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VOLUME XXIII NO. 12 EAST LAKE PLANS CELEBRATION FOR METHODIST CHURCH September 29th To Be 70th Anni versary of Sect in The Community Sunday week will be a big day' for the community of East Lake when its Methodist congregation will stage the annual homecoming to observe the 70th anniversary of Methodism as it applied to this neighborhood. Rev. George M. Kelley, late missionary to China for many years, is now pastor of this ehurch, as well as of those at Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point. A public invitation is broadcast to anjj and all to come for the day and help in this observance. A mid-day picnic will be held follow ing the sermon and Sunday School services, which begin at 10:30 a.m. A song service will follow the din ner. Those who have attended one of these affairs at East Lake know what a wonderful event they are. Old residents return from long dis tances to spend the day. The new Croatan Sound bridge makes this one easier than ever to reach from the east and north. The improved ferry service makes it easy for its friends from the west to get there as never before. Ferries run every 45 minutes, leaving Tyrrell Coun ty at 5:30 a.m. and until 7:30 p.m. They also run at the same intervals from East Lake, the last leaving at 7 p.m. Methodism got on a firm basis with the organization of this con gregation at East Lake in 1887. In this long settled community, the Primitive Baptist Church had held sway, and to this day, a few people retain membership in it, and serv ices are held occasionally in the old church on the Lake Neighbor hood road. Mrs. Ida Hassell of East Lake recalls the old story about a local Methodist preacher who one night preached a sermon in the new Methodist church in which he pre dicted the invention of the airplane, the radio and other electrical mira cles of today. Back in the eighties, this was blasphemy to the conser vative Baptists of the isolated woodland settlement, and much in dignation prevailed. Many people said he should be ridden out of the community on a rail. MASONIC INSTRUCTION SCHOOL AT WANCHESE Hyde and Tyrrell County Lodges to Follow After Sept. 24th; All Invited. Visitors from all lodges of the district are invited to attend the Masonic school of instruction to be held at Wanchese Lodge No. 521, A.F. & A.M. Tuesday, next week, September 24th, according to R. O. Ballance of Manteo, District Dep uty Grand Master of the 53rd Ma sonic District. It will begin at 3 p.m. The lodges of Manteo, Cape Hat teras and Wanchese will take part in the work which will be under the direction of G. R. Leggett, Grand Certified lecturer of Plymouth. Similar schools on instruction will follow later this fall at Swan Quarter and Columbia. Cape Hat teras Lodge will exemplify the First Degree, and Manteo Lodge the second degree, which will be followed by a supper, at 6:30 p.m. After the supper, Wanchese Lodge will exemplify the Third Degree, 'Mr. Ballance said. AUTUMN MEETING TOURIST BUREAU WED, SEPT. 25 The autumn meeting of Dare County Tourist Bureau's board of directors will be held at the Com munity Building in Manteo, next Wednesday morning, September 25, at 10 o’clock, it was announced today by W. H. McCown, chairman of the board. The October meeting is one of the most important of the year, when new officers are selected and a new budget is presented. “The board members can look back on the year now ending as the greatest in the vacation and tourist history of Dare,” said Mc- Cown. "From official sources where travel counts are maintain ed in Dare, the first nine months of 1957 are well ahead of a like period in 1956.” MANTEO PT.A. TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT The Manteo P.T.A. will hold its first meeting of the school year on Tuesday, September 23, at 7:30 p. All parents are urged to attend. A good representation is desired from all the communities of Dare County having children in Mantee: School. I THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA THE NEW FARM AGENT - FOR DARE COUNTY A- i I, i . a J. L. REA, JR, 35-year-old native of Roper, Monday assumed the du ties of Dare County Farm Agent, filling the vacancy which had exist ed since the resignation of Robert S. Smith early last July. Mr. Rea comes to Dare from Lumberton, where he served first as assistant county agent and then for almost a year as acting county agent in Robeson County. Grow ing up in Washington County, where his father is now in charge of the Tidewater Experiment Sta tion, he graduated from Plymouth High School in 1940. His college training was interrupted by a four year stint in the Navy, and it was in 1948 that he was awarded his diploma from North Carolina State College in Raleigh. He then served as assistant county agent in Alle ghany County and farmed for 3 years before accepting the posi tion in Robeson County. Mr. Rea’s wife is the former Dor othy Thompson of Roper, and they have five children, two of whom are of school age. NIGHT FERRY NEEDED ON ALLIGATOR RIVER Much Satisfaction With Present Daytime Schedules, Quality of Boats and Ease of Loading Tyrrell County organizations and citizens are much concerned with the need for night service over Al ligator River which would make possible the transaction of busi ness through the usual business hours, and departures in either di rection, thereby adding to the con venience of the traveling public. Much marketing of fish and farm products results from the travel made possible by this ferry, and which adds to the importance of night trips for those who must return late. Traveling salesmen, as well as those bent on fishing or seashore recreation are equally pnxious for this service. Tyrrell and Dare, be ing thrown together in several fra ternal, civic, education and official districts, now that communication by highway has been established, are more acutely needing the night service. The traveling'public seems well pleased with the new boats, the ease with which they load and un load, the faster schedules, and the clean and neat appearance, which they truly hope will be maintained by keeping employed the high-type industrious men who now man the boats. At the present time the boats are operated on 45 minute schedules simultaneously through out the day, from each side of the river. FINDS TOMATO GROWING ON ANCIENT BEECHLAND FARM There are many fables about the ancient community of Beech land, a long abandoned settlement oh Mill Tail Creek in the midst of the Dare mainland. Only the old corn ridges, and a few headstones remain to remind the occasional visitor that here flourished . in complete isolation a hardy com munity some 200 years ago.' It’s been many a day since vegetables grew on Beechland, which is now owned by West Vir ginia Pulp & Paper Co., and who are digging canals through its acres. John M. Crees, a company employe one day last week ate a tomato, which he found growing in this old wilderness. WANCHESE RURIfANS LADIES NIGHT TO BE HELD The Wanchese Ruritan Club will hold Ladies night, today, Frdiay, Sept 20th. Members will bring their wives or girl friends. Mem bers of the Manns Harbor club are expected to attend this meet ing with their ladies also. Pres. J. W. Davis says the program will consist of local instrumental and vocal talent. HYDE CONTROVERSY BELIEVED TO HAVE COST $10,000.00 Costly Outlay Precipitated by Board of Education's Hasty Action What is called the hasty action of the Board of Education of Hyde County in attempting to move En gelhard’s high school to Swan Quarter, had resulted in an esti mated cost to citizens and taxpay ers of upwards of SIO,OOO when the case ended Thursday of last week in a special term of Hyde County court. Engelhard citizens estimate that the controversy to save their school has cost the citizens of the com munity over $4,000 in legal and other expenses involved. For the most part, they are pleased at hav ing some sort of victory in the judgment signed, by the court, fol lowing a resolution by the Board of Education to build one central high school at Lake Comfort. But the citizens are in addition, paying their part of the taxes which will be spent by the Board of Education in fighting the case. The cost will be assumed by all the people of thd county, and is esti mated. to run better than $5,900 for court expenses and attorneys’ fees. Spokesmen for the Board of Edu ' cation have complained that the cost of this term of court was un necessarily brought on the county ' by the citizens of Engelhard. But Engelhard spokesmen say the Board of Education, by their high ' handed and illegal action and fail ' ure to properly notify the Engel l hard citizens of the proposed change, and their refusal to give ' them due consideration, made it necessary for Engelhard patrons to fight for their rights. The Hyde County school contro , versy ended last Thursday with a compromise between Engelhard ! school patrons and the County See SUIT, Page Four TATEM NOT TOTTERING, BUT HE'LL BE 82 ON SEPT. 25 I - OF -31 laML v ■ F Jit C. WALLACE TATEM of Colum bia, seven times eletced to the Leg islature from Tyrrell County, life long engineer and civic worker, first president and several times thereafter of the Southern Albe marle Association, is going to be 82 years old on September 25th. He lacks a year or so of being as old as Selden Combs, and is a few years younger than Capt. Bob Knight. And like these other elder ly boys, he is going strong, still keen of mind, and active of move ment. Mr. Tatem spends his time in quiet, seclusion at home, but he keeps posted on current affairs, and he is still interested in seeing Alli gator River bridged, which is one of many important projects to which he has lent great aid during the past 25 years. CENSUS COLLECTS EMPLOYMENT FACTS SEPT. 15 Facts on employment and un employment will be collected from a number of local families during the week of September 15 in the Current Population Survey, ac cording to Supervisor Joseph R. Norwood of the Census Bureau’s regional office at Charlotte, which will participate in the survey. In formation collected locally is com bined With facts obtained in other parts of the country to provide national statistics. Current Population Survey in formation will be collected in Dare County by Mrs. Nellie G. Perry of Kitty Hawk. LYONS VISITS HATTERAS G. Albert Lyons and a party of friends visited Hatteras commu nity Saturday and Sunday and was honored by a square dance and clam bake Saturday night. Mr. Lyons was a visitor to Hat teras for many yean. He built the girl’s club and owned the Goose rille Gun Club which is now used as a Coast Guard station. MANTEO, N. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1957 CEREMONIES MARK BEGINNING OF WORK ON NEW MANTEO SCHOOL UmhV ML m <ll fl Iflo 1 BtHiFi I J' L- ' slut SO' ■ PAttiIVIFANTS IN GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONIES lor the new Manteo High School, which were held on Thursday mroning of last week, are shown in the above photo. Pictured in the foreground is Robert O. Ballance, Manteo member of the Dare Counity Board of Education, who officially turned the first shovel of earth in the absence of board chairman Ellis A. Gray of Avon. Others shown behind Mr. Ballance are, left to right: front row, Janet Wescott of Manteo, secretary of Manteo High School’s sen ior class; Sandra Keller of Kitty Hawk, president of the senior class; Mrs. Matilda Inge of Manteo, sen ior class advisor; Mrs. W. S. White of Manns Harbor, member of , the Manteo school committee; Mrs. Mary L. Evans of Manteo, Superintendent of Dare County Schools; and Mrs. Helen Briggs of Kitty Hawk, member of the county board of education; back row: Robert Mims of Manteo, member of the school fac-’ ulty; Melvin Twiddy Jr. of Manns Harbor, treasurer of the senior class; Leland Wise of Stumpy Point, member of the county board of education; Jasper Hooper of Stumpy Point, member of the Stumpy Point school committee; A. O. Ayers of Manteo, member of the school faculty; and W. H. Bunch, principal of 'the school. The new $342,000 building, being built by Kellogg-Cuthrell, Inc. of Manteo, is expected to be ready for use by the opening of school next fall. It includes a library, home economics classroom, science class room, business education classroom, six additional regular classrooms, an industrial arts shop, a health clinic room, a teachers lounge, two administrative offices, four toilets, a gymnasium with four dressing rooms, a lunchroom, and three stroage and maintenance rooms. (Aycock Brown photo) TRAFFIC CASES DOMINATE DARE RECORDER'S COURT Traffic cases constituted the docket in Dare Recorder’s court this week. Eastman Forbes of Wanchese was fined SIOO and costs , for driving while drunk. Joseph GaryUowdy ’bT TKanted was fined $15.70 including costs for using improper registration plates. It cost M. H. Edwards Jr. of Hickory $25 and costs for al lowing an unlicensed operator to drive his car. Alma Glean Miles of South Norfolk paid $25 and costs for driving without an operator’s li cense. Howard P. Williams of Martinsville, Va. paid $lO and costs for allowing his son under 16 years of ago to drive. Nancy Ray Twiddy of Coinjock paid $lO ’ and costs for speeding. A case charging Ruby K. Brown of Ports morth, Va. with driving without operator’s license was nol-prossed. MRS. ROSELLA M. MIDGETT Mrs. Rosella Morse Midgett, 55, died Tuesday at 3 a.m. in the Vir ginia Beach hospital after a long illness. She was a native of Col ington, in Dare County, N. C.. and had been living in Corolla, Curri tuck County, for several years. She was the daughter of the late William H. and Mrs. Annie Beasley Hines Morse. She is survived by her hunband, Israel J. Midgett of Corolla; two daughters, Mrs. Garland R. Beas ley of Princess Anne County and Mrs. Estelle Midgett of Corolla; four sons, Alvin and Jack Midgett, both of Princess Anne County, and Roy and Donald Lee Midgett, both of Corolla; three sisters, Mrs. M. L. Midgett and Mrs. Bertha May Morse, both of Kitty Hawk, N. C., and Mrs. T. R. Caroon, of Poplar Branch, two brothers, C. E. Morse of Norfolk and William A. Morse of Ocean View, 14 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. SONG WRITER’S DAUGHTER VISITING DARE COUNTY Mrs. June Roy, daughter of Harry Carroll who wrote the lyrics of “I’m Always Chasing Rain bows,” and a couple of oldies, “Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” and “By The Sea,” has been vacation ing on Nags Head this week. Her father was one of the founders of the ASCAP organization, which is the union that protects composers, artists and producers. With Mrs. Roy is her husband, Leonard Roy, executive vice-presi dent of the Committee of One Hundred in Miami. He was for merly on the staff of National Geographic Society’s magasine and in the past has done stories on North Carolina. In return his "efforts in publicizng North Caro lina through magazine stories,” he was made one of the charter members of Honorary Tar Heels, an organization founded by the late Governor Gregg Cherry and Bill Sharpe of Raleigh, (former di rector of the State New. Bureau. A COLUMNIST WHO GETS CLOSE TO HEART AND MIND CAROLYN L. LLOYD is a teach er in the high school at Belhaven, and she has been at it a good many years, as she indicates from time to time in her column “Glimpses of the Past,” which we publish, and which has excited much interest among our readers. This is why we publish her pic ture—because so many people are interested in her. She is the wife of Jas. W. Lloyd, and a dedicated teacher whose profession is her life work. Her long experience in this work has developed her rare gift of mind which anon is either incisive or cryptic, and again down' to earth with her touching refer ences to by-gone days, and the things that people learn, and treasure from out of the past. We have been grateful for the privil ege of printing Mrs. Lloyd’s col umn, and for her helpful editorial work for us. We often caution her about her frankness in talking about the past, which tends some times to reveal one’s age, which is a woman’s most closely guard ed secret of today. Just read her column, and you will learn much. Her words stimulate thought; they get close to both one’s heart and mind. FISHING EDITOR VISITING Joe Pancoast, fishing and out door . editor of Philadelphia’s Eve ning Bulletin, and Mrs. Pancoast are on the Dare Coast this week as guests of The Carolinian on Nags Head. They will visit all fishing communities of the Outer Banks and his daily columns this week carry area datelines. Pancoast’s daily column in the Philadelphia Bulletin, with its cir culation of almost one million cop ies daily, has been responsible for many anglers and hunters coming to the Dare Coast It is not his first visit here, but the last time he was on the Dare Coast was before the new roads were built along the Outer Banks, and as he expressed it one day this week, “What a changel” AUTO INJURY CASE TO BE HEARD IN MANTEO TUES. Billy Gray of Avon, is slated to be heard in Recorder’s Court in Manteo Tuesday, Sept. 24 on a charge of reckless driving. The case, resulta .touu. inj urios-sus taicL-. ed Tuesday night of last week by Mrs. Mahoney (Eula) Quidley, who was struck by Gray’s car on the highway at Buxton. Mrs. Quidley has been confined to her bed for several days. A patrolman was not on duty at the time of the mishap, and late action re suited in this case. MANY DARE PEOPLE IN TANNERS CREEK HOSPITAL One who visited the U. S. Pub lic Health Hospital at Tanners Creek, Norfolk on Sunday would see almost as many Dare County people as he would at home. For here ' were numerous visitors to patients, among them being Coast Guard veterans or their wives. From Manteo in this hospital are Marchant Meekins, William H. Etheridge, Mrs. Ned Etheridge, Delton Dowdy. Also two colored patients: Willie Simmons, and Mrs. Angenora Berry, the widow of Joe Berry. A former colored resident, George E. Pruden, now living in Norfolk is in the hospi tal. He is the last negro keeper of Pea Island Coast Guard Station. W. B. Miller of Avon has been a patient for some months, and has recently had a leg amputated. Frank O’Neal of Avon is in the hospital, and a former Avon resi dent, Rev. J. A. Farrow is in the hospital. Mr. Farrow now resides in Manteo. Cecil Midgett of Waves is being treated at this hospital, having suffered from a serious sting-ray injury sustained while pulling a seine near Waves. Arthur M. Meekins of Stumpy Point has returned home after treatment at this hospital. MRS. ANNA M. MIDGETT DIES AT WAVES FRIDAY Mrs. Anna M. Midget, 64, widow of the late Daniel B. Midgett and daughter of the late I. S. and Cora Midgett died Friday at her home at Waves after a long illness. She had resided at Waves most of her life, though she lived at Nags Head and Manteo during her late hus band’s service in the GcMt Guard. She was bom at Waves, March 2, 1893. Her husband, Dan Midgett, died Jan. 3, 1956. i She is survived My five sisters, Mrs. B. R. Ballance of Buxton, Mrs. Fred Austin ofQfatteras, Mrs. Ben Etheridge of fimheth City, Mrs. Camille Midland Waves and Mrs. Alston Ivdget es Great Bridge, Va. By on* brother, Dor land Midgett of IRm. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 p .m. at the Fairhaven Methodist Church by the pastor, Rev. B. E. Binghaw. Burial was in teftfy ceme tery near Waves. Single Copy 7< TOURNAMENT FOR FISHERMEN SOON AT NAGS HEAD Nags Head Surf Fishing Club Sponsoring Event October 18-20 Nags Head, Sept. 19.—Started in 1952, with hardly more than a doz en teams competing, the annual Invitation Inter-Club Surf Fishing Tournament, sponsored by the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club and held under the auspices of the In ternational Association of Surf Angling Clubs, is now among the most popular events of its kind along the Atlantic Coast. And this year, it well may become the larg est surf tourney between New Eng land and Key West. Already this year 37 clubs from Wilmington to New York have en tered teams to compete for the Nags Head Trophy on October 18- 20. “We have good assurance from our tourney director, H. W. Shaner of Margate City, N. J., that at least five more clubs will be enter ing teams and the total may reach 45,” said Julian Oneto, president of the local sponsoring club. “All clubs entering teams should do so before October 1,” said George Crocker, secretary of the Nags Head Club. Crocker this year succeeded Major J. L. Murphy, for mer secretary, and Oneto succeed ed Abie Williams who had served as president for the past two years. Nags Head tourney has. become popular in part because of social functions to supplement fishing. A high spot of the tourney is the an nual banquet, usually held at the Carolinian, headquarters for the tournament. This year with ap proximately 250 team members, most of them accompanied by their wives or families, the potential may exceed 400, so the banquet will be held at the Nags Head Casino. Last year the Merchantville (N. J.) Fishing Club won the hand some Henry Stelwagon-donated Nags Head Trophy. For perma nent possession the Merchantville team would have to win it again this year. Since the first tourna ment in 1952 only one team, the Elizabeth City Surf Fishing Club, has won permanent possession of the coveted trophy. That was in 1953-54. In addition to the Nags Head Trophy, there are other cups, plaques and valuable prizes, more than SI,OOO worth, usually award ed to runner-up teams, teams catching the greatest number of fish, regardless of points, or to in dividuals who cast in the open tourney on Sunday, the concluding day of the event. Scoring is based on weight and point system. Fish that carry points, once they are caught in clude: kingfish (sea mullet), weak fish (sea trout), croakers, bluefish, flounder, striped bass (rockfish) and channel bass, (red drum). The outstanding catch made in a Nags Head tournament was by Art Clark of Fox Chase Manor, Pa., who in 1954 brought in a 60%-lb. channel bass from the surf at Kill Devil Hills with 12-test line loaded on a spinning reel. His fish be came an unbeaten world record for channel bass on 12-pound test line. Most of the anglers taking part in the tournament come from fish ing clubs in New Jersey and Penn sylvania. Clubs already entering teams for the October 18-20, Sixth Annual Nags Head Tournament this year follow: Ocean City, N. J. Fishing Club; Dover Fishing Club of Philadelphia; Anglers Club of Absecon Island, N. J.; Margate City (N. J.) Casting Club; Long Beach Island (N. J.) Fishing Club; Merchantsville (N. J.) Fishing Club; Holmesburg (Pa.) Fish and Game Protective Association; Mer cer County (N. J.) Anglers Asso ciation; Stone Harbor, N. J. Fishing Club; Women’s Surf Fishing Club of N. J.; Nags Head Surf Fishing Club; New Hanover (N. C.) Fish ing Club; Tidewater (Va.) Fishing Club; Anchor Surf Fishing Club of Nags Head; West Philadelphia Surf Anglers Club; Elizabeth City (N. C.) Surf Fishing Club; Penn Mutual Anglers Club of Philadel phia; Penn. State Fish and Game Protective Association; Cornwell Heights (Pa.) Surf Club; Albe marle Surf Club of Elizabeth City; Atlantic City (N. J.) Salt Water Spinners; South Jersey Anglers* Association; Inland Anglers Club; North Philadelphia Surf Club; 25 Sons of the Beaches, N. J.; Pas quotank Wildlife Club; Tri-State Surf Anglers Club of Arlington; Barrington (N. J.) Rod and Reel Club; Twin-Buck Sportsman’s Club of N. J.; Onized Surf Club, Bridgeton, N. J.; Manasquan Fishing Club, N. J.; Eastern Rod and Reel Club, Pa.: Fishing Mermaids of Atlanta City; Shore Surf Club of N. J.; See TOURNEY
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