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VOLUME XXVI NO. 22
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
IN BELHAVEN WILL
BE LIGHTED DEC. 2
More Street Decorations and Plans
for Another Display of
"Living Pictures"
The Christmas lights are being
assembled in Belhaven this week,
and are to be turned on Decern
her 2. The “Living Pictures,”
pageant as usual is a program look
ed forward to, and will be pre
sented on either Dec. 15 or 16, Mrs.
W. E. Bateman, Chairman of the
Christmas arrangements commit
tee said this week.
Mrs. Bateman is being assisted
by the talented Mrs. Rad Jones,
who has served as co-chairman for
several of these events. This year
there will be more street decora
tions than usual. There will also
be more store decorations, for there
are more stores occupied than in
a long time. With one or two ex
ceptions, all of Pamlico Street bus ; -
ness area is now occupied for busi
ness purposes, and so it all of the
Main Street business district
Mrs. Catherine Wilkinson is ex
pected to again set up the at
tractive Christmas arrangements
which has won much recognition.
Belhaven stores are liberally
stocked with holiday merchandise,
and from all appearances, it seems
the town is more alert commercial
ly than in many years. Reports
are favorable concerning business,
and several merchants say they
have had the best trade in several
years.
RALEIGH TOPPING z
DAY IS PLANNED
AT SWAN QUARTER
Native Minister to Be Honored
Sunday In 50th Year of
His Ministry
A general invitation has been is
sued to attend Raleigh Topping
Day at the Swan Quarter Chris
tian Church, Sunday, November
27th at 2:30 p.m. in honor of a na
tive son of the area who is in the
50th year of Kis ministry tilts year.
Garland Bland, minister of this
church hopes the many friends
nearby of this noted preacher will
attend. He will preach at this serv
ice.
While his residence is now listed
as Roanoke Rapids, Mr. Topping is
serving as full time minister near
Williamston. Mr. Topping loves to
eat, loves to work with children
with whom he has had much suc
cess, is a great song-leader. He re
calls early in his ministry he walk
ed 21 miles one hot day to preach,
carrying a suit case in Tiis hand.
He has served many churches, help
ed to organize many also, and of
the countless revivals he has held,
has had as many at 102 converts
at a time. On one rainy night when
only eight people attended, all
were converted, he said.
At one time he served a total of
nine chuches in the area. He is a
prodigious worker. He helped to
organize the Roanoke Christian
Service Camp near Wiliamston. He
gave all his children a good edu
cation, an dhis son, Tom, graduated
at Duke and made All-American
on the football team.
A son, Earl Topping of Scran
ton, is a member of the Hyde Co.
Board of Education.
HYDE COUNTY IS FAMED
FOR PRODUCING DOCTORS
Some 25 Physician* and Several Dentist*
Turned Out in Three Generation*
of Native Product*
Perhaps there isn’t a county in
North Carolina that has turned our
so many college graduates per capi
ta, and particularly physicians and
’ dentists, than Hyde County. Resid
dents of Hyde readily recall off
hand 25 or more, and a half dozen
dentists. There have been many
preachers produced in Hyde who
have won renown. We would wel
come a list of these great ser
vants.
This week, off hand, we got a
list, recollected by Bland Fulford
of Engelhard and Mr. and Mrs. M.
H. Swindell of the Swan Quarter
postoffice, of medical doctors, pro
duced in Hyde County during, the
past three generations, most all of
whoih practiced in Hyde for many
years. These doctors follow: Dr. M.
M. Murray, Dr. Buck Watson, Dr.
Frank Clark, Dr. Francis Clark,
Dr. Oscar Gibbs, Dr. R. N. Cart
wright, Dr. Simmons, Dr. Staton
Credle, Dr. Ruffin Mann who
died immediately following gradu
ation, Dr. Fred Spencer, Dr. Louis
Swindell, Dr. Baxter Bell, Dr. Car
roll Credle, Dr. Eugene Windley,
Dr. Walter Swindell, Dr. Aubrey G.
Harris, Dr. Joe Mann and two sons,
Tom and Jim, all doctors; Dr. Nor*
fleet Gibbs, Dr. W. N. Fortescue,
Dr. Ed Jones, Dr. Charlie Stotes-
Soe DOCTORS, Page Six
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
THIS BELHAVEN MAN WHO
CHOSE TO RETURN HOME
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REGINALD H. BISHOP, Jr., of
Belhaven, after his army service
and his college training chose to
return home and cast his lot with
his parents. At the age of 28 he
is manager of a recently built
launderette, and of the Belhaven
marina, and assists in looking aft
er the family farms. He attend
ed school at state college, one year
each before and after his three
years Army service in Germany.
In college he studied Wildlife Con
servation. He is a grandson of the
late Jay Bishop, prominent Bel
haven business man. His father is
a former member of the Board of
Aidermen of Belhaven, and long
active in the civic life of the com
munity. R. H. Jr., is the only son
in five children of Mr. and Mrs.
Bishop.
THREE MANTEO COUPLES
RETURN FROM SEA VOYAGE
Returning Wednesday night from
a week’s cruise in Southern wa
ters were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wes
cott, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Kellogg
and Mr. and Mrs. L’nwood Cuthrell.
The Wescotts represented the Man
teo Furniture Company, which was
See VOYAGE, Page Six
Hazards Following Wash Day Blues Wiped
Out With Advent of Modern Launderettes
Long Ago Established In Cities, They Have Come to the
Coastland With Belhaven Able to Boast of One of the
Finest; Customers Come to Sit and Read or Chat With
Neighbors, While the Family Wash is Turned Out
Electrically and Automatically.
By KLAXON KING .
A new wrinkle has spread from
the big cities into distan*- corners
of our Coastland. At Capo Hat
teras, Manteo, Nags Head, the
Launderette has come into being,
abolishing the blues and hazards of
wash day. The latest and most
gleaming one is now running in
Belhaven, established th’s month by
Reginald Bishon Jr.. who also hdp
to run his father’s modern marina
next door.
The new Belhaven Launderette
has already won the approval and
praise of the communitv. Those
who come with the family wash,
find easy chairs to sit in and books
to read while they wait. They have
only to throw their wash into the
gleaming machines, drop some
coins in a slot and sit down to
read, or shat with their neighbors
while the washing, under the in-|
fluence of modern detergents, and
the help of water softened by a
modem softening plant, is finished
in a matter of minutes.
Next it is fed into a dryer and a
coin or two more insures the wash
will be completely dry in a few
more minutes. The ladies may con
tinue to sit and chat, and what the
party line used to be to their grand
mothers promises to be completely
superseded by the visits to the
launderette.
•A fine thing, about this Belhaven
launderette, is that women whose
husbands have been out fishing in
one of the boats from the marina,
can come down a few minutes early
to meet the men, and get the fami
ly wash done in the meantime.
Talk about a boon to womankind,
there is nothing to compare with
the launderette. We can remem
bed the old days when women out
in the country, and some who lived
in town, got up before day on Mon
day morning, come weather or no,
and started a fire under an old
black wash pot in the back yard.
Sometimes they had green wood,
and some women had to cut it
themselves. They boiled and boiled
the clothes with old fashioned soan,
which was also made outdoors in
a black iron pot, and the soap mak
ing season usually following hog
killing time in order to make use
of the grease. Think about the
strong muscular arms that were
developed in those days from week
after week of wringing their
clothes through the armstrong
process; think of the hazard and
STRIPED BASS TO
BE SOUGHT DURING
DECEMBER IN DARE
Northern Sportsman Heads Effort
to Land the Big Fellows With
Rod and Reel
A concentrated angling effort to
catch monster striped bass, wh ! ch
appear every winter alon<* the Ou‘
er Banks of North Carolina, will
be launched December 3 by n grou®
of striper fishing specialists led bv
Hal Lyman and Frank Woolner.
nublisher editor respectively of
Salt Water Snortsman Magazine.
The huge fish are caught ev°rv
season by haul-seiners, but to date
only a scattered few have been
taken on rod and reel The strined
task force, composed of ton bass
anglers, hopes to find the answer
as to what methods will the
finicky fish and thus op®n un a
whole new area for winter sport
fishing.
“These stripers are not dormant,”
Lynn, who has made several w;n
ter trips to the Hatteras area,
stated. “Thev are feed'ng and I
am convinced they can be caught.
I have seen many seined specimens
weighing well over 60 pounds and
there is no question that there are
some which will top the 73 pound
world record. Weather will be our
main problem, but we should get
a break in a week’s time.”
Besides Lyman and Woolner, the
party will include the following:
Three husband and wife fishing
teams—Dave and Rosa Webb. Jack
and Kav Townsend and Bob and
Mary Williams, all of Massachus-I
etts. Rosa Webb is present holder,
of the women’s record striped bass
catch—a 64Vi pounder, Kay Towns
end, secretary of the Massachusett-
Beach Buggy Association, held the
same record for about two hours
with a bass two pounds lighter and
then lost the honor to Rosa. Charlie |
Whitney, also of Massachusetts, an
old-timer in the bass fishing game
who has taken literally tons of
stripers on rod and reel and has '
fished all over the country. George
Albrecht of Rhode Island, tackle
See BASS, Page Six J
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harassment of lift’ng up th® wet
clothes, sometimes in high winds s o
pin them on the line, and then how
the props were hoisted in the air.
where the garments flapped in
high winds, sometimes to he torn
by pins, or stained with rust from
the wire clothes lines, and some
times a gale took the whol" th : ng
down, to be followed by th® hysteri ■
cal weening of the frustrated
housewife who had her wash'ng
and rinsing to do over again. D're
warnings from their elders went
out to all women in the family way,
(we now say expectant mothers)
that they must never lift heavy
burdens like a tub of wet wash,
and nor should they ever raise thrir
arms skyward to hang it on the
, line. Who knows the millions in
population that might have lived
and thrived in this world had the
I launderette come along 100 years
ago? The infant mortality rate re
sulting from the dangers of washi
day is uncountable.
There are no more women with,
See WASH DAY, Page Eight
MANY MANTEO PUPILS HELP TO CELE'RAT-: non< IN DARE COUNTY
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MRS. BERTIE WARD'S PUPILS dressed as book characters vuuu.-d tae atare County library to cele
brate Book Week. Mrs. Kay Roush of the library staff took pictures of the group in front of the “Hur
ray For Books” National poster. Back row, left to right: Don Leatherman, Joseph Willis, Gary Wise,
Dearlone Gaskins, Mary Alice Wescott, Irene Etheridge. Center row: George Scarborough, Jane Payne,
Ruby Daniels, Eugene Kennedy, Robert Midgett, Kay Kemp, Linda Edwards, Becky Ballance, Myra Meek
ins, Myrlene Scarborough. Front row: Alice Wise, Lynn Shepard, Fay Kemp, Mary B. Rea.
MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1960
STUMPY POINTERS WIN
TWO OUT OF SIX TIMES
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W. ALBERT BEST. JR., of Stumpy
Point, a history teacher at Kiser
Junior High School, Greensboro,
this month was given the McNutt
Award for outstanding work in
teaching students about the Ameri
can way of life. The award, named
for Dr. Franklin McNutt, a noted
educator, has been presented s'X
times, and oddly enough, one of
these times was to Mrs. Nell Wise
Wechter, a teacher in Greensboro
a cousin of Mr. Best and a native
of Stumpy Point who won it four
years ago.
Some 900 peon’e attended the an
nual Industry-Education dinner on
| See AWARD, Page Six
POSTMASTERSHIP IN
MANTEO IS SOUGHT
BY ELEVEN PERSONS
| Some 11 persons are seeking the
postmasterhip at Manteo, which
pays $5 385 a year. Those who took
the examinations in September and
who are now being considered are
Mrs. Josie J. Ferebe. th® acting
'■'ostmaster: John Andrew Kr’der;
the assistant postmaster; W'lliam
White Tarkington, Woodson Brad
ford Fearing, Ralph Lathrop
Swain, Robert V. Owens, Beniamin
Sheldon O’Neal, Everett Edgar
Liverman, Willie Hurley Hoffler,
Jr., Arthur Louis Midgett, all of
Manteo. »
The last postmaster with a perm
anent appointment was Ben F.
Shannon who died early this year.
On recommendation of L. V Gas
kill, the County Republican chair
man, Mrs. Ferebee was named
temporary postmaster pending
examinations.
Much speculation concerns the
probable appointment of any of th®
applicants. If the appointments are
not before next spring, there >nav
be some consideration given th®se
who have rendered party sendee.
Over half of the list have had serv
ice with the armed forces to en
title them to military preference.
RECORDERS COURT CASES
HEARD IN DARE TUESDAY
A light docket in Dare Recorders
court Tuesday disposed of the fol
lowing cases: Fines of $25 each
against C. J. Williford and R L.
Kirk of Portsmouth. Va., public
drunkenness; J. B. O’Neal. Jr., of
Wanchese, speeding at 85 mph
$100; W. E. Robertson, Elizabeth
City and Leo Tillett. Jr., of Man
teo, speeding, $lO each. L. B. Scar
borough, Kitty Hawk, failing to
wear glasses as provided in drivers
permit and A. C. Peterson of
Philadelphia, reckless and careless
driving $25 each.
SANFORD TO SPEAK TO SAA AT PANTEGO ON NOV. 30
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I\*ri o-jUi'HERN ALBEMARLE ASSOCIATION will be honored by
the presence of Terry Sanford, Governor elect of North Carolina as
its principal speaker, on the close of its 25th year, at Pantego High
School, Beaufort County, Wednesday, November 30th at 10:30 a.m.
At this time an address of Welcome will be delivered by Pantego May
or, John Ratcliff, responses will be made by vice presidents of ’the
six counties in the association as follows: Sam T. Moore of Beaufort
County; Woodrow W. Edwards of Dare Countp; W. I. Cochran of
Hyde County; Robert Cowen of Martin County; W. Charles Cohoon
of Tyrrell County and James H. Ward of Washington County.
The invocation will be by Rev. Angus Miller of St. James Epis
copal Church, Belhaven. Mr. Sanford will be presented by John Win
field, Chairman of the Beaufort County Democratic Executive Com
mittee. Mrs. Scott Topping of Pantego, the president reports that
Beaufort County will feed the 300 delegates in the Pantego High
School auditorium at 1 p.m., and business meeting and election of of
ficers will follow at 2 p.m.
TWO THIRDS OF CANCER
GOAL MET IN DARE CO.
Several Communities Not Reported, end
Others Incomplete Ass SSOO I*
Lacking in the Quota
Slightly more than two thirds
of the goal of $1,500 in the can
cer crusade in Dare County had
been met this week, with five com ■
munities not having reported, and
some other communities reporting
that they expected to send more.
Mrs. Raymond Wescott. Cancer
Crusade fund raising chairman,
makes the following report, and
is hopeful final returns ■wjill show
the full sum of SISOO raised
Reports to date bring the Can
cer Crusade Funds to SIOO7 85.
While this is far from the an
nounced goal members of the local
unit’s Executive Board are not dis
couraged. Five workers have not
yet reported, are urged to com
plete the community coverage and
close the Crusade efforts as soon
as possible. The contributions
from the county are: Kitty Hawk,
$60.78 with Mesdames Byron Saw
yer, Norwood Rector, and Cu"tis
Toler collecting; Colington S2B 25
from Mesdames Nettie O’Neal and
Elizabeth Perry; Nags He®d $102.-
51; Fricso $7; Rodanthe’ sl2; Sal
vo $6; Waves $1525; Avon SSO
See GOAL, Page Six
GARRISH GRADUATES AT
CAPE MAY C. G. CENTER
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JOSEPH B. GARRISH of Ocra
coke, seaman apprentice who has
recently been assigned to the sth
Coast Guard District, Norfolk, Va.
He recently graduated from the 12-
woeks • training course at the CG
receiving center at Cape May, N.
J., where he was instructed in the
fundamentals of the service:
Marksmanship, military customs,
courtesies and seamanship as well
as navigation and Coast Guard
history. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Montford R. Garrish, and is
a graduate of Ocracoke High
School.
OCRACOKE DREDGING JOB
AWARDED FOR $45,208 ■
A contract for maintenance
dredging in Wallace Channel and
Silver Lake Harbor at Ocracoke,
was awarded on Oct. 18 to Hodges
Dredging Co. of New Bern, ac
cording to advice received from '
Congressman Herbert C. Bonner. I
The amount of the bid was |45,-
208. This is not a new project but
merely maintenance of existing
projects.
Address of Hodges Dredging Co.,
is P. O. Box 1714, New Bern, N. C.
VARIETY MUSICAL DEC. 2
WANCHESE SCHOOLHOUSE
For the benefit of the community
building fund, a musical program
will be given Friday night Dec. 2
at the Wanchese school building.
Chimes will be played on cut glass.
The show will feature Roanoke
talent with a good dean program
at reasonable prices 50 and 25
cents. There will be home made
candy and grab bag attractions.
The show begins at 7:80 p.m.
MAIL SHOULD Bfc
ADDRESSED TO BOX 4tt
MANTEO, N. C
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
Single Copy 7£
HOW TO OVERCOME
PROBLEM BROUGH!
TO SHOW BY DONNA
Lost Colony Directors to Meet in
Raleigh Tuesday Noon to De
vise Ways and Means
Mrs. O. Max Gardner of Shelby
will preside at the annual luncheon
meeting of Roanoke Island Histori
cal Association in the Manteo Room
of Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh on
Tuesday, November 29 at 12 noon.
“It will be the most important
meeting in the long history of the
association which sponsors The
Lost Colony here on Roanoke Is
land each summer,” said J. S Dor
ton Jr., general manager of the
drama.
Dorton’s annual report will be
a high spot of the meeting because
it will cover The Lost Colony’s
best season since 1946 the only
season that the show ended “in the
black.” Two people stand out
especially in making the show a
success, Mrs. Gardner and Mrs.
Fred Morrison, her assistant.
The reports of Mrs. Gardner and
Manager Dorton will also explain
in detail of the catastrophic dam
age wrought by Hurricane Donna
to Waterside Theatre.
“Regardless of the great dam
age. I do not believe ou* shock,
sorrow and genuine concern for
the fnturo of the show should be
permitted to obscure the facts—fi
nrnc al "nd otherwise— o-f a truly
successful season of operation,”
Dorton will say in his report.
“The Nation’s Number One Out
door Drama has proved beyond any
question that it has the unapolo
getic will to live,” Dorton added.
See PROBLEM, Page Six
MEMORIES OF DARE
COAST AND WRECK
STIRRED IN CANADA
Man Cast Ashore at Pea Island in
1904; Worked at Wanchese
With E. R. Daniels
An interesting letter came to us
this week from a former mariner
living in Alberta, Canada who read
about our coastland in the article
in the Saturday Evening Post. C.
A. Warner, 75, this month, whose
address is P. O. Box 104, Mayers
thorpe Alberta, Canada, tells us
about the time he was shipwreck
ed on Pea Island, his subsequent
employment with the late E. R.
Daniels, and hjs substituting as a
■ lighthouse keeper after stopping at
Mrs. Polly Midgett’s boarding
I house in Manteo.
We print Mr. Warner's letter, as
, follow:
“I was reading an article in the
Saturday Evening Post. (North
Carolina’s Outer Banks.) and it
brought back many sad also
pleasantly memorable thoughts of
long ago, as I was sh ; pwr®cked
on Pea Island in December 1904.
“After clearing the decks of
about 15 inches of snow in Brook
lyn, N. Y., I think it was the 7th
or Bth of December 1904 we set
sail for Charleston, S. C.. in the
three masted Schooner “Montana”,
captain C. W. Booye of Somers
Point, N. J. We ran into a bad
storm the first day out, and on
the night of Saturday I think it
was the 11th we struck the outer
sand bar on Pea Island. It was
dark with a northwest heavy wind
blowing, and some snow. We could
not see the shore line, therefore
did not know if we had struck a
reef or what. But after some time
there were rockets going up, and
later a fire was burning on the
See MEMORIES, Page Six
NO HATTERAS CHANNEL
PROJECT UNTIL LOCAL
INTEREST IS ASSURED
The much needed deep water
channel from Hatteras Harbor
through Hatteras Inlet is be’ng
held up for lack of cooperation
from local interests, in th> in
stance it has been the failure of
the Dare County Board of Commis
sioners to pass the usual formal
resolution that has been passed for
oth°»- p-nipc's in Dare Cou”tv Col.
R. P. Davidson, District Engineer
advised this week that he cannot
pass a favorable report on to the
h'gher authorities without the res
olution to furnish disposal areas,
docking space, and to keep the Gov
ernment free from harm wh’le the
work is done, all of which is now
required by law before Govern
ment money may be spent on these
projects. The, Corps of Engineers
will deal only with the county in
these matters as Hatteras is not
a municipality.
Failure of the Board to pass the
required resolution resulted this
month from the same source that
attempted to block construction of
the Wanchese Harbor early this
year. Hatteras citizens may ap
pear before the Board at the meet
ing scheduled for Dec. 5 when the
Board will be reorganised.
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