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VOLUME XXIII NO. 15 ROTARIANS PLEDGE AID IN DRIVE FOR COLONY MEMBERS Drive for Members io Roanoke Island Historical Associa tion Underway The Manteo Rotary Club went on record Monday night as back ing the drive for members for the Roanoke Island Historical Associa tion, operators of the Lost Colony. The Club was a sponsor and well wisher, along with most everyone else back in 1937 when the show was started, and has given it good words ever since. It has also enjoyed many programs given it through the years by talent from the Lost Colony cast. O. J. Jones and W. H. McCown were named a committee by Presi dent Krnest Meekins to seek mem berships in the Association. Last year, some 2,000 letters were mailed to citizens of Dare County requesting them to give support by taking out memberships, and less than 20 per cent responded. Truly Dare County people prefer to be on the receiving end. But this sort of preference has brought u» to « time when we face the loss of the Lost Colony, which has been the most important fac tor for many years, in bringing about the wonderful development of the Dare Coast. Memberships are classed as a contribution, in the final sense, and they are set up in various sums. There are annual member ships at $3, 10, $25 and SIOO for a life membership. With, these memberships go a season pass to the show, which means that for $3, one isn’t making any donation at all. One performance of the show alone gives him back his money’s worth, yet for some un uknown reason, he gets a pass good for every night of the sea son. The Rotarians Monday night, enjoyed a moving picture show presented by Aycock Brown and Julian Oneto, showing scenes of the . Pirates Jamboree and ?the Croatan Sound bridge celebration. This film was produced by Miles Clark of Elizabeth City who loan ed it to the club. SOUTHERN ALBEMARLE TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING IN PLYMOUTH OCT. 30 The annual meeting of the Southern Albemarle Association will be held in Plymouth on Wed nesday morning, October 30, at 11 a.m., it has been announced by T. R. Spruill of Roper, Association President. Luther E. Bamhardt of Concord, Lieutenant-Governor and president of the State Senate, has accepted an invitation to be the principal speaker. The association embraces the counties of Dare, Hyde, Beaufort, Martin, Tyrrell and Washington. It was created in 1935 with the avowed purpose of working for the betterment* of the Southern Albe marle area. LADIES NIGHT FUNCTION OF MANTEO LIONS CLUB WILL BE AT NAGS HEAD A ladies night dinner and social function will be held by members of the Manteo Lions Club at their next regular meeting night, Tues day, October 15. This gala affair is to be held at the Carolinian, Nags Head — dinner being served at 7:30 p.m. Following the dinner an evening of entertainment will follow, with music, dancing and merriment in store. A number of local entertain ers are being contacted, and while there have been no definite an nouncements, plans being made will provide an enjoyable program. Ladies nights are held several times yearly by the local club, and generally prove to be highly suc cessful. Last event of this kind was in June at the installation of officers. BIG GAME SEASON OPENS OCTOBER 15 Manns Harbor.—The big game hunting season (for deer and bear) will open in this area on October 15, according to Game Protector W. 8. White. Although more than 50,000 acres of woodlands and open lands were burned over in the Manns Harbor- Stumpy Point region during early August, the fire did not reach the best big game hunting grounds, ac cording to Mr. White. He stated today that big game hunters after deer and bear usually had best kills in the Alligator River, East and South Lake regions and this sec tion was not burned over by the big blase of August. Hunting lands in this area are owned by West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, but sportsmen are permitted to shoot bear and deer under special permit arrange ments with the pulp and paper company's management. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH dOASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA AN OLD FRIEND OF THE COASTLAND IS HERE VISITING »" C .O' •• • ’ ■ i ARNOLD J. STEWART, who is rounding out some 50 years of service for the News-Journal of Wilmington, Del., is back on the qpast for sev eral days. He arrived Saturday morning, and his first stop in Manteo was at the office of the Coastland Times, which he says is indispens ably to him in furnishing information to countless people in the Wil mington, Del. area who wish to visit the N. C. Coastland. He is a true and faithful friend of the coast and its people, and for many years his columns on our hunting and fishing have called a steady stream of visitors to this area"; accounting for the large numbers of auto tags we see from Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He took off Saturday morning byway of Hatteras, to meet friends who were to join him at Ocracoke Island. His trip will take him southward, and in this state for several days, and he will write many columns about the hunting and fishing in this area. Photo by Aycock Brown. N. C. WILDLIFE FEDERATION IN SESSION IN DARE Distinguished Visitors Include The Hon. Daniel H. Janzen and Hal Lyman The Thirteenth annual meeting of North Carolina Wildlife Fed eration is now in session at the Carolinian Hotel, Nags Head. It began with registration of dele gates and guests, Thursday morn ing, October 10, and was followed by the Directors Lunch and a short business session on Thursday. Thursday evening at the annual banquet, the Honorable Daniel H. Janzen, Director. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife, U. S. De part of the Interior, and Hal Ly man, Boston, Mass., distinguished sportsman-conservationist, publish er of Salt Water Sportsman, were the principal speakers. On Friday, following the busi ness session and election of offi cers, P. K. Gravely will be host at a luncheon at his Catco Lodge, on Martin’s Point for all delegates and guests. Turner W. Battle, Rocky Mount, is president and Thomas W. Reese, Hickory, is Secretary of the Fed eration. There are about fifty-five delegates in attendance. Major J. L. Murphy, Kill Devil Hills, Direc tor of the National Wildlife Fed eration, arranged the speaker’s program. BIG CHANNEL BASS TAKEN FROM SURF Buxton.—Channel bass fishing, especially for large fish *of this species, has been exceptionally good at Cape Hatteras since the northeast gale last week, accord ing to George Fuller. “Hundreds of small channel bass and numerous large ones have been taken by surfcasters using mullet for bait,” said Fuller. One of the outstanding catches report ed here by Fuller was made by Mrs. C. R. Goodwin ’of R.F.D., Burlington. “She did not catch the largest channel bass taken this week but with a spinning real loaded with 15-pound-test monofilament line and a hook baited with a hunk of fresh mullet, Mrs. Goodwin brought in a 38% -pounder, he added. Mrs. Goodwin and her husband and a party of friends who have been fishing here at Cape Hat teras for the past several days have also taken dozens of puppy drum and trout. Ranny Jennette reported the largest fish taken during the Week, (through Wednesday) as being a 48-pounder. It was landed by J. L. Bowers of Whiteville, who was using a 9/0 hook baited with fresh mullet on a Pfleuger Sea King reel loaded with 36-pound test line. Bower’s channel bass, believed to be the largest of its species taken along the Outer Banks so far this Fall, was 48% inches long and 27% inches around its girth. Jennette reported that_ channel bass anglers had been making good catches along the beach from abreast Avon to the Point of Cape Hatteras and thence southward to Hatteras Inlet .Fishing was re ported as especially good in the surf in the Creeds Hill area. If the same pattern is followed as in previous years, the channel ' bass will continue to be caught in | large numbers and large sizes until late November here on Hat teras Island. DA.RE COMMISSIONERS TUESDAY HEAR REPORT ON DRAINAGE PROJECT Col. V. M. Lancaster Tuesday appeared before the Dare County Board of Commissioners at the board’s monthly meeting to report on drainage work now being done in the county. He stated that he would soon be finished with the work, and that in view of several thousand feet of ditches having been deleted because people refused to allow ditches on their property, should any of these people change their mind he would want to know very soon; he. stated that once he moves out of the county he could not come back. By unanimous action, the five boat’d members approved a resolu tion that the final estimate of the general contract for the addition to the courthouse be accepted, sub ject to any unpaid bills incurred in conjuntion with such construction in the hands of the county attorney and any minor defects which may be known to the architect. The board voted to employ J. Henry Leßoy as special council to represent the county in defending the suit brought against Dare County by Orlando Burrus in con hection with the awarding of con tracts for garbage pickup. The board ordered that Dan Mor rill be instructed to make a seper ate picture of all living chairmen of the board of county commission ers so they could be placed on the wall in the commissioners’ room. The board appointed Lawrence Swain as a director-at-large of the Dare County Tourist Bureau and appointed Gordon Kellogg as mem ber of the board of directors of the Tourist Bureau from Nags Head Township, replacing Alvah Ward, Jr., recently elevated to president of the Tourist Bureau. In other action, the board order ed that the floors be tiled in the offices of the farm agent, home agent, and license examiner, and that tlje clerk to the board contact W. N. Spruill, district highway en gineer, in regard to securing two short culverts to be used in the road near the home of Willie Sim mons. STATE REBEKAH PRESIDENT RETURNS FROM FLA. VISIT Mrs. Susan M. Ballowe of Man teo, state president of the Rebekah Assembly of North Carolina, re turned' home last Friday from Mi ami, Fla., where she attended the meeting of the International Asso ciation as representative from the North Carolina group. On Saturday, October 5, she went to Swan Quarter for the first of a group of fall meetings. Her schedule for the remainder of the fall will be as follows: Oxford, Oct. 10; Fayetteville, Oct. 11; Goldsboro, Oct. 12; Beaufort, Oct 16; High Point, Oct. 18; Greens boro, Oct. 19; West Asheville, Oct. 23; Asheville, Oct. 24; and West Jefferson, Oct. 26. At the end of these meetings, Mrs. Ballowe plans to go to Charlotte to visit her /sister, Mrs. H. S. McChesney. A. D. SWINDELL IN HOSPITAL Addison D. Swindell of Manteo, who is one of the Island's older citizens, was taken ill and carried to Albemarle Hospital by Twi ford’s ambulance Tuesday. John Allen of Manteo, is report ed'as improving after a long ill nataa in Fhia unital MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1957 | FEROCIOUS WILDCAT DESTROYING DEER ON DARE MAINLAND Great Feats of Strength Manifest ed; Efforts to Trap Monster Fruitless Does a panther cat exist on the Dare County mainland? Recent doings in the dense mW Ids back of Manns Harbor would indicate some such animal exists there. The book say he does not, but old timers who have spent many years in the •wamps contend there are such animals, bigger and more ferocious than the common wildcat. On last week end while making his rounds, District Game protoc ol- W. S. White of Manns Harbor discovered a newly killed deer in the vicinity of the ancient isolated settlement of Beechland, which is some 15 miles west of U. S. 264 and 20 miles distant from Manns Harbor. This was a large deer weighing about 75 pounds, left on the side of the newly built road of the West Virginia Pulp & Pa per Co. Around it were large, cat like tracks. The deer had been partially eaten. Mr. White went back home and got a number of steel traps and set them around the carcass, in hope of trapping the beast that was playing havoc with the deer population. Came heavy rains and winds and he didn’t get back to the traps until Monday. No trap had been sprung, but after some search, he found a trail leading into the reeds and some 75 yards away were the remains of the deer which had been further dissected. All along the trail were the same enormous cattracks. Now game authorities say there are no panthers or ocelots in this part of the country. But old timers including John Tom Ambrose and Willie Crain who have lived here all their lives say there are pan thers. Old men have always claim ed there were in spite of the doubters. There was general belief that one roamed Roanoke Island 50 Refers ago, having, it was said, come across Croatan Sound on a high tide during a storm. One must admit however, that it takes a mighty big cat to drag a 75-pound carcass back through dense weeds and undergrowth Maybe it is the daddy of all wild cats. Plenty of Bear Mr. White believes the bear population of the Dare County mainland is growing. He says there is a bumper crop of gum berries and the bears are back in the deep woods having a feast. It is his opinion that few deer were killed during the recent forest fire, and that most of those using the area burnt over were able to es cape to other areas. Signs indicate that there are many deer this year. In fact they are getting bold about coming out on the road. On Tuesday night of this week, Vic tor Meekins saw a huge buck ambling along the roadside at Lake Landing, which is a thickly built up section of Hyde County. The deer seemed to be in no hurry about leaving highway 264. DARE YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO ASSEMBLE FRIDAY IN COURTHOUSE AT MANTEO An assembly of young Demo crats and their friends is sched uled to be held Friday evening, Oct. 11 at 8 o’clock in the court house in Manteo, to consider plans for further perfection and enlarge ment of the organization. Reporting to the meeting will be Mrs. Dottie Fry who attended the state convention at Southern Pines last week. Mrs. Fry is Sec retary of the Dare County club and Jack Tillett is president. One item of business to come up before this meeting is a plan for a countywide dinner to be held during November and which will be attended by prominent state officials of the organization. This meeting may take the form of an oyster roast, Stumpy Point having offered a strong bid for the meet ing. DARE COUNTY N.C.EA. MEETS LAST SATURDAY Teachers from throughout Dare County assembled in Manteo Sat urday morning for the school year’s first quarterly meeting of the Dare County unit of N.C.E.A. held at Manteo High School. A motion picture, “Freedom To Learn,” was the highlight of the program. Mrs. Mary L. Evans, County Superintendent, also spoke to the teachers on matters con cerning all the schools of the county. The meeting was presided over by the president, W. H. Bunch, principal of the Manteo school, who also named a nomi nating committee to prepare a alate of officers for the forthcom ing election. Prior to the opening of the meeting, refreshments of coffee and cookies were served. SURF TOURNEY AT NAGS HEAD WILL BEGIN OCTOBER 18 Three-Day Competition Offering More Than SI,OOO in Tro phies and Prizes The sixth annual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament, an event which has become one of the larg est sporting classics of its kind along the Atlantic Coast, will open at Nags Head on October 18 and continue with team competition through October 19 followed by one day of open competition in which any angler, regardless of club or team affiliations, may enter, on Sunday, October 20. Julian Oneto, president of Nags Head Surf Fishing Club, which sponsors the event under the aus pices of the Association of Surf Angling Clubs, stated today that more han 40 teams from clubs in many states had entered for the inter-team competition. “This means that we will have approxi mately 250 team members compet ing during the first two days of the tourney,” said Oneto. More than SI,OOO in handsome trophies and prizes will be offered winning teams and individuals competing. COMPLETES AIR FORCE JET MECHANICS SCHOOL W. fgfv A -c&to As /Bp?;- A/3c JACKIE WARD of Manteo is now home on a 28-day leave after having completed Air Force boot training at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and graduated from the jet mechanic technical school at Amarillo, Texas. Follow ing this leave, Airman Ward, is slated to be stationed in France for three years. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Ward of Manteo, he attended Manteo High School before entering the Air Force. WILDFOWL ARRIVING IN COASTAL CAROLINA NOW Predictions are That They Portend Early and Rough Winter, Bearing Out Old Coasters' Predictions ■ « Black ducks, gadwalls, pintails, and blue-winged teal and a few Canada geese were included in first waterfowl count of the season to be released by L. B. Turner, manager, Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge between Oregon Inlet and Rodanthe. His count was made last week. Elsewhere along North Caro lina’s share of the Atlantic Fly way were reports of additional wildfowl. Some old Coasters say this is a sign of an early and rough winter. R. F. Sumrell, Federal game warden of Harbingger in Curri tuck stated that while no official count had been made in Curri tuck Sound that following a trip up the beach as far as Wash Woods area during the week he had seen plenty of geese, “prob ably 4,000 or more,” and also many flocks of black duck and teal. Weather last Week end was the type which normally brings wild fowl southward to their winter feeding grounds in Currituck, Ro anoke, Croatan and Pamlico Sounds, and also at Mattamuakeet Lake on the Hyde mainland one of the greatest winter spots along the South Atlantic for Canada geese. Already Federal and State wardens are on the alert for any one who may feel inclined to vio late the migratory wildfowl laws by bagging geese or ducks before the season opens on November 7. The federal wardens this year are operating on land, by boat and in the air, as usual. Next month, additional species of wildfowl, some with absolute protection by law, such as swan and snow geese are expected to arrive in coastal waters. One of the most popular feeding areas for snow geese is at Pea Island, where up to 10,000 may be seen during late November and Decern* MCfe f -V *• J HYDE COUNTY MAN GETS TOP AWARD IN WRITING ■ '<K W M CARLTON MORRIS Chicago, Ill.—The editor of a nearby weekly newspaper and writ ers for two large metropolitan dailies have won the three SSOO first places in American Trucking Associations’ 1957 Newspaper Safety Writing Competition. 1 They are Carlton Morris of the Gates County N. C., first in the editorial class; Wen dell H. Coltin of the Boston .(Mass.) Herald, first for series of stories; and Frederic G. Hyde and Kos Semonski of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who collaborated on the first place single story. Morris be gan his newspaper career by writ ing for the Hyde County Herald and the Belhaven Pilot. He is a na tive of Ponzer, Hyde County. Morrid also was awarded first place in the weekly newspaper di vision of the Ted V. Rodgers Award, sponsored by Trailmobile, Inc., and the ATA Foundation, Inc., in 1956. For this he received sl,- 1500. Among his recent honors, on Au gust 31, he was featured as Editor of the Week by The Publishers’ Auxiliary, a 97-year-old national trade newspaper published in Chi cago. His column appears at times in the Coastland Newspapers of ■ Manteo, Swan Quarter and Belhav en. The editorial which brought Mr. Morris the SSOO first place award was headed “I Sat There and Cried.” In it, he writes that he wept while reading “a packet of old newspaper and magazine clip pings” of traffic accidents, perhaps, Mr. Morris said, because “I wanted to tell the whole world that cars will kiil and maim and cripple, but for seven years I had done that to no avail for no one listened to my story.” COURT TRIES ASSAULT AND TRESPASS CASES Two parties involved in an inci dent at Kitty Hawk Saturday, September 28, were tried Tuesday afternoon before Judge W. F. Baum in Dare County Recorder’s Court. Albert L. Toler, originally charged with two counts of as saulting James Lewis with a deadly weapon, was found guilty of assaulting Lewis with a heavy iron instrument, causing serious injury, and was fined $lO and costs; the second charge, assault with a pistol, was dismissed how ever. Lewis, charged with tres passing upon Toler’s property and assaulting Toler, was convicted of the trespassing charge ' only and given a 30-day suspended sentence, fined $lO and costs, and ordered to stay off the premisse of Toler for 12 months. Edgar Blount of Elizabeth City was charged with careless and reckless driving and operating a motor vehicle with an improper operator’s license, the latter charge amended to knowingly making a false statement in an application for an operator’s li cense. He was found guilty by Judge Baum and fined $lO and costs. The remaining cases iisted were submissions: Wilbur Donald Spencer, Manteo, careless and reckless driving and improper exhaust, S3O fine and costs. Herman Arwood Tillett, Kitty Hawk, operating a motor vehicle on State highway with a load overwidth and without a red flag or light, pay costs of court. Columbus Jarvis, Powells Point, failing to stop at stop sign, $5 fine and costs. Ira Mason, Chincoteague, Va.,' speeding 55 m.pJi. in a 45 m.p.h. zone, $lO fine and costs. Mark Daisey, Chincoteague, Va., speeding 55 m.p.h. in a 45 m.pJh. zone, $lO fine and costa. Willie Wilbert Grey, Elizabeth beth City, speeding 85 and costs. • Warren Helen Jennette, Eliza beth City, speedign 65 m.p.h., $lO fine and costa. Harry Louis Shriver, Jr., fall- Single Copy 7p STORMY WEEK END BROUGHT TIDES AND UPSET FISHERMEN High Winds And Strong Tides Interrupt Ferry Service on Saturday and Sunday High winds and strong tides, particularly on Saturday disap pointed many fishermen, just when drumfish were beginning to ”un on the Dare Coast. At 3:30 p.m. Saturday the tide was run ring so strong, ferry service at Jregon Inlet was suspended, - and vas not resumed until late Sunday forenoon. Great disappointment prevailed among many fishermen, who had >een encouraged to come to the area with high hopes, on hearing news of the excellent fishing along the whole coast. Winds reached a velocity of some 50 miles an hour in gusts, but no such winds as were report ed, (75 miles per hour) resulted during the whole period. Weather continued rainy and gusty through Saturday, reaching its maximum during the night. The Alligator River ferry also suspended its late Saturday sched ule. High water prevailed in many localities causing some inconven ience. About 15 inches of water came on the highway at the loca tion of the old ferry slip at Manns Harbor. Considerable water stood on the beach road at Nags Head and on the Hatteras Island highway, but this soon drained off. Succeeding high sea tides continued to cross the road near Avon the next day. Ford Called Total Loss Stranded at Inlet A ’55 Ford owned by Mrs. Mar tha Beasley of 150 Arlington Ave nue, Portsmouth, Va., was declared a total loss by Park Service offi cials and others who tried to sal vage it from the sand near Point of Beach north of Oregon Inlet Tuesday. It was lost during the week end gale which swept the Dare Coast resulting in high tides and winds that reached near hurri cane force. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. West, par ents of Mrs. Beasley and Mrs. Charles West of Portsmouth, her aunt had gone to the north side of the inlet in Mrs. Beasley’s car Sat urday afternoon during the rain storm. When the car got stuck ini the sand Mr. West sought aid and See STORM. Page Four MARVIN ROGERS, 53, DIES IN ALBEMARLE HOSPITAL AFTER LONG ILLNESS WEDNESDAY Stewart Marvin Rogers, Jr., 53. Dare County coroner, and for 35 years a resident of Manteo, died Wednesday evening in the Albe marle Hospital, Elizabeth City, aft er an illness of seven months. He was the son of Mrs. Emma Simp son Rogers and the late S. M. Rog ers, and was bom in Elizabeth City. After coming to Manteo he en gaged in the barber business and various enterprises, being a man with ability for tradfe and he had been Coroner for some 20 years. He was widely known and well lik ed generally, and he had many friends to visit him duriing his long illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Janie Shannon Rogers, a son, Capt. Aubrey Rogers. U. S. Air Force, Charleston, S. C., his mother, Mrs. Emma Rogers, and a sister, Miss Evelyn Rogers, both of Elizabeth City. The funeral services will be con ducted at Twiford’s Funeral Home in Manteo at 2 p.m. Friday, with Rev. L. A. Aitken, Methodist pas tor, officiating. Burial will be in the Manteo cemetery. Pall bearers for this funeral will be Leigh Has sell, Edward and Roy Wescott, Wallace Gray, Edwin Midgett and A. L. Mann, Jr. SEA SCOUT UNIT BEING ORGANIZED IN MANTEO A new form of Scouting is now being organized in the Manteo area and will be known as Sea Scout Ship 165. This group will be a part of the regular Scouting program. This unit is being form ed in order to interest older boys in some part of Scouting. It will consist of training in seamanship and also in other points. Boys who have reached their 14th birthday, regardless of whether they have been Scouts before, are invited to join while the group is being or ganized. For the present time, night"! t the bSjX of Mount Olivet Methodist Church.
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