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SEND RENEWAL • OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOL XXV NO. 12 DARE BOARD ASKS ( FOR AIR STRIP AT CAPE HATTERAS Public Landing Area Considered Essential to Economy and Progress One of the most important facili ties for the economy of Hatteras Island is a public airstrip adequate to accommodate the larger air planes, and which would require at least 3,000 feet This week, the Dare County Commissioners by lesolution, called the National Park Service to provide the land, and the Governor to assist in pro viding the Airstrip. Aa it now stands, the most de sirable area for the strip is near Cape Hatteras Coast Guard sta tion. Other areas do not offer suit able distance, considering the di rection with prevailing winds, and protection against hurricane tides which would easily destroy the paving. The Cape Hatteras site near the Coast Guard Station is considered centrally located in relation to the principal villages, Avon,. Buxton and Hatteras. Tremendous devel opment in this area is expected im mediately, now that assurance of an Oregon Inlet bridge has been given. DARE SCHOOLS SHOW INCREASE , IN ENROLLMENT According to information re leased by Mrs. D. E. Evans, Super intendent of Dare County Schools, the school enrollment for the 1959- 1960 school term, as of the open ing day of school, showed an in crease of 50 students; 45 of whom were elementary children. Enroll ment for the first day in the vari ous schools was as follows: School Elem. Hi. Tot. Cape Hatteras 232 86 318 ’ Kitty Hawk 131 131 Manteo Elementary 503 503 Manteo High 223 223 .Roanoke 65 13 78 Total 931 322 1253 GLIMPSES OF TH E PAS T By CAROLYN LLOYD It was simply by coincidence that I bad begun a column on the dif ference in doctors’ offices now and some years ago when the move ment began to observe “Dr. Ellis Winstead Day” in Belhaven. I had been trying to remember the cap tion of a picture which hung in the office of our family doctor many years ago and had recalled that the same picture now hangs on the wall of the waiting room of Dr. Win stead’s office. Meeting him in the hall of the hospital one day, I ask ed him what the caption is. Stumped for a minute, he called ' his office and asked Mrs. Howard, his nurse, to take a look and tell us. It is simply “The Doctor”, but the picture speaks volumes. It shows, to the best of my memory, a kindly looking man in a brown ] suit with a vest, high topped shoes, and a heavy gold watch with a chain sitting beside the bed of a sick child. The child is obviously Very ill, and there is a look of con cern and compassion on the doctor’s fare. That picture is typical of the old family doctor. It is typical too, that Dr. Winstead still keeps it in his office for like the old-fashioned doctor, he believes in the personal touch in medicine. His first office, indeed was a contrast to his mod ern, air-conditioned office of tbday. Thirty years ago he set up shop in the second story of the old Butts | Building, located where the Cameo ' Theater is today. It was a gray wooden building designed as a residence and there was as much difference between its interior and that of the tiled, antiseptic office today as there is between aspirin and penicillin. Dr. Winstead, like most other doctors of thirty years ago, prob ably didn’t spend much time in S that office. If a patient was ailing to any degree, he sent for the doc tor and the doctor went. In his Model T. Ford, Dr. Winstead plow ed through mud and dust in all sj seasons as far away as Manns Har bor. He counted it nothing unusual that he once spent two days at Stumpy Point delivering a baby. Since that first year, 1929, Dr. Winstead has owned thirty-seven automobiles and has driven an esti mated 1,295,000 miles. He has an unusual record with that much mileage, for he has never been in volved in a two-car wreck. Once he turned over on a rainswept road and narrowly missed tumbling into 1 ’ a canal, and once again he skidded ion a wet road and wound up in a| See GLIMPSES, Page Four , | 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 GREENSBORO PLANE CRASHES IN OCEAN JUST OFF OCRACOKE A four-passenger Stinson air plane, caught in a heavy Northeast wind Thursday morning after take off and failing to regain altitude, fell in the Atlantic Ocean just off the beach at Ocracoke. The pilot, Matt H. Blackhorn, and his passengers, Jesse C. Darling and Ralph L. Darling, all of Greensboro, got out of the plane and swam ashore. They were con siderably shaken up, and were taken by Coast Guard helicopter from Elizabeth City to the Sea Level hospital for diagnosis. The accident was seen from the Ocra coke Coast Guard station tower, and they summoned the helicopter immediately. The accident was also witnessed by Capt. Oscar Burrus, who had been their fishing guide, and who had taken them out to the plane for departure. When he did not see them come up after the crash, he reported to the Coast Guard, who by that time already had rescue operations underway. ! The plane fell in the breakers and at last report was still there and the Coast Guard was trying to effect a rescue of same before fur ther damage could occur. ENTHUSIASM GROWS FOR ELLIS WINSTEAD DAY IN BELHAVEN The announcement of the cele bration of “Dr. Ellis Winstead Day” in Belhaven on Monday, , October 5, has been met with much enthusiasm in the town and in the surrounding areas which the physician has served for thir ty years. The idea originated with a group of men who prefer to re main anonymous, their only wish being to honor the man who has been a friend, as well as a doctor, ■ to so many people. The date was chosen to coincide with the doc- >, tor’s birthday, which falls on Sun -1 day, October 4. The celebration i will be in the form of a program and picnic (family style) at the l Belhaven Community Center from four to six in the afternoon. A general invitation to participate has been issued to all people in this area who desire* to join in honoring Dr. Winstead. There are many reasons why people wish to show their appreci ation to the doctor. Not the least is the gratitude felt by the com munity for his service during World j War 11, when he was the only ac -1 tive physician in this area. At the ’ sacrifice of his own health, he ’ worked long hours and drove many miles to tend the sick. ’ Though still paying the physical ■ price of those years, Dr. Winstead continues his practice, except in ■ the fields of obstetrics and sur -1 gery, and his patients know that they can count on him, night or ! day. His warm personal interest ’ in his patients is another reason • for the affection which people hold * for him. Realizing that his people , are not rich, Dr. Winstead has I never raised his fees, though he : has often been urged to do so. An J office visit today will cost a pa > tient $1.50, just as it did thirty i years ago. The doctor says that , he has earned enough money for i his needs and that of his family, i and, that since he can’t take it ' with him, his patients might as ■ well share the benefits. In all his i years of practice, Dr. Winstead has never refused to answer a call i to a sick child or a sick woman, , even if he knew that he might i not be paid. Nor has he ever tak- I en out a mortgage or a judge [ ment to recover a medical bill. Only recently Dr. Winstead dis ' covered that his faith in the fun damental honesty of the majority i of people is justified. A woman . walked into his office and intro , duced herself and her twenty , seven year old son. She reminded , Dr. Winstead that he had deliv ’ ered that son and that she had [ been in financial difficulties at , the time. The family moved away, t and the doctor forgot the bill, but the woman did not. Now she had , returned with the son, who said he wanted t<j be “paid for.” They ’ offered to pay the interest, also, . but the doctor did some rapid cal ' culation and figured that the in ’ terest would amount to nearly double the original sum. He as ' sured him that he would be happy to settle for the principal, and two ’ honest people left the office with ' the burden of an old debt lifted. Dr. Winstead has shared his financial success with the commu- ■ nity in other ways, for he con -1 tributes generously to civic proj ects and to charitable causes. 1 His success as a country doctor, 1 he says, can be attributed greatly to his wife, Anne, who i shared ' much of the burden of the hard ! years. The former Anne Murphy, ' a school teacher from Asheville, 1 had married Ellis Winstead while Uhe was associated with fath |See DR. WINSTEAD, Pa«t Four KII.L DEVIL HILLS YOUTH SHARED IN THIS BIG CATCH W he fflflflfl ’ HB Bj ■ llih ■ fl ML,, ■ ■ 1 AwR f ■ i fl fl M A JL. k mb MflflMitfl flfl Rk fl WpiMfl ~ -*<l Il i isl v ® ffwtefrflfl aHt . I Ik H i I’W W >lMi W F -W- mb Smss • at f O’* -AL. • jwvnwwii E i vme£ jA Jfi* flt Sunny Briggs, second from left, shared in this double take of sailfish oil Oregon Imet recently and he is believed to be the first boy on the Dare Beaches to land one of the billfish. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Briggs of the popular Croatan Hotel. The second sail was taken by Col. E. F. Rector, Arlington, Va. Miss Carrie Bunter also of Arlington was in the party and helped catch the black fin tuna and false albacore shown on the rack. Capt. Lee Perry of Kitty Hawk, is at left. It was from his cruiser the Jinny B that the catch of two sails and other fish was made. The sails measured al most seven feet in length and they helped push the total catch for this species this season from wa ters of Oregon Inlet and Hatteras to approximately 70. (Dare County Tourist Bureau Photo) CAPT. TILLETT NEW COMMANDER LEGION POST IN DARE CO. Heading Fort Raleigh Post, American Legion in Dare County this year is Pennell A. Tillett, as Commander and first and second Vice-Commanders are Carlos C. Dowdy of Kitty Hawk and Turner Twiford of East Lake. Hallett Perry of Kitty Hawk is Chaplain and Will Barnett of Wanchese is Sergeant at Arms. Tom Beacham of Kitty Hawk is Adjutant and Alex Davis of Wanchese is Treas urer. The Post held a Ladies night din ner at the Arlington Hotel last week, with 25 men and 20 women present, and it was announced that it had met 80 per cent of its mem bership quota. Capt Tillett has served as ad jutant of the post for several years, and has been responsible for main taining its membership level. NAGS HEAD TEAM IN NEW JERSEY TOURNAMENT The Nags Head Surf Fishing Club is this week end participating in the City of Atlantic City (N. J.) surf fishing tournament being staged Friday, Saturday and Sun-i day. Both open individual and team I competition events are being; staged. Representing the local club are W. A. Wiliams, Jr., Bob Preston, George Crocker, Jr., Peter Biller of Nags Head, W. H. Smith, Jr., and Bud Rose of Kitty Hawk. It is understood that one of the awards of the New Jersey event will be payment of expenses to the • Nags Head tournament in October,', for the winning, team. CAPE HATTERAS VACATIONERS-FROM COLUMBIA. BELHAVEN * h Bl •>4 A —vr- —— Jfll. _ S!'.*. Ag Vi .-3-. .1 \ JUWHKiXI imJ 1 ■Aasn iwl .fly -A/ rfr \ <jflk . Or Jr . ■. *;nflfßl<. More tnan 2,7u0 automobiles were counted on tne tnree Oregon imet lernes during Uuoor Day week end. A record breaking number of autos used the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry during the period. Ho tels and motels had excellent patronage. Among the vacationists at Cape Hatteras were Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Davis, Columbia, N. C., and Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Jones, Belhaven, N. C., shown relaxing here at the edge of the new Cape Hatteras Cottage Court swimpooL (Aycock Brown Photo) MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1959 CRUMPACKER IS NAMED WOODLANDS MANAGER Assistant Mgr. of W. Va. Pulp and Paper Will Replace William Ernst, Jr. William J. Crumpacker has been promoted from Assistant Manager to Manager of their North Caro lina Woodlands, West Virginia! Pulp & Paper Co., has announced through D. Y. Lenhardt, Timber lands Division manager. He will replace Wiliam Ernst Jr., at Manteo, who in turn is to Southern Woodlands manager, suc ceeding R. E. Haynes. Mr. Haynes, manager of the com-1 pany’s Southern Woodlands since 1946, has been moved up to the division management staff where he will be responsible for special projects. He will serve in an ad visory capacity to forest managers and operating personnel. Mr. Ernst as manager of South ern Woodlands, will have manage ment responsibilities for the com pany’s timber holdings in South Carolina and Georgia with head quarters in Summerville, S. C. West Virginia currently owns approximately one million acres of ' i Georgia. Smaller holdings are lo ! timberlands located primarily in ' : North and South Carolina and ' cated in the vicinity of the com- ! pany’s mills in Covington. Va., ' Luke, Md., Tyrone and Williams- ' burg. Pa., and ' Mechanicsville, N. Y. ! Research and development activi- ' ties are carried out at various lo- ’ I cations and Westvaco operates an I experimental forest and a seedling I nursery in South Carolina. RALPH BURRUS WINDS UP 30 YRS. IN SERVICE OF U. S. COAST GUARD NORFOLK, Sept.—After over 30 years of Coast Guard duty Chief Boatswain’s mate Ralph W. Burrus, 60, of Manteo hag retired as of August 18. His last duty station was the Lifeboat Station, Virginia I Beach. Chief Burrus has seen the Coast Guard through numerous stages of growth during his lengthy service career. First in 1939, when the Lighthouse Service was merged, and then during the years of World War 11, when the service strength was swelled by re servists called to active duty and . also by the merging of the Bureau of Marine Inspection. Most of his duty has been spent on Lifeboat Stations along the At lantic Coast. There is probably no Coast Guard Station from Dela ware to Georgia that the veteran Chief Petty Officer hasn’t served on at one time or another during his career. His first duty station was the Creeds Hill station. Then Cassey’s Inlet, Little Island, Deep Water Shoals, Oregon Inlet, Roanoke Marshes, Buxton, Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head, Cape Hatteras, Ocra coke, Toms River, Bodie Island, Cape Lookout, and even the famous Sand Hook Lifeboat Station on the New Jersey Coast. Most of these stations are mere names in Coast Guard History now, having been decommissioned. Burrus stills chuckles when he recalls the “sailors on horseback” of World War 11. He is referring to the beach patrols on horseback. He plans to live at Manteo, do a bit of gardening, and renew his in- See BURRUS, Page Four CROCKER NAMED PRESIDENT OF NAGS HEAD C OF C Annual Banquet at Dareolind At tended by 100 People Monday Night Following an enthusiastic ban quet meeting at The Dareolina Restaurant on Nags Head Monday evening at which almost 100 per sons attended, the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce elected the following officers to operate the organization during the coming year. They are, W. H. McCown, Nags Head director; Mrs. Theo dore Wood, Kitty Hawk, director, George Crocker, Nags Head, presi dent; Miss Sarah Halliburton, Kitty Hawk, secretary, Archie Burrus, Nags Head-Manteo, vice president and Theodore Wood, Kitty Hawk, C of C director for Dare County Tourist Bureau. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Kitty Hawk, is treasurer. An intensified program for the de velopment of Dare Beaches as a vacationland was outlined during the meeting. MISS BETTY BRUCE INGE RETURNS FROM DEB BALL Dore's First Debutante Feted At Par ties While In Raleigh; Accom panied By Her Mother Miss Betty Bruce Inge of Manteo and her mother, Mrs. Matilda Inge, have returned from Raleigh, where Miss Inge made her debut at the annual Debutante Ball sponsored by the Terpsichorean Society, and Miss Inge has since returned to St. Mary’s Junior College in Ra leigh for the winter term. A round of social affairs filled the week end, including the presen tation ball on Friday night and the Second-Night ball on Saturday night. There was also a- dance on Saturday morning at the Country Club, attended by both Miss Inge and her mother. A tea at the Governor’s Mansion on Saturday afternoon was given for the debs, their mothers and their chief mar shalls. Miss Inge’s chief marshall was Michael Jones, and her assist ant marshall Frank White, Jr., both of Manteo. On Thursday at noon Miss Inge was a guest at a luncheon given by Dr. and Mrs. Fred Morrison of Washington, D. C., and Kill Devil Hills, for their daughter, Miss Myra Morrison, who was also a de butante. This took place in the Elizabethan room of the Hotel Sir Walter. Thursday evening, Miss Inge and Miss Mary Hazel Moore of Burgaw were the honor guests at a barbe cue given by Mrs. Henry Johnson of Raleigh at the home of Mrs. Frank Powers. A luncheon on Friday was given by the Terpsichorean Club in the Virginia Dare ballroom of the Sir- Waiter, Mrs. Frank Daniels of Ra leigh was hostess to the mothers of the debs at a coffee hour from 12 until two o’clock Friday at the Country Club. ALONZO A. HOLMES, 70 DIES IN ELIZ. CITY Alonzo Adophas Holmes, 70, of 326 Queen St., Elizabeth City died at the Albemarle Hospital Monday after long illness. A native of East Lake, he had lived in Elizabeth City 30 years. | Before his retirement he was in the lumber business for several years. He was the son of John F. ! and Patsy Payne Holmes, and the husband of Mrs. Lugeal Crees Holmes. He was a member of Epworth Methodist Church. Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Arthur Payne of Engelhard, and Mrs. Hallet Dunbar and Mrs. Melvin Cartwright of Elizabeth City; a son, Hester Holmes of Elizabeth City; two sisters. Mrs. N. S. Saw yer of Elizabeth City and Mrs. Charlie Jarman of Wilmington, Del.; four brothers, Alpheus Holmes of Manns Harbor, Chester Holmes of Norfolk and John P. Holmes and Ebert Holmes of Eliza beth City, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 3 p. m. at the Toxey and Berry Funeral Home by the Rev. Lynn Robbins, of the First Christian Church. Burial was in West Lawn Cemetery. CONGRESSMAN BONNER BACK HOME FOR THE RECESS WASHINGTON, D. C.—Con gressman Herbert C. Bonner an nounced today that he is this week moving his entire active office files and Congressional office staff to Washington, North Carolina, and establishing his office on the third floor of the Post Office Building so | as to be convenient and accessible to the people of the First Congres sional District. I MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO. N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS I Single Copy 70 GARDEN CLUB TO FIGHT ROADSIDE LITTER ON ISLAND Committees Appointed For Year's Work; Year Books Presented The Roanoke Island Garden Club held its first meeting of the sea son on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 10th, at the home of Mrs. Fred Basnight with Mrs. James C. Bar din presiding. A short talk on the Elizabethan Garden was made by Mrs. Edna Bell. Mrs. O. J. Jones presented the year books and the programs for the coming year were discussed. The following are the chairmen of the standing committees: Year book, Mrs. O. J. Jones; Member ship and attendance, Mrs. Edna Bell; horticultural study, Mrs. Nevin Wescott; flower show, Mrs. Ruth Cabe; garden therapy, Mrs. John Peterson; civic beautification, Mrs. R. D. Sawyer; friendly gar den week, Mrs. Lena Pearsall; Elizabethan Garden, Mrs. Leo Midgett; public relations, Mrs. J. C. Bardin. Os the five objectives for the coming year, the one which brought forth the most interest and indignation was objective TV, “A continued fight against road side litter and questionable gar bage disposal.” The point of prime interest was the disgraceful dumping of the beach garbage on our Island and next the indiscrim inate throwing out of personal garbage along the roadsides. The Burnside road and the road to the Airport were discussed at length. These matters have been taken up with former County authorities and it is to be hoped that when the present authorities are waited ' upon some action will be taken, for not only are these spots an eye-sore but a decided health men ace. After the meeting adjourned re freshments were served by Mrs. Basnight, assisted by Mrs. Isabel Warren and Mrs. Donnie Twyne. BELHAVEN BULL DOGS OPEN SEASON BY DEFEATING ROCK RIDGE The Belhaven Bulldogs, who be gan the football season by defeat ingg Rock Ridge 12-7 in a game played in Fleming Stadium in Wil son on Friday night, September 11, will make another bid for vic tory on Friday night, September 18, at 8:00. The game will be played under lights at the John A. Wilkinson High School’ field in Belhaven, and the opposing team will be Saratoga Central, former ly the Stantonsburg School. Ad mission will be 75tf for adults and 25<! for school children. The Belha ven Band will perform at the half. Prior to the game the Tri-Com munity Ruritan Club will serve a barbecue supper in the school lunchroom, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Outstanding performers in the first apperance of the Belhaven team as an eight-man unit were Jimmie Russ who made the two touchdowns; offensive leaders Russ, B. T. Quidley, Eddie Griffin, and J. T. Sadler; and defensive leaders W. D. Paul, Tommy Jones, Henry Brinn, and Eddie Griffin. The boys have been doing some intensive training and hope to give the public a good game on Friday night. WILDFOWL HUNT CHANGES ANNOUNCED FOR HATTERAS NATIONAL SEASHORE Superintendent Gibbs of Cape Hatteras National Seashore has announced the contemplated changes of regulations governing waterfowl hunting on Bodie Island for the 1959-1960 season. The changes provide for: (I) a maxi mum reservation of three (3) dates in any one week and a total of six (6) dates for the season; (2) draw ing for blind assignments to be held at 5 A. M. each morning of hunting days; (3) drawing to be conducted at the check-out station; • and (4) the first departure from a blind by a person terminates his hunting privilege within Bodie Island for that day. These changes are in the process of being published in the FED ERAL REGISTER and upon pub lication will have the effect of law. All other regulations will be in ac cord with State of North Carolina and Federal migratory game laws. Advance reservations for per mission to draw will be accepted through the U. S. Mail only. Reser vations postmarked prior to 12:01 A. M., September 25 will not be accepted. I Reservations should be address • ed to the Superintendent, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Man- Iteo, N. C.
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