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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS Sateen Pages in Two Sections VOLUME XXVI NO. 53 -ERRY DIRECTOR TO BE STATIONED IN MANTEO JULY I tennis Patrick, Hertford Native To Fill Newly Created Job State Highway Director W. F. labcock announced Wednesday the ppointment of Dennis W. Patrick, 0, to direct the State’s coastal erry operations. Patrick will hold the title of Ferry Operations Manager” and dll set up headquarters at Manteo bout July 1, Babcock said. The job is a new one and indi ates the emphasis being placed on he operation of State-owned ser ies by the Highway Department. In the past, each coastal ferry as been under the command of w Highway Department engineer i the (Evision in which the ferry perates. Hertford Native Patrick, a native of Hertford, will e in charge of all ferries and will ?port directly to Chief Engineer ameron Lee, Babcock said. The State now runs four sep rate ferry services for tourists nd Tar Heel motorists, including le recently State-purchased toll :rry between the mainland town t Atlantic and Carteret County nd the Outer Banks island of Oc leoke. The toll-free ferry services that atrick will direct operate: 1. cross Alligator River between andy Point in Tyrrell County and last Lake in Dare County; 2. cross Oregon Inlet between Nags 'ead and Hatteras Island in Dare bunty; and 3. across Hatteras In st between Hatteras Village in are County and Ocracoke Island i Hyde County. ORMAL OPENING ON JULY IST FOR R. I. GOLF COURSE .. W. Drinkwater of Manteo Slat ed to Drive First Ball; Other Dignitaries to Attend Roanoke Island’s new golf course id driving range will observe its •rmal opening Saturday, July Ist, ith special events and dignitaries pioneering and political signifi mce taking part. Alpheus W. Drinkwater, famed >r his connection with sending the essage of the Wright Brothers’ rst flight, will drive the first JI to commemorate another first •r Dare County. Other dignitaries cpected to be present are Rep. M. . Fearing, Jr., Mayor G. T. (Ras) 'esteott of Manteo, David Stick, lairman Dare County Board of jmmlSsioners; and motel and her vacation operators from the eaehes area. John Wright, general manager ' the golf course, stated this week at he plans to have special days r tiie Lost Colony staff, a ladies* iy, and a young golfer’s day for ose over tile age of twelve. La os day will be Monday, Lost >locy Day Tuesday, and the iung golfer’s day on Wednesday. 1 these special days green fees ill be reduced so that tehse groups ay enjoy the course. For groups five or more young people, in ruetion may be had by appoint ed An enclosed playground is ovided for children of partici nta. The driving range will be open th and day night from 8 a.m. 11 pm. The golf course will be open r play from 8 a.m. until dusk. Several tournaments are plann for the near future, the dates be announced later. This Dare «Bt attraction is a project of a > Roanoke Island Yacht and See COURSE, Page Four ORTSFISHING IS SAID EXCELLENT FOR MOST ALL SPECIES IN DARE WATERS By AYCOCK BROWN NAGS HEAD Game fishing ? a dozen or more offshore and ihore varieties reached an early nuner peak off Oregon Inlet here the Dare Coast during the past The catches have included blue irfin, white marlin, four species tuna, dolphin, oceanic bonita, mt bluefish, false albacore and a v other varieties from offshore. *nw», the bluefish blitz of the alter species, ranging from one If to one and half pound con ned to average from 100 to 300 r charter boat during the week, j the catches of bottom fishes, iy and speckled trout, flounder Ring or sea mullet have been up par. Mack Etheridge of Mack’s dring Center, Wanchese and the niela Fishing Center at the little Idge between Nags Head and anoke Island have reported fish I fishermen plentiful. 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 1961 PREMIERE OF LOST COLONY WILL BE "SALUTE TO PAUL GREEN" 1 Jr?. Pl Hr it® ?. * ■' TH <. Emb* IKT -«l k t 7» .* T- ■1 *** 1 Ehkl - ■ A JMIbIMI • THE LO6T COLONY, longest-lived of all outdoor pr .uucuons will open for its 21st season in Waterside Theatre at Manteo, on Saturday, July 1. The 1961 premiere of the show will be known as “A Slaute To Paul Greens, author of the play who is pictured in oval inset above and flanked by some of the dramatic scenes and characters of the show. Upper left are three of the large troupe of Lost Colony Indians as they watch the first English explorers approach the shores of Roanoke Island; at right above is Marjalene Thomas who stars again this season as Eleanor Dare and with her, Claudia Ann Fry as Virginia Dare, first child of English parentage born in the New World. Kenton Kyle, as Old Tom Harris, the Elizabethan drunkard of Plymouth, England, is shown repelling an attack from Indians on Roanoke Island, where he made good as he helped lead the colonists, who would disappear without leaving a trace; and, Mary Long as the dynamic Queen Elizabeth, who with John Whitty as Sir Walter Raleigh sent the expeditions and settlers to Roanoke Island. Lower photo shows Waterside Theatre which has been rebuilt following $40,- 000 damage by Hurricane Donna after the show ended last year. Paul Green wall be guest of honor at the launching of the season on Saturday—a season with a production schedule calling for performances nightly, Mondays through Saturdays, (no Sunday performances this year from July 1 through September 3. (Aycock Brown Photos) "Salute to Paul Green" Is Opening Feature at Lost Colony Saturday h————————————————— - - . -J By GLENN U VERNON A special “Salute to Paul Green” is planned for the opening of the nation’s number one out door drama, “The Lost Colony” here July Ist in the Waterside Theatre. The show, written by Pulitzer Prize Winner, Paul Green, will be gin its twenty-first season and its twenty-fifth year. Representatives from Green’s ether two outdoor dramas now in production, "The Common Glory,” and “The Stephen Foster Story” will be present to take part in the intermission activities. Other North Carolina writers, in cluding Kermit Hunter and Thomas Patterson, both authors of current ly running outdoor shows, have also been invited to participate. Green, a native of North Caro lina and its most prominent play wright, has pioneered in the region al and outdoor drama movement in America. He was bom in March of 1894 in Harnett County, North Carolina. In May of that same year in Balti more, Md., the initial meeting of The Roanoke Colony Memorial As sociation was held, and on October 23, 1894, at Raleigh, the organi zation x was incorporated. Thus began in 1894 the life of a movement and a man whose path, 43 years later, were destined to meet in the telling of the story of the mysterious “Lost Colony.” Paul Green grew up on his father’s farm near Lillington, N. C., where a combination of hard work and peaceful, carefree hours mold ed and shaped the artistic and sensitive creativity which is found in his works. Here his imagination fed on the beauty and loneliness of the wide wields and sky, the whites and negroes with whom he worked and who were later to fig ure so prominently in his plays and i fiction. Green entered the University of North Carolina in 1916 after hav ing graduated from Buies Creek Academy (now Campbell College) in 1914. During the two year period inbetween he had served as princi pal of a two-teacher— himself and one other—school in Harnett Coun ty where he had saved what he con sidered enough money to pay his way at the University. During that freshman year he won a prize for a one-act play pro duced in the outdoor Forest Theatre and his poems appeared frequently in The Carolina Magazine. After one year at the University ■he enlisted in the Army and before going to France he had published Trifles of Thought by P.E.G., a small collection of his poems. After two years he returned in 1919 to the University and began writing plays for Prof. Frederick H. Koch and the newly established Caro lina Playmakers. It was during these years that he first visited Roanoke Island and conceived the idea of a play about "the lost colony.” In 1921, after a three-hundred mile trip by bus, train, mailboat and motorboat, he arrived at Manteo. The next morn ing he investigated the island, visiting the site of Fort Raleigh and wandering through the nearby woods. Inspired by what he had seen, Green went back to Chapel i Hill where he wrote a play about Virginia Dare and her legendary! love affair with the son of Chief Manteo. The play was not well re ceived by Prof. Koch and the other members of the playwriting class so he tossed it out and momentarily forgot the idea. In the fall of that year he re ceived a Kenan Fellowship and be gan graduate study at the Univer sity in the Department of Philoso phy. After spending a year at Cor nell where he continued his study of philosophy, he returned to Chap- Bee GREEN, Page Four MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1961 NO SUNDAY SHOWS AT LOST COLONY DURING *6l SEASON For the first time in the his tory of The Lost Colony, THERE WILL BE NO SUNDAY NIGHT performances during the 1961 season which begins Saturday, July 1, it was announced today by Manager J. Sib Dorton. "We will have six shoiws week ly, Monday nights through Sat urday nights.” he said, "and per formances will begin at 8:15 o’clock, as in the past.” Paul Green will be featured at the premiere on Saturday night. Monday night, July 3, will be dedicated to the former First La dies of North Carolina, headed by Mrs. O. Max Gardner, chair man, Roanoke Island Historical Association Board, Mrs. Luther Hodges, Mrs. J. Melville Brough ton Mrs.' J. C. B. Ehrmghaus, and Mrs. W. Kerr Scott. Due to illness, Mrs. Gregg Cherry and Mrs. William B. Umstead will be unable to attend the perform ance. WATERWAYS MEETING SET FOR NEXT. THURS. There will be a' meeting of the Dare County Waterways Improve ment Committee Thursday evening, | July 6, at the Dare County Court house at 7:30 pun. for discussion ' and planning of a program to pro mote an increase in the Dare Coun ty waters. In addition to discuss ing a fishing program for 1961-62, small waterways dredging prob lems will be discussed and plans outlined how these may be taken care of. All interested parties from Hyde, Tyrrell, Currituck and Camden counties and anyone interested in the waterways problems of the up per Pamlico and Currituck Sound are cordially invited to attend this, meeting. NEW RESTAURANT IS OPENING SATURDAY FOR ROANOKE ID. To Cater to Groups In Addition to Affording Accommoda tions for Tourists, Residents Roanoke Island’s new food es tablishment, the Manteo Motel Restaurant, is getting finishing touches this week, and on Satur day, July 1 will open, providing service thereafter from 5 a. m. to midnight. It is located in a new two-story brick building adjacent to the motel, and features a coffee shop downstairs and “The Roanoke Room” upstairs, which is also available for private parties and banquets. Paul Green, author of the Lost Colony, on the coast this week end for opening of the show, has agreed to officiate at brief opening ceremonies for the restaurant at 6:30 p. m. Mr. Green and other Roanoke Island Historical Associa-| tion officials and Lost Colony per- 1 ■ sonnel will be guests of Mr. and I. Mrs. Burwell Evans at a dinner at this time. Seating accommodations are pro- 1 vided for around 30 guests down- i stairs, and approximately 40 up stairs, which may be arranged for up to 50 persons in banquet-style. ' Special attention will be given in the future to group luncheons or dinners, a service which has not heretofore been available on Roan- , oke Island in private commercial quarters, Mr. and Mrs. Evans have operat- 1 ed the motel for seven years; in addition to the business which at tracted them to Manteo some ten or more years ago. Mrs. Evans is the former Ina Meekins, daughter 1 of Rev. and Mrs. Earl Meekins of ' Burlington. Mr. Evans is a native of Georgia. ' OPENING NEW RESTAURANT FOR ROANOKE ISLAND SAT. - .... r- • . . . ... . r> ,. . ........... . . . .. , , , WMI ft ? lOb WWißMoai Al® ■.. 9 BeeNm I MR. AND MRS. BURWELL A. EVANS of Manteo, proprietors of the new Manteo Motel Restaurant opening Saturday, July 1. They are shown in this recent photograph, apparently quite happy over progress being made in the construction which started in April. The new facility is located about a quarter mile north of Manteo, and a part of the motel property which has been operated successfully by this team for several years. OCRACOKE PLANS USUAL FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION Plans Go Ahead Despite Blackout Caused by Lightning; Marines and Red Cross Aid in Re storing Electricity Ocracoke is recovering; from a “blackout" suffered when a sharp thunderstorm Sunday afternoon blew out the largest of the three generators used by the REA plant. This caused an overload on the two diesels, and one of these blew a piston at six o’clock Tuesday morning. This left one 60KW out fit to furnish power for the island, and the power kept going off and on. Telephone service to the main land was out of order, as the tele phones depend on the power plant for message transmission. Immedi ately, however, the Carolina Tele phone Co. sent someone. The old Coast Guard line was used to con tact Mrs. Gordon Kellogg, Red Cross Home Service chairman in Manteo, and according to grateful Ocracoke residents, Mrs. Kellogg took over and handled the situation wonderfully. She contacted Civil Defense in Raleigh to try to locate a portable unit. There was none nearer than one in Raleigh and it was too small. Finally two 75 KW units were located at Cherry Point and sent Wednesday on the Alantic ferry. The REA engineers install ed them but the motors still need ed synchronising. Power has been .furnished to hotels, motels and cot -Bee OCRACOKE; Page Four NEW REAR ADMIRAL FIFTH C. G. DISTRICT ' la ijBIB ; ’ REAR ADMIRAL HENRY J. WUENSCH yesterday (June 29) relieved Rear Admiral Peter V. Colmar as commander of the sth Coast Guard District. Colmar will become commander of the 13th Coast Guard District with headquarters at Seattle, Wash. He came to the sth district in 1958 as chief of staff and be came district commander in 1959. An informal change of command ceremony- was held in the Federal Building Thursday at 10 a.m. Wuensch graduated from the Coast Guard Academy in 1929. He came to this district from Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington, D.C., where he was chief of Coast Guard office personnel. HYDE CITIZENS CONTINUE OPPOSITION TO B. RANGE Property Owner* Who Detire to Sell Are* Hold • Meeting at Engelhard State Senator P. D. Midgett Jr. who was in Manteo Wednesday, said there had been no let up in opposition in his area to a propo sal that the Air Force locate a bombing range on several thous and acres owned by the Pamlico Development Co. At a meeting this week, called by Company officials to which it was announced Air Force interests would attend, but who failed to show up, some 50 people present and some 95 per cent of those attending of fered opposition to it. The owners of the land live in Mississippi, and have on their hands what many belive to be a white elephant which they are hopeful of unloading. Following the meeting a tele gram was sent to Congressman H. C. Bonner stating the position of the citizens. Mr. Bonner has pre viously signified his opposition to establishment of a bombing range in this area. WEATHER SUMMARY After a rainy week on the coast, vacationers may look for ward to improving weather con ditions beginning late Friday or early Saturday, according to vet ; eran weatherman A. W. Drink : (water of Manteo, who reports a total of 6.34 tocher of rain from ■ Saturday noon through Thursday , morning. Record faU for the re ported ported to 2-80 inches which feU Tuesday night. v ‘wt'J • _ x. _ MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS SECTION ONE PAGES ONE through EIGHT Single Copy 70 BIG CELEBRATION IN BELHAVEN FOR FOURTH OF JULY Attractions Include Sudan Drill Team, Fireworks, Parade. Fish Fry and Other Events “Bigger and better than ever” is the aim of the Belhaven American Legion, sponsoring group for the Independence Day Celebration. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy the variety program for the day. The celebration will start off with a bang; The Sudan Temple Patrol Drill Team will lead off at 10:30 with a drill performance and the big parade will get going at 11:15; others participating will be the Washington Grays and the Washington High School Band. Candidates for the Title of “Miss Independence” will be featured in the parade, and will be judged at that time and will foe crowned at the teen-age dance that night. A new feature of the celebration is the boat parade on the Pungo River at 8:00 P. M. replacing the usual fireworks display. Spotlights and rockets will light decorated boats as they float down the river. At noon there will be the usual free fish fry at the Community center followed by a concert by the Washington High School Band. Other features of the day are a water ski show at 9:00 A. M. A bicycle race at 10:00, greasy pole climbing contest at 1:30, pie eating contest at 2:00, greasy pig contest at 3:00 and a baseball game with the Beaufort County All Stars at 3:00. There will be two dances, the teen-age dance at the Community Center beginning at 9:00 and an adult dance at the Legion Hut also beginning at 9:00. The Sudan Temple Drill Team is composed of 45 members from New Bern, Kinston, Havelock, Dover, Bayboro, Jacksonville, Vanceboro, Washington and Pantego. There are 110 movements in their drill which is executed with no com mands except by whistle. Th© pa trol has won high honors in preci sion drill in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York and Washington, D. C. and other cities where the Imperial Council meeting has been held. Officers of the unit are Jim mie Silverthorne, Captain; Sam Cook, Ist. Lt., Jimmie Ipock, 2nd. Lt. The patrol colors are red, white green and yellow. NEW TECHNIQUES LEARNED IN FIRE CONTROL PROBLEM Manteo Firemen Interested in Burning House for Training Purposes Soon Elwood Inscoe, instructor from the North Carolina Firemen’s Training agency, spent last week in Manteo, at the request of the Roanoke Island Fire department. The Training Agency is a division of the State Department of Insur ance. Thirteen of the thirty volun teer members attended three-hour sessions nightly Monday thru Thursday. Troy Shephard of the Nags Head department also attend ed all sessions. through slides and films Inscoe il lustrated his lectures and using the locally-owned trucks and equip ment, new techniques in fire con trol were learned by those attend ing. Several hundred gallons of used cyclinder oil from local serv ice stations were used at the gravel pit Thursday night to give the firemen practice with real fire. Mr. Inscoe highly complimented Mit chell (Mike) Gallop on the main tenance of the equipment Those attending all sessions were treated to a steak dinner by Chief Ray mond Wescott preceding the Thurs day session. Mr. Inscoe offered to return for further instruction if a house could be set fire for the mem bers to learn the techniques of entering smoke and flame filled rooms. Anyone knowing of an available house for this purpose is requested to contact Raymond Wescott, Chief of the department or Jack Wilson, president of the organization. COL. AND MRS. JAYNES SELL BUXTON HOME: MOVE, TRYON After three and a half years at Buxton, where he built a large home Col. Alfred B. Jaynes, and Mrs. Jaynes are moving to Tyson, having sold their home to Ed and Helen Lightner of Washington, Pa. Mis. Jaynes is the former Dr. Grace Harris who thought she had retired, but there is no retirement for a doctor on the Outer Banks. She has been rendering yeoman service to her new neighbors, dur ing her stay at Cape Hatteras, but doesn’t expect to continue her med-
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