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VOLUME XXII NO. 41 JAMBOREE PIRATE ROYALTY WILL BE CHOSEN FRIDAY Many Events In Connection With Festival Begin This Week End By AYCOCK BROWN Royalty that will reign during the third annual Dare Coast Pi rates Jamboree April 26-28, will be chosen during two colorful events planned for the current week end on Nags Head. On Friday night at the Dare County Shrine Club, a prince and princess will be selected from an all-county group of costumed teen agers. The costume contest and dance, with music by an imported orchestra will be only for persons between the ages of 13 and 19, and those attending must be enrolled as students in Dare schools. The prince and princess selected will receive handsome trophy cups while the runnerups will receive prises. Those winning regal honors will take part in day time events of the forthcoming Jamboree and also at the William B. Umstead Bridge dedication which will be held Thursday, April 25. on the eve of the vacation launching fes tival. A pirate king and queen to reign over the third annual Jamboree will be selected at a colorful all costume Jolly Rogers Ball in Nags Head Casino on Saturday night, April 13. The 1956 pirate rulers were King John Donoho and Queen Sue McCown, who had succeeded Oscar Sanderlin, the original king and Sara Alford, queen of the first Jamboree. In addition to the new king and queen to be selected on Saturday night, four attendants will also be chosen. The new 1957 royalty will be officially crowned at the big Coronation Ball on Sat urday, April 27, an event also scheduled to take place in the Casino. Only one pre-Jamboree event is scheduled during Holy Week, be ginning Sunday. On Tuesday eve ning, April 16, the dozens of men who have grown beards for the Pirates an'annual cus tom since the event was first start ed in 1955, will be entertained at a dinner party by George Crocker Jr., his parents and King John Donoho of Beacon Motor Lodge. At least 50 bearded men are expected to attend the banquet which in a way will be their payoff for going to the trouble to grow and groom beards for the Pirates Jamboree. After Easter weekend there will be a caravan of pirates invading Elizabeth City for radio appear ances and promotional activities and also to the Norfolk area. Jhese trips will be similar to the success ful visit to North Carolina’s state capitol at Raleigh recently and the invasion of Virginia last week end when Dare Coast pirates stormed the present capitol in Richmond, and the site of the first capitol at Williamsburg and also James town Island, scene of the 350th anniversary festival. At James town the score or more pirates literally captured the replica of the Godspeed, one of the boats in which the Jamestown colonists ar rived in the New World of 1607. In Williamsburg they visited the ancient goal (jail) replica where 12 members of the crew of Black bearr, the notorious North Caro lina pirate were incarcerated for trial, later convicted and then hanged, for their crimes on the high seas. DARE COUNTY FALLS SHORT RED CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS Mrs. Dorris A. Fry reports that with less than one week to go, the 1957 drive for funds for the Dare County Chapter of the American Red Cross is approximately $250 short of its goal in the Town of Manteo, alone. As Mrs. Fry feels no one in the County would like to see the fund fall short of its goal, she suggests that those Who have not contributed please mail their contributions to Mrs. Dorris A. Fry, Box 3027, Manteo, N. C. Seems rather short too doesn’t it, that Dare County, in 'adverse times, having receivd so many thousands of dollars from the Red Cross, for nets, homes, household supplies, food, etc., should forget the benefits they have enjoyed? HATTERAS WINNERS Edison Meekins and Ursula Aus tin won first place in a pre-Pirates Jamboree costume contest at Hat teras Saturday night. Their run nerups were Mr. and Mrs. Millard Gray. The male winners wore con ventional styled costumes. Miss Austin wore a red and yellow brief combination and Mrs. Gray an 18th Century styled frock. The winners are scheduled to take part jn the Jolly, Roger Ball on Nags Head at The Casino, Saturday night to complete in the king and queen selection. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA DARE BEAUTY QUEEN yaWr <Ol|| MISS MARGARET PEARCE of Manteo was elected beauty queen for Dare County last Friday night in a contest sponsored by the Man teo Rotary Club for selection of a representative at the dedication of the William B. Umstead Memorial Bridge on April 25. Miss Pearce, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pearce of Manteo, was selected from 52 contestants. Sec ond place was won by Miss Carol Fulcher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Fulcher of Buxton; and third place went to Miss Ursula Austin, daughter of Mrs. Virginia Austin of Hatteras. The beauty contest was held in conjunction with a fashion show and hill-billy program put on by the Young Adult Fellowship class of Mount Olivet Methodist Church in Manteo, and played to a packed house. Approximately $l6O was cleared, to go toward the purchase of chimes for the church. REBEKAHS TO MEET IN MANTEO ON APRIL 17th The Missouri Midgett Past Noble Grand’s Club will meet Wednesday, evening, April 17th at 8:00'in Manteo at the home of Mrs. Tracy Ward, with Mrs. Hilda Francis, hostess. Mrs. Mildred O’Neal heads the club as president for the ensuing year, with the following officers: Vice-President, Tracy Ward; Sec retary and Treasurer, Lessie Davis, Chaplain, Salina Midgett; Birth day, Lois Midgett; Marshall} Grace White; Guardian, Katherine Ken nedy; Ways and Means, Lois Mid gett; Membership, Hilda Francis; Publicity, Tracy Ward; Cards, Lessie Davis; Program ChiAi., Salina Midgett. The president urges all members to attend this meeting. EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE TO BE HELD AT MANNS HBR. The Manns Harbor Methodist Church is planning an Easter Sun rise Service on the western shore of Croatan Sound at the Joe Croom Mann place near the State-ship yard at Manns Harbor. The public is invited to attend. The Woman’s Societies of Chris tian Service of the Manns Harbor churches are having a joint study class and cover dish supper at the Manns Harbor Community Build ing on Friday, April 19, beginning at 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon. The study class is to be taught by Stanford White. AIRCRAFT REFERENCE MARK PROPOSED IN PAMLICO SD. The Commander, Naval Air Bases. Fifth Naval District, Nor folk. Va., has made application for permit to construct an aircraft ref ference marker at latitude 35°-36’- 30”. longitude 75°-43’-59" in Pam lico Sound, near Long Shoal Point, Dare County. N. C. The proposed marker will be utilized for reference purposes only and under no circumstances will it be subjected to fire of any type. Plans submitted show the proposed structure will be located in approx imately 8 feet of water and will consist of a pile supported steel frame covered with marston mat ting. Plans showing the proposed work may be seen at this office and at the post office at Engel hard N. C. , Objections to this work, if any, will be received at the office of H. C. Rowland, Jr., Colonel, Corps of Engineers, District Engineer, Wilmington, N. C. until 24 April, 1957. NAGS HEAD FISHING James S. Balter, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Jack Sacks of Chevy Chase, Md., landed near-limits of large mputh bass 'on Wednesday while casting in the Colington Island area. Julian Onetu reported the catch. JOHN EARLE JR. AWARDED STAR SCOUT RANK SUNDAY Other News of Boy Scouts in Manteo and Vicinity Reported At a Court of Honor held Sun day, April 7, in the Mt. Olivet Methodist Church, John Earle, Jr., was awarded the rank of Star Scout by Gustaf Hultman, Insti tutional Representative. Second Class ranks were grant ed to Tommy Taylor of Manns Harbor, and Billy Crumpacker of Manteo. Merit Badges were award ed as follows: John Earle, Jr., Radio; Melvin Twiddy, Jr., Camp ing; Buddy Boyce, Citizenship in the Nation. 30 Miles of Hiking: Eleven scouts and two adult leaders com pleted last Saturday, the third of a series of hikes planned for the Troop this spring. The goal has been set to have the entire troop qualify for the Hiking Merit Badge, a feat which has seldom been accomplished by troops in this country. Required are five 10 mile hikes followed by a 20 mile hike making a total of 70 miles. The Manteo Scouts plan to go on from there and form an exclusive “100 Miler Club”. Progress made on North End Camp Site: With a target date for completion of the first of June, the scouts are working hard on their new camp site. An overnight camp was held on March 30, and the day was spent constructing a latrine, clearing trails and general camp maintenance. Prior to this camp the Eagle aPtrol spent a day preparing the site and digging a See SCOUT, Page Five MANTEO METHODIST PASTOR HEADS DARE CANCER DRIVE REV. LOUIS E. AITKIN, Method ist Minister of Manteo, will serve as chairman for the 1957 education al and fund-raising campaign of the Dare County Chapter of the American Cancer Society. The cam paign began April 1. He will be assisted by Rev. W. E. Cholerton, Baptist Minister, and Mrs. Tracie C. Ward. Under his leadership, volunteers will seek to alert all residents to the need for regular health exam inations as a protection against needless cancer and they will work to raise Dare County’s quota. The national goal is $30,000,000 which will be used to further the ACS three-fold fight of research, educa tion and service. “I am proud to be associated See CANCER, Page Five NEW HATTERAS METHODIST CHURCH WHICH IS NOW IN SERVICE 1 -a a tiffs *• " ’ -flEwg ” ■ ' , ■ 41F ‘Ma A”’ -’' F ' ’€/■' SmUU E-.-_• . I W • • _ <■ -- _ . W; IwSBSg ‘ Completion of a sanctuary, on a $75,000 building program was observed March 31 with a com pletely filled auditorium, at Hatteras. The red brick structure is the largest Methodist Church of six on Hatteras Island. Rev. Ray Sparrow is pastor. • MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1957 ON ECC DEAN’S LIST iK £ ■ ..• -JI Thomas Leon O’Neal, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon O’Neal of Manteo, and a student at ECC, Greenville, has been placed on the Dean’s list because of his high scholastic record during the past quarter. CHARLES R. COMBS, IREDELL CO. NATIVE DIES IN DARE Charles Reuben Combs, 64, died Friday at 2:15 at the residence in Manns Harbor after an illness of six months. He was a native of Iredell County, but has been re siding in Manns Harbor for the past five years. He was the hus band of Alice Ferrell Combs and a member of the Oak Grove Meth odist Church at Winfall, where he had also resided. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lee Den ton and Mrs. Roger Langston, both of Zebulon, two sons, Charles Frances and Fred Wilson Combs, both of Manns Harbor; a sister, Mrs. Minnie Hoover, of Statesville, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at Oak Grove Methodist Church in Perquimans County by the Rev. Earl R. Meekins, pastor, assisted by the Rev. A. Ls G. Ste phenson, pastor of Mt. Carmel Methodist Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Emmett Stallings, Ben Smith, Jeff Pierce, Clarence Pierce, Am brose Elliott and Ramsey Elliott. TOWN REGISTRATION HAS MANY PECULIARITIES Registering to vote in the Man teo town elections is a most con venient chore. Under the town law, Mrs. Juanita Parker, town clerk advises, the registration books have to be open every day in the week from 9 a.m. to five p.m. with business hours running, until 9 p.m., on Saturdays, at the Dare County Courthouse. Mrs. Pearl O’Neal is the regis trar this time, and she will be on duty at the courthouse on hours above stated. First day to register is April 20th, running up to chal lenge day April 27th. Mrs. Parker stated that the final date at which candidates may file for Mayor or Town Aidermen is April 23rd, which must be done at her office at the Manteo Town Hall. Registration days for county and state election are usually on Saturdays only. LITTLE SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO AND KILLED AT SALVO When Jerry Allen Mooney, 28, set out from Buxton Saturday morning, with his wife and two small children, one of them a babe in arms, he didn’t know that the life of a pretty little girl less than six years of age would be snuffed out as he drove through Salvo. What some say was result of the usual speeding through vil lages, and others say was driving at not more than 55 miles per hour, ended in the little girl being run over and killed. Dora Hooper, one of the four children of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hooper of Salvo was found to be dead when her father got her to a doctor at Bux ton, 20 miles away. Mooney, who had just been transferred from the Naval Air facility, and was leaving the island for good, is to be heard on a charge of manslaughter Tuesday of next week in Manteo. The little girl was buried Mon day morning in the family plot at Salvo, following services conduct ed by Rev. Mrs. Louise Leary of , the Pentecostal faith. Beside her parents, she is survived bv two See TRAGEDY, Page Five and Mrs. Leslie Hooper of Salvo was found to be dead when her father got her to a doctor at Bux ton, 20 miles away. Mooney, who had just been transferred from the Naval Air facility, and was leaving the island for good, is to be heard on a charge of manslaughter Tuesday of next week in Manteo. The little girl was buried Mon day morning in the family plot at Salvo, following services conduct ed by Rev. Mrs. Louise Leary of the Pentecostal faith. Beside her parents, she is survived bv two See TRAGEDY, Page Five TARKINGTON'S ENDS LONG GROCERY STORE SERVICE ' *'A* MRS. CLARA TARKINGTON, the active head of one of Manteo’s best known business firms, has this week closed the store, after a career of excellent service to the community for the past 36 years. More than 50 years ago, L. D. Tarkington entered the • business world in Manteo, and the name has been a by-word ever since. Except for an interval in business in Bel haven, the native home of Mrs. Tarkington, he has been in the mercantile business at Manteo. Mr. Tarkington, for some years has been living at home in quiet re tirement. Mrs. Tarkington says she has enjoyed the entire period of busi ness in Manteo, she likes the town and likes the people, and has ap preciated their patronage. But there came the time when her doc tor advised her to drop the bur dens of running a store, and she is quitting business as a matter of necessity. Tarkington’s has been a store greatly valued by the peo ple. It has been good to people, liberal in credit when considered necessary, and always well stocked with quality merchandise. No local firm might be more greatly missed. ANOTHER $45,000 GOING TO BE SPENT ON NEW BRIDGE EVEN BEFORE DEDICATION Low Bid For Repairs $44,552.85 Submitted This Week By Loving Company, Builders of The Bridge, to Repair Damage Done by Grain Barge Feb. 28, Six Days After Completion. CHIEF ENGINEER OF BIG HOTEL IN CLEVELAND |®E S •> WE* Ob. ‘WteMolK * Bl < '■ ./ Richard O. Howard, a native of i Ocracoke Island, formerly Assist-' ant Chief Engineer at the Edge- I water Beach Hotel in Chicago, has been named Chief Engineer of Hotel Cleveland, it was announced by Robert F. Brydle, Managing Director. Howard studied Mechani cal Engineering at North Carolina State College in Raleigh, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Me chanical Engineering in 1942. Mr. Howard has been transferred to the Hotel Cleveland from the Edgewater Beach Hotel, a sister hotel in the Hotel Corporation of America. Others hotels in this na tional hotel chain are Somerset Hotel in Boston, Hotel Roosevelt in New York and the Mayflower in Washington, D. C. Having served from March, 1942, to September 1946, in the 257th Engineering Combat Battalion, Mr. Howard joined the Reynolds To bacco Co. in 1947 as a mechani cal engineer. In 1951 he moved to the Dan River Mills in Danville, Virginia, as a Control Engineer, leaving in 1953 to join the Ford i Motor Company as an Assistant I Plant Engineer. In December 1955, | Mr. Howard became the Assistant Chief Engineer of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. A member of the American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and the North Carolina Society of En gineers, Mr. Howard is the Past President of the Danville, Engi neering Society and a North Caro lina Registered Professional Engi neer. Mr. and Mrs. Howard and their daughters will make Cleveland their home. Richard Olin Howard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wyche Howard of Ocracoke. Following in the footsteps of his father, who was with the U. S. Army Engineers for many years, Olin chose engi neering as his profession. His ele mentary and high school education was received in cities all the way from New York City to Galveston, Texas, because of his father’s oc cupation and assignments with the Army Engineers. He served as a lieutenant one year overseas, and while there spent a good deal of time in France studying mine operations. He married Mary B. Dalrymple of Sanford. They have two daugh ters, ages 12 and 1. Although Olin only had the op portunity of visiting Ocracoke but occasionally during his youthfu l days, and only had a month of schooling here, he is devoted to the island and its people and has al ways considered it home. He was delighted when his father retired at Ocracoke about five years ago, since this gave him and his family the chance of vacation visits. When he is here he is always interested in what is going on in the commu nity. Five years ago he took an active part in the first big July 4th Parade and Celebration. CAPE HATTERAS FISHING Edgar Hooper, operator of Lighthouse View Cottage court, Buxton, reported that two anglers, F. J. Pollock and E. W. McCoy of Wilmington Del., landed 19 sea mullet (or kingfish) in the surf at Cape Hatteras Wednesday. They also caught trout, flounder and the first bluefish of the season to be reported on rod and reel. The sea mullet weighed up to two poupds each. Single Copy In only six days after it was turned over to the State by the contractors, the new Croatan Sound bridge, which cost nearly three million dollars was damaged by a grain barge which swung around side against it during a storm, and it’s going to cost $45,- 009 to repair it. This week the State Highway Commission received bids for re pairing the bridge, a job which most likely will never be finished before the day of dedication, and the lowest bid submitted was by T. A. Loving Co., the firm which built it, and by reason thereof most likely best qualified for the job. The Loving Company’s bid was $44,552.85. There are many who believe that the damage to the bridge is the result of the parsimony of the Highway Commission in not per mitting a draw in the bridge, and that had such a draw been installed the bridge could have been opened, and the vessel would not have | slowed down to such a slow crawl which contributed to stalling of a motor, whereby control was lost by the vessel’s skipper. The vessel was the former Coast Guard cut ter Pamlico, now converted into a grain barge. When hearings were held by War Department on the elimination of the draw, no citizens appeared to protest, so anxious was everyone to get the bridge built, and so fear ful they would lose rh, as intima tion had been made that a draw would run the cost up some $90,- 000, and perhaps prevent construc tion. According to Chief Engineer W. H. Rogers, traffic is us ing the three-mile long bridge in safety despite the extensive damage. However, through the damaged section, traffic is one way, Rogers said. There is not enough time for the repairs to be completed before the bridge is formally dedicated April 25, as the William B; Umstead Memorial Bridge, he added. During a heavy rain storm, the 147-foot-long. 30 food wdde “C. W. Curlet,” a 356-gross ton freight boat owned by the Norris Grain Company of Baltimore. Maryland, rammed the new bridge on the north side about 150 feet west of the 130-foot long navigational channel span which has a 45-foot high vertical clearance and an 80- foot wide horizontal clearance for passage of boats. The high winds and tide com bined to hold the boat against the bridge where it thrashed back and forth damaging the substructure of the bridge. After struggling for more than three hours, the boat captain was finally able to pass his boat under the bridge—but sev eral spans away from the higher clearing channel navigational span. The special letting calls for re building one pile section, repairing three cracked concrete caps, and repairing 17 scuffed footings. No small engineering feat, the handsome new bridge was under construction for over two years. Pre-cast concrete piles were ferried out to the construction site where they were driven and then topped by concrete caps. Steel I-beams were used in the superstructure to suppor tthe concrete deck. The channel span is the thru-girder type. In May, 1956, while the bridge was still under construction, a fire of unknown origin broke out early one morning on the concrete deck and damaged the concrete. At that time, the contractor had to remove and patch 26 areas of concrete ranging in size from six inches to 37 x 9-feet. As if that weren’t enough, last August 29, lightning struck the portable field office for engineering personnel and slightly injured two of the highway engineers and two of the contractor’s men, as well as destroying two levels and two transits, which were used in sur veying. r Before the freight boat rammed and damaged the bridge, it cost $2,649,123.88, including the con tract cost and the engineering fees. The 14-265-foot long bridge with its 24-foot wide roadway clearance was built by T. A, Loving A Co. of Goldsboro.
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