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VOLUME XXII NO. 51 BIDS TO BE OPENED TUESDAY FOR NEW US 158 ON BEACHES Highway Down Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, and Nags Head Beaches To Be located .The relocation of Highway US 108 down the Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills, and Nags Head beach es is one of a number of projects included in the letting scheduled for June 25th, the State Highway and Public Works Commission has announced. The relocation on Dare County’s Outer Banks will be from about 1.4 miles east of the Currituck Sound Bridge south for about 15.3 miles to Whalebone. The work in volves grading and paving a two laned 24-foot wide highway which will widen to dual-lane pavement for channelized intersections at both ends of the job. It will be located about 1,000 feet west of and paralfel to existing US 158. Two days after the June 25th letting, the Highway Commission ers will meet in Raleigh with Highway Chairman A. H. Graham and Chief Highway Engineer W. H. Rogers Jr. to canvass the low bids received and to attend to other highway matters. BLUE MARLIN RECORD SET OFF HATTERAS DURING PAST MONTH Four anglers skipping bait in the Gulf Stream off Hatteras during the month ending June 18, landed four big blue marlin with an aver age weight of more than 400 pounds each. This is believed to be something of a record for fishing north of Bimini and South of Wedgeport. Latest of the big marlin boated off Hatteras was caught by Hal ter Wilkins of Norfolk, Va., on June 18. He was trolling southwest of the Diamond lightship when the big blue marlin hit. Forty min utes later, the fish, a 402-pounder ■ measuring 10 feet, 7% inches from tip to tip, 55 inches around its girth and 42 inches for a tailspi'ead, was aboard his private cruiser, “Jon- Lee,” skippered by Capt. Ashton Styron. It was the runnerup to the largest of the species taken off Hatteras this year. On June 9. Gilbert E. Thorne of Norfolk, guest of angler Wilkins aboard the “Jon-Lee,” had landed the season’s record to date, a 458- nounder measuring 11 feet, 3 inches from tip to tip and 59 inches around the girth. On Mav 25, Dr. J. C. Overbey of Norfolk, on his private cruiser "Snapper II,” had boated a 381- pounder, and eight days earlier Mrs. William Arnott of Florham Park, N. J., had boated the season’s first while skipping bait from Capt. Edgar Styron’s sportsflshing j cruiser “Twins II." The total weight of the four great billfish was 1,616 pounds. Di-j vide that total by four, and one> arrives at the record catch made by four anglers in less than a month in the billfish-famed waters off Hatteras. Other Billfish Landed Several other billfish, white mar lin and sailfish have also been landed off Hatteras and Oregon Inlet during the past month. The best white marlin catch during the period was made during early June by John Wood who fishes from his Oregon Inlet-based cruiser “Con nie Dionne.* He boated a pair of whites that went better than eight feet each . . . Bill Waller of Win ston-Salem holds the sailfish rec ord to date—one going approxi mately 6 feet landed from the Bumbaloo” of Oregon Inlet FUNERAL HELD SUNDAY FOR JEFFREY B. BREASHERS Jeffrev Beacham Breashers, 20- mbhth-old son of Royal D. and Vera Beacham Breashers, died Friday morning at 8:30 o’clock in a hospital in Greenbelt, Md., fol lowing an illness of 12 hours. He was a native of Maryland and had lived in Greenbelt all of his life. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Kitty Hawk Methodist Church by the Rev. W. H. Montgomery. Snastor. “Fairest Lord Jesus” and “Away In A Manger” were sung by Miss Judy Midgett, Miss Eu rince Midgett and Miss Brady Rogers. Mrs. Jesse Baum accom panied at the organ. The casket was covered with a pall made of pink carnations, pink roses, baby j breath and fern. Active pal’bear ’ era were Jerry Beacham, Lionel Shannon, Jr., Dallas Beacham and Terry Beacham. Burial was in the Austin Cemetery at Kitty Hawk. Besides his parents, he is sur vived by his grandmother. Mrs. Marvin Etheridge of Healton, Okla.; maternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Beacham of Kitty Hawk and one brother, James Mathews Breashers. • ■ •• 'N. - •■ ‘ ■ THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF, THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA I ."■■l |i -sr: ■ . ■< Mm ’ ■ BMP Rfk jTjM -A’. • js ' © w / “ ■ ■si ’ts B BS*« r ■mPtW 0 fl r> i F W flHv / fl 1 Wk ’ "fl. ■ * B -*•„ JF-.X Kjar , ;■< K W"- jk* . W k i flr ' v *• •* 3 Wltlß n ■ . U _■ TALKING OVER OLD TIMES are three of Mantel *n pioneer citizens, (left to right) M. L. Daniels, W. J. Griffin, and M. L. Johnson. They are shown as Mr. Daniels and Mr. Johnson recently paid a visit to Mr. Griffin, who will observe his 90th birthday on June 27th. The three were associated in business in Manteo about 50 years ago when Mr. Griffin ran a boat line; Mr. Daniels was engineer and Mr. Johnson was captain of the line’s largest boat. Mr. Daniels, 74, is still active as a merchant, while Mr. Johnson, 85, now takes it easy because of his health. (Photo by Pratt Williamson, Jr.) DOLPHIN BLITZ IS • CONTINUING OFF i THE DARE COAST ) While it is big blue marlin that > make the current headlines from ; Dare coastal waters between Kit s ty Hawk and Hatteras, it is dol phin, one of the most colorful and 1 fastest of warm water fishes that - is providing Gulf Stream sport for i more people trolling from Oregon t Inlet and Hatteras based cruisers. : During the past six weeks, or - since the first dolphin of the sea- • son was landed off the Dare coast, i literally thousands of these fish i have been landed. On some days at s Oregon Inlet Fishing Center, the - fish, which anglers have discovered i is an excellent food delicacy, have s been caught by the truck loads. f How long the big ran of dolphin will continue, considering the great f number now being caught, is any s one’s guess, but great catches of 1 them have been made in or near . ’ the western edge of the Gulf 3 Stream each summer season for t the past 30 years, and the supply seems to be endless, regardless of r whether the angler is trolling in • blue water off Oregon Inlet, Hat . teras, or from the sportsfishing . bases farther south along the , North Carolina coast. i Here at Oregon Inlet and also in i the Hatteras area, parties going after dolphin or going fishing in the Gulf Stream or near its west- • ern edge tideline seldom catch less . : than 40 to the boat and some par , I ties have come in with more than , a hundred of the colorful fishes.' Once in port, most of the anglers ( ice their fish and haul them home ward in the trunk of their autos, and many not consumed immedi ately go mto deep freeze. Usually, j if the angler does not want to take ! his dolphin home with him, there , are persons at the fishing centers , who are anxious to have the fish— , and for free. ’ DISAPPEARANCE OF MAN AT BUXTON STILL MYSTERY Still no trace has been found of Marvin Kreutzer of Owensville, Mo., who abandoned his Car on the highway near Buxton on May 28 and disappeard without a trace, it was reported by Sheriff Frank Cahoon’s office Thursday after noon. A search of the nearby woods by Park Service and Navy personnel was conducted, but was t ’to no avail. Kenneth Kreutzer, Navy man of Norfolk, son of the missing man, reported that his father had been visiting the son’s family in Nor folk and left unexpectedly on May 27. The victim was reportedly suffering from a kidney ailment and bordering on amnesia. An unofficial source has report ed that the missing man is be lieved to have been seen alive about a week ago in Norfolk, but there is no confirmation of this. GRACE METHODIST SCHOOL ENJOYS SOUNDSIDE PICNIC The Sunday School classes of Grace Methodist Church of Duck gave a picnic on the sound shore near Duck Saturday, June 15th, at 3:00 oclock. Seventeen members were present and seventeen guests. Hot dogs, cold drinks, potato chips, marshmallows and lemonade were served. The young folks went swimming and all enjoyed themselves. MANTEO BUSINESS ASSOCIATES OF 50 YEARS AGO AVON MAN ON CRUISE TO NORWAY AND EUROPE X 1 ■H|' 'W| K W 1 ■k 'X f d I t fl If i ■*. - - B B ELLIS A. GRAY JR., of Avon, Coast Guard engineman second ' class, is a member of the crew of the USCGC Absecon, which sailed for Bergen, Norway, last week on a cadet training cruise after taking part in the Interna tional Naval Review. After leav ing Norway, the cutter will also visit England, France, and Spain. This trip is of special interest to engineman Gray, as Norway was the homeland of his late uncle, Rudolph Arnesen. The son of'Mr. and Mrs. Ellis A. Gray of Avon, he finished training at Cape May, N. J., in October 1954 and since has sailed , aboard the Absecon from Davis ' straights in the far North to as ' far south as Cuba. BLUEFISH AND OTHER FISH STILL PLENTIFUL AT HERS AND IN SURF 1 Bluefish are still plentiful in 1 Dare Coast waters, and anglers are catching them daily in the surf, 1 from ocean piers here in the Nags ' Head region or from boats operat- ' ing in the inlets. Spanish mackerel j have been plentiful in some areas, • especially in the Hatteras Inlet re- j gion. Bottom species, flounder, ■ trout, whiting and other varieties • are taking lures and bait of anglers 1 who fish for them—from boats an chored in the channels or from ' piers and jetties. ’ < ———■ ——— < AMONG THE MANTEO SICK J AWAY IN HOSPITALS j Among the many patients away in hospitals, the following news is , available concerning Manteo citi zens: Melodye Cannady, year*and a-half-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cannady, is in Albe marle Hospital, Elizabeth City, her mother at her bedside. Mrs. 1 Rowan Quidley returned home t this week from the Albemarle 1 Hospital, where she was an opera- I tive patient Bobbie Owens is a i patient in the Albemarle Hospital, also young Robert Fuqua, who has < been there for several weeks with a broken leg, and who is progress- i ing satisfactorily; Mrs. W. F. Mus- j tian, a recent operative patient in | Leigh Memorial Hospital, Norfolk, < is recuperating nicely; also D. ( Victor Meekins is making a satis- ] -factory recovery in Leigh Memo- ] rial. / i Mrs. J. A. Krider returned last < week from the Albemarle Hospi- I tai, where she had been a patient i for several weeks. MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957 LOST COLONY CHORUS TO BE AT MT. OLIVET CHURCH SUNDAY A.M. The Lost Colony chorus will make a guest appearance at the morning worship service at Mount Olivet Methodist Church in Man teo this Sunday morning at 11 a.m., according to the pastor, Rev. Louis Aitken. Special music will be presented by the 20-voice group, which is under the direc tion of Dr. Elwood Keister, also a member of the staff of East Carolina College. The chorus last Sunday made a guest appearance at St. Andrews by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, which had a capacity congregation. Beginning June 30, the chorus will participate in * the religious serv ices each Sunday at Fort Raleigh. GOSPEL SEXTET TO GIVE PROGRAM AT WANCHESE The CBI Melodettes, a ladies sextet frim Central Bible Institute in Springfield, Missouri, will pre sent a service of sacred music at the Wanchese Assembly of God Church at 8:00 p.m. on June 25, the pastor, the Rev. C. C. McAfee, has announced. This group of six young ladies accompanied by their director and pianist, Miss Lottie Riekehof, dean of women at the college, are on a tour tf’hich will take them into seventeen states singing i n churches, conventions and youth camps. They have appeared num erous times on both radio and television programs in the mid west and are in great demand for their talented presentation of the gospel in'song. A special feature of their presentation will be a demonstration of music in the sign language. Miss Riekehof has been instrumental in teaching the sign language to scores of young peo ple, many of them are working among deaf people in all parts of the country. In addition to Mis* Riekehof, the personnel of the Melodettes in cludes, Harriet Robinson, Des Moines, Iowa; Lorraine Flagstad, Fond de lac, Wisconsin; June Crace, Nashville, Tennessee; Judy Robbins, Fresno, California; Joan Moore, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Joyce Denton, Springfield, Mis souri. Central Bible Institute is an ac credited Bible College with a stu dent enrollment of 580 and is operated by the General Council of the Assemblies of God, a world wide missionary denomination with headquarters in Springfield, Mis souri. The public Is cordially invited to attend. There will be no ad mission charge. A. L. WESCOTT PASSES Alfonso L. Wescott, formerly of Manteo and Kitty Hawk, but for a number of years a resident of Perris, California, passed away Sunday, June 16, after a short ill ness. He was the son of the late Rob ert L. and Mary Louise Wescott. In addition to hia wife, he is survived by four sisters, Mrs. W. A. Reiff of Hawthorne, Calif., Mrs. J. P. Gruver of Wilmington, Calif., Mrs. Mark Gray of Gar dena, Calif, and Mrs. George W. Meekins of Avon; one brother. Bob Wescott of Kitty Hawk; a step mother, Mrs. Mattie Wescott of Kitty Hawk, and two nephews, Denny and Jackie Gruver of Wil mington, Calif. Interment was in California. NORTH CAROLINIAN HAS FEMALE LEAD IN 1957'S LOST COLONY Rehearsals Underway for Show's 17th Season, Which Opens on Saturday, June 29 Dianne Rousseau, 20-year-old brunette of North Wilkesboro, will play the role of Eleanor Dare, the female lead of the Lost Colony, during the show’s 17th season beginning at Waterside Theatre near Manteo on Saturday, June 29. She is the fourth native of North Carolina to play this important role in the Paul Green drama which has lived longer than all other outdoor productions. Miss Rousseau is a student of drama at Woman’s College, Greensboro, where next year she will be a junior. North Carolinians previously cast in the role were Barbara Ed wards of Troy, now the wife of stage, TV, and movie star Andy Griffith, who once played the Lost Colony role of Sir Walter Raleigh; Anne Martin of Cherokee; and Jan Saxon of Charlotte. Miss Rousseau is one of almost 100 actors in The Lost Colony cast this year, with many of the actors doubling in more than one role. The heaviest female speaking role is that of Eleanor Dar?, who in the show is the mother of Vir ginia Dare, first child of English parentage born in the New World. She plays opposite William Walsh, native of Rh ide Ishvi, who corn >s to Lost Colony from New York where he has been playing in Broadway shows and on televis ion. Mr. Walsh in The Lost Col-' ony will play the role of John Borden, whom Author Green built up as the leader of the English colonists who attempted’ to estab lish a permanent settlement on Roanoke Island in the New World in 1587, 20 years before James town and many years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. Burnet Hobgood, director of The Lost Colony this year, has selected many new faces for principal roles in the drama as it will be present ed during the current summer. Re hearsals are now underway each day and night at Waterside The atre in Fort Raleigh, or at the local dance and music studio in downtown Manteo. Dr. Elwood Keister of East Car olina College directs the Lost Col ony chorus this year. Jonn Leh man of the Lehman Dance Studio in Raleigh is the show’s chartog rapher. General Manager Richard E. Jordan has announced that there will be no advance in the price of admission tj The Lost Colony this year, and the tickets are tax-free. The Lost Colony, which tells the story of one of the greatest his tory-mysteries, is presented on the actual site of the original happen ing of the story it tells. More than 800,000 persons have seen the show. MANY GOOD CATCHES AT OREGON INLET REPORTED Regardless of where they fished, anglers on the Dare Coast during the past week have had better than usual catches. Examples of the catehes in the Gulf Stream or in Oregon Inlet were reported today by Brantley Brown, who covers the Park Service Fishing Center with his camera. His re port went like this: R. M. House and party of Petersburg, Va., landed 78 blues while trolling in The Boys, skip pered by Capt. Willie Etheridge Sr., J. W. Foreman and party of Elizabeth City, aboard the Cared wynn with Capt. Jesse Etheridge, accounted for 80 blues on Wednes day; Capt. Jesse also reported plenty of flounder from bottom fishermen. One group, Pete Cole and party (home address not given), caught 56 flounder near Oregon Inlet Another Elizabeth City party, Clay Foreman, Jr., Jim Foreman, Charles Bennett Don Brown and Willis Owen, boated 17 dolphin, three king mackerel and two oceanic bonita on Wednesday while trolling with Capt Warren Gallop aboard the Karen Alton. Willis Owen of this party boated a 30- pound dolphin, runner-up for the largest of the species taken this year off Oregon Inlet Mike Gunn and party of Nor folk, aboard Capt. Carson Stall ings’ cruiser Carrov, on Wednes day boated 30 dolphin, two oceanic bonita and one false albacore. A party aboard the Chee Chee, skippered by Capt. Willie Ether idge Jr., landed 49 dolphin Wed nesday. The party, headed by Curtis Rogers, was from Newport Newa Several other excellent catches were made on Wednesday but the skippers failed to report same to Brown. GOVERNORS OF MANY STATES WILL VISIT DARE AND SEE “THE LOST COLONY” JUNE 27 Group Coming to Dare after National Governors Conference at Williamsburg, Va., on Invita tion of Governor Luther H. Hodges; Will Be Honored by Preview Performance of "The Lost Colony." GETS NEW COAST GUARD ASSIGNMENT AT HONOLULU < r z fl E ' ~ di , GERALD D. WILLIAMS, yeoman in the U. S. Coast Guard and son of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Wil liams of Avon, has recently been ordered to duty in the 14th Coast Guard District, with headquarters in Honolulu, T. H. Prior to this assignment Williams served as Group Yeoman, Cape Hatteras Group, Buxton. He is a graduate of the Cape Hatteras High School at Buxton and was attending East Carolina College in Greenville before join ing the Coast Guard. TRAFFIC CASES TAKE UP MUCH COURT TIME TUES. Trespass and Assault Case of D. A. Rogers Jr. Continued for Two Weeks Traffic cases predominated dur ing a lengthy session of Dare County Recorder’s Court held Tuesday afternoon by Judge W. F. Baum. The case of D. A. Rogers Jr. of Manteo, charged with trespass and assault of Albert L. Toler of Kitty Hawk, was continued until the July 2 term of court at the request of the defendant. At the present time, he is free under SIO,OOO bond pending appeal to the Supereme Court of a recent conviction of assault and larceny. Norman Mallory Goodloe Sr. of Portsmouth, Va., was found guilty of drunken driving and was fined SIOO and costs; he gave notice of appeal to Superior Court and bond was set at S2OO. Also charged with drunken driving, Benjamin Hickman Bunn of Rocky Mount requested a jury trial, and his case was sent to Superior Court, with bond being set at S2OO. Paul Bert Dunlo Jr. of South Norfolk was convicted of driving in excess of 70 m.p.h. and was' fined sls and costs; he was also charged with engaging in a race but was found not guilty on the latter charge. Wilbert Lee Collins of Engel hard was found guilty of careless and reckless driving and was fined $25 and costs. Paul Townsend Gaskins of Nor folk, found guilty of public drunk enness, was fined $25 and costs. Jose Ganias of Buxton was found guilty of violating a restric tion of his operator’s license by driving without corrective glasses and was fined $lO and costs. Other judgements reported were in cases in which the defendants submitted by pleading guilty: Harry Austin, Buxton, public drunkenness, resisting arrest, as saulting an officer, and daminging officer’s clothes, fined a total of SSO plus sl6 damages to officer’s clothes and costs of court. Norman George Miller, Ports mouth, Va., drunken driving, SIOO fine and costs. Desmond Frederick Foster, Frisco, careless apd reckless driv ing. $25 fine and costs. John Tony Wilson, Beaufort, no operator’s license, $25 fine and costs. Paul Stephen Zamboni Jr., Eliz abeth City, careless and reckless driving, $25 fine and costs. Albert Jerry Daniels, allowing unlicensed operator to drive s2s' fine and costs. J- D. Little, Buxton, careless ana reckies* driving, $25 fine and costs. Carl Frederick Blum, Rochester, See COURT, Page Ten • * Jr'V 1 ' Single Copy 7< By AYCOCK BROWN The governors of many states and from such island possessions as Guam and Puerto Rico Will at tend a special performance of The Lost Colony, presented in their honor on Thursday evening, June 27, at the Waterside Theatre near Manteo. They will come to the Dare coast from Williamsburg, Va., and the national Governor’s Confer ence, which starts there on June 24. They will be here on the invi tation of Governor Luther H. Hod ges of North Carolina, and during their coastal visit they 'nil be en tertained by The Carolinian on Nags Head, where they will make their headquarters June 27th and 28th, by Dare County, a .d by the Southern Shores Development Corporation. An itinery of their visit follows: After breakfast at Williams burg, they will fly from Patrick Henry Airport, Newport News, to Manteo Airport on Roanoke Is land. Here on Roanoke Island, North Carolina State Highway- Patrol cars will meet the gover nors and their parties. Enroute from the airport, it is planned to stop at Fort Raleigh, site of “The Lost Colony” on Roanoke Island, where they will see during day light hours the birthplace of Vir ginia Dare, and the place where, in the Elizabethan era of the 16th century, attempts were first made by the English to plant a perma nent colony in America. At 12 noon, the .official party will check in at The Carolinian on Nags Head, where Mrs. Emmett Winslow and her associates of the Carolinian will be the official hosts. t At 1 p.m., Southern Shores De velopment Company will be hosts to the group at the beautiful Sea Ranch Hotel and Beach Club on Kitty Hawk beach. David Stick will head the group of hosts here along with Mr. and Mrs. Buck Sykes of The Sea Ranch. The afternoon will be open for beach activities, boating, bathing, and sight-seeing by air and ground. A visit to the Wright Brothers National Monument at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk is included in the afternoon activi ties, and an aerial demonstration over the monument is planned. Children in the governors’ party will be entertained at the Caro linian during the late afternoon while the governors and their guests will be entertained at a Youpon Tea Party. The group will depart from The Carolinian at 7:45 for Waterside Theatre, where Manager Dick Jordan will be their host at a preview of the Lost Colony, the Paul Green drama which does not officially open until Saturday night, June 29. Members of the press and spe cial invited guests may attend this special showing. On Friday, ar ' rangemeats will be made for the governor* to go fishing off the Outer Banks. They will leave Dare on Friday afternoon, June 28. MRS. MOLLIE MEEKINS OF AVON IS ACTIVE AT 83 Mrs. Mollie Meekins of Avon, widow of the late Shanklin Hooper Meekins, will observe her eighty-third birthday on Sunday, June 23rd. Despite the passing of the years, Mrs. Meekins still does all of her housework and in addi tion finds time every days for visiting her neighbors. SEASON’S LARGEST BLUE MARLIN IS LANDED OFF HATTERAS SATURDAY Gil Thorne, a Norfolk angler, fishing with rod and reel off Hat teras last Saturday, hooked and landed a 456-pound blue marlin. This was the largest fish taken with rod and reel off the North * Carolina coast this year. It was also the third blue marlin to be landed off Hatteras this season, as a matter of fact, the only three landed north of Florida. Angler Thome’s big fish meas ured 11 feet and 3 inches from tip to tip and 4 feet and 11 inches around itb girth. He was fishing • from the sportshh cruimr “Jon Walter Wilkins of Hatteras. ■
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