VOLUME XXIII NO. 41
CONTRACT LET FOR
HARBOR AT BUXTON
AND MILL LANDING
Dare Commissioners Approve sl,-
710 Expenditure to Dig Canals;
One Job Rescinded
TTie Dare County Board of
Commissioners have approved the
awarding: of contracts totaling
$r,710 for two harbor improvement
projects, one at Wanchese and one
at Buxton. The bids on the proj
ects were opened and the contracts
approved at a meeting Tuesday
which was attended by all the
commissioners, Chairman C. C.
Duvall, E. P. White, H. F. Perry,
Newcomb Midgett, and Lawrence
Swain.
The board also decided to meet
as a Board of Equalization and Re
view on April 28 and directed that
notices regarding the Board of
Equalization and Review be pub
lished April 11, 18, and 25 in the
local newspaper.
Twe appointments made by the
commissioners were Arnold Dan
iels of Wanchese as county oyster
bottom inspector and Fred Trew
of Manteo as county Civil Defense
director. Mr. Daniels succeeds
Floyd Hooper of Stumpy Point,
who resigned, and Mr. Trew, for
mer assistant Civil Defense direc
tor, sueeeeds Robert K. Gunn, who
had also resigned.
The contract for the harbor proj
ect at Buxton was awarded to Sam
Liverman, who submitted a low
bid of $1,285. The board instructed
that he not commence any digging
until notified that the county has
received a deed for the land
throogh which the canal runs. N.
F. Jennette promised the board at
the March meeting that he would
deed to the county the land nec
essary for a harbor about 250
yards long. The board provided
that Mr. Liverman be paid one
half the amount of his bid upon
completion of the project and the
balance after Jan. 1, 1958.
A contract for the deepening of
the Mill Landing harbor at Wan
chese went to Horace G. Hdyman
at a bid of $425. This job is not
to be started until after July 1,
1958.
The board Tuesday reescinded a
former resolution authorizing the
deepening 'and widening of the
canal at the Wanchese wharf be-
See CONTRACT, Page Four
THAD~iuRE~DisCUSSES
GOVERNMENT BY PARTY
Secretary of Stele Wes Guest Speaker
for Young Democrats et Kitty
Hawlc Saturday Night
Despite several other meetings
previously scheduled in the same
locality, a fair size crowd turned
out to the Kitty Hawk school
building Saturday evening to hear
an address by Secretary of State
Thad Eure, who is always a pop
ular speaker in the coastland. Mr.
Eure ■spoke on Government by
Party, and reminded his audience
that when they broke ranks and
voted for one man outside the par
ty, they were really voting for the
Republican party. There seems to
be no 6uch thing as voting for the
man, when that man is part of the
party, and our government is par
ty government.
Mr. Eure didn’t remain over
night, as it was his late father’s
birthday anniversary, and he re
turned to his old home in Gates
ville to spend Easter and attend
church services with his sister.
Many attended the meeting from
Manteo, including C. S. Meekins,
Clerk of the Court; Frank Cahoon,
Sheriff; Lawrence Swain, Commis
sioner; other officials attending
were Commissioner Chairman
Claude Duvall, and Commissioner
Perry of Kitty Hawk.
'One of the state’s most popular
officials and a Gates County na
tive, Thad Eure has served as Sec
retary of State since December 21,
1936, having been elected to that
office six times for four-year
terms. Active in politics all his
life, he first served in public office
when he was elected Mayor of
Winton in 1923 at 24 years of age,
shortly after receiving his law de
gree from the University of North
Carolina in 1922. He also served
as County Attorney for Hertford
County for eight years and as a
member of the House of Represen
tatives for one term. He was Prin
cipal Clerk of the House of Repre
sentatives for four sessions, prior
to his election as Secretary of
State. Mr. Eure was also the key
note speaker of the 1950 Demo
cratic State Convention.
Saturday night’s rally was one
of a series being held this year by
the Young Democrats of Dare, who
are currently evidencing an unus
ual revival of interest throughout
the county. Previous rallies at
Stumpy Point and Rodanthe have
attracted some of the state’s top
officials apd poliicians, and have
been well attended.
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During the Jolly Rogers Ball at Nags Head Casino on Saturday
night, April 12, the new 1958 Dare Coast Pirate Jamboree royalty will
be selected to succeed Pirate King Pat Bayne *and Queen Virginia Swain
shown above, whose buccaneer reign ends on April 24. On that date, as
a finale of the afternoon program of Cape Hatteras National Seashore'
dedication at Coquina Beach, Governor Luther H. Hodges will crown
the new 1968 king and queen, who are chosen during the Jolly Rogers
Ball. (Dare County Tourist Bureau photo).
NAGS HEAD RADAR
UNIT TO CONDUCT
DEMONSTRATIONS
Jamboree Visitors See Work, Tour
Quarters and Hear Lectures
on Missiles
Open house will be held by the
U. S. Army Radar Detachment at
Nags Head during the Pirate’s
Jamboree celebration April 24th
through the 27th, according to
Lieut. W. T. Carney, the officer in
charge. This unit of 12 men, which
has been housed for the past two
years in the former Nags Head
Coast Guard Station will be on the
job throughout the period to show
visitors the functions of the radar
program. * : ” * • -
The 38th Missile Battalion
of Deep Creek, Va. will dem
onstrate the training of the
Nike Ajax. Visitors will see radar
at work on the air, make a tour of
the quarters and hear a lecture on
missiles.
Lieut. Carney, commanding offi
cer, has been in charge here for
four months, and is only 23 years
old. He is a native of Bayshore,
Long Island. He is unmarried, and
of his 12 men, only three of them
are married and two of these live
in Manteo.
SENATE CONFIRMS SHANNON
AS POSTMASTER OF MANTEO
The name of Ben F. Shannon
41, of Manteo, was among the list
of candidates for postoffices con
firmed by the Senate last week.
The application for Manteo post
master has been pending several,
years. Mr. Shannon was named
acting postmaster several months
ago, shortly following the resig
nation of acting postmaster Ray
W. Jones.
Manteo’s new postmaster has
been working in the postoffice as
as a clerk since April 1947. \He is
a graduate of Manteo High School,
and served four years in the Coast
Guard in the Jacksonville, Fla.
area, and later during the war was
a civilian employee of the Navy for
three and a half years at the Man
teo Airport. Mrs. Shannon is the
former Lula Rogers of Kitty Hawk,
and they have a son, Roger, 21
years old.
MRS. ELIZA TWINE TO BE
90 YEARS OLD FRIDAY
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Mrs. Eliza Twine of Manteo, who
resides at the Restover Tourist
Home on County Street, will be 90
years old Friday, April 11. She is
active for her age, walks downtown
to the postoffice and stores. She is
the widow of the late James Twine
of Manteo, and has a son, Elisha
R. Twine, living in Baltimore. She
is a lifelong resident of Roanoke
Island, and her father was the late
Samuel T. Forbes, who lived near
Skyco.
OPEN HOUSE TO ALL FRIENDS
Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Etheridge
of Manteo will celebrate their Gol
den Wedding anniversary on Tues
day, April 22 with open house,
between the hours of four and sev
en in the afternoon. No invitations
are being mailed, for all their
friends are welcomed, and it Is not
expected that gifts will be brought.
The observance is mainly to take
advantage of many old friends not
often seen, and a cordial invitation
is being extended to all.
SIX PRIZE WINNING
CHANNEL BASS WERE
TAKEN ON HATTERAS
Manteo, N. C. Six out of 10
prize winning channel bass taken
along the Atlantic coast during
the past year were landed by ang
lers fishing the surf of Hatteras
Island. One champion, bass was
taken at Nags Head, one at Ocra
coke and two on the Eastern Shore
of Virginia.
Announcement of the prize win
ners was made today in a national
contest sponsored each year by-
Field and Stream Magazine, which
for record game fish of America
is the most official of all contests.
Miss Amelia Bailance of Buxton
won the SIOO first prize in the
channel bass class with her 63-
pounder taken last October 31. Her
fish had also become a new 30-
pound line test and a new all tac
kle record for women.
Another Buxton angler, William
Alfred Gray, a retired Coast
guardsman on November 3, reeled
in a 61-pounder from the Cape
Hatteras surf to establish a new
world record for 20 pound test
line. His prize was SSO. Harold
Gray of Avon with a 60-pounder
taken on November 9, from the
surf near Avon on Hatteras Is
land, won a SSO third prize, while
Ernest M. Jordan and Fred E. Ed
wai-ds each landed 59-ponueds to
win $25 fourth and fifth prizes.
Jordan’s channel bass was taker
from the surf at Ocracoke while
Edwards landed his during the
Spring of 1557 while fishing from
a boat in Hatteras Inlet.
Other fish winning honorable
mention in the Field and Stream
contest in the channel bass class
included a 5814-pounder by Jack
Schaaf at Cape Hatteras: a 58 and
1/8-pounder bv Lester T. Davis at
See FISH, Page Four
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UNCLE SAM FROM SYCAMORE WRITES:
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
says she’s as mad as a hornet
about some Idaho potatoes show
ing up at a Air Force base In her
state of Maine. She’s doubly
shook up, she says, because this
•is the second time it’s happened,
and because the base is located
in Aroostook County, center of
the Maine potato industry.
If she’ll look into it she’ll
probably find that all the pota
toes at Air Force bases in Idaho
come from Maine. As long as
she’s been in the Guvemment
she ought to know this is stand
ard procedure in our armed
forces. Our military bases in
Italy git their spaghetti in cans
from New York and in Alaska
they probably git their Eskimo
pies from Hoboken, New Jersey.
The' boys in the Pentagon like to
keep things moving, Margaret.
I see by the papers where a fa
mous London tailer announced in
New York that cuffs on men’s
pants was going out of style. I
got sad news fer that feller.
Here in this country we’re going
to have cuffs on our pants even
if we have to do without Geritol.
I’d as soon git caught in my
neighbor’s hen house as to sit
caught on the street with no
cuffs on my britches. B6ck when
we was fighting Germany and
Japan, the War Production Board
got away with cutting a couple
inches off our shirttail but they
didn’t have no success in taking
the cuff off our pants.
MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1958
SCHOOL CALENDAR ,
FOR COMING YEAR
ADOPTED IN DARE
Group of Teachers for 1958-1959 ,
Also Approved by County
School Board Tuesday
The adoption of a school calen
dar for the 1958-1959 school term
and the approval of a group of
teachers and janitors elected by
the various school committees for
1958-1969 were among major items (
before the Dare County Board of
Education at its meeting in Man
teo Tuesday. Mrs. Mary L. Evans,
superintendent, presented to the
board members a list of next year’s
needs for the various schools as
compiled by school committees and
principals; this information will be
studied by the board in prepara
tion for the meeting to be held
on Monday, May 5, at which time
the 1958-1959 school budget will
be prepared.
With several vacancies still re
maining to be filled, the list of
teachers approved by the board
Tuesday was as follows:
Manteo: Mrs. Lucy T. Willis,
Mrs. Etta Baum Midgett, Mrs.
Frances Allen Leggett, Mrs. Essie
N. Westcott, Mrs. Bertie S. Ward,
Mrs. Mary D. Meekins, Mrs. Grace
W. Hooper, William White Tar
kington, Wayland H. Fry, Clar
ence H. Butler, Mrs. Maggie D.
Cannady. P. D. Mavrommatis, Mrs.
Goldie H. Meekins, Mrs. Matilda
i E. Inge, A. O. Ayers, and W. H.
Bunch, principal.
I Cape Hatteras: Mrs. Clovadel B.
i Montgomery, Mrs. Violet G. Aus
j tin, Mrs. Inez D. Austin, Mrs. Enna
M. Scarborough, Mrs. Hilda B.
; Brown, Joel C. McCurry, and
5 Charles P. Gray.
Wanchese: Mrs. Milah P. Meek
, ins, Mrs. Louise H. Tillett, Mrs.
Cleopatra Daniels, and C. D.
Wag-staff, principal,
j Kitty Hawk: Mrs. Leona P.
Rogers, principal; Mrs. Irene B.
' Midgett, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Atkins,
' and Mrs. Hazel S. McLean.
1 Roanoke: J. A. Dempsey, princi
• pal; Mrs. Eva A. Bethea, and Mrs.
i Lillian T. Boone,
i Janitors-approved were: Manteo,
- Lloyd Meekins, Lizzie Barber;
r Kitty Hawk, Clyde Beacham; Wan
- chese, Everett Hickman, Alethia
- Hickman; and Roanoke, Arthur
Carver.
l 1958-1959 School Calendar
Schools are scheduled to open
1 See SCHOOL, Page Four
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V DARE RECORDER HOLDS
t LIGHT SESSION TUESDAY
3 •
r On a charge of being drunk on
s the highway, Bobby Sanford Jones
-of Chocowinity was fined $25 plus
e costs of court Tuesday in Dare
- County Recorder’s Court by Judge
» W. F. Baum. Other cases handled
i. Tuesday, all submissions, included
- Leon Morgan, Manteo, disorderly
e conduct, sss fine and costs.
e Moses Elbert Peterson, Swan
l Ouarter, careless and reckless
driving, $25 fine and costs,
e Thomas Jarvis Etheridge 111
i Portsmouth, Va., speeding 65
s m:D.h., $lO fine and costs.
i Kelly Lloyd Bowser, Harbinger,
1 operating a motor vehicle with im
t proner equipment (lights), $5 fine
and costs.
I was reading yesterday where
some car insurance company
down in Georgia won’t insure a
driver that hangs rabbit tails,
squirrel tails, baby shoes, dice,
and such stuff on his car. They
figger that such fellers is off
their rocker and ain’t safe driv
ers. I’ve seen wimmen wearing
hats that looked like rabbit tails,
squirrel tails, baby shoes, dice,
and a vegetable garden all roll
ed into one. I can’t see how they
can logically insure one and not
the other. Fer my money they
can keep 'em both off the high
ways, then maybe I could find a
parking place.
I was in town the other day
seeing about gitting some fertili
zer fer my spring planting and
this city feller was in there talk
ing about planting a garden this
year. City folks git all mixed up
in the difference between plant
ing a garden and working one.
The difference is about the same
as between sweat and perspira
tion. Us farmers sweat and you
city folks just perspire. The good
word sweat is in mighty low es
teem amongst you city garden
ers. You’ve been masquerading it
around as perspiration so long
that you think sweat is some
thing not to be mentioned in
the presence of ladies. If this
city feller ain’t figgering on
sweating a little on that garden
there ain’t no use in him plant
ing it.
Yours truly,
Uncle Sam
JAMBOREE PLANS 1
RAPIDLY SHAPING
FOR HUGE EVENT
Additional Attractions To Be Pro
vided This Year in Fourth
Annual Coast Festival
Alvah U. Ward, steering commit
tee chairman of the Dare Coast
Pirates Jamboree stated today that
the officer in charge of the U. S.
Army Radar Detachment at Nags
[Head, will hold an open house for
visitors each day during the Jam
boree from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. and
from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. “They will
also have on display with person
nel to explain its operation, a mod
ern Nike Ajax Training Missile,”
said Ward. Further details are
publshed elsewhere.
Other new attractions for the
Dare Beaches phase of the Pirates
Jamboree were announced this
week. To entertain children, as well
as adults will be at least one and
possibly several Shrine clowns.
They will appear at many of the
events planned and especially at
attractions where there will be
many children to enjoy the antics
of a clown.
Final plans for the forthcoming
Jamboree have been completed. Dr.
W. W. Harvey at the Journeys End
Restaurant banquet for bearded
men on Tuesday evening announced
that he would serve as chairman
-of the Grand Pirates Costume Ball
on Saturday night, April 26. He
will appoint his committee to help
with this event'which in the past
has attracted record breaking
crowds to the Nags Head Casino.
Approximately 50 costumed pi
rates, all with luxurious growths
‘ of beards were Jamboree guests at
the banquet which Bill Harrington
of Journeys End had prepared. Pi
■ rates from Hatteras to Manteo and
■ other sections of the county were
present.
The Manteo Rotary Club’s Pi
■ rate Jamboree quartet, under di
> rection of Dick Jordan, and King
Pat Bayne and Queen Virginia
■ Swain were featured on a half
■ hour television show produced by
WTAR-TV’s Joe Foulkes Tuesday
> aftesnoon. The quartet was sched
’ uled for another TV appearance as
■ guest singers on Laveme Watson’s
1 “Hometown Hoedown” Thursday
evening at 7 o’clock over the Nor
folk station.
Johnny Long in charge of pro
-1 during the Souvenir Program of
the Jamboree this year had placed
copy for same with Times Printing
Company this week and the first
of thousands of copies will be
ready for distribution during the
t coming week. In the meantime ap
-5 proximately 15,000 program hand
; bills have already been distributed
; in connection with the Jamboree
, and another 15,000 will be printed
i during the next few days.
Hatteras Island’s phase of the
See JAMBOREE, Page Four
, COUNTY OFFICES OPEN
FOR CANDIDATES THIS
YEAR IN DARE COUNTY
> The following offices are open
for election by the people this year
; in Dare County. The bigger ones
- pay well, and help is employed to
; do all the work:
County Representative, paid
from the State Treasury in Ital
’ eigh.
County Sheriff; pays $4,100 and
SI,BOO travel. Plenty of help.
. Register of Deeds, pays $4,100.
County hires the work done by ex
tra he’p.
Clerk Superior Court; Salary
SI,BOO, supplements paid from such
other tasks as may be assigned
by appointment. At present $4,100.
Recorders Judge: Sulary $125
per month.
Coroner, S2O per month.
County Commissioners: Chair
man gets sls a day, Board mem
bers sl2 a day, all get mileage. To
tal amount set up in this year’s
budget to run the board $3,540.
The above elective offices are
open this year, but there could be
many appointive jobs open with
a new administration, depending
on the choice of the officers who
appoint those who’ll fill them.
Saturday, April 19th, is the last
day to file for office. What is
done must be undertaken before
then, for in most cases, there will
je no opportunity for redress for
another four years.
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Manteo, N. C
DARE CITIZENS WAKING UP,
IF SOMEWHAT LATE, TO NEED
FOR COURTHOUSE CHANGES
Contests Assured in All Five Commissioner
Places and Candidates Making Decisions as to
Other Offices; Voters Now More On Their
Own and Resent Being Told How to Vote, May
Result in Big Turnover.
This week’i trends in the politi
cal field in Dare County indicates
the likelihood of a campaign in the
primary in which more interest
will be shown than in many a day.
Contests are assured in all races
for County Commissioner, and sev
eral other persons are making up
their minds, they state, about run
ning for other offices.
While it is generally conceded
that the need for County Commis
sioner changes is most important,
there are few people who are will
ing to spare their time and work
for this worthy cause. But citizens
are clamoring for neighbors, in
whom they have confidence to run
and try to get the county on its
feet, and restore the Government
to the people.
The people have finally waked
up to the fact that it is they who
pay all the bills for money that is
wasted and the high cost of gov
ernment and big salaries received
by some for little or no work.
They are tired of paying big
salaries to people who merely hold
office and in addition pay for the
help that does the work these offi
cials should do.
Many people are dubious about
their chances of winning office, be
lieving that elections can some
times he rigged against them, or
that they can be crushed out
through tactics of a ruthless poli
tical ring.
But times have changed a lot,
and today we do not see so much
of the old system where one or
two men in a community could
practically deliver its entire vote
to some smart office seeker. People
are well informed today, they can
do their own thinking, and they
resent being told how to vote and
who to vote for.
People are learning that all this
careless voting business in tho
past has proved to be mighty cost
ly, for it’s the people who pay for
these mistakes. They pay high
taxes to make up for the money
that is being wasted, and they
pay a gang to waste it, who do
not want the people to know what
it goes for.
May Hit The Jackpot
This looks like a year, for some
body who will work, to hit the
political jack-pot in Dare County.
It looks like a winning year for
someone who is capable otherwise,
to win one of the big paying jobs
if he will go seriously about win
ing. Big paving* job, is a term
used advisedly, for it must be
considered that office hours are
few, holidays are taken, and in
addition, the people-pay for some
one else to do all the work.
Strangely enough, some of the
officers say they can’t live on less
than what they get. One wonders
why they don’t go elsewhere for
more pay. The fact is,_ some of
them are getting twice' as much
as they could get at anything else
they might undertake. They have
retirement benefits, hospital bene
fits if desired, full pay when sick,
full pay any time they take a trip,
full pay for many holidays, and
full pay for short days. If a fam
ily of two people can’t get along
on $4,100 a year, then it is strange
how, with larger families, they got
along on half as much, and less,
before.
Pie ship is the right name for
most of the offices. A single of-
See POLITICS, Page Four
BISHOP THOMAS WRIGHT
TO VISIT DARE COUNTY
The RL Rev. Thomas H. Wright.
Bishop of the Episconal Diocese of
East Carolina, will visit Dare
County and St. Andrew’s congrega
tion at Nags Head Saturday and
Sunday.
The Bishop will preside and
preach at three services on Sun
day, the 18th: 8:00—Holy Com
munion, 10:00—Children’s Church
School. 11:00—Morning Prayer and
Sermon.
Bishop Wright will also adminis
ter the ancient Christian Rite of
Confirmation to prepared candi
dates after the manner of the Apos
tles as recounted in the eighth
chapter of the Acts of the Apostles
by the Evangelist Saint Luke.
All sincere and interested per
sons in the community are welcom
ed to attend and participate in the
services.
All members of the ongregation
■ire reminded of their “bounden
duty” to assemble and participate
• in these official acts of the church.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN
SEASHORE PARK
AREAS COMPLETE
Other Jobs Contemplated as Mis
sion 66 Moves Along on Dare
and Ocracoke Coasts.
Several items in the development
pregram of the Cape Hatteras Na
tional Seashore have been com
pleted and accepted by contracts,
according to Supt. Robert Gibbs,
this week. These projects accepted
this week are part of several hun
dred thousand dollars being spent
during the current fiscal year.
The new Pea Island Camp
Ground read at Oregon Inlet, and
the new Camp Ground road at
Cape Hatteras.
Plans are progressing toward a
project for temporary camping
facilities at Point of Beach, Hyt.
teras Inlet. The National Park
Service contemplates building here
a facility comparable with those
at Oregon Inlet and Hatteras
point, and are working toward a
1% mile road project from near
the Hatteras Inlet Lifeboat Sta
tion, to the point, with a large
parking area.
Park Service officials are aware
that the program for attracting
more tourists will demand increas
ing ferry service, and negotiations
are being made to find more Navy
craft whereby the State may im
plement the present service.
WIDOW OF A FORMER DARE
REGISTER OF DEEDS DIES
Capa Hattaras Woman Wat Wife of
George Bailey Who Served in 1919
Mrs. Terrah B. Bailey, 78, died
Tuesday night at 9:05 o’clock in
the Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth
City, following a long illness.
She was a native of Buxton in
Dare County and had lived -in Eliz
abeth City for about 40 years and
at the time of her death, resided
at 308 West Fearing Street. She
was the daughter of the late Jo
seph and Cynthia Jennette of
Cape Hatteras and widow of
George T. Bailey, who served a3
Register of Deeds in Dare County
in 1918, when the couple lived in
Manteo.
She is survived by two sons,
Lloyd U. Bailey of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Robert Vance Bailey of
Elizabeth City; one sister, Mrs.
D. F. Jennette and one brother,
N. F. Jennette, both of Buxton.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock in
the chapel of the Twiford Funeral
Home by the Rev. 0. Kelly In
gram, pastor of the First Metho
dist Church of which she was a
member. Burial was in Hollywood
Cemetery.
E. CARLTON KELLY, 57. A
GREAT OCRACOKE CITIZEN
E. Carlton Kelly. 57, a man who
loved Ocracoke Island and who
was beloved of his people was
found dead in his home Thursday
morning by a neighbor who had
gone over to pay him a call. Capt.
Marvin W. Howard learned on go
ing into the house, that Mr. Kelly
had apparently died in his sleep
some hours before. His death was
a shock to the community, since he
had been in apparently wonderful
health and spirits the day before.
Mr. Kelly was born on Ocracoke
Island, the son of the late Capt
and Mrs. William Kelly. His
mother was one of the noted How
ard family. In his youth the fam
ily moved to Belhaven, and later
to Norfolk where he spent many
y§ars. Some 15 years ago, he re
turned to Belhaven. and established
his residence at the old Howard
homestead.
Mr. Kelly was a most interesting
and .likeable man. He had rare
gifts in art and music, and his
collection of antiques in his island
home made it a show place which
many visitors desired to see. He
was civic-minded, and a member
of the Men’s Community Club*, and J)
he was a Mason. He had also
served as a member of the N. C.
Cape Hatteras Seashore Commis
sion.