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SEND RENEWAL ' OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS SECTION ONE VOLUME XXV NO. 7 Dare County Man Has Record As Builder Os Churches In 52 Years Rev. Louis D. Hayman, A Coastland Product Deserted His Fish Nets and Went Forth to Win Renown Among Methodists The person conberned in this skeiteh is the Reverend Louis De- Maro Hayman. Bom January 8 1885, the son of Capt. Daniel and Mary Perry Hayman. His early childhood was spent at Kitty Hawk Where he was bom. Latei at Paul Gamiels Hill Life Saving Station. After- his mother’s death in 1901 his father a member of the U. S. Life Saving Service, moved his family to Manteo where the seven children lived to adulthood. Time marched on, and this family of children moved to different parts of North Carolina and en gaged in business, and in time married. Early in manhood,, Louis Hay man felt the call to preach, and was licensed by the Elizabeth City District Conference, April 14, 1907. The first three years of his minis terial life were lived at Wanchese, where he engaged in commercial fishing—with Joe T°m Daniels and Lynton Daniels forming, a partner ship in this enterprise. By 1910, this young minister felt definitely the call to enter the itinerate ministry of the Methodist Church, forsook his nets, left the haunts of early life, and set himself to the long and trying task of obtaining edu cation that would fit him for the work he had chose for a lifetime. He spent two years in the high school of Siler City. Completing this unit, he applied for entrance into, the ranks of the Freshman Class of 1909, at Trinity College in Durfxun, N. C. At the end of four years he graduated with his class in 1913, with a grade average, of 90. Three years previously he hadi joined the North Carolina Confer-] cnee of the Methodist Church and, from that date December 1910 hej has served constantly as a pastor of churches, except two and one half years when he retired and went to his new home in South port, where he and his wife, Bess Widenhouse Hayman are now liv ing. Two children were bom to this union—Louis D. Hayman, Jr., a .prominent medical doctor of Jack sonville, N. C., and* in the field of Internal JJeaicine. His daughter, Beryl Hayman Draper is married and lives in Conway, C., where 1 she and her husband’ Leo Draper,! reside. It was on Junq 7, 1910 that the' Presiding Elder of the Durham District appointed Louis to take over a handful of people trying to carry on a Sunday School in a cor ner of the school building at Lake wood Park, Durham. He was given the status as “junior preacher” under the supervision of the Rever- BAYNE OPERATING NEWEST SERVICE STA. ON BEACH Kitty Hawk Venture To Be Known As Outer Banks Serv ice Station Pat Bayne of Nags Head, the man who carved great success from the Original Jockey Ridge Restaurant has engaged in a new venture. He has leased and is op erating Senator Emmett Win ' slow’s modern Pure Oil station just completed at the intersection of U. S. 158 and the Duck road, diagonally across from the Kitty Hawk school.t Because it is only a few hun dred yards from the Currituck Sound bridge, where one coming , from the west first rolls upon the Outer Banks of N. C., he will call it the Outer Banks Service sta tion, and provide “round the clock service.’’ Mr. Bayne, since the new beach highway took over his restaurant, lock, stock, and barrel, haS es tablished a souvenir center at > Nags Head. The new service station will feature minor repairs ond employ expert mechanics for the business. Assisting Mr. Bayne are Cleatus J. Gilley of Kill Devil Hills, and Otis Brinkley of Kitty Hawk, formerly of Shawboro. MANTEO ROTARIANS HEAR GOVERNOR FERD L. DAVIS The Manteo Rotary Club had a fine treat Monday evening in the address of Ferd L. Davis of Zebu lon, Governor of the 771st Rotary District. Mr. Davis, attorney, news i paperman, former member of the Board of Conservation and De velopment, and who had a consid erable career in World War 11, drew upon his full life for a an in spiring talk on citizenship, and Rotary principles. Mr. Davis was accompanied to Manteo by his wife, spent a night on the beach, and returned home Tuesday byway of Engelhard. / ' ! ... ■■ David. Stick, * • ' * TTi ttv THE COASTLAND TIMES WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA ■ (i I E I ■hl " a i aMHffaMi * end George F. Smith, pastor of the ' Duke Memorial Methodist Church } of Durham. No sooner was this ' r young preacher appointed to his . new and exciting task, than he ap r peared the following Sunday in the , house before some thirty people. ’ The only thing this first congrega , tion had in the way of equipment was the loan of the school house, j a few chairs, some old Hymn books , with torn-off backs and displaced k See HAYMAN, Page Four I COMPLETE AIR FORCE TRAINING AT LACKLAND B R <.•«. ■■.. .senate®*.. A <■ * ’’’O- ; z BILLY MONETTE Billy Monette of Norfolk and Michael Boomer of Norfolk, cousins, have completed six weeks basic training at Lackland AFB, San An tonio, Texas, Monette, who is a, 1959 graduate of Manteo High School, has been transferred to Aircraft Mechanics School, Amarillo, Teaxs. His mother is Mrs. W. W. Monette, the former Eloise Hooper of Stumpy Point. Boomer, who is Airman 3/C completed his training in May and is in the Air Police. His mother, Mrs. S. W. Boomer, is the former Sybil Hooper of Stumpy Point. Young Boomer is a graduate of Nor view High School. Most of their life has been spent at Stumpy Point UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES: Anybody Loves His Own Child, But It Takes Superior People to Love Another's Dear Mr. Editor: I was reading your piece about how much fun we get out of chil dren and grandchildren and it ran through my mind that just about everybody has the same experience and the same enjoyment, and of course it is only natural, the good Lord making it that way. So none of us should feel any great credit is due us for looking out for our own, and most of the time we get more fun for ourselves than the Children get. Now I got to thinking too, about how blessed all of us are who have children, and how unfortunate are all those who have none, and in addition these latter people have to endure all the jokes and jibes of thoughtless relatives and friends who taunt them with their inability to produce. Despite all this ill mannered thoughtlessness, these foster parents with no children of their own are really the ones who deserve more praise and respect. I think, Mr. Editor, that the couple who decides to adopt some home less child, and make it their own, who showers on it their love and affection; helps to send it forth in to the world with opportunities it would never have had otherwise, and in the end die and leave it with their material possessions along with the memory of their love and sacrifice—well really such parents are the grandest parents after all. Anybody can love his own, and he’s a lousy one if he doesn’t, but it takes something superior in the heart and soul that is willing to share everything with some other person’s child. Mr. Editor, it may be that the credit belongs mostly to the woman in the family for adopting little cnes and giving them the lift in PLANS COMPLETE FOR FERRY SLIP AT OCRACOKE ID. Belhaven Boy Scouts Plan Visit to Ocracoke Island Next Week Plans moved up another notch this week after a conference be tween Congressman Bonner and Conrad Wirth, Director of the Na tional Park Service, when arrange ments were made with the Taylor Bros, of Sea Level for use of NPS land at Ocracoke Island. A ferry slip will be built here for the new boat which is to go in service be tween Ocracoke and Sea Level in Carteret County early in Septem ber. Supt. Bob Gibbs of Manteo, and Bill Spruill, Highway Engineer in- Ispected the premises, and agreed on the dock. The new boat is now being completed at Fort Deposit, Md., which is on the Susquehannah River a few miles above Havre de Grace, Md. It will carry 24 cars and some 200 passengers, and make two trips a day across Core Soupd. To enable the Boy Scout troop of Belhaven to travel enmasse to Ocracoke Island on August 21st., for a week end camporee, Congress man Bonner got permission of the Coast Guard to use one of its larger boats to transport the boys. This is a high spot in the annual activities of the scouts. On Ocra coke, they will find the famed troop which under the direction of Capt. Howard became known across the country as the nation’s only mounted troop of Boy Scouts. ■ a ■B IB UK,. —, W”. >l. -y V . ht wr ? - * W ... a - - MICHAEL BOOMER life they ought to have. What a pity it is there are not more unselfish people, for the world is full of little ones who need help. What a great thing it is a woman is a woman, with the tenderness and sweetness that grows from her hunger for the touch of a baby’s cheek against her own and the clutch of baby fingers in her hand; and what a fine thing See DOCK, Page Four- PRINCIPAL PURVIS ANNOUNCES BELHAVEN TEACHER ASSIGNMENTS Principal Gene A. Purvis of the John A. Wilkinson High School in Belhaven has announced the follow ing teacher assignments for the school year 1959-60: Grade 1, Mrs. Sallie E. Holton; combination grade 1 and 2, Mrs. Edna T. Justice; Grade 2, Mrs. Lola Harris; Grade 3, Mrs. Alethia Burbage; Grade 4, Mrs. Mary N. Broome; Grade 5, Mrs. Virginia Andrews; Combina tion 5 and 6, Mrs. Virginia C. Boger; Grade 6, Mrs. Mary King Mitchell; Grade 7, Mrs. Mary Alice Chapin and Mrs. Katherine Foreman; Grade 8, Mrs. Thelma Dawson and Mrs. Grace Lupton; Grade 9, Howard Chapin and Orville Lowe; Grade 10, unassign ed; Grade 11, Mrs. Carolyn C. Lloyd; Grade 12, Mrs. Ruth B. Midyette. Mrs. Tillie Brinson will teach commercial work, Mrs. Bur chie Johnston will head the home economics department, and M. L. Andrews will teach agriculture. All pupils wil report for regis tration at 8:00 A. M. on Wednes day, August 26, A full schedule will begin on Thursday, with school opening at 8:30 and closing at 8:25 P. M. The lunchroom will be in operation on that day. MANTEO, N. C. ( FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1959 I DARE SHERIFF HONORED IN ANNUAL CONVENTION • * w Bk BF Xi . OK aHHUra Ils' FRANK M. CAHOON, Sheriff of Dare County for the past 14 years was named second Vice-President of th N. C. Association of Sheriffs last week at the annual convention in Asheville, and would be due for the presidency in 1961, when it is hoped the convention will come to Dare County. New president is Glenn Womble of Nash County. First Vice-president Haywood Al ien of Cleveland County. LAST "SURFMAN" ENDS CAREER AT CAPE HATTERAS Dudley Burrus Mustered Out Af ter 20 Years and Six Days CAPE HATTERAS—This Is land, where the rating was estab lished more than a century ago and where its proud tradition reach ed its full flowering, saw the last of its Surfmen retired last week when BMC Luther Dudley Burrus Jr., who made the rating in 1940, was mustered out of the U. S. Coast Guard after 20 years and six days of sei-vice. At the time of his retirement he was officer in charge of Cape Hatteras Group. There is not now and there will unlikely be again a Coast Guards man with the proud (L) set down after his name on duty on the Is land. There are a few of them left in the service, men who enlisted prior to the Second War. The classification was displaced early during the war to make all Coast Guard ratings conform to Navy ratings and though efforts have been .made from time to time to have the rating restored, nothing has come of it. That there is perhaps no place for it in the Service as it is now organized was demonstrated by Burrus himself three years ago when he directed one of the Coast Guard’s most spectacular rescues without leaving his desk. He was acting Group Commander at the time and the whole proceeding was directed by telephone and by ra dio. Nobody lifted an oar and there were no heroics—and no danger nor medals. The rescue didn’t even make the headlines. But is was Burrus’ experience as a Hatteras Surfman that got him whisked out to the Southwest Pacific early in 1942. He knew how to put a small craft through the surf to a beach landing—and he with some other Islanders, landed the first elements of the U. S. Marines on Guadal Canal. Burras stayed with it until the Marines were exhausted. He helped put the relieving U. S. Army Di visions ashore months later and was himself then hospitalized for many months. Rarely did he speak of it but some times, especially of late as his retirement approached, he would reminisce about it after dinner at the Station on Sundays. Once, he was pinned down behind a coconut log for 84 hours by Japanese mortar fire and more times than he can remember he was strafed by enemy aricraft as he went back and forth between trans ports and the beach hauling sup plies. One day a Japanese subma rine' got after him and chased him See “SURFMAN,” Page Four HATTERAS REPORTS WAHOO KING MACKEREL CATCHES Relatively few billfish have been reported from Hatteras waters since August 1, but wahoo, dolphin and king mackerel have been plentiful, nice catches being brought in by anglers fishing the Gulf Stream. Donald Oden, an area represent ative of the new N. C. Salt Water Sportsfishing Association early Thursday that anglers trolling at the inlet were also catching blue fish and Spanish mackerel. Floun der have been plentiful in the surf. / “Gus Austin, caught a 300 pound Shark, at Hatteras this week,” Oden stated. REQUEST IS MADE FOR BRIDGE OVER ALLIGATOR RIVER State Requests War Dep't Per _ mission for Drawbridge Soon Plans have been filed, and ap proval requested of the District Engineer’s office in Wilmington by the State Highway Commission for a highway drawbridge over Alli gator River, between East Lake in Dare County and Sandy Point fer ry landing in Tyrrell County. Plans showing the location and navigation clearances show 100. horizontal on either side of the swing-draw span, with 15.4 ft. vertical clearance when closed. Total length of swing span is 260 feet. The bridge would be about three miles long, and the drawspan near est the Tyrrell Co. shore. It is esti mated the bridge will cost close to seven million dollars. One other structure has been authorized for the Dare County area. Oregon Inlet is to be bridged after the channel is located near the south side of the inlet next spring,—cost, three million. WASHINGTON MINISTER SHEDULED FOR SUNDAY TK w F HR * x bREf TMk. The Rev. Stuart F. Gast of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Epis copal Church, Washington, D. C. will guest minister at The Lost Raleigh, Roanoke Island Sunday morning, at 11 o’clock. Music by The Lost Colony Choir under direction of George Traut wein will be a feature of the serv ices. Mr. Gast is well known here on the Dare Coast as he has preached at these services on three occasions ; previously. A native of Lancaster Pa., he at tended the public schools there and later was a student at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, which school he was graduated in and thence to the General Theologi cal Seminary, New York, from 1927. TWO YOUNG GIRLS MEET FIERY DEATH IN NORFOLK HOME Grandchildren of Belhaven Cou ple Suffocated on Birthdate Tuesday NORFOLK—Two girls died of suffocation during a pre-dawn fire in their Fox Hall Gardens home Tuesday. It was one girl’s 12th birthday. Their screams woke their moth er, Mrs. Elva Malosh, who tried to climb the stairs to the attic bedroom where Ida Joanne Ma losh, 12, and Fayetta Marie Ma losh, 13, were trapped. Neighbors ran into the Malosh home and managed to reach an al cove on the attic floor, but no farther. The fire, which presumably started in plastic clothes bags on a metal rack, was in a room across from the girls’ bedroom. Fireman arrived and were able to keep the blaze confined to the room where it started, and car ried the bodies of the two girls from the house. Chief Deputy Fire Chief W. R. McCullin said they were burned by heat but un touched by flames. McCullin said the blaze was un usual. He could not recall a fire here which started in plastic clothes bags and said the cause probably was spontaneous conibus tipn. The girls’ father, Fay Roy Ma losh, a Navy chief petty officer, arrived from duty at the Naval Air Station about 3 a.m. Mrs. Malosh was admitted to Norfolk General Hospital and treated for shock. Neighbors said the mother and daughters had been very close. “The three of them spent most of their time together," Mrs. Ea son said. “They were wonderful children, well behaved. You See TRAGEDY, Page Four MANNS HARBOR NATIVE MOVES UPWARD IN NAVY Jr .. . . BU MAXTON MURRAY MIDGETT, bom at Manns Harbor, graduate of Ocracoke High School, 1938, grand son of Mrs. Sally Gard of Manns Harbor, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Sumner K. Midgett of Norfolk, at 39 is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, and looks back on some 20 years of sendee in many dis- . tant places. His most recent as signment is that of Commanding officer of the USS Wood County, a ship which was commissioned last week. Named for Wood County, Ohio, this ship is 442 feet long, and is designated an LST. Commander Midgett was born January 1, 1920, at Ocracoke. Following graduation from school, LCDR Midgett entered the Navy at Norfolk. On completion of , recruit training he was assigned to the USS MCDOUGAL at San Diego, California, and later the USS Reid. Prior to Pearl Harbor, the USS Reid was assigned to the Hawaiian detachment at Honolulu, T. H. In 1940, he was assigned to the USS Hilary P. Jones for com missioning, and while attached to that destroyer, operated three I years in the North Atlantic during the height of the Nazi U-boat men ace, and later participated in shore bombardment at Anzio Beachead, Italy. | In March 1944, he was appointed Warrant Electrician and joined the USS Livermore. While attached to the Livermore, participated in the See MIDGETT, Page Four TAX COLLECTIONS TO BE ENFORCED BY LEGAL STEPS Some Hardships Develop Due to Gross Neglect of Tax Col lecting Agencies The County Commissioners in Dare last week, gave instructions to proceed with legal steps to col lect long neglected delinquent taxes in Dare County and papers are being prepared by the county at torney whereby automobiles, furni ture, boats or other personal prop erty will be attached and sold to enforce payment of taxes long de linquent, and whose debtors refuse payment. Some months ago, Capt. Fennel Tillett was instructed to give all delinquent taxpayers 20 days no tice, and many came forward and paid up, or began making pay ments.. It is the desire of the county officials to assist people in making these settlements, but those who refuse, will find much additional cost added. In some cases, real estate will be sold. For some 15 years there has been a sad state of neglect on the part of tax collectors, allowed to ac cumulate, with resulting loss to the county. Many accounts, which might have been collected, due to deaths, removals, etc., were lost. In some cases persons who, not having been given a statement for many years, had concluded they owed no back taxes. In other cases, widows, who husbands had died long ago, find their estate owing taxes they are not well prepared to pay. The effort of the County Board is now being directed toward see ing that all persons fare alike. HIGHWAY CHAIRMAN WANCHESE SPEAKER Next week, Wednesday, August 19th, the afternoon annual event at Wanchese Methodist Church will be observed, and the speaker for Daniels Day will be J. M. Brougton Jr., whose father, the late Governor had spoken years ago at this great picnic. The late Josephus Daniels, Governor Luther Hodges before his ascendancy to the Mansion, Dr. Frank Graham and many other not able men, have also spoken at this event, which is presided over by Melvin Daniels, Dare County’s veteman Register of Deeds. Citizens of the community will gather with an elaborate picnic dinner on the church grounds, fol lowing the speaking. . MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS PAGES ONE through EIGHT Single Copy 70 , HAUL GKtEN TO BE SPEAKER AUG. 18 AT FORT RALEIGH Author of the Drama Which Speeded Up Coast Devel opment to Appear By AYCOCK BROWN Paul Green, author of The Lost Colony, will deliver an intermission address during the drama’s obser ance of Virginia Dare’s 372nd birthday anniversary at Waterside Theatre on Tuesday night, August 18, General Manager- R. E. Jordan reports. The performance will be number 971 in the long history of the drama which has done more to publicize the birth of America’s first child of English parentage, than all of the histories written since the famous baby was bom at the site of which is now Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island. While Author Green was sched uled to take part in the annual Virginia Dare birthday observances this year on August 18, he was not listed as principal speaker until the British Embassy in Washington ad vised the Roanoke Island Histori cal Association this week that the British Ambassador who had pre viously been slated to be here was unable to to come down due to pressing matters in which Great Britain is now involved. He sent his regrets. Playwriter Green, the author of several symphonic dramas, four of which are now running, will be in troduced by Robert L. Humber of Greenville, chairman of the board of directors of Roanoke Island Historical Association. The Lost Colony during July, fol lowing perfect June weather, was beset with rainy days and threaten ing conditions. While only one per formance was lost entirely due to See GREEN, Page Four MANTEO MAN LOST IN BOAT MISHAP IN GULF OF MEXICO News Comes Monday of Death of Samuel Clark Midgett on July 21 Samuel Clark Midgett, 42, has been given up for lost jn the Gulf of Mexico since July 21, accord ing to a letter received Monday, August 10 by his mother, Mrs. Neva Midgett in Manteo. He was captain of a shrimp vessel oper ating out of Campeche, Mexico, and was employed by Thompson Enterprises of Key West. According to a letter from the company’s office in Key West, Midgett, with his companion, Arthur Hayes had set out at 3:30 in the afternoon of July 21 for the long ran to the shrimping grounds, to be ready early next day. Mid gett took the wheel and told Hayes to get some sleep. Sometime later Hayes awoke in the bunk, half stifled by smoke which was com ing from below, and finding Mid gett not at the wheel, concluded he had gone below to attempt to put out the fire. Hayes, the letter said, then made his escape in a liferaft. The boat went to the bottom. Midgett’s body was not found. Midgett was one of the several men in the American shrimping fleet apprehended and fined by Mexican authorities last year be cause they got inside the newly defined territorial fishing limits. He was an experienced boatman and long engaged in the business. He was a Coastguardsman in World War II and had been let out for disability. He was bom in Elizabeth City, son of the late A. W. Midgett, and Mrs. Neva Midgett. Beside his mother, he is survived by a son, Louis Alexander 15, of Cape Charles, Va. and five brothers: Leonard Midgett and Charles D. Midgett of Manteo; Worth Mid gett of Norfolk; Earl R. Midgett of Galveston, and, Oscar M. Mid gett of Miami, Fla. Relatives say he survived a tor pedoed ship in World War II and always said he wished to be buried at sea. , DARE COMMISSIONERS NOT TO MEET ON LABOR DAY In keeping with custom across the state, whereby Labor day is observed as a holiday, the usual meeting on the first Monday in September will not be held in Dare County, but will be on Tuesday, > Sept. Bth instead, according to no i tice given this week by D. V. Meekins chairman of the Board. This is the first year that the I Board has been having their regu ' lar meetings convene on Monday, i This year the board changed the date which began in sailboat I days when the county was formed : in 1871 and it was then necessary -for Commissioner to leave home a day or more ahead of time.
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