VOLUME XXIII NO. 18
HANKS DEPARTS FOR[
WASHINGTON POST;
GIBBS IS SUCCESSOR
Park Service Supt. in Dare County
Goes to Washington This
Week
Allyn F. Hanks, for the past
three and a half years superinten
dent of the Cape Hatteras Nation
al Seashore Recreation area in
Dare and Hyde counties, relinquish
ed the post this week to Robert
F. Gibbs, and went to Washing
ton, D.C., to Park Service head
quarters and to a new position.
Mr. Hanks was one of the most
popular employes to come to
Dare Couhty with the Park Serv
ice, and he made many friends.
Before leaving, Mr. Hanks pre
sented his successor, Robert F.
Gibbs, to the Manteo Rotary Club,
where Mr. Hanks had been an ac
tive and valued member. Mr. Gibbs
is now on the job at Bodie Island,
the project headquarters.
AHyn F. Hanks has been named
to tiie newly-established position
of Chief, Branch of Visitor Pro
tection, in the Division of Ranger
Activities, Washington (D. C.) of
fice. He was superintendent of
Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Recreational Area and Fort Ra
leigh National Historic Site. His
successor, Robert F. Gibbs, was
assistant superintendent of Great
Smoky Mountains National Park,
North Carolina-Tennessee.
Tn his new post, Hanks will serve
as one of two principal assistants
to John M. Davis, Chief of the
Ranger Activities Division. He will
be concerned with the protection of
park visitors, their safe and en
joyable use of park facilities, and
the protection of the scenic, scien
tific, and historic values throughout
the National Park System. Law
rence F. Cook, for some years the
Service’s chief forester, is the oth
er principal assistant. He has head
ed the Branch of Park Forest and
Wildlife Protection since the Di
vision was established this year as
successor to the former Conser
vation and Protection Branch.
Mr. Hanks joined the Service in
1928 as a park ranger In Yellow
stone National Park. He served as
chief park ranger at Grand Teton
National Park, Wyoming, as super
intendent of Theodore Roosevelt
National Memorial Park, North Da
kota, and assistant superintendent
of Everglades National Park, Flor
ida. He has been superintendent
of Cape Hatteras and Fort Ra
leigh since March, 1954. A native
of Logan, Utah, Hanks studied
forestry and administrative man
agement at Colorado State Agri
cultural College, the University of
Montana and the University of
Michigan. During 1942-45, he serv
ed with the U. S. Coast Guard on
leave from the Park Service.
Mr. Gibbs takes over the - super
intendency of Cape Hatteras Na
tional Seashore Recreation Area on
North Carolina’s “outer banks” and
of Fort Raleigh National Historic
Site on nearby Roanoke Island at
. a strategic time when the Service’s
10-year MISSION 66 program is
getting underway there. Though
some construction has been accom
plished—including a modern day
use beach facility on Bodie Island,
part of the Cape Hatteras area,
and certain .roads and parking
areas—the planned development
program is in a pioneering stage.
Up to now, Superintendent Hanks
has been largely concerned with
necessary planning and research
preparatory to the projected devel
opment of the unique seashore area
to meet the contemplated visita
tion influx by 1966.
A native of Madison, Virginia,
Gibbs is a graduate of Virginia;
Polytechnic Institute. He joined |
the National Park Service in 1934
in a supervisory capacity in Shen
andoah National Park, Virginia, in
connection with Civilian Conserva
tion Corps work. Later he served
at Shenandoah as a park ranger.
After Army service, 1940-45—he
was awarded the Bronze Star Med
al for meritorius service by the
United States Army and the
Croix de Guerre by the French
Army—he became chief park, ran
ger at Shenandoah; then, assistant
superintendent at Big Bend Na
tional Park, Texas, and superin
tendent of Isle Royal National
Park, Michigan. He has been assis
tant superintendent of Great
Smoky Mountains National Park
since August 1956.
HALLOWE’EN CARNIVAL IN
MANTEO IS POSTPONED
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Tfce Hallowe’en carnival sched
uled tn Manteo for Thursday, Octo
ber 11, has been postponed until
Monday, November 4, because of
indement weather and a large
amount of illness in the commu
nity. The carnival will begin at
6:30 Monday afternoon on the
school grounds, and the indoor en
tertainment, including costume;
judging, etc., begin in the
auditorium at 7:11,
THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
HOME ECONOMISTS WHO WILL CONDUCT COOKING CLASS
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Miss Hilda Apple, left, and Mrs. Sylvia Matthews, right, Vepco
home economists from Williamston and Elizabeth City, respectively, will
be in charge of Dare County’s cooking school next week. Both of these
ladies are skilled in their field and will offer many timely hints to
participants in the two-day function.
DRUNK AND DISORDERLY
LEADS COURT DOCKET
Gethsemene Gallop of Manteo
was found guilty Tuesday in Dare
County Recorder’s Court of tres
spassing with force upon the prop
erty of Thomas Golden and being
drunk and disorderly; he was sen
tenced by Judge W. F. Baum to 60
days in jail, .suspended upon pay
ment of two fines totaling SSO and
the costs of court.
Paul Davenport of Manteo, on a
charge of being drunk and disor
derly amended to include interfer
ing with an officer while in the
performance of his duty in making
an arrest, pleaded guilty to the
drunkenness charge and was found
guilty by the court on both counts
and was given a 60-day sentence
suspended upon payment of fines
of $35 and costs.
Buren Twiford of Stumpy Point,
who had been charged with as
saulting C. V. Gray, with the
charge amended to assault with a
deadly weapon, was found guilty
of assault, but the charge of as
sault with a deadly weapon was
dismissed; Twiford was given a 30-
day sentence suspended upon pay
ment of a $25 fine and costs. He
gave notice of appeal to Superior
Court, and bond was set at SIOO.
Found guilty of public drunken
ness, Joseph Eugene Merricks of
Kitty Hawk was sentenced to 30
days in jail, suspended upon pay
ment of $25 fine and costs.
The remaining cases on the dock
et submitted and paid fines as in
dicated:
Willie Howard, Engelhard, hunt
ing in Dare County with improper
license—a county-resident license
valid only in Hyde County, $lO fine
and costs.
James Webster Lee, careless
and reckless driving, $25 fine and
costs.
Joseph Guy Hayes, Manteo, al
lowing an unlicensed operator to
drive on public highway, $25 fine
and costs.
Luther Mayo Mann, Manteo, im
proper equipment horn, wiper,
See COURT, Page Eight
MUCH IMPROVEMENT BEING SHOWN BY MANTEO HIGH'S GRIDDERS
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MANTEO HIGH SCHOOL’S
FOOTBALL TEAM currently has
a record of three wins and three
losses this season, and Coach A. O.
Ayers’ Redskins will be seeking
their fourth victory this Friday
night in their Homecoming game
against Columbia. After dropping
the opening contest at Plymouth
by a disappointing* score of 26-0,
the Redskins have shown much
improvement in winning twice
over Weeksville; September 27 at
CLAYTON TILLETT, MOTEL
•OPERATOR, DIES SUDDENLY
James Clayton Tillett, 56, oper
ator of the Sun and Sand Motel
at Kill Devil Hills and former mer
chant, died suddenly at his home
: Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. of a
heart attack. He had been a resi
i dent of the community for 11
years, and previously had spent a
I large part of his life at Shiloh,
Camden County, although he was
t a native of Nags Head where he
was born June 2, 1901, the son
of Durant E and Elizabeth Leary
’ of Durant E. and Elizabeth Leary
He is survived by his wife, Hen
i rietta Dean Tillett, and a daugh
[ ter, Mrs. C. C. Riggs of Shiloh.
; He was an industrious and highly
. regarded citizen of Kill Devil Hills.
• Funeral services were conducted
at 2:30 Thursday at the Twiford
Funeral Home in Elizabeth City
’ by Rev. Carl Calloway, pastor, the
, Old Trap Methodist Church and
' burial was in the New Hollywood
J Cemetery, Elizabeth City.
’ MRS. LETITIA F. AUSTIN, A
. DARE COUNTY NATIVE DIES
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Mrs. Letitia Fulcher Austin, 72,
of 409—Pendleton St., Berkley, Va,,
. died Oct. 29 in a Norfolk hospital
> after an illness of five months.
j She was a native of Frisco, Dare
County and had lived in Norfolk
the last 27 years. She was a mem
ber of Memorial Methodist Church,
Berkley.
Her late parents were Hatten
and Mrs. Martha Quidley Fulcher.
’ She was the wife of Edward B.
Austin.
! Besides her husband, surviving
! are three sons, T. L. Fulcher and
A. S. Austin, both of Norfolk, and
> H. D. Austin of Long Beach, Calif.;
I three daughters, Mrs. Theodore
Tucker of Long Beach; Mrs. Nor
- ma Holloman, of Norfolk, and Mrs.
' Melba Stallings, of Portsmouth; 10
1 grandchildren and one greatgrand
child. .
Funeral services were conducted
, Thursday. Burial was in Riverside
Memorial Park.
Weeksville the Manteo gridders
rallied in the final minutes of the
game to win 14-13, and then on
Oct 4 on the Manteo field
the Redskins turned in an im
pressive performance by scoring
twice in the opening minutes of
the game, going on to win 32-7.
The team won its third victory
of the year October 11 in
their second conference game.
They edged out a 13-12 win in a
nip-and-tuck battle with (Windsor.
MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER I. 1957
FIRST DARE CO.
COOKING SCHOOL
NOVEMBER 7 & 8
Sessions to Be Sponsored by Vep
co in Cooperation With Local
Electrical Dealers
Dare County’s first annual cook
ing school will get underway next
week, with two 4%-hr. sessions on
Thursday and Friday. The school
is being conducted by home econo
mists of the Virginia Electric &
Power C 0.,, and co-sponsored by
the local firms of Quinn’s, Fear
ing’s, Inc. and Manteo Funiture
Co.
This school is to be held in the
Manteo High School auditorium
Thursday, Nov. 7, 7:30 til 9 p.m
Friday sessicm will begin at 1:30
and last until 3 p.m.
Mrs. Sylvia Matthews of Eliza
beth City and Miss Hilda Apple
of Williamston, Vepco home econo
mists, will be in charge of both
sessions. Mrs. Matthews, who )ras
been an employee of the power
company for several years, has
successfully conducted many such
functions. Miss Apple, a recent
graduate of East Carolina College
in home economics, has been in
the Vepco training program in
Richmond until her recent assign
ment to Williamston.
A good attendance is anticipated.
There is no admission charge, and
a welcome is extended to all parts
of the county. There will be sev
eral prizes of appliances, with a
grand prize on Friday of a garbage
disposal. These, awards, plus the
appliances for use during the
school, are being furnished by the
three sponsoring dealers.
EDENTON GLEE CLUB
WILL SING IN MANTEO
How good music can be produced
in the schools will be demonstrated
Tuesday evening, November 5,
when the Roanoke Island Music
Club will present 14 members of
the Edenton high school glee club
under the direction of Mrs. Mary
Leggett Browning, choral director
for the sdenton high school. The
glee club has a membership of 80,
but only 14 will put on the pro
gram, which will include a variety
of numbers.
This will take place in the edu
cational building of Mount Olivet
Methodist Church and will begin
at 8:30. The public is invited to
attend.
PAST MASTERS NIGHT AT
MANTEO LODGE MONDAY
The past masters of Manteo
Masonic lodge were honored Mon
day night at a special program.
Roscoe Wynne of Elizabeth City
was the guest speaker. The lodge’s
past masters honored were: Ray
mond White, Frank White, Hugh
Basnight, Edwin Midgett, G. G.
Bonner, Raymond Wescott, Robert
Ballance, Belton Burrus, and
Charlie O’Neal.
In the past two weeks, they
have been considerably weakened
by the loss' of 11 of the above'pic
tured players, and lost to Central
61-27 and then to Hertford 40-7.
Members of the team pictured
here are, left to right: front
row, Horace Hooper, Jr., Jimmy
McLeod, Dixie Daniels, Robert
Cholerton, Raymond Wescott, Jr„ (
Lawrence Swain, Jr., and Wayne
Gray; second' row, Lionel Shannon,
Arnold Tolson,. Merrill Winslow,
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CHANNEL BASS A GOOD
BET UNTIL DECEMBER FOR
ANGLERS ON OUTER BANKS
By AYCOCK BROWN
Manteo.—From now until De
cember, big prize winning channel
bass will be the best bet for ang
lers fishing the surf of the Outer
Banks. They will be caught from
ocean piers at Nags Head to the
flats of Portsmouth Island and
Core Banks.
If this season does not set a
different pattern most of the fish
of this species will be hooked and
landed from the surf of Hatteras
and Ocracoke Islands with Cape
Hatteras being the geographical
center of this operation. In this
area a long-time world record, a
channel bass that scaled at 75%
pounds was caught by Capt. R. B.
Ballance of Buxton, and each year,
for many seasons about seven out
of 10 national winners have been
caught on a section of the ocean
that mariners called “graveyard of
the Atlantic.”
It’s hard to foretell weather con
ditions ideal for channel bass in
the surf along the Outer Banks.
Some of the largest are taken
during the stormiest of weather,
even in northeasters.
THREE SALVO CHANNEL
BASS TOTAL 177% POUNDS
Dick Austin of Salvo, reported
Thursday that he had caught three
channel bass, the largest a 61
pounder and the trio weighing
177% pounds in the surf near his
Outer Banks community on Wed
neesday night and Thursday morn
ing. His 61 pounder is the largest
of this species reported hooked by
an angler and succsesfully landed
this fall. He stated that the surf
from the old wrecked ship boiler
abreast Salvo, southward towards
the Cape was literally alive with
big channel bass.
WILDFOWL SEASON OPENING
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7th
The annual wildfowl shooting
season will open Thursday of next
week, Nov. 7th, and it will close
on January 15th.
It carries the same bag limits
on ducks and geese as last season.
Principal hunting places along the
coast, beside most all of Curri
tuck County, are Rodanthe, Bux
ton, Hatteras in Dare- County and
Ocracoke in Hyde County.
Mattamuskeet Lake region con
tinues to hold high place because
of its easy accessibility by road.
Many wildfowl have already ap
peared on the scene.
Jeffrey Midgett, Gus Etheridge,
,Jr., Jack Wood, Guy Daniels, and
Coach Ayers; third row: Billy
Monette, Jake Midgett, Ralph
Jones, J. B. Basnight, John Earle
Jr., Larry Holmes, Wayne Dbwdy,
Mike Keller; back row, Hughes
THlett, St Clair Basnight, Jr.,
Robert Midgett, Billy Brown,
Tommy Foster, and Gary Meekins.
Other members of the team- not
pictured are Mike Jones and
Charles Reber. (Photo by Pratt
Williamson, Jr.)
KELLY ON DARE COAST
TO SHOOT SURF FISHING
Robert M. Kelley, widely-known
staff photographer of the Time-
Life organization, arrived on the
Dare Coast this week to shoot pic
tures of surf fishing and other out
door sports in connection with a
forthcoming story in Sports Illus
trated Magazine. He arrived at
Nags Head Wednesday and shoved
off for Hatteras Island on Thurs
day morning where reports of
unusually good surf fishing for
channel bass and trout had been
sent out by the Tourist Bureau,
which assisted in Kelley’s prelimi
nary arrangements.
Also here on Wednesday was
Bill Sharpe, publisher of the State
Magazine in Raleigh, who was
gathering material and pictures
for a special story on Elizabethan
Garden and for vacation data
about travel in the area during
1957 to date. From Dare, Sharpe
was going to Bandon to interview
Mrs. Inglis Fletcher, the disting
uished author 1 of books about the
Albemarle region.
FABULOUS RUN OF ROCK
IN MANNS HARBOR WATERS
A fabulous run of rock fish or
striped bass have been in Manns
Harbor waters during the past two
days. All anglers who trolled for
the fish made unusually large
catches, some going to more than
100 fish. Best fishing has been in
the general area of Croatan Sound
bridge, according to reports from
Manns Harbor.
VIRGINIA BEACH ANGLER
LANDS 60-POUND CHANNEL
BASS AT CAPE HATTERAS
Courtney Starmont of Virginia
Beach landed a 68-pound channel
bass that measured 51% inches
from tip to tip and 31 inches
around its girth from the surf at
Cape Hatteras Tuesday night.
His big fish, scheduled to be a
contender for national honors in
weight class this year, was lured
with cut mullet bait. He also
caught a smaller fish of same
species to make his legal limit for
the day.
The big school of big channel
bass had hit in at the Cape on
flood tide Tuesday. Many anglers
fished, and Edgar Hooper and
Mrs. George Fuller reported that
approximately 50 channel bass
were taken.
Some of the anglers catching
their limit of two or at least one
of the fish included T. E. Glass
and S. R. Smith, Apex; Raymond
Basnett and Mrs. Fuller of Bux
ton.
Carl Herzog, Newark, N. J.,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ziegenhein,
and Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Davis of
St. Louis, Mo., accounted for more
than 100 speckled trout.
See FISHING, Page Eight
N’VY WOULD BUILD MOORING
FACILITIES AT STUMPY PT.
The Public Works Officer, Nav
al Air Bases, Fifth Navy District,
Norfolk, Va., has made applica
tion for a permit to construct
mooring facilities in the turn basin
at Stumpy Point, Dare County, N.
C., according to the office of the
District Engineer, Wilmington, N.
C.
Plans submitted show the pro
posed mooring facilities will con
sist of six piling. Three piling are
to be driven 2 feet from the exist
ing bulkhead and three more pil
ing 23 feet from the existing
bulkhead. Plans showing the pro
posed work may be seen at the
post office at Stumpy Point. Ob
jections, if any, will be received
in the Wilmington office by Nov.
14.
The Navy has recently complet
ed a barracks building with all
living facilities to house some 25
men located at the harbor at
Stumpy Point. It' has been in use
for several weeks.
ROTARIANS SEE COLORED
SLIDES OF COAST SCENES
The program at the Manteo Ro
tary Club meeting Monday night
consisted of the showing of num
erous scenes in color of the North
Carolina coastland as photographed
by Rotarian Dan Morrill, well
known Manteo photographer. In
addition there were scenes of wild
fowl on Mattamuskeet Lake, and
some views of N. C. mountain
country.
Vice-President Aycock Brown
presided in the absence of presi
dent Ernest Meekins.
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SOUTH ALBEMARLE
GROUP GUESTS OF
WASHINGTON CO.
Leon Ballance of Engelhard
Named President; Lt. Gov.
Barnhardt Speaker
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Leon Ballance of Engelhard was
elected President of the Southern
Albemarle Association in its an
nual meeting at Plymouth Wed
nesday when the 200 delegates and
visitors were guests of Washing
ton County. The retiring president
is T. Reynolds Spruill of Roper.
Mrs. Sally Fisher of Engelhard
was named the new secretary.
Lt. Governor Luther Barnhardt
was the speaker at the morning
session, and he was introduced by
State Senator Robert Cowen of
Williamston. The invocation was
by Rev. Paul B. Nickens, pastor
of the Plymouth Baptist Church.
Former State Senator Carl
Bailey of Plymouth was toastmas
ter, at a luncheon served the visit
ors in the Methodist Church din
ing room.
Election of officers took place at
the afternoon ’session in the
Courthouse. New Vice-Presidents
eltcted were: Dare County. M. L.
Daniels, Jr. of Manteo; and Mar
tin County, Ben Courtney of Wil
liamston. Vice-presidents of the
other four counties were re-elected.
Vice-presidents who served dur
ing the past year are as follows:
W. S. White of Manns Harbor for
Dare; W. J. White of Columbia for
Tyrrell; Mrs. Scott Topping, Pan
tego, for Beaufort Co.; Robert
Cowen of Williamston for Martin
Co.; W. W. Watson of Lake Land
ing for Hyde; and H. W. Pritchett
of Creswell for Washington. H. O.
Chesson of Creswell served as
Secretary the past year, and M. A.
Matthews has been treasurer of
the Association for 22 years.
Dare County, with 36 present,
had the largest delegation of any
of the counties Tuesday.
PLANS DISCUSSED FOR
FIRST FLIGHT EVENT
During this age of interconti
nfißts.l .baUistic missiles aq4. auter
snace sattelites, a group met in
Manteo Thursday morning to lay
plans for celebrating the begin
ning of mechanical flight in a
heavier-than-air machine. The
group, headed by Miles Clark of
Elizabeth City, represented mem
bers of Kill Devil Hills Memorial
Society and included: Martin Kel
logg, Dick Jordan, Alvah Ward,
A. W. Drinkwater, Melvin Daniels
and Aycock Brown of Manteo,
Wade Marr of Elizabeth City, and
David Stick of Colington.
“Complete details of the celebra
tion on December 17, marking the
54th anniversary of the Wright
Brothers first flight in 1903, will
be anounced in a few days,” said
Clark. Principal spokesman at the
meeting was David Stick who is a
member of the Society’s special
committee on plans for construc
tion of additional attractions at
Kill Devil Hills where the Wrights
flew on December 17, 1903.
M. M. HAYMAN, NATIVE OF
KITTY HAWK DIES MONDAY
Mary Mathias Hayman, 76, died
Monday afternoon at the residence
of his daughter, Mrs. Edna Marie
Hewitt, Virginia Beach Va., after
an illness of several weeks.
A native of Dare County, he
had resided at Grandy most of
his life. He was the son of Henry
and Mary F. Tillett Hayman and
the husband of the late Mary
Alice Rogers Hayman.
He was a retired Civil Service
employe and a member of the
Kitty Hawk Methodist Church.
He is suivived by. four daugh
ters, Mrs. Mary Frances Outlaw,
of Grandy, and Mrs. Edna Marie
Hewitt, Mrs. Ola. Jeannie Vannos
trand and Mrs. Bertha Mae Thomp
son, of Virginia Beach; four sons,
Mathias Chapman Hayman, of
Boston, Mass.; Larry Glenn Hay
man and Norman Pierce Hayman,
of Philadelphia, Pa., and Frank
Thomas Hayman, of Norfolk; three
sisters, Mrs. Love Woodhouse,
Mrs. Cprrie Dowdy and Mrs. Alice
Brothers, of Grandy; two brothers,
Billy Hayman and Joe Hayman,
of Coinjock; 13 grandchildren, and
three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday afternoon at the Mt.
Zion Methodist Church, Grandy, by
the Rev. Robert Frost, pastor.
Burial was in the Harris Cemetery
near Jarvisburg.
EASTERN STAR BAZAAR
The annual Eastern Star bazaar
will be put on in Manteo on No
vember 14, 16 and 16 in the show
room of the Dare County Ice and
Storage Company. All members
who have items they would like
transported are to call Mrs. Belton
Burrus or Mrs. John Garrison. The
puMic is invited to attend the ba-