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VAST FLOCKS OF
GEESE REPORTED
BY BELHAVEN MAN
During his long life of 90 years,
Janies N. Edwards-? of
thinks he saw some'bf the biggest
flocks of wiM geese ors Sunday,
while riding through Hyde County
with his daughter, Mr»r R. S. Wa
hab of Qcrgcoke. Mir. Nd wards ahd
his (laughter had .been down to
Sladesvflle to put flowers on the
. grave of Mrs. Edwards, and later
joumied toward Fairfield.
In one of the roadside canals, Mr.
Edwards said geese were as thick
as tadpoles, and seemed to know it
• was a Sunday, for they were not
. afraid, and didn’t move away as
one approached them. He said he
looked across Lake Mattamuskeet
at one spot at what appeared to be
a long point of marsh, but close
observation revealed it to be a big
raft of geese on the water.
After telling about the geese he
saw, Mr. Edwards met a couple of
spry, if aged, friends on the
streets, gnd they had a long visit
These men were Capt Bob Daniels,
89, and Eugene Latham, 80, and
their combined ages total 259
years. Capt Daniels is a busy
farmer, but the other two men
have retired.
SWINDELL
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by an earlier marriage, Joe Swin
dell of Engelhard and Mrs. Glenn
Marshall of Hampton, Va.
He was the son of the late Addi
son D. and Melissa Young Swindell
of Hyde County. Three stepchildren
survive: A. G. Etheridge of Salis-
Bury, N. C., A. D. Etheridge and
Mrs. J. F. Wilson of Manteo.
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Hard of Hearing
The rector was visiting one of
his parishioners an elderly lady
afflicted with deafness. She ex
pressed her regret at not being
able to hear his sermons.
Desiring to be sympathetic
and to say something consoling,
he Replied, “You don’t miss
much.”
“So they tell me,” was the
disconcerting reply.”
Think of the Garage Men
First Mechanic: “Which do
you prefer, leather or fabric up
holstery?”
Second Mechanic: “I like fab
rics; leather is too hard to wipe
your hands on.”
Knows Everything
Groom: “Now perhaps I’ll be
permitted to point out a few
of your defects.”
Bride: “It won’t be necessary,
darling, I know them. They kept
me from getting a better man
than you.”
Good Customer
A film actor, married and di
vorced five times in three years,
came to the registrar’s with his
sixth bride. It was the same
registrar who had married the
actor on the previous occasions.
After the ceremony the actor
reached into his wallet, but the
registrar waved the money
aside. “Not this time,” he said,
“This is one on the house."
COUNTRY
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FRESH DAILY!
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Phone 247-W Manteo
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DARE HUNTING FAIR
BUT MANY WILDFOWL
ARRIVING ON COAST
Large flights of wildfowl have
moved into the Outer Banks re
gion during the past 10 days, and
while hunting weather has not
been too good some fair limit kills
have been made according to re
ports from Currituck to Ocracoke
and from Nags Head and Hat
teras to Lake Mattamuskeet
A general idea of recent wild
fowl arrivals in the area is reflect
ed in the Pea Island Refuge count
for the period of November 10-16.
This report prepared by Refuge
Manager L. B. Turner indicated
there were 14,116 geese including
7,300 Canadas and 6,800 snows,
78 swan, 560 coots (blue peters)
and 9,197 ducks, including 134 mal
lards, 700 blacks, 950 gadwalls,
1,700 baldpate, 2,100 pintail, 900
green-winged teal and 45 blue
winged teal, 12 shoveller, 2 red
head, 300 ringneck, 2 canvasback,
1,100 scaup, 2 bufflehead, 300
ruddy, 7 brant, and an estimated
950 classed as unidentified.
Hunting is prohibited in the Pea
Island Refuge, and usually ducks
and geese there present perfect
set-ups for bird-watchers and many
are attracted to the area. The big
gest attraction seems to be the
snow geese which according to tra
dition arrive on November 11 and
depart on Christmas. This Refuge
is one of the principal wintering
spots for snows, a species which
has protection, along with swan,
from wildfowl hunters.
Reports from the Currituck area
this week indicate good kills of
Canada geese and pintails. Easiest
limits perhaps for geese are gotten
in the fields surrounding Lake
Mattamuskeet where so many
hunters go that often it is not the
best shot but the best runner who
actually gets the kill. Marsh hunt
ing the Nags Head flats‘has been
fair, but the most distinguished
fowler on the coast this year failed
to get a shot-the' morning he and
a friend tried out one of A. W.
Drinkwater’s blinds on the Pipkins
properties. The hunter was Gqyer-,
nor Hodges.- From'point and stake
blinds south of Pea Island in the
Rodanthe to Hatteras and Ocra
coke region, shooting has been
good when the weather was bad.
MANY GOOD CHANNEL BASS
CATCHES ARE CONTINUING
Channel bass fishing continued
good in the Outer Banks surf dur
ing the past week, especially in
the Avon, Cape Hatteras and Hat
teras Inlet sections.
Charles Williams Jr., of Avon
reported the largest taken there
was a 60-pounder. It was landed
by Harold Gray, a local resident.
Scores of anglers caught their
limits in sloughs along the beach
between Little Kinnakeet and
Avon, but perhaps the most out
standing fisherman was 9-year-old
Buddy Hooper, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar Hooper of Buxton.
Fishing the surf just south of
the former Little Kinnakeet Life
boat Station, 55-pound Buddy
hooked and landed without assist
ance, a 38-pound channel bass. It
was not the first channel bass he
had ever landed, but it was the
largest, and it will probably be
the largest of the species taken by
a young boy along the coast this
year.
Best catch reported from the
Cape Hatteras sector was a 58 %-
pounder brought in by Jack Schaaf
of Savannah, Ga. Rany Jennette,
who weighed and measured the
Georgian’s fish, stated that it was
52% inches long and 29% inches
around the girth. He was using
30-pound-test ilne and a Pfleuger
reel. In Schaaf’s party were
George Killorin, Barron Burke and
Bill Harty, and each landed at
least one channel bass weighing
over 45 pounds. Said Schaaf, “we
catch them in the Georgia coast
surf but seldom do any weigh more
than 35 pounds and usually they
ire much smaller.”
Parties fishing with Capt Edgar
>tyron from a boat anchored in
Hatteras Inlet made some good
catches, and the casting from boats
or surf in the Hatteras section
was very good during the past
week, according to information
supplied by Willie Newsome.
STRIPED BASS CATCHES
Albert Brietzke, L. M. Paschall,
R. A. Seaman and A. B. Bender of
Norlina, N. C., fishing with Capt.
Chick Craddock of Manns Harbor
aboard his boat the “Lillipop,” ac
counted for more than 30 striped
bass Sunday, one of which weighed
THE COASTLANp TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
MANTEO PERSONALS
Preston Sears of the Coast
Guard, is home to visit his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Sears.
Ens. Roger Bell left Sunday to
report for duty at the Naval Air
Station, Key West, Fla., after be
ing home on a two-weeks visit to
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Q.
Bell.
Mrs. Jenness Gibbs, Mrs. Merle
Midgett and Mrs. O. P. Anderson,
all of Norfolk, spent Tuesday in
Manteo visiting their mother, Mrs.
Roscoe Burrus, and other relatives.
Miss Ozella Payne is confined
to her home by illness.
Mrs. R. H. Atkinson of Balti
more, Md., is visiting her mother,
Mrs. T. D. Etheridge.
Ann Davis, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Davis, is a" patient at
Norfolk General Hospital, recover
ing from an attack of spinal men
ingitis with which she was stricken
last week. The little girl is re
sponding satisfactorily to treat
ment and it is expected that she
will have no lasting after-effects.
Her mother is at her bedside in
Norfolk.
Mr. and Mrs. Desmond Rogers
and Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Rogers
have returned from a Florida trip
which took them to St. Augustine,
Silver Springs, Orlando, Vero
Beach and Jacksonville, where
they visited Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sel
lers. On the return trip they visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. O'. L. Gibbs in
Raleigh.
Hal Ward has been a patient in
the Marine Hospital, Norfolk, for
the last two weeks. Mrs. Ward
visited him Sunday and was accom
panied by Mr. Ward’s sister, Mrs.
Bertha Baum, and by Mrs. Clyde
Hassell, who visited her husband,
a patient in the same hospital.
Clyde'''Peele of High Point was
in Manteo Tuesday visiting old
friends and relatives. He was en
route to Hatteras, his old home,
for a visit for the first time in 22
years.
Mrs. Doris Walker and children,
Carl and Erlene, spent Wednesday
in Norfolk.
Julia C. Gray has returned
from the Albemarle Hospital,
Elizabeth City, where she recently
underwent surgery.
NEWS OF THE MANTEO
METHODIST CHURCH
The Mount Olivet Methodist
Church of Manteo announces the
following schedule of activities for
the coming week:
On Friday night, Nov. 22, the
last of a series of studies on St.
Mark will be given by Mrs. Lucetta
Willis.
Nov. 24, Sunday School 10 a.m.;
morning worship 11 a.m.; Metho
dist Youth Fellowship 6:15 p.m.;
evening worship 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 25, Troop 165 of
the Boy Scouts will meet at 7:15
p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 27, the Official
Board will meet in the Educational
Building at 8 p.m.; the Choir will
rehearse in the church at 8 p.m.
On Thursday, Nov. 28, there will
be a union Thanksgiving Day
Service at Manteo Baptist Church
at 10 a.m. with the Rev. W. E.
Cholerton as the speaker.
CENSUS BUREAU COLLECTS
EMPLOYMENT FACTS NOV. 18
Facts on employment and unem
ployment will be collected from a
number of local families during
the week of November 18 in the
Current Population Survey, accord
ing to Supervisor Joseph R. Nor
wood of the Census Bureau’s re
gional office at Chralotte, N. C.,
which will participate in the sur
vey. Current Population Survey in
formation will be collected locally
by Mrs. Nellie G. Perry of Kitty
Hawk.
three pounds. The average was
about one pound each.
On the previous day another
party with Craddock had brought
in 95 stripers.
Striped bass fishing during the
past week has been spotty, but
the skipper who found the schools
of fish, usually in the area where
Croatan and Albemarle Sounds
merge, made good catches.
Perhaps the champion fisherman
of the season is Capt Will Lewark
of Kill Devil Hills, who operated
single-handed several lures trolled
in the wake of his boat On Satur
day, he caught more than 100, and
this was typical of the many catch
es he has made recently.
Most of the anglers are catching
stripers or rockfish with bucktail
lures, but Capt Lewark uses lures
he makes himself of chicken
feathers.
Razor manufacturers in the U.
S. use about 5,500 tons of steel a
year.
CASH BENEFIT
Burial Insurance
THE NEW FIVE-STAR Spe
cial Funeral Expense Plan,
is now offered by Walker
Funeral Home, Columbia, N.
C., through the Allied Life
Insurance Co. All benefits
paid in cash.
Contact
Mrs. D. M. Bridgeman, Agt.
Columbia, N. C.
CARELESS AND RECKLESS
DRIVINGS TOPS COURT LIST
Edward Lance Gray of Avon was
found guilty of careless and reck
less driving by Judge W. F. Baum
in Dare County Recorder’s Court
Tuesday afternoon and was fined
$25 and costs. A ease against Mrs.
Eula Mae Quidley, who had been
charged in a warrant sworn out by
Gray with parking on the high
way and displaying no lights on a
parked vehicle, was dismissed.
Frank Stewart of Manteo was
convicted of driving without an
operator’s license (chauffeur’s li
cense expired) and with an improp
er license and was fined S3O and
costs of court.
A case against James B. Beasley,
charged with assaulting his wife,
Mrs. Donna Beasley, with a deadly
weapoij with intent to kill, was
continued until December 3.
Carl Alonzo Beacham of Kill
Devil Hills submitted and paid
fines in the two remaining cases
on Tuesday’s docket; for nublic
drunkenness he was fined $25 and
costs, and for careless and reck
less driving and speeding 80 m.p.h.
he was fined a total of $75 and
costs.
GUM NECK PERSONALS
The Woman’s Society of Chris
tian Service of the Gum Neck
Methodist Church will sponsor a
Harvest Sale and Supper to be
given at the church on Friday,
Nov. 29, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. A
Thanksgiving service will begin at
7:30 and the auction sale will be
held in the church annex. The pub
lic is urged to attend. Tickets for
the supper may be purchased from
any member of the Society.
Capt. Raymond R. Combs has
returned to his ship, the Amoco
Virginia, after being home for the
past six weeks with his father,
Jennie C. Combs. Mrs. J. W. Wil
liams left this week for a visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Marshall
Jones of Norfolk. ,
Mrs. Laura Meekins of Norfolk,
formerly of Gum Neck presented
a Jewelry Fashion Show last week
at the home of Mrs. J. T. Liver
man. She had a beautiful display
of costume jewelry. The door
prize was won by Mrs. Florence
Cahoon.
Colon Metcalf of Burlington
killed a 160 lb. deer Saturday, one
of several here on the week end.
Mrs. Sahra Liverman returned
Sunday. She has been ill for sev
eral weeks.
Mrs. Inez Swindell and children
David and Nina visited Mrs. Swin
dell’s sister, Mrs. H. T. White.
Ludford Cahoon is ill in Colum
bia Hospital.
Jack Combs, of Norfolk and
Gum Neck, spent Sunday here
with his family, Mr. and Mrs. C.
C. Combs. Mrs. Combs has been
ill with flu for several days.
Mrs. Leona Norman, Mrs. Min
nie Liverman, Joe Cahoon, and
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Smithson visit
ed relatives in Elizabeth City
Sunday.
A miscellaneous shower will be
given Saturday night at the home
of Mrs. C. J. Liverman in honor
of Mrs. Bryan Liverman.
A GUM NECK PILOT
WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE
Lt. Irving Everton, now off duty
with the U. S. Air Force, is resid
ing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George W. Everton, of Gum Neck,
after a five year tour of active
duty.
Lt. Everton entered pilot train
ing as an aviation cadet in August,
1953. He received pre-flight train
ing at Lackland AFB, Texas, and
primary pilot training at Barton
Air Base, Florida; his wings at
Bryan AFB, Texas, Nov. 1954, and
assigned to Laredo AFB, Texas for
duty as jet pilot instructor.
His plans are to enter college
and continue his flying career with
the Air National Guard.
CUB SCOUTS MONDAY AT 7
Pack 501, Manteo Cub Scouts,
will have its November pack meet
ing Monday, November 25, at 7
p.m. at the Manteo School. All per
sons who are interested are invited
to attend.
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LIBRARY WILL HAVE SHORT
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
The Dare County Library will
close for the Thanksgiving holiday
i on Wednesday, November 27, at
; 12:00, and will open again as usual
I on Friday morning.
The bookmobile will make its
i regular trip to Wanchese on the
fourth Wednesday.
For Book Week the library has
an unusually large number of new
books to suit all types of readers.
For fiction lovers there are 9 of
Zane Grey’s novels, Georgette
Heyer’s “April Lady,” Treece’s
“The Golden Strangers” and Wib
berley’s “Take Me to Your Presi
dent” and 8 for young people.
Among the adult non-fiction are
Arbuthnot’s “Children and Books”;
Cottrell’s “Lost Cities”; Elliott’s
“Through Gates of Splendor”;
Chubb’s “Nefertiti Lived Here”;
Ellis’ “The Penny Universities”;
Gerald Johnson’s “The Lunatic
Fringe”; Langford’s “Alias O.
Henry” and Morton’s “In Search
of Ireland” and “In Search of
Scotland”.
EPHEY PRIEST, JR. HAS
PARTY ON HIS BIRTHDAY
Celebrating his third birthday,
Ephey Priest, Jr., had a number
of friends in for a party Monday
afternoon at his home in Manteo.
Fruit molds of ice cream were
served with cookies, and favors
were party hats .and balloons.
Guests included Nelva Capps,
Jr., John Wilson, Walter Daniels,
Larry Ballance, Jr., Billy Ballance,
Edwin Midgett, Jr., Tommy and
Chris Fearing, Dean Fearing,
David Farrow, Jr., Dolly Gray,
Erlene and Carl W’alker, Johnny
Wescott, Lynn Green, Cameron
McCown, Bobby Wise, Dennis,
Kevin and Bryan McGinnis, Steve
Daniels, Jay Burrus, Brenda
Bridges, Edward Mann and Jac
queline Tillett.
SERIES OF PETTY ROBBERY
CASES IN TYRRELL CO.
Columbia.—The Tyrrell Drug
Co. was broken in on Sunday morn
ing, and as far as can be deter-
only about $4 in pennies
were missing.
This is the third Columbia fi’m
which has been entered within the
past two months. The Farmer’s
Supply with the lossage of a small
amount of money from a jar where
sr* peanut butter-cheese crackers
were kept for the convenience of
customers. The Broad Street Ga
rage was also entered and a small
amount of change, mostly pennies
were missing.
Showing evidence of having an
unusual amount of pennies on
Sunday afternoon, two small Negro
boys, age 11 and 9, were picked
up by the town authorities for
questioning.
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