PAGE FOUR THE COASTLAND TIMES PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY AT MANTEO. SINCE JULY 4, 1936 Now Including The Pilot and Herold of Belhaven and Swan Quarter "My role. In which I hove olwoyv found satisfaction. to never fa turn aside in public affairs through views of private Interest] but to go straight forward in jdoing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consogvences with Providence.** Beniamin Franklin. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY TIMES PRINTING CO.. INC. AT SOS LODGE STREET, MANTEO. NORTH CAROLINA OB WBEKLY JOURNAL OF THE WALTER KALKIUH COASTLAND OF NORTH CAROLINA. FOREMOST REGION OF RECREATION AND SPORT. HEALTH- FUL LIVING AND HISTORICAL INTEHEST ON THE ATIANTIC SEsBOAHD Entered as Second Class Matter at the Postoffice in Manteo, N. C. Subscription Ratos: Yearly $4.00; Six Months, $2.50; 3 Months, $l3O ft May Result in Needless Delay if Communications To This Newspaper Are Addressed to Individuals. Please Address The Newspaper. FRANCIS W. MEEKINS General Manager CATHERINE D. MEEKINS Secretary-Treasurer VOL XXVII MANTEO. N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 196111N0. 26 OUTER BANKS AND BEACHES BROUGHT CLOSER TO PEOPLE (Goldboro News-Argus) Recent decisions of the State Highway Commission, plus projects already underway, insure development for the Dare, Nauonal Seasnore, Ocracoke, and Carteret beach resort areas. The Alligator river bridge will be completed in a few weeks and opened to speed traffic from the mainland to Dare. This three-mile long structure will replace ferry service and greatly facilitate the flow of traffic. Ferries which have served at Alligator river are schedul ed to be shifted to Emerald Isle, south of Carteret’s Atlantic Beach and Salter Path. They are scheduled to go into service next Spring. This new ferry service will open a broad new beach area to fuller development. They will relieve, to an extent, the heavy flow of traffic from Morehead City to At lantic Beach over the bridge. In peak weekends this Atlantic Beach bridge has been insufficient for demands on it. Vehi cles sometimes stacked up a half mile. The Emerald Isle ferry service will be the shortest route, by miles, from mid-section North Carolina to one of the most popular resort areas. A bridge will replace the Oregon Inlet ferry. Such a facility will boom registration to unique Cape Hatteras Na tional Seashore as nothing yet has done and the rapid growth in popularity of this land of sand, and wave and sun has already been phenomenal. This year, for instance, registration of visitors at the Seashore increased 17 percent to a half million. Where vehi cles had to wait for ferries and were slowed down by the trip across, today's hasty and impatient motorists wifi be able to drive directly to the fabulous Hatteras Seashore. The tourist who wants to fish, and inexpensively, on his beach vacations are legion. They are remembered in new plans to include a catwalk for the Oregon Inlet bridge for the fisherman. This particular spot offers as great a variety of fish as any place on the Continent. That catwalk will be wori’’ M t u e tourist industry and to our recreation program the SIOO,OOO allocated for it. Oregon Inlet bridge will bring old Ocracoke closer. An additional trip of the Ocracoke-Mainland ferry “Sea Level’’ may be possible with building of a dock at Cedar Island, ter minus of U. S. 70 and a dozen miles east of Atlantic, present Sea Level port. From Cedar Island the “Sea Level” should be able to make the trip across the sound in three hours instead of four. In another season or two an additional ferry will have to be added. The “Sea Level” often the past season left cars for which it had no room. The southern end of the state’s 200-mile beach region will also share in new features which promise more visitors. Surf City and Topsail have come into prominence as a favor ite with the pier and-or surf fishermen. These beaches have a particular allure for the folks who want their own beach cottage in a quiet, family spot where one can feel the mystery and romance of the beckoning sea and the waves, the gulls and the sand. Location of the battleship North Carolina at Wilmington as a memorial and visitors’ attraction will certainly pull more people into Wrightsville, Carolina and Kure’s beaches. A few miles to the south, near Orton, the restoration and ex cavation project at old Brunswick town (1726-1776) has progressed to such a stage that visitors find much of interest there. A number of old houses have been outlined in the excavations and many others have been located. Beaches around Southport, Caswell, Long, Holden’s, and others, are seeing much building. Boiling Springs (renamed from Bill Keziah’s Bouncing Log Springs) is growing as is Tranquil Harbor. Development of the 200-mile beach region will help materially to raise the per capita income of counties which have been the poorest in the state. “I think that the whole future of my race hinges on the question as to whether or not it can make itself of such in dispensable value that the people in the town and state where we reside will feel that our presence is necessary to the happiness and well-peing of the place in which he fives is long left without proper reward. This is a great human law which cannot be permaently nullified.” An officer in ancient Rome, called away to war, locked his beautiful wife in a suit of armor. He entrusted the key to his best friend, saying, “If I don’t return in six months, use this key because I entrust it to you,” and galloped off. About ten miles away he noticed a cloud of dust following, and waited. His friend, mounted on a fiery steed, galloped up and shouted. “You gave me the wrong key.” "SYMBOLS OF INDIFENDENCE” . . ■ /' ' ' • GARDEN TIME By M. E. GARDNER N. C. State College We h*»ve always associated holly with Christmas. The bright shiny leaves contrasting with the red ber ries lend color, warmth and mean ing. Perhaps it is not generally known that all sorts of supernatural pow ers were once attributed to holly. This shiny plant was thought to have power to repel lighting. The eastern Indians believed that holly trees planted near the cabin would act as protectors and ward off evil spirit. Since the leaves of the holly do not readily fall off they also looked up to the plant as an em blem of courage. Early Christians believed that holly was used to make the crown of thorns for the crucifixtion. The plant was then called “righteous branch” or thorn of Christ, for the red berries supposedly symbolized the drops of blood on Christ’s brow. The legend has it in Brittany that when Christ was bearing His cross, a small bird attempted to relieve His suffering by plucking thorns from His brow. The bird’s breast became stained with blood and was known ever after as Robin Red breast. To this day in England and Ger many, it is considered unlucky to step on a holly berry, a favorite food of the robin, in recognition of the bird’s charitable act. Many superstitions existed about bringing in the holly before Christ mas. In Wales, if it was brought in before Christmas Eve, it was sure to cause family quarrels throughout the year. The type of holly brought into the household determined who was to dominate during the year. If the holly was smooth, the wife was in command; if prickly, the husband governed. Infusions, decoctions and fomen tations of holly were used for a wide assortment of human disor ders. In England, a tea of holly bark was a cure for the cough. In France, a decoction of leaves and bark was considered equal to quin ine in the treatment of intermittent fever. A tea of holly leaves was be lieved to be a cure of measles by North American Indians. A beverage of the berries pacifi ed the squaws of Cherokees and curbed their urge for wandering. The juice of leaves was recommend ed as a cure for jaundice and was also good for a pain in the side. Other infusions, decoctions and fomentations of leaves, berries bark, or combinations, were used for many other human ills—whoop ing cough, chilblains, tooth ache, kidney ailments and as stimulants for the nerves and brain. I give credit to the American Horticultural Society for much of the information used. It was taken from a Special Issue of the Na tional Horticultural Magazine en titled “Handbook of Hollies” and compiled by Harry Denlinger. There were 26 contributors, all well qualified by training and exper ience to speak with authority on the subject. FORMER BELHAVEN MAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK Ottis C. Smith 51, of Baltimore, Md., and a former resident of Bel haven, died Friday following a heart attack. He was an employee of Bethelem Steel Corp. Survivors are one daughter, Ms. William Jones of Norfolk, Va.; one sister, Mrs. Frances Havener Jr. of New York; four brothers, Armstead Smith of Wantegh, N. Y., Major R. B. Smith of Langley Field, Va., Paul Smith of Belhaven, Lein Smith of Belhaven. Graveside ser vices were held at Flynn cemetery in Pantego Tuesday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. James M. Waggner. Fu neral services were conducted from the chapel of Paul funeral home in Belhaven. Mr. Smith was a son of the late Sam and Nancy Pilley Smith, and was born in Belhaven. STURGEON (Continued from Page One) geon expect to move from White ville to Swan Quarter early in Jan uary 1962. The Farmers Home Administra tion makes operating loans, farm ownership loans, water develop ment and soil conservation loans, watershed loans, rural housing loans and eme-gency loans as the occasion permits. KILL DEVIL HILLS PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jones, Jr. and two children, Sonny and Danny, of Sanford, art visiting Mr. Jones’ parents Mr. and Mrs. Ray Jones, who also have for the holidays their ?on Michael Jones from E. C. C. Greenville. Mrs. Rachel Ward, Steve Ward and Miss Bonnie Ward of Spencer spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Jones. SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Dick Twiford of Manteo are giving Mr. Twiford’s mother, Mrs. Annie Twiford, a sur nri~o nartv The party will be at Mr. Twifords home Sunday, December 31, at 2:30 p.m. They will a nd all friends and relatives are invited to attend. THE COASTLAND TIMES, MANTEO, N. C. THE AMERICAN J7AY- ESS . U n -e-r—.A ' fit No Sacrificing for Him DAVIS (Continued from Page One) without bitterness about the edict of the Hertford County commis sioners making mandatory the re tirement at 70 of county employ ees. “If I had known this was the way things would work out, I would have stayed in Dare County. I don’t believe they would have retired me as long as I could crawl to the office,” he says. Davis is now 73. His hair is white as it has been for 25 years or more. He can discuss welfare elgibilities and qualifications as well as world politics with acumen. The mandatory retirement edict of the county commissioners cams? last summer after Davis w"® 72. In several sessions the commission ers debated whether to make Davis’s retirement immediate, whether to give him 12 months or six months notice, and whether to cut his pay back to a minimum dur ing the notice. That the commissioners did not seem to realize that the mandatory retirement age would apply to three other appointive employees of coun ty departments, seems to bear out Davis’s feeling that the edict was pointed especially to him and may be rescinded when he is gone. Davis’s long tenure in welfare work which justified his maximum pay under the merit system and caused a morale problem among other county employees when the Institute of Government published a little booklet that revealed sala ries is thought to have been one main source of friction with the county commissioners. But there are two things that Davis holds dear as a tribute to his success with the welfare program in Hertford County. One is a letter from Mrs. Ger trude Cox of Murfreesboro who was acting welfare director when Davis came and stayed on for about two years after he came as a casework er: “But for the grace of God and for your help I would not be getting my social security retirement checks,” she wrote Davis. Davis had waged a fight in th? legislature to allow counties to elect to haVe their employees come under Social Security retirement rather than the state retirement system which did not afford as broad a coverage. Hertford was one of the first counties to elect the system. Mrs. Cox was the first county employee to retire under social se curity. Others who have followed have been Herbert J. Brown, now back as deputy register of deeds in an emergency created by illness; Jim Mitchell, Mrs. J. J. Tayloe, Davis himself, and in the near fu ture M. R. Herring. Another fight was waged by Davis and other welfare directors in the last legislature to strengthen the welfare program, including more state participation in the ad ministrative expense on the county level. Devis feels his part in this legis lation was largely responsible for his having been named recently by Gov. Terry Sanford to a Commis sion to Study Public Welfare Pro grams. Others on the commission are State Sens. Dallas Alford of Rocky Mount and Worth Gentry of King; Attorney L. Stacy Weaver Jr. of Fayetteville; and Dr. Jack Wofford of Forest City. Davis is enthused about the prospects the study offers to work with the basic statutes for a welfare program that were enacted years ago and corre late them with the changed con-, ditions and needs. If his member ship on the commission may require fulltime in Raleigh, he’s ready and anxious to go. If his fulltime is not required in connection with the commis sion, then he will look after real estate rentals and management, and carry on general insurance woric. He says he might even get into Dare County politics activity. There are twos actors Davis u-es in evaluating his own work with the welfare department in Hert ford County: Through familiarity with veter ans benefits, railroad retirement and close supervision of cases, some clients have been shifted from wel fare to other benefits and some able bodied persons have been culled 1 from the rolls and made to earn | their own livelihood. Davis when he ' first came to Hertford did much of 1 the investigating work himself. Later an extra clerk and an extra caseworker were added to the staff. Davis thinks an adequate staff pays » for itself in getting ineligibles off I rolls. I At the sdme time the grants of : those considered deserving have f I been increased almost 50 per cent. There are now 305 drawing aver ■'age old age assistance grants of > $36.97 per month as compared to , 384 in 1951 getting sl9 a month. There are now 165 families (with ’ 731 persons) drawing an average • per family grant of $50.17 for aid| to dependent children as compared to 92 families and $35 per family ’ in 1951. The grant per child com ' pares $12.84 and $6. The aid to permanent and total t ly disabled came in as a new pro i gram in June, 1951, with an initial load of 28 and average grant of $26.61 this has risen to 111 with s average grant of $42.46. i The aid to the blind program I has constantly served 28-33 per- > sons with the average grant of $55.- ! 55 comparing to $36 on first pay- I ment in 1953. Regular vocational and blind re ! habilitation programs and new s medical care program of removing cataracts have enabled many other- - wise eligible recipients of grants to ’ go back to work. ‘ The lien law has not helped re duce case loads, Davis feels, but ■ may have prevented some from ap- > plying for grants. > The total county welfare depart- > ment budget, including federal and • state participation, runs around $300,000 a year. The staff of a ’ director, three case workers, a ’ child welfare worker and two clerks ’ is paid about $17,000 a year. Grants for November totaled $26,989. The county’s part in the budget t has increased in 10 years from $lB,- • 000 to $35,000. f Since coming to Hertford Coun -1 ty, Davis has been active in the Ro -1 tary Club, first of Ahoskie and then i Murfreesboro; has served as com mander and adjutant of the county ' and commander of the Fourth Dis trict Legion Posts and spurred the I organization of Legion baseball for r |the youth of the area with the 1954 i team winning the State Legion ; play-offs. He was president of the , Ruritan Club in Winton two years ■ and has served on the official boards of the Methodist churches,. ' first at Winton and later at Mur- > freesboro. ' 1 He served by appointment of the I county commissioners on the coun- • ty library board and the Albemarle ' Regional Library Board (chairman of each for six years) and assisted the State Library Board to set up ’ the Albemarle Regional Library ’ bookmobile project in Bertie,- Gates ■ and Hertford counties. • His smile that is often followed i by jolly laughter and a twinkle of' • his eye have been trademarks of ’ friendship and love for all around ‘ him. Miss Margaret Newbern, child i welfare worker, under Davis for the i oast 11 years has been appointed : director to succeed Davis. Davis - told the county commissioners he thought they were getting a good i director, one competent and devoted to the cause. “You couldn’t have ' found a better director.” I: Incidentally, Miss Newbern’s con-in, Miss Inez Benthall, who was , reared in Ahoskie, has been named I acting director of the Halifax wel fare department where she has also been child welfare caseworker for a number of years. Miss Newbern has handled 85 adaptions in the county during her tenure with the Hertford •County Welfare (Department. By EULA N. GREENWOOD THE BOOM . . . Reports we get are that some businesses in North Carolina are doing 25 per cent bet ter for the month of December than they did a year ago. November ran that well, or better over the same month in 1960. Indications are that business in general in Tarheelia for the year of 1961 was about 10 per cent over that of 1960. A HIT . . . David Brinkley of H un 11 e y-B rink 1e y NBC fame (“Good night, Chet; Good Night David”) will be the principal speak er at the New Bern Chamber of Commerce annual dinner on Janu ary 20. Brinkley, native of Wilmington and whose mother still lives there, at one time worked in the A&P in New Bern. He is not on the banquet circuit, so don’t try. They say “it’s like pull ing eyeteeth” to , get him. Olin Wright, able manager of the New Bern CC, pulled the strings. We are OCRACOKE PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Nafie Scarborough Jr. and sons of Ohio are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Nafie Scarborough, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Garrish and daughters of Wilmington, Del. are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Ballance. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Howard and son are visiting Mrs. Tressiel Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Williams of Norfolk, spent Christmas with Mrs. Eleanora Ballance. Mrs. Clyde Austin and daughter of Hatteras spent Christmas with her mother Mrs. Sabra Howard. Miss Lillian Wahab of Norfolk spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. ■R. S. Wahab Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Norton Hamilton and daughter Gail are spending the holidays here. Mrs. Lanie Wynn and children are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Boy ette. Mr. and Mrs. Junius Overton of Norfolk, visited Mr. and Mrs. Dan ny Garrish and Mrs. Marne Howard during Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Riddick are spending the holidays with Mrs. Maude Fulcher. . Betty Helen Howard of Raleigh is spending the holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Wahab Howard. , , Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wahab are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Austin , and family in Winston-Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Whitehurst and daughter Bobbie Jean of Beau fort, visited Mr. and Mrs. Preston Garish. Larry Williams of Va. Beach and Mrs. Janice Taylor and son Billy of Norfolk are spending the holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Z. S. . Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Willis visited in Williamston last week. Mr. and Mrs. James Garrish Jr. and children of Maryland snent Christmas with Mrs. Ruby Garrish. Mr. and Mrs. Jakie Gamsh and son of Anapolis, Md. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Garrish. Home for the holidays with their families were: Horace Gaskins, Mace Garrish, Lawrence Ballance, Powers Garrish, Charlie M. 0 Neal. Theodore Murro, David F ONeah i Millard Williams and Christine O’Neal of Hatteras visited Mrs. Mace Garrish. Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie Johff of Buxton spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Stacy Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Willis Culler of Norfolk visited Mrs. Laura Bragg and Kathleen. . I Doward Brugh is spending the holidays with his family in Nor- and Mrs. Johnny Midgette of Wilmington, Del. and Elmer Mid gette spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. John N. Midgette. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Howard a e spending the holidays with their daughter and family in Smithfield, N. C. ‘ '• Mrs. Ellis Gray and children of Portsmouth, Va. are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Washie Spen cpr Mr. and Mrs. Dix Daughtery of Nutley, N. J. snent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Sid Tolson. Back to school on Monday Jan. 1 at 8:30 a.m. KITTY HAWK PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Best spent Christmas Day in Norfolk, Va., with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Port Beacham. Bob Meekins, accompanied by his ' sister, Mrs. Betty Pugh of Maqteo, spent Christmas in Popular Branch with their niece, Mrs. Blanton San ders, and Mr. Sanders. They were I joined by Mrs. Sanders’ mother, 'Mrs. Mattie Miner. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1961 betting that former Congressman Hap Barden, old Brinkley friend, had a hand in there somewhere. Os all the commentators, he is the top tater in our patch. $2 to $lO WEEKLY ... In these collegiate parts, the best sign of steady going on the part of co-eds is the wearing of some Joe’s fra ternity pin. But—there aren’t enough boys, fraternities, and pins to go around —and alas, many an ambitious las 3 has had to go pinless. Or so it was until a Duke University junior with an eye for business saw away to strike it rich. Now we understand the co-eds who want to appear pop ular can rent the pin of her choice at from $2 to $lO weekly, accord ing to how the fraternity rates. •Half the profit goes to the agent who came up with the idea and makes the contacts, the remainder going to the owner of the pin. • CARDS FOR CHRISTMAS . . . We don’t know what will replace them, but the regular old Christmas cards we used to know seem to be passing from the scene. The fact that 90 per cent of the 1961 cards were via first class mail indicated that the senders were try ing desperately through heaviei postage to give them importance Frankly, printed cards leave us cole . . . unless from an old friend. One of our friends remarked the other day that she pays little at I tention to a Christmas card unless lit contains some little handwritter note with the signature of the send ers. Frankly, we think Christma: cards will soon be about as mucl a part of the Christmas scene a; oranges, apples, nuts, and raisin: (we used to have an old codger ii our community who inisted on call ing them “raisnuts”). If a card has a written message is unusually beautiful, or carries : work of art —as did the Sanford’ this time (a Louis Orr etching o: the Capitol))— then we prize i dearly. But, otherwise—. The other day we chanced to asl an acquaintance how an old an< mutual friend of ours was gettin; along. “Oh, I wouldn’t know”, wa her reply, “we only exchang, Christmas cards.” STATEWIDE NETWORK ... A radio and television stations pre pare to become more active througi a paid executive in the N. C. As sociation of Broadcasters, law en forcement officials make plans t set up a teletype network blanket ing North Carolina. Nothing has been said about i for publication, but representative from the State Highway Patrol Southern Bell, and the State Bui eau of Investigation, met here i Raleigh recently to discuss the ides Cost: $3,385 per month. It was felt that the State can b c o vie r e’d—county-by-county-wit two lines going east and two goin west —from Raleigh. You can imagine what a networ of automatic teletypewriters simila to those used in the news rooms o newspapers and broadcast station would mean to law enforcement i North Carolina. If the plan develops the Stat Highway Patrol here would be th clearing house for the information Don’t be surprised if the next Gen eral Assembly is asked to appropri ate upwards of $40,000 to pay so line charges. CAR SALES VP . . . Figure compiled by the N. C. Automobil Dealers Association and just n leased by the N. C. Dept of Moto Vehicles show that new car sale for the State in November wei 10,758 as compared with 10,554 fc November of 1960. Truck sales: November, 1961 —! 081. November, 1960—1,492. Chevrolet is leading Ford agai this year for the 11 months of 19( —20,555 to 18,457. But in thii place for the year is Falcon i 10,211, the hottest newcomer in tl field —and a Ford product. In four! place for the 11 months is Pontii at 6,273; and in fifth place is Bui< with 5,097. Rambler is next ar then come Corvair and Oldsmobii I Best seller in trucks for the yei is Ford with 8 860, followed t Chevrolet at 7,193. A poor third International with 1,893. GM stands at 1,68% MINER . . . Now at the ripe o age of 60, Salisbury Actor Sidm Blackmer is spending much of h time in North Carolina enviroi with his mining operations. He living in Salisbury and has invest* quite a bit of his fortune in pro peering on a copp r mine (tests ii dicates a heavy yield) at Gold Hi! Blackmer told us he recently did stint on an Alfred 'Hitchcock thri ler—and you should see it soon, it lhasn’tt reached.you yet.