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~ SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS I * .J. I *.? ■' I VOLUME XXVII NO. 10 dRS. GARDNER HAS MEETING OF BOARD -OR NEXT "COLONY" Chairman of Roanoke Island Historical Association Makes Plans for Next Season By AYCOCK BROWN On Sunday night, (Labor . Day 2ve) when the season’s finale was resented, Mrs. Gardner was fea ured as speaker during ceremon es that marked performance num >er 1400 in the long history of he show. A beautiful silver gift vas presented to Manager J. Sib ey Dorton. Returning recently from a Euro >ean cruise, Mrs. Gardner had on Saturday morning presided at a neeting of Tire Lost Colony’s spon oring' board of directors. During lie meeting she paid tribute to lonrad Wirth, director National ’ark Service and his local superin endent Robert Gibbs; to Congress isn Bonner and.U, S. Senator Sam . Ervin the roles they layed in securing approval for ex >ansion of Fort Raleigh and to Representative M. Keith Fearing r., and Senator Lindsay C. War den for doing the same in the >tate Xegislature.. . ] “I also want to pay tribute and jcprees thanks to Governor Terry Word for picking up where ormer Governor Luther Hodges est off and for carrying on in a noat active manner in behalf of he Loot Colony and for the ap pointment of the 21-member Com nission to take the lead in 1962 of ommemorating the 375th anniver sary of the birth of Virginia Dare n 1587,” said Mrs. Gardner. Daring the directors* meeting he announced that Mrs. Albert W. lard, Elizabeth City, would be hairman of the nominating.-com nittee to select new officers of the loard for the next two years, lerving with her will be Mrs. ’rank Porter Graham, New York !ity, Mrs. Dudley Bagley, Moyock, Hiles Clark, Elizabeth City and dartin Kellogg, Manteo. She also- appointed William B. tycock, Chapel Hill as chairman •f a committee to select a new gen ral manager for The Lost Colony] f 1962 to succeed J. Sib Dorton,' r., who is completing two years is manager, to return to an execu-1 ive position he has- with the ft«ii-1 ersity of North Carolina. Serving vith Aycock on this committee will >e Mrs. Fred W. Morrison, Wash ngton, D. C., and retiring manager Norton. The two committees will five their reports at the annual neeting in November. UDS IN ORDER FOR DREDGING FERRY SLIPS The State Highway Department ailed for bids this week on 23 oad projects in 19 counties across he State, involving more than 90 nilea of roadwork. Bids will be pened at the letting to be held eptember 26 in Raleigh, and the lighway Commission will review ow bids at its next meeting on October 5. *• Among the projects in the call or bids is dredging North and louth Ferry Slips at Oregon Inlet n Dare County. iOOK SALES IN SEPTEMBER TO BENEFIT DARE LIBRARY Friends of the Dare County li >rery are well pleased with the re ulta of the book sale which rought in 352.10 for the building and, and have decided to conduct sale each Monday during Sep amber at the Community Building, frs. Hubert Guthrie and Mrs. (right Evans will be in ehanre of he sale for Monday, September 1. Hours for the sale are 10-12.30 nd 2-4:30. These are adult books; o children’s books are available. 1 Thanks are extended to those zho helped with Library Day Sat rday. $106.02 was received from he road block and $68.23 from the ontributions, bringing the total for he Library Building Fund to sl,- 19.54. RAVEL AHEAD OF IMO ON THE DARE COAST Official travel counts at National ’art Service installations here on he Dare Coast through Labor Day rert end reflect a considerable in tense, not only for the calendar ear to date, but, with four months 0 go, more visitors have been coun ed through the first eight months f the year, plus Labor Day week nd, than for the 12 months of 1960 t Cape Hatteras National Sea ihore and Fort Raleigh National festoric Site. Visitation at Wright Brothers National Monument, is anoroxi hatriy 80.000 ahead of & ymtyjr vcv, w we wtai tor 14 uiouwi r - 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 BELOVED BAPTIST PASTOR S 3. DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON '.■£? - ,j ««•*<?'-/ --•■* THE REV. JOHN THOMAS BY RUM, 83, died in Beaufort County Hospital Sunday afternoon. He was a graduate of Wake Forest College, class of 1908; and had served in the Baptist ministry for 53 years until his retirement eight years agb. He served pastorates in Ramseur, Belhaven, Kernersville, Winston- Salem, Wilmington, Chowan Coun ty and Elizabeth City. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hel en Britt Byrum; five sons, Paul of Borland, John, David and Porter, all of Charlotte and Dr. Clifford Byrum of Raleigh; two brothers. Arthur Byrum and Isaac* of Ryland; one sister, Mrs. Arthur Jordan of Raleigh; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted from Ballard Bridge Baptist Church in Edenton Tuesday at 3 pm. The Rev. Joe Teek, the Rev. Everett Marion and the Rev. Lamar Sen tefl Burial was in the church cemetery. • AUTUMN DESCRIBED AS "FISHINGEST SEASON" Tourist Bureau Meneger Sends Coll To All Sportsmen To Come To the Dore Coast. . - I Autumn is described as, the “f ish- I ingest season” of the year in waters of the Date Coast-Outer Banks by Aycock Brown, Manager jof Dare County Tourist Bureau here. . ' , In a one page Information Bul letin he has just prepared Brown I mentions a score or more, of fish that will be challenging anglers who go for them inshore and off, and in the fresh and salt waters of the Dare Coast-Outer Banks until late autumn. Largest of the varieties taken are the billfishes. During the past week off Oregon Inlet three blue marlin, the largest a 394 pounder had been boated. White marlin and sailfish have also been taken in good numbers off Oregon and Hatteras Inlets during early September. Bluefishing continues well into Fall months and also Spanish and king mackerel. Channel Bass probably won’t be showing up • until late September, but in the surf of Hatteras Island this species attracts many anglers during October and November. Surf fishing is so popular along the Outer Banks from Kitty Hawk to Ocracoke during autumn two nationally famous surf classics are presented each year. Dates of the surf classics this year, the first in Nags Head area, the second on Hatteras Island are shown on the Bulletin or Information Sheet. Information about:, accommoda tions, landing ramps, marinas and fishing centers are also provided. The sheet is available to all anglers writing Sportsfishing Dept, Dare County Tourist Bureau, Manteo, N. C., asking for same and general area information will also be in cluded in the response, Brown I stated. MANY ATTEND HOMECOMING OF ROANOKE ISLAND BAPTIST Dare County’s oldest church,' which has been established more 1 than 160 years, held its annual homecoming Sunday. A picnic din ner and singing program followed the sermon at Roanoke Island Bap tist chureh on Sept. 2, by Rev. C. W. Goodwin, pastor. Many out-of-town former mem bers of the church were back for the event Choirs of all Roanoke Island churches were invited to participate in the afternoon’s sing ing- WEEK END WEATHER Warm weather to indicated with temperatures averaging 2-5 degrees above normal Normal THE LOST COLONY 1961 ATTENDANCE WAS OVER 40.000 Gain of Nearly 4.000 Despite One Week Snorter Season Than Uusual Almost 4,000 more persons saw The .Lost Colony drama in 1961 than in 1960, it was announced by J. Sib Dorton, general manager of the show. The total for 1961 was 40,293 persons as the 21st season finale was presented on Sunday night. “These figures may be altered slightly, due to certain" refunds made as result of a rainout iiT Au gust, but we are confident that more than 40,000 persons paid to see the show in 1961,” said Dorton. Os the 56 performances scheduled for 1961, there was one total rain out in which refunds or rain checks . had to be Issued. '/ Dorton retires as general mana ger of the drama later this year. He is returning to position with the University of North Carolina from which he had been given leaves 'of absence to operate the show during the past two years. Dorton’s suc cessor as manager of the drama will , probably be named at the an nual meeting of Roanoke Island Historical Association in Raleigh during late November. FAMOUS TEACHER OF THE SOUTH ALBEMARLE DIES B Au * i « MRS. MATILDA SPRUILL HATH AWAY, 87, retired teacher, died Wednesday morning in a Windsor rest home after a long illness. . A lifelong resident of Tyrrell County, she taught in Tyrrell Coun- I ty, she taught in Tyrrell and Wash-, ington County schools 40 years be fore retirement. See TEACHER, Page Six SWAN QUARTER COUPLE O3SERVE GOLDEN WEDDING 1 I j j I I I I I I I i 1 ! 1 3 I 1 I 1 I MR. AND MRS. J. HARRY SWIN DELL observed their fiftieth wed* ding anniversary by entertaining at a reception Sunday afternoon, Sep tember 8, at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Swindell, in Swan Quar ter. Throughout the house were arrangements of yellow roses and summer cut flowers. Mrs. Swindell wore a yellow cymbidium orchid corsage. ~ Guests were greeted, by the Rev. Rowell Lane of Middleburg and Russell A. Swindell ofCary, and were introduced to the receiving line by Mrs. Russell A. Swindell. Receiving with Mr. and Mrs. Swin dell were seven of the twelve mem bers of the original wedding party: Miss Frances Atkinson, Asheville; Mrs. J. E. Kanipe (nee Martha Decker), Asheville; Mr. Flint Hooten, Birmingham, Alabama; Mrs. Murphy Moore (nee Maude Hooten), Burgaw, 5 Mrs. Frank Johnson (mo Lena White), Char- MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1961 DARE COUNTY MAN WINS DISTRICT LEGION HONOR I ' s' g IA k . t BL ■ s .. • . ISAAC P. DAVIS, a Roanoke Is- - land native who has been active in ■ public life for some 50 years, tea s cher, county representative, Wdr 1 fare officer has been named com* ? mander of District 4 of the Ameri ; can Legion which embraces posts * at Ahoskie, Enfield, Littleton, Pen -1 dleton, Rich Square, Scotland Neck, - Warrenton and Weldon with a com- I j bined membership of 502. 1 J The appointment also puts him' on the state Legion executive board. Mr. Davis formerly served two terms as commander of the ; Third district before the recent or ganization into a fourth district. Mr. Davis, who is due to retire in December as Director of Welfare for Hertford County, has been ex pected to return to Manteo to make his home. He has been active in' Legion affairs for 40 years, and has held many offices in the state. CELDON FRANCIS IS NEW MANTEO* NIGHT POLICEMAN Celdon Francis of Manteo has been appointed hew night police-1 man for the Town of Manteo, sue- 1 ceeding Russell Sears, who stepped up to the position of Manteo Chief of Police following the recent re tirement of Chief M. C. Mitchell. JOSEPH S. MIDGETT 4"3 * ■ ' DIES IN YA HOSPITAL Joseph Stewart Midgett, 63, re tired carpenter and Navy veteran of World War I, died. Sunday at 10:30 p.m. in Kecoughtan Veterans Hospital, Hampton, Va., after sev en months’ illness. The son of Lancaster and Alwil- ! da Mann Midgett, he was a native of Mashoes and lived in Manns Harbor 25 yeffrs. His wife was the late Lelia Mozelle Horton Midgett. 1 A sister, Mrs. Mary Midgett of ] Manns Harbor, survives. - lotte; Mrs. W. L. Vaughan (nee . Mary Elizabeth Smith), Norfolk, t Virginia; and Mrs. J. M. Colie . (nee Kate Atkinson), Florence, i South Carolina. k' Mrs. Jack Watson invited guests - into the dining room. The table' » was covered with an imported ecru 1 linen cloth and centered with an 1 arrangement of yellow miniature 1 mums and gladioli, flanked by yel- ilow tapers. Mrs.-Granville Starke Jof Smithfield. Virginia, served the i tiered cake. Punch was poured by 1 Mrs. Joe Bell of Smithfield, Vir ; ginia. I. Mrs. Henry J. McGee, Jr., di- - rected guests to the hall where - Mrs. John H. Swindell onesided at : the register. Mrs. Ruel Carawan ; greeted guests in the Anniversary * room where displays of the con t gratulatory anniversary .messages ; and the* 1911 wedding gifts and me a meqtoes were arranged. Goodbyes < were raid to Mrs. Rowell Lane of - Middleburg. , 46 TEAMS ENTERED IN 2 DARE SURF FISHING TOURNEYS Two Big Events Scheduled For Oceanside During Fall; Nags Head and Hatteras By AYCOCK BROWN Forty six teams have already en tered the two annual surf fishing classics which will be held again on the Dare County Coast this Fall. On Nags Head where it will be the 11th annual Inter-Team and In dividual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tournament, sponsored by the Nags Head Surf Fishing Club, 27 teams have already been entered as of this week. “And we are expect ing at least 35 teams before the tournament is held on October 12- 14”, said Bob Preston, president of the sponsoring club and a vice pres ident of the Association of Surf • Angling Clubs which will sanction 1 the event. Headquarters for the Nags Head ’ classic will be The Carolinian. 1 Complete information about the ’ event or official programs may be 1 obtained from either Preston or any ' of the officers of the sponsoring > club. The officers, in addition to Preston: Ben Ivey, Kitty Hawk, N. C.; Abie Williams, Nags Head, N. . C. and Mrs. Elnora Preston, Nags Head, N. C. Ninteen entries have been re ceived from teams which will par ticipate in the fourth annual Cape Hatteras Anglers Club sponsored tournament on Hatteras Island scheduled for November 2-4, ac cording to Rany Jenett, vice pre sident of the sponsoring club. “Last year at this time we had received only eight entries," he said. Headquarters for the Hatteras Island tournament will be the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club in Buxton, IN. C. Officer of the club, in ad 'dition to Jennette, include: Bill | Dillion, president, Mrs. Carol Dil -1 lon, secretary and Harry Lang, treasurer, each of Buxton, N. C. The Souvenir program of the Hatteras Island event will go to press at an early date and may be obtained along with additional in formation from either of the offic ers named above. HARKNESS ON COAST Richard Harkness, noted news commentator of Washington, D. C. Dare County, making his headquar has this week been vacationing in ters at the Sea Ranch, Kitty Hawk. With him are Mrs. Harkness and their two sons, Chris and Peter, the latter entering the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill soon. » Others assisting were: John H. ’ , Swindell, Henry J. McGee, Jr., Mrs. * Flint Hooten, Birmingham. Ala- , bama; Mrs. Ruth C. Muir, Norfolk, ! Virginia; Mrs. Carl Hyatt, Ashe- 1 j ville; Miss Edna Powell, Smith- ’ r field, Virginia; Miss Nelda Howell, j i Miss Mary Jane Cuthrell, Mrs. Le- : i land Carawan, Mrs. Guy R. Cuth- > roll, Miss Betty Bonner, Misses Pa- 1 . tricia, Lucinda, Mary-Anne and Sue * s Swindell. > Mr. and Mrs. Swindell were mar- 1 f ried at 8:30 odock in the evening 1 . on September 6,1911 in the Trinity ' Methodist Church in Belhaven. The 1 . ceremony was performed by the 1 s late Rev. C. A. Jones. Mrs. Swin- ■ t dell is the former Mary Atkinson I and was born in Lemon, Pennsyl r vania. Mr. Swindell is a lifelong - resident of Swan Quarter. Mr. and ■ Mrs. Swindell have three children, > John H. Swindell, Russell A. Swin i dell, Mrs. Henry J. McGee, Jr., a 1 foster daughter, Mrs. Rowell Lane, and eight grandchildren. VACATIONED IN EUROPE WHILE THE SHOW WENT Oh - I ? I 1. ■ <> 9 ’ ■■ 9 7 ■ r 49MMP** 4H|Hh - fl ? ’** f I' ■ I ■ wli II I d MRS. O, MAX GARDNER has 1. demonstrated her qualities as a e highly capable executive and organ e izer. Being head of the Roanoke f Island Historical Association, which j sponsors the Lost Colony, has con- > sumed a great deal of her time dur . ing the past two years, but it did . not stop her from a European voy -3 age this summer. After she had seen several performances of the . show early in July, she sailed July . 18th on the Moore-MacCormack > ship Brazil and after more than a | month away, landed back in New I York City on August 25th. Mrs. Gardner had enjoyed many ■ trips away from the United States With her husband, the late Gover- 1 nor Gardner, she had been overseas, s and to Southern Countries. In 1984, Governor Gardner went to Wash -1 ington and established with Fred ! Morrison and others, the law firm , of Gardner, Morrison and Rogers ■ which continutes to operate, with I the Gardner in the firm now being ■ Ralph, son of Governor and Mrs. , Gardner. In 1946 President Truman chose Governor Gardner to be Am bassador to Great Britain. The Gardners were looking forward to this assignment, were packed; their belongings were aboard ship in De cember 1946 but went to England without the owners. The tragic death of Governor Gardner in his hotel room following a heart at tack, the night before he was due to sail, ended a distinguished ca reer, and valuable service was lost to his state and his country. Mrs. Gardner has continued to carry on in the family tradition of graciousness and public service. There are many causes which have succeeded because she lent her name and fame, and enlisted in their behalf many of her great circle of influential friends. Her amazing energy, thoughtful consid eration, generosity and philan trophy are marvelous to all who know her. She not only does things herself, but knows how to get other enthused in working for the causes she espouses. During her recent trip to Europe, she gained many helpful impres sions and broader understanding of the conditions which keep the world today in a state of constant crisis. She wishes our own people could see the problems that face other nations, the conditions under which their citizens live, and could have more zeal for doing something for our own country. Standing out in Mrs. Gardner’s memory, is the beautiful white city of Helsinki, capital of Finland, gleaming white in the brilliant northern sunlight. Finland, it will be remembered, is one of the many countries which have shared in the extravagant beneficence of the United States, yet is the only one recorded as having fulfilled her ab ligation, and paid her indebtedness. This nation is remembered further as having offered such frightful resistance to the Russians, who brutally invaded her, in November 1939, so that the Russians were glad to sue for peace, after three months of fighting. Russia got over 16JXX) square miles of Finland’s territory, all of which was return ed to her following World War 11. In 1948 Russia and Finland signed a friendship and mutual assistance pact. This little country, of only 130,000 square miles, with a popu lation of over 4,000,000, less than that of Cuba, or of North Carolina despite a rugged climate, has much agriculture, lumbering, pulpwood and iron works and numerous mehcanical plants. Its president is. elected for a term of six years, ano military service is universal from ages 17 to 60; males reaching 21 are summoned for one year of mili tary service. Mrs. Gardner’s party toured West Germany, and noted the great progress that had been made and the high degree of prosperity pre ucated 0OT»e speak see ivum, rage na S- I”’-- MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 7# BIG CROWD HEARS N BONNER'S ADDRESS I AT- FORT RALEIGH I We Must Look Forward and Not I ~ Backward, Congressman Tells Large Lost Colony Audience. One of the largest audiences of I the entire season turned but Sat -1 urday night, and heard Congress- I man’s Herbert Bonnei - ’s stirring I message to those attending the I Lost Colony’s. 1099th performance. I He paid tribute to Paul Green and I said we must Look Forward and I not backward in these times. His I speech is reprinted herewith in full: “Friends, you and I are honored I to be here tonight, in attendance at I this magnificent pageant conceived I and staged by a great native North I Carolinian, Paul Green, in celebra- I tion of the very beginning of An- I gio-American civilization. You have I seen you will see drama that ■ is heart and soul of America today. e It is drama that 'began nearly 400 a years ago on this hallowed ground . when intrepid souls set out from e the mother country, England, in I, their tiny vessels, to found the dy . namic civilization in freedom, which . we now enjoy but, perhaps do not 1 always appreciate. - “This week marks the end of 1 the 1961 season for the presenta- E tion of THE LOST COLONY pag f eant performed by its able and de c dicated cast of actors, musicians, i dancers, and choristers. ; f ?T must open my remarks with special recognition of‘the genius r of Paul Green who felt the deeper 3 meaning of the American dream - . jthe American goal —by creating , I this tremendous outdoor symphony ,' on this site some twenty-five years . ago. Each year there has been some [ change —for he has sought to per t feet this phase of his presentation 1 of the meaning of the American t heritage. “America’s greatness has grown ] from its variety, and Paul Green has extended his vast talents to other historical phases of our nat ional growth with such successes as THE COMMON GLORY, now in - its fifteenth season at Williams-. , burg, Virginia; FAITH OF OUR I FATHERS in the national capital; WILDERNESS ROAD at Berea, Kentucky; THE FOUNDERS at Jamestown Island, Virginia; and THE CONFEDERACY at Virginia Beach, Virginia. “In the light of all that, my friends, you must know that this is a night to remember, to feel deeply, and to cherish. “When I was asked not so long <uro if I, as Congressman from this First District of North Carolina, would participate briefly in this seasonal closing of our state’s his toric drama, the news in Wash ington, D. C. was exceedingly grim. The world seemed beset by cold fire interspersed here and there with brutal bursts of passion that did not do not make sense in a civilized world. The intervening weeks do not look any better. “Korea, though some ten yearrs behind, has left scars which may still .pain many who are here -to night. The Suez crisis of 1955 and 1956 made a deep impact on the na tions of the world as the Arab - states went through the pangs of extreme nationalism and flirtations with the untiring Communist powers. China and India reached serious crises over boundary mat ters. A* President of the United States was advised not to visit one country because of the possibility of disorders which might threaten his safety. And later, he and the United States were outrageously affronted by Premier of the Soviet Union at a meeting in Paris of top officials of the great world pow ers the United States, Soviet Russa, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of France. “Today we have one crisis on top of another. The West Germany- West Berlin situation is boiling and dangerous in light of the ex treme measures which have been taken to seal off the unhappy East Germans from access to the West. The problems of the French hl Algeria and between the French and the Tunisians, gravely, though indirectly, affect these shores. The turn of our near and formerly friendly neighbor, Cuba, to Com munism and Soviet domination is frightening. Recent developments in Brazil are mystifying. Africa is in a tremendous ferment. And who knows what has really happened in Laos and and Viet Nam. “These things are of great con cern to us in Washington, D. C., at the seat of our government, “I know they MPe to all of you, national divisions, realighment, and inconsistencies seem to plague the world. We have a North Korea and a South Korea; we have a North And South Viet Nam There is an East and West Gei-many-complica- ; in the World War H boundary of See SPEECH, Page Sta
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