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VOLUME XXIII NO. 24 KITTY HAWK MAN PERISHES DURING DUCK HUNTING TRIP Marvin A. Perry's Body Drifts Ashore Wednesday Night North of Duck Village While hunting ducks on Curri tuck Sound, near Duck, in the Northern end of Dare County Wed nesday, with his brother Colon Perry of Kitty Hawk, Marvin A. Perry lost his life when he went to search for a wounded duck. Later, the skiff being used by the Perry brothers was brought ashore about a mile north of the Navy station which is near the village of Duck. A member of the Navy station crew waded out and got it. Men from the Navy station went out at night after seeing a light blinking and took Colon Perry ashore from the blind in which the two men had been hunting. Marvin A. Perry lived in Ports mouth, Va. at 214 Deal St. and was employed by Davenport-Lewis, Chevrolet dealers in Portsmouth. He was a retired member of the Coast Guard, having given most of his service in New Jersey. He was the son of the late W. T. and Eliza Twiford Perry of Kitty Hawk. Besides wife, Mrs. Rose Perry, he is survived by three daughters and four brothers, Colon and Joe Perry of Kitty Hawk; Marshall Perry, a Norfolk police man and Richard Perry, a member of the Norfolk Fire Department. Tragedy seems to follow this . family. About three years ago, the Perry’s lost a baby daughter of about three years of age, when she drowned in a pool back of the house. Shortly afterward another daughter was born to the family. Mr. Perry had come to Kitty Hawk to hunt with his brother after learning of a weather fore cast which augured good shooting. In a nearby blind, Julian Oneto, of Nags Head, Walter Perry of Kill Devil Hills and Ernest Hay wood of Colington were hunting, and the two parties had been visit ing back and forth during the day, waiting for rougher weather in the afternoon when ducks might begin flying. Marvin Perry was heard to iremark that he so had enjoyed the occasion that he would be satisfied if he never got an opportunity to shoot another bird. “1 really have had a good time,” he said. It is thought that he might have suffered a heart attack, following much effort in getting the motor started. One of the poles from the boat was missing. The tank had run drv, indicating that the motor had keep running for sometime after he was lost. During the night his body came ashore about -a mile north of the Duck target area, and was found by a searching party of Navy and Coast Guard personnel. 1958 PIRATE JAMBOREE ON DARE COAST APRIL 25 With plans to include the offi cial dedication of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area as one of the top features, members of the Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree steering committee meet ing at Nags Head, set Sunday, the late week end of April 1958 as definite date of the fourth an • nual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree. The dates will be April 24-27. In addition to the steering com mittee, Alvah Ward of Manteo, president, Dare County Tourist Bureau, will act as coordinator for all planning of the coming event. The steering committee members include Ralph Swain and Dr. W. W. Harvey, for Roanoke Island; Dick Jordan and George Sides for, the Dare Beaches; Wheeler Bal lance and George Fuller, for Hat teras Island; Stanford White and Horace Hooper for the Dare Main land, and' Robert F. Gibbs and Gus Hultman of the National Park Service. Ward succeeded W. H. McCown of Manteo as coordinator and Mrs. Dot Wescott succeeded Mrs. Elizabeth Baum as secretary treasurer of Kitty Hawk, during meeting' in The Carolinian Sunday afternoon. Approximately 50 resi dents from various parts of Dare attended the meeting. STUMPY PT. WOMAN WINS ANOTHER IMPORTANT AWARD Winner of many awards for her writing and other activities in edu cational work is Mrs. Nell Wise Wechter, a Stumpy Point woman now living in Greensboro. Among the top Tar Heel Literary Awards in Raleigh last week at the meet ing of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association was one soy Mrs. Wechter for her recent book, “Taffy of Torpedo Junction.” Mrs. Wise and her husband, Bob, are both teachers in the Greens boro schools. Our readers have been posted previously as to her writing career, her earlier work being done for this newspaper. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA AVON MAN HIGHEST IN CG MARKSMANSHIP MANSON E. MEEKINS, Lieuten ant Commander USCG of Avon, now on duty at Norfolk, recently received from Adm. H. C. Moore, commandant of the Fifth district, a wrist watch for being the high est Coast Guardsman in the 1957 National Trophy individual pistol matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. The 1 .watch was awarded on behalf of the NAVY TIMES. He placed 33rd out of 1,058 competitors, consist ing of police, civilians, and repre sentatives of all branches of the armed forces. Lieutenant Commander Meekins is the son of Geroge H. and Leona S. Meekins of Avon. His father re tired in 1952 from the Coast Guard after 32 years service. Lt. Cdr. Meekins is a graduate of Elizabeth City High School. CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS NAME NEW PRESIDENT wars r l ? EDGAR HOOPER of Buxton, on the left, is the new president of the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club, which held its annufll meeting last Friday. With Mr. Hooppr is Rany Jennette of Buxton, the retiring president. They are holding the trophies won by the club in this year’s Nags Head Surf Fishing Tourney. (Aycock Brown photo) CAPE HATTERAS ANGLERS CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS Edgar Hooper, President, Suc ceeding Rany Jennette; Many Visitors Attend The Cape Hatteras Anglers Club had their first annual dinner Fri day, Dec. 6th at the Lighthouse Restaurant. The address of welcome was'by Mrs. Kitty Lourie. Hayes Fulcher asked the blessing. Julian Oneto of Nags Head made a presentation of the tournament awards to the club, and later entertainment with ' colored and sound pictures on “Fishing On The Outer Banks.” Miss Amelia Ballance, world’s champion woman’s drum fishing, and Alfred Gray, who came in second with this season’s catch in these large fish were present. Rany Jennette, president, presided. New officers elected for the com ing year were: President, Edgar Hooper; Vice President, Wheeler Ballance; Secretary, Mrs. Ormond Fuller; assistant secretary, Miss Amelia Ballance; treasurer, Hayes Fulcher. Members and guests attending the annual dinner were Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Powers of Sandston, Va., Harry Green of Norfolk and Maurice Davenport of Virginia Beach; Julian Oneto of Nags Head; Mr. and Mrs. Rany Jennette, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hooper, Mr. See ANGLERS, Page Four JUMBO STRIPERS NOW IN SURF OF OUTER BANKS Avon.—-Jumbo size striped bass, great rockfish that weigh up to 60 and 70 pounds with the general average being 30 pounds or more are now being caught in nets by commercial fishermen. Anglers seldom go after these big fish, and when they dOj they seldom catch them. SHERIDAN TO GET BIG AIR TROPHY ON DECEMBER 17 Speedy Commander Who Cover ed 2,346 Miles In Four Hours Coming to Celebration Nags Head.—A feature of the Wright Brothers First Flight luncheon concluding the 54th anni versary celebration of the birth of aviation at Kill Devil Hills on De cember 17, next Tuesday, the cov eted General Electric Air Trophy will be awarded Capt Robert E. Sheridan for winning the flight from Paris to Madrid, to Rome and back to Paris on May 26 this year, according to David Stick, in charge of local arrangements for the an nual ceremonies commemorating the achievement of Orville and Wilbur Wright. “Capt Sheridan was aircraft commander of the USAF B-47 which covered the 2,346 mile run in four hours, twelve minutes and seven seconds, to win first place in the event known as “Le Prix Des Trois Capitols,” (The Prize of the Thyee Capitals),” said Stick. 1 “The race clearly proved in Eu rope the value of modern U.S. jet aircraft and free world survival, and with NATO meeting in special session at the time of the Decem ber 17 Wright Brothers ceremon ies here on the Dare Coast the event becomes even more signifi cant,” said Stick. “Peter J. Schenk, president of the Air Force Associa tion, one of the eo-sponsors of the Wright Brothers Celebration, will make the award.” > 1 See SHERIDAN, Page Four SNOW GEESE A SHOW FOR BIRDWATCHERS AT PEA ISLAND WILDLIFE REFUGE By AYCOCK BROWN Greater' snow geese, more than 10.000 of them have arrived at thetr Pea Island National Wildlife sanctuary in Dare County to spend several winter weeks feeding in safety here. The' total number of the great white waterfowl, distin guished by black-tipped wings when they reach adult stage, along the Atlantic Flyway is believed to be less than 25,000. The greater snows, also called “white brant” are different from the lesser snow geese of the Paci fic and other western flyways. Here at Pea Island, a refuge estab lished in 1938, primarily as a win ter home for this particular species of rare waterfowl, the population is reaching its winter peak. In addition to greater snows the refuge here at'this season contains the only 'large concentration of gadwall ducks, nesting along the Atlantic coast as well as Canada geese, all species of duck, swan and other varieties of sea and shore birds. A paved highway passes through the area and it is easy for birdwatchers to see the greater snows, Canada geese and ducks without leaving their auto mobiles. Recently however, the National Park Service has com pleted a concrete walkway or over look atop one of the dykes used to impound fresh waters for growing feeds of different kinds for the ducks. x. L. B. Turner, manager of the refuge, stated that more than 170 varieties of birds have been ob served at Pea Island during dif ferent seasons, of the year. Some are permanent residents, but ma jority are migratory visitors to the area. He urged bird watchers who are interested in seeing the greatest concentration of snow geese in several years to make their plans to visit the Refuge be tween now and early January. MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957 GOING 80 THIS MONTH; GOING BACK IN BUSINESS * Yb fl v fl 5 ONSLOW J. JONES of Manteo has been a business figure in Dare County for more than half a cen tury. And now this month, when he is turning 80, he is going back in business. Wonders never cease, and the circumstance should give pause to many a younger man who is bent on retiring long before middle age comes on. About two years ago, Mr. Jones sold out his mercantile business in Manteo to his son-in-law, Glenn Bonner, and went home to take it easy, and to overcome some temporary illness which gave him concern for awhile. And now, having rested up and become restless for want of some thing to pass the time, he is going back into the insurance field in which he was engaged for several years, more than 30 years ago. Mr. Jones served as postmaster of Manteo for nine and a half years, during the Roosevelt and Taft administrations, and had for merly been in the insurance busi ness with R. Bruce Etheridge, fi nally buying out Mr. Etheridge’s interest, and later selling it all back to him, while he engaged a short time in business out of town. During his tenure of the postoffice, he engaged in store business, and in job printing for a number of years thereafter and in 1920 went into the mercantile business with the late A. A. Griffin, which busi ness he bought out in 1926 and operated it until two years ago. Eighteen years ago, being a wi dower, Mr. Jones married Miss Mabel Evans, a woman of ability who had become distinguished in the educational field. They now live at Seatone on Roanoke Island. S6e JONES, Page Four Lost Colony's Adversity Challenges Board to Renewed Effort Next Season *- ■ _■ Despite financial difficulties, “The Lost Colony” will go on next season “bigger and better than ever.” Plans for the 18th season of the pioneer outdoor drama were made in Raleigh last week at the annual meeting of the Roanoke Is land Historical Association. R. E. Jordan, general manager of the <J r ama presented each sum mer on Roanoke Island, reported that approximately $19,000 must be raised to open the 1958 season debt free. A new loss of $13,391.71 was run up during the 1957 season, Jordan said. He cited unfavorable weather, the mosquito problem, and the attraction of the Jamestown Festival in neighboring Virginia as factors in the poor season. To meet the financial crisis, the association voted to press a cam paign for life memberships at SIOO each, and to raise reserved seat admissions for the drama from $2.50 to $3.00 each. Although it was not mentioned at ,the meeting, the association would be eligible for SIO,OOO in State funds since a loss occurred last season. Under State law, it may receive the money each year there is a loss. No State funds were received last year, since there was a profit during the 1956 season. The “bigger and better” label for the coming season was offered by Paul Green, author of the drama, who also suggested the in crease in reserved seat rates. He pointed out that other outdoor dramas charge a $3.00 top. “The Lost Colony” deals with the first English colony in the new world which settled on Roanoke Island. Its fate is a historical mystery. The association reelected Robert Lee Humber of Greenville as its chairman, and named U. S. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. of Morganton as an honorary vice chairman. Miles Clark of Elizabeth City was elect ed vice chairman to succeed Rus sell Gruman of Chapel Hill. Named to the board of directors were George Ivey of Charlotte, Watts Hill Jr. of Durham, James A. Gray of Winston-Salem, and George Geoghagen of Raleigh. Tom Chears, Manteo lawyer, opposed the move to raise reserved' TRAWLER WRECKED, FOUR MEN PERISH OFF CHICMICOMICO Sea Dog Out of Hampton Lands Bottom Up Friday Night Near Rodanthe There is no Coast Guard patrol of the beaches any more, so no body knows just when it happened, but the broken up trawler “Sea Dog” out of Hampton, Va. came ashore sometime Friday night dur ing the heavy sea tide, after its four crewmen had perished. The trawler, which was found by Percy Williams of Avon, while on a beachcombing trip Saturday morning, is imbedded in the sand seven miles southeast of the village of Rodanthe, the vicinity of Chica micomico banks which is of all places on the American coast, the Graveyard of the seas. The Sea Dog left Hampton, Va. on Tuesday, Dec. 3 bound for the fishing grounds between Cape Henry and Cape Hatteras. The boat was a 60 ton vessel, 65 feet long, a former Navy tug about 12 to 15 years old. It was valued at $35,000 by its owner, John Lawson of Hampton. The four men who were lost at sea on the boat were Capt. El dredge Holoway of Poquoson, Va., Frank Lee Forrest and Ralph Gibbs of Hampton, Va. and Henry Abernathy of Gloucester County, Va. The vessel carried no insurance and the only possibility of salvage is the motor, a 225-hp diesel, in stalled two years ago, and valued at $14,000. It appears that surf action will imbed it in the sands before salvage may be affected. From general appearances the vessel was disabled when the winch cable entangled with the rudder and propellor, making the boat un manageable. When the vessel struck the bar, the shoeing was bent, the propellor was battered terribly. Perhaps loaded with fish, the boat capsized more readily, the men were thrown into a raging sea, the super-structure had beaten off, the mast broken, and by the time the heavy sea beached the vessel, it was ready to sink into the sands under the scouring action of the tides. She was found on the beach, bot tom up, imbedded in sand, the bow pointing southward, the propellor sticking out. The Sea Dog was a Well-modeled boat, and apparently See TRAWLER, Page Eight seat admissions. He said he feared it would hurt business. Chears pointed out that “more people than ever” visited the Dare County beach areas last summer. “The people are there, the problem is to get them to the theater,” he declared. Chairman Humber urged strong er efforts in a membership cam paign, with pmphasis on SIOO life membership. “If a northeastern state had the tradition this area of North Carolina has, it would have been publicized until every history book included a chapter on it and every school child would know it,” he asserted. The association voted to increase its regular annual membership rate from $3 to $5, to become ef fective at the close of next season ORANGES ARE HARVESTED AT CAPE HATTERAS RAUNA AND MARLA FULLER, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Fuller of Buxton, are shown as they picked full-grown oranges last week from a tree belonging to their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. White of Buxton. The mild winters of the Cape Hatteras area make possible the growing of the citrus fruit, which is ordinarily grown in places considered to have warmer climates. (Aycock Brown photo) CELEBRATION OF AVIATION’S BIRTH NEXT WEEK IN DARE IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE A Two Year Program Will Be Launched Next Tuesday at Kill Devil Hills; Plans Begin For Air Museum; Historical Site Area Will Be Enlarged; Colorful Program Arranged. DRILL TEAM OF ECC AND FAMED BAND TO ATTEND Elizabeth City’s high school band directed by Scott Calloway, and its nationally famous majorettes led by lovely Ann Moore will be one of many colorful features of the 54th anniversary celebration of the Wright Brothers First Flight to be held at Kill Devil Hills next Tuesday, December 17, says David Stick of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society and who is in charge of local arrangements for the program. The East Carolina College AF ROTC team will also present a precision drill demonstration un der the leadership of Lt. Col. Ed ward Maloney, of the Air Force j>n the scene. In comparison to the 35 miles an hour the Wright Brothers flew on December 17, 1903, modern Air Force F-100 supersonic jet fighters will zoom over the ceremony site flying in trail and then as they reach the vicinity of the Wright Monument atop Kill Devil Hill, make vertical climbs towards outer space. The Air Force is also plan ning to fly a formation of six B -66 twin-jet bombers over the events taking place on the ground. Laying of wreaths from Dayton, Ohio, and one from North Carolina will be by grandchildren of Dare residents who had to do with help ing the Wrights at the time of their first flights, 54 years ago here. KILL DEVIL HILLS TO HAVE ELECTION ON TOWN CHARTER The Town Board of Kill Devil Hills last week agreed to call an election to vote on the repeal or continuance of the incorporation of i the five-year old municipality. A delegation of 36 persons who fa vored the election wanted it to be held January 4, but they were ad vised by town attorney Wallace McCown that it would be at least seven weeks before it could be held. A new registration is to be conducted on the three Saturdays preceding the election. ' . While preparations are being made for the election, Mr. McCown is to seek an opinion from the attorney general’s office as to the legality to such an election, since it had been stated earlier that no such election could be held -with ! out enabling legislation by the ; General Assembly. | In an earlier election, the vote to do away with the town charter carried by a margin of seven votes but was declared illegal by the court on the grounds that the peti tion asking for it had to include a certain percentage of registered voters at the last previous election. Single Copy 70 By MIRIAM RABB A two-year program to provide more visitors’ facilities at the birthplace of the Air Age will be launched December 17 during the celebration of the 54th anniversary of powered flight at Wright Brothers National Memorial on the North Carolina coast, at Kill Devil Hills. With a gold-plated spade, gift of the Air Force Association, Conrad L. Wirth, Director of the National Park Service, will turn the first shovel of earth on the site where a new visitor center and Flight Museum will be constructed in 1958. He will outline plans for a new airstrip to accommodate light planes, and-a motor road to eon nect the visitora’ center with the new section of Highway 158 now under construction between the Memorial and the beach. The public is invited to the cere monies, which will begin at 10:45 a.m. on the monument overlooking the spot where Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first powered flights on December 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hills and Kitty Hawk, N. C. Director Wirth will describe the accelerated “Mission 66” program through which the Park Service will extend the boundaries of the Memorial area to take in additional historical sites and make them ac cessible by land and air. Wright Brothers National Memo rial (formerly Kill Devil Hills Na tional Memorial) was authorized by Congress in 1927 and is a Na tional Historical Site administered by the Park Service. The Memorial —with monument, flight markers and reconstructed buildings of the Wrights’ hangar, living quarters and shop—attracted over 277,000 visitors in 1956, and by October 31 of this year had been visited by over 300,000 people. It is open all year. Notables from the civil and mili tary aviation world take part in ' the annual Anniversary Celebra ; tion sponsored by the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society, the Air Force Association, National Park Service and the North Carolina An ' niversary Commission. A flyover of modern aircraft is orfe of the pro gram highlights each year. •I Wright Brothers National Me ' [ morial is in the Dare coast resort •: area accessible by toll-free bridges 1 and highways. Seashore resorts, in addition to Kitty Hawk and Kill ’ Devil Hills, are Nags Head and 1 Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands. - Just across Roanoke Sound from ' Wright Memorial is Roanoke Is • land, site of the first English 1 settlements in North America and now home of the Roanoke Island ' National Historica) Site and “The Lost Colorty”—oldest of America’s ' outdoor dramas. DUCK HUNTERS GETTING BREAKS ON DARE COAST DURING WEATHER CHANGE Wildfowl hunters, harrassed by “bluebird” weather as the goose and duck season opened in Novem ber have been getting the breads recently with rains and winds mak ing conditions just right for shoot ing. The weather during the past sev eral days has not been ideal for sportsfidhing and surfcasting was at a standstill along the Outer Banks on many recent days. Stormy weather came on Decem ber 4, and since that time when it was not overcast and windy, it has been wet, the kind of rainy days that assure hunters of good shooting. Hunters from Kitty Hawk Bay to Hatteras have been killing fowl. In the marshes of Nags Head it has not been difficult to bag a limit of Canada geese or a limit of various species of ducks. Many hunters, some local, some from distant places have been do ing just that. Anglers on the other hand who came for striped bass fishing from boats in the Manns Harbor area, or for fishing in the surf where channel bass have been the princi pal objectives, found the weather too rugged for fishing. SELECTIVE SERVICE OFFICE TO CLOSE DEC. 16 THRU 20 The office of the Selective Serv ice System, Local Bdard 28 in Manteo, will be dosed December 16 through December 20, accord ing to announcement this week by Mrs. Balfour Baum, clerk.
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