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PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES Published Continuously at Manteo, N. C., Since 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 SEaHOARD 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 "My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence."—Benj. Franklin. VICTOR MEEKINS . Editor CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer FRANCIS W. MEEKINS Advertising Manager It May Result in Needless Delay if Communications To This Newspaper Are Addressed to Individuals. Please Avoid Addressing to Any Person. VOLUME XXIV MANTEO, N. C.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1959 NO. 35 THE HATTERAS ISLAND HEALTH CENTER. It is to be hoped that the committee which has set out to provide Hatteras island with a modern clinic, will succeed in finding away to acquire this greatly needed facility, so important in today’s living. Isolated as they are, the citizens are always in need of emergency medical service. Dependent as they now are on the tourist patronage, nothing could be more helpful to encourage visitors to prolong their visits, than the assurance that here might be found medical skill and facilities whenever needed, the stranger a long way from home, needs this assurance in a day and time when all other places have up-to-date medical facilities to offer. We must consider that judging by the past, the Hatteras and Ocracoke area will grow by leaps and bounds in the next few years, thereby increasing the need and the importance of this proposed health center. Consequently what is under taken now must be planned for the future whereby enlarge ments may be made in the most economical and practical manner as time rolls on and brings up new conditions and new needs. Ample land for future development should be had at the outset. Room for the parking of helicopters is particu larly important. Some room for recreational purposes is also important. The people who staff this clinic will in time want outdoor space for athletic diversion, for parking and to keep off objectionable encroachment from over-active develop ment on the part of other interests in the community. The proposed clinic is equally important to all citizens. It ought to support itself from reasonable fees to all alike. If built up to modern standards, perhaps Federal agencies would contract with it for the treatment of service person nel. This clinic may be necesary if the area is to retain suffi cient qualified medical personnel. Nearly every small place in the country these days is having to provide facilities be fore doctors, they being scarce, will give a place a second look. Having the clinic in the locality will be an asset; it will add to the community’s good name. It will label the people as progressive people. It will be worth what it costs to every family although fortunately one may never have to use it. It may mean the difference between life and death in numerous emergencies that will arise through the years. With its equipment, its medical and nursing staff, its blood bank, and aid on the spot, it should save many a life and make all citizens growingly happy and proud of having made this contribution for the betterment of all the people of the Outer Banks. THE FIREMAN WILL BECOME AN INCREASINGLY RESPECTED AND VALUED MAN It seems to us there have never been enough people to give due recognition and appreciation to those men who give their services to the local fire department. We have attempt ed to analyze the motivation which makes many men do nate their time from gainful occupation and assume some physical and financial risk in addition, in order to save the property of other people, some of whom they don’t know. We assume therefore it is the same impulse which drives all of us to the dedicated tasks which make life more interest ing for us. It would be a tough old existence indeed if we could not sometimes escape from the chains and slavery as it were, imposed upon us by civilization in our struggle for existence. We think the day of the fireman is coming back; there is a demand for him. Never was the fireman more impor tant than in this coastland today. Unreasonable insurance rates are driving people to establish fire protection districts. Otherwise financial aid for residential expansion would be impossible. It has become most important in rural areas to estab lish protection zones. It’s going to have to be done on the Outer Banks as well as in communities inland, if hope of reasonable insurance rates materialize, and there can nevei be appreciable development commercially until the business of the area can afford the overhead costs, which include in terest. insurance and other fixed charges. The man who is wiling to give his time to service in the local fire department will get more appreciation from his neighbors. He has deserved it all along, but has never been' given the credit that is due him. THE CHOICE IS WITH THE PEOPLE. We must choose between the destruction canced bvJ government paternalism and the security insured by individ ual freedom with individual responsibilty as expressed in the Bill of Rights. There is no other chcice. As it must, the choice rests with each of us as individ ual Americans. No one can tell us what to think or do. No one should. To do so would be a violation of both the spirit and the words of the Bill of Rights. As responsible persons, each of us has the privilege and the obligation to pursue what each considers to be the right course of action. But this above all—before we act, let us understand the meaning of our actions, the direction in which we are going. —Dean Russell. It is not the critic who counts; nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort with out error and shortcoming; who does actually try to do the deed who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and tmid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. —Theodore Roosevelt. There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. Cyrus H. K. Curtis 1 Demonstratioi and MRS. FRAN A. CULLIS Home Agent 4-H Development Fund Progress At the executive board meeting of the 4-H Development Fund the treasurer, Mrs. Carl Nunemaker of Nags Head, reported that we now have $350. The Home Demonstration Clubs on the Outer Banks plan to help us reach our goal of SSOO. Buxton Club plans to conduct a drive headed by volunteer leaders: Mrs. Chris Kinsey, Chairman; Mrs. Carolyn Fowler, Mrs. Evelyn Mid gett, Mrs. Mary Stamey, Mrs. Retta Quidley and Mrs. Mary j Reynolds. Hatteras Club women I will help by holding a bake sale I under the guidance of Mrs. Gail I Hollis, President. From the Frisco club Mrs. Julian Austin and Mrs. Ella Ransom head a committee to conduct a drive. Rodanthe-Waves- Salvo club did not meet this month because of a funeral. The 4-H County Council made tentative plans for a talent contest to raise funds with Miss Della Basnight and Miss Carol Harris as Co-Chairmen to help reach our set goal. Home Demonstration Club Schedule for March March 2 Manteo Club with Mrs. Tom Etheridge; March 4 Manns Harbor Club—with Mrs. Ol lie Littlejohn; March s—Stumpy Point Club —with Mrs. Edith Best; March 6—Kitty Hawk Club —with Mrs. Frances Marks; March 8— Rodanthe-Waves-Salvo club at the community building; March 9 —Buxton Club—with Mrs. Joyce Gray; March 10—Hatteras Club— with Mrs. Pauline Oden; March 10 —Frisco Club—no hostess yet; March 11—Wanchese Club with Mrs. Betty Daniels; March 18— Nags Head Club—with Mrs. Mary Newman. A special interest meeting will be conducted by Mrs. Sylvia Mat thews, VEPCO home economist, on “Freezing Cooked Products” such as meats, cookies, cakes, etc. The meeting will be held March 24 at I 2 p.m. in the appliance department of Fearing’s Drug Store. Door prizes of the foods used in the demonstration will be given. This demonstration will be too good to miss. Also on March 24 a Music School will be held at the Corinth Baptist Church in Elizabeth City beginning at 10 a.m. for each music leader in the H. D. Clubs. These leaders will be taught all the songs in our yearbooks, plus others and enjoy fellowship with many other counties. The demonstration in each of the H. D. clubs this month will be “Low Calorie Desserts.’’ The fol lowing factors will be discussed: 1. The reason for maintaining nor- ’ rnal weight; 2. The essential foods that every diet should- include; 3.' The facts about fad diets; 4. How j desserts can fit into a reducing diet; 5. The psychology of weight reduction; 6. Preventive weight control programs; 7. Ways to cut calories in dessert recipes. The 4-H demonstration this month for the girls will continue in the foods field taking into con sideration “How to Measure Cor rectly.” Proper measuring equip ment will be displayed and a dem onstration given on how to meas ure various liquids, solids, fats, flours, etc. ENGELHARD PERSONALS Mrs. Mildred Guthrie of Smith field spent the week end here. Wiley Hodges has returned to Greensboro after visiting his par-) ents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Hodges. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Neal of Great Bridge vidted her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stowe of Washington visited his sister, Mrs. Patsy Marshall. Mrs. Myra Patrick was a Swan Quarter visitor. Charley Midyette of New Bern spent Thursday here. Miss Grace Berry of Columbia '-epnt Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Martha Berry, and sister, Miss Bettye Berry. Rev. and Mrs. Lamar Wheeler and son, Neal, of Fairfield and Mrs. Mildred Guthrie of Smith field were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cox. Edward Sadler has returned to Washington, D. C. after spending Ihe ’past week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Sadler. Wayne Wheeler of Fairfield spent Sunday with Phyllis, Martha and Barbara Berry. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Litchfield were in Washington for several days where they took their young son to the Beaufort County Memo rial Hospital. THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. GOLDSBORO WRITER HAS PRAISE FOR ROANOKE ID. COOK BOOK'S RECIPES By MRS. HENRY BELK (In Goldsboro News-Argus.) The writer of this column has for today turned it over to the woman who lives at his house, his wife, who is in fun called by him the General Manager. He wanted a discussion of seafood recipes. Eating seafood with relish is an accomplishment of his; cooking it is not. 1 walk with fear and trepida tion in the path which the dis tinguished Ben Dixon Mac Neill re cently trod. He gave to readers of this column noteworthy ways for cooking seafoods which made me almost drool. He has invited us to Buxton to sample some of his recipes. We have been offered a ride there by a friend. I can hardly wait to go again to Bux ton. The Roanoke Island Cookbook, made up of recipes collected by members and friends of the Man teo, N. C., Woman’s Club, is the book he assigned for the General Manager to discuss and he partic ularly wanted a write-up of the seafood recipes in the book. It may be secured for $1.75 from Mrs. Ralph Umphlett, Manteo, N. C. The book is unusual in its format: It is bound in red with each recipe on a cardboard like sheet of paper and the collection of recipe cards is put together with black rings. There is a red card between each section of foods card index style. Many other sec tions besides seafoods interested, me, but perhaps they are most [ unusual as Manteo is a coastal I town. Clam Fritters Here is how Mrs. J. E. Baum makes clam fritters. 12 chopped clams Salt and pepper to taste Enough Bisquick to make clams stick together Drop by spoonfuls in hot fat and cook until brown on both sides. Drain on paper to absorb excess fat. Fish Cakes A regional dish is Mrs. J. Em mett Winlslow’s Dare County Fish Cakes: lb. channel bass, boiled and flaked finely (other fish too) 12 medium potatoes 4 T butter 2 t sweet basil chopped fine Pepper and salt to taste 4 eggs Peel and dice potatoes. Boil and mash. Drain thoroughly and stir in butter, then seasoning. Beat fish and potatoes together vigor-! ously with a fork to make it very j light and fluffy. Then beat in eggs one at a time. Chill for at least half an hour. Since fish cakes, like pastry, thrive on little handling, drop your mixture from a fork I into hot fat and cook until golden ■ brown. Kedgeree And here’s a new dish to me;! perhaps it is local, too: 3 cups hot rice 3 T butter 3 cuds flaked fish (scallops or lobster chunks) % cup rich milk 5 hard boiled eggs, chopped Salt and pepper to taste Season rice with salt and pep-| per then mix butter into it and add flaked fish, milk, chopped eggs, parsley and paprika, if de- i sired. Heat thoroughly over hot water and serve. Any good fish can be used but cod and haddock i are most commonly used. Scalloped Oysters I have been making scalloped oystesr ever since I started house keeping in Wake Forest a good many years ago when my husband, fresh out of Duke (then Trinity College) taught English and news writing at Wake Forest College and headed the public relations bureau. He not only headed it; he was the bureau, with student help sometimes. But back to the oysters. Mrs. Sarah H. E v erett, who gave her cooking knowledge \ to the Manteo Woman’s Club, has several new, to me, twists to one j of our favorite dishes: 1 qt. oysters with juice (if there isni’t enough juice to make a quart add enough wa ter) % cup shortening 2 T flour 2 T onion, minced M clove garlic, minced 1 T lemon juice 1 T Worcestershire sauce Salt and pepper Approximately 1% cup cracker meal, the amount dependent up on the amount of liquid and the consistency desired. Bring oysters and joice, salt and pepper to a boil. Melt the shortening, with the flour until the flour has browned. This gives a brownish color to the dish. Mix in all the ingredients, adding lastly the cracker meal to the de sired consistency (it should not be too runny or too stiff). Sprin kle a little of the cracker meal on top and bake about 30 minutes in a hot oven —375 to 400 degrees. With Lent giving many cooks reason for hunting new ways of serving seafoods, maybe interest may be added to non-meat menus with this creation of Mrs. W. J. Andrews: Congealed Shrimp Salad 2 envelopes plain gelatin % C cold Water 1 can tomato soup _ Fy TRUE STORIES OF / BRAVE OLD DAYS yJwW Gallant Deeds of By-Gone . Years in The Walter / Lr’fcr Raleigh Coastland. WRECK OF SCHOONER NATHAN ESTERBROOK, JR. FEBRUARY 29. 1893 At about 1 o’clock on the morn ing of February 20, 1893, the surf man having the patrol to the northward from the Little Kinna keet Station, (then the Sixth Dis trict), North Carolina, discovered a large vessel, which proved to be the schooner Nathan Esterbrook, Jr., of New Haven, Connecticut, ashore two and one-half miles north-northeast of the life-saving station, and about three hundred and seventy-five yards from the shore. This point is some four miles northward of the town of Avon. The vessel was of seven hundred and thirty-one tons burden, hav ing on board a cargo of guano val ued at $35,000, and was on a voy age from New Y’ork City to Savan i nah, Georgia, carrying a crew of nine men all told. The wind was from the southwest, and although strong, was favored for the' schoon ■ er, and while it was intensely dark I the weather was not stormy, but | the master had in some way missed his calculations and almost before' he was aware of his peril, ran hard aground as stated above. The tide was falling and the surf was heavy. The patrolman no sooner saw the lights of the schooner than he knew she was stranded, and he therefore made hiis way with all possible haste to the life-saving station, where the crew were aroused and at once prepared to go to the wreck. While the appara tus cart was being run out, and some extra articles that the keeper thought might be found necessary were being loaded into a horse cart belonging to him, he tele-' phoned to the Gull Shoal Station, some five miles to the north of his own, and also to Big Kinnakeet, some six miles to the southward, informing them of the stranding and requesting their presence at the scene. Then he went to the top of the lookout and burned a red signal to let the ship-wrecked men know that preparations were in hand for their rescue. The life saving crew then harnessed them selves to the apparatus cart and started off. the keeper going ahead and making faster time with his own cart loaded with the medicine chest, blankets, life belts, extra shot lines, etc. Not long afterwards he met the Gull Shoal crew and sent some of them with a horse to assist his men who were behind with the apparatus cart. No time was unnecessarily consumed, but extreme darkness of the night and the condition of the beach were such that a considerable period was required to get abreast of the wreck with the apparatus, which was not accomplished until nearly 3 o’clock. The Lyle life gun was immedi ately brought into requisition, carefully sighted by the lights of the schooner which were still burn ing, and a moment later its friend ly shot went whizzing through the air toward the mark. The distance was great, and the darkness so im penetrable that the eye could not follow the flight of the projectile, but the fact subsequently appeared that notwithstanding the difficul ties of the situation both the keep er and gun had done their work well. It is true the shot did not rest, on board the vessel, but it reached] her fairly and would have proved entirely successful had it not hap-i pened to strike the heavy forestay and rebound into the water. After waiting a sufficient length of. time to find tha.t the line was not being hauled aboard, the keeper knew the shot had failed, and promptly prepared to try again. The second I large pkg. Philadellphia cream cheese 1 C mayonnaise % C diced celery % C diced onion 1% lbs. cooked shrimp (cut if shrimp are large) pinch salt Soak gelatin in cold water. Bring soup to a boil. Add cheese to soup and beat until smooth. Remove from fire and add soft efted gelatin. Let eool. Add celery, onion, shrimp and mayonnaise. Pour in mold and chill until firm. Serves 9. Clam Dip Mrs. M. K. Fearing contributes this good one: 1 7-oz, can drained minced clams 2 T clam juice 1 large pkg. cream Cheese IT grated onion 1 small can mushrooms, chopped Seasonings to taste—garlic salt, tobasco sauce, etc. Mix until right' consistency to spread on crackers or for dunk ing potato chips. Thin with clam juice. I projectile, was fired with a larger , line and a heavier charge of pow der, but fell short. Upon the third trial the same weight cartridge was used, but a lighter line (of the same size as the first one), and this shot landed the line in ex cellent position across the fore gaff, between the fore and main masts. The shipwrecked crew at once began hauling out the whip, and in jthe space of a few minutes the I hawser was sent out and made i fast, but unfortunately, as it later) appeared, too low down. The move-1 ments of the life-saving men were guided solely by the signals of a lantern on board the schooner and they had no knowledge of what: was going on except from that) source, therefore, when a signal j was made that the hawser was, fast they set it up, clapped on the! breeches buoy, and it was about to start on its first shoreward when a change of conditions oc cured which ultimately resulted in ■the only instance of loss of life which attended the wreck. Just as all was ready the wind suddenly veered from the west to southwest and began to blow a gale from the north swinging the wreck around and thus bringing the beach apparatus hawser across the headstays. A signal to haul away, i was, however, shown and the buoy was accordingly prompity pulled ashore. When it reached the beach its occupant was found to be uncon scious and was supposed to be drowned, the hawser having been made fast so low on the schooner that the buoy was necessarily dragged through the water a large I portion of the way. Efforts were made instantly to resuscitate the) apparently drowned man, and he soon recovered consciousness, when i he was transported in one of the: carts to the Little Kinnakeet Sta-: tion. attended by surfmen selected I for that purpose, while the rest of i the three crews assembled at the i scene remained to complete the rescue of the eight men still on! board the Esterbrook. The gear being fouled the keep er now determined to give over any further effort with that method! and make an attempt to reach the I vessel with the surfboat. A launch; was finally accomplished in face| of the high wind and furious surf, j but these obstacles, supplemented) by a rapid longshore current, were ■ too much for the crew, and ulti mately compelled them to abandon the effort and return to the beach. It was now daylight, and Keeper Hooper signaled to the men on the wreck to change the hawser whip line to the lee bow, and while this was being done and the short end of the gear set up over again as was necessary, he sent a team to) his station for the life car, which he proposed to use in the further operations, as perhaps under the circumstances a speedier and pre-1 ferable means of getting the re maining men ashore. When it ar-| rived the car was slung upon the' hawser in place of the breeches) buoy, and four trips were made' with it, two men being landed at' each trip. So many perplexities' were encountered that it was well into the day when the last man) was safe on shore, and it may well, be accounted a fortunate circum-1 stance that the vessel was suffi ciently strong to hold together un- /*"**»/ / Jf/ ’ ’ MJ Old sW» Gold, Straight s^^ a 2s BOURBON S3 X "" Whiskev 3 / q , 1V111&A.C y mow mmUNA COMMNY '•' ' lAwumct*u*o, MNTucrr „ - ... ',' i. • -. T . . FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1959 til all the rescue was completed. No lives were lost by drowning, ■ but the second mate, Charles Claf ford, who, as before stated, was ! unconscious when he reached the shore, and it afterwards appeared I from his own statements and those of his shipmates, was injured be fore leaving the vessel and later by being dragged across the head stays, suddenly failed early in the forenoon, and at about 9:30 gave up his life. From the instant he was landed to the moment of his death every possible means was adopted for his recovery, but with out avail. Just before he expired he threw up profuse quantities of blood and . it was the opinion of his comrades, . as would seem to be the fact, that I his death was dut to necessarily fa . tai internal injuries. His body was ’ carefully dressed in clothing taken , from the supply provided by the . generous benevolence of the Wom . an’s National Relief Association, i and then reverently interred by the life-saving men in the presence , of the surviving members of the shipwrecked crew. 1 While the circumstances of this ' rescue were not extraordinary so i i far as the weather was concerned, •) they afford a fair illustration of | the methods of life-saving—the • i breeches buoy, boat and life car having been successfully brought into use—and they also emphasize ! the value of telephonic communi ) cation between the stations, by I which three crews were easily and ! promptly assembled under circum ! stances calling for a very consider able number of men. The shipwrecked people were furnished with dry clothing and re mained at the station until the day after the wreck, when they took their departure on. a wrecking steamer for Norfolk, Virginia, leaving with the keeper the fol lowing statement expressive of their appreciation of the services of the life-saving crews: “The Schooner Nathan Ester ! brook, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., stranded at 12:40 o’clock on the morning of February 20, 1893, about two and one-half miles north of. the Little Kinnakeet Life- Saving Station. The Captain and crew of the station were promptly on hand. There was no lack of duty in saving our lives. Furthermore, I wish to state that the man who j died at the station was saved alive. I believe that he got hurt in get ) ting ciear of the vessel, causing I his death. Everything was done to j save his life that could be done. I lam very thankful for myself and the crew for the fine treatment | that we received from the captain ) and crew of the life-saving sta tion; Geo. Kesley, Captain, A. L. Dunton, Mate, John Mansion, Steward, W. Krueger, Seaman, T. jAndermon, Seaman. F. Kuhla, Sea man, J. Anderson, Seaman and T. Anderson, Seaman.” SWAN QUARTER PERSONALS Dr. and Mrs. Rhodes Lupton, of (Chapel Hill visited Mrs. Eula Har i ris and Mr. and Mrs. Rouse Lup ton. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Spencer and Miss Mildred Spencer visited Rev. and Mrs. Jesse Parks at Lucama. Miss Rosetta Spencer and Miss Ann Bowen of Washington visited Mr. and Mrs. Branch Spencer. Mrs. Ray Cahoon and Renee have returned after visiting in Norfolk. Miss Cecilia Jennette of Wash ington, D. C. and Miss Sandra Jen nette of Greenville were home with Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jennette. | Mrs. Mildred Williamson. Mrs. iLeon Harris, Mrs. T. C. Tunnell, j Mrs. Rouse Lupton, Mrs. Branch : Spencer, Mrs. Claude Sawyer, Mrs. Bell Jordan, E. A. Williams, Mrs. Evelyn Swindell, Mrs. Don I Harris, Mrs. D. E. Tunnell, Ray | Cahoon, Mrs. Ben Mason, Mrs. Cle ron Carawan, Mrs. Addie Gibbs, ; Mrs. Verda Mason, Mr. and Mrs. . Tim Smith, Mrs. Leonard Smjth, I Miss Gloria Jean Smith, and Joe j Henry Bishop were Washington visitors.
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