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VOLUME XXII NO. 47 MANTEO LOOKS FORWARD TO A BIG SEASON IN BASEBALL; FIRST GAME SUNDAY JUNE 2 Opening Game of the Season Will Be With Strong Portsmouth Team; Campaign on Now to Finance the Smaller Boys; Arrangements Being Made for Guaranteed Lighting of Ball Park. True to his promise that plans for a big baseball season in Man teo would be made, Coy Tillett, the Manteo manager announced this week that the season’s first game on the Manteo diamond will be with a strong team known as the Portsmouth, Va. Phils, and will begin at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 2nd. % This team, according to Mr. Til lett ran third in the Norfolk league last season, which makes it a pretty stiff team for the Manteo nine to buck up against in the opening match. Dare County fans who come to this game will find many favor ites among the players, including men from Stumpy Point, Nags Head, Manns Harbor, Manteo and Wanchese. These men include Tra cy. Hooper, Donald Midgett apd Horace Hooper Jr. of Stumpy Point; Jo Boy Mann of Manns Harbor; Jerry Cahoon, Jack Wil son, Donnie Twyne, Peter Overton, Jack Burrus, Coy Tillett, Jr. and Cookie Kennedy. A much larger attendance is ex pected from the west side of Croa tan Sound, because of the new bridge. “Our first game will be with one of the strongest teams; they are really good,” Mr. Tillett said. Small Fry Pepped Up A drive now is underway to help out the smaller team, consisting of boys under 13, and the Manteo Rotary Club this week gave its endorsement and promise to raise some funds to help the boys. The club sponsored a project three years ago, which bought suits and equipment for boys of this group who then called themselves the Manteo Cardinals. An effort is being made to round up the suits for the use of the newer team, as some of these boys will See BASEBALL, Page Twelve MANNS HARBOR PEOPLE ENJOY NEW TELEPHONE SERVICE WITH MANTEO The Norfolk & Carolina Tele phone & Telegraph Company this week through H. W. Dewey, its general manager, announces the completion of its direct telephone service facilities to the community of the Manns Harbor area. This area was formerly served with a hook-up with the exchange at En gelhard. Telephone subscribers located in the Manns Harbor area will be provided the same service as sub scribers at Manteo and Roanoke Island. Many new subscribers were connected at Manns Harbor with the beginning of service ef fective May 20, 1957. This new telephone plant con struction necessary to provide am ple facilities for this project has required an additional capital in vestment of approximately $20,000. Subscribers at Manns Harbor do not now have to pay toll to talk to Manteo and Roanoke Island sub scribers, as formerly when mes sages followed the wires around by Belhaven, Washington, Wil liamston, Edenton, Elizabeth City ami into Manteo. For the convenience of telephone users, we are publishing a list of the Manns Harbor subscribers, which one may clip and paste in his book, as the new numbers will not appear until the new directory for the Manteo exchange is issued July 1. The following is the listing as of May 22: Ambrose, James, 365-W3; Beas ley, Calvin 363-W-l; Beasle *, W. R., 362-W-l; Crain, Willie, 366- W-2; Croatan Motel, (W. S. White) 364-W-l; Davis, Raymond D. 365- W-l; Dare Co. Ice & Storage Co. 364-J-l; Duvall Fish Co. (Pay Sta.) 361-J-l; Holmes, Clarence L. 363-J-2; Hooper, Alph, Fish House, 362-J-l; Kemp, Martin F., 365-J-3; Mann, Jas. G., 360-W; Midgett, Clarence L., 363-J-l; Midgett, Larry H. 361-J-2; Midgett, Mrs. Nina 366-J-l; Midgett, V. G., Tourist Court, 366-J-l; Polly’s Kitchen, case 361-W-l; Sutton, T. 0., oils, 365-J-2; Twiford, Walter Sherman 363-W-2; Warde, Albert T., 361-W-l; West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., 360-J. Several Manns Harbor people, as well as the people on Roanoke Is land, have expressed great pleas ure and appreciation of the value of the new service, which repre-j septs an investment of approxi mately one thousand dollars per. subscriber, as of today. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA WHOPPING SEASON FOR SPORTSFJSHING REMAINS IN FORCE Huge Schools of Bluefish Follow ed by Big Blue Marlin Make Anglers Happy in Dare County Some were saying that sports fishing had never been better in Dare Coast waters than during the past two weeks. Thousands of bluefish, the species attracting most anglers to the area have been landed daily at Oregon and Hatteras Inlets, and also from fishing piers and by those who cast into the surf or sound. Prize blue of the Oregon Inlet sector was landed on Friday by Alston Midgett of Great Bridge'on a week end visit to his home in Waves. Casting with a Hopkins Lure at the old ferry slip on the southside of the inlet he landed a blue that weighed seven and one quarter pounds. He left the fish on storage at the Pea Island Campground Store. Larger blues were taken off shore, but the Midgett fish was the largest taken inshore. Offshore anglers took some weighing up to 16 pounds, on cruisers based at Oregon Inlet and some operating from Hatteras. George F. Elbe of Philadelphia caught a 30 inch cobia in the surf at Hatteras Inlet, the first of this species reported from the surf. Several have been taken offshore. King mackerel have been taken, and Gulf Stream fishing excep tionally good. Plenty of dolphin, a few amberjack, cobia, tuna, false alhacore and . born ito have been boated in offshore waters. Catch of the week, however, was the 377-pound blue marlin hooked and brought to gaff by 112 pound Mrs. William Arnott who with her husband had been vacationing at Cape Hatteras Cottage Court. Her big marlin, first of species to be landed north of Florida, and said to be a 1957 Atlantic Coast rec ord, measured 10 foot and three inches from tip to tip, 63 inches around its girth and it had a tail spread of 43 inches. Mrs!®Arnott was skipping bait (belly of a dol phin) from Capt. Edgar Styron’s cruiser Twins II of the Blue Mar lin Docks, in the vicinity of Dia mond Lightship, when the big marlin hit. Pier fishing has been better than par for late May and plenty of sea mullet, bluefish, trout and other species have been caught during the past week. Capt. Nelson Smith and party, Warwick, Va., fishing with Gilbert Tillett aboard the cruiser Bumba loo, near Oregon Inlet, caught more than 200 blues, also 15 bo nita, tjiree false albacore, two big mackerel and one cobia. On May 16, E. C. Todd and party of Norfolk, fishing with Capt. Billy Baum on the cruiser Kay brought in 214 blues. Capt. Chester Tillett of the See FISHING, Page Twelve MANTEO COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES BEGIN SUNDAY Manteo High School will hold its annual commencement exercis es during, the coming week. There are 26 members of this year’s graduating class. The Rev. W. E. Cholerton, pas tor of the Manteo Baptist Church, will preach the baccalaureate ser mon on Sunday evening, May 26, at 8 p.ms in the school auditorium. The class night exercises, “The Senior Wonderland,” will be pre sented on Monday night. May 27, at 8 p.m. The graduation exercises will be held on Tuesday night, May 28, at 8 p.m. The speaker will be Dr. Nile F. Hunt of Raleigh, co-ordinator of teacher education of the State Department of Public Instruction. ROTARY TO PRESENT PRIZES TO CAMPAIGN WINNERS Guests of the Manteo Rotary Club in the Community Building Monday night at 6:30 will be Betty Ruth Flowers, who will re ceive a camera, Helen Baum who will receive a fishing rod, Mar garet Knight and Myrdith Midgett who tied for third place and each will receive a, long-playing record. These girls were winners in a con test incident to the recent clean up campaign, and are pupils of. the Manteo school. WAVES MAN GETS V/ 2 LB. BLUE ON ROD NEAR INLET mmm TYPICAL of many big fish caught during the past month of the phe nomenal run of blue fish on the Dare Coast, is this 7% lb. specimen landed in the Oregon Inlet vicinity last week end by Alston W. Mid gett of Waves. The fish is shown here, but Mr. Midgett got away, hav ing returned to his job on the inland waterway at Great Bridge before the photographer, Aycock Brown reached the scene. The smiling gen tleman is Judge James S. Turner, who with Mrs. Turner operate the Oregon Inlet Campground store, on the Southside of the inlet, and which is a concession of the National Park service near the ferry dock, set up to accommodate visiting campers and fishermen like to live on the scene. Here they enjoy free parking, launching, and free camp sites, right on the shore where will be- found some of the finest fishing on the coast. REV. GEORGE LINGLE TO SPEAK AT BUXTON Graduation Eiercises Tuesday, May 28; Rev. Aaron Tyson to Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon; 11 To Graduate Commencement exercises for Cape Hatteras High School in Buxton will begin Sunday morn ing, May 26, with the baccalau reate at 11 o’clock. Rev. Aaron G. Tyson of Kittrell, formerly pastor at Avon, will deliver the message to the graduates. All pastors on Hatteras Island will assist in the services. On Monday evening at eight o’clock the Class Night program will take place. Graduation exer cises will be Tuesday night, May 28, at eight o’clock. Rev. George W. Lingle, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Gastonia, will be the speaker. 1957 graduates of the Cape Hatteras school are Howard Wayne Basnett, John Henry Beck, Alan Brent McAbee, Bradley Dale O’Neal, Victor Rollinson, Gwen nie Gray Burrus, Minnie Laura Gillikin, Mitzi Ray Oden, Julia Erlene Tandy and Dorothy Jean Taylor. All exercises will be held in the school auditorium. Chosen this week by the vote of the students for valedictorian of the class is Earline Tandy. Two students tied for salutatorian, Min nie Gilliken and Mitzi Oden, so Cape Hatteras High School will have two to share this hofior. COURT TUESDAY DEVOTED TO HIGHWAY VIOLATIONS The only judgments handed down by Dare Recorder W. F. Baum Tuesday were in highway violation cases in which the de fendants submitted by entering guilty pleas. These cases were: Joseph Lee Winslow, Jarvis burg, speeding 70 m.p.h.. sls fine and costs. Robert Lee Midgett, Manteo, driving while under the influence, SIOO fine and costs. Cecil Clifton White, Windsor, driving to the left of the center line, $5 fine and costs. Lundy Gillikin, Jr., Beaufort, speeding 76 m.ph SSO fine and costs. Wayne Laurin Jarvis, Engel hard, speeding 70 m.p.h., sls fine and costs. James Theron Davenport, Eliz abeth City, speeding 70 m.p.h., sls fine and costs. Caleb Benjamin Parker, Manteo, disregarding stop sign, $5 fine and Costs. Cash bonds of S2O each were also called and forfeited by five defendants charged in a single < warrant with forcible trespass up on property of G. T. Westcott; the five defendants, who failed to ap pear, were Jerry Leßoy Lovitt, Fredrick C. Allan, David Gray Lawrence, Cecil Rhy Dodd, and Robs L. Montzßffgo. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1957 ’PITTSBURGH AERO CLUB COMING TO DARE MAY 30 The Pittsburgh Aero Club has scheduled its eighth annual cruise to Dare County for next week, Thursday, May 30, through Satur day, June 1. The club 1 members will fly in to Dare County on their private planes and will land at either the Manteo airport or the strip on the beach. The Carolinian at Nags Head, which will be hosts to the club, says from 60 to 70 people from Pittsburgh are expected to take part in the cruise. Three full days of recreation and rest are being planned for the flying group. MANNS HBR. PEOPLE GET INJURIES IN AUTO MISHAP Harry C. Mann, his young wife Rita, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Tom Sutton of Manns Harbor were proceeding home Monday down U. S 158 in Currituck Coun ty when his 1954 Olds was in col lision with a 1955 Chevrolet driven by W. M. Waterfieid, 77, of Powells Point. Mrs. Sutton was treated for severe lacerations of the legs, and bruises by Dr. C. N. Wright of Jarvisburg. An esti mate of the damage to each car was placed at $350. MANTEO WOMAN NOW HEAD REBEKAHS OF THIS STATE ■ : PO* " . JilMg jHkpm ' iBBi f±L\ r * ‘ \i #'> 2 i N.LW OFFICERS were elected by the Rebekahs of North Carolina in Raleigh this week. They include Mrs. Julian Gaskill of Goldsboro, vice president, Mrs. Lillian Thomas of Asheville, secretary, Mrs v Susan Ballowe of Manteo, president, and Mrs. Mae Jennings of Scotland Neck, treasurer. Absent from the picture is Mrs. Bertha Skipper of Wilming ton, warden. News A Observer Photo. 110 RACING BOATS IN MANTEO RACES SATURDAY-SUNDAY Joe Dowdy Says Races Will Be Held, Weather or No; Man teo or East Lake By AYCOCK BROWN Approximately 110 fast boats in a dozen or more classes are sched uled to compete in the two day regatta of the Dare Power Boat Association beginning in Manteo on Saturday, May 25, with out boards racing on that date follow ed by the fast exciting in board competition on Sunday aft ernoon, May 26. Joe Dowdy, racing chairman for DPIJA, stated if weather conditions are favorable, the greatest num ber of boats ever to compete fer trophies on the Dare Coast would be in Manteo. The races, sanction ed by American Power Boat Asso ciation, will be held in Shallowbag Bay. “Should weather and wind con ditions be unfavorable for racing at Manteo, we will race at East Lake,” said Dowdy. This spot is between Manns Harbor and Ma shoes. The East Lake alternate course that will be used if conditions are unfavorable in Manteo harbor is at the N. C. Wildlife Commission’s Fishing Acess Area recently con structs! by the State on land ac quired from West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, some two miles north of Manns Harbor, just off the Mashoes road. Racing would be favorable there on any wind except a northwester, and should there be a northwester, conditions would be favorable in Manteo har bor. Johnny Long, DPBA secretary, has received more entries than have ever come in prior to races here. Some of the entries are na tionally known racers, and some of the fast inboards scheduled to be featured travel at speeds in ex cess of 100 miles per hour. And some of the fastest outboards make up to 75 miles per hour. The races starting at noon on each day will be run at frequent intervals throughout the afternoon. An open air fish fry, free to race contestants and race officials, will be served each evening at the con- Sec RACES, Page Twelve WOULD BRING BACK RACING ON CAROLINA DOG TRACKS Representative Walton Griggs of Currituck County, and Rep. D. G. Beil of Carteret, are sponsors of a bill which would establish dog tracks in three counties. Tracks formerly operated in these counties were abolished by court order three years ago, when a suit was brought against them to prove them contrary to the state’s anti-gambling laws. The sponsors have hopes this new bill will meet the test, but there is considerable discourage ment elsewhere it will pass. The interested counties appear to be hopeful it will provide more rev enue for governmental purposes and thereby decrease their tax obligations. And it would provide a nice salary of $7,500 a year for the chairman of a three-man rac ing commission. MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE AND FORGERY COUNTS COMING IN DARE COURT MONDAY Death of Hatteras Man To Be Probed; One Negro Charged With 16 Counts of Forgery; Judge Joseph Parker of Windsor to Preside at Regular Spring Term. SPEAKER RAYBURN TO WEEK END AT RODANTHE HON. SAM RAYBURN, distin guished Texas congressman, and speaker of the House of Repre sentatives, will land at Manteo Airport Friday morning, the guest of Congressman Herbert C. Bon ner, and with four other members of Congress will spend the week end fishing at Rodanthe with Woodrow Edwards of Oregon In let, and Sheldon O’Neal of Kill Devil Hills. During their stay, they will make headquarters at Mirlo Beach Lodge, and visit the various communities on Hatteras Island. Mr. Rayburn has made several visits to the Dare County area with Mr. Bonner and former Congressman Lindsay Warren. For many years he has been de voted and helpful friend of these men, and gave them loyal cooper ation in enacting helpful legisla tion for this part of the State. In fact he is generally valued as one of Dare County’s greatest friends. MARTIN SEAWELL MEETS DEATH IN AN ACCIDENT Son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Seawall of Wiriston-SaUm, He Had Spans Many Summers on Roanoke Island Lloyd Martin Seawell, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Seawell of Winston-Salem, and a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Sam S. Grif fin of Manteo, was killed in an accident on the west coast early this week, according to word re ceived in Manteo by his aunt, Mrs. Rennie Williamson. Mr. Seawell, in his early 30’s was well known on Roanoke Island, where he vaca tioned with his family each sum mer for years. He is survived by his parents; his widow, Mrs. Gladys Seawell, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y.; three sons, Lloyd Martin Seawell 111, Brad ley and Russell Seawell; a brother, Sam Seawell, of Winston-Salem; and one sister, Miss Pat Seawell of Winston-Salem. Mr. Seawell was in service with the U. S. Navy, and at the time of his death he was attending a Navy school on the west coast. He was soon to have been transferred to Norfolk, Va., where the family formerly lived and where they have a home. Information on fun eral services was incomplete at press time, but it was believed the services would be held in Winston- Salem. MRS. R. GRIGGS CRITICALLY ILL IN ELIZ. CITY HOSPITAL ——— Mrs. Bemie Hampton Girggs, wife of Russell A. Griggs of Kill Devil Hills, and one 4 of the most beloved personalities* of the Dare County coast suffered a stroke this week and is critically ill in the' Albemarle Hospital. Since re tiring from the management of their ever-popular Croatan Hotel two years ago, the Griggs have lived in quiet retirement in their adjacent beach cottage, but each has suffered several serious at- i tacks of They are natives I of Church’s Island in Currituck County where for many years they i operated Hampton Lodge, one of the most famed Carolina retreats for wildfowl hunters. NEW DARE HOME AGENT After a year or more without a home agent, due to the usual rea son, matrimony, which soon ' causes the office to be vacant, Dare County is to get another one, come June 1, when Miss/Francoise Alexander of Roper, newly gradu ated from ECC, Greenville, will come on the job. Single Copy If A manslaughter charge will be heard in Dare Superior Court at the regular spring term next week when Deryl Quidley of Hatteras, will be tried for the death of John Simon Austin in March. Austin died when his parked car was struck by Quidley who was driv ing northward, and Quidley and his companions, as well as others in the Austin car suffered injuries. Quidley was bound over April 16th in Recorders Court. Judge Joseph Parker of Wind sor, who held court in Dare Coun ty last year, will again preside. Judge Parker made many friends in Manteo, and is highly regarded here. Another felony case to be heard is one in which Joe D. White Jr., a young negro, is charged in 16 warrants with forging the name of his employer, Belton Burrus, to checks totalling some SBOO. White’s case came up March sth in Recorders Court when he was bound over. Another case involving money is one in which Marvin Daniels, taxi driver alleges that D. A. Rogers Jr. bludgeoned him and robbed him of some S9OO in green folding money. Rogers was bound over last October. A young white man named Claude Beals, who was bound over in October, is charged with break ing and entering. Guy Hayes and Russell Burk are booked for drunk driving charges. Other cases in volve liquor and game law viola tions. In interest and attendance, court week now doesn’t have the appeal it used to have in drawing big crowds from all over the county, as in the old days a quarter-century or ntore ago. Before the days of so many good roads, and when Re-, corderis Courts had not been es tablished, there was more general interest in the dockets, and the week long term of Superior Court only twice a year, was an occas ion laden 1 with meaning for many people. For court week was sometimes like a family gathering or a reun ion, when people met for the first time in years, exchanged exper iences with distant neighbors, and met old friends who had been far from home or resided in other places. It was also a commercial event of sorts, for here horse trad ing was done, or new teams bought, and those wtm came from the re mote villages by water, often made swfps in boats and nets. Much news of the doings of friends was gathered and carried bark home by those who attended court, and it was a busy week for the stores. Often church groups netted tidy sums for their work by selling lunches on the grounds. And also it was the occasion for business on the part of various types of ped dlers and salesmen. MANTEO LIONS CLUB HAS ELECTION OF OFFICERS New officers were elected Tues day night by the Manteo Lions Club and will take office at the first meeting of the club in July. Wayland Fry. was elevated to president. Others who were elect ed were: Keith Fearing Jr., first vice-president; Willett Tillett, sec ond vice-presidnt; R. D. Sawyer Jr., third vice-president; Fred Wescott, Lion tamer; Earl Green, tailtwister; Francis Meekins, sec retary; Tommie Daniels, treas urer; and Ralph Umphlett and Thomas Jordan, two-yeas direc tors. President Desmond Rogers pre sided over the supper meeting, held at the Community Center. Jack Austin and Pratt Williamson Jr. were guests. All members were reminded to have their dues paid up to date jby the first of July. NEW PRIEST AT K. D. HILLS The Rev. James Jones, pastor of the Church of the Holy Redeemer at Kill Devil Hills, has been trans ferred to Wake Forest to become pastor of St. Catherine of Siena parish. He will be succeeded at Kill Devil HiHs by the Rev. Peter M. Denges, who has been pastor of St. Anthony’s parish in Southern Pines several years. Before that he was head of a parish in Roa noke Rapids many years. Both priests will take over their new duties June I ‘ V u/ la •.' * . » ' M-
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