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THURSDAY IN MANTEO FOR
20TH LOST COLONY SEASON
Mrs. O. Max Gardner, Chairman Has Called A
Meeting at 10 A.M. January 7 in the Commu
nity Building to Decide on Plans For Getting
Show Started; Large Attendance of New
Board Expected.
Mrs. O. Max Gardner of Shelby,
the newly elected chairman of the
Roanoke Island Historical Associ
ation will come to Manteo for a
meeting of the Board, to formulate
pkt ns for the 20th season of the
Lost Colony scheduled to run
through the montlis of July and
August 1960. The meeting will be
held in the community building, be
ginning at 10 A.M. Thursday, Jan.
IS.
New Directors of the Associ
ation will give their time and ex
penses to come from Washington,
D. C., Raleigh and other distant
•places in order to assist in the
task which is shaping up with en-|
thusiam under the leadership of the
new chairman. Mrs. Gardner, the
wife of the late Governor, is a dis
tinguished North Carolinian in her
own right, and has given liberally
of her abilities, time and money
for the promotion of many good
causes. In turn, in recognition of
her lifetime of service, she was
the honor guest of an elaborate j
turnout in Washington in Novem
ber, held by the North Carolina
Society, which numbers some 800
citizens of the State who, by rea
son of their occupations, sojourn
in the Nation’s capital.
Among the new directors who
plan to be in Manteo next Thurs
day are J. Melville Broughton, Jr.,
of Raleigh, chairman of the State
Highway Commission; Mrs. Fred'
W. Morrison of Washington, D. C.,
William B. Aycock, Chancellor of
the University of North Carolina;
Paul Green, author of the Lost I
•Colony and many other putdoor
dramas, plays and movie scripts;
and others. Other members of the,
new Board, elected Dec. 2, and not
named above are: C. Alden Baker
and Albert W. Gard of Elizabeth
See PLANS, Page Four
BELHAVEN MASONS
INSTALL OFFICERS
TUESDAY NIGHT
Some of Its Officers Travel 15
Miles to Attend Meetings of
This Progressive Lodge
A unique feature of Belhaven
Masonic Lodge No. 509 is that some
of its newly installed officers will
travel 15 miles or more to attend,
lodge meetings and to fill the |
ehaiirs they have been honored
with occupying since Tuesday night
of this week when tliese men were
installed. I
Horace Elliott, the new master of
teh Lodge lives at Hunters Bridge,
Felton Allen ,the Senior Warden
at Pungo; Clyde Sutton, the Junior
Warden lives at Rodmans Quarter.
Other officers are Charles Midgett,
Treasurer and Archie Thomas,
Secretary, both of Belhaven; Demp
sey Allen of Pungo, Senior Deacon;
D. S. Tetterton of Yeatesville,
Junior Deacon; Ebbie Gaylord of
Terra Ceia and Jack Alligood of
Belhaven, Stewards.
The lodge, which was chartered
57 years ago, has 138 members. It
tost several members last year by
death. Within the past few years
it has erected a new hall, and is
now engaged in a project to com
plete the interior.
BELHAVEN POSTOFFICE
LEASE IS CONTINUED
The Post Office Department has
exercised the option effective Dec.
15, to renew the lease on the pres
ent post office quarters at Bel
haven, North Carolina, for a
period of five years, it has been
announced by Postmaster General
Summerfield, through the office of
W. L. Crawford, Regional Oper
ations Director in Atlanta.
The Post Office located on the
cast side of Pamlico Street between
Riverside Avenue and Main Street,
and contains 2,170 square feet of
interior space.
There are 191 postal projects in
North Carolina now receiving at
tention either from the Postal In
spector-in-Charge or the Regional
Real Estate Manager or are await
ing departmental action.
It was explained that this does
not mean 191 new buildings, since
many of‘the projects call for en
largements, remodeling, lease re
newals, driveway paving, and the
installation of new equipment All
of these improvements are in line
with the Postmaster General’s
modernization program.
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
SCHEME TO MOVE
KITTY HAWK P.O.
FINDS RESENTMENT
Citizens Sign Petitions Favoring
Keeping Postoffice in Vil
lage Location
Strong opposition has arisen in
Kitty Hawk community against a
scheme that has been engineered
by a handful of residents on the
oceanside to take the postoffice
which serves the community away
from it, and re-locate it on the
beach. What some citizens believe,
is that it began out of the desire
of a beach property owner to get
rental of a business place he owns.
Petitions liave been circulated
with about 100 per cent of the
citizens of the year round com
munity of Kitty Hawk as signers,
it is reported, and these petitions
will be forwarded in protest, to
tlie officials concerned.
Recently, a survey indicated that
the community needed a larger
building, and Postoffice Depart
ment representatives gave notice
they would consider rental of such
building, if erected by private in
terests, and a location, at or near
the present postoffice which has
stood for many years in what is
considered by the citizens a very
satisfactory site was approved.
It was then that the time was
considered ripe by the newcomers
on the beach, to move the whole
thing out of the village.
Kitty Hawk citizens say they
cannot understand this attitude,
when the greater number of pa
trons of the postoffice live in Kitty
Hawk village the year round. Only
during the summer montlis are
there any large number of resi
dents of the beach community, and
rural free delivery service has been
provided for them, and this service
is maintained daily through the
year. Kitty Hawk community’s citi
zens say tills proposed move would
work a great hardship on them,
and deprive them of the last local
community service, one in which
they have taken great pride. Last
year they gave up their school
which was moved some distance
from the community, for what some
people consider was in the interest
See SCHEME, Page Four
MOUNTAIN BOY COMES A FAR PIECE TO KILL BEAR
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N. C.’s distant, rugged mountains Roger Wiseman killed a whopping
bruin in the woods west of Manns Harbor during Christmas week.
The bear, weighing 357 pounds is believed by hunters to be the larg
est killed by a lad in these woods. He is a 6th grade student and is
shown here on the left, with his bear, and with his guide, Lloyd K.
Midgett of Manns Harbor. Accompanyying Wiseman on the trip was
Roy L. Wiseman of Spruce Pine. Twenty one bears have been slain
in Dare this season.—Aycock Brown photo.
TO GET A JOB DONE
FIND A BUSY PERSON
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EMMA NEAL MORRISON of Kill
Devil Hills, Laurinburg and Wash
ington, D. C., is a dynamic ex
ponent of the old adage that “if
you want a job done, get a busy
person to do it” Mrs. O. Max
Gardner well knows this truth,!
and she lias chosen Mrs. Morrison
for her right-hand helper in the
new effort to energize the Lost
'Colony. They have long been per-1
sonal friends, for Mrs. Gardner be
gan her public career as Secretary
to Governor Gardner 1933-40. The
multitude of things Mrs. Morrison
can manage is amazing. At pres
ent she is President of the North
Carolina Society in Washington, D.
C., where a year ago she staged
a big reception and dinner honor
ing North Carolina’s latest success
ful actor, Andy Griffith. A simi
lar event later this year honored
Governor Hodges, and another for
Mrs. Gardner. She is Vice-chairman
of the Historic Bath Commision
in N. C.; a national trustee for the
Harry S. Truman Memorial Lib
rary since its foundation in 1953;
a member of the Board of Directors
of the R. I. Historical Association;
a life member of the Woman’s
Natn’l Democratic Club of Wash
ington, D. C.; the YWCA of D. C.;
the Davis Memorial Good-will
Guild of D. C.; and the N. C. So
ciety for the Preservation of,
Antiquities.
| She has previously served as
president the Woman’s National
Democratic Club, in Washington,
i 1950-52; on the Board of Governors
of the D. C. Girl Scouts of Ameri
ca; trustee of Davis Memorial
I Good-Will Industries 1953-55; co
, chairman Stevenson-K es auver
1 Campaign Dinner Oct. 1956 at the
i Statler Hotel, Washington, D. C.;
. representative of the Mothers’
. Committee National Cathedral
i School for Girls, 1957-59; staff
Secretary Commission consolida
tion of the University of North
See MRS. MORRISON, Page Four
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY. JANUARY I, 1960
MRS. TOPPING CALLS
SOUTH ALBEMARLE
PLANNING MEETING
New President To Have Officers
at Her Home Near Pantego
on January 13th.
An early start on a program for
the Southern Albemarle Region
is being palnned by Mrs. Scott
Topping, new president of the six
county Association, and a meeting
and luncheon has l>een called by
her, at her home near Pantego at
10 a.m. on Wednesday, January
13th. The meeting is expected to
last four hours and luncheon will
be served tire visitors by Mrs.
Topping.
i To this meeting all officers of
the Association, the legislative
representatives of the six counties
and some others are being invited
Ito set up working committees for
I the coming year. Besides Mrs. Top
ping, there will be the secretary,
Mrs. John Winfield of Yeatesville,
' M. A. Matthews, treasurer, and
the following County Vice-Presi
dents. Sam T. Moore of Beaufort;
W. W. Edwards of Dare; Wm. I.
Cochran of Hyde; Robert H. Cowen
of Martin; Wm. Chas. Cohoon of
Tyrrell; and James H. Ward of
Washington.
Others who will attend the meet-
I ing are Senators Elbert Peele and
Lindsay Warrejn; Representatives
Wayland Sermons of Beaufort,
Dick O’Neal of Hyde, Dr. J. M.
Plhelps of Washington, R. Bruce
Etheridge of Dare, and B. F. Ever
ett of Martin.
Also several past presidents of
the Association including Dr. W.
T. Ralph of Belhaven, P. D. Mid
gett of Engelhard, Melvin Daniels
of Wanchese, W. J. White of Tyr
rell, Leon Ballance of Engelhard,
A. Corey of Jamesville, Victor
Meekins and L. L. Swain of Manteo,
and W. W. Watson of Hyde.
Mrs. Topping is assembling a
list of recommendations to sub
mit to the committee to aid in
shaping a program for the year.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
HARD TO ROUSE
IN DARE COUNTY
Congressman Scheduled to Ad
dress Rally and Oyster Roast
in Manteo Jan. 22
The Y'oung Democritic Party
Organization in Dare County, af
ter more than a year of activity is
still finding it hard to maintain in
terest in the attendance and contri
butions necessary to creation of a
club of formidable proportions.
Coming to the assistance of Dr.
W. W. Harvey, Jr., County YDC
president, is Keith R. Moore, rep
resentative of the State Dept of
Revenue, now living in Manteo.
Congressman Herbert C. Bonner
has accepted the invitation of Mr.
Moore to speak in Manteo, Friday
22, at 8 p.m. at a rally and oyster
roast, to which all interested Young
Democrats from anywhere in Dare
County or elsewhere are invited.
Dr. Harvey sent out letters this
week asking for contributions to
support the work of the party and
aid the state campaign chest. Henry
Armstrong of Manns Harbor is the
treasurer of the clubs, and it is
requested contributions be sent to
him.
Dr. Harvey says: “for the past
few years a few’ active Democrats
have carried the work . . .‘and fi
nancial burdens . . . All of us have
benefitted in the past and our fu
ture is bright with the Democratic
party. Now is the time for all to
aid their party. Lip service and
hollow- promises do not make a
strong county . . . Let us all join
in upholding the pride and future
of Dare County and show those
outside the county, who have help
ed us, that their support has been
worthwhile and that our political
strength is growing.”
There is a wide open and chal
lenging field for some good party
work to be done in Dare Cousty,
since so little has been done for
a quarter of a century. A party
organization has existed mostly in
name. Democrats, discouraged be
cause political recognition has not
been shared with those who do the
work, nor party favors distributed
throughout the county, have grown
to consider it futile to attempt
to have a voice in party affairs.
In turn, they have failed to arouse
and inspire the succeeding genera
tions, and party support reached
the low ebb of allowing the county
to go Republican in 1956.
A few interested young people,
and perhaps more of the older ones
joined with Dr. Harvey two years
ago in an effort to revive interest
in the party. Considerable gains
were made, some money raised and
there arc a few interested workers.
There is a field wide open for
xmreone who will give the cause
most of his time and make an in-,
tensive campaign for throughout
the county.
NEW CHAIRMAN OF ROANOKE ISLAND ASSOCIATION
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MRS. FAY WEBB GARDNER who will visit Dare County next week
in the interest of the Roanoke Island Historical Association’s new
effort to launch the 20th season of the Lost Colony during the months
of July and August 1960. Mrs. Gardner, of Shelby, Cleveland County,
was unanimously chosen chairman at the meeting in Raleigh on
December 2. She is the daughter and sister of Judges, the wife of the
late attorney and Governor O. Max Gardner who died while the couple
were preparing to sail for London where Governor Gardner had been
appointed to the British Ambassadorship. From 1929 to 1933 she was
North Carolina’s first lady during Governor Gardner’s term. On Nov
ember 19th, in Washington, D. C., she was the honor guest of the
North Carolina Society, and has hailed as an outstanding citizen,
patron and benefactor. Many distinguished leaders of the state and
nation attended; and others, including ex-president Truman, Mrs. Roose
velt, Speaker Sam Rayburn sent messages of appreciation. She will
be in Manteo Thursday, January 7.
OLD CHRISTMAS TO BE
OBSERVED JANUARY 2
Interesting Annual Event at Rodanthe
Planned Saturday Night; Once
Widely Observed on the Coast
By AYCOCK BROWN
RODANTHE—Following a cus
tom that was started long before
the oldest resident of this Outer
Banks community can remember,
.Old Christmas, once the tradition
al Christmas of the Outer Banks
region of North Carolina, will be
observed here again on January
5, just as it has been celebrated
since—some say 1752.
The formal celebration will be
held Saturday night, January 2nd
at the Rodanthe Community build
ing, which is to enable those
working away from home to en
joy the event.
It was in 1752 that Great Bri
tain and her English speaking
colonies changed from Old Style
to New Style calendars insofar as
keeping a record from day to day
was concerned. To make the
changeover from the calendars it
was necessary to drop or literally
lose, 11 days. Eleven days from
January 25 then fell on January 5.
The English, especially those
which had been transplanted to
18th Century colonies thought
there was something sacriligious
about changing the date of
Christmas. They adherred to the
old custom of celebrating on the
date that would have been De
cember 15th according to the Old
Style or Caesarian Calendar.
That placed their date of Christ
mas on the New Style calendar 11
days later or on January 5.
Anyway, it’s the date Rodanthi
ans celebrate their Old Christmas
today, and Rodanthe is the only
See EVENT, Page Four
MANTEO MASONS INSTALL
NEW OFFICERS MONDAY
B. A. Evant Heads Lodge Which Now
Hat 118 Members and Is Build
ing New Hall
Burwell A. Evans, Dare hard
ware merchant was installed as
Master of Manteo Masonic Lodge
No. 682 Monday night. The lodge,
which meets on the 2nd and 4th
Monday nights has 118 members.
It began operating 12 years ago,
and is now engaged in building
a new hall.
The other officers installed
Monday are Senior Warden, D. F.
Twyne; Junior Warden, George
M. Powell; Treasurer Edwin R.
Midgett; Secretary Ervin G.
Hines. Senior Deacon Rudolph
Peele; Junior Deacon, Ephey
Priest; Tyler James D. Groce;
Stewards, William H. Jones and
Ralph Humphlett. Hubert Guhrie,
. Chaplain.
The meeting place is the town
hall.
THE STEEL DELAY
ADDS DANGER AND
FIVE PERSONS DIE
Detour on Currituck Bridge Due
to Steel Strike, Brings Fa
talities to Ten
Five persons died Christmas
morning in Dare County when a
car driven by Milton L. Gibbs, 41,
went through the rail of a detour
on the Currituck Sound bridge in
Dare County early Christmas morn
ing. The detour has been kept for
an unduly long time, due to in
ability to get steel for a job of
installing a wider draws-span, and
it would have been finished long
ago, but for bull-headed David
McDonald’s steel strike.
Gibbs and his party of five,'
whose address are all listed as 290
New York Avenue, 16, N. Y. were
bound for Washington, N. C., to
visit his mother.
He got on the wrong road and
went to Nags Head, having come
through the same dangerous detour
where his party met death shortly
afterward.
Not knowing he could continue
on across Croatan Sound, and ap
apparently not having been told, he
retraced his route, and shortly af
ter sunrise Christmas morining was
approaching the detour and appar
ently too fast His 1958 Buick
skidded as he attempted to turn left
through the detour bridge, and
went overboard. He swam to a tow
part of the construction job, got
on the bridge and hitch-hiked to
the nearest phone.
The five dead are two aunts of
Gibbs, his mother’s sisters, Fannie
P. Pilowden, 35 and Hallie Mae
Peartree, 45; James Smith 25, and
his wife Wallier Eugene Smith, 21,
Gerald Williams, eight, the son of
Mrs. Pilowden.
Highway Patrolman Arthur
Fields spent the day at the bridge
while search was made for the
bodies by Coast Guardsmen. Four
of the bodies were found Christ
mas and the fifth on the 26th.
These five deaths raised the num
ber of auto fatalities in Dare to
ten during the year. Ervin Farrow
died near Oregon Inlet July 4, and
four died in a collision near Stumpy
Point early in December.
MIGHT HAVE ROPED DEER
SWIMMING IN RIVER
A deer, fleeing from hunters in
Pungo River Christinas eve might
have been caught with a rope by
Mrs. W. T. Ralph, of Belhaven,
who with her brother Thomas Wa
hab went in his boat down the river
to get a Christmas tree. But the
deer had no horns, and they let it
go its way. The trip yielded a very
fine tire however, to grace the
Ralph home this season.
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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ELLISON RETURNS
AFTER COMPLETING
CHORE IN KOREA
Belhaven Man Studies Request
For Loans for Industries
Allied With Seafood
One of the most interesting
slants on world affairs, is that
while citizens of coastal North
Carolina are pleading for someone
to build plants to process seafood
products and create employment
for our people, our government
calls into sendee a citizen of’ our
own locality, William Ellison of
Belhaven, to go to Korea on the
bottomside of the world, to investi
gate requests that we build a mul
titude of such plants for the Ko
reans.
Mr. Ellison, a well-known marine
biologist got back home on Decem
ber 19tli at the conclusion of five
and a half months on this chore
for Uncle Sam. Oddly enough, he
left Tokio on the 17th, spent two
days in Washington en’ route and
vet got home on the 19th. The dif
ference comes from the day gained
in flying eastward across the Inter
national date line.
Mr. Ellison went to spend two
months and it took more than five
before he got through. The Ko
reans want Uncle Sam to lend
them, through the International
Cooperative Association more than
a million and a quarter dollars to
build seven projects. These pro
jects include freezer plants, fish
meal factories, a plant for baling
seaweed, for the extraction of agar
from seaweed and which is used
in medicines, etc.
Mr. Ellison found that some of
these requested projects offered
little in the way of sound basis
for making the loan.
It will be remembered he re
turned last year after a long stay
on the Island of Formosa on a
mission of the U. S. Government,
VARIETY OF BIG
NEWS IN COASTAL
REGION IN I 959
Liberty Ship Stranded and Saved;
Many Killed on Roads;
Bridges Soon; New Bank
A million dollar Liberty Ship
drifted ashore and was later sal
vaged near Avon and on Decem
ber 25, Christmas morning, five
Brooklyn Negroes lost their lives
when the auto in which they were
passengers crashed through the
rail of a detour at the draw
bridge of Wright Memorial Bridge
spanning Currituck Sound.
Those were big news stories on
, the Dare Coast in 1959, and even
ibigger stories for persons who are
interested in fishing, was that
1 anglers tok more blue marlin off
' this coast than any in other lo
cality in the world.
Important in the news for the
region in 1959 was the anouncc
; ment by the State Highway Com
-1 mission that contract for a bridge
across Alligaator River would be
let early in 1960, and a bridge
across Oregon Inlet to be let lat
er in 1960.
Announcement is also made
that beginning in March 1960, the
Taylor Brothers of Sea Level will
establish car ferry service be
tween Ocracoke Island and the
mainland of Carteret County, thus
eliminating Outer Banks dead end
highways.
In the latter part of the year
a new bank was being sought in
Dare County and its promoters
promise resources of a half
million dollars.
During 1959 also was complet
ed the new National Park Service
Highway between Whalebone
Junction and Oregon Inlet and
new State Highway (U.S. No.
158) between Kitty Hawk and
lower Nags Head. The latter
cost almost $1 million.
Other big news in the making
along the Dare Coast during 1959
was the beginning of millions of
dollars worth of channel dredging
in the Manteo. Wanchese and Or
egon Inlet sectors; Mission 66
projects of the National Park
Service which when complet
ed early next year will represent
a half million dollars in improve
ments* to entrance highways and
a new administration building
visitors center at Wright Memo
rial Monument at Kill Devil Hills,
and many more thousands invest
ed in the Mission 66 improvements
of National Seashore projects be
tween Nags Head and Ocracoke.
During 1959 another million or so
dollars was spent on improve
ments of vacation facilities here
on the Dare coast—new rooms in
’ hotels and motels, swimming
> pools, restaurants and recreational
attractions.