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SEND RENEWAL OF SUBSCRIPTION BEFORE EXPIRATION DATE ON ADDRESS OLUME XXVII NO. 15 CONGRESSMAN TO \4EET WITH CITIZENS OF HATTERAS OCT. 24 ommittee of Various Agencies To Discuss Problems of Interest at Public Meeting Congressman Herbert C. Bonner as been iiivited, and has accepted a invitation to meet with citizens f Hatteras Inland on the evening f October 24, following a luncheon ndered by a committee of local vic leaders at Peele’s Restau mt according to Frazier Peele of atteras, who said Wednesday, a eeting of the committee will be eld at Hatteras Monday night to ake plans for the occasion. Mr. eele said Bonner will be accompa ied by Edmund Harding, the well lown Washington entertainer. This meeting will follow a milar meet at Ocracoke to be at mded by Mr. Bonner and Mr. arding on Monday night, the 23rd. r. Peele says he has called to cther a comittee of some 30 peo le comprised of leaders of the >ciation, The Cape Hatteras blowing Hatteras Island organi itions: The Hatteras Fire Depart ent, the Cape Hatteras Electric iembership Corporation, the Bux >n Lions Club, the Hatteras Island i Health Center, The Navy and le Coast Guard, all of which have sen interested in * projects which r. Bonner has sponsored* in Con fess for the benefit ot tfie Island nd its people. Mr. Peele says the general pub e of the entire island will be urged » attend the public meeting td be" eld in the Hatteras Community uildihg to give all an opportunity > present to their Congressman the arious projects in which they are iterested, and will expect his co pulation in solving and to discuss nprovements considered needed in he oourse of progress for the area. Mr. Peele is calling his commit >e together for a general meeting londay night, October 16, to make rraqgements for the mass meeting n the 24th. * L OCRACOKE ISLAND WILL GET D. D. D. SERVICE OCT. 26 irst Outer Banks Area to Get Long-Distance Speed-up Connection OCRACOKE Telephone sub cribers on Ocracoke are scheduled o have an exciting new service at heir fingertips beginning October 6 when Direct Distance Dialing is laugurated. The announcement was made this reek by Carolina Telephone’s man ger for this area, L. A. Daniels. He said that with this new serv :e, telephone subscribers on the ;land will soon be able to dial >any of their own long distance alls to points all over the country, 'or Vie first time, these telephone ■sers will be able to span the na ion with a few spins of their dials. The establishment of a standard-- ed, nationwide telephone number tig system and development of in ricate new equipment has made ). D. D. possible and marks an nportant milestone in communica ions progress, the manager pointed ut Initially, telephone users at Oc acoke will be able to dial most of heir own station-to-station calls o hundreds of points in North Car lin* nation. Later," as tele phone exchanges in other places are quipped to receive subscriber-dial -d calls, they will be added to the st of places subscribers can dial. An information program will be onducted by Carolina Telephone, riot to the D.D.D. conversion to nform telephone users of the new rocedure for making long distance See D. D. D., Page Twelve 4RS. MATTHEWS, ENGELHARD OSTMASTER RETIRING SOON _____ i Mrs. Trixie M. Matthews, who vas appointed postmaster at Engel ard by Congressman Lindsay War den Nov. 1,1938, plans to retire on November 30th. At that time the ffice was a fourth class one, and has steadily advanced, and is now bird class. In 1949 Mrs. Matthews juilt for the department a new ostoffice, providing a comfortable vorkroom, and new equipment to erve her community. Mrs. Mat hews is a Methodist and has been ictive in numerous civic endeavors. She helped to organise the Hyde Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, nd was its first Worthy Matron, lhe has been a member of the or er for 34" years. During the war lie conducted War Bond drives in <yde The wife of M. A. Matthews, prominent Banker of [yde and Tyrrell Counties, she is he mother of twojnairied I, • / 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 NEW WATERSIDE THEATRE COSTING $70,000 UNDER CQNSTRUCTION .J 1 A NEW WATERSIDE THEATRE costing approximately ?70,000 is being built on the above site of the orig inal constructed in 1937 for .the annual presentation of Paul Green’s symphonic drama The Lost Colony. The new theatre, designed and being built under the direction of Albert Q. Bell of Manteo, will be paid for by the National Park Service. The old theatre has already been torn doifcn to make way for the new and the above scene shows how it looked within two weeks after Bell and his crew of NPS employees began work on the project. • Aycock Brown Photo COMPLETES COURSE »*£>**> .-la JAMES P. GARRISH, JR., a 1961 graduate of Ocracoke High School, has completed the twelve weeks training course at the Coast Guard Receiving Center at Cape May, New Jersey, where he was instructed in the fundamentals of the service; Marksmanship, military customs, courtesies and seamanship as well as navigation and Coast Guard his tory. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Garrish, Sr., of Ocracoke and grandson of the late James Henry Garrish. Both his father and grandfather retired from the Coast Guard, and had served at most of the stations on the Outer Banks. HUNTING SEASON BEGINS MONDAY FOR DEER, BEAR - - 4 Big game hunting season begins throughout the coastland Monday, October 16, and indications are that deer and bear are more plentiful this year than eVer before. Seasons also open in most other areas throughout North Carolina on the same date for big game also. Most of the deer and bear killed in this area is bagged on properties of West Virginia Pulp and' Paper Co. In addition to the county, state or non-resident licenses required for hunting on these properties in the area of East Lake, Manns Har bor and Stumpy Point in Dare County, and the areas in Tyrrell, Hyde and Washington counties in which the company has holdings, a special permit must be obtained from Westvaco for these privileges. A nominal charge is made for the permit after the applicant ha* dis played the licenses regularly re quired. During bow hunting season, which started two weeks before regular schedule, there have been reports of several deer being killed by resident hunters of coastland counties. PLENTY OF PUPPIES BUT NO BIG CHANNEL BASS HATTERAS— Except for one 39 poun<jer taken near the new Fishing Pier three miles northeast of Hatteras, large channel bass have been scarce during the past week. The largest taken to date was the 89 pounder, insofar as the autumn run is concerned. Many small channel bass, in the five to 10 pound class, a variety best known as “puppy dram” or year lings, have been caught from the surf recently. IMPROVEMENTS FOR HYDE AND TYRRELL FROM BOND ISSUE Forestry Shop and Warehouse at Fairfield, Pettigrew Park Facilities Planned Both Hyde and Tyrrell have funds ear-marked for improvements in these counties from the Bond is sue to be voted on November 7th. In Hyde County, it is planned to erect a district office building for the forestry service. This would cost a total of $48,500, including a shop and warehouse, equipment shed, deep well, etc. The Pettigrew State Park in Tyrrell would get $16,500 for en largement of its maintenance and service area facilities. All counties, of course would share in benefits from improve ments to numerous educational and other facilities in the state. Large sums are to be ear-marked for colleges, schools, hospitals, etc. The new College of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City would get more than $20,000. The Elizabeth City State Teachers college would get three quarters of a million dollars for building and ground inmprov ments. East Carolina College in Greenville would get $3,406,750. ROCKFISH BEGIN THEIR VISIT TO SOUND WATERS MANNS HARBOR The au tumn rqckfish run has started in the waters of upper Croatan and Albemarle Sounds and while catch es in the vicinity of William B. Umstead Bridge between Roanoke Island and Manns Harbor have not been too good to date, anglers trolling in the area have been tak ing some fish. In Albemarle Sound catches of rock, or striped bass as may call ' them, have been up to late Autumn par. Capt. Chick Craddock, skipper of the Lollypop, has reported the best i catch of the season to date. “Rey nolds Williams and party of Elm i City, using white and yellow buck- I tails, boated 61 stripers on Sun i day," said Capt. Craddock. They caught them in Albemarle Sound i between the mouths of Alligator River on the south and North River i on the north shore while trolling, . he added. The Williams’ party I stripers ranged from two to four . and half pounds." , - In the meantime, Carl Mann of Maims Harbor reported that parties on the week end fishing in the vicinity of the bridge and to the northward averaged catching two or three rock per boat A few speckled trout weye also landed. Rockfishing usually reaches a peak during late October and con tinues good until around Christmas. FALSE ALBACORE IN SURF OREGON INLET —False' alba core have been very plentiful in the surf here at Oregon Inlet and elsewhere along the beaches of the Outer Banks recently. This is unusual as the false al bacore is normally a warm water fish and is seldom caught by an glers except in the vicinity of the Gulf Stream. Francis Nixon of Elisabeth City caught a 15'/i pound false albacore from Avalon Pier a few days ago one of the largest ever taken so close inshore. MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1961 REVIVAL SERVICES AT COLINGTON BEGIN SUNDAY ri I REV. ALVIN W. PRICE, pastor of Manteo Assembly of God, will be the speaker at a revival meeting beginning October 15 at the new Colington Assembly of God church. Services will begin each evening at 7:30 p.m., and the public is cordially invited. Mrs. Brooks Stetson of Wanchese is pastor of the church. MANTEO MAN PRESIDENT NAGS HEAD Q OF C ’• T V ' , r ft S« LAWRENCE L. SWAIN, (right) Manteo businessman here receives congratulations from Thomas S. Briggs, of Kill Devil Hills, outgoing president of the Nags Head Chamber of Commerce. Swain was installed as president for 1961-62 at a dinner meeting last Friday night held at the Carolinian Hotel, Nags Head. Serving in other posts are the follow ing: Vice-president, Curtis Curling, Kitty Hawk; Secretary, Mrs. Eliza beth Smith, Kitty Hawk; Treasurer, Mrs. George McGaw, Kill Devil Hillis; directors: Horace Packer, Nags Head; Joseph Mathias, Kill Devil Hills; and Miss Sarah Halliburton, Kill Devil Hills, outgoing executive secretary. CANCER FUNDS UNREPORTED; MORE CAPTAINS LISTED No financial account of the cur rent Cancer Crusade for funds is available this week, as reports from the communities are incomplete, ac cording to Mrs. Raymond Wescott of Manteo, co-chairman for Dare County with Mrs. Nellie Farrow of Waves. It is urged that reports be submitted early next week, so that accounting may be completed. Community captains south of Oregon Inlet are: Rodanthe, Mrs. Bethany Gray; Waves, Mrs. Alethia Meekins; Salvo, Mrs. Dorothy Aus tin; Avon, Mrs. Velma Barnett; Bux ton, Mrs. Blanche Midgett; Frisco, Mrs. John Aiutin; and Hatteras, Mrs. Hasel Foster. ‘I ' ‘ CURRITUCK FOLK MOVE TO SAVE KNAPP MANSION Oppose Destruction of Home of County's Bendfactor; Should Save It For Museum- The residence on Mackey Island of the Late Joseph P. Knapp, whose liberal contributions of money and influence did so much to provide Currituck County with a model school system back in the 20’s has become of much concern to patriot ic-minded citizens of the county who view with alarm, the prospect of the property being sold and torn down. Mackey Island, formerly the home x of the late Thomas Dixon, a celebrated North Carolinian, was bought by his friend, Joseph P. Knapp after Dixon got in financial troubles through real estate invest ments in the N. C. Mountains. Mr. Knapp built a beautiful mansion and made it his home. Some years after his death, the property was bought by a timberman in Virginia who wrecked the woods after tak ing the trees off it. The home was allowed to fall into poor condition. Later it was sold to the U. S. Wild life Service for a game refuge. The wildlife service having no use for the mansion reported to be ready to let it go. General John E. Wood, of Currituck, a distin guished citizen, has risen strongly in objection to its disposal as sur plus property, and thinks it should be maintained as a historical at traction. He has called for the Con gressman’s intercession with the Department of the Interior to stop this desecration. Representative Waltbn Griggs of Currituck County says he has found a rising tide of indignation in his county over the prospect of losing the home. He agrees with General Wood that it might be well con verted into an Albemarle Historical Museum. CHANNEL BASS FROM KILL DEVIL HILLS SURF KILL DEVIL HILLS Mrs. Madeline Mayer, president of the Neptune’s Daughters fishing club of Beach Haven, N. J. caught a six and half pound channel bass in the surf here at Kill Devil Hills on Sunday. It was the first channel bass reported along the Dare Beaches coast this fall. BUXTON TEAM FISHES IN NAGS HEAD TOURNEY Cape Hatteras Anglers Club of Buxton, being represented by Bill Dillion, president, and members Capt. Bernice Ballance, Edgar Hooper, Rany Jennette, Mrs. Or mond Fuller and Bill Osborne, is* entered in Nags Head’s tournament currently in progress, and are put ting the finishing touches on ar rangements for their tourney.. The fourth annual affair for the Cape Hatteras group will begin Thursday, November 2, ending with a banquet Saturday night at Cape Hatteras High School. Like Nags Head, it will feature two days of I team competition and one day open individual fishing. 11TH NAGS HEAD TOURNAMENT FOR SURF FISHERS UNDERWAY; THIRTY-FIVE TEAMS ENTERED Real Indian Summer with Moderate Seas Pre cedes Sporting Event; Hundreds of Anglers from Many Northern States, Along With Area Clubs, Test Their Skills in Team Competition; Individual Tourney Begins Saturday. CURRITUCK H. D. MEMBER FALL FEDERATION SPEAKER ■ ‘ It - MRS. J. P. MORGAN, active Cur rituck Home Demonstration mem ber, will be the speaker at the Dare County Home Demonstration Fall Federation meeting which will be held at Stumpy Point on Tues day, October 17. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. with the program starting at 10:30 a.m. Mrs. Morgan has been an out standing honje demonstration club member not only in her county but in district and state. Among her activities are: State Recording Sec retary; First and Second Vice Chairman of State organization; winner of A &-P award in 1958; district chairman; Currituck Coun ty Council President for 4 years; assisted in organizing one club; and 4-H leader with Community Club. Mrs. Roy Summrel of Harbinger, 25th District chairman, will install the new County Council officers at the afternoon session. Also appear ing on the program will be Rev. Charles Olson, Methodist minister of the Dare County charge who will have the meditations for the day. Mrs. Irma Lange of Buxton, County Council President, will pre side and conduct the business ses sion. The outstanding club woman and outstanding club of the county will be announced at this time. The point sheets which have been used during the year are being turned in at the October club meetings and are being tabulated. All point sheets must be in the home agent’s office not later than Friday, October 13, if credit i? to be received. Lunch will be served by the Stumpy Point club. BODIES OF BELHAVEN MEN , RECOVERED FROM SOUND The bodies of two missing fish ermen were recovered from Pam lico Sound Monday after the wreckage of their boat was sighted by a Coast Guard search plane. The dead men were identified as Vernon Guthrie of Belhaven and Lonny Guthriq of Pamlico Beach. Their bodies were picked up by a private fishing boat and brought to Belhaven Monday night. The recovery was made 12 miles northwest of the Ocracoke Life boat Station. The men, first cousins, both about 25, had been shrimping from a boat owned by Belhaven Fish & Ovster Co. The 55-foot trawler, Thomas J., left Belhaven Oct. 2 and was ex pected back last Thursday. It was located sunk in 30 feet of water, in the area where the bodies were lo cated. Apparently the vessel went down during a severe wind storm last Tuesday night. Beaufort County Coronej J. Bon ner Paul ruled the deaths drown ings. The shrimp boat which picked up the dead men had in its crew Loan's Guthrie, the father of Ted Guthrie. Vernon Guthrie Vernon Guthrie of Belhaven was born July 8, 1938, son of Fred and Neva Wallace Guthrie of Pamlico See TRAGEDY, Page Seven MRS. WESCOTT HEADS DARE CANCER CRUSADE The Dare County Chapter of the American Cancer Society fund-rais ing crusade in headed by Mrs. Ray-1 mond Wescott and not Mr. Wescott' as stated in an article in lasti week’s paper. We regret the error. ' MAIL SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO BOX 428 MANTEO, N. C. NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Single Copy 7£ Albemarle Anglers Club of Eliza beth City with 24 fish counting 70 points took an early lead in the first session of the 11th annual Nags Head Surf Fishing Tourna ment, Thursday morning. Tri State Anglers Club made up of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina anglers placed for second during the first of four sessions scheduled in team competition with 11 fish counting 44 points. Anchor Surf Fishing Club of Nags Head came in third with seven fish counting 39 pointe and the Merchantville (NJ.) had fourth place with four fish and 33 points. Nags Head’s new Sea Hags Club team lead the four women’s teams competing in the tournament with four fish counting 24 points. Four small channel bass were taken during the morning session, but of the total of more than 150 fish caught by members of 30 teams in first session competition, there were more flounder, bluefish and spot than any other species. Fishing weather was perfect for surfcasting and according to Bob Preston, president of the tourney’s sponsoring Nags Head Surf Fish ing Club, should remain so through out the week end. “Everyone may fish in tha open individual competion on Saturday afternoon and compete for the handsome prizes and trophies of fered,” said Preston. Trophies to winning teams and individuals will be awarded during the Tournament Banquet on Satur day night. . .. Members of the sponsoring dub were busy early this week estab lishing station designations along the Dare Beaches. Station No. 1 is at Kitty Hawk and teams are assigned locations at frequent in tervals southward to the old Nags Head Coast Guard Station which is now an Army Radar unit. Thursday and Friday will mark four sessions of team competition and on Saturday ,the open individual events will be held. Headquarters of the-Tournament will again be The Carolinian Hotel where social events which will include the an nual banquet and the award of trophies and prizes. Thirty five or more teams are expected to be in the competion during the tournament this year; CUB SCOUT REACTIVATION BEGINS ON ROANOKE ID. Recativating the Cub Scout pro gram was begun with a meeting of the committeemen at the home of the chairman, Raymond Wes cott, on Wednesday night. Selection of a Cub Master was the main business which was not completed. Dens 1 and 4 will meet next week for beginning the winter activities. The first Pack meeting will be on October 24 at which time new Cubs will be invited and introduced to the entire program. Boys 8 to 11 years are eligible and the activities are a joint pro gram with the parents. Those at tending the initial meeting were Willis Wise, Ellsworth Midgett, Jr., Burwell Evans, R. S. Smith and den mothers Mrs. Ben Crees and Mrs. Raymond Wescott. YIELD INCREASED IN FHA INSURED LOANS Farmers Home Administration County Supervisor Daniel B. Willis today announced that the return to lenders who invest in Farmers Home Administration loans has been increased from 4 to 4'/i per cent. Farmer will continue to pay 5 per cent interest on these insured real estate loans made by Farmers Home Administration. In addition, the insurance en dosement on insured notes will car ry a 3-year repurchase agreement. Previously tre ledger had to hold the note at least five years before he cpuld exercise the option to sell it back to the Government. Through the insured loan pro gram carried on by Farmers Home Administration, private lender* can . advance funds to eligible farmers use of private capital. f.
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