on Thursdnv morning, have been scheduled. However, for the purpose of clarifying all of the plans, and making decisions on some tentative schedules, hearing reports from all committee chair men, and requesting the participa tion of all citizens in the various events, this general meeting has been called by the chairman. A special invitation is extended to representatives of the various civic groups on the beaches and Roanoke Island so that every or ganization may be aware of its op portunity to participate in the fes tival. The Hatteras Island Jamboree Committee, headed by “Scotty” Gibson, are handling all details for Hatteras Island Day on Friday and • Friday night, and their plans will be announced to the meeting of the persons from Roanoke Island
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