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VOL XXVI NO. I
TO PRESENT lOOOTH
PERFORMANCE OF
5 THE LOST COLONY
On July 9th, Many Notables Will
Gather For Exceptional Event
in Manteo
By AYCOCK BROWN
Paul Green’s symphonic drama
The Lost Colony will present it’s
' 1000th performance on Roanoke Is
land, Saturday evening, July 9 at
8:15 o'clock. General Manager Dor
ton says all former cast members
of the drama, since it opened in
1937, have been invited to attend
this important anniversary show
ing.
“It is impossible to reach every
former cast member by mail be
cause some are now residing at ad
dresses unknown to us,” said, Dor
ton, adding, “Therefore we are try
ing to reach everyone who has been
members of The Lost Colony com
pany via the press, radio and tele
vision.”
All former members of the cast
and company will be admitted free
for the 1000th performance, the
only requirement being that the
person sign a guest book at the box
office adding the year or years
they were in the show and the roles
they had.
Illustrious Alumni
Many persons who formerly were
members of The Lost Colony Com
pany have through the years be
come successful in many business
and professional careers.
The Lost Colony Company was
not only a stepping stone or spring
board for many persons of varied
professions today, but it also re
sulted in many romances that led
to marriages. There are members
of The Lost Colony today whose
parents or grandparents were in
the Company at one time or anoth
er through the year.
Most illustrious of the show’s
alumni perhaps is Andy Griffith,
one of the great stars of stage and
television today. Barbara Griffith,
his wife, was the North Caro
linian to play the leading female
role of Eleanor Dare. She is a
native of Troy, he is from Mt. Airy.
Others in the entertainment
work! and once in The Lost Colony
cast includes Julia Meade of the
Ed Sullivan show, who played the
female lead one year ,also Robert
Armstrong and Charles Briggs now
of Hollywood. Armstrong as John
Borden, Briggs as Chief Manteo.
Floyd (Chunk) Simmons of the
movies, a resident of Charlotte, and
others.
RECORDERS COURT LOW
IN INCOME; ONLY $125
Nina C. Daniels, colored of Man
|, teo, was arraigned on three counts
■ Tuesday in Dare County Recorders
court She was charged with dam
age to property of Erlene Daniels,
E with breaking out windows; with
assault and threats of knives and
!| with abusing Vessie Gibbs. All this
happened after remarks had been
■ made attributing kinship of Nina
Daniels to Erlene Daniels. Judge
Baum gave Nina 30 days, suspend
ed on payment of $25 and court
costs.
Allen Pheniistor, 16, of Ports-
E mouth, Va., and Gene Wincheseter,
|| 15, of Bayside, Va., were charged
II with breaking into a beach cottage
U near Kill Devil Hills; charge was
H changed to simple trespass after
being remanded to Juvenile court,
and a fine of $25 placed on the
■ boys.
P- 8. Midgett, Jr., of Rodanthe
H paid $52 for using improper drivers
|| license. Donnie A. Williams of Fris
co, for using improper registration
B pand $5. Fine for speeding were as
follows: Elmer E. Dennett, Jr., of
Hampton, Va., sls; Jack E. Roach
It of Tarboro, sls; Hettie R. McCurry
H of Black Mountain $lO. John W.
H Saundes of Coinjock, for ignoring
i| Stop sign, $5. Grady Simmons of
B Columbia for giving a bad check,
was allowed to make the check
B good and pay court costs.
With the several county officers
■ bringing in little or nothing as us-
■ ual, without activity which formerly
Ijj brought in nearly all the cases when
'Patrolman Fields was in the area,
income from fines has dropped to
JI a new low this week. The total
B amount involved in fines was only
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® A MODERN LAUNDROMAT
~ OPENING AT BUXTON
A completely new coin operated
Bit laundry is opening today at Bux
gß ton on Cape Hatteras, next door
to the REA plant It is being es
taNlshed by Mr. and Mrs. Al
■ Gammage, formerly of Baltimore,
who plan to remain open every
day 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. This service
is sure to be welcomed by local
and tourist interests, it being the
frat of its kind on Hatteras Is-
THE COASTLAND TIMES
WITH WHICH IS COMBIHED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA
TERRY SANFORD CARRIES DARE AND 3 OTHER SOUTH ALBEMARLE COUNTIES
WINNING GUBERNATORIAL NOMINATION BY MAJORITY OF 77,000 VOTES
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TERRY SANFORD of Fayetteville,
won the Democratic nomination for
Governor Saturday in a statewide
majority of well over 77,000 votes,
the total vote in the state running
to over 638,000 and an unusually
large one for a run-off and for
one in which so few candidates par
ticipated. In the four original
counties of the . Southern Albemarle
Association, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell
and Washington, Mr. Sanford was
the leader. In Tyrrell he led better
than five to one over Dr. I. Beverly
Lake of Wake Forest. In Dare, he
won by more than two to one. His
vote in Tyrrell was 754 to 134; ini
Dare 952 to 474; in Hyde 726 to I
511 and in Washington 1,563 to
1,062. He lost both Martin and
Beaufort Counties.
Mr. Sanford lost in Currituck by!
a small majority, 781 to 756; also in
Pasquotank by 1,863 to 1,713; in
Perquimans by 643 to 603; in
Chowan by 629 to 617 and in Cam
den by 616 to 418.
It is of interest in Dare County
that those precints in which the
reactionary courthouse group had
wielded most weight against Bonner
for Congress, and for Larkins for
Governor in first primary in some
other precints, went heavier for
Lake than for Sanford on Saturday.
IJowever the only two precincts
Which Sanford failed to cany were
Manns Harbor and East Lake,
which circumstance speaks for it
self. In the first primary in Dare
County, Sanford led by 872 with
Larkins following with 659. In the
run-off on Saturday, Sanford led
by 952 to 474, the total vote being
1,426. In the first primary nearly
2,000 votes in all were cast Lake
then got only 238.
Out of a combination of Lake and
Larkin votes, Lake got his 474 votes
in the run-off. Peculiar circum
stances attached to this election.
Some who were first for Lake,
then renounced in favor of San
ford, and by the day before the
run-off. were back in the Lake
camp again. Some who professed
to be for Sanford, and working in
Ehst Lake and Manns Harbor for
him, turned out to be not active
at all for Sanford, but were re
ported quietly working for Lake. It
was a case of the usual straddlers
trying to be on the band wagon
without willing to be out openly.
Some of the Lake men are now
ROSE BAY-SLADESVILLE
GET TELEPHONE SERVICE
Telephone service for 43 rural
families in the Rose Bay-Slades
ville and Bulah communities be
came a reality recently when tele
phone lines in that area were placed
in service.
The project was completed in ac
cordance with the Carolina Tele
phone and Telegraph Company’s
program to improve and expand
fram telephone service on an exten
sive basis. K. C. Wilkinson, local
Telephone Company manager, said
that accomplishment of this project
involved burying 10.9 miles of cable
and constructing 8.1 miles of aerial
wire costing $32,984.00.
This is one of many such rural
projects being undertaken by the
Carolina Telephone and Telegraph
Company to provide service to rural
areas in its 41-county operating
territory.
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trying to convince everyone they
were for Sanford all along. In East
Lake, Sanford got 11 votes in each
primary. In Trent he picked up
three to add to his original 24. In
Stumpy Point he picked up an
extra vote, making 62. In Wanchese
and on the south banks he picked ]
up his larger proportionate gains
BELHAVEN'S OWN BAND WILL TAKE PART
IN JULY 4TH CELEBRATION ON MONDAY
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One of the greatest Belhaven
Fourth of July Celebrations is
promised by post 249 of the Ameri
can Legion to all those who come
Monday to celebrate in the
traditional way. A new attrac
tion this year will be the “Dunn
Clowns”, a group of Shriners who
present “Mickey, the Unicycle Ar
tist”, “The Sad-Faced Clown”
“Jesse, the Flatfoot Policeman”
and several other comic figures. In
addition to the clowns, the parade
will feature a marching unit of
Marines and four, bandsr'the award
winning Washington High School
Band, the Washington Junior Band,
The Belhaven Band, and the Win
terville-Ayden-Grifton Band.
The program will begin at 9:30
a.m. with a water ski show present
ed by talented local performers di
rected by Otis Johnston, Jr., and
• Billy Ruark. The parade will begin
|at 11:30 and will be followed by
the traditional fish fry at the Com
munity Center at 12:30. There will
be a charge of fifty cents per
plate at the fish fry.
Congressman Herbert Bonner has
been invited to be on hand to make
the Independence Day address, but
it is not yet certain that he can at
tend.
The afternoon program will be
gin at 2:00 with a beatuy contest
at the River Forest Manor and a
ball game between the Belhaven
and Pungo pony Leagues at the
school ball park. At 2:30 the Wash
ington High School Band will enter
tain with a concert at the Com
munity Center; and at 3:30 there
will be an adult ball game, with
teams to be announced.
“Fire Works over the Pnugo”
ait 8:00 will be followed at 9:00 by
a dance at the Community Center.
Jimmy Larkins and his “Paodl
coans” ,of Washington, N. C., will
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY I, 1960
in the second primary. In Kitty
Hawk, he got 95, gaining one. In
Hatteras he dropped from 79 to
57, but Lake still got the same
number 17. Buxton from 65 to 47,
but Lake jumped from 3 to 23.
Some of these switches were due
perhaps, to disappointments in
See SANFORD, Page Six
play for the dance, which will al
so feature the crowning of “Miss
Independence”, the winner of the
Beauty contest
Russell Johnston, over-all chair
man of the celebration and all
members of the local American
Legion are extending an invitation
to the general public to come to
Belhaven and join in a day’s pro
gram which is designed to furnish
entertainment for all. The Fourth
of July has become the date for
the annual trek homeward of all
Belhavenites, wherever they might
be living, and one of the outstand
ing pleasures of the day is the
greeting of old friends and the
gathering of family groups. Many
others who are not natives have
come to feel that Belhaven is the
place to be on the Fourth, and they
will received the same friendly wel
come this year as always.
WANCHESE FISHERMEN
RESCUE AIR PILOT
A Seymour Johnson Air Force
Base pilot ejected himself at 10,-
000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean
during a flameout in his FlO5
Thunderchief late Tuesday and was
picked up by two Wanchese fisher
men.
Capt. D. Brock Foster, a native
of Carmichael, Calif., was over a
bombing range when his firelights
went red and he coudn’t control
the plane. The plane crashed into
the ocean.
Fishermen Charles Daniels and
Charles Wescott took Capt Foster
to the Cape Hatteras Coast Guard
Station. He was transferred from
there to the base hospital at Sey
mour Johnson for treatment of
minor cuts and was released.
Capt Foster is attached to the
334th Tactical Fighter Squadron at
Seymour Johnson.
HATTERAS ISLAND'S
FIRST FISHING PIER
OPENS TOMORROW
Rodanthe Site of First Ocean
Pier, Costing $90,000 Popu
larity Expected
Hatteras Island’s first fishing
pier will officially open tomorrow,
Saturday and is expected to have a
whopping business. For long be
fore the pier was finished big
catches of large fish had been made
by those nervy enough to hang on
to the stringers. Roland D. Owens,
the well-known motel operator of
Rodanthe, heads Chicamacomico
enterprises which built the pier
and which will be operated by
Fritz Boyden.
Located 12 miles south of Oregon
Inlet, the pier is near two old ship
wrecks which have long marked the
center of an unexcelled fishing lo
cation. Fishing is usually extra
good here during December and
January, as well as other months.
Its location is actually the most
eastern point of North Carolina,
and at this point more fish of many
varieties pass closer to the shore
than elsewhere. The pier is 24 feet
wide, 820 feet long, located 20 feet
above the ocean, and is expected
to withstand any and all weather.
It was built under a special use per
mit of the National Park Service.
Special service facilities for its
fishing patrons have been provided
on the shore end of the pier. Sam L.
Liverman of Colington, the con
tractor began work on the pier in
May.
LOST COLONY MANAGER
TALKS TO ROTARIANS
Thanks Given for Generous Aid and
Cooperation Given Him; Com
ments on Future Problems
General Manager J. S. Dorton,
Jr., was the speaker at the Monday
night meeting of the Manteo Ro
tary Club, and discussed some of
the present and future aspects of
the Lost Colony which has appar
ently gotten started well this sea
son. Mr. Dorton was generous in
his praise of the cooperation given
him by local citizens, and for the
financial contributions that have
some from several local sources
this year.
But Mr. Dorton warned that all
thinking about the Lost Colony
must be directed to the changing
spirit abroad, whereby so many
who have contributed to make up
deficits through the years in order
that the show might be saved from
crisis after crisis, are becoming in
creasingly reluctant to make con
tributions. The public is generally
aware, he pointed out, that con
siderable benefits businesswise
come to the community, and surely,
all business generally in the en-
See LOST COLONY, Page Six
THE OUTER BANKS HAD BANKING
FACILITIES OVER 200 YEARS AGO
Portsmouth Had First Bank, Dealing With West Indies; A
History of Banking Progress and Banking Needs Prepared
in Support of the Manteo Bank's Branch at Buxton Early
This Year. .
By BEN DIXON MacNEILL
Nott: Thit fascinating brief was written
early in the year by the late Mr. Mac Neill
of Cape Hatteras who died May 26. It
was presented to the N. C. Banking Com
mission, and again read Monday night to
the Manteo Rotary Club.
Throughout the era that ended
with the fall of two forts guarding
Hatteras Inlet in 1861 the forbears
of my neighbors on Hatteras Ocra
coke Islands and in the towns of
the mainland west of the Seven
Sounds, did their banking in the
West Indies, usually on the Ba
hamas or the Barbados and p
branch of a West Indian company,
established at Portsmouth 209
years ago, was the first bank in
North Carolina.
This arrangement waned and it
was replaced by a native-owned
bank when John Gray Blount, the
State’? greatest merchant and land
owner set his own financial estab
lishment with headquarters on Shell
Castle Island just off Ocracoke.
Blount owned a fleet of ships and
did most of the buying and selling
and shipping for the whole eastern
North Carolina. At one stage, his
operations made our local port—
Portsmouth first, then Ocracoke
and finally, Hatteras—among the
largest on the South Atlantic
coast.
The plantation country to the
west of our Sounds grew rich in
the century preceding the Civil War
and most of their trading was done
through the two Inlets south and
west of Cape Hatteras. Their trade
was with the West Indies and their
banking was done usually with
British banks with branches in the
Indies. Even when banks were
established in Edenton, Washington
and other inland towns, their major
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MANTEO MAN GRADUATES
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ENSIGN ROBERT GRAY WIL
LIAMS on Wednesday, June 8,
graduated from the Coast Guard
Asademy in New London, Conn., at
the 74th Commencement exercises
of the academy. He has been as
signed to duty on the Coast Guard
Cutter Cheroke, and will be sta
tioned in Norfolk, Va. Ensign Wil
liams is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Williams of Manteo, who at
tended the graduating exercises.
NEW SHOW IN OCTOBER
The Andy Griffith Show, new,
weekly comedy series starring one
of the entertainment world’s most
versatile personalities—Andy Grif
fith—will make its debut over CBS
Television Network in October.
The series will be presented Mon
days at 9:30-10 p.m.
In his first regular network tele
vision series, Griffith will play a
general factotum in the small town
of Mayberry, U.S.A., who is rem- ,
iniscent of the late Will Rogers
and Bob Bums.
This will be good news to the
many fans of Mr. Griffith who with t
his wife and two children have
been here at their home on Roan
oke Island for several days.
j contacts with world finance was
I through the ports of this county.
• That era ended and, without in
’ tending to be facetious or frivolous,
I might say that our Islands were
1 without an era for three quarters
; of a century. Life went on, of
s course, on our two Islands but the
- main currents flowed past us. No
f longer was there any direct con
i tact with the West Indies and the
i Islanders turned inland. Elizabeth
- City, a comparatively recent settle
i ment, became the trading center
, and, in a lesser degree, Norfolk.
) Washington remained the inland
i contact of the Ocracoke Islanders.
But the seeds of a new era were
1 planted. In the 1870 s the U. S.
’ Lifesaving Service .was reorganized
® and strengthened. 'Hie telegraph
line was established from Norfolk
j to Hatteras in 1874 and the U. S.
.. Weather Bureau set up. World
j War One came and was followed by
j a second and together they had an
a impact that, as Time unravels the
5 story, greater than the destructive
. weight of the Civil War that ended
B an era. There were other influences.
» The late Frank Kugler of Washing
c ton caught the first drum at surf
casting and Lindsay Warren, a
a disciple of Kugler's, went to Wash
„ ington as a Congressman.
r I think that the day of the be
b ginning of the modern era .on these
1 islands can be pin-pointed. It was
b the day that the late Governor
r Gregg Cherry came down, with a
i great company of other guests of
b the Standard Oil Co., which was
b confident that on that day they
I would most certainly strike oil In
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MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO. N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
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, LOST COLONY TO
MAKE EXCEPTION;
SHOW ON THE 4TH
Monday Night Rule Suspended
for Once; Display of Fireworks
Promised Over Sound
Fireworks and celebration of
Performance number 1000 are two
early season special events planned
by the management of Paul Green’s
symphonic drama The Lost Colony
at Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Is
land.
The show is now in its 20th sea
'son at Waterside Theatre and will
continue nightly (except Mondays)
through September 4. Saturday’s
opening night is considered the best
one in many years.
An exception to the Mondays
will be on July 4. There will be a
special performance on Independ
ence Day (next Monday) at which
General Manager Sib Dorton will
present the biggest display of pyro
technics ever attempted on the
North Carolina Coast. The fire
works will be presented over Roan
oke Sound where the audience in
Waterside Theatre will have a clear
ringside seat vision of it all.
On Caturday, July 9, it is planned
to celebrate the drama’s 1000th
performance, and some added at
tractions will be presented.
Critics who have seen the show
this season say it is one of the best
in the long history of the drama.
Group patronage at the show is
being encouraged this season Each
week up to 200 4-H club members
from the Roanoke Island 4-H Camp
see the show at special group rates.
Manager Dorton stated that special
prices would be given groups from
anywhere who may come to see the
Paul Green drama and already
many bus loads of patrons have
been booked. Complete in forma
tion about The Lost Colony or
housing on Roanoke Island and the
nearby beaches may be obtained
by writing “Information Section.
The Lost Colony, Manteo, N. C.”
MINUTES MADE BY
DARE CO. BOARD
90 YEARS AGO
Rodanthe, East Lake and Roanoke
Island Had Commissioners
First Year
Dare County was created 90
years ago, and the first meeting of
its governing body was March 28th.
Its Board of Commissioners con
sisted of the Magistrates of the
County. The clerk of Court served
as Board Chairman. Included on the
Board 90 years ago was George
Washington Crees of East Lake,
Thomas Tillett of Wanchese, and
Cornelius Paine of Rodanthe.
George B. Bliven was Register of
Deeds. Republicans prevailed in
county office in those days, and
for nearly 50 years thereafter.
As first Sheriff of the county,
the Board appointed Walter T.
Dough, but at the next meeting, re
ceived word from Mr. Dough that
he wouldn’t serve. David B. Austin
was then named Sheriff.
These and other interesting rec
ords of the early Government of
Dare County 90 years ago are to be
found in the office of Melvin R.
Daniels, Register of Deeds who has
held this office without notable op
position for well over a third of the
county’s history, a total of some
34 years.
“Minutes of the meeting March
28th, 1870:
The Board of Commissioners.
Present: Cornelius Paine, G. W.
Crees and Thos. Tillett who pre
sented commissions from the Gov
ernor appointing them as such and
qualified before R. S. D. Holbrook
who had previously qualified by
subscribing to the oath of office
prescribed by the Constitution of
N. C.
Vote taken for Chairman. R. S.
D. Holbrook elected for Chairman.
The following county offices be
ing vacant: Sheriff, Register of
Deeds, Coroner and County Sur
veyor. It was ordered that the
Board proceed to fill the vacan
cies.
Walter T. Dough was duly ap
pointed as Sheriff and ordered that
he be notified to qualify and bond
according to law. George B. Bliven
appointed Register of Deeds and
notice given. Wilson R. Sutton ap
pointed Surveyor and notice given.
Ordered that the tax on marriage
licenses for county be double that
of State.
Ordered that the county tax on
retailers of liquor be $25 in addition
to the State tax
Ordered that the Chairman pro
cure a jury box and that the mak-
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