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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS SIXTEEN PAGES THIS WEEK VOLUME XXVI NO. 19 SUCCESSFUL FISH TOURNEY AT CAPE HATTERAS CLOSES WITH BANQUET SATURDAY Awards to Be Made at Program at Cape Hat teras School at 7:30 Tomorrow Evening; Rev. P. Rowland Wagner to Speak; Fine Weather Contributes to Success of Largest Tourna ments With 33 Teams Competing For Hon ors; Contest Began Yesterday. The third annual surf-fishing tournament- at Hatteras which opened Thursday has shaped up as the biggest one of all. Some 33 teams have entered in competition, bringing a large group of sports men to the area to compete for a wide variety of awards. Thursday and Friday, (today) were devoted to team competition and individual competition is sched uled for a four hour period Sat urday morning. Among the partici pants are all-women, teams, and all teams have women fisher men in their number. Many of those teams which par t.cipated in the mid-October tourn ament at Nags Head have also showed up at Hatteras, according to Bill Dillon, president of the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club which sponsored this week’s tournament. Fine weather, with moonlight nights has contributed greatly to, the spirit and success of the event. The big. event will be climaxed Saturday evening at 7:30 with a banquet at Cape Hatteras school, when trophies will be presented. The top attraction scheduled for this event will be an address by Rev. P. Rowland Wagner of Nor folk, a retired Baptist minister rated as one of Tidewater Vir ginia’s most eloquent and humor ous speakers, and who has been featured several times in programs of the Lost Colony on Roanoke Is land. Os the 33 teams registered to take part, all are from fishing See TOURNAMENT, Page Four THURSDAY MORNING REPORT Winners Thursday morning in the first section of the four-sec tion fishing tournament of the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club were as follows: Shore Surf Club of Point Pleasant, N. , first place with 41 points; South Jersey Anglers of Margate City, N. J., and Albe marle Fishing club of Elizabeth City, second place tied with 32 points each. CANCER CRUSADE TO RAISE $1,500 IN DARE COUNTY Committees Organized to Begin Work on Drive in All Com munities Nov. 5 to 12 November 6 thru 12 is Cancer Emphasis Week in Dare County. Volunteer workers will contact families in a two-fold crusade — Education and the Collection of Funds. Cancer is the No. 1 killer of children and the second great est killer of adults. Cancer will affect one out of every four per sons living today or two out of every thrpe families unless it can be checked sfton. 31% of the Can cer dollar goes toward educating people to see the doctor for early detection and diagnosis. 30% of each Cancer dollar goes to re search to find the cause and cure. The local unit has access to only 40% of the total funds collected and this is used to provide medi cine and treatment to victims, resi dents of the county. Due to the suc cess of last year’s Crusade more than twice the number of victims have been assisted in 1960 than in previous years. Everyone is urged to give as generously as possible. Community volunteers respond ing to the Crusade call for leader ship are: Duck, Elmo Whitson; Kitty Hawk, Mrs. Edgar Perry; Kill Devil Hills; Mesdames Nor man Smith, Edmund Melson, and Robert Young; Nags Head, Mrs. Joyce Parker; Wanchese, Mrs. Ernest Walker; East Lake, Mrs. Chester Holmes; Rodanthe, Mrs. Bethany Gray; Waves, Mrs. W. A. Meekins; Avon, Fred G. Gray; Hat teras, Mrs. Winona Gray; Coling ton, Mrs. O’Neal and Mrs. Mar garet Meekins; Buxton, Frisco, Manns Harbor and Stumpy Point, the Methodist Youth groups with their counselors, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coe, Mrs. John Austin, Mrs. Hubert Ambrose and Mrs. Florine Hooper; Manteo, Mesdames L. D. Tarkington, Lorena Daniels, Earl Green, Robert Shannon, William Swindell, Eddie Burgess, Robert Owens, Lee Mann, Batina Midgett, Jack Cahoon, and Spencer Smith. THE COASTLAND TIMES WITH WHICH IS COMBINED THE PILOT AND HERALD OF BELHAVEN AND SWAN QUARTER PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTEREST OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA A SURFMAN AS BELOVED AS POPEYE THE SAILOR tnwCTiMaiiiMiMMMi" 'l, ywHP NELSON Bf. MIDGETT of Waves, lis one of the beloved retired men of the Coast Guard equal in rank to the affection for Popeye the Sailorman. Indeed, this picture is an official Coast Guard photo, and is highly regarded at headquarters for its value in portraying the da- I termination of the Coast Guard J whose motto is “Always Ready.” It shows here a strong man, with sou’wester buckled down, pipe strongly clenched, and headed into ; the gale, as so many times was . done by Nelson Midgett and other members of the crew of his 43- , footer who went out Oregon Inlet . to render aid to men in distress. ! Nelson spent over 32 years in the See MIDGETT, Page Eight ENGELHARD MAN 94, DEPLORES BIGOTRY USED IN POLITICS John Edward Rose 94, Lives Alone, Cooks, Washes, Keeps House and Lawn Clean By VICTOR MEEKINS John Edward Rose, 94, who lives on the "Swamp Road,” north of Engelhard is a remarkable man. I met him coming across his yard one afternoon with an armload of firewood as big as I would carry. He has been widowed for 20 years, and has lived alone nearly all the time since, save for occasional vis its to some of his children. He does his own cooking, his washing, mows his yard with a power mow er, keeps the house neat and clean, and his eyesight has not yet re qired glasses. He has a 21 inch tele vision set, but says he rarely looks at it except to see the newscasts regularly each day, for he cares but little for soap operas. Mr. Rose, is known affectionally in the community of Engelhard which he visits occasionally, it be ing a distance of some two miles from his home. He was bom and reared in what was a thriving com munity farther east, known as Waupoppin, then much larger than Engelhard, for in his boyhood, Engelhard, was known only as Fur Creek which Mr. Rose said con sisted of a few grog shops.. Mid dletown not far away was then the commercial center and port of the area. Nothing now remains of “Poppin,” as it was generally call ed, and it is covered with forests. Mrs. Braxton Watson, the hotel manager in Engelhard says Mr. Ed Rose is a wonderful man, and is noted for his exceptional courtesy. He has for children living, Ira of Belhaven; Theodore of Elizabeth City; Johnny of Gum Neck and Mrs. Eunice Spencer of Middle- 1 town, all of whom would like to! have him with them, but except for seldom visits with them, mostly with his son, Johnny, he likes to stay at home 1 to keep his eye on the premises he established 56 years ago, and his farm, which he leases, and which supports him. He is not a welfare subject See BIGOTRY, Page Four MANTEO SCHOOL CENSUS The week of November 7-14, the school census for the Manteo Dis trict will be taken. On Friday (to day) a letter stating the purposes of this census will be sent to par ents by school children. All house holds with children from one day through 20 years of age are in cluded in this census. GENERAL FOULOIS APPEARS AT KILL DEVIL HILLS WITH HIS PIPE IN MOUTH ' ' * fEI I**!, 4gf jj m • * -i | THE ABOVE PICTURE shows some of the group which dined with - Mayor and Mrs. R. H. Cook at Kill Devil Hills last Wednesday when distinguished airmen from America and Japan took part in tree planting exercises at the Wright Brothers Memorial: Frank S. Baba, Chief of the Voice of America, Major General Capus Waynick, Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, USAF (ret.); Victor Meekins, Man teo, and Vice-President and S. Wade Marr, President of the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association; Lt. General Yoshitoshi Tokugawa, pioneer Japanese flier, Miles Clark, former KDHMA president, Pub isher Masayoki Fukubayashi of Tokyo, Mayor of Kill Devil Hills, and Yasuazu Tsukagoshi, assisant to Mr. Baba.—Aycock Brown photo. TRAWLER PROPOSAL AROUSES INTEREST OVER WIDE AREA Eric Rodgers Tells About Public Hearing on the Question of Closing Certain Areas The plan for a public hearing by the Department of Conserva tion and Development on a pro posal to close certain areas to trawlers, in the interest of im provement of the fishing industry has aroused widespread interest. This hearing is scheduled for De cember 10, and Chairman Eric W. Rodgers of the Commercial Fish eries Committee of the Board, has issued the following statement concerning this meeting: “Judging by the telephone calls, letters and other communications which I have received, there seems to be some misunderstanding con cerning the action of the Commer cial Fisheries Committee of the Board of Conservation and Devel opment with respect to operations of trawlers within the three mile limit of the Atlantic Ocean and within Pamlico Sound. “The Board of Conservation and Development has not taken any ac tion with respect to closing the three mile limit area and the Pam lico Sound to shrimp and fish trawlers. Neither has any such ac tion been taken by the Commer cial Fisheries Committee. “What has happened is that the Commercial Fisheries Committee, with the approval of the full board, and upon recommendation of the Commercial Fisheries Advisory Board, has ordered a public hear ing to be held on Saturday, Decem ber 10, at ten o'clock at the Com mercial Fisheries headquarters in Morehead City for the purpose of hearing arguments for and against a proposal to limit or terminate the activities of trawlers in the areas mentioned. “The mere fact that a hearing has been set on the proposal does not indicate that the Board of Con servation and Development has given its approval to the plan and is seeking to bring about a change in the existing regulations. The public hearing is a matter of law in which those favoring the pro posals will be heard and those op posing it will be heard, and a de cision will be made by the Com mercial Fisheries Committee, subj- See TRAWLER, Page Four WALTER GASKILL WORKING FOR PLACE ON CO. BOARD Walter C. Gaskill of Manteo is one of two candidates for County Commissioner on the Republican | ticket in Dare County, and the most active of the two. The other is Dan Burgess of Stumpy Point who seeks the place occupied by Hor ace Hooper. Mr. Gaskill opposes Lawrence Swain, the Democratic candidate from Manteo. At last re ports, Mr. Gaskill was canvassing the county. He has published the last two weeks a statement of his aims in seeking this place. Sumner Scarborough of Avon was nominated by the Republicans as the candidate for the Board of Education from Kennekeet Town ship, against incumbent, C. T. Wil liams 111, Democrat. However, there has not been any apparent activity among these Republican candidates, except by Mr. Gaskill, who is calling on many friends and has aroused considerable support in some communities. MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1960 There’s Nothing Like the Glory of NOVEMBER ON THE "BANKS" By Capt. Marvin W. Howard, Ocracoke, N. C. FINE PIECE OF WRITING BY ONE WHO LOVES COAST ' gjaSfe: ’ ■ v . .4 CAPT. MARVIN W. HOWARD of Ocracoke sometime ago did a fine piece of writing about the glory of “November on the Banks.” Some of our readers are familiar with it but many more have never read his delightful word picture of his homeland as the season of wh : ch he writes is coming in. Capt. How ard, after many years away from home, working with the Govern ment, retired as a colonel or simi lar rank. He thought he had got back to Ocracoke for final retire ment and rest, but repeatedly he has been called upon to dispense his abilities as a master of dredg ing operations in foreign lands, having during the past eight years, taken on long periods of duty in South America and in Asia. Ocracoke Island has produced several men who write with great ability. We remind you of Cecil S. Bragg, who recently retired and is living in Philadelphia, and some of whose articles have been print ed in our columns. Another ably written piece was by Walter How ard about the wreck of the Steam boat Home on Ocracoke Island more than 100 years ago, and wh : ch we expect to re-print this Fall. We welcome articles by our na tive writers, for no one can do the job se well as one who has lived in the locale about which he writes and who loves the region and its people. Several people have told us they have been attracted to Ocracoke Island first on vacation trips, after reading Capt. Howard’s article about the glory of the Banks in November. EPISCOPAL WOMEN PLAN BAZAAR IN BELHAVEN The annual bazaar of the Epis copal churchwomen, St. James’ Church, Belhaven, will be held at the Parish Houses on Wednesday, November 9, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Fancy work, food, and “white elephants” will be for sale. They will serve cheese biscuits, coffee, and cookies. A silver offering will be taken for the refreshments. The public is invited to attend, avail themselves of the opportuni ty to buy attractive Christmas gifts, or just enjoy 7 the refresh ments and the company. November is here, come again to visit on us the cold, blue, raw days, where if one is not careful one may catch cold from extra efforts—be cause it’s cool, yet not realizing it is still warm enough to perspire freely and thus a cold. These cold, blue, raw and cloudy day 3 bring falling of the leaves from ad the trees along the banks except the evergreen. As one watches the shadows along the winding trails or the sandy roads so familiar to the banks, one is able to see bushels of acorns lying on the ground, the many golden-yellow serrated seed of the sea-oat like wise lie in the leas of the sand hill, and the purple vanished while the pods are bursting letting their seed fall to the use of wild-life, As one feels the bite of the blust ery, windy day, particularly if a hunter, the urge to take gun in hand, call Rover or Bando or Nip ner and go-a-hunting is strong It would not suffice alone to hunt birds, but rather to take in the wonders of Autumn’s beauty among the woodlands, the salt grasses and the sand hills. All of this if properly viewed presents a beauty unexcelled anywhere. Our freedom to hunt, to play, to be able to enjoy these wonders are ours only because of our Demo cratic Government or Republc whether you judge it by pony you ride, the old jeep you go fishing in, the speed boat you own, the limousine in the garage, or the freedom to worship at the church of your choice, the school, the food on your table or the freedom to speak in public without fear. You are fortunate ‘by the fact that you are living under a system of government based on the dignity and freedom of the individual, that derives its powers from the bot tom up rather than the top down. The four freedoms which were so respectively brought to the pub lic by the late Franklin D. Roose velt These freedoms we enjoy in the good U. S. A. and now especial ly along the Outer Banks where thus far the land has never been posted to any great extent, there fore the hunter can stroll with his dog “heeling” or watching the “retrieve” as the hunter kills a dove or other wild-life in season. The beauty rare can be seen along the hills, thru the lonesome woods the wide open marshes where the green salt grasses are interspersed by another salt grass or weed blood-colored. A marsh hen or rail cackles and jumps, flies away apparently laughing at the lover of nature, too far away for the kill, or the slow moving heron or bittern as they camouflage by the reeds or cat-tails. That wonderful classic, Grass can well describe the flat open ings at the head of creeks where cattle feed, and horses wild accom pany them. Along these openings or flat prairie lands nestling be tween the woods and hills where a creek wanders thru the marshes to the sound. The salt sage is turn ing purple and shows brilliant in northerly winds. The grass is still green in the pocosins and adds to nature’s beauty and so I’ll add to this writing the Classic Grass: “Grass is the forgiveness of Na- See NOVEMBER, Page Foot TIDE SWINGS TO DEMOCRATS; ACTIVITY FOR TICKET GROWS; MANTEO BARBECUE FRIDAY Dinner Will Be Held at Manteo School; Bonner, Cohoon and Midgett Speakers; Tyrrell Shapes Up As Banner County Supporting the Demo cratic Ticket in This Area; Large Vote Antici pated Tuesday. HEADS DRIIVE FOR SI,OOO IN CO. FOR BOY SCOUTS ■ V. JHB - * HB- rcX mBBI. : - •■i H ROBERT F. GIBBS is chairman of the campaign now underway to raise SI,OOO in Dare County to sup port the Boy Scout program. A committee is soliciting funds this week. Gerald White, Elizabeth City at torney, used the “human spirit as it assumes the attitude of self-giv ing,” as his theme in a talk to Dare County residents attending the annual kick-off drive for funds to be used in Boy Scout work of the area during the current year. Robert F. Gibbs has been re appointed chairman of the drive this years and he presided at the breakfast meeting Friday at Nags Head. “Scouting frontiers had its early roots with the national leadership See SCOUTS, Page Four EVANS PREDICTS BRIGHT FUTURE FOR COASTLAND Mrs. Burwell Evans of Manteo Named President of Annual Tourist Bureau Meeting By AYCOCK BROWN A bright future is in store for the Dare Coast-Outer Banks region of North Carolina, as well a-; other sections in the northeastern part of the state to result from the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel project now under construction, it was predicted at Nags Head Sat urday night by former State sena tor and highway commissioner Merrill Evans of Ahoskie. Evans was principal speaker at the annual banquet-meeting of Dare County Tourist Bureau in Owens Restaurant, an event which marked the retirement of Ralph Swain as president of the organi zation and the election of Mrs. Burwell Evans, Manteo, who will head the organization during the current fiscal year. Mrs. Elnora Preston, Nags Head, was re-elected secretary-treasurer and Donald Oden of Hatteras was named vice president. “Get set now because the big gest days of development for your area are immediately ahead,” said Evans, pointing out that “this po tential increase in vacation busi ness for the Dare Coast will come with the traffic that follows the coastal route upon completion of the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tunnel project” “A minimum of 6,000 cars daily will be using the bridge-tunnel im mediately upon its competion— more than double the number now traveling over the bay ferries.” “Therefore it is essential that North Carolina be prepared to handle that vacation traffic, not only over UJS. 17 and 13, but also See MEETING, Page Four YOUNG DEMOCRAT DANCE AT SHRINE CLUB SAT. A Pre-election dance, which promises to be a big affair is sched uled by the Young Democrats of Dare County at the Shrine Club, Saturday night, Nov. 5, beginning at 9 p.m. The YDC is entering in to this affair with energy and en thusiasm and have sold many tickets. Many of the young col lege crowd are taking .part in poli tics this year. Their work is ex pected to pay off in the total vote expected next Tuesday, November Bth. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO. N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS SECTION ONE Single Cot>v 7c The largest Democratic vote ever cast in this area is expected next Tuesday, with many signs pointing to a tide that is swinging strong for Kennedy and Johnson on the National ticket, and Sanford and Philpott on the State ticket. On Friday, today ,at 7:30 p.m. a bar becue dinner will be served to Democrats at the Manteo High school, when Congressman Bonner, Solicitor Walter Cohoon and State Senator nominee P. D. Midgett will attend as speakers in behalf of the ticket. Walter Perry, of Kill Devil Hills, chairman of the Democratic Exe cutive Committee of Dare County said this week the affair will go off as scheduled. He has been busy for several days, working with the precinct committeemen and he ex pressed appreciation for the coop eration received. The Young Demo cratic organization in Dare County has been unusually active and other interested Democrats have been working in the interest of the ticket. Perry deplored the inability to get any more bumper stickers or other advertising matter from either State or National headquar ters, due to the heavy demand throughout the country which has completely exhausted the supply. The tide is swinging strong for Kennedy and his partisans have de manded many banners to display. Attempts by anti-Kennedy forces have failed to arouse the expected opposition. These groups parade under misleading names, calling themselves “Demorats for so and so,” when as a matter of fact most of them are inspired by Republi cans or are disguised as Democrats on the registration books. They have failed to make the headway ex pected. In Tyrrell County, senti ment appears almost unanimous for the Democratic ticket, and capable work has been done, headed by Jake Walker, and numerous other Democratic leaders who were strong supporters for Sanford for See DEMOCRATS, Page Four LITTLE OPPOSITION EXPECT'D TO COUNTY DEMOCRATIC TICKET Opposition to the County Demo -1 cratic Ticket in Dare as well as ■ its neighbor counties is expected ; to be negligible in the election next ■ Tuesday. It is an off year for coun ty offices, and there is not a full ‘ ticket in the field. M. Keith Fear ing, Jr., as Representative has no • opposition at all from Republicans. Two Republicans mentioned else i where are the only opponents of ‘ the Board of Commissioners. 1 , The Commissioner ticket this ■ year consists of George Fuller of ■ Hatteras Township, Fred W. Gray lof Kennekeet Township, David ! Stick of Atlantic Township, Law -1 pence Swain of Nags Head Town- I ship, and Horace Hooper of the I Mainland District. ' | Board of Education candidates 1 are Bill Dillon of Hatteras, C. T. ■ Williams 111 of Avon, Mrs. Helen Briggs of Kill Devil Hills, Floyd I Hooper of Stumpy Point and Ro • bert O. Ballance of Manteo. In Hyde County, the candidate ! for Representative without opposi ; tion is W. J. (Dick) Lupton; for ■ Commission, Seth Credle, H. L. ' | Sadler is being opposed on this ! board by Mrs. June Liverman, the only Republican candidate in Hyde County. The other member of the ■ Hyde Board of Commissioners, and r who is without opposition is Char lie Carawan. Candidates for Board of Educa > tion, are without Republican opposi : tion are Walter Lee Gibbs, Cecil • Silverthome, W. I, Cochran, Earl Topping, Ray Spencer and George Bush, and W. T. Howard. In Tyrrell County, the entire . Democratic ticket is without op positon, Charles Cohoon being the i candidate for representative. The ■ entire county Boards are not up for ■ election this year. Republican , activity in this county is believed ; to be at its lowest ebb in many • years. •| Lindsay C. Warren of Washing s ton and P. D. Midgett, Jr. of • Engelhard are the Democratic nom • inees without opposition for Sena - tor from the Second Senatorial dis • trict comprising seven counties, in r eluding Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell and I Beaufort.
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