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VOLUME XXIII NO. 40 COASTAL CHURCHES ARRANGE SPLENDID EASTER SERVICES Emphasis Placed on Several Sun rise Services Upon The Shores of Coastland Arrangements for Easter Serv . ices by the congregations of the several churches of Dare County seem to have never before been so well prepared and emphasized. Full programs are arranged by all congregations, and particular at tention has been given prepara tions for numerous Sunrise wor ship services. One of the largest established Sunrise Easter services will be held at Cape Hatteras, participated in by all the churches of Hatteras Island, which has as many as ten. This service will be at the light house. Ocracoke Island too, will have a service. On Roanoke Island the Sunrise service will be held at Mother Vineyard overlooking Roanoke Sound. Another service on Croatan Sound will be held at Manns Har bor for the Methodist churches of the Dare mainland. At East Lake, the annual Sunrise Service will be held at River Landing. George Crees and Charles Olsen of Manteo, will hold services at East Lake and Manns Harbor MethodiSt churches, Sunday morn ing as part of the “No silent pul pit” program which has continued in Methodist Churches during the past month. HATTERAS ISLAND ENJOYS FIRST PRE-JAM BO REE DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT The first Pre-Pirates Jamboree danee held at the Hatteras Com munity Center last Friday night was attended by more than 126 persons. The six-piece band was made up of four Navy and Coast Guard per sonnel and two native islanders. The all-string band kept up a live ly pace throughout the evening, with many instrumentals, songs and square dances. Numerous dan cers attended in full pirate cos tumes, adding much color to the event. Many people slated that the dance was one of the best ever on the island. The next pre-Jamboree Dance will be held April 11 for the choos ing of the men and women to rep resent Hatteras Island at Nags Head for the choosing of the King and Queen. Costumes are preferred for the occasion, but not necessary. TALENT SHOW MAKES BIG HIT AT STUMPY POINT Success of Show Last Thursday Causes Another Performance To Be \ Planned for April 12 A stage show held, at the Stumpy Point School on Thursday evening of last week proved to be such a success that another even bigger such show has been sched uled there on Saturday evening, April 12, beginning at 8 p.m. Spon sored by the Stumpy Point teen age club, the shows have been ar ranged by Mrs. S. White, a Ports mouth, Va., talent scout, and fea ture a group of TV stars known as the “Sky Larks.” Two Stumpy Point young people, Billy Best and Estelle Knight, were winners of a jitterbug contest at last week’s show, and thereby gained the opportunity to appear on a; television program, conducted by Mrs. White. The show on April 12 will in clude a wide variety of acts, for example gospel singing, rock ’n’ roll music, hillbilly and country singing, popular songs and folk music, as well as several comedy teams. Advance tickets went on sale this week at SI.OO for adults and $.50 for children under 12; admis sion at the door will be $1.25 for adults and $.75 for children. PIRATES JAMBOREE GROUP TO MEET, COMPLETE PLANS An important meeting of the Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree com mittees and workers will be held on Sunday afternoon, April 6, at 2 o’clock in the Cypress Room of The Carolinian Hotel on Nags Head, Alvah H. Ward, Jr., Steer ing Committee chairman announc ed this wdek. It is most important that repre sentatives of all areas, from Manns Harbor and the mainlnad to Bux ton and Hatteras, as well as Roa noke Island, Nags Head, Kitty ■ Hawk and Kill Devil Hills, be present for this meeting, which is designed to complete plans for the forthcoming Jamboree Anril 24-27, only three weeks away, he stated. Area committee chairmen and sub-chairmen in charge of special events are needed to make this meeting successful THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROUNA SECRETARY OF STATE TO SPEAK, AT KITTY HAWK ■ Ik v 1 Jin Hucm. inall EURE, N. C. Sec retary of State, will be the guest and principal speaker Saturday night at 7:30 in the Kitty Hawk School at a rally of the Young Democratic Club of Dare County, according to the club president, Jack Tillett of Manteo. Mr. Eure is an entertaining and convincing speaker, well known for many ap pearances in the Coastland, and he is expected to draw a large aud ience. EAST LAKE LOSES ONE OF ITS BEST CITIZENS Robert Fonzo Smith 66, World Wer I Veteran, Dies Friday Funeral and Burial in Manteo Sunday Robert Fonzo Smith, 66, a lead ing citizen of East Lake died at 4 p.m. Friday afternoon at his home after a long illness. He had recently undergone hospital treat ment, and although he had been suffering for several years he had never given up his daily activities on his farm, where he found con tentment in his work. He was the; sqn of the late Lamb Reid Smith and Mary Ann Cain Smith and the husband of Emily Shannon Smith. Beside his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Roy Basnight, a granddaughter, Susan Basnight, a brother, Henry L. Smith, all of East Lake and by several nieces and nephews . The funeral was conducted at the Twiford Funeral Chapel in Manteo Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. by the Rev. W. E. Cholerton, pastor of the Manteo Baptist Church and interment was in the Manteo cemetery. A choir consisting of George Powell, Fiank Cahoon, Mrs., Ca mille Podolski, Mrs. Leo Midgett and Mrs. Linwood Mayo, accom panied by Mrs. W. R. Pearce at the organ, sang the following hymns: “In the Sweet Bye and Bye” and “Rock of Ages.” The casket was covered with a pall of red and white gladioli, pink carnation and fern, and the floral offerings were many and beautiful. Pall bearers were Chester Hol mes, Benny Basnight, George Am- See SMITH, Page Four UNCLE SAM FROM SYCAMORE WRITES: DEAR MISTER EDITOR: We used to have just three kinds of business. It was good, or it was bad, or we was having a panic. Now we got recessions, depres sions, booms, high plateaus, low plateaus, and middle plateaus, just to name a few. It’s hard fer a country feller to know exactly what kind of fix he’s in with all that going on. Right now, fer instant, the pa pers is saying we’re having a slight recession. I reckon that means things is gitting more plentiful and money gitting more ain’t. Unless it gits too ain’t, the situation might not be as bad as we think. Back during the war when we was having one of them booms, when things was scarce and money plentiful, things was pret ty bad. I remember going to town one day with Ed to buy hisself a pair of pants. I’ll never forgit seeing him coming down the street in his underwear. He not only didn’t git no flarits, but ' t they was so scarce the feller in the store traded him, put*of the pair he had on. When things wasn’t so good, the one-pants feller could drive up to a pressing place, toot his horn and somebody would come out and git his plants, press ’em and be back in a jiffy. Right after the war, when we was hav ing one of them “high plateau” things, the same pressing place had a bouncer, and when you finally did git in, you’d git throwed out if you caused any OCRACOKE GETTING OVER UNFAVORABLE TALL TALES OF FLU Overdrawn Publicity Aroused Con cern Among Distant Kinsmen For Islanders Ocracoke, April 1. —“Every cloud has a silver lining”; every story has its sequel. Ocracokers are cer tainly glad to see the silver lining today, after about two weeks of dreary wet weather; and the sequel to its story . . . the flu epidemic has gone about as quickly as it came. One week ago today, Tues day, 59% of the children were out of school; today, only 8% were ab. sent and most of these were little children kept home because of con tinued bad weather this morning. It was good to see all of their shining faces there along with the afternooon sunshine.. Dr. Glezen, epidemiologist sent here by the State Board of Health, left on last Friday’s mailboat to Atlantic, taking with him cultures which in due time will disclose the type of virus flu he found here. Most people who had it aren’t much concerned with the type; they are simply glad it is over with. Nurse Kathleen Brag is up and about again, and her mother, Mrs. Laura Bragg, is recuperating. Postmis tress Mrs. R. W. Howard and her assistant, Miss Leia Howard, are back at their post The school jan itor, John Thomas O’Neal, is again wielding the big brooms. Clerks in the stores are back at work. Little See FLU, Page Four FORMER SEAFARING MAN SEEKS OFFICE IN DARE jIBb Wife JTWT.; ROBERT LEE MIDGETT of Man teo, age 37, former seafaring man, native of Manns Harbor, has filed in the race for Register of Deeds of Dare County, subject to the Democratic primary on May 31st. Races for other offies are expect ed to materialize before the last date for filing on April 15. Melvin R. Daniels, incumbent Register of Deeds, and C. S. Meekins, Clerk of Court have also filed for re nomination. undue commotion. And it was a mighty big re lief to the farmer needing help when we descended from the “high plateau” to the middle one. I’ll never fergit when we made that change-over. I stopped a fel low I knowed and asked him if he’d like to do some wrok fer me. He stood still until I got plum through talking to him afore he said “no” and walked off. Back in the “high plateau” days he wouldn’t even have stop ped to listen. So I ain’t too shore, Mister Editor, if this "slight recession” is going to be bad or good fer us. I see where a feller from Chi cago is so disgusted with the way Congress is running the country that he aims to try to cross Lake Superior over to Can ada in a barrel). Somebody ought to give this feller a good talking to, appeal to his patriotism. In the first place, we’re short on barrels in this country, and in the second place, he ought to stay here and take his medicine with the rest of us. The best writers in the coun try, Mister Editor, ain’t working on newspapers. They is working as press agents fer resort towns in Florida. I saw a picture of a bathing beauty in the paper Sun day, and under the picture they was just these words: “Brown, Bare, and Beautiful.” Now that’s what I call sharp-shooting with a typewriter. Tours truly, Unde Sam MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1958 SATURDAY'S DARE 4-H TALENT SHOW WINNERS inu i i,h i ! i ii i i i I v 'yl I It 2 <*l I I I I ™ I TkOf /il 1 1 I I > L. t 4? I Villi Ik wK ML. vn /' * J !■■■■ B AJi <WaI ■ Ims i Oily 'X ■ I v 'Maw WalK B I WINNERS in the Dare County 4-H talent show held at Manteo High School auditorium on Saturday under the direction of Farm Agent Jim Rea and Home Agent Fran Alexander are shown above. From left to right, they are: Bill Taylor of Manns Harbor, emcee; Jan Oneto of Nags Head; Mary Faye Rogers, Nancy Midgett, Nancy Cole Basnight, all three of Manteo; Carol Harris of Nags Head; and Della of Manteo. They will go to Washington, N..C., in June to compete in 4-H district talent con tests. (Aycock Brown photo) LOST COLONY TRYOUTS FOR AREA'S RESIDENTS TO BE HELD SATURDAY Director Clifton Britton will hold local tryouts for Lost Colony roles at Manteo Saturday afternoon, April 5, at 3 o'clock, it was stated today by Dick Jordan, general manager of the drama, which is to begin its 18th season in Waterside Theatre at Fort Raleigh on June 28. The tryouts are scheduled to be held at Waterside Theatre, but in the event of rain or weather un favorable for open-air auditions, they will be held indoors at the Manteo High School Auditorium. Although many principal speak ing roles have already been assign ed, there will be jobs for some 60 or more local or area persons who would like to hove parts as colon ist men or women, Indian braves or maidens, milkmaid and Indian dancers, heralds, pages, flower girls, Indian and colonist children, Elizabethan soldiers and royal courtesans. Local dancers selected in the Saturday tryouts will be given fi nal auditions under the direction of Walter Stroud, who will have charge of Lost Colony choreog raphy during the coming season in addition to playing the important role of Uppowoc, the Indian medi cine man and dancer. “We would like to make it clear that, while the tryouts to be held on Saturday are termed as local, the drama’s producers would wel come applicants for the roles to be ; filled from all Dare coast commu nities and from other northeastern North Carolina towns,” said Jor dan, who explained that if there were persons in the Elizabeth City or Norfolk areas, in Hyde County, , Belhaven or other mainland sec- See COLONY, Page Four TOWN BOARD APPOINTS ZONING MEMBERS AT KILL DEVIL HILLS The Kill Devil Hills town board on Tuesday night appointed' two persons to fill vacancies on the Zoning Board, namely Ira Part ridge, and Dan Harris, two of the original and most vigorous workers to get the town charter abolished. Their duties should be light, since both men have vigorously opposed zoning of any kind. The Board received bills for SBOO for the fees of the lawyers em ployed in connection with the re cent town election. SCHEDULE OF CHEST X-RAY SURVEY IN DARE COUNTY Dr. W. W. Johnston, District Health officer, has announced the following schedule for chest X-ray service which will be available free through through this month to the people of Dare County: Manns Harbor, the Methodist Church, April 4; Wanchese, Ralph Tillett’s Store, April 5; Hatteras, Atlantic View Hotel, April 8-9; Buxton, High School, /April 10-11; Avon, opposite Seymore Gray’s, April 12; Manteo, opposite Chev rolet Service Station, April 15-16; Kill Devil Hills, Post Office, April 17; Kitty Hawk, Post Office, April 18. Hours 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. SCHOOL REGISTRATION Parents of children who will en ter Manteo school in the first grade next year are reminded by Principal W. H. Bunch of the reg istration Friday afternoon, April 4, in the school’s primary building, from one until 3:30. Birth certifi cates and health immunization cer tificates must be presented at'that tiine. EVENTS BOOSTING JAMBOREE ARE SET FOR NEXT WEEK Dances, TV Shows, Contests and Awards Arranged to Arouse Interest By AYCOCK BROWN Pre-Pirate Jamboree events dur ing the coming week include tele vision shows, the big bearded men’s banquet, and dances in Man teo, on Hatteras and at Nags Head. The Saturday night, (April 12) Jolly Roger Ball at Ras Westcott’s Nags Head Casino will be held to select the new 1958 pirate king and queen who will succeed Pat Bayne and Virginia Swain who have worn the buccaneer crowns since last April. . - . First of the scheduled events for the coming week will be on Tues day night when a special banquet will be served all bearded men. The banquet will be held at Jour ney’s End Restaurant at 6:30 o’clock on April 8. Announcements of this “payoff” to those who have grown beards for the Pirates Jam boree were forwarded this week by steering committee chairman Alvah H. Ward, who stated, “We did not intentionally leave anyone out on the invitations, and want all persons with beards to feel free to be present for the banquet.” On Tuesday afternoon, Manteo Rotary’s “Singing Pirates” under the direction of Dick Jordan will be featured on Joe Foulkes “Pano rama,” a WTAR-TV show sched uled for 3 o’clock on April 8. In addition to Jordan, Julian Oneto, Ralph Swain, Lawrence Swain and Johnny Long will do the singing on Foulkes program, there will be other costumed pirates on the show. On Thursday evening, April 10, Jordan and the singing pirates will retura to WTAR-TV to be guest performers on Laverne Wat son’s “Hometown Hoedown” show. Each of the television shows may be viewed without difficulty in the Manteo-Dare coastal area over Channel 3. There will be two pre-Pirate Jamboree dances on the Dare Coast Friday night, April 11. At Hatteras in the Community build ing it will be a costumed buccaneer event dancing to the tunes of live music by a combo made of U. S. See JAMBOREE, Page Four JUNIOR ROYALTY'S SUCCESSORS TO BE NAMED APRIL 11 ■B& a ucl *•»->’ V* J I ’ ; 1 4/ JHMM f - B DURING the Pirate Jamboree teen-age dance in Manteo High School gymnasium on Friday night, April 11, live music will be presented by The Sea Tones (Buccaneer Combo). This wlil be a costume dance and teenagers planning to attend must wear pirate costumes or a fair facsimile of same. High spot of the evening will be the selection of the pirate prince and princess. Last year’s junior royalty, shown above, were Prince Frankie White of Manteo and Princess Diane Tillett of Wanchese. (Photo by Brantley Brown) i _«4. ■ J OLDEST RESIDENT ACTIVE; LOOKS SERENELY ON LIFE if 1 . - . • ■ " MRS. CAROLINE MIDGETTE of Manteo, who observed her ninety first birthday on March 11th, has the distinction of being Roanoke Island’s oldest resident. She con tinues to be surprisingly active, however, and still performs chores that many women half her age shy away from. Mrs. Midgette has always lived an active life, having been married at 17 years of age and raised five children. She has also been a de voted member and supporter of the church, having joined the Meth odist Church while she was still a small child. Her loyalty to the church is demonstrated by her proudly telling that since her mar riage August 12. 1884, she has continuously subscribed to the North Carolina Christian Advocate without missing a single issue. The Advocate is only a portion of the large quantity of reading material that she regularly digests each week. She frequently sews, reads, and writes letters far into the night, but no matter how late she is occupied with other things, she will not retire without having com pleted her daily Bible reading. A siege of pneumonia last fall See RESIDENT, Page Four Single Copy 7# GOOD BUSINESS ON HATTERAS ISLAND FOR THIS SEASON Largest Number of Visitors Inci cated by Reservations and Weekly Inquiry List All signs are pointing up sharp ly for the biggest season this spring, summer and fall that Hat teras Island has ever known, and there are numerous reasons for expecting a lot of business. First of all, is the growing reservation list coming to the several hotels, motels, and operators of party fishing-boats. A large part of Hatteras Is land’s visitors are sportsfishermen, mostly men, and free-spenders. Some of them save up for months i for one of these jaunts at surf casting, or for off-shore fishing. For many years, devotees of this sport have been coming through out the winter and finding suitable weather for surfcasting in Decem ber, and even in January and Feb ruary. But during the past rough winter none of these regular visitors have been able to come down and enjoy their favorite sport. Fishing guides, operators of fishing cen ters and others believe as a result of what they have heard, that with rough weather letting up, the fish ermen will begin to come down the coast in large numbers, hastened of course by unusually liberal pre dictions of did time fishing prophets that conditions this year make for an unusually good season. Some concern is felt by fishing guides that when fishermen do break out, there will be so many of them all at one time that accom modations will be crowded, so more than usual preparations are being made. One brick motel, the Sea Gull, built last year by the Oden boys has been doubled in size, and now has several efficiency apartments. This motel is conveniently located near Hatteras village. George Fuller’s Cape Hatteras Court has been greatly improved with a new building containing a large lounge, office and living quarters, where guests may gather to enjoy TV. Complete information on im provements is not available this week, but it may be said that there has been general improvement in all tourist accommodations on the island, and several new mercantile establishments are being readied for service this season. Many of the courts are already open for business. As far north as Rodanthe on Hatteras Island, R. D. Owens has opened his Chicami comico Motel and Case. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Gibbs opened the Mirlo Beach Lodge this week, and will operate an old time, family-style, seaside boarding house with daily and weekly rates. Scotty Gibson’s Atlantic View Hotel and new restaurant at Hat teras are open this week, and much improvement has been made. The Blue Marlin Restaurant operated by the Edgar Styron family is opening in a day or- two. Already booked, for Capt. Styron’s party boats is a large party from the Norfolk Kiwanis Club on the 15th, and a still larger party from the Norfolk Cosmoplitan Club on April 30th. This confident spirit about the season now opening is liberally shared on Ocracoke Island, which constantly develops facilities for catering to tourists and sports men, as a result of the newly com pleted road, and the ferry which was established last year. The ferry did not go into full service until late in the season, but it is now well-known that one may con tinue all the way to Ocracoke over state-owned and operated toll-free ferries and a hard-surface road. K. D. H. SEAMAN AWARDED COVETED SILVER MEDAL FOR SAVING MAN FROM OCEAN When Chester Bpigidine ends his active career as a seaman in the U. S. Coast Guard today, he will carry with him a treasured mo ment©, the Silver Life Saving medal of the service, which was "resented to him on March 27th at Headquarters in Washington. Brigidine, who is a seaman in K. D. Hills Coast Guard station, swam out with risk to himself, in a rough sea on Sept. 10, 1967 and saved the life of Earl D. High tower, a guest of the nearby Ocean View Cottage court, and who had gone out too far and had become exhausted. ' A member of the Coast Guard reserve, he entered the service at Kill Devil Hills under Chief Shel- ua don O’Neal about three years ago, and this week will resume his re serve status. He is 21 years old, Anthony^Bi -igidi ne of A™* Mrfc
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