SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOL XXV NO. 25 FIRST FLIGHTS BY A MACHINE ARE ADMITTED Thursday's Ceremonies Enjoyed on 56th Anniversary of Wrights' Achievement Os course man didn’t fly, as the fun-makers proved Wednes day night at their dinner at the Carolinian Hotel, but the ma chine the Wright Brothers made did get off the ground under the guidance of the Wrights 56 years ago, and this anniversary was celebrated Thursday the 17th, both at the site of the flights— Kill Devil Hills, and at a dinner at The Carolinian at 1 p.m. In the morning program, em ceed by David Stick, prayed for by Rev. Robert W. Turner, spirit ' ed up by the Elizabeth City High School Band, and welcomed by Mayor R. H. Cook of the Town of Kill Devil Hills, the crowd witnessed terrific proof of the power of flight founded by the Wright Brothers. U. S. Air Force planes roared overhead in contra diction to Wilbur Wright’s state ment 56 years ago that the air plane would not be commercially profitable in a thousand years. Presented and speaking briefly were Elbert Cox, regional director of the National Park Service; Le vin Culpepper, Mayor of Eliza beth City; Grady Miller, President of the N. C. Aero Club which flew here in force; Rep. Herbert C. Bonner, who with Lindsay Warren made the Wright Me morial a reality; and Herb Ka lish of the Air Force Association. Wreaths betokened the interest of the city of Dayton, Ohio; the County of Dare; the N. C. Aero Club and the State of N. C. Wade Marr, President of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Society presided at the luncheon at the Hotel; invocation was by Rev. G. F. Hill of Elizabeth City; the welcome by Melvin R. Daniels; many special guests were pre sented and Congressman Bonner and Elbert Cox made talks. Prin cipal address was by Rear- Admiral Peter V. Colmar U.S.C.G., Commandant of the Fifth District in Norfolk. Officers of the society are Wade Marr, President; Victor Meekins, Vice-President; C. S. Meekins, Secretary-Treasurer. ERROR IN HISTORY IS DETECTED ON MARKER HATTERAS. Drastic editing with a blow-torch will be neces sary before the cast-iron histori cal marker set up beside the Hat teras Inlet ferry slip becomes a thing of pride to native residents of the Island who inherit their history and, on occasion, make it So far the new marker, set up under the direction of the State Department of Archives and his tory has occasioned only jeers. In bold black cast-iron letters the marker says that two miles south of that point is the site of two Confederate forts, Clark and Hatteras, erected to guard the en tranee to Pamlico Sound and that the forts were destroyed by Federal naval bombardment on the 29th day of April in 1861. The marker is evidence of the Archives’ aware ness that the 100th anniversary of the Civil War approaches. Two miles due south of the point where the marker has been set up in a firm concrete footing would land the explorer well off shore in the Bight of Hatteras where the charts show a depth of 58 feet of water. The site of the two forts, stall identifiable, is west of the ferry slip. The Outer Banks, after rounding the point of Cape Hat teras, runs east-west. j North Carolina did not leave the Union until three weeks after the date indicated on the marker State troops did arrive at the In let on May* 10th. Work of build ing the two forts was begun early in June and they were surrendered, sifter heavy bombardment, on August 29th. Protests have been lodged with C. C. Crittenden, di-’ lector of Archives. He has not re plied but a member of his staff has stated that the matter will be looked into. SANTA CLAUS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, MANNS HARBOR For two evenings this week-end children will have a hilarious time at Manns Harbor, when Santa Claus will appear at the Manns Harbor Sports Center. He will ar rive at 4 p.m. on Friday, the 18th and will stay until 8 p.m. He will appear again on Saturday at the same time. It is the first time he will have made a public appear ance on the mainland at a store loaded with toys as in this store which is operated by Mr. and Mrs. Stanford White. They are now shewing the greatest display of toys ever assembled in this area. THE COASTLAND TIMES WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBUSHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA HATTERAS ISLAND WITNESSES MORE HISTORY ON T-V Westinghouse's ..Fourth Episode Now Showing; Available For Other Groups n BUXTON.—Fourth of Westing house Broadcasting Company’s aeries of twelve episodes of the Civil War entitled “Search for the Monitor” was broadcast over the company’s nation-wide network last month and the half-hour film. is showing on Hatteras Island this week through courtesy of the com pany, William Kaland, its program director and Lt Cdr.. James F. Toner, commander of the U. S. Naval Base at Cape Hatteras. Navy, Coast Guard and National Park Service personnel and other residents of the Island who co-op erated in the staging of the show here 14 months ago, including Hallas Foster of Hatteras, whose boat was chartered for the explor ation, have been invited by com mander Toner to see the show, run off nightly in connection with his station’s regular movie service. The film was pesented by the company to Ben Dixon Mac Neill whose book, The Hatterasman, was used as basis and background for episode. Announcement of the series of television broadcasts has been mad in page advertisements in most of the major national magazine and the showing of it here has been eagerly anticipated, especially by those who took part in its produc tion. None of the Westinghouse sta tions normally reach this area but the series has been widely com mented upon by letters received here. On the way to the first show ing Mrs. Toner received a note from her brother in California who had witnessed the show in his home. Associated with Mr. Kaland in the production on the series is Roy Meredith, well known author and producer who owns most of cele bated Brady photographic plates of the Civil War. Brady photo graphed the Monitor and its crew before its departure from Brook lyn Navy Yard where it was built. These and other photographs of the period are brought to life in the production. Kaland and Meredith came to Cape Hatteras just after the Octo ber hurricane last year, bringing with them a truck load of photo graphic equipment, photographers and divers. Weather was unpro pitious during most of the two weeks they remained here but they worked manfully against heavy odds. The picture begins with a magnificent shot of the Lighthouse and it is one that should become a rarity: it was done just after the storm ripped the roof (from the I See HISTORY, Page Twelve I CHRISTMAS WRECK OFF OCRACOKE By ALICE K. RONDTHALER, Ocracoke, N. C. I It was sixty years ago, long be- ■ fore dawn of Christmas Eve in ’99, ; when the British steamship I “Ariosto” came ashore off the r northern end of Ocracoke Island. • Os the thirty men aboard, only nine ; were rescued; the other twenty-one • lie buried in the dunes at that end of the Island. The "Ariosto” was - a schooner-rigged steel vessel of 1 2,265 tons, laden with wheat, cot l ton, lumber, and cotton-seed meal, s She was bound from Galveston, ! Texas, to Hamburg, Germany, by ■ way of Norfolk. There her bunkers > would be refilled with coal for the > Atlantic crossing. Captain R. R. ' Baines, a native of Antwerp, and • his crew were a long, long way jfrom home, but they were looking s toward a merry Christmas ashore • at Norfolk. It had been a good • trip; but on December twenty third, though it was dear overhead, there was haze on the horizon, with a smart breeze blowing from the , southwest and piling up rough i seas ahead. At midnight the Cap i; tain had gone below to get a little 1 sleep, assured that all was well in 'spite of the weather. Meanwhile the fatal mistake had been made: the navigator had taken Ocracoke Light for Hatteras Light, an error often made in those days, and the Ariosto was plunging on due north toward the shoals off Ocracoke. I At Ocracoke Lifeboat Sta tion, the children were snug in their > beds, five or six island families made their winter-time homes in and near the remote Station, in a: little settlement called “Cedar Hammock”. The name sprang, na-. turally from the dunes, then cov-! ered with cedars, yaupon ,and myr tle. There were the Howards, the Gaskills, the Williamses, the Tol sons, the Fulchers, and the McWil-| liamses. All of them owned homes in Ocracoke Village, but had also built modest houses here ait the northern end of the Island for their use when serving in the Lifeboat LINDSAY WARREN TO BE HONORED WHILE ALIVE HON. LINDSAY C. WARREN is to be honored by having the Alli gator River bridge bear his name, the State Highway Commission so decreed this week. Despite Mr. Warren having made both public -nd private protests against it, the citizens of his district persisted in urging that the bridge be given his name. Tyrrell and Dare, the two counties the bridge connects, and the six-county Southern Albe marle Association unanimously asked this honor be given him. Even the News and Observer which opposes giving the names of living peo ile to monuments, isays: “Lindsay Warren so well deserves all the honors that the state can pay him . . . the most fitting name for this bridge is the Lindsay Warren Bridge . . . Lindsay Warren is a liv ing exception to the rule that living people should not be so hon ored. . . his bigness does not require a bridge or anything else to prove it.” The Highway Commission, like all those who are grateful for his unselfish public service know that he needs nothing to prove it; but they like to prove that they, themselves, are' deserving and grateful and believe in the justice of recognizing true merit and worth. TO PUBLISH EARLY ON CHRISTMAS WEEK Correspondents and advertis ers are ur£ed to mail all mate rial for publication next week at least one day early. This is in order that we may print ahead of schedule, thus allowing time for distribution before Christ mas day. Season’s greetings will be ex tended by area merchants in the issue of December 25. • Station. The men, their wives, and , the children made up the settle i ment, “Cedar Hammock”. > That was a place for children! . There was a small school in the > old horse shed and the families s paid for the services of a teacher I from the mainland and took turns s boarding her. Elsie, Martha, and| • Iva Wyche were living with their ■ grandparents, Keeper and Mrs. 1 ■ James Howard, since the death of their mother.. Elsie was 14 that • year. They were particularly ex i cited this Christmas of 1899 be- > cause their father, Rev. L. O. . Wyche, a preacher on the Core I Banks circuit, had come to spend ' the season with them. He had made ; the long trip by mailboat from » Beaufort to Ocracoke, then a I friend had brought him the re - maining 14 miles by pony cart > They suspected that tucked away i in the cart there might be Christ- > mas presents from the mainland! i Then there were the other chil dren ranging from 5 to 15 years s of age. There were Stacy, John, i Needham, and Maggie Simpson; i there mere Eliza, Margaret, and See WRECK, Page Seven i _____________ MESSIAH RECORDING TO BE PLAYED AT ST. ANDREWS l | i Everyone is invited to attend a ’ playing of Handel’s Messiah a* | ‘ Andrew’s Episcopal Church on 1 Sunday afternoon, the 20th of December at 4:15. Only the First i Part will be played. 'i The recording is stereophonic I sound from England with the iLondon Philharmonic Choir, London Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind and recorded at .the Parish Church of St Mary 'Magdalene in Paddington. 1 The program is made possible by a member of the congregation who owns the record and is bring- ' ing his machine to the church for • this occasion. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1959 FOR 26 YEARS THIS HYDE CO. MAN HAS BEEN SANTA CLAUS Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Tunnell who have been Santa Claus for the children of Hyde County for twen ty-six years will be on the route again on “Thursday, December 24,” so boys and girls get on your winter togs and be ready to re ceive him. \ With his helpers, which include Pratt Williamson, Jr., now home for the holidays and other volun teer helpers plus Santa, the sched ule will be as follows: arrive at Flairfield between 8:30 and 9:00 o’clock, will remain there one half an hour. From there the group will go by north side to Engelhard, will arrive there about 11:30 o’clock, remain there 1 hour. From there the procession will go through Middleton and Nebraska then on Route 264, starting at Lake Landing to Swan Quarter ar riving between 3:30 and 4:00 o’clock. The float will be complete with a Christmas tree decoration of every kind, loud speaker and music.; Santa Claus will pass out fruit and. candy and—oh! well just be on hand to see what fun is in store for, you. And enjoy the gesture made by “Durward” to make you know there is a Santa Claus. LIONS EAT TURKEY; TALK DANCE. SCOUTS. CALENDARS, ADJOURN Manteo Lions Club held its regular meeting Tuesday night, were served pre-Christmas turkey by the caterer, Mrs. Raymond Wes cott and were urged to support the dance scheduled this Saturday under club auspices. It will begin at 9:00 p.m. at the Shrine Club, Nags Head; tickets are available from all Lions and entitle the holder participation in door prize drawings. It was announced that Douglas Crutchfield would be tranferred soon, and had tendered his resigna tion as Scoutmaster of the local Sea Scout unit This group has been under sponsorship of Manteo Lions since begun two years ago. Mr. Crutchfield, who is connected with West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., will soon be moving to Summerville, S. C. He and his family have been popular members of the community, and the loss will be regretted. However, the Lions will continue support of the troop, with a successor to Mr. Crutchfield to be announced soon. Community birthday calendars will be ready for distribution soon. UNITED SERVICE FOR CHRISTMAS IN SWAN QUARTER Light of Bethlehem To Be Pre sented By Churches Os Swan Quarter Township The Light of Bethlehem is the Christmas candlelighting service to 'be presented by the churches of Swan Quarter township in the Methodist church in Swan Quar ter Sunday evening December 20, at 7:30 P.M. The following people will take part in the candlelight service: Mrs. Joe Lupton, Mrs. B. W. Wil liams, and Mr. Dan Baucom are the Readers; Rev. Robert Bundy, Rev. James McKenzie, and Rev. Macon Spencer are the participat ing ministers; Emily Lou Cahoon, Gloria Jean Smith, Linda and Glenda Cahoon, Connie Brown, Lois O’Neal, Betty Jane Harris, Christine Harris, Judy Carawan, Diana Sadler, and Caroline Gay lord are the angels who light the candles; Mr. and Mrs. Bundy, Mrs. Joe W. Lupton, Marion Wheeler, and Sue Gaylord will render duets and solos. The 25 voice choir is of members from Soule, the Presbyterian church, the Pentecostal Holiness, Swan Quarter Baptist, Swan Quarter Christian and Providence churches. Mrs. Joe Lupton is di recting the music with Mrs. W. G. Harris as oganist. FAIRFIELD MAN COMPLETES C.G. BASIC TRAINING I I ' h i DENNIS W. ARMSTRONG, USCG, USCH, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Armstrong, of Fairfield, North Carolina, has completed 13 weeks of basic training at the U. S. Coast Guard Receiving Center, Cape May. He entered the Coast Guard last Sept. He will report to the 14th Coast Guard District for further duty. Before entering the Coast Guard he attended East Hyde High School, at Engelhard. UNCLE DOCK FROM DUCK WRITES: Warns of Hazards to Holiday Happiness and Begs Highway Caution and Commonsense Dear Mr. Editor: The older I get the more jittery I become on the approach of any Holiday, and more particularly the Christmas season which seems to touch more deeply the hearts of young and old than any other time of the year. It's because people have got so careless nowadays when they get in a car, and too many times cast away all caution and commonsense. I wish I could plead with our people to think about the awful grief that is going to befall some old mothers and fathers this year. Maybe some of them will be wait ing for their children to get home after a long absence when the cruel news comes that death has taken ■ them on the road. Gone forever will be those to whom they gave! a lifetime of patient love and care. And there will be some who will be sitting home happy in the mem-1 ories of the delightful holiday visit] after the sadness of parting, and then this happiness will be blasted when news comes their children never got to where they were go ing. Some will be returning to school to continue their studies. Some will be going to visit other loved ones, or returning home to resume their daily tasks—all of them with pleasant memories, and gratitude in their hearts for the bounty of the season, and the good ness of their loved ones and friends. Some of these people will be in stantly killed because of their own carelessness or through the violent recklessness of others who have no concern for the rights and safe ty of their fellows on our roads. Some of them will die lingeringly, some will live many years, dis figured, crippled, suffering a mis erable life, maybe a burden on TO GO TO GERMANY PVT. RAYMOND L. GIBBS, son of Mrs. Latham Gibbs of Norfolk, formerly of Swan Quarter has com pleted eight weeks of basic train ing at Fort Jackson, South Caro lina, He is now receiving advanced schooling on guided missiles at Fort Bliss, Texas. After a ten-day furlough he will go to Germany where he will complete two years of service. AN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT NEXT YEAR AT HATTERAS Competing Teams Rom Several Foreign Countries Scheduled June 12 to 16 By AYCOCK BROWN HATTERAS.—Under the spons orship of Hatteras Marlin Club, an international Blue Marlin Tourna-; ment will be held in the big game fish-famous waters off Cape Hat teras next summer, it was announc ed by Charles F. Johnson, tourna ment chairman. Dates for the sportsfishing event which will bring competing teams from several foreign countries and many big game fishing centers of the United States have been of ficially set for June 12-through June 16. The tournament will be sanctioned by the International Light Tackle Tournament Associ ation and the International Game Fish Association with participa ting invitations going to teams af filiated with those organzations. Governor Luther H. Hodges whose interest in big game fish ing and it development along the North Carolina coast is honorary chairman of the forthcoming event. Bounce Anderson, Managing Di rector of Hatteras Marlin Club will be vice-chairman. “The tournament, first of its kind ever held along the North Carolina coast will follow the Ba hama Island’s Cat Cay tuna tourna ments on May 23-June 3,” said See TOURNEY, Page Twelve loved ones who can ill afford to carry it Wives will lose husbands; hus bands will return to homes where no longer the wife will be there to charm it and to comfort his life and to fulfill her sublime mission for her little ones. There will be little children, who after these holidays, whose life will contain only a vague but ever unhappy memory of the bitter loss that clouded their babyhood. Think, how more people have ; been killed as a result of automo bile wrecks than have died in all ’ our wars. Think of the millions ] wasted in ears destroyed and what . this money might have done for ] I education, or for diseased or desti tute human beings. ,| How can anyone who claims to have normal intelligence persist in the reckies use of our highways , so expensively built for the enjoy , ment and safety of our people? I And yet it seems with all the pleading and the warning and all the suffering and grief that has come to our land, very little has come in the way of improvement in the behaviour of the man at the wheel. There seems to be no end, Mr. Editor, to the slaughter in the face of all the horrible exampits and the lessons we see every day. Five people have been killed in Dare County this year. Who knows who will be the next one? See DOCK, Page Twelve I —. MANTEO POSTOFFICE ■ OPEN SATURDAY AFTERNOON To facilitate handling Christmas , mail, the Manteo postoffice will re- ■ main open Saturday afternoon un- . til 5:80. It has customarily been II closing around noon. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 70 ANOTHER BANK IS STRONGLY OPPOSED BY MANTEO BANK Much Interest In Hearing in Man teo Monday Before Bank ing Commissioner Strong opposition was offered Monday before a large crowd which filled the courthouse in Manteo on the proposal of a group of 150 Dare County citizens to establish the “Peoples Bank of Dare,” to enlarge the area’s bank- I ing facilities. The hearing lasted three hours. The Bank of Manteo, which has i been alone in the field for 52 years, | had four attorneys and numerous i citizens to appear in its behalf to : argue that the facilities are ade quate and the banking commission should not permit'another bank to come in. ( The hearing was held before Ben Roberts, Banking Commissioner, ’ Deputy Commissioner Frank Har . relson of Raleigh, and C. I. Taylor . of FDIC, Richmond. Representing I the proponents of a new bank were t J. Melville Broughton of Raleigh , and W. H. McCown of Manteo. , Attorneys representing the Bank i of Manteo were Willis Smith, Jr., and James Dorsett of Raleigh, Thos. ’Chears Jr., and Wallace R. Gray of Manteo. Speaking in behalf of the new bank were Mrs. Mabel E. Jones, R. Bruce Etheridge, Archie Burrus, Ward Daniels, Jesse E. Baum, J. L. Murphy, R. D. Owens, Roy Wes cott, Roland Sawyer, M. L. Daniels Jr., David Stick. Those who spoke in behalf of The Bank of Manteo were Mrs. Lucille Winslow of Nags Head, Rany Jennette of Buxton, W. S. [ Whlite of Manns Harbor, G. T. Wescott, W. C. Foreman, Gaston ,' Mann, Bobby Owens, Geo. Crocker, W. B. Fearing, and Frank Turner, and W. R. Pearce. The group supporting a new bank contends there is ample need for another lending agency, in that ' several times more money is bor- J rowed away from home than is ! loaned by the Manteo Bank, which has about three quarters of a mil lion loaned out, while twice as J much is loaned in Dare County : from three sources in Elizabeth City alone. More than this sum, ’ they contend, is borrowed from ! other sources. The Bank of Manteo, naturally ’ I wishes to remain alone in the field. It has been a prosperous bank, as ’ Dare County has grown in recent ’ years, it pays good dividends, and ■ with only $50,000 in capital stock, it is valued at five times as much ’ in reserves, undivided profits, real estate etc. The Bank itself, is worth 1 more than the entire property valu ation of Dare County at the time the bank began business, and Dare’s property valuation has grown to more than 30 million dollars. MANTEO BAPTISTS PLAN SPECIAL SERVICES FOR THE CHRISTMAS SEASON Special Christmas services will be observed at the Manteo Baptist Church on Sunday, December 20th. |The morning message, by the pas- > tor, Rev. W. E. Cholerton, will be “A Christmas Story”. A service of .'Christmas Song will be presented > at 7:30 pan. The message, “Night > Over Bethlehem”, will be very > brief, and Christmas music will fill i the hour. There will be several se- > lections 'by the Adult and Youth > choirs of the church,, and much i .congregational singing of carols. r On Monday night the Sunday t School entertainment will be pre sented at 7:30 pm. This will be a > bright hour beamed especially to . the children, but for all. [ The Christmas Pageant, pre ; sented annually in front of the t church, will be much the same f manner as last year. Many of the . members of the church will be . having a part in it, either in drama > or in musd; and they offer it as ! their contribution to the spirit and j understanding of Christmas for the . whole community. As many as can jdo so are invited to share in any . or all of these activities. H i WANCHESE ASSEMBLY • OF GOD NEW CHURCH t TO GO IN SERVICE I Sunday. Dec. 20th will be a • happy day for the members of ■ Wanchese Assembly of God Church 5 which will go into full use with • the morning* services. The new 1 brick buildisg is one of the most 5 imposing religious structures in the county and represents a tremend ous amount