The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-08-10
A VISIT TO MYRTLE BEACH

o'clock after a most interesting
trip. Our flight took us directly
over the Washington airport after
passing over the famed Lake
Phelps and at 1885 we landed at
Goldsboro's huge airport where
some $4,000 army men were sta
toned during the war.
Following a visit with Earl
Jourdan, airport manager, and
lunch at the hotel, we took off at
lao in an airplane for Myrtle
Beach, viewing on the way Black
Lake, Lake Waccamaw, and the
serpentine trail of the mighty Cape
Fear River. At 3:15 we reached
Myrtle Beach airport.
Fred Miles, a Belhaven native,
brother of Dan Miles of New
Bern's Queen Anne Hotel, oper-
ates a delightful and interesting
hostelry at Myrtle Beach, known
as Pine Lakes Inn. l like it so well
that | am anxious to return for a
longer stay. A dinner in this hotel
lis something to be remembered, be-
cause the food is so good and the
service and atmosphere of the din
ing room so considerable and friend
ly.
l wish everyone who processes
to be interested in the development
of our coastland could visit Myr-
tie Beach. Good publicity work has
made it most successful. 1t is ad-
vertised as Americas Finest
Strand" but as seashore it has
nothing to compare with Mays
Head, and Dare County's 85 miles
of coastline. Yet millions and mil
lions have been invested in Myrtle
Beach, not only for business pur-
poses, but in modern homes, in a
well-laid-out and well-ordered
town. Myrtle Beach is not clutter
ed up with an unsightly hodge
podge mixture of homes and mer-
camille miscellany. Its homesites
are all in quiet areas. Even the
hotels are as peaceful and quiet as
the forest primeval.
Business was there Saturday
night. Its night-life area was
crowded. Sidewalks were full to
the jostling stage, and bingo
games were paying off in cash.
There were all sorts of money
catching enterprises. Bathers were
enjoying the surf. Soldiers were
strolling about looking for girls
to pick up, and there were simple
country girls in town hoping for
attention.
| paused to listen to a young
country matron telling her husband
with indignation that couple of
soldiers had tried to pick her up
too. She pointed out the soldiers,
but the husband gave a slight
smile and passed it off. There were
indeed lot of lonely fellows from
some of the nearby encampments,
and there were sailors too. There
were many homely women and a
lot of pretty ones, and most OF
them well-endowed with ample
feminine accoutrements, properly
showing and shaking in latest ap-
proved seashore style.
l was interested in lively auc-
ton sale that was going on. The
seller was disappointed at the low
bids he received for his merchan-
disc. Finally he offered large
paper carton, which he declared
had nothing in it, and despite his
warning, it was knocked down tC
woman for So. This was citeC
as an example of credulity ant
curiosity. Before he opened his box
eight other people clamored to pa!
50 each for similar boxes. He op
ened the box, it was empty. HI
had to refund the lady's So.
l spent some time with E. A
Anthony, who has made so good ;
job of developing the airport I'm
Gle Sam gave the town, similar t.
the airport at Manteo. While GU,
airport has had no management
worth speaking of, the Myrtl'
Beach airport has paid off hand
somely in many ways, and it nov
has six flights in, and six cut
daily by a major airline. Some
thing like this might have beef
accomplished at Manteo with un
told profit to the community.
found that taxi men get So to TAX
you similar distance up town al
compared with rs cents charged b!
our Manteo taximen.
l can say a lot of good things
for Myrtle Beach. / learn mucl
from these travels and l think NOR
can be done here than has beer
there.
/ had seen all the N. C.. coas
from the air before, but wanted
to see it again, so our return tril
was made along the ocean all thu
way home. We took off at 8:4(
Sunday morning, stopping at tw'
Wilmington airports briefly, anC
taking on gas. We saw big ship
sailing down the Cape Fear, anC
,x,o cor, b,,rdrads of idle ebins +ias