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VOLUME XXIV NO. 14 MANY FROM AREA' PLAN TO ATTEND RALLY IN AHOSKIE Hertford County Town to Be Host to First District Coun ties This Time Many people from Dare and Tyr rell Counties are expected to join with the other dozen counties of the Ist Congressional District at the District Democratim Rally scheduled to be held in Ahoskie, Tuesday of next week, October 7th, 5:30 p.m. „ Congressman Herbert C. Bonner this week sent out letters to those who had attended former rallies, urging them to bring a large dele gation of the various precincts. The Congressman usually presides at the rally in his district, a Demo cratic party booster held in all districts of the state as a starter for the forthcoming campaign. Towns in the district take turns playing host. Chairman M. L. Dan iels in Manteo said this week he hoped a large crowd would go from Dare County in order to show party interest is high. It will be remembered that Dare went for Eisenhower two years ago, the active leading Democrats who long had enjoyed good jobs, doing nothing in the campaign to stir up interest and get out the vote. In Mr. Bonner’s letter, he had „ this to say: “Appreciating your interest in civic affairs as well as city, coun ty, state and national government, I hope, and invite you, to attend the First Congressional District Democratic Rally to be held in Ahoskie on Tuesday, October 7 at 5:30 p.m. at the National Guard Armory. “It is my personal feeling that you will enjoy meeting and being in association with your Congres sional Representative, your Gov-, emor, your two United States ■' Senators and other state officials, as well as your county Representa tives and Senators in the State General Assembly. There will also be county and city officials pres ent. At such a meeting as this you will be given an opportunity to understand the problems confront ing those who represent you in national, state and other subdivi sions of government. “I am confident that your at tendance and participation at such a gathering will prove of great value both to you and to the peo ple whom you have helped elect > » to public office. A barbecue dinner will be served immediately after the business of the rally is com pleted. “I hope you will come and bring several of your friends with you.” The State Caravan, led by Hon orable Woodrow W. Jones, Chair man of the State Democratic Exe cutive Committee, Governor Hod ges, Senator Ervin, Senator Jor dan, the Counsel of State and John Larkin, National Democratic Com mitteeman, will attend the meeting . . . Hertford County is enthusias tic about this meeting and is de termined to make it one of the best rallies in eastern North Caro lina in many years. A free bar becue supper will be served at the Armory immediately after the business of the rally is completed. NEWS OF RECORDERS COURT IN DARE CO. , Cases in Dare Recorder’s Court Tuesday of this week were as fol lows: Ernest R. Ballance of Hatteras, and Horatio P. Beck of Rodanthe, for careless and reckless driving, each fined' $25 and costs. Robert Edwards of Marshville, improper passing, $5 and costs. Fines of $lO each and costs were taxed against William Earl Coop er, Manteo, improper equipment. Charles E. Sanders, Kitty Hawk, wrong side driving and improper equipment. John Israel Watson of Engelhard, improper equipment • and driving on wrong side of road. CARL D. MANN BUILDING MANNS HARBOR MARINA Carl Mann of Manns Harbor is building a marina on the south side of the west approach to Wil liam B. Umstead Bridge over Croatan Sound. A marine railway, a modern boat launching ramp, and facilities for fishermen, both sports and commercial, are to be completed by the summer of 1959. For sports fishermen he plans to have at least 28 boats ranging from row skiffs to cabin cruisers for rent to anglers and also provide bait, sell tackle and feature everything one would expect at a modern marina- T fishing center. SUPERIOR COURT OCT. 20 Judge William J. Bundy of Greenville, is expected to preside at the usual mixed term of Su perior Court which convenes in Manteo October 20th fqr the trial of civil and criminal cases. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA COMPLETE GUIDE BOOK OF OUTER BANKS OUT SOON | ' IBL ‘ ' • US The complete story of the Outer Banks—one of the most fabulous and unique regions in America— is told by David Stick in The Outer Banks of North Carolina, to be published on November 15 by The University of North Caroilna Press. This book covers for the first time the geography, the his tory, the people, and the legends of the entire area which stretches from the Virginia line to Beaufort. Present day descriptions of each of the Banks communities and their points of interest are included as a helpful guide for visitors. David Stick began working on The Outer Banks of North Caro lina more than ten years ago, studying old records and gathering material, collecting stories from coastal old-timers and reading old newspapers. He found so much material on shipwrecks that he disgressed to write the best-seller Graveyard of the Atlantic, pub lished by The University of North Carolina Press in 1952 and now in its fourth large printing. David Stick has lived on the Outer Banks since he was nine years old. He attended Elizabeth See STICK, Page Four WILLIE O. TWIFORD DIES AT K. D. HILLS Willie Otis Twiford, 57, son of a well known native coastland fam ily died September 30th at 5 p.m. after a short illness following sev eral years of declining health. He was a retired fisherman, the son of the late William Otis and Nellie Russell Twiford. He was born at Nags Head, Nov. 16, 1900, and had resided about 28 years at his present homeplace, Kill Devil Hills. He was the husband of Mrs. Pearl Hooper Twiford, and is sur vived by two daughters, Mrs. Caldwell Perry and Mrs. Hezekiah Payne of Kill Devil Hills. Also by three sisters, Mrs. M. G. Hollo- ■ well and Mrs. J. H. Midgett of I Nags Head and Mi's. Uriah Ful- ■ cher of Norfolk. The funeral was conducted at ' Twiford Funeral Home in Manteo Thursday at 2' p.m. by Rev. Frank Dinwiddie, Nags Head Baptist pastor, and by Rev. D. S. Moyer of Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church, Norfolk. Burial was in the family plot in Nags Head. Pall bearers were Walter Perry, Wal ter Gray, Eddie Reber, Avery Til lett, Charles M. Johnson and Hor ace Barnett. ERVIN MIDGETT DIES AND IS BURIED IN FLORDA Ervin E. Midgett 60, who passed away in a St. Petersburg, Fla. hospital Sept. 28th was the son of the late Jesse E. and Elvari Mid gett of Manteo, and had been a Dare County resident most of his life, moving to Florida about nine years ago, following his retirement after 29 years service in the Coast Guard. He had been a lifelong Methodist Death was result of a lingering illness from cancer. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Estelle B. Midgett, a son, Eddie; a brother, Willie Midgett of Man eo; two sisters, Mrs. Eulalia Mid gett of Manteo and Mrs. Ida An drews of Raleigh. He had been a member of the Oddfellows lodge 40 years. He was buried in Wood lawn Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg. MARSHALL SANDERLIN HURT Marshall Sanderlin, 49 of Man teo was admitted to Marine Hos pital for treatment for an appar ently broken leg which was sus tained Wednesday afternoon while pulling in a line aboard the tug boat in Norfolk, where he was captain. INJURED PLAYING BALL Philip Tillett, son of Mr. and Mrs. McCoy Tillett of Manteo, is a patient in Leigh Memorial Hos pital, Norfolk, Va., where he is re ceiving treatment for a kidney in jury sustained during football prac tice Tuesday afternoon. TIMBER COMPANY TO AGAIN ALLOW HUNTING IN AREA Abundance of Deer, Bear, Quail Reported from Sections of Four-County Area West Virginia Pulp and Paper .Company will again this year issue permits allowing the public to hunt on lands owned by the com pany in Dare, Tyrrell, Hyde, and Washington Counties'. Permits for the hunting season which opens in North Carolina on October 15, 1958 will be available on and after October 6, 1958 at the field headquarters at Manns Har bor and Gum Neck as well as at designated stores througout Dare and Tyrrell Counties. The fees for permits will be one dollar for the residents of Dare, Tyrrell, Hyde, and Washington Counties, North Carolina and five dollars for non-residents. To be eligible for a permit, a person must hold a hunting license issued by the State of North Carolina. Company built roads will be open to vehicles only on Saturdays se lected by the company and will be closed not later than one hour af ter sundown. For reasons of safe ty, hunting will not be allowed in certain posted areas where com pany operations are underway. There is reason to believe that game will be quite plentiful this year. Company employees have re ported seeing many deer in the Beechiands section of Dare County and in the vicinity of Southwest Fork in Tyrrell County. Quail ap pear to be very numerous on the cut-over land in the Kilkenny sec tion. There are reports of bear from all sections of the four-county area. Hunters and guides, too, can help in the conservation of game by seeing that bag limits are not ex ceeded, that hunting areas are ro tated and that good sportsmanship is observed in the field. All hunters are to carry their permits with them while hunting on company iands. Most of the company lands i may be identified by signs bearing! the company name and reading;! “Hunting Allowed by Permission! Only,” which have been posted in! cooperation with the North Caro- j lina Wildlife Resources Commis sion. The company would like to bring] to the attention of hunters the. changes of fire in the woods. Fires caused by carelessness can undo ini a few minutes much of the forest; rebuilding job that has been ac-l comp’ished in the last several years. 40 TARBORO BAPTISTS TO FISH THE WEEK END IN MANNS HARBOR AREA Manns Harbor.—Approximately 40 members of the adult Bible Class of the Baptist Church in Tar boro will pit their skill against the trout and croakei' of Croatan Sound on Saturday, it was an nounced today by Mr. and Mrs. W. S. White of the Croatan Motel here, where the group will make their headquarters. “The party will arrive Friday, spend the night at the Croatan motel and fish on Saturday from sir or more boats,” W. S. White reports. Hugh (Chick) Craddock, skipper of the party boat Lollipop, says the party should have good luck, if they have favorable weath er. Craddock has' reported some excellent catches of fish, mostly trout, by parties he has taken to Croatan Lighthouse waters recent ly- It will be the second time that the Tarboro Baptists have fished in local waters. A group of about 20 were here last Fall. Another Tarboro group, members of the National guard there, fished in Manns Harbor waters recently with good results, according to the Whites. SPECKLED TROUT AND PUPPY DRUM IN SURF Buxton.—Surf fishing was back to normal along the coast this week following the passing of Hurricane Helene which passed seaward some 40 miles south of Cape Hatteras. Whiting, speckled trout and a few puppy drum (baby channel bass) have been landed by anglers fishing here at the Cape, in the Avon and Hatteras Inlet area re cently. There were reports of sizeable channel bass, at least three, being caught in the surf near Waves and Salvo, but names of the ang lers who made the catch were not immediately available. On Nags Head Julian Oneto re ported exceptionally good catches from the three ocean piers of the Dare Beaches and they have been “doing right good” in the surf, he stated. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1958 x FURNITURE MAN BACK FOR 82nd BIRTHDAY SAMUEL W. TWIFORD, head of the funeral home business which bears his name, and of the Quinn Furniture Co., came back to Man teo October 1 to visit his friends and to observe his 82nd birthday. Mr. Twiford, who has been in Elizabeth City for a half century, is a native of Manns Harbor. He can look back on a full and busy life. CANCER UNIT FOR DARE COUNTY SET UP LAST WEEK Executive Committee Named With Mrs. Bridges Re elected President The Executive Committee of tho Dare County unit of the American Cancer Society held its first meet ing Wednesday September 24 for the purpose of organizing an ac tiveu nit in Dare County. The Executive Committee is composed of the following officers. President—Mrs. H. O. Bridges, Wanchese, First' Vice-President— Dr. W. W. Harvey, Jr. Second Vice-President—Mrs. Alvah Ward, Manteo, Campaign Chairman Mrs. Jack Twiford, Kitty Hawk, Secretary Mrs. Nevin Wescott, Manteo, and Treasurer—Mr. David Dickey, Manteo. In addition to the above officers, also present at the meeting was Mrs. Bert Tyson of Greenville, N. C., Field Consultant, whose suggestions and advice Were very helpful in getting a local unit or ganized. There will be a Board of Direc tors, composed of one or more rep resentatives in each community from civic clubs, government (Park Service, military services, etc.), industry, business, profes sional people, church groups, etc. This Board will have two meetings per year, fall and spring. The fall meeting will be held at Buxton School on November 5 at 7:00 o’clock. Mrs. Tyson, in explaining the functions of a cancer unit, told the Committee. “There are three phases of work with which a unit of this kind is concerned: educa tion, service and research.” She further stated that if the county has a local unit we will be per mitted to retain 40% of the funds collected during the crusade for use in the county. This year the quota set is $274.13 She also told of the many services a county unit can render to individuals, such as visiting nurse sendee, counseling service, transportation sendee, dressings, access to detection cen ters and other special assistance. Announcement was made of an oral cancer clinic to be held at Duke Hospital, Durham, and Me morial Hospital, Chapel Hill on Oc tober 10. Any one who i 8 inter ested may avail themselves of the services of this clinic. LELAND WISE TO HOSPITAL Leland Wise of Stumpy Point, member of the Dare County Board of Education was taken to Marine Hospital, Norfolk Wednesday and reported seriously ill. Cecil Guthrie of Manteo was taken to Norfolk General Hospital this week for treatment. ☆ ☆ ☆ National ☆ ☆ ☆ NEWSPAPER WEEK \ YOUR J OPEN HOUSE HELD AT NEW MANTEO SCHOOL BUILDING Attended by 500 Wednesday; PTA Sponsors Teacher For a Day Program on Oct. 21 Reflecting the interest shown by those attending the first Parent Teacher Association meeting of the year on Tuesday night, local residents have volunteered to be come “teachers for the day” on October 21, in order that faculty members of the elementary and high school may attend the north eastern district meeting of the N. C. Educational Association in Eliz abeth City. , An estimated 500 or more per sons were present for the new Manteo High School’s open house which preceded the PTA business meeting. For- the majority of those attending the open house it was their first glimpse inside the mod ern building completed recently at a cost of approximately $300,000. A total of 390 persons paid membership fees of 50 cents to be come members of the PTA which is believed to be an all-time rec ord for the number of persons to take part in the organization’s pro gram in this area. William Ernst, president of the PTA presided and one of the first items brought to attention of those in the crowd-packed auditor ium following devotional services led by Will Hofler was a cash gift of approximately $1,200 used to purchase chairs for the auditorium. He paid recognition and expressed appreciation on behalf of the PTA to the H. A. Crees family of Pio neer Theatre and to Andy Griffith, star of stage, radio, television and screen for the benefit showing of Griffith’s “No Time For Ser geants,” here recently which re sulted in the gift. Mrs. Raymond Wescott, of the finance committee presented a budget of $750.50 which was adopted as current and anticipated expenses to be borne by the PTA for the year. Os the total, $270 would be used for purchasing science equipment, a film strip machine, storage cabinets and other items for the elementary school. The high school’s share would include S3OO to be applied on the purchase of a cyclorama curtain for the auditorium stage with the balance being used on other expenses for which commit ments have been made, it was stated. Attention was called to the com mittee on ground beautification which has already been very active I in planting shrubs, grasses and supervising the cleaning up of the properties at the new high school. Special' attention was paid to the A. Q. Bells of Roanoke Garden for their interest in this project and others who have provided azalea plants or given their as sistance otherwise. The committee is composed of Mrs. Mose Bas night, Mrs. Will Hofler and Billy Tarkington of the school faculty. Mrs. Robert Gibbs, chairman of programs, gave a summary of some of the coming PTA-events, including a College Career Day planned for October 28 which will also be the date of the next meet ing of the PTA. The next meeting will be held at the Elementary School here. Plans for fund raising programs, but no Halloween Carnival, were See SCHOOL, Page Eight ERNST FAMILY LANDS WASH TUB FULL OF FISH William Ernst, with wife and three children really got in some good fishing in Croatan Sound Friday of last week. They caught 181 trout which filled a wash tub. Mr. Ernst says it’s the first time he has gotten such good fishing fun since he came here five years ago. Other reports from the sound are good. Chick Craddock of Manns Harbor reports that a fish ing party on Thursday in the same area landed 157 gray trout and 70 croakers. This group, fishing from Capt. Craddock’s Lollipop, includ ed Oliver, Robie, Tom and Don Page and Willard Wilson of Wil son, N. C. I PAST NOBLE GRANDS MEET The Past Noble Grand’s Club of i Manteo Rebekah Lodge No. 52 held its first fall meeting Friday, Sept 28, at the home of Mrs. Tracy > Ward, president. Plans were made for the call meeting of all Rebekahs to be held Thursday Oct 2 at 8 p.m. in honor of the State President, Mrs. Fay Gaskill, and several other State officers. Also, a discussion was held concerning the district meet ing to be held at Outer Banks Lodge Saturday, October 4. Mrs. Ann Basnight has invited all Past Noble Grands to her home at Salvo Friday October 24 to spend the day and hold the regular meeting. COMPARED TO OTHER STORMS HURRICANE HELENE TOUCHED BARELY ALONG OUTER BANKS Ocracoke Inconvenienced Most With Ferry Serv ice Disrupted; Roofs Blown Off a Few Hat teras Homes; Some Damage Reported in Cape Hatteras Area; Few Road Washouts; Cape Hatteras School Flooded. WILL SAIL FOR EUROPE ■-•fez. I • .Off- Mi; IR '■ . MRS. JULIA CULBRETH GRAY, owner and operator of the Doll Houses in Nags Head and Manteo, will sail from New York on Octo ber 18 for a trip to Europe. Mrs. Gray will tour the countries of England, Holland, Belgium, Lux embourg, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Monte Carlo, France and others. She will visit the World’s Fair in Brussels. Her return is planned for the middle of November. LARGEST SURF FISHING EVENTS ON DARE COAST By AYCOCK BROWN Nags Head.—Sanctioned by the International Association of Surf Angling Clubs, America’s largest surf fishing tournament and also the nation’s newest tourney will be presented here on the Dare Coast during late October. The first event, the seventh an nual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament, sponsored by the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club, will, be presented during the week end | of October 17-19; the second tour ney, on the following week end will be held on Hatteras Island under the sponsorship of the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club with head quarters at Buxton. George Sides, secretary-treas urer of the Nags Head Surf Fish ing Club stated this week that the Nags Head tourney, which has be come the nation’s largest surf fishing event, had already entered five-person teams from 36 clubs with others expected to enter be tween now and the opening date, making it the largest in the seven year history of the sponsoring club. James Scarborough of Nags Head and H. W. Shaner of Mar gate City, N. J., will be co-direc tors of the tournament here which will as in the past, feature inter club competition on Friday and Saturday and open individual com petition on Sunday. Headquarters for the tournament will again be The Carolinian Hotel, where Julian Oneto, the resident manager an nounced that social events with appeal to surf fishermen would be presented in the hotel’s Anchor Club each evening. Prizes will be awarded those in team competition at a banquet on Saturday evening. Harry Stel wagon, president of the Associa tion of Surf Angling Clubs will be here from his home in Philadel phia to direct the awarding of tro phies. This year as in the past, tro phies to be awarded will be valued at approximately SI,OOO. Prizes to persons winning in the individual competition will be awarded Sun day evening in the hotel’s Anchor Club. Hatteras Tournament Twelve teams already have en tered the Cape Hatteras club’s tournament with at least twice that many expected before opening day of October 23, it was reported by the Club’s president Edgar Hooper this week. The three day event of this newest tournament on the Atlantic coast, in an area far-famed for surf fishing, will end on Saturday evening, with a big banquet and the awarding of prizes and trophies. W. J. GRIFFIN ILL Manteo’s oldest citizen, W. J. Griffin, 98, is being treated in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Single Copy 7# Hurricane Helene on Saturday, was extremely light on the Walter ■Raleigh Coastland, particularly when compared to the storms of , three years ago. From Ocracoke Island Southward along the Carolina coast, the high est loss of property occurred. The loss in business will be great for a long time until traffic can be re sumed by road and ferry. Damage extended heavily in Southeastern N. C., and to Myrtle Beach, S. C. Southport was re ported worst damaged of all places. All sorts of wild estimates have been made, placing property dam aged at seven to ten millions in southeastern N. C. The coastal section comes in again for some bad advertising, since Governor Hodges has declared about 14 counties a disaster area, and has appealed for distress aid. As usual, the Red Cross has been asked to come down and give aid to an area which considers this organization lightly when the roll call rolls around. As one old beach comber stated, "Why should I buy storm insurance on my house, when the Red Cross will give me a new one? Included in the “disaster area” are the counties of Currituck, Dare, Tyrrell, Hyde, Beaufort, Pamlico, and Carteret. During the progress of the hur ricanb, trees were broken, some glass blown out, power and phone lines cut off, numerous asphalt shingles stripped, particularly those shingles which had not been properly cemented down. i While damage to buildings was small in the inland counties, the high winds created a great fi nancial loss by destroying crops not yet matured or harvested. Many farmers who had felt sure of a wonderful crop season already in the bag, have come in for much disappointment. Much Damage on Coast In our immediate coastland the place most inconvenienced by Hur ricane Helene, appears to be Ocra coke Island which suffered much wind-damage and unestimable loss of business when its road was torn up badly by tides, and the splendid motor ferry service has been inter rupted. Only one trip a day is now permitted. The boat leaves Hat teras Harbor at 7:30 a.m. each morning, and makes the long trip to Silver Lake, Ocracoke. Return ing, the boat leaves Ocracoke at 12 noon. Numerous boats have been dam aged or gone adrift. A yacht be longing to George Fuller of Bux ton was reported to have disap peared. Many trailers at Cape Hatteras were reported turned over. Some motels were damaged, and serious loss reported at the Tower Circle Motel of Buxton, when a damaged roof let rain in upon a motel nearly full of guests. The sound tide was reported eight or more inches deep in the new Cape Hatteras High School, considerable damage results from ruined tile, etc. This tide in the school building was no surprise to most of the people roundabout, who had freely predicted this is what would come about with the first storm. The school was built in a low place by a board of edu cation determined to locate it on this site, against repeated advice of many citizens. Damage at other points in Dare County was nominal. Nothing more than during any kind of high wind which occurs several times a year. Worst reported losses were asphalt shingles blown off. Viewpoint in Belhaven Hurricane Helene huffed and she puffed but managed to blow down only a few trees in Bel haven. A big sycamore in front of the Episcopal rectory on Main Street went down in the middle of the storm on Saturday night, knocking out power lines in the section. The town crew had to cut the huge trunk in two to clear the road and it was some time before power was restored. The driver of an ice cream truck, who was mak ing his rounds collecting ice cream from the merchants for safe keeping, saw the flash as the first limbs hit the light wires and slam med on brakes just in t>e to keep from being hit. A big pecan tree in the yard of Mrs. W. C. Swindell’s home went down, and large limbs were blown from trees in all parts of town, but there was little property damage. is better "to °be slfe ttrnn
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