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YOLUME XXIII NO. 26 HUNTER IS KILLED IN ACCIDENT NEAR FAIRFIELD MONDAY Matthew Moore, Maysville Negro, Shot by Companion When Mistaken for Deer A Maysville Negro man was killed Monday morning in a hunt ing accident in a woods about two mileß northeast of Fairfield. Sheriff Charlie J. Cahoon, whoi investigated the shooting, said that Matthew Moore, 42, died instantly when struck by a full load of buck shot from the shotgun of Leon Rowe, also of Maysville. Moore and Rowe were deer hunting with tea other Maysville men when the accident occurred at 9:30 a.m.; Moore was the only Negro in the group. Sheriff Cahoon said that Rowe told kiln Moore, who was wearing a brown coat, was stooping down ia a path and that when he got a glimpse of the victim moving he shot thinking it was a deer. Sheriff if Cahoon termed the shooting acci dental and an inquest was not held. The shooting was' the only vio lanee reported during the Christ mas holidays in Hyde County; through Christmas day, not a single traffic accident had been reported. MANTEO ODD FELLOWS TO INSTALL OFFICERS Ptanj Being Made for Dittrict Meeting To Be Held in Manteo on Saturday, January 18 *V New officers of the Virginia Dare Lodge No. 3, International Order of Odd Fellows, elected on December 12, are to be installed at a special meeting on January 6 at tbe Lodge Hall in Manteo. The installation is to be made by mem bers of the Elizabeth City lodge, f ' The newly-named officers are: Dan Cannady, noble gratid; Gor don Riddick, vice-grand; Thomas Cannady, secretary; John Ferebee, financial secretary; and Carl Swaim, treasurer. Appointive offi cer* are to be named this week. Doran Quidley is currently noble grand of the Manteo lodge. The Manteo lodge will be host Saturday evening, January 18, to a meeting of the Odd Fellows of the four-county district comprised of Dare, Hyde, Gates, and Pasquo tank counties. District president Cecil White of the Elizabeth City lodge will preside. The Manteo Rebekahs will serve dinner prior to the meeting. * “OLD CHRISTMAS” FESTIVAL AT RODANTHE JANUARY 4 Recause January sth falls on a Sunday, the “Old Christmas” fes tial which is an annual event at Rodanthe on Hatteras Island each year, will be staged in the com munity building this time on the evening of January 4th, which is £ Saturday night. Arrangements have been made to provide more ’ seating this year, but as usual, a large part of those who will come will not be able to get in the building. Seats will be reserved for those who make arrangements in advance. Beside the program, which includes the legendary beast, Old Buck, there will be an oyster roast and a dance. The last ferry for Hatteras Island leaves to cross Oregon Inlet at 4:30 p.m. It is suggested an earlier ferry be taken. Overnight accommodations will be available at the many ho tels and motels on Hatteras Island. MANNS HARBOR RURITAN INSTALLS NEW OFFICERS At the December meeting of the Manns Harbor Ruritan Club the following officers were installed: president: Stanford White, to suc ceed Ira Spencer, Jr.; John A. Twiddy, vice-president; John Mid gett, secretary; and Wilbur Pin ner, treasurer. The club has for. its objective for the year an enrhll ment"bf 20 new members. Mem ber* of the local Woman’s Club I served a turkey dinner. The annual Christmas parties of the Ruritan Club and Woman’s Club was a joint affair Thursday night, De cember 20. METHODISTS GIVE SURPRISE gNG TO THE AITKENS d-fashioned “pounding 1 ' i Monday evening to the i. Aitken and his family rsonage of Mount Olivet Church in Manteo., The is in the nature of a < surprise from the mem le congregation, and was by the official board of i I. During the evening tea es were served by Mrs.< < Irickhouse, Mrs. Sheldon i Irs. Lyna Harbour and : I. Bonner. A large nusa- THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA RETIRED SKY-PILOT OF OCRACOKE ONCE SEA-PILOT si 9m i i I REV. FRANK TREET FULCHER is a colorful coastland personality whose name and deeds have ap peared in these columns from time to time. A former Ocracoker, Ay cock Brown has made the accom panying picture of him. Before he was 19 years old, Mr. Tulcher had sailed the, “seven seas” in a Russian bark. Sixty years later, he is now retired and living in the Hermit age, Richmond’s home for retired Methodist preachers, but he is a frequent visitor in Manteo while ten route to visit old friends on Ocracoke Island where he rivals another colorful Ocracoker, Stan ley Wahab in telling old and spicy stories from life of other days in that happy area of wind and water. Mr. Fulcher began sailing be fore the mast when he was 12 years old, in what is often called the “coasting” trade. At 17 he crossed the ocean his first time as first officer on a Russian ship bound from Brunswick, Ga. to Hgjnburg, Germany. Before he re turned* home Ke had been down under to Sidney, New South Wales, Australia, byway of Good Hope and to Holland byway of Cape Horn. He got back home and set about the business of raising a family, became Sunday School Superinten dent, got to be. an exhorter, and after several years as an evange list, got his first charge in the New Bern district in 1908, serving in Pamlico County. He finally drifted over in the Virginia con ference, came back to Carolina, went into New Jersey, and all in all, has had a most varied experi ence. One of his favorite tall stor ies goes like this: “In my youth, while on a voyage to Australia aboard a Russian bark, before there was a Panama canal, We doubled the Horn, and when we went into and out of the Anarctic waters, the temperature change was so sudden and severe that the ship’s pet, a little dog, dropped dead, sun-struck in the head and frost-bitten in the tail.” ' MR. AND MRS. H. A. CREEF HOME, IMPROVED, GRATEFUL Herbert A. Crees returned to Manteo from Duke hospital Satur day after three operations and a seige of seven weeks. Mrs. Crees also spent a week in the hospital. Both are greatly improved, and Mr. Crees has been .going down town to talk with his neighbors. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crees give great credit to /the marvelous equipment and medical skill at Duke hospital. They are also extending hearty thanks to the many friends who showered them with kindnesses in many ways during their confine ment in the hospital. They received flowers, cards, letters, wires, and many other expressions of good will and encouragement in their fight against , illness. “We are mighty happy to have so many friends and we wish we could thank them all in person,” Mr. Crees said. WE ARE A DAY LATE AND CRAVE YOUR INDULGENCE As the saying goes, “Christmas comes but once a year,” and for this reason, all those who help to produce this newspaper wished to get away from work and be home with their families. For this rea son, your paper is reaching you a day late this week. We therefore crave your indulgence, and request your cooperation in the coming year that we make this an even better and bigger paper. We want it to be an unusually helpful and constructive force in the upbuilding of this wonderful region. Our wel fare and happiness depends on its progress and prosperity. Let’s get up and do great things to 1958. DARE CO. TAXES TOTALLED UNDER $17,000 IN 1903 Property Valuated Under Half Million; County Was Bonded to Build Courthouse By EARL DEAN For a good many years the Ra leigh News & Observer published an annual business directory of the State of North Carolina which came out around the first of the year containing the names of city and county officials all over the State. The copy which came out in Jan uary, 1903, Contained many inter esting facts about Dare County as it was 55 years ago. For instance, the county tax rate was then only 40 cents on the SIOO valuation of which there was only $413,020 worth of property listed by white taxpayers and sll,- 106 worth of taxable property own ed by Negroes, most of whom lived here on. Roanoke Island . For town purposes in Manteo the tax rate was 16 2/3 cents per $l9O valuation and as there were no : streets and sidewalks and travel was largely by means of horse and cart along winding sandy trails it didn’t take much to keep the town up in those days. 1 The late W. G. Forbes, listed i also as a butcher and cattle trader, • was mayor of Manteo in 1903, and other town officials included R. C. , Evans, who was town clerk and treasurer; A. H. Davenport, a bar ber and dealer in general merchan -1 dise, was the part-time tax collec i tor; B. G. Crisp, town attorney; . and the city fathers 55 years ago were James A. Evans, W. P. Gray ’ and Postmaster J. B. Jennette. In 1903 Theodore S. Meekins, Sr* a native of Rodanthe, was a ’ young man 33 years of age, and i clerk of Superior Court. Augustus j H. Etheridge was sheriff of Dare , County, and among the Other , county officers that year Were R. | W. Smith, register of deeds; Dr. , Woodson B. Fearing, county treas urer; John E. Berry, county sur ’ B. G- Crisp, county attorney and superintendent of schools, and | the county board of education was ’ composed of A. H. Davenport, chairman, and Mayor W. G. . Forbes, both of whom lived in Man teo, and J. L. Hooper, of Avon. ! Dare County’s commissioners in I 1903 were B. T. Daniels, of Wan . chese, chairman; P. F. Meekins, of , Stumpy Point; Mathias D. Hay . man, of Skyco, and H. W. Styron, 1 of Hatteras Island. Listed as constables that year , were Daniel Meekins of Manteo, i for Nags Head Township; John F. Holmes, East Lake Township; T. . L. Midgett of Stumpy Point, Croa tan Township; Frank Gray of ■ Avon, Kennekeet Township, and i J. D. Rollinson, of Frisco, Hat , teras Township. I Among the school teachers in Dyre County 55 years ago were : the Misses Alethia, Myrtle and ! Nellie Sample of Woodville, Per quimans County; Josiah Baum, of Skyco; Lemuel Whitehurst and Luke Brothers, of Elizabeth City; Misses Sarah Baum and Emily Taylor, of Wanchese; Robert and Charles Taylor, also of Wanchese;’ Miss Mary Weeks, of Elizabeth City; Clarence Pugh, of Wanchese; Miss Ida W. Watts of Manteo; Mrs. Sarah M. Carter, of Salvo, and Mrs. Ella M. Dunbar, Colored, of Manteo. Listed according to occupations were the following: Architects, W. P. Gray; Barbers, A. H. Daven port; Butchers and Cattle dealers, W. G. Forbes; Blacksmiths, James Gdant anr J. W. Casey; Boots and Shoes, Evans & Meekins, Griffin, Sample & Co., J. W. Evans and W. J. Griffin & Co. Carriage Manufacturers, James A. Evans; Coal and Wood Dealers, R. C. Evans; Physicians and Sur geons, W. B. Fearing and F. P. Gates; General Merchandise, Evans & Meekins, Griffin, Sample A Co., W. J. Griffin & Co., J. W. Evans, L. D. Hassell, J. H. Midgett and A. H. Davenport; Lawyers, B. G. Crisp and D. M. Stringfield. There were no saloons or other places where strong drink could be bought legally in Dare County In 1903. However there were 18 open bar rooms in Elizabeth City in those days! , EDITOR’S NOTE: It is interest ing in connection with this story to note that back in those days, the county had been bonded to build a $16,000 courthouse which was equal to a year’s taxes, and this courthouse was the subject of much scandal, similar to last year’s job. The matter went to court, and it was alleged there was much graft in connection with it, and P. F. Meekins, one commissioner resigned because he said the deal was too rotten. The contractors didn’t give the county what it bar gained to give, the “fireproof vaults” were * fake. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1957 SET IN HER FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS AT AGE 11 HP STORMY GALE BROWN will be 11 years old on New Year's day, and she is already well set in the footsteps of her famous father Aycock Brown. Some weeks ago a page of her photographs was published in the Norfolk Virginian Pilot which has printed so many hundreds of her father’s news pic tures, and the paper was most com plimentary about her work. The talent she shows in the use of her small camera, and in portraying her neighbors, and familiar home town scenes gives prediction of a profitable future, if she ehoses to follow this line of work. For her age, she is doing an exceptional job. TRAWLER CREWMAN'S BODY FOUND FRIDAY ON BEACH NEAR AVON The body of one of the four missing members of the crew of the ill-fated fishing trawler Sea Dog was found washed ashore Fri day afternoon last week on the beach near Avon, about six miles south of where the i broken-up trawler was found Rodanthe December 7. John Lawson of Hampton, Va., owner of the Sea Dog, came to Manteo Saturday and identified the body as that of Frank Lee Forrest 111, 82, bf Hampton. The body was returned to Hampton for burial. The other missing crewmen are Capt. Eldridge Holloway of Poquo son, Ralph Gibbs of Hampton, and Henry Abernathy of Gloucester County, Va. How Many People Now Can Remember The Things This Lady Calls to Mind? Mrs. Mary Best of Kitty Hawk, Who Observed Her 81st Birthday This Month, Reminds Us of Many Fine and Wholesome Things That Have Almost Gone Out of Practice Since She Was a Girl. By MARY F. BEST, KITTY HAWK, N. C. When all the family went to church in time for Sunday school and remained until after preaching service? we don’t do that way now. Soon as class is over, children and most of the parents leave. Remember when the children did as their parents said? now the children say first. —When father killed a beef for the winter, tanned the hide and made the family Shoes; when mother carded the wool, spun the yarn and knit what stockings and socks the family wore. —When all the coffee was parched and then ground in a coffee mill nailed to the side of the house; —when all the cooking was done in a fire place in long handled spiders or in a pot hung over the fire? —When all the washing was scrubbed on a wash board; all the clothes the family wore were made with needle and thread by mother? She also heated the irons in front of the fire to do the ironing with. That’s all changed now. —When the only means of travel was by a sail boat and if it was a calm spell, you were late getting to town and back ? some changes in that line of transporta tion! When the storekeeper would give Dad a bag of candy for the children when he bought his fam ily supply? now they'll change a twenty dollar bill to get one penny. —When the family could not tote a dollar purchase home at one time;—now one member can carry five and not be over-burden ed. —When women wore their aprons and slat bonnets to church and all the members would stop to speak and shake hands with each other. Remember when all the men helped each other cut their winter’s wood and sometimes help ed carry if to the woodpile; and the women would meet and help do the’family’s quilting? When everyone visited each other, J JANUARY I WILL MARK BEGINNING OF BEARDS FOR PIRATE JAMBOREE From Kitty Hawk to Hatteras and from Nags Head to the Dare mainland, many male residents of the Dare Coast will forego shaving next Wednesday morning, January 1. It will mark the official starting time for growing Dare Coast Jamboree beards. Pat Bayne, currently King of the pirates in Dare, a distinction that his beard helped win in 1957, will be encouraging males of Dare to grow beards. He will be issuing decrees relative to beard growing rules from time- to time. If it is a good season for beards, one of the most fabulous crop of chin whiskers of all time should be ready to harvest during late April, after the annual competition of the fourth annual Dare Cqast Pirates Jamboree April 24-27. Dare is the only place in the world where beards are grown to represent pirates. The general idea behind it all is to produce a beard that would have equaled the one which the most famous or in famous of all pirates, the dreaded Edward Teach or “Blackbeard the Pirate,” had when he was a scourge of early 18th Century ship ping in Carolina coastal waters. During the past three years, Dare Coast Pirate Jamboree beards have become famous throughout the nation, in a publicity way. Carvans of bearded men, accom panied by their feminie piratesses, dressed to emulate Anne Bonney and others of her sex who were in the old time buccaneer business, have visited many towns and cities in North Carolina and Virginia, and everywhere they hae gone publicity was produced that re sulted in larger and larger attend ance at the Pirates Jamboree. MANTEO COUPLE HOLD OPEN HOUSE ON CHRISTMAS EVE Celebrating their wedding anni versary, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mid gette held Open House on Christ mas Eve at their home in Manteo. A color scheme of red, white and gold carried out a seasonal motif and the table held a poinsettia centerpiece. Assisting Mr. and Mrs. Midgette in entertaining were Mrs. Mid gette’s sister, Mrs. T. D| Ether idge, who cut and served the cake; and her niece, Mrs. R. H. Atkin son, who poured coffee. Approxi mately 75 people called during the evening. don’t visit now, do not have time. When neighbors would go sit till bedtime—none of that now. Remember when all the young folks would meet at some home and have a sugar boiling, then see who could get their candy the whitest when pulling time came? —always asked the woman of the house to boil the sugar and they would play some kind of game while it was boiling. Sometimes they danced, sometimes just a simple game like “lost my thim ble.” They usually got the man of the house or the most lively one in the bunch for judge; wonder what’s got all that now? Boys and girls walked where they went and seemed to enjoy it. Now they can’t do that, must have a car and usually it’s only two in the car. Remember when the floor had to be scoured each week?— none of that now, thanks to the man who invented lino leum. Remember when all the fish nets were tied at home?— the children then were home at nights filling needles instead of being out doing some mischief. Remember wK%n it took ten and twelve yards of calico to make a woman a dress and when they wore five and six petticoats at a time? —don’t do that now. When you could tell if it was boys or girls you saw by their clothes?—can’t do that now as children dress so much alike. —When their mode of land travel was by oxcart but they would always stop and offer you’ a ride? Now they have cars, they don’t mind passing you even tho they are going by your gate. Won der where all that friendlinesa has gone? A lot of changes; people are more distant, often think only of self, when we should love one another as we are commanded. AU this I have seen in my stay here,! and a lot more if anyone would! care to listen to it PROSPECTS CONSIDERED GOOD IF EFFORT STEPPED UP ON DARE COASTLAND IN 1958 There’ll Be Silver Shining Through the Clouds of Economic Tightening Up, If a Few Simple Rules Are Followed and We Keep On Our Toes And Take Advantage of New Factors Now In the Picture. COLUMBIA INSURANCE MAN AN ACTIVE LEGIONAIRE F- .Jr ■ ‘ I jJBL Jj 1 t r %"*<, * gts n wmßm . mm • I - ' v ;- s ■ Br*.: T ‘ 1 / "1* r» v 1 t : , -J , . ! DELTON A. SIMMONS of Colum bia is generally known by the cog nomen, “D. A.” He is anbther of the many self-made products of Tyrrell County, who with native ' instinct, and the commonsense that grows up in country boys with the . right parental upbringing, do • pretty well by themselves in the ■ business of getting along in life. , Mr. Simmons’ main profession is ' the insurance business, but he does numbers of other things,, one of : which is taking an active part in ■ the affairs of Scuppemong Post | 182, American Legion, of which he 1 has been Commander, is now Vice . Commander and is on its executive , committee. He has been Veterans Service officer for Tyrrell County - since 1947, and manager of the Production Credit Corp. for Tyrrell sand Washington Counties since 1945, when he entered the general insurance business in Columbia. Mr. Simmons is a native of the Frying Pan section of Tyrrell, he attended the local schools at Ry ders Creek and found his first job away from home on tugboats ply ing out of Norfolk. On October 1, 1942 he entered the Navy after having been in the insurance busi ness in Portsmouth, Va. There he • married Miss Mildred Martin in l 1928. He served two years in the Navy, was a Boatswains Mate, First Class. \ 1 "■ ■ ■ ■■"■■■ ■ ■—... . ! CAPE HATTERAS LODGE INSTALLS 1958 OFFICERS Davjd Raymond Basnett was in stalled as worshipful master of the ! Cape Hatteras Lodge No. 698 on Monday evening, December 23. Other officers also installed to [ serve during the corrfiftg year were; T. Stockton Midgett, senior war , den; Richard A. Job, junior war- I den; Clarence P. Brady, treasurer; I W. Lloyd Scarborough, secretary; Woodrow W. Edwards, senior dea con; James R. Rollinson, junior deacon; William Gibson, senior steward; Edgar O. Hooper, junior steward; EstusyP. White, tyler; and Asa H. Gray, Sr., chaplain. The Cape Hatteras Lodge, now four years old, moved in the. new lodge hall on May 13 of this year. The lodge, which started with 29 members, has a total membership to date of 73. DANIELS FAMILY GATHERS IN NORFOLK FOR REUNION The family of Mrs. Nettie Dan iels met Sunday at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Daniels, in Nor folk, for a reunion. Those from Wanchese attending were Mrs. ' Nettie Daniels and her daughter, Mrs. Margaret Pe Silva of Atlan tic City, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Ches ley Midgett and son, Jake; Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Midgett, Jr., and sons, Don and Gene; Mrs. J. B. Tiliett and daughters, Dianne and Margaret Jean; and Mrs. Arvilla Midgett Misses Jackie Midgett j and Margaret and Cornelia Rogers, l and Billy Bonney of Norfolk, were also there. Single Copy It Many observers believe the gen eral economic tightening up throughout the country as the re sult of higher living costs, in creased Federal, taxes here and there will not be too bad for the Dare Coastland during 1958 if a few rules are followed. We will endeavor to outline a few of the handicaps that may operate against us, and what we may do to overcome them. We also may take note of some of the bright spots in the picture that have developed through the year, whereby we may turn them to good account for our business interests. In considering new ven tures, it is well to take into ac count the importance that all things be up to date. Nothing which is haphazard or make-shift will do. It is a buyer’s market now, i and the public has come to demand | nothing less than the best. We are faced with constantly i rising living costs, a national trend to divert public expenditures to the field of national defense and pur suit of advancement in the field of atomic missiles and launching of satellites in order to keep up with and surpass, if .possible, the gains that have been made by the Reds. Consequently, we may ex pect little public money to be spent in comparatively remote areas such as ours, and will see it turned loose in the distant places to the profit of businessmen and workers some distance from us. But we can make the most of what we have to offer those people who will have money to spend, by making ohr region more attractive to those who will be able to travel in search of recreation. We have See PROSPECTS, Page Five MARCH OF DIMES OPENS "OPERATION COMEBACK" The March of Dimes will launch its 1958 polio fund campaign here and throughout the country in Jan uary on the dramatic note that for thousands of polio-blighted vic tims “Survival is Not Enough.” Most of the money sought in the drive is needed to help disabled polio patients stage “comebacks” from helplessness to usefulness. The Salk vaccine developed by the March of Dimes has scored dramatically in preventing new paralytic polio cases, officials say, but during the last year it has been necessary to spend a total of $21,700,000 in March of Dimes funds on the care and rehabilita tion of patients. These patients numbered 57,800 of whom 53,000 were victims of old attacks. Since most of this cost is in the form of continuing care for pa tients stricken in preceding years, the obligation will continue next year wish very little letup, it was pointed out. Additional funds are necessary for an expanded research program to explore many new aspects of virology; for the training of pro fessional workers in the rehabili tation and science research fields; and for a still urgent program of public education to encourage use of the Salk vaccine. The campaign will be held through the month of January. A feature of the opening of the cam paign this year will be the observ ance of the 20th anniversary of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis, the polio-fighting organization which the March of Dimes supports. “This will be an occasion for re calling our victories of the past, including the creation of the Salk vaccine,” said Basil O’Connor, president of the National Founda tion, “and for looking ahead to new challenges. Most important of all, it will be the occasion for pledging ourselves to assist, insofar as we are able, those who were stricken and now still need help.” NEW YEAR’S SERVICES AT ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH Special New Year’s services* at St. Andrew’s-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, Nags Head, have been announced as follows: Tuesday, December 31, 11-12 p.m. Prayers for our country, thd President, Governor, and all in authority. Subject of the sermon will be “Signs of Hope”. January 1, 10 a.m., Holy Com munion, sermon “A Circumcised Heart”* R n m r VAn i M<v w* j .* * * ondcrinjf Christ i Birth >, t
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