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PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Sinca July 4, 1935 THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOREMOST REGION OF RECREATION AND SPORT. HEALTH- FUL LIVING AND HISTORICAL INTEREST ON THE ATLANTIC HUBOAKD Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice in Manteo. N. C. Subscription Rates: Yearly $3.00; Six Months, $1.75; 3 Months, SI.OO PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO.! INC. AT 505 LODGE STREET. MANTEO. NORTH CAROLINA VICTOR MEEKINS - --- EDITOR CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer FRANCIS W. MEEKINS ■ Advertising Manager VOL. XXIV MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 9, 1959 NO. 28 KITTY HAWK’S BIG TASK HAS JUST BEGUN Citizens of Kitty Hawk School District whose untiring effort has made possible the completion of a new elementa ry school at a cost of more than $200,000 and which has been put into use this week, are to be congratulated for their hard work. The community is twice to be congratulated on its good fortune, first for having amongst its people this group with sufficient determination to bring about this school, and second on the circumstance which made it pos sible for the cost to be borne principally by citizens and friends who do not live in the community and who will re ceive no direct return from the financial support they are to give it. Like in most of Dare County, the poeple of this district are now able to vote bonds on property recently built in our resort areas by outside capital. It is fortunate indeed that something needed by the growing generation can be pro vided. Something mighty valuable which was not possible for our people a quarter century ago. Because of this new building it has become possible to give the district's children the best of everything in elementary education. But the fight for a good school has really not yet be gun. Fine buildings do not always mean a good school. A costly temple is worthless if inside there is no spirit of dedi cation to the task in hand. The big fight was not that in get ting the building. The big job is to see that the children get the benefit of the costly investment now made. It must be a continuous fight to guarantee that good teachers and not gold brickers man this school. It will be a fight to see that greedy people do not get control of the school and use it mainly as a means of jobs for relatives. This new building in itself can be useful only as a symbol or a trademark which signifies here is one outstanding school project in the costland which was designed for the benefit of the children and is being maintained for their benefit and not the profit of other people. The big job ahead is to make this the one school in the Coastland that is not operated merely to satisfy the pride of adults, or the profits of those who pretend interest in public schools by permitting their names to appear on school com mittees and Boards of Education, simply for the doubtful honor, but who supinely let an inner circle of local politicians handle everything for whatever they may gain for them selves. Kitty Hawk people now have a challenge before them, and the manner in which they succeed in this battle of keep ing this new building safe and inviolate for their children will add lustre to the old time spirit of these people. In other days, Kitty Hawk has stood out among the communities of the coastland for its public spirit, for its generous giving of time, labor and money to school activities. For many years they have maintained a tremendous spirit in education in their community, and one which became an example to stir other communities to greater pride and achievement in be half of their children. ( OTHER EDITORS J HIZZONER SAID NO WHEN HOFFA’S BAD SMELLS AROSE (U. S. Press Association) It now appears that Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa will not add to his responsibilities the di rection of the police forces of New York and points west. You might say he decided against it. So did New York’s Po lice Commissioner Stephen P. Ken nedy and New York’s Mayor Rob ert Wagner and the three moni tors appointed by the Federal District Court to supervise the disinfection of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. This made it pretty unanimous—except for Henry Feinstein, who was to have been Hoffa’s police organizer in New York, who is president of a city employes union and also a city job-holder. Mayor Wagner re duced Mr. Feinstein’s ardor with the observation that he might lose his $8,500 spot on the city payroll if he didn’t behave. Mr. Hoffa seemed definitely to regret that he had included the guardians of the law in his am bitious plan to add all civil serv ants—at city, state and Federal I levels to his million-and-a-half teamsters. He would, now accept I cops, he said, “only if they come I to us.” In some contrast to his de- > fiant attitude in Miami, when he ■ announced this ambitious organiz- > ing drive and bragged that: "We ! have the money,” President Hoffa I observed piously: “I do not be-1 lieve that they should have the; right to strike, by virtue of the emergency nature of their service : to the public.” The picketing of Police Head quarters, precinct housees and other police buildings will be car ried out, but Mr. Hoffa told Mr. Feinstein that he must not halt trucks making police deliveries or otherwise interfere in the opera tion of the Department as origi-| nally planned. The pickets would now - constitute “advertising” in protest against the Commission er’s objection to a unionized force. There are those, of course, who consider they will be walking up and down in the cold to save Jim- ■ my’s faie. One thing the Teamsters’ Napo leon overlooked is that there’s not a mayor in America who does not remember what made Calvin Coo lidge President of the United ;?■ States. MIDDLETOWN PERSONALS Born to Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie Gibbs, a daughter, 5 lbs., 4 oz. at Beaufort County Hospital Kathy Jeean on Dec. 29 1958. Mrs. Gibbs was the former Lillian Tucker of Engelhard. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Carawan ; of Norfolk Va. were the Tuesday night guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McKinney. Mrs. Ina Watson and Mrs. Flor ence Burrus visited here recently. Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Spencer and Tommie visited Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Spencer this week. Miss Josephene Leneer of Bel haven visited Al Gibbs and Mr. and Mrs. Huron Gibbs last week end. Mrs. Lillie Cox, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Osbrou, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cox, Richard and Redin hhve moved to Key West, Florida. Mr. Osbrou and Mr. Cox will shrimp one of Dick O’Neal’s boats. Mr. and Mrs. Ozrow Gibbs and Chesley accompanied Jimmie Gibbs to Norfolk, Va., Thursday. He is in the Army Reserve in Texas. I Mr. and Mrs. Pelege Spencer have moved in the Bettie Jennette ' house between Middletown and ■ Engelhard. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Edwards [ ! have moved out of Preston Moon- > ey’s house, into the Darden house. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Spencer i | visited in Portsmouth, Va., with i their son Reggie Spencer. I Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Midyette ■ visited Mr .and Mrs. Pelege Spen : cer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pelllman 1 and children of New York are I expected to arrive here Monday to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Payne, i Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Mann spent | last week with their children. Franklin Swindell has returned to Ohio after spending the holi days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Swindell. . GULROCK PERSONALS Flaye Byrum, Albert Keeter, Kloyd Peele, Tommy Hollowell of Edenton and J. E. Sutton of Portsmouth, Va., returned home after a week here with Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Gibbs. Billy Keeter, Wayne and Mar ion Ashley, escorted Katie and Marjorie Pugh and Carol Gilligan to the New Year’s dqnce at the school gym Thursday night. Burrell Strowd and Kerry Smith of Deep Run spent the week end 1 here. ■ i ' - 1 ' i ' • * HOLDS IMPORTANT POST WITH FISH AND WILDLIFE JEfe Ji* • " ■ ... D. WARREN LUPTON, Jr., a Pantego man" has enjoyed a steady rise m responsibility with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and is now assistant regional su pervisor of management and en forcement out of the Atlanta of fice which embraces 12 southern states. He is one. of several suc cessful sons of D. W. Lupton of Pantego. D. W. Lupton left his farm home at Sladesville, in Hyde County, and settled on a farm at Bishop’s Cross near Pantego where Warren was bom in 1917. He married the former Ruth i Hayes Turnage of Farmville and they have three daughters, Lil lian, 13; Lyda, 7; and Amy 11 months old. Mr. Lupton was em ployed with the Department of I Conservation and Development’s division of Game and Inland Fish eries, and later with the N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission from Sept. 1, 1937 to October 1, 1949. He served in several posi tions, including game protector, Beaufort County; Mattamuskeet Wildlife Refuge Protector; Super visor of District One which em braces 13 N. C. Counties, and as Chief Law Enforcement Section of the N. C. Commission. In Nov. 1949 Mr. Lupton’s abil ities have been noticeable to the Federal authorities to the extent that he accepted a place as game management agent with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He served at Tappahannock, Va., Sa vannah, Ga., and Memphis, Tenn., before he went to Atlanta to take the post he has held for the past seven years. The primary respon sibility of his present position en tails supervision of 42 game man agement agents who are responsi ble for the enforcement of Federal acts relating to migratory birds. His immediate supervisor in this | position is William T. Davis of | Atlanta, Ga. Seven other children of D. W. Lupton are as follows: Stacy T. Lupton, a civilian employee at Cherry Point Marine Base for the past 16 years; Edward E. Lupton, Richmond, Va.; Chief Clerk of Seaboard Airline Railroad at their Richmond office; Floyd. J. Lupton of Belhaven who is N. C. Dis trict Paitole officer; Howard R. Lupton, District Consultant for State Board of Health at More head City; the sisters are Mrs. Cecil O’Neal of Pantego; Mrs. Herbert Daw of New Bern and Mrs. Joe Thomas of Whiteville. SUBSCRIBERS TAKE NOTICE; WATCH EXPIRATION If you should not get a copy of this paper some week, it may be that the subscription has expired, and due to postal regulations, it has become necessary for the publisher to stop send ing it. If you will look carefully at the address on your pa per, or the wrapper it comes in, you will find printed there the date of expiration of your subscription. Send in your renewal promptly. Do not miss a copy. This date is your notice of expiration. At this time we are not mailing other no tices because of the cost of same. FARMERS OF THE PAMLICO ADOPT MODERN GRAIN STORAGE 1-• - J /• ■" - w ... « ■h'cmlMh z:..: iM? »• 3 ' 111 i iiMBMlj Kill. 11HMM| OLD AND NEW—At left 'is an exaftiple of the modern corn storage facilities going up on North Carolina farms as farmers realize the increasing importance of keeping their grain at harvest time. The steel bins are weather and rat proof, while the old corn crib at the right serves as an invitation to both weath er and rodent damage. Specialists at N. C. State College estimate that a million bushels of new storage facilities have been added to North Carolina farms in recent weeks, as Tar Heel farmers prepare to har vest a near-record'7B'million bushels of corn this fall. THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. BIG GAME FISH MADE BIG NEWS ON COAST IN ’SB HATTERAS Big game fish, blue marlin, tuna, white marlin and sailfish taken locally in 1958 made big fishing news along the mid-Atlantic Coast. And during the late Autumn of ’SB new rec ords were made by anglers fishing the surf for channel bass. Three blue marlin weighing a total of 1,561% pounds may put the anglers among the top-ten of international catches of the species in 1958. The total take was 79 of these giant billfish landed near Hatteras and Oregon Inlet during 1958. The largest, a 580-pounder was boated by J. T. Heistand, Rich mond, Va., on May 28, less than 10 days after the first of the 1958 season for this species had been landed off Hatteras. On June 8, J. H. Bully, Dare, Va., off Oregon Inlet brought in a 491 pounder for second place; John Wood, another Virginia angler, got a gi ant blue marlin that scaled at 490 1 /? pounds. Os the 79 blue marlin landed approximately 20 weighed more than 400 pounds each, and less than 20 weighed under 200 pounds. At least three new channel bass records were established off Dare in 1958, and each of the records were made by anglers fishing the surf near Buxton in the Cape Hatteras surf. METHODIST MEETINGS IN COASTAL AREA SCHEDULED The Elizabeth City District Conference of The Methodist Church will convene at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, January 8 at the First Methodist Church in Eliza beth City. Reports will be read from the various boards, commit tees, and organizations of the dis trict. At the closing worship serv ice local preachers licenses will be granted, and the Rev. O. Kelly Ingram, pastor of First Methodist Church, Elizabeth City, will deliv er the conference sermon. Dele gates will attend from the Meth odist churches throughout the Elizabeth City District. The Rev. C. Freeman Heath is district su perintendent. District Workshops are being held throughout the North Caro lina Conference of the Methodist Church during the period of Jan uary 5-16. These workshops are for the pastors and members of the four commissions in the local church. They are sponsored by the four corresponding Conference Agencies: the Boards of Educa tion, Evangelism, and Missions, and the Commission on World Sen-ice and Finance. About fifty pastors and laymen will provide leadership in the workshops. The meetings in the Elizabeth City District of the Methodist Church are as follows: Wednesday, Janu ary 14, St. John Methodist Church, Avon; Thursday January 15, First Methodist Church. Elizabeth City; Friday, January 16, First Method ist Church, Washington. The meet ings will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. PARK SERVICE ARCHITECT GOES TO VIRGIN ISLANDS Fred Ley, landscape architect with the Cape Hatteras National Seashore since July 1956 was pro moted end transferred to a simi lar position with the Virgin Is lands National Park. Mr. Ley is a graduate of the University of Florida and worked with private landscape architectu ral firms in Alaska and Omaha, Nebraska before coming to Cape H-’rteras National Seashore. In addition to his landscape work in connection with new developed areas at the National Seashore, he directed the grass planting pro gram of the Dune Stabilization Project. In the Virgin Islands he will be responsible for landscape wprk on St. Johns and St. Thomas islands, as well as San Juan Na tional Historic Site, Puerto Rico. Mr. Ley was a very popular member of the Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore staff. He was also well liked in the community and frequently contributed his profes sional landscaping advice to both private and community projects. pt? NO DATING ON THIS LlNE—Cadet Monica McKeown of Concord, Calif., gets some information on Army signal equip ment from Specialist Peter W. Deming of Rochester, N.Y. A student at Holy Name College, Oakland, and Army Reservist, she recently had a month’s orientation at Ft. McClellan, Ala. MANTEO REBEKAHS HOLD INSTALLATIONS SERVICE The Manteo Rebekah Lodge met January sth and the following past noble grands installed the new of ficers. Tracy Ward—Vice Deputy; Lois Midgett Deputy Marshall; ' Mildred O’neil, Deputy Chaplain; Salina Midgett—Deputy Secretary; Lyna Harbour Deputy Warden; Mamie Crees Deputy Inside Guardian. The new officers include: Noble Grand—Marian Brice; Vice Grand —Fanny Payne; Warden—Geneva Midgett; Conductor Dolores Ward; Recording Secretary—Hilda Francis; Financial Secretary Lessie Davis; Treasurer— Kather ine Kennedy; Inside Guardian— Lois S. Midgett; Outside Guardian —Ethel Parker; Chaplain Mar gery White; Right Supporter To the Nohle Grand—Bernice Canna dy; Left Sunnorter to the Noble Grand Shirley Shannon; Right Supporter to the Vice Grand—Ma ry Fields; Left Supporter to the Vice Grand—Rennie Fuquay; Mu sician—Charlotte Cahoon; Right ; Color Bearer—Carolyn Etheridge; Left Color Bearer—Eula Payne; Past Noble Grand—Alda Francis Reporter—Dolores Ward. The new Noble Grand, Marian , Brice, was presented a lovely cor j sage from her little son “Timmy” Iby Lyna Harbour. The Ixxlge pre sented the outgoing noble grand i Alda Francis, with a beautiful hand painted plate naming her of ificers; also the Past Noble Grand’s' certificate and pin. Initiation services will be held ion Mohday night, Jan. 19th. for ■ Mrs. Florine Hooper. The Becky I prize was won by Charlotte Ca- ■ hoon and the birthday gift by Eth el Parker. A social hour was en- • joyed at the close of the session. VISIT AT WANCHESE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wescott and son. Tommy of Paulsboro, |N. J., Mis. Patsy O’Neal of Nor- I folk; and Tommy and Beverly Tay lor of Norfolk visited Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Gray Sunday. SLADESVILLE PERSONALS M'ss Frankie Baynor of E. C. C. spent the holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Onward Bay nor. I Mrs. Charlie Ayres and Mrs. Ethel Gibbs visited Mrs. Theodore Jones and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Windley. I Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Credle, Mps. | Henry Garish and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Flowers visited Mrs. Minnie Berry. Elwood Howerin, Mr. and Mrs. Waters of Washington visited Mr. and Mrs. Joe Williams Sunday. Mrs. Will Jennette is quite ill ' at her home. MAN'S BEST FRIEND CHERISHED SINCE PRE-HISTORIC DAYS Washington. Since that un recorded day when a dog first licked man’s hand instead of biting it, the relationship between the canine and his best friend has grown ever closer. Ancient Roman dogs earned the name “Fido” (Faithful). Medieval dogs, wearing tiny suits of armor, trotted loyally behind their knights. Today the man-dog part nership has led to an enormous variety of industries, from grey hound I’ace tracks to poodle primping parlors. The wonderful world of dogdom comes vividly alive in the “Book of Dogs,” which has just been published by the National Geo graphic Society. A treasury of fact and anecdote, the 432-page encyclopedia is abundantly illus trated with full-color paintings and photographs. Biographies of Major Breeds In preparing this latest addi tion to its Natural Science Library, National Geographic had the co operation of the American Kennel Club. The book not only includes biographies of all breeds recog nized by the club, but biographies of dozens of other breeds that are still outside the canine social reg ister. / Counsel on how to choose the right pup, and how to feed, house break, and train him is provided by Arthur Frederick Jones of the American Kennel Club. Mr. Jones’s comprehensive instruction on dog care is written simply enough for practical use by youngsters who are responsible for their pets. Dr. Melville Bell Grosvenor, President and Editor of the Na tional Geographic Society, tells about the book’s origin in the foreword. He writes, “It all began as a labor of love with Franklin L. Fisher, for many years Illustra tions Editor of the National Geo graphic Magazine when my father, Gilbert Grosvenor, was President and Editor. Under their guidance the Geographic’s outstanding se ries of dog paintings began. Today this vast reservoir of quality color plates and popular articles from The Magazine, together with the Society’s research facilities, makes possible the publication of this book at its modest price—a frac tion of what it would otherwise cost.” “Book of Dogs” describes the origins of various breeds, their unusual deeds, special habits and and abilities, size and markings. The ancestry of Canis familiaris may be traced back some 50 mil lion years to a small, tree-climbing creature called Miacis. This un doglike patriarch was also the progenitor of the bear and rac coon. From Miacis came the Eura sian wolf which, zoologists gen erally agree, was the precursor of domesticated dogs. Objects of Reverence Egyptian tablets and inscrip tions carved 5,000 to 6,000 years ago show that dogs served as pets, hunters, and objects of rev erence. When a dog died in ancient Egypt, the entire family went into mourning. Every breed has a fascinating history. Aztecs sacrified Chihua-' huas in the hope that noblemen’s sins would be tranferred to the dogs. The Beagle, America’s most popular dog, hunted hares in pre- Elizabethan England. The Irish Wolfhound, king of canines by virtue of his size, fought in Rome’s imperial circus in A. D. 391. The St. Bernard has saved some 2,500 lives in Alpine rescues. As a family of mammals, dogs are still developing. Just since the 1890’s, conformation, trim of coat, and ears of many familiar breeds have changed. The dog’s life has not always been easy. Currently, he is enjoy ing the golden age of dogdom. In the United States alone, 14 million ■’l ■ J FRIDAY. JANUARY 9. 1959 1 DOWN TO EARTH By CARLTON MORRIS Editor, Tho Index Gatesville, N. C. THAT HAPPY, FOOLISH TIME IS HERE AGAIN That happy, foolish, gay time called Christmas is here again and every year I become more and more convinced that it was invent ed for children only. Once it was a great event to me, but now it represents hard work, hurrying, frantic people, frayed nerves, shopping, shopping and more shopping. Morris, you’re get ting old. It is still the greatest time of the year for young and old alike. The kids look forward to the great day in anticipation of what they will receive and we old folks look forward to it because no matter how old we are, we can never for-, get our own childhood. I can never forget the high ex pectancy that always preceded the day when I was a child. The world was sort of slow and unhurried in those days and just before Christ mas time stood absolutely still. School always turned out a week or more before Christmas and how the hours did drag. 1 always had plenty of work to do. As the only boy in a family with three girls, I had the task of supplying fire wood, and no matter how much wood I got together in the early ( fall, we always ran out just be fore Christmas. It seemed to me as if all my friends were free as the air and they passed me by as I struggled with axe and saw to keep the home fire burning. My dad was a task master and he would invariably set me the task of cutting a couple of loads of wood during the week before Christmas. I couldn’t work, for even when I was too busy to see my friends pass by, I could hear their guns as they rambled and hunted every day. I was never sure I would get exactly what I wanted even when I grew to the age where I didn’t have much faith in old man Claus. Hunting was our main pastime , and I could never muster enough money for more than a half-dozen gunshells at the time, so I always put in my order- early with the old 'gent for a whole box of shells at Christmas. When I received a box of 25 shells I had all any boy could want. No matter how slow time drags it has away of passing and finally it would be the night before Christmas. No TV kept us out of bed in those days but that was always a night of little sleep for me. I always envied my sisters, for they could go to bed and sleep like angels while I could only roll and toss the hours away. The only time in our house was the old Seth Thomas on the mantel and I usually heard it strike every hour and half-hour until well after mid night. Then I might sleep for a while, but the second it began to strike 4 o’clock I was up lighting the kerosene lamp. Then I was faced with a prob lem. Should I put on my clothes first, build a fire first or look over the offerings of Mr. Claus? Us ually he won the decision and when the box of shells showed up the day was going to be a suc cess. Our shells were all loaded with black powddr in those days, and a light gun would knock the plu- > perfect daylights out of a 12-year old boy, but I always had to go out and awaken the neighborhood wiith a couple of blasts. One boy in the neighborhood could never hold any shells in reserve for the rest of the day. When my blast went off, he would get up and hurry out to answer me. By that time every boy for miles around would be up and firing away. He would answer every blast until his 25 shells were gone. Times have changed. My two boys will sit up until midnight on Christmas Eve and I have to chase them otit of bed the next morning and they get more loot than I ever received during my entire child hood. In addition to that, my old est is 16 and he never built a fire in his life, for we heat the house with an oil furnace. He doesn’t want to get out of bed even on a warm floor. No one, not even this old dream er, wants to go back to those hard days, but I do believe they put iron in the soul. And the kids en- 1 joyed' Christmas more. In the meantime, your old coun try editor is wishing for you and ' yours a veiy Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and if the snow doesn’t get too deep, I’ll be back next year with more of the same, and I do sincerely hope the good Lord has been kind to you. families welcome him to their homes. '‘Book of Dogs,” which has 342 illustrations, mostly in color, may be obtained from the nonprofit National Geographic So cie ty, Washington , D. C., at a cost of $9.85 postpaid. Publication is No- ' vvm'bvt 24,1958. *
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