SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOL XXVI NO. 7 NOTABLE PEOPLE FOR LOST COLONY AND THE GARDENS August 18th a Day of Celebrities; Is 373rd Anniversary of Birth of Virginia Dare By AYCOCK BROWN Notable people representing Great Britain, North Carolina, the State Junior Chambers of Com merce and Dare County will take [part in the special Virginia Dare [Day performance of The Lost Colony on Thursday, August 18, unext week) when the 373rd an jnivcrsary of the birth date of the [first child of English parentage Lorn in America is observed. I Representing Great Britain will fce Commodore.l. F. M. Newnham, L'. B. E., who is the Chief of Staff |>f the British Naval Staff in IVashington and Assistant Naval Ivttache. He has a colorful Royal K’aval background and was re lently loaned to the Government of India where for more than two Bears he was Chief of Staff of ■he Indian Navy. He will be ac companied to the Dare Coast by llrs. Newnham and arrangements lor their participation in the Vir ginia Dare program was arranged ly Mrs. Fred Morrison of Wash ington and Kill Devil Hills, fi nance chairman of Roanoke Is- Kmd Historical Association. I Here to represent Governor Bother H. Hodge's and the State If North Carolina will be Lieuten- Int Governor Ernest Barnhardt, a I sident of Concord, N. C. I Both the Lieutenant Governor ■ the State and Commodore ■ewnham, will be introduced to Ke audience to deliver greetings Bom their respective governments. Bach will also be special guests Biring the afternoon of August K, at the formal dedication of ■izabethan Garden, ceremonies | Biich will begin at 2 o’clock, un ■r the sponsorship of the Garden Bubs of North Carolina. ■Another honored guest for the Brginia Dare Day performance ■ll be Miss North Carolina of ■6O. She is beautiful Ann Her ■g, 18-year-old daughter of Dr. ■d Mrs. Owen F. Herring of ■nston-Salenr and her appear ■ce here on Thursday has been ■ranged through the Junior ■amber of Commerce, Winston- Kern,, her sponsor in the recent ■te-wide Beauty Pageant in ■arlotte for the selection of a ■jresentative to participate in ■? Miss America Pageant of At ■tic City next month. ■The five foot seven inch beau -5T whose vital statistics arc 35- ■35, will make a pre-perform '■.•••; apnerance on the great stage ■bee NOTABLES, Page Four ■URSDAY FAMILY NIGHT £ AT THE LOST COLONY IK’hursday, August 11, was ■unity Night,” at The Lost IBony. “To will give vacationing ■ local famillies an opportunity Si everyone to see the show at re ■ed prices” manger Dorton ex ■ned. ■wo weeks ago as an experi ■it for attracting people to the ■w on Thursday night, Dorton ■ounced that all women or girls ■rnding the show would be ad- free, if they brought along ■cket-buying husband or escort, ■e reaction was unusally good, fl we had one of the best Thurs-, ■ nights of the season,” said Mr. August 18th Special ■nother special admission at ■tion will be presented on ■rsday night, August 18, when fl 373rd birthdate of Virginia ■re, first child of English par-, ■ge born in the New World, is ■rved. On August 18, all women ■hildren named “Virginia” will ■dmitted free, and “all persons ■ed ‘Virginia Dare,* will not ■ be admitted free, but each per- ■so named will be given aa life ■ nass to the drama. We would ■ire some form of identification, ■ as drivers’ license, birth cer ■ite, etc,” Mr. Dorton Says. ■hWAY OFFICIALS TO ■ VISIT DARE COAST ■ghway officials scheduled to ■ the Dare Coast Sunday for ■ of Garden, Flower, Study and I other Civic and church groups in , Concord and Kannapolis. The Cannons find great joy in : their ten grandchildren. Their < children have been four: William - Coltrane Cannon; Marian Winslow Cannon; Charles A. Canndn, Jr., > i missing over India since 1945; 1 land Mary Ruth Cannon, all now I married. She graduated summa ’ cum laude from Greensboro Col- > | lege in 1911. I I The long and busy career of • Mrs. Cannon in unselfish public ; service is hardly excelled by any : • woman of this state. It was a great disappointment that one to 1 r helpful to eastern North Carolina • could not attend a celebration • which the Roanoke Island Histori- • cal Association had looked for- ■ ward to with much pride. Her - husband, Charles A. Cannon, 1 through the years has contributed - over 815,000 to further the Lost > Colony in its darkest days. To the 1 Cannons more than to any other ■'JXsS? ftA C 0 111 111 . JJI III) Jilt JI ; : ( I DR. GRAHAM WITH MRS. JOHNSON TO SPEAK AUGUST 18 Notable Officials on Program For Gardens Dedication Next Week in Dare Dr. Frank Graham, United Na tions representative to Pakistan and Indonesia and Mrs. Jamie Johnson, national president of the Garden Club Council will share speaking honors during the formal dedication of Elizabethan Gardens here on Thursday afternoon, Aug ust 18. A colorful interlude of the dedi cation will be a playlett titled “Spice Bush,” by Sally N. Bardin of the Roanoke Island Garden Club. Five members of The Lost Colony cast will be actors in the playlet. During the late afternoon there will be a musical interlude by The Lost Colony choir singing the old English song “Greensleeves.” Dr. Graham was speaker at the informal opening of the Eliza bethan Garden several years ago on the day Queen Elizabeth II as cended the throne of Great Bri tain. Mrs. Johnson will be making her first aappearance at the Eliza bethan Gardens. Mrs. Bardin‘*s playet which will feature Mary Long as Queen Eliza beth; Andrew Kormany as Lord Francis Bacon; Jay Smith as Queen’s Gardner, and Jim Slaugh ter and Frank Keaton as Eliza bethan men, is built up around the Spice Bush Or Calycanthus Floridus a plant that is better known today as the Sweet Shrub. The bush is found in the lowlands from Vir ginia southward to Florida, and only one of the species that is scented. Dried bark of this bush was used by the earliest settlers in place of cinnamon, and the flowers were used as a sniffing herb. Clifton Britton will direct the playlett and George Trautwein will direct the choristers. Invitations from the Trustees of the Garden and the Elizabethan Garden Committee of the Garden Club of North Carolina Inc., are extended to the public to visit the Gardens from 2:00 to 6:00 and to be present for the exercises on the Mount at 3:00 o’clock. Mrs. John son, President of the National Council of Garden Clubs is of Dearborn, Michigan. Other na tional officers will be present. The trustees, committee mem bers, an dofflcers ofthe state gar den club will be hostesses and guides. Tea will be served on the ter race by the Manteo Garden Club at the conclusion of the exercises. BRITISH OFFICIAL TO VISIT ROANOKE ISLAND AUG. IBTH Commodore LF.M. Newnham, CBE, Chief of Staff of the British Naval Staff is in Washington and Assistant Naval Attache has ac cepted an invitation to visit the Lost Colony on August 18th and is expected to participate in the formal dedication of the Eliza bethan Gardens. Commodore Newnham was re cently assigned to the Government of India, and was for two years chief of staff of the Indian Navy. BELHAVEN MAN HELPS OKINAWANS IN ENGLISH Eugene O’Neal Teaches Classes In Pa cific; Is East Carolina Man; son of Walton O’Neal News comes from Naha Air Base, Okinawa, in the Pacific, that Eugene O'Neal, son of Walton O'Neal of Belhaven and a brother of Prestiss O’Neal, druggist, is teaching Okinawans to better un derstand English. This legend comes with a photo illustrating the unique endeavor of the Air Base primary school in good neighbor liness, having come to flower with the graduation of an indigenous English class. Miss Haruko Aka mine, on eof a class of 70, receives a certificate of proficiency in con versational English from T/Sgt. O’Neal, NCO of Naha Air Base Flight Surgeon’s office. O’Neal present his classes as a voluntary endeavor to help topple barriers bptween Okinawan employes of the installation and their supervisors occasioned by the difficult English language. By patience and under standing, Mr. O’Neal, an East Carolina College alumnus has turn ed out soma 2200 conversationally able students in the past three MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1960 CONGRESSMAN TO ATTEND CELEBRATION AT WANCHESE fiA ’ K. 1 ‘" *' I Ik Smßy- flfi REP. HERBERT C. BONNER who gave assurance this week that he will be present at Wanchese on Labor Day when the celebration of the completion of the Oregon Inlet channel project is to be held. CONGRESSMAN TO VISIT WANCHESE ON "HARBOR DAY" Fish Fry Planned For September sth to Celebrate Waterways Completion; Music Planned A celebration of importance to many counties, and of more than statewide Interest is schedued to begin at 3 p.m. Labor Day, Mon day, Sept. sth at Mill Landing harbor, Wanchese. It marks the I completion of the largest water way project ever to come to the Dare Coast, and for the first time in history, opens a 12-ft.-deep channel, 400 feet wide from the Atlantic Ocean, into the N. C. Sounds north of Beaufort. Congressman Herbert C. Bonner who worked untiringly for years to get appropriations of about one and a half million dollars for this job, has assured the committee he will be present. Senator Jordan, Governor Hodges, and other offi cials are expected to attend. Col. R. P. Davidson, District Engineer from Wilmington is on the pro gram. Following the speaking, a fish fry will be tendered the guests by Dare County citizens, featuring native seafood from nearby wa ters. The project was first undertak en by the late Alvah Ward of Manteo some 12 years ago, and he led the fight until his death, and in turn his son, Alvah, Jr. joined in the campaign which has been carried on by several other citi zens. Among them were Wayland Baum, Mack Etheridge, Melvin R. Daniels, J. W. Davis, Victor Meek ins, the Boards of County Com missioners, Rep. Bruce Etheridge, and numerous others, including the late Ben Dixon Mac Neill of Buxton. But the mainspring of the proj ect was Rep. Bonner, who went to great length to impress his col leagues in Congress with the eco nomic worth of this waterway for his people. He brought influential members of Congress, including Speaker Sam Rayburn, Rep. Mike Kerwin of Ohio, and others, sev eral times to the area on vaca tions where they could see the sit uation at first hand. Mr. Bonner went to a great deal of personal expense, and in the face of ad verse administration policies in Washington, was successful in get ting the project approved, funds appropriated and has seen its completion. The project includes a channel from the ocean through Oregon Inlet to Manteo with a side channel into Wanchese. The Atkinson Dredging Co. of Norfolk was successful bidder on most of the project, and D. D. At kinson, the owner, filled a piece of land which had been bought by contributions of public spirited citizens to provide a public dock. On this the county is pledged to build a dock, and state highway forces have agreed to surface the access road and parking area. JULIAN ONETO IS NEWS & OBSERVER'S MAN OF THE WEEK Nags Head Hotel Man Subject of Article on His Many Activi ties in Public Service Julian Oneto of Nags Head is ; the latest “Tar Heel of the Week" , in the News and Observer scries which has numbered of late sev eral other Dare County people, namely, Mrs. Mary Evans, Supt. 11 ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■l■■■■■■ i i WK. * ' of Schools, attorney Martin Kel-f logg Jr., Melvin R. Daniels, and Albert Q. Bell. Stanley Wahab of Ocracoke, ’ 1 Dick O’Neal of New Holland, Ax . son Smith of Belhaven, Orville I Woodhouse of Grandy and Mrs. . Scott Tapping of Pantego are neighboring citizens who have been 1 featured in this series. The Oneto article, by Woodrow • Price on August 7, follows: • To see Julian Oneto without his ' beard, you’d never suspect that he’s ’ a recently deposed King of the ’ Pirates. [ Nor, when he stretches out all five and a half feet of himself, would you suspect his Western ’ background until he begins to . sing. His voice puts many a TV cowboy in the shade. r 1 Yet this congenial, ebullient fel -1 low with his feet firmly planted f in the yellow sands at Nags Head » came to North Caroina from a . California ghost town by th( un . likely route of the 1939 World's . Fair in New York. r Now, he’s managing the Caro- I linian, one of Nags Head’s better . known hotels, and he has plungel i enthusiastically into the life of the . Tar Heel coastland. s| See ONETO, Rage Five ’’ ‘ EASTERN STAR MEETING PLANNED FOR AUGUST 25 The members of Roanoke Island t-Chapter No. 79 will have a cover » ed dish supper Thursday, August • 25 at 6 o’clock at the home of » Mrs. Jack Wilson, Jr. This is be r ing held in observance of Robert 1 Morris Day. Husbands are invited. “ This will be the only get-together 0 during the months of July and Z August and a good attendance is FLOYD TAYLOR MOVIING TO RICHMOND POSITION ' t FLOYD B. TAYLOR, Assistant Superintendent of Cape Hatteras National Seashore and Fort Ra leigh National Historic Site, since April 1959, will leave this month for a position with the National Park Service’s Region One Office, Richmond, Va., it was learned to day. Full details of Mr. Taylor’s new position were not available at press-time. Taylor is a veteran National Park Service employee who completed 27 years with the Service on July 10, last For the past 16 years he has served as Park Superintendent of three na tional park areas (1944-59) and for the last 17 months as the first Assistant Superintendent of our local national areas. Mr. Taylor, his wife, and three children have been active in church, school, and civic affairs during their brief residence in Manteo. Mr. Taylor has been an ardent and effective Rotarian, active for the Boy Scouts, Chairman of the bloodmobile committee, and a lib eral worker in many other causes. RECORDERS COURT ACTIVITY LIVELY IN DARE COUNTY Some $1,300.00 in fines and costs were lifted from more than 40 de fendants, through the Dare County Recorders Court Tuesday. Fines came to SB7O. Most all were traf fic cases, the highway patrolmen having been busy on the week end. Gary J. Dowdy, 20, of Manteo, paid the largest fine, $l5O for driv ing 110 miles per hour. R. P. Jol liff, Jr., of Morehead City paid $75, for speeding; W. R. Hudson of Portsmouth, Va., $45 for speed ing and no drivers permit; W. H. Jennette 111 of Elizabeth City, S3O for speeding; Blair Savage, colored of Manteo, no drivers permit, no liability insurance, and failure to yield right of way, was fined $45. Twenty dollar fines were assessed M. E. Loy, Pantego; W. M. Babb of Alexandria, Va.; D. E. Williams ( of Greensboro; Margaret N. Cross land of Columbia, S. C.; Carolyn J. Reber, Wanchese; R. E. True blood, Hickory, Va.; Earl Thornton, Norfolk; A. I* Brown Jr., Suffolk, all for speeding, and Milton R. Midgett, Buxton, no liability in surance. Jon Arthur Williams of Wan chese was fined $25 for assaulting Arthur O’Neal; K. H. Baarslag of Rodanthe for allowing minor to drive, $25; Balford Wescott of Manteo, public drunkenness; Ern est E. Rogers, Colington. reckless and careless driving; $25 e’ch Fifteen dollar fines against Carl DeLew, Norfolk; Nollie W. Smith, Knightdale; F. W. Prouse, Wash -1 ington, D. C.; Eleanor F. Dodson, ' Durham; L. J. Shannon, Jr., Kitty Hawk, and L. E. Dixon, Scotland Neck, all for speeding. Other fines i were L. A. Newsome, Roanoke Rapids sls; W. T. Griggs, Grandv sl2; and ten dollars each from H. 1 A. Byrum, Coleraine, Jas. L. Make ly, Fairfax, Va.; A. B. Spellman, ’ Gretna, Va.; J. S. P. Robinson, Alexandria, Va.; R. B. Foster, ; Hatteras; T. J. Etheridge, Engel i hard; for speeding. Other ten dol , lar fines against George C. Davis, Richmond and C. C. Swift, Frank lin, Va., for ignoring stop sign; J. A. Daniels, Manteo, no liability in surance; Mary D. Perry, Kitty Hawk for failing to yield right of ' way; A. H. Ellis, Jr., Portsmouth, , Va. .improper passing; A. W. Mc , Keithan, Winston-Salem, driving wrong side of road. Hubert Ambrose of Manns Har bor was fined $lO for failing to have his boat numbered as required by law. Ralph H. Peterson was taxed with Court costs in a peeping] Tom ease at Kill Devil Hills, but perior Court. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. Q NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 70 1 FRANCIS E. WINSLOW ’ TO ADDRESS DANIELS i REUNION AUGUST 19 ] Rocky Mount Leader to Attend Family Celebration at Wan chese Church Hon. Francis E. Winslow, dis tinguished Rocky Mount attorney, and summer resident of Nags Head for 50 years, will address the Daniels Day Reunion at 4 p.m. Friday, August 19th at the Beth any Methodist Church, Wanchese. Mr. Daniels, who is currently Chairman of the North Carolina Ter-centenary Commission will dis cuss plans for the coming cele bration in 1963. Josephus Daniels, Jr., of Raleigh will represent the family, with others. His late father was a regular attendant at these cele brations. Many members of the Daniels family from far and near will attend. Following the speak ing, a picnic dinner will be served on the grounds. Mr. Winslow has had a dis tinguished career at the bar. He is the son of the late Tudor F. and Mary Wood Winslow and was bom at Hertford in 1888. He was edu cated in law at the University of N. C., and Columbia University. He is a member of the law firm of Battle, Winslow and Merrill of Rocky Mount and its predecessors. He is nationally noted for his sev eral memberships and contributions on Judicial and Constitutional committees of the Federal and State courts; has been president of numerous bar associations, in cluding state and regional. Is a banker, member of many state public service groups, Episcopalian and a Democratic leader. Dr. Frank P. Graham, a former Daniels Day speaker, former Sena tor and member of the United Na tions staff, who is spending the summer at Nags Head is expected to attend. HOMECOMING PROGRAM AT DARE’S OLDEST CHURCH September 4th Marks 152nd Anniversary of Roanoke Island Baptist Church Near Manteo Roanoke Island Baptist Church, four miles north of Manteo, old est established continuous congre gation in Dare County, dating from 1808, will observe its 152nd an niversary Sunday, September 4 with preaching services, singing and outdoor picnic on the grounds. Former pastors will be invited to attend. Details of the program for the day haven’t been completed, but generally include a preaching service at 11 a.m.; picnic dinner, and a aspecial musical program at 2:30 p.m., in which choirs from other churches will take part. A roll call of families, older members and former members of the church will be held. Special invitations go to the members of the Manteo and Nags Head Bap tist Churches which sprang from the old church. DICK BELL CONTIINUES TO WIN DISTINCTIONS Richard C. Bell of Manteo, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Q. Bell, and a home town boy whose career is being followed by continues to win distinction in his chosen field. The firm of Godwin and Bell, land scape architects of Raeligh, has re ceived a merit award from the American Society of Landscape architects of Raleigh, has:rt etaoio Architects for their site design and landscaping of the 82nd Airborne Division’s Non-Commissioned Of ficers Club and facilities at Fort Bragg. The million dollar job is be ing paid for by men of the 82nd Airborne Division themselves. The project covers some 50 acres and contains an $850,00- club house, odwin and Bell opened offices in Raleigh in 1955. They have won many other honors since becoming partners. They were classmates at State College. Bell won the Rome prize in Landscape Archieteture and spent four years studying in Europe. He is married to the form er Mary Jo Harris of Hillsboro and they have a small son and daugh ter. BLUEFISH IN SURF NAGS HEAD.—Forty bluefish ranging up to one and half rounds were caught south of Caffeys In let Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Saxinger while fishing with Bob Preston, local surf guide, who called it one of the best bluefish catches during file week end.