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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS VOLUME XXVI NO. 28 OLD CHRISTMAS OBSERVANCE IS FRIDAY AT 7:30 Rodanthe's Celebration One Day Late So Week End Travelers May Attend Although the residents of Rodan- I the observed Old Christmas on January 5, traditional date of the event, the festivities or celebrating was postponed until Friday night, January 6, in order that man" former residents of Rodanthe now living in Norfolk or elsewhere could include the occasion in their week end plans. The celebrating this year will be patterned very much like former festivities of the only place in the world today where Old Christmas comes on January 5, it was stated this week by Mrs. Nora Herbert who has an important role in pre paring for the celebration each year. In Manteo ealier this week she stated that the celebrating would begin in the Rodanthe community building (former schoolhouse) at 7:30 Friday night "We have new horns for Old Buck. Elvira (Miss Elvira Payne of Wanchese) has been practicing up on her drumming. Jazania O’Neal (Mrs. Herbert’s daughter) will give a reading at our black and whiteface minstrel show and also serve as mistress of ceremonies. John Herbert will again lead Old Buck, and there will be square dancing,” she said. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Edwards of Waves, Herbert Midgett, Levene Midgett, Mrs. Bethany R. Gray an ’ Julian Gray and many other resi dents of the community have been busy this week making plans for the Friday night festivities. Mrs. Norma Cahoon will provide piano accompaniment for the occasion. There will be the usual big oys ter roast on the grounds of the community building following the minstrel and indoor activities. "People can find accommodation at Chicamacomico Mo’el or peopl Bee RODANTHE, Page Four GOVAN BOUND OVER FOR SUPERIOR COURT; TRAFFIC CASES TUESDAY Edgar Govan, Jr., Manteo ne gro, charged with shooting his brother, George Willie Govan in the stomach during a Christmas season brawl was given a hear ing in recorders court Tuesday and bound over to May term of superior court for trial. His broth er died in the Elizabeth City hos pital shortly after the shooting. Pearl Lew’ark Wise, Nags Head appealed to superior court and bond was set at S2OO after she was found guilty in recorders court of driving 85 miles an hour in a 55 mile zone. On a similar charge of fast driving, Silas B. Seymour, Bel cross was found guilty of driving 65 miles an hour and bond was fixed at SSO after he took an ap peal. A fine of $18.70, including costs, was levied against Woodrow Best of Stumpy Point on charges of offering unculled oysters for sale. The following persons paid fines and ofsts for violating speed laws: Edgar Govan, Jr., Manteo, $18.70; Betty Skinner Mann, Man teo, $17.70; Major Edward Curies, Kitty Hawk, $18.70; Donald Sly Payne, Wanchese, $21.70; Marvin Elds Minton, Kitty Hawk, $18.70; Pattie Clair Wescott, Manteo, $17.70; Milah Louise Daniels, Wan chese, $18.70; and, Hatton Howard Midgett, Manteo, $18.70. Robert Curtis Etheridge, Man teo, paid fine and costs of $18.70 for failing to observe stop sign. Robert Wayne Hill, Columbia, for careless and reckless driving paid fine and costs of $33.70; and Richard Wayne Gray, Wanchese, for driving with an improper ex haust with fined a total of $18.70. EMERSON RODGERS DIES IN DUCK HOME TUESDAY Emerson M. Rodgers, 79, died Tuesday at 3:40 p.m. in the fami ly home in Duck, after an illness of eight days. He was a native of Coinjock and lived in Duck 37 years. He was a son of Jim and Mrs. Harriett Walker Rodgers and was a retired carpenter. He a member of Assembly of God Church at Poplar Branch. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lillie Meekins Rodgers; a stepson, G. W. Salde of Norfolk, Va.; a sister, Mrs. Jennie Water field of Aydlett; a brother, Ned Rodgers of Wanchese and seven step-grandchildren. A funeral service will be con ducted in his home Friday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Woody Barnes. Burial will be in the family ceme tery at Duck. The body will be taken from Twiford Funeral Home to Duck Friday morning. b 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 — OLD CHRISTMAS AT RODANTHE FRIDAY A • Cl * * TWO OF IHE r’KiiN (Jlr'a.L.o oi Kodancne s “Old Christmas” celebra tion are shown here, much as they will appear Friday night when the community’s celebration begins at 7:30. Behind the mask of the mummer is John Herbert, a long-time promoter of the affair; the other charactor is Old Buck, the mythical bull which adds life to the performaance. TO BE DARE SPONSOR FOR INAUGURAL BALL ahi MISS NANCY COLES BAS NIGHT, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Basnight of Manteo, was chosen as Dare County’s sponsor for the Inaugural Ball in Raleigh on Wednesday night. Each county in the state was asked to send one sponsor. Miss Basnight’s escort was Billy Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Davis of Kitty Hawk, and a student at N. C. State College, Raleigh. The spon sors and their escorts took part in the figure at the ball. On Wednesday afternoon they were entertained at a coffee hour at the Carolina Country Club, Raleigh. Miss Basnight accompanied Dare Representative and Mrs. M. K. Fearing, Jr., of Manteo, to Ra leigh for the inauguration. Also attending the inauguration ceremonies in Raleigh on Thurs day and other festivities taking place as the Honorable Terry Sanford became Governor of North See SPONSOR, Page Four DREDGE “FRIENDSHIP” SINKS IN OCRACOKE HARBOR OCRACOKE, Jan. 3. The dredge “Friendship,” sank in the entrance to Ocracoke harbor, ear ly Monday morning. It is owned by the Hodges Dredging Company of New Bern and Mr. Hodges and a salvage company representative flew in on Monday to look over the situation and arrange for salvage. The dredge had complet ed its work on the entrance td the harbor, and was just about to leave for Wallace Channel for dredging work there. It has pre viously dredged Wainwright Slue. Fortunately it sank on one edge of the harbor entrance, where the water was comparatively shallow, so that at this time small fishing. boats can get in and out of the harbor. Cause of the sinking is I said to be unknown; there has been some leakage; the dredge had taken on a good deal of fuel oil for its Wallace Channel work on Saturday. Two-thirds of the superstructure is above water lev eL I Fishing wHunting A U AS REPORTED BY AYCOCK BROWN fl Ever heard of a white black duck? Or a duck that whistles in stead of the usual quack? Many along the Dare coast here on the Outer Banks of North Car olina had not heard of such ducks either until the holiday season just passed. Then, because it was so rare, the National Park Serv ice “collected” the first albino blackduck,” the one in two million of the species which appeared this year in the Bodie Island area of lower Nags Head. A couple of days earlier N. C. Forest Service Patrol Pilot Brant ley A. Brown of Whiteville, visit ing relatives in Manteo had gone hunting and bagged a Fulvous Tree Duck, a species that has a long goose-like neck and long legs, which whistles instead of quack ing as the ducks usually do when they want to make a noise. More Rare Ducks Killed Snice the accompanying story was released to newspapers and outdoor editors throughout the nation by the Tourist Bureau last week reports have come from National Park Service au thorities at Bodie Island in low er Nags Head that at least six more Fulvous Tree Ducka were killed there. Their apperance on the Dare Coast, far from their native habitat has been of con siderable interest to museum of ficials of this and other states. The Audubon Bird Book has this to say about the tree duck: “The bird is so nocturnal that it is sel dom seen . . . they appear to do most of their feeding while walk ing around on land . . . The curi ous, discontinuous distribution of this bird suggests either a deca dent species of which only a few relics survive, or an aggressive species which is spreading and colonizing new areas . . . Thia duck now occurs in 5 widley separated parts of the world: coastal Louisi ana and Texas; California south to Mexico; northern South Ameri ca; southern Brazil and northern Argentina; eastern Africa and India.” The duck is reddish brown and black in color. A duck killed earlier this sea son by Allen Lee Mann of Manteo tentatively identified as a Cinna mon Duck was probably Fulvous Tree Duck. Pilot Brown’s kill was definitely identified as a Fulvous Tree Duck and NPS Rangers in sighting two on one of the ponds the Buxton area have reported at the lighthouse. Mann is having his duck mounted. Brown has his on deep freeze awaiting an offer See HUNTING, Page Feer MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1961 TOURIST BUREAU HAS PROGRAM SET FOR 1961 SEASON Meeting Last Friday Outlines Many Possibilities for Future Fifteen members of the board of directors of Dare County Tour ist Bureau met Friday at a lun cheon meeting in the Community Building at Manteo to review ac tivities of the past year and to make plans for a bigger and bet ter vacation season in the Outer Banks region during 1961. Mrs. Burwell Evans, new chair man of the board presided and one of the first orders of business was presentation of a distinguish ed service plaque to Ralph Swain, retiring president of the board. The plaque presentation was made by Lawrence Swain, who had serv ed as first president of the bureau when organized 10 years ago. It was agreed by the board that when a new supply of area bro chures are printed that the color scheme and possibly some of text be changed. A folder committee has been appointed to work on this phase of promotion for the area. The manager gave a detail ed report of folder distribution. A planned program to obtain investment from vacation opera tors was discussed. This matter wall be taken care of by board members in the areas where they preside. An investor’s committee was named with Fatio Gray as chairman, Donald Oden, Tom Briggs, Mrs. Elnora Preston, Mrs Leland Wise, Mrs. Ina Evans and Hallet Perry as members. Amendments to the by-laws were discussed and W. H. Mc- Cown was named head of a com mittee including Mrs. Lucille Winslow, Alvah Ward, Jr., L. L. Swain, J. Gordon Kellogg and Ralph Swain, each of them a form er president of the Bureau to See BUREAU, Page Four MOUNTAIN HUNTERS KILL BEAR ON COAST MANNS HARBOR.—Two bear had been killed in the big woods of Dare County’s mainland last week by a group of hunters head ed by Roy Wiseman of Spruce Pines. A third bear, and the larg est got away on Wednesday, but the hunters believe it was wound ed and concentrated the hunt in the vicinity where it was last seen. The hunters from the mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee brought their own packs of bear hounds which were being used with the pack of 15 owned by Lloyd Midgett, their guide. The first two bear bagged weighed about 75 and 125 pounds each while the one that got away was estimated to have scaled at 400 pounds. Roger Wiseman, teen-ager who killed the largest bear of the sea son in the Manns Harbor section last year is hunting with the par ty. He is the son of Roy Wiseman. The biggest bear believed seri ously wounded was never found. Total bag of bear for the moun tain hunters on their coastal junk et was only two, according to the Midgetts of Cavalier Motor Court in Manns Harbor where the hunt ers made their headquarters. WILDFOWL HUNTING GOOD AS SEASON NEARS END With weather conditions more favorable for shooting the wild fowl hunting on the Dare Coast was showing much improvement as the current season nears its end in early January. There has been a scarcity of duck kills this season but goose hunters have been having aver age luck in the Nags Head flats. The hunting in the Nags Head or Bodie Island flats on land con trolled by National Park Service depends much on which blind a hunter draws. Drawing for blinds takes place eacs morning at the Ranger station on the Nags Head- Oregon Inlet highway. Duck shooting has been fair in the Wanchese marshes. Reports from Hatteras indicate that brant are plentiful and many have got ten their limits without difficulty. Goose shooting in the Hatteras and Ocracoke areas has also been reponeu very good iwwwtiyo WANCHESE HARBOR GETS MUCH USE IN STORMY WEATHER Trawler Fleet With Estimated Val ue of $2,000,000 Finds Im provement Valuable The million and a half dollar improvement program for deepen ing the Roanoke Island-Oregon Inlet channel and the harbors of the island was paying off in a big way this week, as more than 50 big ocean trawlers sought ref uge at Wanchese during rough weather and rough seas offshore. W’eather conditions had made it impossible to fish off the Out er Banks. But instead of making a trip of more than 100 miles to ports previously used by the fleet, the trawlers were able to reach safe waters at Wanchese through Oregon Inlet, only a few miles from where the boats were operating when stormy weather started. One observer estimated that the some 60 trawlers in port would have an average of between $35,- 000 and $50,000 each. On that ba sis Wanchese harbor provided a safe place of refuge for a fleet valued at more than $2,000,000. In addition to serving as a hor bor of refuge, Wanchese is also providing a place for trawlers to discharge their catches of fish quickly and return to the fishing grounds offshore, it was stated. BEARD GROWING TIME BEGINS FOR DARE MALES . ' H • WmhIHHM Ilk & fc.; ~ fl fl KING DICK WARD and QUEEN INA EVANS, royalty of the 1960 Pirates Jamboree, shown here at their crowning in April during fes tivities of the annual affair, issued some words in connection with the event this week. A series of planning meetings for the Jamboree is in session, the next being at Nags Head on Sunday. The proclama tion follows: . BE IT HEREBY proclaimed this first day of January, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred, sixty one: THAT THE LAST week end of April be set aside and declared as the time for the Seventh Annual Dare Coast Pirates Jamobree and Spring Festival throughout Dare County; THAT THE PURPOSE of said Jamboree is to provide a series of events of such unusual and color ful character as to attract atten tion of all news media including newspapers, raido, television and magazines thoroughout the land; THAT THE EVENTS leading up to the Jamboree include the en couragement and a spirit of com petition and imagination toward producing unusual effects combin ing beards, costumes and jewelry; among women by arrangement of costumes and jewelry; by planning and conducting caravans, to in clude radio and televsion appear ances; and planning suitable and See JAMBOREE, Page Four CHURCH MEMBERSHIP DRIVE AT SWAN QUARTER The Swan Quarter Christian Church has begun a membership drive for the Sunday School and Church entitled “From the Cradle To The Cross” (From The Birth of Christ To The Crucifixion), or stated more plainly from Christ mas to Easter, says Garland C. Bland, minister. Since Nov. 1 the church has been having worship service ev ery Sunday and the people of the western part of Hyde County who do not have a church are invited to join. The membership of the church and the public are urged to be on time in IMI. Sermon subjects for Jan. Bth follow: 11:00 am. “What God Does For A Sinner” 7:00 pm. "The Signs Os The Time.’* ANDY GRIFFITHS LEAVE MANTEO FOR CALIFORNIA *■l W.. fl Pap ANDY GRIFFITH, with his wife, Barbara and their children, Sam and Dixie Nann, left Thursday for Pacific Palisades, California, after spending the holidays at their home on Roanoke Island near Manteo. They were flown to Baltimore by W. M. Henderson, operator of the Manteo Flying Service, and from Baltimore com pleted the trip by jet. Enjoying the holidays with the Griffiths were Mr. Griffith’s par ents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Griffith of Mount Airy; Mrs. Griffith’s mother, brother-in-law and sister, Mrs. J. S. Edwards and Mr. and See GRIFFITH, Page Four PIRATE JAMBOREE MEET TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY All interested persons of Dare are invited to attend a meeting at Beacon Motor Lodge on Sunday afternoon, January 8, at 1 o’clock to discuss plans for the sxith annual Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree, it was an nounced today by Herbert Van Vleek of Kitty Hawk, chairman of the event this year. While an announcement of the meeting has gone to a spec ified list of Dare residents who have had roles in the previous Jamborees, Van Vleek empha sized that everyone interested, and especially those who wished to help make the spring festi val event bigger and better than ever before, were urged to at tend the meeting. The meeting is being held at 1 o’clock in order that residents of Hatteras Island attending may return to their homes on the last ferry. |Van Vleek stated that ar rangements had been made for a luncheon and refreshments to be served those who attend. NEW HOURS ANNOUNCED BY DR. C. F. HARRIS Os interest to the patients and friends of Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Harris, will be the announcement this week regarding office hours which will be found elsewhere in this paper. Dr. Harris, who for the past two years has maintain ed long hours at his Nags Head office, will limit daily practice to two hours each day, beginning next Monday. Appointments may be made for afternoons at the residence in Wanchese. This schedule has become neces sary due to temporary illness of Mrs. Harris, who must lighten her duties for several weeks. MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 70 MOSQUITO CONTROL TALKED AT LENGTH BY BOARD TUESDAY Meeting Next Monday to Discuss Tax Problems; Garbage Com mittee Named An improved mosquito control program is under consideration by the Dare County Board of Com missioners. The Board discussed the matter at some length during their meeting Tuesday. Dr. W. W. Johnston, district health officer, accompanied by representatives of the State Board of Health and Pamlico County’s sanitarian gave many facts and suggestions about improving the present control system used in Daro. It is possible that Dare may adopt a program similiar to one said to be very effective which is now underway in Pamlico. That county’s sanitarian, Charles Mc- Cotter, explained and showed slides of the control methods which involve larvaciding by use of drainage of swamps. To ac complish such a program it is necessary to employ draglines for ditching and draining mosquito breeding areas. In Pamlico, a county with ter rain similar to Dare four drag lines are now employed in an ef fective mosquito control program. It was suggested that perhaps Dare could start with one dragline to determine the effectiveness of such a program in this county. Several routine matters came be fore the commisioners on Tuesday. By resolution the State High way and Public Works Commis sion was asked to complete the paving of l/10th of a mile of road in Hatteras village where difficulty had been experienced previously in obtaining a signed easement from the owner of the property. The commissioners agreed to build 100 feet of bulkhead in the south end of Stumpy Point neigh oornood on land to be donated by C. E. Payne. A committee was appointed to meet with Leonard Midgett to dis cuess and work out a system that would give Koanoke Island bet ter guroage collections. Named on tne committee were J. W. Da vis, Daniel C. Midgett and Kondal Tillett and they plan to meet on January 9. Tne area involved in cludes all parts of the island ex cept within the corporate limits of Manteo. Henry Lewis, assistant director and tax counsellor of the Insti tute of Government in Chapel Hill is scheduled to meet wnh the Dare commissioners on January 9 to discuss methods and answer questions relative to tax problems. Tne thought behind this meeting will be to improve the tax struc ture of Dare County. CAPT. TOM BASNIGHT RETIRES AS SKIPPER; DANIELS IS PROMOTED Capt Thomas Allen Basnight, after 38 years of service with the Division of Commercial Fisheries, N. C. Department of Conservation and Development, retired January 1 from his position as skipper of the “Croatan.” Arnold Daniels of Wanchese, who has been employed as engineer and assistant to Capt. Basnight for some two years, has been promoted to the rank of cap tain. “Capt. Tom” began his career in 1922 aboard the Gretchen as enigneer under the late Theo. S. Meekins, then serving as captain, in addition to the post of assist ant commissioner. Other vessels and more skippers followed, name ly the Katie Ann, later known as the Albemarle; and under the late Capt Ed Spencer of Swan Quarter and Capt Levin Quidley of Hatteras. He became captain of the Albe marle in 1935 and has held the post ever since. During the years following up to the time of re tirement, the responsibilties of inspections, tax collections, law enforcements, net limits and ad vice to fishermen in general have been upon him. His services have been greatly appreciated by those engaged in commercial as well as sports fishing. The present vessel, the Croa tan, was put in service in 1939. The post he has held for so man years has at times carried him from the Virginia line to South Carolina carrying out his duties. In late years, though, the Division’s operations have some what restricted the travel to the immediate sounds, since several other state-operated boats of this nature are based along the coast. Capt. Basnight stated this week that he had no immediate plans for activity in retirement, but his wife, Mary assured him that plen ty of activity was available in the form of chores around the house- See BASNIGHT, Page Bight
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