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. VOLUME XXIV NO. 19 ABOUT ONE FOURTH OF DARE'S VOTERS TURN OUT TUESDAY No Contests In General Election Lulls People Into Apathy Voting Day • The election in Dare’s 16 pre cincts was a light one Tuesday. The tiny village of Mashoes regis tered the highest per centage of voters going to the polls, with about eight votes cast, as against nin<> in the primary. Generally however, only about one fourth of the registered voters went out to cast ballots for the reason that there were no contests and general apathy prevailed. All the Democratic candidates carried about the full strength in their party with old favorites like Lindsay Warren for State Senate, and Herbert Bonner for Congress man registering most votes. On the county ticket in Dare, C. S. Meekins, Clerk of Court, polled „ most votes, being a man that never has opposition in the primary, nor stirs up animosities. Sheriff Frank Cahoon followed closely, and others like Judge Baum, Rep. Bruce Etheridge, went over big in this group. For county commissioner, the , ticket ran along pretty close, and despite the strong fight in the pri mary waged by Victor Meekins, who spearheaded the battle in the primary which carried a new board of county commissioners to vic tory, barely a dozen voters re **■ inained sore enough to not mark one for him Tuesday. These may ’ be traced to a few disgruntled candidates or their friends. Failing to keep the old Board in office, a few manipulators who dread Meekins are trying their best to see that he is not chairman of the See ELECTION, Page Eight DR. H. W. JORDAN WITH FISHING PARTY A T HATTERAS HAVE LUCK Dr. Henry W. Jordan of Cedar Falls, who with Governor W. Kerr Scott completed the Hatteras Is land Highway when Dr. Jordan was Chairman of the State High way Commission, spent several days at Hatteras last week with a party of friends from the Winston- Salem area, and had an opportu nity to view first hand, the tre t mendous development that has been made possible on Hatteras Island because of an all weather road, and the improved ferry service that has been added. Dr. Jordan’s friends included numerous men in the financial life of the state who saw first hand also, some of the opportunities that await capital investment to make possible further tremendous development in the area. Dr. Jor dan was one of the successful fishermen, as he landed a 93 lb. white marlin, assisted by Jonathan Woody of Waynesville. J. Houston Barnes of Greens boro, also in this party, landed a 300-lb. blue marlin, fishing with Capt Edgar Styron. Other men in this party were as follows: Henry Harris, Treas urer, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Winston-Salem; A. K. Davis, chair man of the Board; Leon Lentz, vice-president; Jack Trotman, as sistant vice-president; George Hemingway, branch manager; Wayne Corpening, Clyde Gordon. Dr. Jordan appeared in excellent health and spirit, and found many citizens who remembered his friendliness and desire to be help ’ ful to the island while he was chairman of the Highway Commis sion. WALTER H. BEACHAM OF KITTY HAWK DEAD Walter H. Beacham, retired Coast Guard man, a well known citizen of Kitty Hawk, died sud denly Thursday afternoon in the Marine Hospital, Norfolk, after a day’s illness. He was one of the most highly regarded men of his community. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertie Beacham, three sons, Calvin, Alvin and Glenn P.; a brother, Clyde Beacham, two sisters, Mrs. Joe Perry and Mrs. Ethel Gard. He was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Beacham, and a life-long resident of Kitty Hawk, a member of the Fort Ra leigh Post American Legion, and the Primitive Baptist Church of Kitty Hawk. He was also a mem ber of the Dare County Board of Elections. FLY TO HONOLULU Mrs. Louise Meekins and Mrs. Dorothy Drinkwater Cox of Man teo left Tuesday for a trip to Honolulu. Driving to Norfolk, they flew from there to Hawaii. Mrs. Meekins is visiting her son,, Er nest E. Meekins, Jr., and his fam ily; and Mrs. Cox is visiting her son, Billy Cox, and his family. Mrs. Meekins will be gone for a month. The length of Mrs. Cox’s stay was undetermined at the time of departure. THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA FORMER HIGHWAY CHAIRMAN FIGURES IN BIG CATCH / I x. \ JL i \\ •Jr W / ■ F 1 Z I fel /JL ’ kJ- \ / .>1 /mSWoI , it, 9 rr * -.-Jk.aZ;;' Dr. Henry W. Jordan on the right, former Chairman of the State Highway Commission, shared the catch of the 90 pound white marlin last week end with Jonathan Woody of Waynesville. In this party of ten fishermen also was J. Houston Barnes of Greensboro, shown on the left, who caught the biggest fish, the 300-lb. blue marlin shown with him on the left. This party fished with Capt. Edgar Styron, shown in center beneath the fish. There's Nothing Like the Glory of “NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS” By Capt. Marvin W. Howard, Ocracoke, N. C. EDITOR'S NOTE: hcouu of th. wid. pop ulor oppea I as article by Capt. Howard heretofore published in this newspaper, it is being reprinted. November is here, come again to visit on us the cold, blue, raw days, where if one is not careful one may catch cold from extra efforts—because it’s cool, yet not realizing it is still warm enough to perspire freely and thus a cold. These cold, blue, raw and cloudy days bring falling of the leaves from all the tree along the banks except the evergreen. As one watches the shadows along the winding trails or the sandy roads so familiar to the Banks, one is able to see bushels I of acorns lying on the ground, the many golden-yellow serrated seed of the sea-oat like-wise lie in the leas of the sand hills, and the purple flower of the wild-pea has NEWCOMB MIDGETT, 77, DARE COMMISSIONER DIES IN NORFOLK Frank Hamilton Newcomb Mid gett, 77, lifelong resident of Waves, Dare County, died at 1 p.m. Monday in the Norfolk Ma rine Hospital after an illness of three months. He was a member of the Board of Commissioners of Dare County at the time of his death, his term expiring this month. Mr. Midgett was the son of the late Israel and Nancy Ballance Midgett of Rodanthe, and the hus band of Mrs. Christiana Midgett. Two sisters also survive him, Miss Belle Midgett of Manteo, and Mrs. Warren Midgett of New Jersey. He was stricken' three months ago and had been helpless and un conscious ever since. The body was Taken to the Twiford Funeral home, and removed to the family residence, where the funeral was conducted at 11 p.m. Wednesday by Rev. J. T. Goodman, pastor of the nearby Fairhaven Methodist Church. Burial followed in the family cemetery. Mr. Midgett was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 698 at Buxton. He was a man who stood in high regard of all who knew him, friendly, neighborly, wiith a desire to be fair, industrious, always a worker, he was honest and accom modating. .He had served many years in the Coast Guard, and was honorably retired since 1943. Some of his service was in shore sta tions in New Jersey. Rev. Durwood T. Goodwin, pas tor of Fairhaven Methodist church conducted the funeral before a home picked with mourning friends. The church choir sang: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” and “Does Jesus Care." Pall bearers were Dewey Midgett, Julian Grav, Alexander Meekins, Georg Meekins, Asa Gray Jr., and Alston Midgett almost vanished while the pods are bursting, letting their seed fall to the use of wild-life. As one feels the bite of the blustery, windy day, particularly if a hunt er, the urge to take gun in hand, call Rover or Bando or Nipper and go-ahunting is strong. It would not suffice alone to hunt birds, but rather to take in the wonders of Autumn’s beauty among the wood lands, the salt grasses and the sand hills. All of this if properly viewed presents a beauty unexcell ed anywhere. Our freedom to hunt, to play, to be able to enjoy these wonders, are ours only because of our Demo cratic Government or Republic, whether you judge it by pony you ride, the old jeep you go fishing in, the speed boat you own, the limousine in the garage, or the freedom to worship at the church of your choice, the school, the food on your table or the freedom to speak in public without fear. You are fortunate by the fact that you are living under a system of gov ernment based on the dignity and freedom of the individual, that derives its powers from the bot tom up rather than the top down. The four freedoms which were so respectively brought to the public bv the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. These freedoms we enjoy in the good U. S. A. and now especially along the Outer Banks where thus far the land has never been posted to any great extent, therefore the See NOVEMBER, Page Four POPULATION FIGURES HATTERAS AND OCRACOKE ISLANDS AND PORTSMOUTH COMMUNITY 1870 TO 1920 It may be interesting to note figures from the U. S. Census Bureau showing the variations in population at ten-year intervals over an 80-year period on the islands of the Lower Banks of N. C. During the past 30 years there has been a rapid decrease in population when the state’s depleted commercial fishing industry became no longer suffi cient to support all those formerly engaged in it, and hundreds moved away and established permanent homes to' get gainful employment. More recently the decline of Coast Guard activity has driven many others from the small communities, leaving only the old and disabled, who are now fast disappearing. Today, the only immediate hope of the Outer Banks is to develop sufficient tourist income to sustain it and restore it to its former economic independence. Hatteras Kennekeet Ocracoke Portsmouth Township Township Township Township 1870 673 599 368 341 1880 821 631 400 221 1890 906 793 466 204 1900 987 842 548 150 1910 1,041 644 565 182 1920 1,115 712 587 143 1930 1,132 663 547 104 1940 1,201 806 525 42 1950 1,046 576 509 14 Hatteras Township includes the villages of Buxton, Frisco and Hatteras in Dare Co. Kennekeet Township includes the villages of Rodanthe, Waves, Salvo and Avon in Dare Co. Portsmouth Township in Carteret County includes the small vil lage on the North end of Core Banks. Ocracoke Township embraces the island of Ocracoke in Hyde County. MANTEO, N. C„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1958 SO...ALBEMARLE HEARS CHALLENGES TO MOVE FORWARD Sentiment Shaping Up to Develop Small Industries; Improve Numerous Small Crops Preparations had been made to feed 300 delegates to the Southern Albemarle Convention Thursday, November 6, when the association entered upon its 24th year. This year Hyde was host county be cause Hyde had the presidency, during the year ending—Leon BaL 'ance of Nebraska, j Tyrrell's turn for the presidency followed. The association Thursday after noon chose W. J. White from Tyr rell County for President; and the following county Vice Presidents: Dare M. L. Danie’s, Jr.; Hyde. Earl Topping; Beaufort, Dr. W. T. Ralph; Martin, Ben D. Court ney; Tyrrell, H. P. Swain; Wash ington, W. M. Darden; for Sec retary, Mrs. Borden McCleese of Tyrrell and M. A. Matthews of Engelhard was re-elected Treas urer. The Program Thursday The program of the annual con ve.ntibn of the Southern Albemarle Association at Engelhard, Thurs day, Nov. 6, follows: General meet ing at high school 11 a.m. Invoca tion by Rev. Lamar Wheeler, Bap tist pastor; followed by group singing; address of Welcome by W. W. Watson, Association Vice- President for Hyde County; re sponses by the five other county Vice-Presidents; presentation of visitors or special guests; the in troduction of speaker by Leon Ballance, an address by Wayne Corpening, agricultural agent, Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., Win ston-Salem. A fish dinner follow ed this meeting, served by Ben Midgett at the Club Poparena. A business session following the meeting for the election of offi cers. The association has now started off on another note, long overlook- See SAA, Page Eight HOME EC. WORKSHOP ON FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS MRS. PAULINE GORDON Announcing two workshops on “Dried Flower Arrangements” to be held in Dare County on Novem ber 11 and 12. These workshops will be conducted by Miss Pauline Gordon, Housing and House Fur nishings Specialist, of State Col lege. November 11 This workshop on Dried Flower Arrangements will be held at the Manteo Com munity Building. Time 10 a.m. November 12 The workshop will be held at Buxton at the home of Mrs. Joyce Gray. Time 9:30 a.m. Those attending the workshop at Buxton are asked to bring a lunch. TEACHER FROM COLUMBIA MAKING GOOD IN FLORIDA X-» K HI Ji ERNEST CHESSON Jr. ; now in his 4th year as a science teacher in the high school at Groveland, Fla. and going on 35 years old is still a bachelor, and devoting his full attention to the profession of teaching. Mr. Chesson is the son of E ,E. Chesson, an owner of one of Columbia’s best known stores. After a year at State, he attended ECC at Greenville three years, and where he graduated. After teach ing three years at Angier in Har nett, he taught in his home town three years, when he got itching heels, wanted to broaden his ex perience and despite the offer of the principalship in Columbia, went to Florida. He has been en joying his stay there, but loves to return to Columbia at every op portunity. OUT OF CASH, A SHORT HORSE SOON CURRIED Treasury Empty, Dare Commissioners Didn't Tarry Long at November Meeting This Week Beyond accepting such reports as were turned in by county offi cials, including the release of sev eral penalties for failure to list their taxes as recommended by Tax Supervisor Tillett, the only, thing done by the Dare County Commissioners at their regular meeting held Monday of this week, was to refuse to accept the resig nation of Mrs; Mabel E. Jones from the Board of Trustees of the Dare County community building. Mrs. Jones, thought she should now be relieved. She has given faithful service for some eight years. Not having any money in the treasury sufficient to pay off the county’s bills, the board couldn’t do much paying out. From a bal ance of SIB,OOO on hand some months ago, the balance had shrunk, to $904.89, about the monthlv cost of running either the Sheriff’s office or the Welfare Of fice. The $l5O spent to hold this j meeting, counting the S7O paid the Clerk to the Board for the month | See COUNTY, Page Four Uncle-Dock From Duck Writes: Changes Must Be Made, Old Crowd Must Be Disregarded if Improvement is Expected Dear Mr. Editor: I see and hear that therle is some sweeping changes being made in Congress and it looks as if the public is getting tired of the present administration. It also appears that the voters have rati fied the action of the primary, and we will have some new county commissioners next month. I have been hearing for some time that the old crowd which got beat so bad in the primary don’t consider themselves beat at all, and have been going ahead for several months, trying to pick out the new chairman of the county Board. Doesn’t seem to matter, who, just so he comes over to their side and lives as far away from the courthouse as possible. If they can just keep him away from the courthouse, they can keep on running things like they been doing, and you know what kind of a fix they’ve got us in. This new board is going to make a complete failure, if they listen to that old crowd, and if they leave them in charge, there ain’t a bit of good in getting a new board. It’s hard to believe that any body can be so simple as to listen to that old gang, who instead of tending to the duties they are there for, they hire somebody to do their work, and spend their time out politiking in the hall and be hind the door. They really are mighty comical, to hear folks talk ing about them. The county would be better off if they went home and had their check mailed .to them. Put a muzzle on ’em, and those of the hired help as won’t work, let’s go and get some profit able help. My advice is set up a plan to get the county back on its feet, PUERTO RICO CHALLENGES DARE COAST AND CLAIMS BLUE MARLIN LEADERSHIP West Indian Yacht Club Commodore Flings Bold Challenge to North Carolina, Send Contend ers, and to Receive Some to Prove That This Caribbean Island Has Better Blue Marlin Fish ing. CONSIDERS BRIDGE FIRST ESSENTIAL FOR HATTERAS ID. Woodrow Edwards of Rodanthe Says He is Going to Plug For Oregon Inlet “The thing I expect to empha size in the next two years is sup port for bridging Oregon Inlet, be cause I think it is the greatest thing that could be done to bring about a big development of Hat teras Island, and increase income for everybody,” says Woodrow Ed wards, who is to be a member of the new Dare County Board in December, having been elected from the north end of the island. “Next, we should emphasize aid and development of our small boat marinas and better harbors,” he says. “We have got to have good harbors in the various communi ties of the island for the benefit of those who make their livelihood from fishing and boating, and we need marinas to encourage our share of the profitable yacht business which is growing so fast in this country.” These are things that we have a right to expect support from through state and Federal agen cies, and Mr. Edwards believes if the County board puts its influence and effort behind these projects, much good can be accomplished, even though it may take years, but the effort will be worth while. “All good projects take a long time to bring about,” Mr. Edwards says. “Some of them have taken ten years, but they were realized because somebody refused to give up working and fighting. “I have faith enough in the Oregon Inlet Bridge project to be lieve that with the united efforts of even five men only, we will see it built in the next three or four years,” 'Edwards says. Mr. Edwards thinks it is the moral responsibility, and a civic duty for members of the County Commissioners to put in a lot of work and effort for all good public causes, above and beyond their routine official duties, and that the Board members by vii-tue of their position can wield more influence than any other group. Since there is now no countywide Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Edwards believes the County Board should assume the leadership to work for all county wide projects. and it can’t be done with workers in any of the offices who are still faithful to the old board. If you make a sucess, you’ve got to have people who believe in your pro gram, and who’ll do their best to make it a success. All of us have seen a lot of good programs scut tled because too many old hands were kept on in the crew. Mr. Editor, we are tired of pay ing our taxes to hire a lot of dead heads. We are tired of our money being wasted. We hope you will try to do better by the schools, but if you don’t watch out, the school money may be thrown away and the children won’t get the ben efit of it. We hope this new board will See DOCK, Page Four NEW PRIMARY TEACHER Miss Jewell Graves of Nags Head has been elected to fill the faculty vacancy in the Manteo pri mary grades, left by the sudden death of Mrs. Frances Leggett Miss Graves, who is teaching sec ond grade, received her college training in Alabama, and M. A. in elementary education from Co lumbia University, N. Y. She taught for 10 years in the Birm ingham, Ala., schools, and served three years as elementary school supervisor. THANKS GIVEN FOR HELP IN KITTY HAWK EVENT The pastor, Rev. Stanley S. Snead, and the members of Kitty Hawk Methodist church wish to express their gratitude to the many peonle who made our recent Centennial successful, and a good Christian Fellowship. Single Copy 7# Having landed something better than 12 tons of blue marlin meat off the Dare County coast this year, with some others being caught at Morehead City, North Carolina has been claiming to be marlin capital of the country, so much so that an international tournament is being planned in 1959 at Hatteras. Now comes from Puerto Rico a question to that claim, With Este ban A. Bird, official of a fishing club at San Juan, offering on be half of his island in the Caribbean, a dispute to that claim. Further he has challenged North Carolina to a contest, whereby sportsmen from both Puerto Rico and North Carolina would fish in the waters of their opponents. In his letter last week to Ay cock Brown, Senor Bird makes these comments: . “There seems to be some ques tion as to whether your state may have achieved the supreme distinc tion of having even more blue marlin than Puerto Rico . . . “I must tell you that it is very difficult for a Puerto Rico fisher man to believe that any place has more Marlin than the blue waters around our lovely island. “Unfortunately, we do not keep records of our seasonal catches. All I can tell you is that We caught 22 blues in the four days of our Fifth Internatonal Game Fish Tournament last month. In the San Juan area alone, more than 600 blue marlins have been caught in the the last ten years. “We held the world’s record for the largest blue marlin ever caught on rod and reel—7s6 pounds on a 80-pound test line by Allen Sher man in April, 1956. We have twice boated nine blues in one day. “Angel Abarca caught three blues in one day here. Two of them weighed 350 pounds and one, 150. I myself have caught two in a single day, one a 452 pounder, pounder. “If in spite of all this, the splen did people and the very capable fishermen of North Carolina still think Noi’th Carolina may have better blue Marlin fishing than Puerto Rico, I would like to sug- See MARLIN, Page Four AVIATION PROGRAM ON DECEMBER 17 PLANNED Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association Members Meet to Plan For 55th Anniversary of First Flights Members of Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society in Elizabeth City Wednesday discussed plans for the annual celebration com memorating the Wright Brothers first flight on December 17, the 55th anniversary of the birth of aviation. David Stick of Dare and Wade Marr of Elizabeth City, vice-president of Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society presided at the meeting. It was unanimously agreed that the name of the organization which annually sponsors the cele bration should remain the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society. It had been proposed and approved in a hasty motion at the meeting of the society last year to change the name of the organization to First Flight Society. “We should keep a name that identifies the historic first flights of December 17, 1903, with the locality in which they occurred,” was the concensus of those present, this week. This year plans are to be devel oped for a membership drive. It was agreed when the membership organization was founded five years ago that such a drive would be conducted every five years. Ralph Whitener, promotion man ager of the Air Force Association which has taken a leading role in the celebrations of the past, asked to be relieved of his duties. He stated however that he would con tinue to serve on a committee whose objective is to procure an exact replica of the famous “Wright Flyer”. Miles Clark, who asked to be relieved of the chairmanship of the Society stated recently that Eliza beth City High School Band which has had an important role in the celebration each year would be available again this year. Present at the meeting were: Marr, Stick, C. S. Meekins, treas urer, Horace Dough, superinten dent of Wright Brothers Monu ment, A. W. Drinkwater and Ay cock Brown of Manteo and Elton Aydlett of Elisabeth City.
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