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KILL DEVIL HILLS
CELEBRATION TO
BE A DUAL EVENT
Plan* Announced for Initiation of
Accelerated Mission 66 Pro
gram Decmeber 17
Initiation of an accelerated
MISSION 66 development program
at Wright Brothers National Me
morial at Kill Devil Hills will
highlight a special dual celebra
tion on December 17 at the site of;
the first successful power-driven
airplane flight in history, Secre
tary of the Interior Fred A. Sea
ton announced today. The public
is invited to attend the ceremonies.
He said the event will commem
orate the' historic first-flight
achievement of Wilbur and Orville
Wright in 1903. It will also be one
of the final observances of the
50th anniversary year of the Unit
ed States Air Force, established in (
1907.
Co-sponsors with the National
Park Service include the U. S.
Air Force, the Air Force Associa
tion, and the Kill Devil Hills Me
morial Society, a group devoted to
preserving the memory of the
Wrights’ success and promoting
public understanding of aviation
and its progress. Federal, State,;
and local dignitaries will partici-,
pate.
As a principal speaker, Nation- ■
al Park Service Director Conrad
L. Wirth will outline MISSION 66
plans for the memorial area, to bei
accomplished within the next two j
years, to provide for constantly j
increasing visitor interest in the!
birthplace of powered flight. With
a gold-plated spade, a gift of the
Air Force Association, he will turn
the first shovel of earth at the site
where a new visitor center will be
erected next year.
Wirth announced this week that
start of the MISSION 66 develop
ment of the area planned for later
yean, as a phase of the over-all
National Park System program to
be completed in 1966, has been
stepped-up to coincide with the
50th anniversary year of the Air
Force. A new entrance road pro
viding easy access to the. visitor
center area and the site where
See CELEBRATION, Page Five
CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ
PROGRAM BROADCAST
FROM MANTEO NOV. 27
With one of their star members
absent, the Manteo High School
Quia Team was defeated by a
small margin when they met the
4-student team from Perquimans
High School in Manteo Wednes
day. It was one in a series of
weekly programs sponsored by the
Virginian-Pilot on Radio Station
WTAR in Norfolk with current
events questions such as news
about the President’s illness, the
outer space rocket experiments,
what the Governor of North Car
olina talked about this week and
. others.
Sandra Keller, Kitty Haw’k, Mar
jorie White and Joyce Fields, Man
teo, made a score of 575 points
for Mqnteo as Dan Wilson, Bev
erly Tucker, Bettie Skinner and
Letitia McGoogan of Perquimans
made a total of 600 points.
Joel Carlson of WTAR and its
associate television station was
quizmaster. Ray Turner, WTAR
TV announcer, and Mrs. Shirley
Myers of the staff were judges.
They had the stage of Manteo
High School looking like a broad
casting studio.
Carlson said they planned to
visit Colington Island on their re
turn to Norfolk, to interview Dav
id Stick relative <to the forthcom
ing December 17th first .-flight cel
ebration. This interview will be
broadcast later this week. Stick is
in charge of local arrangements
for the celebration this year for
Miles L. Clark of Elizabeth City,
chairman of the board of directors
of Kill Devil Hills Memorial So
ciety.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS PLAN
MEETING AT BUXTON
A meeting of Young Democrats
of Dare County will be held at
the high school at Buxton, Cape
Hatteras, on Saturday night, Dec.
7th at 7:30 according Dot
tie Fry, secretary.
This meeting will tie held with
a view to discussing with other
young Democrats of Hatteras Is
land the organization of an active
unit of the club on the island. Vot
ers of all ages are invited Yo at
tend. Arrangements ,may be made
at this time for an island-wide
rally and feast at some early date.
Jack Tillett of Manteo is the
county president Dr. W. W. Har
vey, Jr., vice-president, and A. H.
Ward, Jr. treasurer.
On Nov. tlth an enjoyable coun
ty-wide rally and oyster roast was
held at Stumpy Point by the
Young Democratic Club, and thia
was attended by some 200 persons.
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THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
THIS BIG FISH WASN'T CAUGHT AT HATTERAS
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THIS IS A picture of Gamaliel Ballance, a Hatteras boy, and a halibut
he didn’t catch at Hatteras. This flounder-like object weighs 127 pounds
and is mighty good eating, for we often order it on our trips to New
York, where the fish may be seen in quantity on Fulton Fish Market.
This fish rendered 87 pounds of good eatable meat. Gamaliel is in the
Coast Guard Service and now stationed on a year’s isolated duty at
the Point Retreat Light Station, Juneau, Alaska, where he is the officer
in charge. He is a brother of Wheeler Ballance of Hatteras, nephew
of prominent merchant A. S. Austin, and son of the late Ellsworth
Ballance of Hatteras.
ROTARY DISTRICT GOVERNOR
TO VISIT MANTEO CLUB
C. Gordon Maddrey, Gover
nor of the 771st District of Ro
tary International, Will make his
annual official visit to the Rotary
Club of Manteo at the club’s reg
ular meeting next Monday night,
December 2, at the Manteo Com
munity Building. Mr. Maddrey,
who is a tobocco farmer at Ahos
kie, was originally scheduled to
visit the Manteo club October 28,
but was forced to make a change
in his schedule.
DISTRICT MASONS TO
MEET AT COLUMBIA
Providence Lodge No. 678 of Co
lumbia will be hosts to the 53rd
Masonic District school of instruc
tion next Monday, December 2, be
ginning at 3:30 p.m. R. O. Bal
lance of Manteo, District Deputy
Grand Master, has announced that
the school will be conducted by G.
R. Leggett, District Deputy Grand
Lecturer. Supper will be served
prior td the evening session. •
This is the second of three
schools of instruction planned this
year for the district, .which in
cludes the Masonic lodges at Swan
Quarter, Engelhard, Fairfield,
Wanchese, Columbia, Buxton, and
Manteo.
KILL DEVIL HILLS COUPLE ENJOY FOREIGN TRAVELS
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DR. AND MRS. WALLACE F. MUSTIAN of Kill Devil Hids are planning to sail from New York on
December 13 on a European vacation that will include a Mediterranean cruise and visits to Italy, Egypt,
Palestine, Turkey, Greece, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and
England. The Mustians are shown above as they arrived by plane at the International Airport at Tokyo
during a similar oversea, trip, last year; the photo originally appeared in the Nippon Times, a Tokyo
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DR., MRS. MUSTIAN
PREPARING FOR A
TOUR OF EUROPE
A dream of a European vacation
is finally coming true for Dr. and
Mrs. Wallace F. Mustian, Kill
Devil Hills dentist and his wife.
They are planning to sail from
New York on Friday, December 13,
on the S. S. Constitution for a
Mediterranean cruise which will in
clude stopovers at Casablanca in
Morocco, Africa, Algeciras and Gi
braltar, Palermo and Monreale in
Sicily, then Naples, Italy, Pompeii
and the Isle of Capri. At each port,
there will be ample time for sight
seeing with experienced guides.
The Mustians will leave the cruise
at Naples and proceed by train to
Rome, whei-e they will spend
Christmas.
On December 29, the Mustians
will leave Rome, Italy by a Trans-
World Airline Constellation on a
fifteen-day eastern Mediterranean
trip. Their first stop will be Cairo,
Egypt. In Egypt, they will visit
1 the Museum of Egyptian Antiquity,
the Mosque of Mohammed Ali and
the Great Pyramids of Giza, and
proceed by camels for a ride to
the Sphinx. Many other historical
places are on their Egyptian itin-
See MUSTIANS, Page Five
MANTEO, N .C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1957
DREDGE EMPLOYEE I
KILLED MONDAY IN •
WRECK AT FRISCO
Fatality It Ninth on Dare’s High
way* Thi* Year, Fourth on
Hatteras Island
Jack Dempsey Hewett, 22-year
old Supply, N. C., man, was killed
Monday evening in the wreck of a
pick-up truck at Frisco, but a com
panion, 19-year-old Youvonne L.
Phelps, also of Supply, escaped
without injury.
Hewett’s death made the ninth
highway fatality in Dare County
this year, with four of the fatal
accidents having occurred on Hat
teras Island.
According to Patrolman Arthur
F. Fields of Manteo, the 1957
Chevrolet pick-up, owned by Cot
trel Construction Corporation, was
headed south when it left the road
and overturned neai- Frisco at
about 5:10 p.m. Both passengers
in the truck, were employed on a
dredging project at Hatteras In
’et. Phelps told officers that Hew
ett was driving at the time of the.
accident; there was no evidence of
either man having been drinking.
TWO MANTEO NEGROES
HELD FOR ENTERING
SCHOOL LUNCHROOM
Leon Morgan, 34-year-old Man
teo colored man who has admitted
being involved in a break-in at the
Manteo school lunchroom last Sat
urday night, entered a plea of
guilty Tuesday before Judge W. F.
Baum in Dare Recorder’s Court
and was bound over to Superior
Court under SI,OOO bond.
A warrant charging Morgan
with breaking and entering the
lunchroom, with intent to commit a
felony, and taking 4 turkeys val
ued at $45 and 48 pounds of franks
valued at $21.60, and with damag
ing the building to the extent of
sl9 was signed by Principal W. H.
Bunch. Morgan implicated Mary
Elizabeth Mann, 32-year-old Negro
woman, and although she entered
a plea of not guilty on the same
charges brought against Morgan,
probable cause was found against
her by the court, and she was also
bound over to the high covrt,. her
bond being set at SSOO. Inveestigat
ing officers were told by Morgan
that their intention when they first
went to the school was just to take
some coal from the school yard,
bht after they got there they de
cided to avail themselves of the
food in the lunchroom also.
Paul Lawrence Davenport of
Manteo was found guilty of driv
ing without an operator’s license
and was given a 60-day sentence
suspended upon payment of a $25
fine and costs.
Two other defendants came into
court and pleaded guilty; they
were Roscoe Turner of Manteo,
charged with public drunkenness,
and Dorian Mitchell Washington of
Manteo, charged with driving with
out an operator’s license. Each of
them was given a 60-day sentence
suspended upon payment of a $25
fine and costs.
The remaining cases on the dock
et Tuesday submitted and paid
fines as follows:
Lewis Frederick Franklin, Jr.,
Fayetteville, improper equipment
on motor vehicle—improper lights
and no reflectors, $5 fine and costs.
Edward Hughes Scarborough,
Avon, improper equipment on mo
tor vehicle improper lights and
equipment, $5 fine and costs.
Thslm on Williams, Manteo,
See COURT, Page Five
CLIFTON BRITTON CHOSEN
DIRECTOR OF LOST COLONY
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CLIFTON BRITTON of Goldsboro
will return to The Lost Colony as
directop the drama during its
18th season which begins June 28,
lvsß for its summer iljn, it was
announced by Richard E x J°rdan,
general manager of this, oldest of
many outdoor productions. Britton
replaces Burnet Hobgood of ug
tawba College, Salisbury, who dk
rected the show in 1957 but has
resigned.
Britton is no stranger with The
Lost, Colony. He was associated
with the drama first in 1947 when
he served as stage manager. In
1951 he was made assistant direc
tor to Sam Selden. In 1953 he suc
ceeded Selden as director and held
the post with distinction through
1956.
For the Goldsboro director it will
be his 11th season with the show
when he returns next year; con
secutive except for the summer of
1957 when he was in Hollywood
to consult with officials of Colum
bia Broadcasting Company about
their proposed production of his
original Christmas play, “The
Shepherd’s Song.” While on the
West Coast last summer Britton
also attended several panel discus
sions about modern drama.
Britton celebrated his
15th year as head of the famous
“Goldmasquers” group of Golds
boro High School. This organiza-
See BRITTON, Page Five
AN APPEAL TO THOSE WHO WILL ANSWER
THE CALL TO AID HOMELESS CHILDREN
The annual Christmas campaign
for funds for the Children’s Home
Society of North Carolina is un
derway.
Between Thanksgiving and Jan
uary I, this state-wide organiza
tion, dedicated to helping home
less babies, is hopeful that cash
gifts from all over the state will
pour into the headquarters in
Greensboro.
To those unfamiliar with the
work of the Children’s Home So
ciety, campaign workers point out
that its purpose is to provide a
“future” through adoption for ba
bies nad school-age children who
otherwise would not enjoy the ben
efits of a normal home.
This week citizens throughout
the state’s communities where
there are no United Funds will
receive solicitation letters asking
them to contribute to the “little
red stocking fund” which furnish
es an important part of the organ
ization’s operating funds.
Since the Children’s Home So
ciety opened its doors 55 years ago,
it has provided “futures” for more
than 6,000 children through legal
adoption.
In the past year 480 children
have received care or services from
the Children’s Home.
The average cost of caring for
a baby one day in the Society’s
nursery while adoptive plans are
being made for him is $4.81. This
provides for a baby’s food, cloth
ing, shelter, medical supplies,
nursing care, and other essential
needs. *
In addition to state headquarters
maintained in Greensboro, the ag
ency maintains district offices in
Wilmington, Asheville, and Char
lotte. Staff members are also lo
cated in Chapel Hill, Rocky Mount,
Greenville and Kinston.
Under the direction of Miss Har
riet L. Tynes, the Children’s Home
Society excises every care and
safguard in placing babies in adop
tive homes, carefully selecting
homes to meet each child’s needs.
Guidance and counseling are pro
vided for relatives of the babies
who may be adopted. Nursing,
medical, legal and psychological
care is provided for the child itself.
And finally, the most careful
study is given to needs of those
couples who wish to adopt children.
Adoptions are bandied on a state
wide, non-sectarian basis. No fees
are charged for any of these serv
* Another important part of its
program, begun in 1950 through a
grant from Duke Endowment, is
placement ia foster homes of*
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MANTEO MAY HAVE MISSED
THE BOAT 240 YEARS AGO
IN CHARLES EDEN’S DAY
A Town Was Proposed Back in 1715 on Roanoke
Island to Be Known as Carteret Which Provid
ed For a 300-Acre Site, and Half An Acre For
Every House; Churches Would Have Shared
in Fines From Drunks.
REV. G. M. KELLEY TELLS
MANTEO ROTARIANS MON.
OF 20 YEARS IN CHINA
Rev. George M. Kelley, Sr., a
Methodist minister who spent 20
years in Canton, China, as a mis
sionary for his church, and who
now lives at Stumpy Point and is
pastor of the Dare County main
land Methodist churches was the
guest speaker Monday night at the
Manteo Rotary Club. Mr. Kelley,
a native of North Carolina, whose
son George M. Kelley, Jr., is well
known as a staff political writer
for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot,
has recently returned from China,
where the junior Kelley was rear
ed. During his widowhood in China, I
the elfier Kelley married a Chi
nese wdm an, and by her had a I
soi% but she disappeared with the
Communists a few years ago. On
his refprn' toJKnterieaj-fas
married aMtfoHh Carolina woman
who is with him itt &umpy
Mr. Kelsey
tarians with a recital of Hfe Ini
China, and an account .of the re
gime of Gen. Kai Shek, Who is
n womaintained on the island of
Formosa at tremendous cost to the
U. S. Government. He extolled the
virtues of Madame Kai Shek. who
has been expert in raising funds
for humanitarian causes and while
he didn’t say so, she has been
pretty smart at wheedling billions
in Washington out of the Ameri
can government.
The members attending were lib
eral in their prise of Mr. Kelley
as an entertaining speaker.
The junior Kelley, who now lives
in Norfolk, married, a Columbia,
girl during his stay there as edi
tor of the Tyrrell Tribune, a week
ly newspaper, and they have one
son.
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school-age children being cared for
in orphanages.
North Carolina's Children’s
Home Society is one of the oldest
and largest licensed adoption or
ganisations in the country. It re
ceives no tax funds from govern
mental organisations.
The Children’s Home has a 1958
budget calling for >211,000. Ap
proximately half of this budget is
assumed by United Funds through
out the state. The rest comes from
the voluntary contributions of pub
lic spirited individuals and organi
sations, many of whom choose the
Christmas season as a fitting time
•to contribute to homeless children..
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By EARL DEAN
Anyone brave enough to attempt
to write a complete and compre
hensive history of Dare County
from the year Roanoke Island was
discovered in 1584 down to the
present time would, in all proba
bility, find a good starting place in
the first few volumes of North
Carolina’s “Colonial Records.”
For as far back as 1715, when
Charles Eden was Governor of
1 North Carolina, and Tobias
Knight, his private secretary, was
said to have been in cahoots with -
Blackboard, the pirate, not far /
’ from “Occacock Inlet,” an “Act
1 For A Town on Roanoke Island for
the Encouragement of Trade from
’ Foreign Parts” was passed at a
’ meeting of early Tar Heel legia
, lators which, presumably, was held
" then in what is now the town of
Bath in Beaufort County. —ar.
. I Thyaarly law provided
of NogT Q
, should set tract
. of land on the Waterfront Os Roa
, noke Island “for the purposes of
• building and settling a town,”
> Section Two of this ancient law
• provided that each and every per-
> ,son who acquired any of these lots
; would be required to build at least
• one habitable house of at least 15 -
i by 20 feet, otherwise his claims
5 to any property rights would be
■ declared null and void. Section Six
of this quaint legislative act pro-
• vided that “no person should be
1 allowed to own more than two such
waterfront lots nor keep more than
s two cows within the limits of the
L proposed town.”
However, by November, 1723,
• this act was amended and enlarged
• and by this time the town which
might well have been Manteo was
to be known as a town called Car
teret According to Chapter XII,
| Public Laws of North Carolina for
the year 1723, some 120 acres of
l land on Roanoke Island were to be
! used in laying out a town in lots
I of half an acre each with conven-
■ ient squares, places for a church,
town hall and market house, to
gether with convenient streets and
i passageways with the remaining
acreage to be set aside for a town
; common, as public parks were call
ed in those days.
Anyone willing and desirous of
keeping a House of Entertainment
in the proposed town for a space
of 10 years would have the right
to sell strong drink within the
town limits without a license, sub
ject, however, to the same rules,
regulations, restrictions and penal
ties governing the operation of
such tippling houses elsewhere in
See HISTORY, Page Five
WALTER O. DOUGH. FAMED
COASTLAND BOATBUILDER,
DIES ON THANKSGIVING
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Walter Otis Dough, 89, died at
3:15 Thursday morning after a
week’s illneess at his home at Fort
Raleigh. Although he had failed
in strengtl! during the past eight
or nine years, he had always been
a man of remarkable vitality, his
life being marked by great vigor
and industry. He came of one of
the oldest families of Dare Coun
ty which more than 100 years ago,
owned the land across the center
of Roanoke Island, and for which
Dough’s Creek, Manteo was nam
ed.
He was known throughout the
Coastland for his skill as a boat
builder, and for many years he
produced numerous North Carolina
shaflboats, as these round-bottom
craft are known, as well as large
freighters and other vessels, in
cluding numerous boats built by
contract for the U. S. Government.
During World War I, he was em
ployed at a large Norfolk shipyard
ih this type of work.
He was a lifelong resident of
Roanoke Island, having been born
at his home, son of the late Wal
ter T. and Mary Etheridge Dough,
and he was the husband of the
late Elizabeth Dough who preced
ed him in death in 1948. Os this
union, the following children were
bom, all surviving: Horace A.
Dough of Kill Devil Hills, Lee S.
Dough, Worden Dough and Wynne
T. Dough and Mrs. Leonard Rog- .
ers of Manteo, and Glenn C.
Dough of Canal Zone.
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