FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1958
DR. J. L. PIERCE IS MANTEO COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER;
THIRTY-FOUR SENIORS TO RECEIVE DIPLOMAS MAY 28
DR. J. L. PIERCE, of the
N. C. Department of Pub
lic Instruction, who will
deliver the commencement
address to the seniors of
Manteo High School on
Wednesday evening, May
28, at eight o’clock in the
school auditorium. Dr.
Pierce received his Bache
lor’s degree from High
Point College, his Mas
ter’s and PHD from the
of North Caro
lina, Chapel Hill. For
eight years he taught in
the public schools, and
acted as coach and prin
cipal. For 11 years he
was director of physical
education and athletics at
Elon College, and also
served two years with the
U. S. Navy. Since 1953 he
has been consultant in
Health and Physical Education for the state. He is married and has
three children, two sons and a daughter. ,
On that evening the invocation will be given by Frank White, Jr.,
of the senior class. The salutatory will be given by Carol Perry. A. O.
Ayers of the faculty will introduce the speaker and Principal W. H.
Bunch will present the diplomas. The valedictorian will. be Sandra
.Keller. Miss Holland Westcott will be accompanist and play the pro
cessional and recessional. ,
Members of the senior class are: Joan Austin, Saint Clair Bas
night, Jr., Helen Baum, Billy Best, Billy Biggs, Violet Bratton, Robert
Cholerton, Brian Daniels; Guy Daniels, Joan Daniels, Gary Dowdy,
John Etheridge, Jr., Donna Forbes, Barbara Gallop, Betty Bruce Inge,
Mike Jones, Sandra Keller, James McLeod, Myrdith Midgett, Vivian
-Midgett, Beckie Moulson, Mike Payne, Margaret Pearce, Carol Perry,
Sandra Robinson, Janice Scarborough, Lawrence Swain Jr., Ernie Til-
Rett, Marshall Tillett, Jr., Melvin Twiddy, Jr., David Wescott, Janet
[Wescott, Lloyd Wescott and Frank White. Jr. ,
On Sunday night, May 25 the baccalaureate sermon will be deliver
ed by the Rev. L. A. Aitken of Manteo, who will be assisted in the
[service by the Rev. C. L. Warren of Wanchese, the Rev. W. E. Choler
fon of Manteo, and the Rev. George M. Kelley of Stumpy Point,
r On Monday night. May 26, the seniors will put on a Class Night
Lntertainment entitled “Feather of Gold”. All exercises will begin at
l ight o’clock.
SUXTON MAN CHAIRMAN OF
GOV’T MANAGEMENT BOARD
Carl S. Pate, husband of the
'ormer Miss Eula Gray of Buxton,
*J. C., recently was elected chair
nan of the Trades Management
>oard at the U. S. Army Engineer
Research and Development Labor
itories, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
The Laboratories are the princi
pal field agency of the Corps of
Engineers for the research and de
velopment of new material, meth
sis, and techniques required for
pilitary operation. The Trades
Management Board is an organi
ation of Wage Board or “blue
pilar” employees who are privi
pged to recommend to the Direct
or of the Laboratories, for his
kinsideration, suggestions con
eming safety, improvements to
pcilitiep, etc.
A native of Ivanhoe, N. C., he
t tended high school in Kelly, N. C.
Ke served six years in the Navy,
ntered Civil Service in Septem
er, 1950, and came to the Labora
pries at Fort Belvoir in July, 1952.
Ke is presently employed in the
unitary Engineering Branch of
lie Military Engineering Depart
ment. Mr. and Mrs. Pate are the
|arents of two daughters, Carole
Ind Shirley. They reside at 1021
lolumbia Drive, Alexandria, Vir
|inia.
IRIZELLE ANDREWS’ PARTY
1 TSES MICKEY MOUSE MOTIF
I Grizeile Gray Andrew’s, daughter
I' Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Andrews of
lanteo, entertained at a party last
Iriday on her first birthday. The
Luse was decorated throughout
lith a Mickey Mouse and Friends
lotif.
I The dining table held a three
lered pink cake with a large white
lindle at one end and a lollipop
l-rangement at the other. Balloons,
Bits and suckers w’ere favors.
I Each guest was served ice cream
lid a cupcake holding a lighted
Indie.
I Among those present were R. V.
■wens 111, Clarence Lee Gibbs, Jr.,
lobin Marie Rogers, Kristyn and
lommy Fearing, Malcolm and
lean Fearing, and Holly Meekins.
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DARE SCOUTS TO ATTEND
CAMPOREE AT CAMP PERRY
The Scouts and leaders of Dare
County will participate in the an
nual Albemarle District Camporee,
May 23. 24, and 25 at Camp Perry.
The Camnoree will test the skills
and fetes of the Scouts in camping,
cooking, health and sanitation,
equipment, effective use of the
campsite, participation in the pro
gram and activities, and properly
cheekng in and out.
Saturday night at 8 p.m., there
will be featured a special camp
fire to which all the parents and
friends of Scouting are cordially
invited.
According to Gene Trautwein,
District Scout Executive, Dare
County has added two new Scout
Troops, one at Avon, sponsored by
the churches of Avon and at Hat
teras, sponsored by the First Meth
odist Church. This will mark the
first time that Scouts of Hatteras
Island participated in a District
Camporee, he added.
Troop 165, sponsored by the Mt.
Olivet Methodist Church, won two
red ribbons last year and hope to
bring home a blue ribbon. Jack
Earle of Manteo has done out
standing work with Manteo boys.
Troop 161, sponsored by the
Kitty Hawk P.T.A., is under the
leadership of Jack Twiford and
Wade Register. Trop 161 last year
won a yellow and a red ribbon.
Dare County Scout Official, Jul
ian Oneto, pointed out that there
are over 80 Boy Scouts in the four
troops, and that Rev. George Kel
ley is planning to organize a troop
in Stumpy Point.
The following big Scouting event
will be the camping out at the new
high adventure camp near Surry,
Va. on the James River. Among
the regular events there will be in
structions in swimming, life sav
ing, boating, camping and hiking.
The program of Boy Scouting in
Dare County is maintained through
the support of the Scout Fund
Drive.
SEA EXPLORERS TO JOIN IN
CAMPOREE AT CAMP PERRY
The Sea Explorers of Manteo
Troop 165 will leave this week end
as a service unit to the District
Camporee of the Tidewater Coun
cil. The group will be under the
guidance of Doug Crutchfield, as
sistant Scoutmaster.
The Sea Explorer Crew is to be
sponsored into a full Sea Scout
Ship by the' Manteo Lions Club,
according to Melvin Jackson, ship
chairman.
DANCE RECITAL FRIDAY
NIGHT, MAY 23, IN MANTEO
A dance recital by the pupils of
Mrs. Virginia Miller of Engelhard
will be given at eight o’clock Fri
day evening, May 23, in the Man
teo school auditorium. Those tak
ing part will be from Manteo, En
gelhard and Columbia. i
Among the Manteo dance stu
dents taking part will be Mary B.
Rea, Susan Meekins, Jane Cutrell,
Roxanne Jackson, Isabel Turner,
Kathy Roush and Linda Jordan.
Adult members taking part will
be Stella Green and Edna Cuthrell.
The affair is being sponsored by
the Manteo Woman’s Club, which
organization will use proceeds to
aid the scholarship fund.
COASTLAND EARLY
INDUSTRY MAY BE
RECONSTRUCTED
The Old Wihd-Mill on Hatteras
Island Began Business 235
Years Ago
By AYCOCK BROWN
Manteo, N. C.—Long-planned
restoration and continuation of the
Coastland’s oldest industrial estab
lishment will take a long step to
ward reality this week when Al
bert Q. Bell, who restored. Fort
Raleigh on Roanoke Island and,
more recently, colonial stuctures
on Jamestown Island in Virginia,
goes down to Hatteras Island for
a detailed look at what remains
>f the wind-powered grist mill that
began grinding corn at Kinnakeet
in the year 1723.
Little except the mill-stones,
imported from the West Indies in
1720, will be found but throughout
the neighborhood he will find a
score of older residents" of the
community who remember the an
cient mill vividly and he will find
a scale model of the structure it
self, with its 36-foot sail “Wheel”
that for nearly two centuries dom
inated the skyline of the village.
In the course of time, ten other
but similar establishments were
built on the island.
Authority for the establishment
of the facility was granted by the
Governor and His Council at a
meeting on a plantation in Pas
quotank County in 1715, thirteen
years before North Carolina was
formally established as a separate
province under the British crown.
Under the resolution passed on
that November day other mills
were established at many points
along the North Carolina coast
and at one time at least five such
plants were in operation at what
became known as Windmill Point
in Camden County.
Neither corn nor wheat have
ever been grown along the islands
of the Outer Banks of North Caro
lina but from their earliest his
tory there were populous villages
in need of bread. Even before 1715
there had spring up a brisk trade
between these villages and the
mainland plantations where dried
fish could be traded for grain.
But a mill to grind it was needed,
and by 1723 the first of them was
in operation.
There followed a brisk trade
between these villages and the
West Indies where most of the
mill-stones in use here were quar
ried, a point that has been veri
fied by U. S. Bureau of Standards
after examination of chips of rock
founds on Hatteras Island. The
stones are of volcanic origin, most
ly from Martinique, whose Mont
Pelee belched up lava that cooled
for generations before it was
quarried for use here.
History of the grist mill business
on the islands of the Outer Banks
was developed by Ben Dixon Mac-
Neiil in the decade that he has
devoted to research into the folk
lore of the region that is set down
in his forthcoming book, “The Hat
terasman” which is scheduled for
publication early in June. Bell and
Mac Neill have been close friends
since the Fort Raleigh resoration
period and they will again be in
collaboration on the windmill
project on Hatteras Island.
Earlier this year Mac Neill, with
the help of his neighbors, retrieved
the stones, which weigh more
than one ton, from the shallow
waters of Pamlico Sound off Avon
and they are presently taking the
weather outside his cottage on the
Point of Cape Hatteras. All of the
early mills were on the sound side
of their communities, near to the
docks where mainland corn was
unloaded. The years have eroded
the shore the length of the island ;
and the site of every mill is now,
under water.
The oldest of these plants, i
known variously by the names of
the families that owned it through
its two centuries of existence as
the Miller-Scarborough-Gray mill, 1
was badly damaged by the August
storm of 1899 but continued in I
operation until erosion—and the
replacement of wind-power by gas
oline—razed it about 1906. These
are the stones that have been re
trieved from the sound.
On their recent visit to Hat
teras Island at the time of the
dedication of Cape Hatteras Na
tional Seashore, Governor Luther
Hodges of North Carolina, Paul
Mellon of Pittsburg and Washing
ton, Conrad Wirth, Director of the
National Park Service, Huntington
Cairns and Admiral H. C. Moore
of the U. S. Coast Guard spent
some time at the Mac Neill house
and inspected the stones and the
working scalp-model of the ancient
structure that housed them. Both
Mellon and Hodges were keenly
interested in the project.
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