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PAGE TWO THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Mantoo, N. C., Since July 4,193 S THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOREMOST REGION OF RECREATION AND SPORT. HEALTH FUL LIVING AND HISTORICAL INTEREST ON THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD Erihid As Skcon'd Class Mattes At The Post Omen at Manteo, N. C. Subs chi ption Kates: 1 Yeas 92.50: 6 Months 91.50; 3 Months 91.00 PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO.. INC. AT VICTOR MEEKINS EDITOR CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer FRANCIS W. MEEKINS Advertising Manager Vol. XXII Manteo, N. C.. Friday, June 7, 1957 No. 49 ON SHAKING UP DARE’S JURY SYSTEM. This shaking up of Dare County’s jury system, or lack of system, the result of Judge Parker’s action last week, seems to have met with much approval from the county’s thinking citizenry, judging from comments that have reach ed us, and the many compliments expressed to us about last week’s issue of The Coastland Times. We think Judge Parker has done a great thing for Dare, County by directing attention, (by his summary action in sending home some of those called for jury service,) to the outmoded system which in our opinion has been extremely costly to the taxpayers for many years and may have been instrumental in gross maladministration of justice in our courts. One has only to review the great number of mistrials, hung juries, and cases postponed, for lack of sufficient available jurors, time after time. Numerous evils have grown out of lack of proper attention to this important duty. Inad equate attention has been paid to the importance of eliminat ing ineligibles from the jury box before names were drawn. One juror who came into the box drunk, after having served the day before on a panel which found for the state in a felony case, was held in contempt of court and sent to jail for ten days by the judge, and the county has to bear the expense of feeding him. The nature and reputation of this man was well known at the time he was drawn. It has happened before, but no penalty was invoked. He should never have been summoned. It would be most salutary for our courts if we had more judges like Judge Joseph Parker. His service here was good, and will doubtless be helpful for a while. But things being as they are, it is no guarantee that the methods of selecting jurors will be improved, for such carelessness, indifference and inefficiency may be expected to prevail unless, and un til, some drastic changed are made in the personnel which selects jurors. Whenever the people wake up to what it is costing them in money, prestige and inconvenience, maybe they will begin a cleaning out process in the courthouse. , HOME TOWN BOYS MAKE GOOD. Like most people, we believe, our hearts swell with pride whenever we get wind of home town boys and girls doing well away from home. We are delighted that they have gone through college and when they have taken on respon sible jobs, and particularly so when we hear that they have achieved any notable measure of prosperity, success, or re nown. For many years we have followed the career of num erous home town people who far afield have found delight ful avocations, gathered property, and gained much credit. We have been particularly fond of those young people who remembered the homeland and returned often, and exceed ingly proud of those who contributed liberally toward the support of aged relatives back home. We do not regret any of these sentiments, and consider them all well and< good. We shall not diminish in devotion and esteem toward these worthy people. We have always felt a little tinge of sadness that they considered it necessary to go far from home, for in so doing, they added to the most serious drain upon our greatest resources. We want to offer the thought at this time however, that in our devotion to those far away, we may have overlooked giving the attention deserved by those of our young people who have remained at home and achieved success. In fact it now seems they deserved more credit for their efforts and such success as they have achieved, than did those who went away. They are great people, are our home community folks who are carrying on here at home against handicaps. It is hard to get ahead with a small capital investment. It is more difficult to find sufficient skills than in a big town. Distance from markets make distribution doubly expensive. Holding one’s own calls for long hours of hard labor, in keeping any small town business going. We pass this thought along: We hope you will take stock of the home folks who have remained home and are trying to get ahead, to furnish employment for their neighbors, to build ud their home community. After all, they seem to de serve the long end of the stick. MANY WORK WILLINGLY TO BRING OCRACOKE ID. IN TOUCH WITH OUTSIDE Cooperative action by the De partment of the Interior, the De partment of the Navy and the State of North Carolina will pro vide vacationing motorists with safe access this summer to Ocra coke Island, one of the most pic turesque sections of the Cape Hat teras National Seashore Recrea tion area, National Park Service Director Conrad L. Wirth an nounced this week. Director Wirth said the Navy has loaned the Department of the Interior 16,000 steel landing mats to stabilize a three-mile section of road over the shifting wind blown sands at the northern tip of the island. This connects with paved road newly constructed by the State of North Carolina. Completion of the new State road to its terminus at the Hat teras Inlet ferry slip had been de layed because of difficulties in establishing a solid base on the unstable sand in the area. The National Park Service has under taken a sand stabilization project in the area but it will be some time before the shifting dunes can be firmly anchored. When the Department of the Interior appealed to the Navy De partment, the Bureau of Yards and Docks responded with the of fer to provide the necessary land ing mats which were stored in the Norfolk area. The State of North Carolina transported the mats to Ocracoke Island on two large barges and they will be put in place by State Highway crews. Ocracoke Island is the southern • < ) most of the three islands, each separated from its neighbor by an inlet, which form the National Seashore. Hard surfaced roads have been provided on Bodie and Hatteras Islands, but until this year only a relatively few venture some motorists have attempted to drive over the shifting sands of Ocracoke Island. Director Wirth commended the Navy Department and the State for their cooperation in making the whole area of the National Seashore more accessible to visit ors. He pointed out that visitation to the 70-mile long stretch of primitive seashore totaled 300,000 last year and is excepted to in crease by about 30 percent this year. MRS. ADDIE H. GIBSS OF HYDE CO. SUCCUMBS Mrs. Addie H. Gibbs, 76, widow of Willie K. Gibbs of Engelhard, died Wednesday, May 29, at 6 a.m. at the hospital in Columbia after a long illness. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Robert Cahoon of Lake Land ■ ing and Mrs. Charlie O’Neal of Middletown; and four sons, Jody Gibbs of Richmond, Va., Francis Gibbs of Greensboro, Willie Gibbs of Lake Landing and Slade Gibbs of Portsmouth, Va.; and nine grandchildren. Burial was on Thursday after noon in the family cemetery at St. George Episcopal Church at Lake Landing, conducted by the Rev. A. C. D. Noe, assisted by the Rev. Angus Cameron. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE CONGRESSMAN BONNER HONORED BY PORTRAIT OF SELF PRESENTED BEFORE MANY OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON ■ k fx X jc&fk ; \ *7 isf -1 SnHH ■ ' j !y 'l!® I^BilllllllllS f UK. M mJEi 1 Jg* 'w'pf Ban, * ■Hhaj y| •$ 1- Ji: Up' Washington, D. C.—This week in the Merchant Marine and Fisher ies Committee here at the U. S. Capitol, Congressman Herbert C. Bonner of Washington, N. C. was the guest of honor in his own com mittee rooms . . . With Congress man Frank Boykin, the ranking majority member of the committee presiding, The Reverend Bernard Braskamp, opened the ceremonies with the invocation (Mr. Braskamp is chaplain for the U. S. House of Representatives) Mr. Boykin then introduced the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon orable Sam Rayburn of Texas. Mr. Rayburn spoke of the value of service and the many important contributions that Mr. Bonner had made to the committee in partic ular and the Congress in general. Mr. Rayburn then presented the portrait to the committee. On ac cepting the portrait for the com mittee, Mr. Boykin introduced Mrs. Bonner who unveiled the portrait. The portrait, a very good likeness CAUSING DISTURBANCE BRINGS COURT FINES Jimmy O’Neal of Rodanthe and Robert Sanderlin of Manteo, each charged with creating a disturb ance in the Recreation Center at Nags Head and threatening bodily harm to operator Gaston Mann, entered pleas of guilty Tuesday in Dare County Recorder’s Court, and Judge W. F. Baum gave each a 30-day sentence suspended upon payment of a $lO fine and costs and on condition they stay away from the Recreation Center for 18 months. Grace Warren Johnson of Hampton, Va., charged with creat ing a disturbance in a public place, failed to appear and a $25 bond that had been posted was ordered | forfeited. i Two defendants, Calbert Lock wood Gray of Stumpy Point and Oswald Kenton Harris of Kitty Hawk, wese each found guilty of driving without an operator's li cense. They each had a license ob tained in another state and felt they were thus in compliance with the law, so they appealed their cases to the SuDerior Court. In the remaining cases, defend ants submitted and paid the fines indicated: Maurice Folb Stowe, Hatteras, drunken driving, SIOO fine and costs. Lester Ernest Rees, Portsmouth, drunken driving, SIOO fine and costs, t Bernard L. Frertager, Buxton, speeding 65 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone, S3O fine and costs. Horatio Phillip Beck, Rodanthe, careless and reckless driving, $25 fine and costs. John Edward Franklin, Point Harbor, disregarding stop sign, and’ improper muffler, $lO fine and costs. Luke Bradshaw Midgett Jr., Portsmouth, Va., careless and reckless driving, $25 fine and costs. Jerry Richard Truett, Nags Head, improper lights, $5 fine and costs. Willis Wray Morse Jr., Ports mouth, Va., speeding 65 m.p.h., $lO fine and costs. Hugh Wilson Ford Jr., North Charleston, S. C., speeding 65 m.p.h., $lO fine and costs. James Willie Bell, Williamston, improper lights, $5 fine and costs. John Robert Ellis, Wilson, fish ing without a license, $lO fine and costs. MRS. BEULAH TWYNE MISTER Mrs. Beulah Twyne Mister, 82, of Warrenton, died in a nursing home in Warrenton Monday at 8 p.m. She was a native of Manteo, and had lived in Warrenton for two years. She was the'wife of the late Colby Mister and the daughter of Ada Beasley and Abram Twyne. She was a member 0 f the Roanoke Island Baptist Church. She is survived by one son, the Rev. Gilbert Mister of Henderson, and one brother, George Twyne, of Manteo. The body was taken from the Twiford Funeral Home in Manteo to the Roanoke Island Baptist Church, where services were con ducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. Bur ial was in Gaylord Cemetery, Man teo. Rev. Frank Dinwiddie, the pas tor of the old Roanoke Island church where Mrs. Mister through her lifetime was so faithful and loyal a member, conducted the service before a large audience of THE COASTLAND TIMES. MANTEO. N. C. of Mr. Bonner, was done by Miss Mabel Pugh, professor of art at Peace College in Raleigh, and wa3 made possible by friends of Mr. Bonner. With high praise from the rank ing member of the minority, Hon orable Thor. C. Tollefson, of Wanh ington State, Mr. Boykin then pre sented Mr. Bonner, who, in thank ing an audience of official Wash ington, including ambassadors, members of the joint chiefs of staff and the entire committee, was vis ibly moved by this display of af fection and turned to his wife and said that whatever he was it was because of Mrs. Bonner and that any success that he has had in life that more than fifty percent be longed to her love and devotion. Left to right: Mrs. Bonner, Hon orable Joseph Martin, minority of the house. Cong. Frank Bovkin, Mr. Eonner and Senator Sam ErVin, Jr. (The N. C. delegation also was present and spoke highly of Mr. Bonner.) iHHBH9 HIGH PRAISE FOR MANTEO PEOPLE WHO HELPED A MAN To The Editor: For the second straight year, I came to Manteo, N. C., to race in your “Pirates Jamboree Regatta” on May 26th, 1957, with my crew and Miss Bethesda, our 225 Rac ing Hydro. While driving to the alternate course on the lake near Manteo, on -a rather rough road, one of the fenders on my trailer came off and ! in coming off, hit the side of my boat, putting a hole about a foot square in the side of it. When I got out of my car and saw the damage, I was sick! Here we had come 300 miles, only to have something like this happen, and prevent us from even getting our racing boat in the water. Vernon Davis offered to help me and to gether with one of the men from his boatyard named James, they worked from 9:30 p.m. Saturday night to 3:00 a.m. Sunday getting the boat back in shape to run at the Regatta Sunday and when the gun went off signaling the start of the Regatta, we were ready, thanks to the big hearted efforts of two of your fine men of Man teo and I might add, we came in first thanks to Vernon and James. God Bless Them!! I just couldn’t let this act of brotherly love go “Un-noticed” and want to take this opportunity to “Tell the people of Manteo”. Where in the world could one go and get better treatment? I have traveled during the past 18 months from Canada to Florida and have raced at 36 regattas but nowhere have I found people like the people of Manteo . . . “Kind, considerate, and attentive to the other fellow’s problems.” The dance and fish fry were both excellent and our stay at the Manteo Motel was perfect, so all I can say is thanks and look for me' back next year! DON DUNNINGTON, Owner-driver Miss Bethesda Silver Springs, Md. May 29, 1957 remembering friends. Here Mrs. Mister had always been held in high esteem and affection, which followed her son in pride of his home people in his career as a , minister. There were many flow ers and the pall was made of white I pom pons, white carnations, baby breath and fern. Mrs. Abia Glynn presided at the S organ. “He Leadeth Me," and “O That Will Be Glory,” were sung [ bv the choir. Pall bearers were 1 Fred Basnight. Tom Basnight, , Steve Basnight, and McAdoo Twyne of Manteo, and Walter ; Bowden and George Fuller of Lou isburg. RODANTHE PERSONALS Professor and Mrs. Joseph L. Crouse of Charleston, W. Va., I held their first service in the Fair Haven Methodist Church Sunday and were entertained by the Julian ' Grays. They will continue evange listic services in that church each evening at 7:45 thru the week, 1 dosing with the 11:00 a.m. service ; Sunday. Mr. Crouse Is a brother of Mrs. Buell E. Bingham of Avon. MANTEO BALL TEAM WINS 12-6 VICTORY IN SUNDAY'S GAME Attendance of Near 300 at First Game Brings Hope of High ly Successful Season A crowd of between 260 and 300 fans turned out Sunday afternoon despite threatening rain to see Manteo’s baseball team defeat the Portsmouth, Va., Phils by the score of 12-6 in the opening game of what promises to be one of Manteo’s biggest seasons ever. Manteo’s team has been re-organ ised by manager Coy Tillett after having been idle last year. There were no runs scored un til the bottom of the third inning when Manteo’s Horace Hooper Jr., who had been walked, was driven in from third base. In ihe top of the fifth inning, Portsmouth’s Austin scored on a sacrifice hit to tie the score 1-1. Manteo came back in the bottom of that inning with two runs scored by Jerry Cahoon and Donnie Twyne, to take a 3-1 lead. Portsmouth’s first two batters in the sixth inning. Red den and Windley, scored runs to again tie the score 3-3. Manteo forged ahead again in the bottom of the inning with runs scored by Wade Nixon, Jerry Cahoon, and Donnie Twyne, and then in the bottom of the seventh inning Coy Tillett Jr., Horace Hooper Jr., and Jack Burrus scored runs to put Manteo out in front 9-3. Ports mouth had runs scored in the top of the eighth inning by Reddin, Wiggins, and Crawford, to make the tally 9-6, but Manteo matched these three runs in the bottom of the inning with runs by Pat K>e. Eugene “Cookie” Kennedy, and Horace Hooper Jr. Portsmouth did not score in the ninth inning, leaving the final score 12-6. Eugene “Cookie” Kennedy pitch ed the entire game for Manteo, allowing 6 hits, striking out 8 batters, and walking 9. Catchers were Ronnie Meekins and Jac.-t Wilson. Leading hitters for Manteo were Nixon, Burrus, and Cahoon, each with a double and 2 singles. Kee had 2 singles, and 1 single each was scored by Twyne and Kennedy. Manteo committeed 4 errors. Davis, the starting pitcher for Portsmouth, allowed 9 hits, struck out 7 men, and walked 6. He was replaced in the seventh inning by Reddin, who allowed 4 hits, struck out 6 men, and walked 5. Austin scored 3 singles, Brunch 2, and Crawford 1. The Phils were charged with 2 errors. In view of Sunday’s large at tendance, a good percentage of whom came from the Dare main land, the Dare County Shrine Club, which is backing the Manteo team, is making plans to erect bleachers and to provide a conces sion stand for the convenience of fans. The baseball program -is to get another boost iri the arm also by lower electric rates to be of fered by Virginia Electric and .Power Co. for the lighting of the field, and after the change-over many night games are planned. The only other game definitely scheduled now is on June 23 with the Portsmouth Merrimacs. MIDDLETOWN PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pilliiman and family are visiting Mrs. Pilli man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Payne. Mrs. Webb Sears and family vis ited Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Gibbs. Mrs. Preston Gibbs of Washing ton is visiting here. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Collins and son of Atlanta are visiting Mrs. Collins’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ar chie Spencer. Mrs. Edward Carawan and Mrs. Hugh McKinney were Thursday guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gibbs at Pantego. Mrs. Dallas Bridgeman pf Co lumbia and Mrs. Caddie Lee Sulli van of Wilson visited here Friday. Misses Edith and Edna Mann of Raleigh visited Mrs. Preston Gibbs Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Gibbs and little daughter were Saturday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. A1 Gibbs. Mrs. Kathleen Mann and 'Mrs. Ema Mann of Washington spent the week end with Mrs. Pre3ton Gibbs. Miss Mary carter of Fairfield and Mrs. R. B. Burrus, Sr. of Swan Quarter visited Mrs. Hector Watson and Mrs. Bettie Jennette Sunday. Mrs. Jessie Rawls and Jessie, Jr. of Washington are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cox and Mrs. Lillie Cox. Mrs. Hugh McKinney visited in Fairfield. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Thomas Car ter, Vann and Sallie Marie visited the Carters and Spencers during the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Flave Gibbs and little daughters of Portsmouth, Va., visited Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Swindell the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carawan were Suhday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McKinney. NEWS OF THE WIDE WORLD FIVE KILLED—Five Negro men were killed and four other persons were injured (in a three car collision near Sumter, S. C., Saturday night. LJVE GRENADES FOUND Two, live hand grenades found on a river bank near Raleigh 'were described by military officials as being the fragmentary type, dead ly within a radius of about 26 yards. WITNESSES CANNIBAL FEAST—An American missionary has returned from the interior of Dutch New Guinea and has told of witnessing a ceremony in which a tribe feasted on the body of one of their slain enemies. LICENSE TROUBLE Many New Jersey motorists have been stopped in other states because of a political dispute over the state’s license plates appropriation; as a result of the dispute, New Jersey has three types of license plates this year. TREE FALLS; KILLS THREE —A 100-foot fir tree, its roots loosened by flood waters, fell across a car in ML Ranier Na tional Park in Washington and killed three persons. DRIVING HAZARD—A spokes man for the Automobile Legal Association has termed a girl in shorts and a tight sweater just as much a safety hazard as a blowout, a drunken driver, or a speedster.” YANKEES FINED $5,500 Five members of the New York Yankees baseball team were fined SI,OOO each by their team as a result of heing involved in a night club brawl, r.nd another player in volved was fined SSOO. JURY SELECTION QUESTION ED—A commissioner in Wake County has denounced the prepa ration of lists of prospective jurors there, and it has been re vealed that over 20,000 names are eliminated before the commission ers receive the lists from their clerk and his staff. 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FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1957 BIG ONE—From Poland comes a report that the Russians have claimed having an H-bomb so big they dare not test iL AERIAL MONKEYSHINES A 75-pound chimpanzee broke out of his cage aboard a cargo plane between Detroit and Kansas City; after the plane landed at Kansas City, it took airline crews 20 min utes to, chase him into a cage. JETS COLLIDE—Two Navy jet planes participating in a Mem orial Day salute over Minneapolis collided in mid-air and crashed; one pilot was killed, while the other parachuted to safety. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC An influenza epidemic in Asia report edly has stricken between 80,000 and 100,000 in the Tokyo and Kyoto areas, forcing 96 schools .to close. ROAD CONTRACTS AT PEAK —Approval was given by the State Highway Commission last week of low bids totaling $8,062,- 315.98 on 20 road projects; this set a new record of approximately $46,000,000 in funds put to con tract in a five-month period. KILLED BY LIGHTNING One soldier killed and six others were injured at Fort Ben ning, Ga., when lightning struck the rear of a column of troops on a night road march. BANNED FROM STATE—AI ton T. Brookshire, 26, charged with breaking into a cottage at Atlantic Beach, was sentenced to two years in jail suspended upon payment of costs of court and on condition he leavi the state for five years. ALTITUDE RECORD SET -r CapL J. W. Kittinger Jr., 28-year old Air Force officer, set a new altitude record for manned light er-than-air flight Sunday when a giant plastic balloon carried him 96,000 feet or more than 18 miles above the earth. OCTOGENARIAN HONEY MOON—An 81-year-old blind man . and an 84-year-old woman who met in a rest home were married in Pleasantville, Pa., Memorial Day. The bridegroom has been married three times previously, while the bride has been wed twice; both have two children.
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