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VOLUME XXVII NO. 50
KIN SUE FOR $35,000
CHARGES DESECRATION
OF GRAVEYARD IN ROAD
Developers of Mother Vineyard Property
Accused of Destroying Handsome Cedar
And Otherwise Damaging Property Where
Wellington Ward Was Buried 72 Years
Ago
By RALPH POOL
• A graveyard in the middle of
the road a few hundred feet from
the Mother Vineyard, reputed to
be the parent vine of all the
Scuppemong grapes in North
Carolina, is the basis of a suit
filed recently in Federal District
Court in Elizabeth City.
Wellington Ward of Norfolk
Va., grandson of the Wellington
Ward whose family established
the graveyard on his death in
1890, is asking $35,000 of the
present owners of the property
surrounding it. He alleges the
fence around it was destroyed,
part of the site plowed up and
asphalt paving laid, and a hand
some cedar tree and shruberry
destroyed, thereby desecrating,
' trespassing upon and depriving
“the aforesaid graveyard of the
solemnity and dignity to which
it was entitled.”
Defendants in Suit
Defendants named in the suit
are the Mother Vineyard Inc.
R. B. Lennon, Guy Lennon
(deceased), R. Bruce Etheridge
A. J. Kienzle, W. E. Lennon,
Kellogg-Cuthrell Inc., J. G. Kel
logg, C. L. Cuthrell and Edna O
Cuthrell.
The Mother Vineyard has been
a Roanoke Island landmark as
far back as memories and tradi
tions reach. They say the Wal
ter Raleigh colonists brought the
original vine from Hatteras
some 375 years ago, and that,
through the years, cuttings from
it distributed the luscious
• Seuppemong grape over Eastern
North Carolina and Tidewater
Virginia. The vine eventually
grew to cover several acres.
In 1912, Jesse E. Ward, son of
Wellington Ward, sold the pro
perty to W. H. Basnight, papers
in the suit set forth, and reserv
ed a lot 30 feet square as a
graveyard. The nineteenth cent
ury Wellington Ward and his
wife and small daughter ap
parently were the only persons
buried there. In the early days,
a cedar was planted “to beau
tify and contribute to the dign
ity and solemnity” of the burial
. site, it is set forth, and the tree
grew to “magnificent propor
tions.”
Handsome Residences
In time, a corporation was
formed, the Mother Vineyard
Inc., to make and bottle wine
from the famed grapevine, and
additional vines were set out in
the vicinity. This enterprise fin
ally failed, and in the last few
years much of the property ha
been developed as a high class
residential subdivision. Many
handsome homes have been built
in the area, which fronts on
Roanoke Sound and Nags Head.
Now reduced considerably
from its original 30 feet square
proportions, the little grave
yard today is surrounded by a
neat white picket fence. The
granite gravestone of Welling
ton Ward is the only one, the
other graves lacking markers.
Cemetery Unique
The highway circles it on both
sides. So far as can be learned,
it is the only cemetery in North
NAGS HEAD TAX
RATE 30 CENTS
FOR NEXT YEAR
A tax rate of 30 cents per
SIOO property valuation for the
year 1962-63 was adopted Thurs
day by the Nags Head Board of
Town Commissioners.
This represents an increase of
10 cents over the present rate.
The board fixed the rate on
the basis of tax collections of 80
per cent, regarded as a conser
vative figure.
The town’s budget for the
year beginning July 1 is $17,181.
84. Individual items are as fol
lows:
Clerk’s salary, $2,600; bond
premium for clerk, S6O; postage,
$100; adding machine, $100; off
ice supplies, $200; telephone,
$250; tax notices, printing, etc.,
$1,000; police salary, $4,000;
building inspector, $3,000; rent,
$1,200; gasoline, oil, etc., $2,-
000; rental of radio for police
car $261.84; police supplies,
$250; legal work, $1,000; engine
ering fees, maps, etc. $1000;
travel expenses, SSOO, and es-
See TAX, Page Six
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
Carolina—or perhaps in the
country—which stands in the
middle of a public road.
A comparable case in Virginia
is on the Dismal Swamp Canal
Road, U. S. 17, not far from the
North Carolina line. There, the
highway swings sharply around
several venerable oaks at the
Wallace homestead.
John Wallace was an import
ant political figure in Norfolk
County when the highway past
his home was paved some 35
years ago. He flatly refused to
allow the oaks to be cut to per
mit the road to follow a straight
course, and prevailed upon high
way authorities to accede to his
wish. A “dog leg” curve is the
result.
It was here that W. O. Saund
ers met death in 1940. Tfie icono
clastic Elizabeth City editor, on
his way in his automobile to
Norfolk, failed to negotiate the
bothersome curve and plunged
into the canal. Saunders was a
diabetic, and it was surmised
that coma overtook him and in
directly cost him his life.
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THIS GRAVEYARD, in the middle of the road near the Mother Vineyard on Roanoke Island, is
at issue in a $35,000 suit filed by descendants of Wellington Ward, who was buried here in 1890.
They charge the property has been desecrated.
TUDOR ARMORIAL
BEARINGS ADORN
GATE OF GARDEN
A new Tudor touch was added
to the Elizabethan Garden at
Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island
Wednesday when Louise Mid
gett, garden superintendent,
installed the coat of arms of
Henry VIII over the Gate House
at the garden entrance.
The coat of arms is in the
form of a plaque carved in lime
stone by the Elkins Studio in
See TUDOR, Page Six
HONOR STUDENTS AT CAPE HATTERAS HIGH
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TWO OUTSTANDING SENIORS were honored recently at Cape
Hatteras High School by the announcement that their outstanding
scholastic averages had earned them the titles of valedictorian
and salutatorian. They are: Miss Sandra Faye Gillikin (left) and
Miss Vivian Lee Robinson. Miss Gillikin, class valedictorian, at
tained an over-all average of 97.77 for all school studies. Miss
Robinson’s average of 97.16 merited her selection as salutatorian.
FORMER MANTEO BOY
DIES OF LEUKEMIA
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MALCOLM ERNST, 16-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Ernst, Jr., of Summerville, S.
C., died Wednesday night of leu
kemia after an illness of sever
al months. Funeral services will
be conducted at three o’clock
Friday afternoon in Summer
ville.
Malcolm had a host of friends
in Manteo, where he lived with
his family for a number of years
when his father was manager
of the Manteo office of the West
Virginia Pulp and Paper Com
pany. While living in Manteo
he was active in 4-H work and
in 1959 represented Dare Coun
ty at the N. C. 4-H Forestry
camp. He was also a member of
the Little League baseball team.
Survivors include the parents;
and two sisters, Carol Ann Ernst
and Betty Jo Ernst, all of Sum
merville.
SUIT DISTURBS WELLINGTON WARD'S REST
TWIGS AND BISQUICK DRAMA
It takes resourcefulness and a
little bit of luck to “play the
role” in Washington, D. C., es
pecially if the one you happen
to select is that of Queen Eliza
beth.
All skeptics are referred to
Mrs. William Long, a veteran
performer in the role of “The
Virgin Queen” for “The Lost
Colony,” who parlayed some
stolen weat twigs and a box of
“Bisquick” into a show-stopping
skit at the Brazilian embassy
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MANTEO, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1962
OLD NAGS HEAD
ROAD BUILDING
WORK DELAYED
State Proposes to Construct
Highway That Would
Serve As Drain
It appeared this week that
several factors might delay in
definitely the rebuilding of the
Sound Side Road linking the
Nags Head beach with Old Nags
Head. The road was virtually
destroyed by the Ash Wednes
day storm.
At a meeting last Friday at
Nags Head Baptist Church, at
tended by owners of property in
Old Nags Head and others in
terested, State Highway Depart
ment plans for reconstruction of
the road were outlined.
In brief, the- State proposes to
build a road sloping gradually
to Roanoke Sound from U. S.
Highway 158 Bypass with the
idea that in the event of another
storm bringing a heavy volume
of water across the beach from
the ocean, the road would act as
a flue, permitting it to flow into
the sound without obstruction
and with a minumim of damage.
Engineers say that no concrete
or steel construction would hold
up against such a powerful im
pact, and that the only fesible
construction plan would have to
embody the principle of mini
mum resistance.
Property owners were divided
in their reaction to the proposal.
Some felt that a road high e
nough to prevent flooding
should be built. Others suggest-
See ROAD, Page Six
last Saturday afternoon.
It all started, Mrs. Long says,
when Mrs. Fred Morrison, the
ingenious chairman of the Roa
noke Island Historical Associa
tion, suggested that members of
the “Colony” staff come to
Washington, in costume, for an
“Elizabethan Wedding Skit” as
the Pan American Liason Com
thee Pan American Liason Com
mittee of Women’s Organiza
tions.
“Mrs. Morrison thought that
it would be a marvelous oppor
tunity to give publicity to the
See BISQUICK, Page Four
ENGELHARD LEADER DIES
AT 75 OF HEART ATTACK
J. Harold Jarvis, Sr., 75,
coastland businessman and civic
leader, died in his store in En
gelhard Wednesday after a
heart attack.
Funeral arrangements are in
complete.
Jarvis was a long-time mer
chant in Engelhard and was
president of East Carolina
Bank.
Active through the years in
civic and community affairs, he
was a leader in Engelhard
Methodist Church, a charter
member and past president cf
Engelhard Rotary Club, and a
member of Hyde County Post,
American Legion, and Matta
muskeet Masonic Lodge.
He was a World War I over
seas Army veteran.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Edith S. Jarvis; a son, J. Harold
Jarvis, Jr. of Engelhard; a
daughter, Mrs. Rebecca Spotan
ski of Brunswick, Ga.; and four
grandchildren.
CHAIRMAN ARRANGES
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MRS. FRED MORRISON of
Washington, chairman of the
Roanoke Island Historical Asso
ciation, who arranged for the
presentation of a playlet de
picting an Elizabethan wedding
at the Brazilian Embassy in
Washington last Saturday. It
gave a national send-off to “The
Lost Colony,” Paul Green’s sym
phonic drama, which will begin
its silver anniversary season
July 1 at the Waterside Thea
tre, Fort Raleigh.
WEDDING~SCENE
PORTRAYS TIME
OF ELIZABETH I
Members of 'The Lost Colony'
Cast Appear in Wash
ington
Queen Elizabeth I and “The
Lost Colony” were much in the
news over the weekend, when
members of the cast of the Paul
Green drama were feted in
Washington.
On Friday Queen Elizabeth, in
the person of Mrs. Mary Long
of Rock Hill, S. C., and Sir Wal
ter Raleigh, portrayed .by Ken
Cauthern, also of Rock Hill, both
appropriately costumed, were
entertained at a luncheon in the
Senate Dining Room. Their
hosts were North Carolina Sen
ators Sam J. Ervin Jr. and
Everett Jordan. Before the
luncheon, ihey met the press in
Senator Ervin,s office.
On Saturday, • they and other
members of “The Lost Colony”
cast portrayed an Elizabethan
wedding at a benefit affair
given at the Brazilian Embassy
for the benefit of the Latin
American Scholarship Fund.
Taking part, besides Mrs. Long
and Cauthern, were Marjalene
Thomas of Elizabeth City, a
native of Roanoke Island who
plays the role of Eleanor Dare;
Tommy Hull of Goldsboro, as
Ananias Dare; and ladies in
waiting Leilani Thornburg of
See SCENE, Page Six
HATTERAS FOUNDATION
SCHOLARSHIP WINNER
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MISS ETTA CORNELIA BAT
TEN, pictured above, recent
graduate of Cape Hatteras
School, has been presented the
Hatteras Foundation Scholar
ship Award. This honor goes to
an outstanding member of the
graduating class each year in
recognition of leadersship, char
acter, and scholarship. Miss Bat
ten will enter Campbell College,
Buies Creek, in the freshman
class, fall 1962, to pursue furth
er education in the field of mod
ern languages and social studies.
Her parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Ivey P. Batten of Hatteras.
MRS. MORRISON HONORED
Mrs. Fred W. Morrison of Kill
Devil Hills and Washington, D.
C., chairman of the Roanoke Is
land Historical Association, has
been elected as a Councilman.
at-Large of the St. Andrews
Alumni Association for a three
year term.
WORLD RECORD
MARLIN CATCH
OFF HATTERAS
Hooking of 810-Pound Giant
Fish Raises Curtain For
Tournament
A world’s record blue marlin
catch served as a curtain-raiser
for the Hatteras International
Blue Marlin Fishing Tournament
on Monday, when an 810-pound
monster was hooked by Gary
Stukes, the largest of the spe
cies ever to be caught with rod
and reel.
The 810-pound marlin, which
overshadows the previous rec
ord catch by a whopping 30
pounds, measured C 8 inches
around its girth and stretched
14 feet from bill to tail. The
current world record, a 780-
pounder, with a length of 13
feet.
Stukes, a native of Morris
town, N. J., was fishing from
the Albatross 11, skippered by
Capt. Bill Foster, when he land
ed the record catch off Hatteras
after twenty minutes of back
breaking struggle. The giant
fish hit a “Hawaiian Plug” lure
that had been presented to him
by a friend, who suggested that
he try it out on big fish.
It was the first blue marlin
Stukes, a sales engineer, had
ever landed, although he had
been fishing for big game off
Hatteras and Oregon Inlet for
the past several years. His only
other marlin catch was a white
marlin, which he landed off Ore
gon Inlet about five years ago.
The Albatross II was cruising
with bait-lure skipping about
five miles south of Diamond
Shoals Lightship at the edge
of 'the Gulf Stream when the
big marlin struck. Within 25
minutes, the record catch was
safely aboard.
The New Jersey angler was
using 130 pound test dacron line
on a Penn 10/0 reel for his rec
ord snare. He stated that the
(fish jumped several times baforp
it was brought alongside the
Albatross 11. Stukes’ fishing com
panions were: Ronald Stokes, Dot
Dombrowsky and Art Zeitler, all
of New Jersey. Zeitler also boat
ed a blue marlin that weighed
217 Ms pounds, but alongside the
whopper Stukes caught, it look
ed like, as one observer said, “a
minnow.”
The gigantic fish, which will
not become a record until com
plete data about the catch is
See MARLIN, Page Six
ANGLERS PRACTICE FOR MARLIN TOURNAMENT
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THE SEVEN HAPPY ANGLERS shown above captured these
two healthy marlin while practicing for the International Blue
Marlin Touinament at Hatteras. The two billfish were hooked
by Nathan Ayers of High Point, whose 372 pound denizen hangs
at left, and Ross Walker of Richmond, who snared the 209
pound scrapper on the right.
The two marlin were caught from the Hatteras 34 and
Knit Wi'.ts 11, both Hatteras Marlin Club boats. The anglers
are: (foreground, left to right) Nathan Ayers, Arthur Courten
ing, Joe Hollingsworth and Earl Phillips, all of High Point,
(foreground) Capt. Monford Austin, Hatteras, and Captains Harry
Hall and Shy Fodrie of Morehead City.
NEW HAMPSHIRE NATIVE
NEW DISTRICT ENGINEER
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COL. JOSEPH S. GRYGIEL will
on June 15 assume the duties of
District Engineer, Wilmington
District, Corps of Engineers.
Colonel Grygiel succeeds Colo
nel Richard P. Davidson who
departed June 9 for a new as
signment at Redstone Arsenal,
Alabama after a tour of three
years as Wilmington District
Engineer.
The incoming District En
gineer is a native of Nashau,
New Hampshire, and a 1941
graduate of the U. S. .Military
Academy, West Point.
In World War II he served in
Alaska with the 42nd General
Service Regiment, and then at
the Basic Training Section, Fort
Lewis, Washington.
He attended lowa State Col
lege 1946-47, where he received
his Masters Degree in Civil En
gineering. He then served for
three years in the Seattle Dis
trict, as Assistant District En
gineer. then as Assistant Chief
and Chief, Operations Division.
Hr was Post Engineer. Army
and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs,
Arkansas 1950-54. After a short
tour of duty at Fort Lewis,
Washington, he was for a year
in Korea as Battalion Command
er in the 417th Engine?? Avia
tion Brigade.
From 1955 to 1953 Colonel
Grygiel was assigned to the
Military Personnel Division,
Office, Chief of Engineers,
Washington, D. C. He then at
tended the Armv War College,
See GRYGIEL, Page Six
MAIL SHOULD BE
ADDRESSED TO BOX 428
MANTEO, N. C.
NOT TO INDIVIDUALS
Pages I through 6
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HERTFORD MAN
DENIES ASSAULT
OF YOUNG GIRL
Preliminary Hearing Marked By
Tears and Outbursts
From Accuser
“I hope they kill him!” These
were the words used by pretty
19-year-old Julia Mae Berry of
Engelhard in Dare County Re
corder’s Court on Monday, as
testimony was given by James
Hoffler, a tanned, 33-year-old,
married ex-Marine, who denied
having raped her twice on the
night of June 6 while they were
together in his Thunderbird au
tomobile.
The stormy hearing to deter
mine probable cause was con
ducted before Judge W. F.
Baum, who ordered the defend
ant held without bond for trial
in Superior Court in October.
The hearing, held behind closed
doors, was punctuated by inter
ruptions and outbursts of emo
tion from the blond victim of
the alleged assault whose tears
evoked calm and solicitous ques
tions from defense and State
attorneys.
Miss Berry, clad in a white
dress, took the stand to describe
in detail the episode on the
night of Wednesday, June 6,
when, she said, the defendant
had sexual intercourse with her
in the front seat of his automo
bile, by force and against her
will somewhere in Kitty Hawk
woods.
“He pushed me into the car
... he took hold of my arms
and threw me into the front
seat,” she stated. “I asked him
to take me home and told him
I was sick; he had my pants
off and told me to kiss him.”
“I said I’d rather be dead,” she
sobbed. The 170-pound witness
continued by teiling how the de
fendant threatened her by say
ing: “It wouldn’t be hard to do.”
She accused Hoffler of having
said he could “put your head
on the back of that door and
brfeak your neck.” After J.lie al
leged act was committed, she
stated, she remained in the au
tomobile because it was 11:30 at
night. Miss Berry claimed that
she was driven to the Dinner
Bell at Nags Head and left
the car after sending Hoffler in
for cokes. “I ran over to the
Sir Walter Court; there were
people there I could depend on,”
she said.
The tall witness was prevent
ed from giving portions of her
testimony, which included anoth
er similar incident of rape in
Currituck County. Both assaults,
she said, had occurred after she
had repelled “passes” by him
during a trip which they were
taking to a beach resort in Vir
ginia. “I told him I was not
See COURT, Page Four
ONLY TEN DAYS
BEFORE RUN-OFF
FOR HOUSE SEAT
With less than 10 days re
maining before the second pri
mary run-off for Dare’s seat in
the General Assembly, M. K.
Fearing, Jr., the incumbent and
Moncie Daniels, Jr., front-run
ner in the May 26 primary were
both running scared.
Both were scouring the coun
ty earlier in the week for votes,
and neither seemed to be over
flowing with confidence. About
the only issue on w’hich both
candidates were in agreement
was the almost dead certainty
that 429 voters who cast their
ballots for Wallace Gray in the
first primary would, in large
measure, determine who will be
seated in the N. C. House next
term. Assuming that the Gray
supporters do turn out in full
force next Saturday, who will
they support ?
In an effort to determine how
each of the candidates felt about
the June 23rd primary, The
Coastland Times submitted two
questions on Thursday to each
!of the candidates; both filed
their replies which are printed
following:
I 1. What do you think will be
the outcome of the election?
Moncie Daniels, Jr.: “I feel the
people of Dare County are very
much interested in our future
and the program of progress I
; have offered. I am confident they
will support this program. M. K.
Fearing, Jr.: “I feel that the
outcome of the second primary
hinges on who will receive the
votes of the supporters of Wal
lace Gray.” “I can only hope
that my legislative record and
service merits the continued
support of the people of Dare
County and that their confidence
extends to the polls on Satur
day, June 23rd.”
2. Do you expect the support
See RUN-OFF, Page Six