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VOL XXV NO. 52
OREGON INLET
CHANNEL WORK PUT
OFF UNTIL AUGUST
Dredge Unexpectedly Sent To
New York Job; Lost Time
et Oregon Inlet
The Engineer hopper dredge
Hyde departed at midnight June
18 for the New York area after
approximately nine days of ocean
bar channel work at Oregon Inlet.
She is sceduled to return to the
inlet in August to complete the
job, according to the Corps of Engi
neers District office in Wilmington.
Don A. Gardner, Chief of Opera
tions, said the dredge left a Chan
nel 14 feet deep or better, at least
■x 200 feet wide and fix>m 800 to 900
feet long.
Gardner said more progress
would have been made had weather
conditions been better. The Hyde
lost six days out of the 15 days she
was on the job: She is expected to
complete project dimensions of 14
feet deep by 400 feet wide when she
returns in August.
Meanwhile, the 30 to 35-foot
project at Morehead City Harbor
got underway in full blast Monday
(June 20) with two dredges going
to work. The Gahagan company’s
30-inch pipeline dredge Peru got
started in the inner portion of the
harbor and the Engineer hopper
dredge Gerig went to work in Beau
fort Inlet. Each dredge has about
1.5 million cubic yards of material
to move to provide an additional
depth of five feet. Capt. Jarvis S.
Midgett, a native of Hatteras is in
charge of the Gerig.
GARBAGE SERVICE
A HEALTH MEASURE;
RULES ESTABLISHED
A new contract for disposal of
garbage in certain areas of Dare
County is effective July 1. There
is desire on the part of many citi
zens and county officials that this
service be extended to everyone, as
fast as meana can be provided and
on the basis or need. It has grown
out of an emergency situation re
sulting from the rapid development
of homes and places of business in
some areas, and where the house
holders, have no land on which to
dump garbage, or public place to
dump it, and no service has been
provided otherwise.
Those who expect to benefit by
this service must observe certain
rules, otherwise they will not get
the service. Garbage must be placed
at the roadside in covered, water
tight metal containers approved for
garbage use. The collector will not
remove trash, and the householder
must make his own arrangements
for this service. The object, in the
interest of health, is to remove,
what may be a menace through
putrefaction, increase of flies,
spread of disease, etc.
Persons who expect to benefit by
this service should obtain from the
collector, a copy of the rules under
which it is operated, and must fol
low the rules if they expect to get
the service.
BOBBY OWENS DECLARES
SUPPORT FOR SANFORD
Bobby Owens of Manteo, says
he was erroneously reported last
week by Manteo people as being
a supporter and co-manager of I.
Beverly Lake in the run-off pri
mary for Governor. Mr. Owens de
clares instead he is supporting
Terry Sanford for Governor. In the
first primary, Owens was the Dare
County manager for John D. Lar
kins, Jr., for Governor, who got a
vote of 659. Sanford carried Dare
by a vote of 872. Lake followed
with 238.
Owens has joined forces with R.
O. Ballance, Sanford’s Dare County
manager. Mr. Ballance announces
that Sanford will appear on Sta
tion, WAVY, Norfolk, Channel 10
on 8 pun. Friday night, today.
HAYMAN RETURNS FROM
HOSPITAL; CAFE OPEN
Tbr the past two weeks, DeWey
Hayman of Nags Head has been
home from the hospital where he
has been recovering from a heart
attack sustained several weeks ago.
While in the hospital, Mr. and Mrs.
Hayman had to close their very
popular Seafare Dinner House,
newly opened across the road from
their Arlington Hotel, which hotel
they sold recently, because of this
illness, as "we have previously re
folded in our columns.
Mr. Hayman appears to have
made a splendid recovery, but must
stay at home and not climb steps
wMle his strength grows. The Sea
fare Dinner House is operating, and
enjsys a good business. Mr. Hay
mpn now lives next door in the
former home of his daughter, Mrs.
Gloria Parent, as she has bought
a new home in Manteo and Hvee
here. Mr. Hayman, welcomes his old
friends who have the time to visit
him M Nags Hand.
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' MR AND MRS. MARSHALL L, TWIFORD, natives of East Lake,
' who have resided in Norfolk since World War I, were married 59
years on June 9th. This popular couple, leading citizens of the com
; munity while they lived in East Lake have reared a large family of
' useful children. Mrs, Twiford is a sister of Mrs. Caddie Crees of
Manteo, and the late M. D. Sawyer, for many years a leading citi-
1 zen of East Lake. The Twifords now live on Chesapeake Boulevard
in Norfolk. While he has been retired from public work for several
' years, Mr. Twiford, 84, gave up working in his shop at home only
, two years ago. In February he suffered a severe heart attack but is
. pulling out of it in fine shape. He enjoys talking about the good old
; days at East Lake, and of the fine community spirit and neighborli-
I ness for which its people have always been famed. This photo is by
I courtesy of Norfolk Newspapers.
1 LOST COLONY WAS NEVER
LOST. SAYS MR. TWIFORD
By VICTOR MEEKINS
The Ixxit Colony was never lost,
. and it merged with the North Car
’ olina settlers through the years,
. after having lived and flourished
' for two centuries within 20 miles
' of the original settlement on Roan
' oke Island. Marshall F. Twiford of
Norfolk, a man who claims to have
1 descended from some <of this colo-
I ny and who boasts of Indian blood
in his veins, says it was thoroughly
1 known in local tradition, that when
’ the colony fled from the Spaniards
' in 1588, they were lid by their
1 Indian friends to the settlement
long known as Beechland on what
1 is now the Dare Cfunty mainland.
“Old people always told me that
older people before them said that
. the Beechland settlement was
founded by the English who ran
away from Roanoke Island,” Mr.
Twiford says. “My graridfather,
who came over from Kitty Hawk
, much later lived there, and married
a full blooded Indian from Beech
’ land.” When I was a boy, there
never seemed to be any mystery
about about this settlement, for the
old folks took it for granted that
everyone knew all about it.
“I used to go up there when I
was a boy, and there were still
several houses standing in Beech
land. Most of the houses were log
houses, and some had only dirt
floors. You reached it then, by
paddling up Milltail creek about
ten miles from Alligator River.
Now its easy to drive there on a
good dirt road.
“Beechland lies between the Alli
gator River and Roanoke Marshes
on the mainland. The Marshes are
opposite Roanoke Island, and 200
hundred years ago, islands which
have since washed away, blocked
Croatan Sound so thickly that old
people said their forefathers had
told they knew when a small nar
row entrance was the only part
that couldn’t be crossed on a fence
rail. Beechland was an ideal place
for a hideout,” Mr. Twiford said.
“It’s about eight miles through the
woods from Croatan Sound, and
you couldn’t get to it in a boat from
Milltail Creek without being seen.”
This writer has heard the old
stories about the First settlers liv
ing at Beechland, during the past
half century. It has been told by
many people, and dozen of old citi
zens of East Lake who would now be
close to 100 years old have repeat
edly told the story as Mr. Twiford
tells it. Lonnie Ambrose, a well
known citizen of East Lake says
today, that his grandmother was
an Indian woman from the area,
. who married over in Washington
, County. Some of' the old people
used to have implements and dishes
’ said to have been owned by the
, settlers in Beechland, an area
i named for beautiful beech trees.
I The old people of Roanoke Island
i said their grandparents used to talk
■ of the days when the Roanoke
Marshes could be reached across a
> fence rail. Within the memory 6f
t people of middle age today, there
j remained many of the marsh is-
- lands which stretched westward
1 from Nannie’s Creek, or Eastern-
- most Narrow’s Point.’
b Old maps, recently obtained from
l thes University of North Carolina
t library, show the marsh islands
s which blocked the sound. It was
i not until the deep inlets at Nags
t Head dosed during a hurricane 150
See BEECHLAND, Page Five
FIVE BANDS EXPECTED
IN BELHAVEN JULY 4th
Among numerous attractions ex
pected in Belhaven for the annual
July 4th celebration will be five
bands, some military, some school
bands, and in particular Belhaven’s
own prized band of school young
sters who make a hit wherever they
go. American Legion Post 249, as
usual sponsors the 4th of July
event in the city. The famed Drum
Clowns are coming, many floats
are being arranged, contestants for
beauty queens will come to town.
A big program of water sports will
be featured, along with a street
oarade, a dance, and other features.
More details will be offered next
week.
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top photo) overlooking Roanoke Sound for the 20th season opening of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony
>n Saturday night, June 25. There will be performances nightly except Mondays, through September A
Lower pictures show scenes from the play and principal actors. In center Indian maidens dance around
heir medicine man; at left, Mary Wood Long of Rock Hill, S. C. in the regal costume she wears in the
i’ay is shown inspecting an Elisabethan Era-styled sun dial in the Elizabethan Garden adjacent to Water
side Theatre; lower center are Eleanor Dare, played by Marjalene Thomas of Manteo und Elizabeth
i 3ity and Bob McQuain, Richmond, as John Borden, who eventually become leaders of the colony; and,
i Sir Walter Raleigh, played by John Whitty of New Bern and New York as he bids his ill-fated colonists
goodbye aa they sail from England. (Aycock Brown photo)
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1960
JULY FOURTH AND
PONY PENNING AT
OCRACOKE ISLAND
The Usual Attractions Expected to
Draw Big Crowd of Summer
Vacationists
OCRACOKE, June 21. Pony
Penning at 9 a.m. on July 4th at
Ocracoke will be one of the high
lights of the day’s events. Fifteen
of the famous Outer Banks ponies
belonging to Boy Scouts of Amer
ica, Greenville Council, under
trrusteeship of the Ocracoke Boy
Scouts, Troop 290, will be sold at
pubic auction at the annual July
4th penning. Privately owned po
nies will also be put up for sale
at the same time. Round-up of
the ponies will begin early that
Monday morning, though not as
early as in years past, since for
the past year the herd has been
fenced on National Park land
about seven miles north of the
Village, and the eorral is a part
of this area. Visitors to the Is
land for the July 4th holiday will
have an opportunity to witness
the penning and the sale.
Following a tradition of many
years, there will be a Flag Rais
ing ceremony at the schoolhouse
at 11:30 a.m. with a brief pro
gram appropriate to the patriotic
occasion. Immediately after this
program will come the big July
4th dinner in the school library,
sponsored annually by the Wom
an’s Society of Christian Serv
ice of the Methodist Church. Pro
ceeds of the dinner are used for
the work of the Society.
Two old-time square dances, one
on Saturday night, July 2nd, the
other on Monday night, July 4th,
will 'be features of the week end
celebration. In past years there
have also been other special
events. These, if they materialize,
will be announced later.
The Ocracoke ponies to be sold
are descendants of a long line of
sturdy little horses which roamed
the Island in years past and at
one time roamed the entire Outer
Banks of North Carolina. Gradu
ally to make place for encroach
ing habitation, the ponies were
sold off until about two years
ago Ojoracoke Island and Shackel-
See JULY 4fR, Page Five
MANTEO BANKER GIVEN
SAVINGS BOND AWARD
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A Treasury award was presented
last week to Dare County, through
W. R. Pearce, County U. S. Sav
ings Bonds Chairman. The award
was for 131.1 per cent achivement
in Savings Bond sales for 1959.
Quota for the year was $35,700 and
the sales were $46,706.65.
The citation reads: “In appreci
ation of patriotic service to the
Nation in the United States Sav
; ings Bonds Program.”
Wade Hawkins, Raleigh, Area
, Manager of the Savings Bonds Di
vision for Eastern North Carolina,
• made the award. He stressed ap-
■ predation for “the cooperative es-
• fort of all banks in making this
achievement possible. He also
• thanked 'the newspapers and other
j media for their “excellent public
, I service effort” in the support of
1 the program.
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1 WISES MARKET ENLARGES;
> BECOMES RED AND WHITE
Wise’s Food Market, located on
the highway through Manteo, has
I become affiliated with the Red and
■ White chain, greatly enlarging and
remodeling their store. A popular
market for many years, it is op
erated by Mr. and Mrs. Willis
! Wise, who announced that a formal
! opening will be held soon. It will
be known as Wise’s Red and White
Supermarket.
) 'LOST COLONY LAUNCHING ITS
’ 20TH SEASON ON SATURDAY;
MANY IMPROVEMENTS NOTED
Opening Night Designated "Consolidated Uni
versity Night," with Many Officials to be
Present; Theatre Completely Renovated; Some
Script Changes
MARLIN TOURNEY’S
ESTIMATED COSTS
RUN TO $130,000
It Takes Big Money For This Kind
of Fishing Bringing New Fame
to N. C. Coast
By BILL SAUDER
(In the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch.)
HATTERAS. The marlin
are blue. The money is green. Both
[ come with large bills.
Forty anglers from all over the
world paid $250 each last week to
j enter the International Blue Mar
lin Tournament, but that was just
a drop in the financial bucket.
The kick in blue marlin is ex-
! pensivk
The 20 boats which whipped
through rugged seas in the Hat
i teras tournament were specially de
■ signed for catching big five—at an
, average price of $65,000 per boat.
The price includes special big
- fish fighting equipment and extra
) powerful engines. Each boat has a
> pair of outriggers, which hold trail
: ing baits away from the wake of
: the moving boat
f A S6OO fighting chair is needed
to meet the big fish. Many of the
boats 'have two chairs.
The personal equipment price
> range is high, too.
A 12-0 Fin-Nor reel sells for
! $650 and a rod to match goes for
i S2BO. Fill the rteel with $56 worth
I of linen line, add a $l3O fighting
I harness and that eats up a SI,OOO
. bill.
The $250 tournament entry fee
. becomes the cheapest part of the
[ event if one comes from a distance.
I One of the three-man teams en
. tered in the tournament was from
South Africa. W. R. van der Riet,
a Natal’hotel owner was on an
American fishing trip.
“I like to fish,” said van der
Riet “Before this tournament I
was in two tournaments at Cat
Cay in the Bahamas. After that
I went to the Florida Keys for
some tarpon fishing.
“I will stay on here for a few
days, and then head back to Africa
byway of New York.”
What is the “kick” that brings
men like van der Riet to a marlin
tournament 7,000 miles and many
thousands of dollars distant?
The marlin malady is likely to in
fect any fisherman. It hits when the
lookout on top of the boat screams:
“There he is. He’s on the
STARBOARD BAIT ... NO
WAIT, HE’S GOING TO THE
OTHER SIDE . . . LOOK OUT,
HERE HE COMES.”
A raked fin cleaves the water.
Giant jaws gape open and engulf
the trailing bait. The line twangs
out of the snap on the outrigger
and sings and sizzles as the mar
lin races away from the 'boat.
During the first few seconds the
fisherman gets into the fighting
See TOURNEY, Page Five
A EUROPEAN TOURIST BY
BICYCLE TO OCRACOKE
Eddie Zak, a German tourist of
22, who by boat, bicycle and hitch
hiking is making his way twice
around the world, came into Man
teo by bus Thursday, while on his
way to Ocracoke Island to meet a
young friend, Forrest Cox, a Ra
liegh photographer. He hitch-hiked
across Europe, in almost a year,
travelling also a thousand miles
by bike.
Zak came into Newport News on
a German freighter last Wednes
day. He carries about 75 pounds of
equipment on his bicycle, besides
two cameras slung across his
shoulder, and he is making photo
graphy a hobby. While he resides
part time in San Francisco, he is
anxious to get back to Europe.
which he likes so much. “I’ve seen I
things there you don’t see in thej
United States,” he says. “There’s
a different atmosphere, as far as
simple living goes, even as far as
a walk in the woods ... It makes
you content.”
> SANFORD ON WNCT-TV
FRIDAY NIGHT 8:30-9 P. M.
[ Terry Sanford is scheduled for
, final TV appearance prior to Sat
urday’s primary, Friday night at
8:30 p.m., according to announce-
1 ment from R. O. Ballance, Dare’s
- Sanford for Governor chairman,
i Tw*Uy, it may be seen over Green
ville station WNCT.
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
SECTION ONE
Single Copy 70
By AYCOCK BROWN
America’s first and longest
lived symphonic drama, Paul
Green’s great history-mystery, be
gins its 20th season in Waterside
Theatre at Manteo, Saturday
night, June 25 at 8:15 o’clock.
There has been no advance in
the price of admissions and the
drama will be presented nightly,
except Mondays through Septem
ber 4. (An exception will be Mon
day night, July 4, as a special
performance is planned that eve
ning in order that the many
thousands of persons expected in
the area for their Independance
Day outing may see the show.)
Tickets this year will sell for $1
for children, $2 general admission
and $3 reserved seat.
Under the management of J.
Sib Dorton The Lost Colony is
better prepared for its opening
this year than in many seasons.
In recent months Waterside The
atre has been completely reno
vated at a cost of several thou
sand dollars. There has been more
advance promotion than ever be
fore. And the show itself is ex
pected to be the most polished
production in the long history of
the show which gave a new look
to American theater when Paul
Green wrote The Lost Colony.
Under the direction of Clifton
Britton, assisted by his musical
director George Trautwein and
his choreographer Walter Stroud
rehearsals have been underway,
morning, atfernoon and night
since early June. The Lost Col
ony Company of approximately
15 actors and technicians is
ready to go. It is believed that
the drama this year will have
more audience appeal than ever
before, because of the acting, the
renovating of the vast amphithe
atre and the polishing off of some
draggy sections in the script.
Opening night Saturday has
been designated as “Consolidated
University Night.” The top offi
cials of North Carolina’s “Greater
University,” at Chapel Hill,
Greensboro and Raleigh, headed by
William C. Friday will be pres
ent.
See LOST COLONY, Page Four
WANCHESE SCHOOL MAY
BE PUT UP AGAIN
Bids Received Would Leave Board of
Education Short SI,OOO Causing
Additional Increase in Taxes
The bid of only SSOO that has
been received for the Wanchese
school building and its 3 acres of
land may not be accepted by the
County Board of Education, it was
indicated this week. Citizens of
Wanchese had hoped to get the
property, almost free, hoping they
might later raise funds to establish
a community center.
But the Board of Education had
anticipated they would get a mini
mum of $1,500 for the property,
and on this basis, the budget for the
schools needs in Dare County for
the coming year was set up and re
quests on this basis have been made
to the board of commissioners.
The bid offered lacked SI,OOO of
coming up to the figures and this
means, if the Board of Education
sells the property for only SSOO,
the money needed will have to be
passed on to the taxpayers of the
county in an increase in tax rate.
Prominent county officials have
discouraged others from bidding on
the property at a fair value on the
ground that Wanchese community
needs it for a central meeting place.
Some Wanchese people think the
community would never furnish the
funds to continue the upkeep of so
costly a property and it ypould soon
come to nothing. Therefore, many
taxpayers, think the property
| should bring the high dollar for the
■benefit of the school children for
whom the investment was first
made.
In connection with this situation
it is pointed out, that of all the
school properties that have been
turned over to the various com
munities, not one has been main
tained and kept in its former good
condition, and in some cases they
have been allowd to rot down for
lack of community support, and m
a result, many thousands of dollars
have been taken away from school
aS’SwS
l-rc+o of school bene
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