FRIDAY, JULY 22. 1960
MEN- and the SEA
TRUE STORIES OF /, LXb&SFt
BRAVE OLD DAYS
Gallant Deeds of By-Gone VyWl
Tears in The Walter / //jaffin MgMMr E
Raleigh Coastland.
VRECK OF SCHOONER
CHARLES S. HIRSH
The Charles S. Hirsch was a
our-ipaster of 520 tons burden,
wned by the Hirsch Lumber Com
any of New York. She left Bruns
wick, Ga. on the morning of Octo
er 18, 1908, bound for Baltimore,
Id., with a cargo of 318 Georgia
ine piling, consigned to Hodgkins
zunber Company. She was wrcck
d near Paul Gamiels Hill, 51 years
g«.
On this trip she carried a crew of
ight men, including the Captain,
s follows: Frank Wall Hunter,
faster, Charles 0. Olson, mate,
'red L. Hoffses, engineer; Edward
. Christiansen, Albin Julgen, Tor
es Gunderson, Ludvig Helgesen,
eamen, and the cook, Helgesen and
he cook lost their lives in the dis
ster here described. No one of the
rew interrogated by the officer
who investigated the disaster could
iv© the name ?f th? cook. All that
ould be learned about the cook Wa“
hat he was an Englishman and
hat he had shipped at Brunswick,
he port from which the schooner
ad sailed. The Captain stated that
tis name was on the ship’s papers
which were lost with the vessel.
The piling the schooner carried
onsisted of sticks from 80 to 90
eet long and measuring from 18
o 20 inches through their largest
■nds. They were stowed heads and
>utts. The deck load of 116 timbers
illed up all the space amidships,
icing stacked well up under the
nain and mizzen masts, leaving
ree only the space forward oc
upied by the forecastle and that
ift taken up by the cabin and
luarterdeck. The piling was se
curely lashed by wire and chains.
Eight Knots In 24 Hours.
According to the testimony of,
'aptain Hunter, the schooner had
air weather until October 20, when
he encountered a northeast gale,
vhich lasted until the 22nd. After
hat she had variable winds and
aims, there being days when she
vould not log more than eight
mots in the whole twenty-four
lours. There was a nasty sea all
Iris time, says the master, and the
onditions seemed to indicate that
i storm was brewing. About 2:30
i. m. of October 29, when tire vessel
vas doubtless somewhere off the
till Devil Hills life-saving station,
he lay becalmed. The Captain had
lot been able to take an obser
vation for thirty-eight hours, and
lid not know more than approxi
nately where he was. The crew had
seen taking soundings since 8:00
if the proceeding morning, and at
he time stated, 2:30 a. m., tire lead
showed 16 fathoms. About 3:15 a
ight wind sprang up from the.
lorthward, which within an hour,!
freshened to 3 or 4 knots. At this (
time the schooner was heading
north-northwest in 15 fathoms. The
Captain was on deck all the while
assisting in taking soundings.
Asked if he saw any lights at any
lime, he replied that somewhere be
tween 12 and '2:00 a. m. of the 29th
he picked up two on the starboard
bow .which he at first took to be
shore lights, but on looking at them
through his glasses he found they
were steamers.
At 4:00 the port watch came on
deck to relieve the Captain, who
was keeping the starboard watch,
but the later still remained on deck
to look after the soundings. For
some time after 4:00 the vessel
ran along in 12 and 13 fathoms.)
When she made 13 fathoms the
captain told the mate that they
would soon wear ship, meaning
that they would swing the schooner
clear around to port, making a loop,
as it were, and head out seaward on
the port tack almost at right angles
to the direction in which they were
going. This manoeuver was neces
sary in order to get out far enough
to go again on the starboard tack
for Cape Henry, inside of which the
Captain says he wanted to make
refuge.
Just before the necessary orders
were given for bringing the vessel
around, a sounding was taken
which showed 11 fathoms. The
captain states that he had then no
idea, that he would go on the beach.
He simply thought that they were
getting as close in shore as was
up again on the starboard tack. The
prudent and that the time had ar
rived to get off in order to come
necessity for wearing ship, he ex
plains, was the direction of the
wind, which was Wowing from the
northeast. In the opinion of some
of the life-savers, if the wind had
been a point farther eastward, it
would not have been necessary to
wear the schooner around, and she
would undoubtedly have reached
Without accident the haven she had
inview. It was while executing the
maneuver mentioned that she got
into trouble.
When Captain Hunter found his
vernelin 11 fathoms, he took the
wheel and told the mate to slack
away the spanker topsail and stand
by. The slackening of this sail, he
stated, was to throw the wind pres
sure more on the forward sails,
thereby helping to swing the
schooner around more quickly.
While the mate was slackening the
sail, the captain rolled the wheel
hard up and fastened it with the
becket Telling of what next oc
cured, he says:
“The schooner paid off north
west, but seemed to hang, and as
I did not want to lose too much
ground or strain my steering gear,
I next called to the mate to slack
the spanker peak. As she still did (
not pay off, I then told him to.
lower the spanker away. I, at the
same time, ran to leeward and let 1
go the mizzen sheet As the vessel
still did not answer her helm, I be
gan to suspect that something was
wrong with her steering gear, and
was doing everything possible to
bring her around,”
By* tin's time the wind was
freshened up to 20 knots and it]
had begun to drizzle making a j
mist over the water. Day was
breaking however, and through the
occasional rifts in the scurrying
fog, the sailors could see to wind
ward, long lines of foam crested
seas, which warned them of their
proximity to the shore. Up to this
moment, it seems, the captain had
not been apprehensive that he was
dangerously near the beach, and he
had scarcely time to realize what
was in store for his vessel before
she fetched up in the breakers.. She
struck about 150 yards off shore,
nose first, then swung around port
side to the beach, headed north
ward.
The seas were running high when
she took bottom, and they now
i broke over her decks and the
houses fore and aft, the spray fly
ing high up in the rigging. The cap
tain, a young man just turned 30,
and who appears to have acted with
great courage and presence of mind
through the terrible scenes that en
sued, and to have manifested the
greatest concern for the safety of
his crew-—ordered all hands on
deck. Two or three of the men were
forward and the rest aft. After
calling the men up, the captain, the
mate and two seamen undertook to
lower the sails, “So that there
would not be so much gear swing
ing around.” The water was coming
aboard in much volume, however,
that they were unable to finish
their work, having to take refuge
on tile quarterdeck, where they
were shortly joined by the men
from forward.
The captain next thought to go
down into the cabin to secure the
I ship’s papers and some personal
i belongings. On descending he found
the cabin awash and the furnish
ings thrashing around so violently
as to threaten the safety of anyone,
entering. He succeeded however,!
in getting hold of his watch and j
pocketbook, but did not dare remain,
long enough, to get the papers,
which were in a drawer of the
desk.
While he was below, the cook ap
peared at an inner door of the cabin (
and when he went back on deck,
followed him out.
All the ship’s crew with whom
) the investigating officer talked
agreed that the cook was so badly 1
' frightened as to be incapable of
jintelligent action. In fact, both of!
I ■ the men who were lost were prac-,
tically helpless through fear. Their
I shipmates were of the opinion that
) had they been more courageous
they might have been saved. The
’ captain stated that the rest of the
crew never showed the “white
’ feather” but they even joked with
[ each other when it seemed certain
thev would all perish.
! When the cook came up on the
quarterdeck, the captain appreci
-1 ating his condition, assisted him in
: to the yawl, which hung from the
' davits over the stem. There he re
! mained until the crew, some time
later, attempted to launch this
5 boat, when he got out of it and
1 tried to take a hand in the launch
-1 ing. but a sea came along and
‘ swept both him and the boat over-
' board.
• Some twenty minutes after the
! schooner fetched up, the deck load
5 began to work loose, and soon the
3 piles stacked under the starboard
" side were chafing the rigging as
5 they rose and fell with the seas,
" tearing it asunder. Freed from
3 their fastenings to windward, the
3 masts could not withstand the ter
-3 rible pounding and the pressure of
1 the piles on the leeward rigging
t and three of them, the mainmast,
>miz s e n mast and spankermast
8 snapped off simulataneously, the
1 last two going overboard and the
1 mainmast swinging around against
a the foremast, where it hung
tisusnended by the rigging.
The first man to sight the
s. schooner from the shore waa Surf
s'man Andrew Scarborough No. 1
1 man at Paul Gamiels Hills life
saving station. He was at the time
I standing the 2:30 to 6 a. m. beach'
I watch near the station. About 5:30,'
as it was coming daybreak, he saw j
her off to the east-south-east. He
watched her for a few moments,
and then set a stake in the sand
I near the watchhouse and took a
I range to determine in which di
| rection she was moving. He saw
that she was falling off toward the
beach. Scarborough says that he
wasn’t sure she would come ashore, I
but that he knew she was where
she should not be in weather such
as prevailed at that time. While
: he was watching the vessel. Surf-!
| man Paul D. Beals, the No. 3 man 1
■ at the same station came in from:
the south patrol, and at Scar-1
, borough’s request kept an eye on
i the ship while Scarborough went
to the station some 200 yards away
to inform the keeper of his dis-|
covery.
Keeper Thomas Harris and crew'
of Paul Gamiels Hill Station were
soon on their way to the vessel with ,
the Beach apparatus, hauled by the
station team, arriving abreast of
her even before she stuck. Before ,
setting out he had telephoned to
Captain Tillet of the Kitty Hawk i
( Station, six miles South, to come •
with his men, and to Captain Snow ;
[of the Cassey’s Inlet Station, six 1
[miles north, to hold himself and his!:
crew in readiness for a call. Both j
keepers came with their crews be- t
fore tlie work of rescue was con
cluded and rendered valuable ser- (
vice.
When Keeper Harris and hisp
' crew arrived abreast of the schoon- :
|er the wind was blowing strong 1
from the northeast and it was);
' raining. The vessel lay broadside to' ]
the beach and was pounding heavi-|-
ly, with the seas almost hiding her j
from view. Within fifteen minutes):
the Lyle gun was fired with 5 ;
ounces of powder, laying a No. 9);
line across the vessel just forward ;
of her spanker mast After the
sailors had taken refuge on the
quarterdeck, six of them, it ap- )
pears, climbed into the spanker
rigging. When the line fell they all .
came down and, together with the ■
master, who had remained on top
of the cabin, got hold of it and be
gan to haul in. They hauled the
tail block on board and secured it I
to the spanker mast, but in spite!
of the efforts of the life-savers
to keep the two parts of the whip l
separate, the tremendous current)
that swept down the beach twisted
the line so that it would not run!
through the block when they tried
to haul off the hawser. The twist
extended the entire distance from
the ship to shore, and nothing could)
be done from either end toward
getting it straightened out.
Seeing it would be impossible to
untangle the whip, Captain Harris
signaled to the sailors to cut the
tackle loose, but they failed to
understand what he wanted them
to do, and did nothing.
The keeper now sent two of his
men back to the station for another
whip line, and while waiting for it
the life-savers carried the shore
[end of the twisted line down the
beach so that it would be clear of
wreckage and staked it fast that,
it might later be recovered.
When the sailors found that the'
line would not work, all hands, ex-1
cept the cook, who was still in the'
yawl boat, went aloft, the captain
taking refuge on the spanker gaff!
,and the others in their former:
■ position. By this time the deck load,
I had torn away the rigging to wind
award the three masts previously
:, mentioned. This meant that these
: ened, Captain Hunter from his
masts would soon go by the board.)
Perceiving the danger that threat
! position on the spanker gaff, called
■ to his men to come down, himself
| suiting the action to the word by:
descending to the starboard quar-
I terdeck to windward of all wreck
age that would fall. The sailors did
not hear him at first owing to the
jeonfusion. Had they done so, what;
(followed might not have resulted
’i fatally to one of their number.
: Shortly, the mainmast cracked and
■ the sailors then started down. They
’►were not quick enough, however,
! for the three masts went over
j while two of the men, Julgen and
1 Helgen, were still aloft, and these
‘ two went along overboard. Neither
man was apparently injured by the
'■ fall. Hengesen succeeded in crawl-
• ing up on some wreckage hanging
■ over the side of the schooner and
; ) getting hold of the flyrail. Here he
' | held for a while only to be swept
5 1 back and to disappear in the
5 1 threshing debris alongside. The
* other sailor, Julgen, was more
’ fortunate. He managed to get
I astride a spar in the water, where
’ he remained for fifteen or twenty
minutes, and then climbed back on
board with the help of a shot line
that had fallen near him.
After the masts went over, his
crew tried to launch the yawl boat,
! first making the cook get out of it.
ilt filled, however, as soon as it
[struck the water, and turned over,
I and a sea bore it away as previous
ly stated. It was afterward found
,down the beach, badly damaged as
i was also the schooner’s dinghy,
which had been washed from the
; top of the cabin soon after the
- vessel fetched up. The sea that took
1 the yawl boat away was the same
■ one that carried off the cook and
’ I broke Helgesen’s hold on the fly
rail. The engineer says in his teeti-
• mony that he saw the cook after
!he went overboard, crawl upon
■ the end of a pile, hold on for a
THE CO A STI. AND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C.
■ moment and then go under as the
> timber rolled. The bodies were not
i) afterward recovered, and it was the
general opinion of those who wit
nessed the rescue operations that
i they were ground to pieces among
, the piles alongside the vessel.
! When the masts came down
Keeper Harris sent Surf man Scar
borough to the station with 5 men
for the surfboat that they might
have it at hand ready for an at
tempt to get to the schooner in case
the breeches buoy should fail him.
.Meantime, the extra whip line had
come, and he fired another shot
with 4 ounces of powder, laying a
I No. 9 line where the first one fell—
, just forward of the stump of the
j spanker mast around which the
(sailors were huddled. The ship’s
crew tried to haul off the whip, in
which effort they failed, owing to
I the fact that the shot line had
| fouled the wreckage. Although this
| line could not be used as intended,
, it at least served the good purpose, '
as was already shown, of helping
Julgen get back on the ship. Keeper
Harris stated that he tried to send
this second shot within reach of
Julgen, so that in case the men on j
the men on the schooner did not ;
succeed in getting it, he (Julgen)
would be able to lay hold of it,
and the life-savers could then haul
him ashore. The line doubtless *
saved the sailor’s life, although not )
in the manner the keeper had con
sidered possible. i
Failing the second time in their’ (
efforts to get the apparatus in !
operation, the sailors returned to \
the stump of the spanker mast, '
around which they clung, some of,'
them lashing themselves fast.
Several of the life-savers who were ‘
present on the beach testifed that,
while the sailors were in this ’
position the seas repeatedly buried |
them out of sight. That they man- <
aged to hold on was a matter of.!
astounding surprise to the veteran !
surf fighters.
A third line—also a No. 9, pro
jected by 4 ounces of powder, and
sent across the schooner in the
same place that the two others fell.
—changed the fortunes of the ship
wrecked men. They had some
trouble in getting the whip on)
board, due to the wreckage and)
current, but they at last succeeded!
) in fastening both whip and hawser
to the spanker stump, securing the !
, hawser some two feet above the *
! tail block. After that the rescue!
i was only a matter of minutes. Six
i men in all were brought ashore,
the captain being the last to leave
the ship. .
The rescued men, bearing slight
bruises, were in good shape. They
were wrapped in blankets as they
landed, and when the work of res
cue was completed, were hurried
to the Paul Gamiels Hill Station
where they were given restoratives
and clothing.
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA
TYRRELL COUNTY
Tyrrell County and
Town of Columbia
vs.
1 Sarah E. Schlez, Theodore Schlez
land wife, Mrs. Theodore Schlez;
| Anna Schlezand husband,
if any; Carl Schlez and wife, Mrs.
.Carl Schlez; Ernst Schlez and
wife, Mrs. Ernst Schlez; Gretchum
Schlez and husband, if
any; and Sam S. Woodley, Trustee:
1 To Theodore Schlez and wife,
.Mrs. Theodore Schlez; Anna Schlez
land husband, if any; Carl
Schlez and wife, Mrs. Carl Schlez;
Ernst Schlez and wife, Mrs. Ernst
Schlez; Gretchum Schlez
and husband, if any;
| You, and each of you, will here
by take notice that the above en
titled action is now pending in tne
Superior Court of Tyrrell Coun-I
. ty, North Carolina, for the purpose
of condemning for sale and sell
i ing land lying and being in the
Town of Columbia, Tyrrell County,
North Carolina, for the purpose ot
paying delinquent taxes thereon
; owing to each of the plaintiffs, l
which said property sought to be
condemned and sold is described as
follows:
Beginning on the North side
of Main Street at the South
west corner of the A. J. Column
lot; thence running Westwardly
, along Main Street slightly over
40 feet to the center of the brick
petition wall which divides the
store formerly occupied by A. L.
Walker from the garage and
showroom occupied and used by 8.
M. Combs; thence running North
wardly along the center of said
brick wall, the full length of the
same and continuing and running
further on in the same direction
along a straight line to the
Southern line of the Columbia
Amusement Company lot to the
. lots of S. C. Chaplin and A. J.
Cohoon; thence Southwardly
along A. J. Cohoon’s line to the
beginning, containing 4 50
square feet, more or less, to
gether with easement and joint
interest in and to the dividing
wails as described in Deed re
corded in Book 81, page 139,
Public Registry of Tyrrell Coun
ty.
You will further take notice that
you are required to file pleading;
answering or demurring to the
complaint filed in the office of
the Clerk of Superior Court of Tyr-1
roll County on the 19th day of.
August, 1960, or within 20 days
thereafter, and that upon your
failure to do so, judgment will be
demanded for the sale of said
property to satisfy said taxes. i
I This the 14th day of July, 1960.
I MELVIN PLEDGER
Clerk of Superior Court 1
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’ , MANTEO PERSONALS
t
> Mary Jolliff Burrus of Manteo is
■ one of 11 East Carolina College
■ summer students announced as
> members of the staff of Radio Sta
tion WWWS, campus radio facility
i with Bobby Lovic of Raleigh,
• senior with a major in business
i education, as station manager.
■ Mr. and Mrs. Harris Midgett and
Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Hines had as
1 their guests last week Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Mayo and son, Ray, of
Miami, Fla., and Miss Sylvia Cox
of New Smyrna, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ives and
daughter, Gay, of Aurora, are vis
iting Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Hines.
Willard Knight of Riviera Beach,
Fla., is visiting his father, W. R.
Knight, who has been ill at his
home near Manteo. Mrs. Willard
Knight accompanied her husband
and continued to New Jersey to
visit relatives, and will rejoin him
here this week end.
Mrs. H. G. Hankins and children,
Tommie Evans and Mary Stuart
Hankins, of Greensboro, are visit
ing Mrs. Hankin’s foster mother,
Mrs. O. J. Jones. Mr. Hankins plans
to join his family in a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Manning Gray and
children, Ruby Jean and Manning.
Jr., who have been living in Ches
terfield, Conn., have returned to
Manteo to make their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dough and
children, Barbara, Bobby and
Becky, have returned to Raleigh
after a visit with Mrs. Dough’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Krider. )
Mr. and Mrs. John Midgett of
Miami Springs, Fla., are visiting
Mr. Midgett’s sister, Mrs. Frank
Sikora.
Mrs. Richard Byrum and chil
dren, Rickie, Alvah and Mary, of
Norfolk, Va., are visiting Mrs.
Byrum’s mother, Mrs. Tracy Ward.
Mr. Byrum joined them here last
week end.
Mr. and Mrs. Brantley Brown
and children, Annette, Charlie,
Margaret and Cindy, have returned
[to their home in Whiteville after
, visiting Mrs. Brown’s mother, Mrs.
■ Tracy Ward, and Mr. Brown’s par
, ents, Mr. and Mrs. Aycock Brown.
Clarence Beals, who works on a
i boat operating out of New York
( City, arrived home Saturday’ night,
I returning to New York Thursday
morning.
NOTICE OF
RESALE OF REAL ESTATE
By virtue of the authority con
ferred upon the undersigned by
order made by the Clerk of Superior
Court of Dare County, North Caro
lina, in the special proceeding en
titled, “Cora F. Bass, unmarried,
Willie B. Britt and husband, Henry
Britt, W. H. Holloman and wife,
Otelia Holloman, Ruth H. Morris
and husband, C. B. Morris, F. Wen
rick Holloman and wife, Betty Jean
Holloman, Grace F. Brown and hus
band, Marion Brown, Bessie F.
Brown and husband, A. L. Brown,)
Dixie F. Howerton and husband,
Lloyd Howerton, Rosenell B. Clark;
and husband, James A. Clark, Jean
nette B. Copeland and husband, R.
C. Copeland, Felton Barker and
wife, Dora Barker, Shirley Barker
and wife, Anne Barker, Geraldine
F. Page and husband, Douglas
Page, Violet F. Harrell and hus
band, Willie Harrell, Barbara F.
Jernigan and husband, Ed Jerni
gan, Ruth B. Whichard and hus
band, W. A. Whichard, Melvin
Brock, minor, by his next friend
and father, Herman Brock, Tommie
Ann Felton, minor, by her next
friend and mother, Anne M. Barnes,
and Peoples Bank and Trust Com
pany, Edenton, N. C., Executor of
(Estate of Victor Inez Felton, de
ceased, —Ex Parte to the Court,”
I and pursuant to an order of resale
entered by the Clerk of Superior
j Court of Dare County, North Car
olina, on July 18, 1960, the under
signed Commissioner will offer for
sale at public biddings, for cash, to
the highest bidder at the Court
house Door in Dare County, Man
teo, North Carolina, at 12:00
i o’clock noon on Friday, August
! sth., 1960, the real estate in At
, lantic Township, Dare County,
North Carolina, to-wit:
All that certain lot of land
lying.and being in Atlantic Town
ship, Dare County, N. C„ known
as, designated and being Lot
No. 10, in Block 19, in Section
“A” of the revised Map, or Plat
of the subdivision known as
Kitty Hawk Beach. Said revised
Map or Plat of the subdivision
known as Kitty Hawk Beach
made by J. D. Foy, Registered
Surveyor, June, 1947, and duly
recorded in Map Book No. 1, page
141, Office of the Register of
Deeds of Dare County, N. G
Reference to which is hereby
made for a more particular de
scription thereof, being the same
real estate conveyed to Carl C.
Houghton, Jr. and I. 11. Haywood
by Kitty Hawk Beach Realty
Company, Inc. by deed dated
April 24, 1948, and recorded in
Book No. 34, page 51, in the of
fice of the Register of Deeds of
Dare County, N. C. and being
the same real estate conveyed by
deed dated October 18, 1949 by
Carl C. Houghton, Jr- and wife,
Viola D. Houghton and I. H. Hay
wood and wife, Cottie Haywood
to Victor Inez Felton and record
ed in Deed Book No. 36, Page 332
in the office of the Register of
Deeds for Dare County, N. C. to
which deeds reference is hereby
made for further description and
chain of title.
The opening bid will begin at
$7,300.00.
Dated and posted this 20th. day
of July, 1960.
WELDON A. HOLLOWELL
Commissioner
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INTEREST IN COMMITTEE
MEETING FOR THE AGED
s
; Advance registration for the
3 North Carolina Governor’s Confer
. ence on Aging has gone well over
r 300, indicating widespread interest
, throughout the State in the three
- day event scheduled for July 27-29,
at the Hotel Sir Walter in Ra-
I leigh.
. The Conference, open to all in-
I terested citizens, with no regis
• tration fee, will feature four princi
pal addresses. In addition, eight
concurrent Workshops will be held
for discussion in subject - matter
areas of vital concern to the aging
segment of the State’s population,
which now comprises approximate
ly 6.7 percent of the State’s popu
lation. According to best available
estimates, there are now approxi
mately 310,000 North Carolinians
aged 65 and over, representing an
increase of 37.5 percent in the past
decade.
The opening address, "A State’s
Responsibilities to Its Elder Citi
zens,” will be given by Governor .
Luther H. Hodges, who in 1956
appointed the fifteen - member!
Governor’s Coordinating Commit
tee on Aging which has planned ':
the Conference. Other speakers !
NOTICE OF SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NORTH CAROLINA '
TYRRELL COUNTY
Town of Columbia '
vs. ’
11. S. McClees, Edith Fenner and ‘
husband J. Ernest Fenner and Sam '
S. Woodley, Trustee.
To Edith Fenner and husband, J. 1
Ernest Fenner:
You, and each of you, will here- '
by take notice that the above en
titled action is now pending in the |
Superior Court of Tyrrell County I
for the puipose of condemning and;
selling real estate within said |,
Town of Columbia for the' purpose
of paying delinquent taxes for the)
years 1954 to 1959 inclusive, which)
property is described as follows:
Beginning on the North side
of Scottsville Street in the Town
of Columbia at the corner of
Ab Alexander heirs’ lot and
running thence Northwardly
along their line to wthin one
foot of a ditch which leads from
Broad Street in the Town of Co
lumbia to the river; thence West
wardly with said ditch and one
foot from the same to the corner
of another lot belonging to said
Ab Alexander heirs’; thence
along the line of said lot to
Scottsville Street; thence East
wardly along said Street to the
beginning, containing one-half
acre, more or less, and being the
same lands described in that cer
tain deed executed by C. P.
Peele and others to Henry Sea
ton McClees, dated August 4,
1944, and recorded in Book 96,
page 403, and known as the
Henry Seaton McClees home
place.
You will further take notice that
you are required to answer’ said
summons on or before the 19th
,) day of August, 1960, or within
, 20 days thereafter, or the relief
:; demanded in the complaint will
be demanded by the plaintiff.
This the 14th day of July, 1960.
I MELVIN PLEDGER
' Clerk of Superior Court
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A full SUSPtHHOH j
XHIES...
Heavy steel, fire resistant files J* i!
at exceptionally low prices.
Equipped with full progressive
suspension, spring compressors
and guide rods. The last K
folders are as easily accessible -
as the first. Drawers glide
smoothly at a mere finger life 1
touch. Dollar for dollar the ii?
best buy in files.
FOUR DRAWER
LETTER SIZE: 14’/.“ wide, 52’1" high, - «'v
26V'deepNo. 204 $49.95 < j
LEGAL SIZE: 17V' wide, 52’,4" high,
26H" deep No. 504 $59.9$
Plunger lock for above $9.00 add'l. '
TWO DRAWER |
LETTER SIZE: 1474" wide, 28" high, I\
24" deep No. 202 $32.50
LEGAL SIZE: 17H" wide, 28" high,
24" deep No. 502 $43.00
lock that locks all drawer* $4.93
additional.
• THREE DRAWER ,
LETTER SIZE: UV'wide, 40H"high,
26%" deep No. 203 $48.95
LEGAL SIZE: 17%" wide, 40%"high,
26H" deep No. 503 $56.23
.Plunger'lock for above $9.00 add'l.
five drawer’ h
LETTER SIZE: 147 k" wide, 60“ high,
26H" deep No. 205 $69.95
LEGAL SIZE: 17V' wide, 60“ high,'
26H" deep. No. 503 579.95 J
. Plunger type lock for above filoo
[$10J)0 eddMonaL
EXCtTINa COLOR*
Available in Olivo Green, Mbt Green, Desert Sand, or Coh Gray.
TIMES PRINTING CO, Inc.
MANTEO, N. C.
are Dr. Ewald W. Busse, Director
> of the Duke University Center for
the Study of Aging, whose topic
> is “The Health and Adjustme?it of
■ Older People”; Miss Chloe Gifford,
■ immediate past president of the
; General Federation of Women’s
■, Clubs and adult education director
j for the University of Kentucky,
speaking on “Tomorrow’s Chal
lenge Today” and Dr. Harold J.
Dudley, General Secretary of the
Prsbyterian Synod of North Caro
lina, who will deliver the conclud
ing address Friday, July 29, en
tited “Age Is a State of Mind,”
COOK-PUGH
Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Pugh of
Engelhard announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Katie
Elizabeth, to A/1C Kenneth Eu
gene Cook, U.S.A.F., son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Cook of Rocky-
Mount. The wedding is planned for
August 7.
NOTICE OF SALE
Sealed bids for the sale of a
one-story frame dwelling and lot
iwith 75’ frontage and 85’ depth,
formerly owned by The Kill Devil
Hills Beach Realty Corporation.
I and located on the west side of
New US 158 approximately 9.5
miles from the east end of tile
Wright Memorial Bridge, and with
in the town limits of Kill Devil
Hills, will be received by the North
Carolina State Highway Commis
sion in the Division Right of Way
Office at Ahoskie. North Carolina,
until 10:00 a.m., Tuesday, August
9, 1960, when they will be open
ed and read.
All bids are to be accompanied
by a deposit of 20% of the bid
price, in the form of certified
check, or money order payable txx
the North Carolina State High
way Commission. The deposits of
I the unsuccessful bidders will be re
funded. The Commission reserves
I the right to refuse any and all bids.
'This property may be inspected by
I contacting J. 0. Sellars, Right of
| Way Agent, at his office in Ahos
kie, North Carolina.
All bids are to be placed in an
envelope marked “Bids on Surplus
Property”. If bids are submitted
by mail, please write the words
‘Sealed Bids’ on the face of the
envelope and address to JL SeL
lars, Right of Way Agent, North <
Carolina State Highway Commis
sion, Ahoskie, North Carolina.
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