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PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY AT MANTEO. SINCE JULY 4. 1435 Now Including Tba Pilot and Herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter *My rule. In which I hove alwayi found satisfaction, is never to turn aside in public affairs through viowi of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me Hohl of *he time, leaving the consequences with Providence."—Benjamin Franklin. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO.. INC. AT THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WALTER RALEIGH COANTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOREMOST REGION OF RECREATION AND SPORT. HEALTH- FUL LIVING AND HISTORICAL INTEREST ON THE ATLANTIC SEaBOAHD Entered es Second Class Matter at the Postoffice in Manteo, N. C. Subscription Rates: Yearly $3.50; Six Months, $2.00; 3 Months, SI.OO FRANCIS W. MEEKINS General Manager CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer It May Result in Needless Delay if Communications To This Newspaper Are Addressed to Individuals. Please Address The Newspaper VOL. XXVI MANTEO. N. C.. FRIDAY, MARCH 31. 1961 NO. 40 \w| By EULA N. GREENWOOD As it closed its legislative ses sion last week, the Arkansas Gen eral Assembly voted overwhelming ly against a bill which would have removed the sales tax on food. Hodges Could Use Some Among those running for the of fice of Lieutenant Governor in North Carolina in 1952 were: Luth er Hodges of Rockingham County; Roy Rowe of Pender County; and Ben McDonald of New Hanover County. They finished in that or der. Roy Rowe was the only one of the three who had had legislative experience. He is still in the thea tre business. Mr. Hodges is now associated in some position with the Federal Government. Os the three, McDonald is more in the news—in Southeastern North Carolina —than the other two combined. He is on television literally hours each week with his own show-. McDonald is also in the hair-gi-owing business. His ads say, among other things: “Ben McDonald, Wilmington TV commentator, bald for years, now growing hair, using odorless salve.” About Roy Rowe we wouldn’t know—but we saw the winner of that 1952 setto in Raleigh last week. He could do with a goodly dose (usually known as “dost”) of Ben’s salve. Gen. Alex Andrews There is no better known, and no stronger, family in Raleigh than the Andrews! They have managed the town at times as mayor and the Episcopal Church as lay lead ers. Thus we are glad to see another one of the clan achieve new piom inence. All of which is byway of saying that Alex B. Andrews of Raleigh has just been made the first Tar Heel brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. The ap pointment received scant press notice—and thus the mention here. Gen. Andrews, founder of A. B. Andrews Co., is a Raleigh attorney and an alumnus of the University of N. Carolina. Last Most Difficult We have not seen it in the papers but heard on good authority last week that President Kennedy has issued three edicts: 1. Jews can begin eating pork. 1 2. Catholics may consume meat on Friday. I 3. Baptists may start taking drinks in front of each other. Steadily Increasing It is no wonder that the State now plans to go to retail merchants again as tax collectors to improve the schools. The N. C. Department of Reve nue reports that as of the close of business this past December 31, there were 80,241 active retail merchants in this State. This fig ure, they explain, includes anybody who paid the $1 fee required to be- ■ come a merchant. In 1942, North Carolina had only 34,000 retail merchants. Mecklenburg County, for in stance, liad 5,037 active retail mer-i chants as of this past December—| and led the State—but ten years before had only 3,667. Incidentally, school principals and school boards and school com mittees and school teachers might give a little thught to this: Education would get better sup port from merchants (who collect about 90 million per year in taxes for schools) if these schools would close up the little stores many of them operate in direct competition with service stations, snack bars, drug stores, etc., which they must depend upon for tax support. A Different Tune When Governor Sanford an nounced that a sales tax on food should lead the way to Better Schools in North Carolina, the group that came up with the most bitter protest was the N. C. Bakers Council. Last week it was the Governor’s turn at bat. We do not mean to imply that it would not have hap pened anyway—of course it would have —but last week the bakers had something besides the food tax to. think about: "A SO per cent increase in the price of bread used at State hospit als and educational institutions was cited Thursday as the immediate necessity for an anti-price fixing bill introduced in the General As sembly. “J. William Copeland, legislative counsel to Gov. Sanford, said that since July 1 of last year, State in stitutions have regularly encount ered identical bidding ... on bak ery products. “As a result, he said, the bread bill at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh has jumped this year to approximately $50,000, compared to $21,000 last year . . .” It was going to be interesting to see if the bakers would fight the price-fixing bill as bitterly as they are fighting the food tax bill . . . or the other way around. No Corner On It As the week wore on, identical low bids on sugar and salt con tracts showed up in the State Di vision of Purchase and Contract. It began to look as if Westing house and General Electric and the other industrial giants had no cor ner on price-fixing. Meantime, the light bulbs in our house are about as dependable as lightning bugs. All are made by GE, too. We used to laugh at an old colored friend of the family who called bulbs, “bugs”. If he were living today, we would feel like going to him with abject apolo gies. He was right. Our big General Electric purcha ses—like our refrigerator and stove —are solid as a rock after more than a decade of hard use. But our light bulbs are not nearly as dependable as tulips, daffodils, dahlias, and bulbs of that type. GE could learn a lesson there! CAPE HATTERAS HAS MOST POWERFUL WEATHER RADAR The radar at Cape Hatteras is the largest and most powerful weather search radar on the east coast of the United States. It is a unique observational tool since it is capable of observing a complete storm system at one time. During .the winter months storms occasion ; ally form over the Gulf Stream and intensify as they move north ward, , producing northeasters on the Out ‘er Banks and heavy snows in the New England States. The radar I can detect one of these storms in! its formative stage and track it un il it has moved to a range of 200 nautical miles. The radar observer records the size of the storm, its intensity, and movement and transmits these ob servaions by weather teletype to the various forecast centers along the East Coast. Thus the forecas ter is alerted to the severity of the storm during its early stages and |is able to predict wind and snow storms more accurately. Radar is i lapse pictures taken of hurricanes I also an excellent instrument for tracking hurricanes. Radar time j “Helene”, in 1958, and of “Donna”, i in 1960, have been of great value in the study of hurricane circulation and movement. OLD TELEPHONE STOCK A. Clark Mann of Manteo has shown us an old stock certificate in the Manns Harbor Telephone Co. a corporation existing April 17, 1915, which owned an old-fashion ed line along the shore connecting Manns Harbor with Stumpy Point. This certificate is for three shares at $lO each. W. O. Barnett was president, and M. B. Cox, Secre tary. Our readers will recall a re cent account of the Dare County Telephone Co. which operated on Roanoke Island. NAGS HEAD PERSONALS Chaplin Leroy- D. Leppard, of Nags Heed, was admitted to the U. S. Navel Hospital at Portsmouth last Thursday. At last report, he was improving steadily. | RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION POSTMASTERS OF DISTRICT MET IN COLUMBIA SAT. Mrs. Effie Brickhouse of Columbia, Chairman; Raleigh Postmas ter Speaker COLUMBIA The annual meet ing of the Postmaster of the First Congressional District at a turkey dinner meeting Saturday p.m. at the Columbia High School Cafeter ia, heard an address by D. S. In sco, Postmaster of Raleigh, speak on the “Opportunity of the Civil Servant to elevate the prestige of America”. W. T. McCoogan, Pres, of N.C. Chapter of NAPUS, of Red Springs, N. C. and R. G. Gi'een, P. O. Field Service Officer of Boone. N.C. give information in role of duty of the Postmaster. Officers elected for the incom ing year: District Chmn. Roland L. Garrett, Elizabeth City; V-chmn. W. C. Arnold of Ayden and Secre tary Mrs. Katherine Perry of Kitty Hawk, N. C. The District with about hundred members was honored by repre sentative from each district in the state except three. Recognized by Mrs. Effie A. Brickholse, chmn. from other Districts: J. Tracey Moore, P. M. of Greensboro; Mrs. Pearl Linville of Oak Ridge. Inspec tor Ralph Osgood of New Bern; Former P. O. Inspector Fred Con derman of New Bern; Mrs. L. E. Lancaster of Vanceboro, Past-State President; C. T. Draper of Jackson, Bob Harrison, Sec. and Treas. N.C. Chapter of Mm’s NAPUS; Mrs Velma Brown, Merritt, N. C.; Mrs. George W. Ipock, Ernul, N. C.. Mrs. Stella Emerson, Bear Creek. Invocation in the form of a solo “The Lord's Prayer” was given by the Rev. Francis Cordrey, Pastor of the Columbia Baptist Church. Mayor H. T. Davenport expressed the welcome, with R. L. Garrett Postmaster of Elizabeth City re sponding. Song “America” was sung, and “Happy Birthday” sung during the occasion for one of the visiting PM’s. Mrs. Effie A. Brick house emceed the occasion. Prior to the dinner a get-togeth er Tea was held at the home of Mrs. Brickhouse from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Postmasters and guests attend ing: Mrs. Nors L. Boyce, Tyner; Mrs. Trixie M. Matthews; Mr. and' Mrs. J. W. Roughton, Mr. and Mrs. I J. W. Fleming all of Columbia; Mrs. Isabelle M. Howard, Fairfield, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Swindell, Swan Quarter; Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Osgood, New Bern; Calvin T. Draper, Jack son, Mrs. Sibyl Hobbs, Mrs. Lillian Riddick, Mrs. Robert Hendrix all of Hobbsville. Mrs. Sibyl Hobbs, Mrs. Hobbsville; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Job of Hatteras; Jay T. Leggett, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Andrews Jr., Mr. and Mrs. S. T Perry, Mrs. Adelaide F. Bell, Mrs. V. Amelia Brumsey, Mrs. Sara Forbes, Mr and Mrs. Russell Joynson; Mr. and Mra. Nelson Smith, Mr. and Mrs. John Huston, W. W. White, Roland 1 Garrett, Mrs. Minnie Spruill of East Lake, Mr. and Mrs. G. Tracey Moore of Greensboro; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Conderman of New Bern, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Lancaster of Vance boro; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. (Jake) Walker of Columbia; Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Armstrong, Mrs. C. Earl Co hoon, Mrs Franklin Alexander, The Rev. and Mrs. Francis Cordrey, Mr. and Mra. J. G. 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Delton Everton of Norfolk spent the week end with his mother, Mrs. Sally Everton, who returned with him to Norfolk. Carl Cohoon and Robert Patrick were in East Lake Tuesday. Leroy Tarkington and son of Norfolk and Mr. and Mrs. Harry O’Neal and daughter of Manteo visited Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tark ington. Marvin Jones of Norfolk visited his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Jones. Mrs. Durwood Cooper and daughters spent Tuesday in Smith field visiting Mrs. Bennie Liver man. Mrs. C. O. Workman and Mark Conibs were in Norfolk Friday. Mr. Workman returned with them. Mr. and Mrs. Jean Rhodes and children of Norfolk spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Cohoon. Mr. and Mrs Ben Turner were in Hertford and Edenton Tuesday. Mrs. Alethia Cammon of Black stone, Va. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. C. O. Workman. Mrs. Bessie Curies and children of Waterlilly spent the week end with Mrs. Annie Sexton. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Whitson of Waterlily spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Basnight. Mrs. Marie Meekins and Mrs. Owens of Elizabeth City visited Mrs. Jewel Everton. Mr. and Mrs. Burvell Jones, U.SA.F., spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Len Jones before Mr. Jones leaves for duty in Tur key. Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Armstrong of Norfolk, Mrs. Lorine Elliot and children of Hertford and -Miss Nattie Lee Armstrong of Edenton visited Mr. and Mrs. Willie Arm strong. Mrs. Mae Norman is visiting in Baltimore. Alvin Smith of Norfolk visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willie Smith. Miss Hazel Owens of Elizabeth City visited Mr. and Mrs. Herman Cohoon. Elmo Sawyer is visiting in Nor folk. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Porterfield and daughter Carol of Norfolk spent the week end with Mrs. Polly ’Ann Everton. Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Cohoon of Harbinger were Sunday visitors of J. G. Cohoon and Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Smithson. Mrs. J. W. Williams spent the week end in Plymouth with the Bertha Waters family. Mr. and Mrs. Yellma Allen and girls of Portsmouth spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Martha Newbern of Powells Point; Marjorie G. Morse, Stella Emer son, R. G. Greene; Julia Dunton, Ethel G. Smith, Pearl Linville of Oak Ridge; Inez G. Gibbs, Manns Harbor; Mrs. Floyd Cohoon attend ed the tea. PLANS JUNE WEDDING MISS ELIZABETH BRUCE INGE is the daughter of Mrs. Matilda Etheridge Inge of Manteo, who an nounces her engagement to Charles Tobin Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Aaron Davis of Saluda, Va. Miss Inge is the daughter of El wood H. Inge of Keswick, Va., and a granddaughter of the Hon. and Mrs. R. Bruce Etheridge of Man teo. A June weddnig is planned. WOODHOUSE (Continued from Page One) plates not be loaded during the rain. It resulted in a case of yield ing to the owners, who demanded that the loading proceed. Capt. W’oodhouse warned his superiors, but finally had to yield to the old slogan, * Obey orders if you bust owners.” When the ship reached San Francisco, after a long voyage via the Panama Canal, the cargo was refused by the consignee until the shipowners paid $75,000 damages for the bad condition of the steel. It seems that the steel plates in transit had become pitted and rus ty all over where the rain-drops had remained on them in the heat of the hold. Capt. Woodhouse knew what would happen, but the own ers wouldn’t listen. I wish I had made notes on some of these many nights while talking to Capt. Woodhouse, but I was afraid that, being the modest man that he is, he would have clammed up and stopped talking. I made efforts to get a photograph of him, but this he flatly refused. He never sought the limelight, nor wanted glory for his good deeds, nor ad vertising for help he gave to oth ers. However, his encouraging friendship was appreciated, and I like many others am hoping for his complete recovery from his gout and other complications that come to a man who is 74 years old. But in spite of lack of notes, I recall a lot of basic knowledge of the career of this positive, square-shooting man who has lived to become Dare County’s oldest •Smithson. Charlie, Jack and Gene Combs spent the week end home from Norfolk. Mark Combs joined them for the return trip. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Liverman, Sr. of Norfolk and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Liverman, Jr. of Plymouth spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Liverman. Mrs. Robert Patrick joined Mr. and Mrs. Tommie Woods of Nags Head Saturday on a trip to Plym outh. Mrs. Dora Jones is a Columbia Hospital patient. Miss Sharon Berry returned home Sunday from the Columbia Hospital. Capt. Frank Meekins is home. Two of Mr. David Ferrell’s brothers and a nephew visited him last week end from Elizabeth City. master mariner, and is noted for his practical commonsense and business shrewdness. Captain Woodhouse had left home as a youngster, sailing on the small boats that plied out of the N. C. sound and river ports. His first job was sailing with the late Captain Jim Evans, a Man teo man, who was a half-brother of Mrs. James Vannote, and of Ivey and Albert Evans of Manteo. The small schooner, the Ella Crees, bunt by the father of and named for the late wife of Carson W. Davis of Manteo, ran to Elizabeth City with freight, and sometimes passengers. She was a small schooner, built on Roanoke Island about 60 years ago. Young Jim Woodhouse was sailor before the mast; he steered the boat and swabbed the decks. In the nearly 60 years since Capt. Woodhouse took to the wat er ne has had a varied experience, sailing to all the principal ports of the world. He has carried car goes through the Panama Canal to the West Coast anl the South Pacific; traded between the United States and Australia, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. But in his early twenties, when he first went to Norfolk to go steaniboat ing he plied the sounds and bays of Tidewater Virginia first, and then to Philadelphia, New York and Boston on larger and larger ships, until sometimes he com manded vessels up to 600 feet long. When he is at leisure in the lobby of the Fort Raleigh Hotel, which is family-owned, and where he lives when at home, his clear mind flows w’ith a wealth of rec ollection of the old days of steam boating out of Norfolk harbor. Up to 30 years ago, there was a great fleet of steamers which carried the bulk of passengers and freight about the whole area. The Old Do minion Steamship Co. operated the large passenger rteamers Brandon and Berkley as night boats, simul taneously between Norfolk and Richmond. There was the steamer Virginia Dare on a regular run to Hampton. The Mobjack served the Mobjack Bay area, the Smithfield ran to Smithfield, and other boat® ran to Suffolk and North Carolina points daily. Some 50 years ago when the Norfolk-Southern bridged Albemarle Sound near Edenton, a continuous train service was es tablished on this run, the Old Do minion SS Co. then abandoned its boat service between Elizabeth City and New Bern, then Skyco, on Roanoke Island was an impor tant shipping point. The handsome white steamers Neuse, New Bern, and Ocracoke, left Croatan Sound forever, and went on to runs out of Norfolk Harbor. All, all are now gone, and bridges and roads and tunnels have made these great steamboat runs useless forever. Captain Woodhouse recalls when the Old Dominion ships made reg ular runs between Norfolk and New York; and the Merchant and Miners between Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Providence and Bos ton, and southward to Charleston, Savannah and Jacksonville. Some of these ships between Norfolk and New York operated as late as 17 years ago, palatial hotels afloat, where one slept and ate in style. More recently, a regular steamer carried passengers from Norfolk to Cape Charles to serve the Penn sylvania train to New York via the Delmarva peninsula. Captain Woodhouse remembers all the changes that have taken place, when sails in the beginning of his career motivated the ships on which he had jobs. Sails gave way to steam power and steam has given way to diesel power, and USEDCARS 1960 Ford 500 4-dr., VB, RH, dean 1960 Falcon 4-dr., Ford-o-Matic 1959 Chevrolet 4-door Bel Air 1959 Ford Country Sedan, 6- pass., 4-dr. Wagon, Rad io, Heater, F-O-M 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air 4-dr, VB, Powerglide, R&H 1956 Olds 88 2-dr Hardtop, dean, radio, heater, au tomatic trans. 1956 Ford Ranch Wagon V 8 1955 Oldsmobile Hardtop 2- door 1955 Ford 2-door 1955 Mercury Hardtop 1954 Ford 2-door, 6-cyl., overdrive 1953 Pontiac Station Wagon 4-door 1952 Cadillac 4-dr., power steering 1950 Ford Convertible Coupe $150.00 ’949 Cadillac 4-Door 1957 Chevrolet '/ 2 -ton Pickup 1952 l/j-ton Pickup R. D. SAWYER MOTOR COMPANY, INC Your FORD Dealer Phone 11« Manteo N. C. License No. 19tt FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1961 coastwise shipping is almost ex tinct save for oil tankers, and a few other vessels which carry coal, and bring fruits from Central American ports. The great pipe lines, and the super-highways which permit large trucks to cross the continent in a few hours have revolutionized the shipping indus try. Modern day steamboating is nothing like that of the days when Captain Woodhouse started out. Life was rugged, hours were long, leave was short, and rations i sometimes short as well. There was no refrigeration; no fresh meats or vegetables; no comforts. To be a capable master of a ship, one must be able to figure out his po sition himself by pencil, paper, and laborious use of the formulas he had learned, through long hours of midnight study sufficient to get him through the examinations. Often, a captain got his papers largely through having a good friend with influence among the examiners. There were few aids to naviga tion. Fessenden, the father of ra dio, had not then invented the fathometer. Marconi hadn’t got his wireless telegraph going; the U. S. Government had not established its net-work of radio compass stations whereby the bewildered mariner to day can learn at once from sta tions ashore, just where his ship floats, by latitude and longitude. In a few moments today, all this can be learned through radio con tact, which also can call for help in time of distress, whereby count less lives as well as millions in property have been saved. The mariner today can, by his fathom eter, determine the depth of water under his ship; he can, through constant reports be advised of weather conditions, and the exact time when he might expect a hur ricane, and thereby be able to run around it. He doesn’t have to run up and down companionways and ladders, or bellow commands through a megaphone, for elec tronics ha® solved all shipboard communication problems. But Capt. Jim sees no regrets over these things which he missed in his early days. They hadn’t come about, and what he didn’t know about, he didn’t miss. Al though overweight, at 74, he is rugged if slow-moving, the result of his big appetite. He rests well at night, and in fact he says “I can lie down on this floor with my head propped on a brick, and sleep as well as ever,” but this was be fore he went to the hospital. The Captain’s papers are still in force, and every year he spends several weeks on duty to see that they continue effective through the full five years of their life. WGAI FOR MUSIC NEWS SPORTS —o HEAR TIDEWATER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL AND BIG FOUR College BASKETBALL —o AREA NEWS 8 A.M.—Noon—6 P.M. with LOCAL WEATHER FOLLOWING —o— — Dial 560 WGAI Elizabeth City