„ VOLUME XXIV -« NO. 30
MAN LOST OFF
A FISHING BOAT
HATTERAS TUESDAY
Portsmouth, Va. Man Fishing
With Fattier, Victim
Upset Dory
One man is missing and another
hospitalized as a result of the cap
sizing Tuesday morning of their
fishing lory in the surf near At
lantic View Hotel, Hatteras.
He is Jack Philbrick, 27, of
Portsmouth, Va. The Coast Guard
discontinued its search for him
Tuesday night but began beach pa
trols at low tides Wednesday.
Being treated for severe shock
at Portsmouth General Hospital is
his father, Albert W. Phibrick, 57,
also of Portsmouth, who was flown
there by a helicopter from the
• Coast Guard Air Station at Eliza
beth City.
• The hospital described his con
dition Tuesday night as “satisfac
tory.” He was under heavy, seda
tion and “resting as well as can be
expected.”
The Philbricks were the only oc
cupants of the 16-foot dory, the
Coast Guard said. They were lay
ing nets when the accident oc
curred a short distance offshore
• opposite the hotel. Albert Philbrick
reportedly swam ashore.
Jack Philbrick and his parents
were staying at Frisco, where the
elder Philbrick owns property he
has been trying to develop since
retirement from the Norfolk Naval
Shipyard in Portsmouth. Their res
idence is in the 700 block of Elm
Ave., Portsmouth.
Albert Philbrick is president of
the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club.
The Coast Guard conducted beach
and sea searches most of the day
Tuesday. A helicopter from the
Cherry Point Marine Air Station
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IMPORTANT MEET
PLANNED BY PTA
MANTEO, JAN. 27
Teen-Age Center, Safety Report,
Achievement Awards To
Be Considered
An imnortant meeting of the
,Manteo P. T. A. is planned for
Wednesday January 27 in the Man
teo High School at 8 p.m. This
meeting is delayed from the usual
Tuesday date because an important
l>asketball game with Griggs High
School is to occur on Tuesday.
William Ernst, Jr. President
says there are some imnortant sub
jetcs for discussion at this meeting,
which include (1), a teen-age cen
ter and various things incident to
its organization; (2) safety report
at the schools, and solutions of
speed problems and traffic proce
dure; (3) achievement awards as
a means of inspiring students to
greater effort. Also a number of
other matters, one of which is a
visitation period with teachers.
FUNERAL OF IRVIN STOWE
The funeral of the late John
Irvin Stowe, prominent Hat
teras citizen who died Wednes
day at his home was di
rected by Twiford’s Funeral
Home Friday at 1:30 p.m. in the
Hatteras Methodist Church. Rev.
Ray Sparrow. Methodist- minister,
and Rev. W. D. Barkley, pastor of
the Assembly of God Church of
Avon officiated. Burial was in the
family cemetery at Hatteras.
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken,”
“Life’s Railway to Heaven,” and
“Whisnering Hope,” were sung by
members of the church choir. Mrs.
Virginia Johnson accompanied at
the organ. The casket was covered
with a pall of red and white carna
tions and ferns. »
The pall bearers were Levin
Stowe, Leonard Gilliken, Donald
Oden, Dexter Stowe, Norman Quid
ley and Roy Gray.
ENTER COUNTRY’S SERVICES
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Three Manteo boys, Fleetwood
Mitchell, Byron Sawyer and John
B. Etheridge, 111, arq in training
at Fort Jackson, S. C., having en
tered service in the army on Jan
uary 12 in Norfolk, Va. Mitchell
and Sawyer had been students at
William and Mary College, Nor
folk; and Etheridge, who is a grad
uate of Manteo High School, was
employed in Manteo.
On Monday Arvin Midgett will
enter training at Pensacola Naval
Air Station, Pensacola, Fla., hav
ing recently joined the Navy. He
.is a former N. C. State student.
BENEFIT CARD PARTY
The Nags Head Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring a card
party on Monday night, January
26th at 8 p.m. at the Beacon
Motor Lodge in Nags Head. Re
freshments will be served, and
those people playing are requested
to bring thir own cards. Tickets
may be secured at the Beacon
Motor Lodge or from Mrs. W. N.
Rose at Kitty Hawk.
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THE COASTLAND TIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
4-H LEADERS SHOW INTENSE INTEREST IN ACHIEVEMENT DAY PROGRAM
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IN THIS GROUP are an intensely interested lot of young people of Dare County taking part in the
Achievement Day Program for the 4-H groups held in Manteo last Saturday. County Attorney Wallace
H. McCown was the speaker of the day. “Successfully accomplish one task or objective before getting
involved in new projects,” ht urgtd the youngfolks. Shown here as he spoke, McCown was flanked by
the 4-H Clubbers of the County Council who gave a review of the work done by its members during the
past year. From left to right they are: Nancy Coles Basnight, president, 4-H County Council; Char
lotte Perry, Kitty Hawk, Mary Elizabeth Earle, Manteo, secretary of the council. Mary White, Manteo;
Susan Basnight, East Lake, songleader of the group, Nancy Pearl Midgett, Manteo, Johnny Hooper,
Salvo, Mrs. Fran Cullis, (at piano) home demonstration agent; Charles Perry, Kitty Hawk, Carynn
Gray, Buxton, (behind speaker) Michael Parker, Nags Head, Nancy Lynn Midgett and Della Basnight,
Manteo. The young people were told that the challenge to them today is to achieve things by jumping
their hurdles one at a time and climb the ladder step by step to ultimate success. Photo by Aycock
Brown.
WINNERS ON ACHIEVEMENT DAY IN MANTEO SATURDAY
WINNERS of awards presented during Achievement Day are: Myrtle Meekins, Wanchese, food prepara
tion; Martha Bonner, Manteo, clothing medal; Charlotte Perry, Kitty Hawk, clothing award; Della
Basnight, Manteo, recreation award; Carynn Gray, Buxton, home economics award; Mary White, Man
teo, Senior Health Award; Carol Harris, Nags Head, leadership award; Nancy Coles Basnight, Manteo,
three awards, Leadership, Public Speaking and Dress Review; Corinne Sanderlin, Kitty Hawk, Junior
Health Award. The program was arranged by Mrs. Fran Cullis (center) and Farm Agent James Rea,
who is not shown but who during the exercises presented awards to five 4-H boys: Michael Parker,
Nags Head, electrical; Johnny Hooper, Salvo, For«estry and the William Danforth Award; Spencer
Smith, Manteo, home grounds beautification award and Freddie Roush, Manteo, Entomology Award.
—Photo by Aycock Brown
TOURIST BUREAU
BUDGET $15,454.74
IS SET FOR YEAR
Dare County Tourist Bureau di
rectors in Manteo Wednesday
adopted an operating budget total
ing $16,454.75 for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1959.
The Board’s executive commit*
tee composed of Gordon Kellogg,
chairman, Archie Burrus, secre
tary-treasurer and L. L. Swain,
had drawn up the proposed bud
get presented. It was approximate
ly the same amount as budgeted
last year.
Members were: Chairman Kel
logg, Secretary-Treasurer Burrus,
Swain, A. H. Ward and E. E.
Meekins, Manteo, R. E. Jordan of
the Lost Colony, Tom Briggs of
Kill Devil Hills, M. R. Daniels,
News Director Brown and Mrs.
Sarah Owens, office assistant.
During the meeting various
phases of the Bureau’s operation
was clarified and two 'amendments
to the constitution were made. It
was agreed and so amended that
all past presidents or chairmen of
the Tourist Bureau be made hon
orary members of the board with
voting power. This, it was pointed
out, would give the board more
members of experience which had
been gained while they were
chairmen. Another amendment
made the chairman of the steer
ing committee of the Pirates Jam
boree each year a member of the
board.
Clarified was the method or
procedure the Tourist Bureau will
follow in publicizing the Pirates
Jamboree and that no charges to
the Jamboree for routine publicity
and public relations be made. The
Bureau would not be responsible
for expenses involved in the print
ing of folders or other special
services as such items would be
paid from the Jamboree budget.
A seasonal travel news publica
tion is to be prepared on the Dare
Coast to supplement folders now
used for distribution to travel
agencies, etc.
A new contract between the
manager-news director and the
Tourist Bureau prepared by the
Executive Committee was read
and approved. Section 4 of the
contract concerning the sale of
certain pictures by the manager
which are made at no expense to
e Bureau was discussed and it
was agreed that he is at liberty
to sell same in view of the fact
that he and not the Bureau owns
the camera equipment, and that
supplies for same are purchased
at no expense to the organization.
Vacation for Bureau personnel
and sick leave payments also came
in for discussion during the meet
ing.
See BUREAU, PSge Eight
MOVIE ACTOR ANDY GRIFFITH DIRECTS MANTEO METHODIST CHOIR
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THE choir of the Manteo Methodist Church for awhile will lose its distinguished director, Actor Andy
Griffith, who during his stay at his Roanoke Island home, has been of immense value to the church.
However, Actor Griffith is having to reside in New York State for an indeterminate period, due to his
work, and with Mrs. Griffith and son are going there this week. They will reside in Rye, N. Y., while
he is in the Broadway production, “Destry Rides Again,” soon going into rehearsal. Here he’s shown di
recting the choir last Sunday, Mrs. Rennie Williamson at the organ. Aycock Brown Photo.
ASC SERVICE TO BE
AVAILABLE SOON
IN DARE COUNTY
A representative of the Pasquo- j
tank County ASC Office will be at ;
the Dare County Agent’s Office in i
Manteo, N. C. on Tuesday, January <
27, 1959 to accept requests for fed- ■ <
eral cost sharing with conservation' i
practices under the 1959 Agricul- ]
tural Conservation Program, ac-|<
cording to W. R. Carver, office 1
manager.
Requests may be filed for the!-
following conservation practices:
seeding of permanent pastures, ap- -
plying limestone to farmland to 1
permit the growth of legumes and,
grasses, seeding summer annual i
legumes, digging drainage ditches
and farm ponds, planting forest (
arees, seeding winter cover crops,
and improving forest lands by thin- I
ning and preparing land for re
seeding. 11
Requests for cost sharing may
also be filed at the Pasquotank [
County ASC Office during the I
period January 27 through Febru
ary 10, 1959. If a farmer signs a
request. If a request is not signed
during the initial sign-up period a
practice can be approved only if
funds are available.
The federal cost share rate for
seeding an acre of permanent pas
ture is approximately $21.00 when
one ton of lime is applied along
with the necessary seed and ferti
liser. Lime is available for use on
farmland that will be devoted to
legumes and grasses in 1959 or.
See ASC, Page Eight I
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1959
VARIETY SHOW IN
MANTEO JANUARY 31
A variety show, sponsored by the
Roanoke Island Music Club, will be
put on Saturday evening, January
31, in the auditorium of Manteo’s
new high schoql, beginning at eight
o’clock. The show will feature Dr.
C. N. Wright at the organ, Miss
Caroline Wright at the piano, Miss
Paula Wright: Paul Crocker at the
[drums. The Manteo Rotary Quar
tet, under the direction of Dick
will introduce the “Boom
Bass.”
Dr. Wright’s program will be di
vided into four categories: Memory
Time, Novelty Time; Rock and
. Roll Time; and Tchaikowsky Time.
All members and associate mem
bers of the Roanoke Island Music
! Club have season tickets to the
serieq of programs which this eve-
I ning’s entertainment introduces. A
moderate admission fee will be
{charged non-members. Other pro
grams will be announced later.
TO HELP MARCH OF DIMES
The Manteo Oddfellows nnd Re
bekahs Lodges, which for the
past two years have rendered
valuable service to the March of
Dimes drive, will again this year
set up their “toll bridges,” to col
lect money for this worthy cause.
On January 30 and 81 they will put
a crew on the Roanoke Sound
Bridge, the Croatan Sound Bridge,
and perhaps the Currituck Sound
bridge to seek funds for crippled
(children.
EMPTY SCHOOLS IN
DARE TO BE SOLD
TO INCREASE FUND
Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point
Property JTo Be Converted
Into Cash Much Needed
In order to provide much needed
cash for carrying on the schools
of Dare County, two school build
ings and .grounds no longer need
ed for educational purposes may
continue to be of value to the
children still in school. The Board
of Education has ordered the sale
of property at Manns Harbor and
Stumpy Point.
The Manns Harbor school will
be offered for sale at the court
house door in Manteo on Tuesday,
February 3. and the Stumpy Poin'
School on February 9th.
Next year a third school at
Wanchese will likely be offered
for sale, as that school will be
discontinued at the end of this
year.
Citizens of the various commu
nities affected usually wish to buy
in the buildings, for community
centers, but rarely are they main
tained, and in some instances are
allowed to fall down for lack of
community support to finance so
costly an enterprise. An excep
tion holds at Hatteras where the
community has spent much money
on maintenance.
At Manns Harbor there is much
interest agitated in getting the
>uilding for the community aud
itorium, etc., while some groups
desire to retain the land only, for
a playground.
In most communities there is
sentiment that the Board of Edu
cation should continue to give
these properties to the neighbor
hoods, while some people on the
other hand insist they should bring
the highest dollar in order to have
most money, for the benefit of the
pupils which apparently was the
intent when the building were
erected.
A committee at Manns Harbor
consisting of H. T. Gibbs, Huff
Mann, Hugh Craddock, J. M. Crees
and Mrs. Hubert Ambrose are
working on a plan to acquire the
building in this community.
RECORDERS COURT
PICKS UP $345 FOR
DARE SCHOOL FUND
Dare County Recorder’s Court
this week picked up about $315 in
fines for the school fund plus the
court costs in about 20 cases, most
1 of them minor traffic violations.
Three Buxton youth were ar
rested for the novel nast time of
molesting sheep belonging to R S
Wahab of Frisco, and the charge
might have turned into a feloni
ous one, had the judge not held the
• offense merely a technical viola
’ tion of trespass and let Donnie
I Gray, Harry and Chester Austin
. off with court costs and fines of
$5 each.
! Clifton Sarvis of East Lake and
! H. B. Hooper of Stumpy Point paid
• $5 for faiilng to report traffic ac
- cidents personally. David O. La
-1 tham and George W. King of Man-
• teo $5 fines each and costs for
improper equipment. R. H. Tillett
of Wanchese, $5 for ignoring a
stop sign. A. H. Etheridge, Jr. and
Mrs. Ruby Ludwig of Manteo each
I paid $lO and costs for speeding.
• For driving while under the influ
>’ence, and recklessness, J. L. Beas
l ley, Jr. of Kill Devil Hills paid
f $125 and costs.
Three defendants were from
■ Avon: John D. O'Neal, $25 and
, costs for reckless and careless
: driving; Horace W. Hooper, for
I possessing non-tax paid beer
, bought at the Navy commissary at
I Buxton, $25 and -costs; Basil H.
[.Hooper for driving on the wrong
See COURT, Page Eight
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CITIZENS RISE TO RESCUE
OF LOST COLONY SUNDAY
AND WILL RAISE $15,000
The Show Has +o Go On This Year Because Area
Cannot Afford to Let It Lapse; Citizens Make
Sizeable Financial Contribution to Our Most
Important Enterprise; Dare County Friends of
Lost Colony Go in Action.
OCRACOKE MAN PROMOTED
TO CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER
Ur
ERIC GREGORY BRAGG, son of
Mrs. Laura Bragg of Ocracoke, has
recently achieved the rating of
Chief Warrant Officer in the U. S.
Coast Guard Service. Mr. Bragg is
a graduate of the Ocracoke High
School, class of 1935. He has
served most of his Coast Guard
time at sea duty. During World
War II he was stationed on the
cutter Modoc off Greenland; he has
also served on the weather patrol
ship Ingham, on the Diamond
Shoals Lightship, and the Chero
kee. At present he is on the buoy
tender Mistletoe. With Mrs. Bragg
and a duaghter, Emily Louise they
reside in Norfolk at present, but
are building a new home at Bay
view.
CANNADY NAMED
DIST. PRESIDENT
OF ODDFELLOWS
Manteo Lodge to Maintain "Toll
Bridges" Jan. 30-31 to Aid
March of Dimes
Dan E. Cannady, Manteo police
officer became District President
of Oddfellows at the meeting held
in Elizabeth City Saturday night.
The District embraces lodges in
Pasquotank, Gates, Dare and Hyde
Counties. John Sawyer of Eliza
beth City was named District Chap
lain. The Vice President, Curtis
Powell, and the Secretary W. A.
Ward come from the Holly Grove
in Gates County.
Attending from Virginia Dare
Lodge, No. 3 in Manteo were Mr.
Cannady, Willie Rogers, Gus Eth
eridge, Gordon Riddick, John Fere
bee and J. D. O’Neal. Mr. O’Neal
is a former District President.
VANDALS RANSACK
J. S. WISE HOME
AT STUMPY POINT
What a few years ago was con
sidered the most expensive home
on Stumpy Point is reported now
in interior wreck and ruin, the
work of unknown vandals during
the past week. The home of the
late J. S. Wise, sold to a group of
sportsmen a few years ago, by the
widow, Mrs. Bertie Wise, brought
only a fraction of its cost, —some
$5,000. It was sold to Clyde and
Robert Keiss, Ralph Smith, Earl
S. Dawson. C. S. Shaw, C. C. Pflee
ger and S. E. Wilcox, and was
headquarters for a hunting and
fishing club.
The house remains unattended
for most of the time, and the un
known parties, roaming around,
and cognizant •of lack of law en
forcement being exerted in the
area, took occasion to amuse them
selves with beating things to
pieces inside, it was reported to
officers this week.
MANTEO LIONS ENJOY
PIRATES JAMBOREE FILM
Manteo Lions meeting Tuesday
night, Jan. 20, enjoyed a color
film of the 1958 Pirates Jamboree.
Included were scenes from all of
the major events on Hatteras Is
land, the beach* Roanoke Island,
Manns Harbor and East Lake and
the gay pre-Jamboree festivities.
An informal talk was made by
Lion Alvah Ward, Jr., past chair
man of Pirates Jamboree, urging
all the Lions to participate in
planning and presenting the 1959
Jamboree, scheduled for late
April.
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The show must go on! The never
say die motto of the circus world
was never more important than on
Sunday afternoon when Dare Coun
ty people met at" the Shrine Hall
'on the beach and heard what they
j were up against.
They must raise $15,000 to get
the Lost Colony on the track, come
June 27th, and they subscribed a
fifth of the money right there and
the drama a shot in the arm.
It is the first time the citizens
of Dare County have made a not
able contribution to the show, and
they were told the state is now
looking to its own people to give
th drama a shot in the arm.
The people of the community are
going out and raise the money and
they didn’t start in any small man
ner. Os 36 people present, 21
pledges were made, and all of them
save two were for $l5O each and
the others for SIOO.
President Robert Lee Humber
promptly paid $l5O. Paul Green
who wrote the Lost Colony, but
has been paid nothing for the
service he rendered this region is
another $l5O contributor. Mrs.
Lucille Winslow gave $l5O for her
self, and another $l5O for the Caro
linian Hotel.
Robert L. Humber, President of
the Roanoke Island historical as
sociation called the meeting to or
der and explained its purpose was
to find away to raise the $15,000 or
more essential to opening the show
this year.
Manager Dick Jordan read a re
port showing that the show paid
out last year more than $90,000 in
salaries and other expenditures,
most of which remained in the
community. Paul Green cited travel
figures to show that visitors to the
Lost Colony spent an estimated
$400,000 each season. In all, Mr.
Jordan’s figures indicated the
show had spent one and a quarter
million dollars for operation during
13 seasons, and it is obvious that
several millions have been spent
here by the-tourist visitors to the
show.
It was obvious that although the
money might be merely a gift it
would be better to give the $15,000
to the show than for the commu
nity to lose more than a million
dollars worth of business this sea
son.
Despite all the benefits to the
community, Mr. Jordan’s figures
indicated that of the many thou
sands of dollars .donated to the
show in 13 seasons, only the fol
lowing had come from the citizens
of the community:
In the spring of 1947 the commu
nity chipped in $475 when Gover
nor Broughton was chairman of the
show, and following the fire of
1948 the community gave contribu
tions of $460.25 It was in this year
that the Board of Commissioners
gave from ABC profits SIO,OOO
which paid for the ten acres of
land now leased to the Elizabethan
Gardens.
How to Raise the $15,000
At the opening of the meeting
David Stick, most recently ap
pointed member of the Roanoke Is
land Historical Association made
a comprehensive talk outlining the
needs of the show, and some sug
gestions for stepping up attendance
and the movement of tickets.
Some suggestion was made that
the county might help with a con
tribution, or levy more taxes in the .
form of an advertising fund. At
this point Victor Meekins, chair
man of the County Board poured
cold water on the theory of run
ning to the county for everything
and explained that the county now
was worse off than the Lost Colo
ny in that it needed to raise
$50,000 to fill up a hole. He told
Mr. Humber it would be no trou
ble to get the money if someone
would ask for it, just as all other
money comes this way. He said
there ought to be no trouble in
raising ten per cent of the $15,000
at this meeting, and asked that
Miles Clark of Elizabeth City be
recognized.
Mr. Clark said why not go out
and get 100 people to give $l5O
each and that would settle the mat.
ter. He said he had four checks in
his hands then for $l5O each, in
cluding his own, Mrs. Winslow’s
and Meekins’. Green and Humber
volunteered $l5O each.
There was some tendency to get
the meeting off the track by vari
ous attempts at discussing what