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The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
Baruch Says Removal Of Price Controls Would Be Mortal Blow To Defense

WASHINGTON, (P) Bernard Baruch said yesterday that Gre noval of price, wage, rent and other mobilization controls would be tragic, perhaps mortal blow to the nations effort to rebuild its defenses.
 In a letter to Senator Moody D-Mich, the New York financier and elder statesman said the issue before the nation is simple-"It is a question of which is to be put first, the national interest or the selfish interest"
 "It is not how little in the way of economic controls we Stagger along with, but of how much we are willing to give up in the de- fense of our liberties" he added.
 Moody is a member of the Sen- ate Banking Committee which is considering extension and expan- sion of controls in the Defense Production Act. The present law expires June 30.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
Stops Communist Bullet With His Tongue

TOKYO, (P)-Pfc. Eugene T. Lucas, Edwardsville, Pa., stopped a bullet with his tongue.
 Lucas was driving an anti-air- craft truck with the U. s. 7th In- fantry Division in Korea. An en- emy bullet went through the wind shield, richocheted from metal bracket, creased Lucas lip, chip ped two front teeth and pushed up against his tongue.
 Lucas shook his head and spat out the bullet.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
House Committee Approves Increase In Income Taxes

WASHINGTON, (P) - A 1215 per cent increase in individual income taxes and a boost of five percentage points in corporate tax rates won final approval yester- day from the House Ways and Means Committee.
 Moving ahead at faster clip on the proposed S7,100,0O0,O00 tax increase bill the committee also approved an overall ceiling of 90 per cent on the amount of an in dividuals income the government could take in taxes, and a 70 per cent top on a corporations earnings.
 A proposal to broaden the base for the excess profits tax re- mained to be voted upon later.
 Also subject to final ratifica- ton are a billion dollars in pro- posed additional excise taxes on such articles as liquor, cigarettes, automobiles, gasoline and certain electrical appliances.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
ACS Officers On Tour Alaska Installations

Major E. G. Kline, executive officer from the Seattle office of the ACS, accompanied by Capt. Svend Hansen, staff officer from Seattle, and Capt. Robert L. Cab ardy arrived yesterday on tour of Alaskan installations.
 Major Charles Dunnell, sector commander of ACS from Fair banks, was also with the party which made a tour, of all branches of the work being done in this area, with the new officer in charge here, Capt. Pershing Tous- ley.
 They plan to cover as many o1 the outlying communication points serviced by ACS as possible or this trip, including the Aleutiar chain.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
U. s. Tin Planning Operate Year Around at Lost River

Paul Sorenson, new superin- tendent of the U. s. Tin Mines, who will be in charge of opera tions this summer at Lost River, arrived with Pan American en- route to Teller. He was accom- panied by w. E. Tibbets, who will be mill superintendent.
 MT. Sorenson, who has operated the Hirst- -Chichagof Mine at Ju- neau, states that until the price of gold makes it possible to mine gold again, his mine will remain closed.
 He stated that U. $. Tin IS planning to operate the year around at Lost River and when they get into operation will be handling about hundred tons of ore a day. This will be increased next year, however.
 The mill left Seattle today on the first boat for Nome, he ad- ViSed.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
Secretary Marshall In Surprise Visit Korea War Front
(By the Associated Press,

U. s. Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall flew into Tokyo today after a surprise visit to the Korean war front with supreme commander Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway.
 Marshall's unexpected visit - his first since the Korean fight ing began-led to speculation that he might be carrying new orders to Ridgway, but Marshall denied this. He said the purpose of his visit was "purely military"
 Both Marshall and Ridgway toured the front with It. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, commander of U. s. ground forces. Marshall said the Allied troops were Gin wonderful shape" Ridgway said the war "is going fine"
 They made their battlefront visit as big Allied guns fought a long range artillery duel with Chinese batteries in front Of Chor- won, key to the Communists stoutly defended iron triangle.
 The Chinese made a desperate effort to stem the Allied advance on their triangular storehouse. They opened 14 floodgates of Chorwon dam and two-foot wall of water swept down the Hantan river. It failed to knock out AL lied bridges and was virtually in effective.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
Enemy Casualties Korea Revised to 1.115.111

WASHINGTON, (P) - Tn e Army estimated total enemy cas- ualties in Korea through June ? at 1,115,111.
 A spokesman said this was an adjusted figure removing some errors and miscalculations since last week, when the estimate was placed at 1,133,41O.
The Nome nugget., 1951-06-08
Assessment Work Will Probably Have To Be Done This Year

According to word received from Delegate Bartlett, there is very little likelihood that Congress will pass the moritorium on assessment work on mining claims in Alaska this year. Thus, according to the law, assessment work on all un- patented mining claims must be completed by July 1st, and proof of such assessment work recorded at the Commissioners office.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
MAJOR and MRS. ]. L. MURPHY
DEPART FOR CALIFORNIA

Major j. L. Murphy and Mrs.
Murphy of Kill Devil Hills depart
ed on Thursday for Asheville
where he will attend the annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Wildlife Federation, scheduled to
begin on Sunday at the Battery
Park Hotel for four-day conven-
ton. From Asheville, the Murphys
will continue westward on trans
continental trip that will take them
to California where they will visit
their two children living in Los
Angeles and AHA, California. They
expect to return home after Christ
mas.
A member of the Mays Head
Zoning Committee, Major Murphy
stated before his departure that a
meeting scheduled by the commit
tee for his home "Hi-Winds" did
not materialize as none Of the COM
mitteemen showed up.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
8 : DAY BAPTIST
MEETING BEGINS
SATURDAY AT XII.
Lehukee Association to Be
, Guest of Providence Prim-
tive Baptist Church

At least a thousand members
maybe three thousand members
of Primitive Baptist Churches of
Eastern North Carolina are expect
ed to attend the three-day conven-
ton beginning Saturday at Provi-
dence Church at Kitty Hawk.
Kitty Hawk church is 81 years
old but its present large church
building was erected about 80
years ago.
J. P. Tingle of Grantsboro is the
elder of the Kehukee Association
which embraces this area of
the state. About 80 preachers are
expected to attend, and most all
of them will speak.
A. D. Tillett of Kitty Hawk is
clerk of the church which has 2a
members. The citizens of Kitty
Hawk will entertain the visitors
and great preparations have been
made. This is the first time in the
history of the 186-year-old Associ-
alton it has met on the coast of
the state.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
COAST GUARDS
LEAVE STATION AT.
HATTERAS INLET

AS a precautionary measure
Chief Boatswain's Mate Clifton
Austin and his crew of Hatteras
Inlet Coast Guard Station near the
northeast tip of Ocracoke Island
were evacuated late Wednesday af-
ternoon to nearby Hatteras. The
Hatteras Inlet station, site of the
first of the old U. S. Life Saving
Stations on Ocracoke is no longer
considered safe during severe
storms due to beach erosion which
has in recent years destroyed part
of the station yard bulkhead and
placed the highwater mark close
to the buildings foundations.
The site of original station at
that location has long since been
in the surf. 1t was at Hatteras
Inlet station following the great
storm of August 1899 that the
children of personnel living there
had to convert the mule stable into
a temporary schoolheuse after the
hurricane had destroyed the build
ing that had been serving as a
school. Among the students in that
school at the time were Stanley
Wahab, Ocracoke's most success
full business man and Major Gen
eral Ira T. Wyche of U. S. Army
Retired.
The current storm originating in
the Gulf of Mexico which resulted
in hurricane warning being dis
played between Manteo and Hat
teras, (even though the winds new
er came anywhere close to hurri-
cane velocity also resulted in the
evacuation of the Atlantic Life
Boat Station south of Drum Inlet
on Core Banks in Carteret County
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
NEW FEATURES
PROMISE THRILLS
AT STATE FAIR

A "new look" will greet the
more than quarter-of-a-million
visitors to the 1851 N. C. State
Fair to be held in Raleigh Octo-
Der 1920, according to DIR. J. S.
Dorton, the fair manager. This in
cludes construction on the man.
moth livestock judging arena and
exhibition hall which is the center
of the 100000 expansion pro-
gram at the fairgrounds, plus
many new program features plan
ned for this years fair.
The "Fair of Tomorrow" expan-
sion program will not be complete
until 1852, but one unit-a Youth
Center to house rural boys and
girls who show, judge and exhibit
farm animals and other products
at the fairgrounds-will be ready
for use this year. Sidewalk con-
tractors" will find construction on
the ultra-modern, 9,500-sea arena
an attraction.
New program features at the
1851 fair include: A cow-milking
contest between Governor w. Kerr
Scott and Commissioner of Agri-
culture L. Y. Ballentine on Thurs
day afternoon. Both are prominent
dairymen and they have challeng-
ed one another to a milking con-
test.
An accuracy bait-casting contest
on Wednesday morning, and an ex-
hibit of homemade artificial lures,
will be new attractions designed
to appeal to the multitude of fish
ermen in the State. Entries in these
See FEATURES, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05

seconds later the first fish, one that
weighed more than 10 pounds, was
reeled to the surface.
Then fish after fish (all Sleeps
head) were taken. Finally the ang-
lers were tired out. They gave up.
Their catch during the few hours
they fished totaled II, average
weight 5 pounds each. Never had
they experienced such fishing.
Mays Head.-Dave Roberts, out
door and travel editor of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer has been spending
several days on the North Carolina
coast getting material for stories
which will result in making many
a mid Westerner want to come 70
Mays Head for the fishing or for a
vacation.
This is not Dawes first trip to
the North Carolina coast. He wedg-
es a trip in to some section of the
coast just about every year. The
trips are wedged in between his
tricks by plane or ship to Mexico,
Alaska, South America or Europe.
He is travelling just about all the
time, and his trips, mostly fishing
trips they ares tae him all over
the world.
The last time Dave came to
Mays Head was to attend an Hon.
korary Tar Heel meeting. That
was during the Spring of 1850.
Later he returned again to North
Carolina spend some time with Ak
son Smith at his hotel in Belhav-
en- and lodge at Mattamuskeet. In
between times he had taken flight
to South America to do some fish
ing, trip to Mexico to catch some
of those fabulous Pacific sailfish
and hunting trip to Alaska.
Already this year he has been
to Germany and other European
countries to fish. Like Ray Camp
of New York Times, the out of
country trips he takes are on as
signment from his publishers for
whom he does the travel and out
door columns.
His column is probably read
more than any other hunting and
fishing column in the middle Yves,
If he writes about catching a chan
mel bass at Ocracoke or Mays
Head, or large mouth bass in
the fresh ponds of Colington Is.
land, or deer hunt or duck shoot
ing at Belhaven or Mattamuskeet
the hotels and chambers Of cont
merce start getting a lot of mai
almost Immediately from persons
| who want to make reservations fol
hunting or fishing in the area hs
| has written about.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
UNIQUE HISTORY
OF PEA ISLAND
HIGHWAY EFFORT
State Can Have No Excuse
For Further Delay in
Building Final Link in
Coastal Route

Washington, D. Chat long
sought all-weather road down the
Outer Banks of North Carolina 10
Cape Hatteras is big step nearer
to final realization Wednesday.
The House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee gave tire
green light to a bill Of Rep. Her
bert C. Bonner that would assure
the State Of right-of-way
through the Pea Island game reser-
walton between Hatteras and Ore
gon Inlet.
Bonner said that he introduced
the measure at the request of the
North Carolina State Highway
, Commission, which plans to build
a highway through the reserva-
ton within the next year. When
this six to seven miles stretch is
completed, Bonner said, it will pro-
vide a hard-surface road Ink be-
tween Cape Hatteras and the Ore
gon Inlet Ferry at the opposite
end of Hatteras Island providing
a connection with the mainland of
North Carolina.
The Congressman said he intro
duced the bill, although he person
ally believed it was not needed as
there has been a public right-of-
way through this property for
many years-even before the fed
eral government obtained it from
private owners.
1t will take nearly 10 acres of
land to make the right OF way for
the road. The old trail now used as
public road, is less than a tenth
of the 100 feet the state road re-
quires.
every much to my surprise,
said Bonner, "the Interior Depart
ment came up with an amendment
that would have required the State
of North Carolina to pay the feder-
al government for the requested
right-of-way.
"I objected to this most vigor-
ously, for / couldn't see any sense
to the government trying to charge
the State for something the gov
eminent had never owned. There
has been a road right-of-way
through there for years.
Bonner did accept an amendment
providing that, where the old road
was Strengthened for the new road
the State would give the title to
the "meandering" aud unused
portion of it's old right -of-way q
the federal government in return
for a State title to the new, uriliz-
ed right-of-way.
Bonner said the completed paved
road to Hatteras would offer ar
attractive and convenient route to
fishermen and tourists as well as q
valuable added link TO The nations
strategic highway system.
He said that no opposition is ar
ticipated in the house, and that
Senator Willis Smith iD-NC) has
introduced companion bill in The
Senate.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
BOARD SETTLES
WITH SHERIFF
FOR 1850 TAXES
Tax Collections For Year
Amount to $94,961 OF;
Fall Jurors Selected

Settlement of the 1850 tax &C.
count with the Sheriff of Dare
County, and drawing of the Jur-
ors for the fall term of Superior
Court were among the important
items of business for the Board
of Commissioners of Dare County
Tuesday.
Sheriff Frank Cahoon's settle
ment revealed he had collected
$94, 961.07 of the total levy of
$107, 2O2.2O. The balance was rep
resented by errors of $546.75, re-
leases $1,O19.32, insolvents $780,
81, land sales certificates $9,556.17,
In other words, taxpayers ow-
ing nearly ten thousand dollars al
lowed their property to be adver-
tised and sold for taxes.
Twelve women were among those
chosen for jury duty at the forth
coming October term of Superior
court. The list is as follows:
Retta Morgan, Avon; Rennie G
williamson, Manteo; Richard L.
Mann, MAINS Harbor; Harold
Wise, Stumpy Point; Carl P. Nun
namaker, Jr., Manteo; Mrs. Aida
Francis, Manteo; Leo E. Midget
Manteo; Robert L. Austin, Wan
cheese; Turner Twiford, East Lake;
Earl v. Tillett, Wanchese; Ruford
See SHERIFF, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
LIGHT DOCKET
is SCHEDULED
IN COURT TERM

The October term of Superior
court will open in Swan Quarter
Oct. Is, with a comparatively light
calendar. The jury panel follows:
Swan Quarter-Edward Cutrell,
Albin B. Emory, Hezie Brown,
George B. Williams, Jack A. Lup-
ton, Preston Jones, Carney B,
Brown, Seth B. Harris and R. D,
Harris. I
Lake Landing-Clifton McKin-
ney, Oscar Payne, Limmy M. Ca
hoon, William A. Marshall, Will
liam B. Hodges, Dennis Selby,
Thomas B. Balance, George Avery
Gibbs, Perry A. Spencer, Thomas
r. Spencer, Wilton A. Gibbs, Lew
is O'Neal, John II. Patrick, May
Harris, Lem L. Gibbs, Thaxton M
lnard Meekins, Golden Mooney, Car
Satterthwaite and Seth w. Gibbs
Currituck-T. A. Jones, H. S
Morris, D. d. Spencer, Cecil Jones
b. w. Morris, Andrew Alcox
Cleveland Clark, r. e. Waters, r
w. Green and Keith Dunbar.
Fairfeld--Lonie w. Gibbs, Tho
masl Cox, Linsey M. Gibbs, vii
liam $. Spencer.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
HARD SURFACE
is PROVIDED
IN ENGELHARD
Road Through Nebraska to
Last Chance Is Also to
Be BIacktopped

ENGELHARD. -Three residence
streets have been blacktopped in
the last week and the state high
way department is now working
on the road from Engelhard
through Middletown, White Plains,
Nebraska and Last Chance. There
is also a probability that the sur
facing will be continued to Gull
rock.
Gravel has already been spread
as far as Nebraska.
The street from Tony Spencer's
store in Engelhard through the
residential section to the intersec-
ton with Highway 264, east Of
Harold Jarvis store has been
blacktopped.
Another project already com
pleted is the street from Bill Har-
vey's place Of business, which
swings through residential area
to connect with the other street
In addition, the street from
Highway 264 to Harry Jarvis
shrimp house also has been black
topped. Only q year or two age
this was hardly more than a wagon
track and people had to walk from
the highway to the shoreline.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
AS REPoRTED RY AYcocK BROWN

Portsmouth, N. C.-If you go
fishing here or at nearby Ocracoke
hoping to hit the blues, Spanish
Mackeral, channel bass or cabio,
but fail to make catch, do not
give up hope. Get yourself a buck
ct full of mud-fddlers for bait
and go Sheepshead fishing here at
Portsmouth at the old fish factory
site adjacent to Casey's Island.
That is the spot not far offshore
in Pamlico Sound where the mail
boat stops to discharge mail and
passengers every day. 1t is now
said to be the best place to catch
Sheepshead that one can find in
Pamlico Sound, including Castle
Rocks, and other rocks in the vi
cinity of Beacon Island.
A sample of the Sheepshead one
can catch there when they have an
experienced guide like some of the
old-timers of Ocracoke was shown
on the past wee end when Wayland
Sermons, Washington tobacconist,
Skinny Winfield and George Par
kkker found fishing conditions un-
favorable for channel bass and
blues. They had heard about the
Sheepshead fishing over here
across the Inlet from Ocracoke,
but they had never tried it-so
they did.
Their guide was 74-year-old
Jones Williams who could remem-
Der the days when Sheepshead
were very valuable commercially.
He didn't know why the once ia
NOUS food had decreased in value.
May have been the same as Dia-
mond Back terrapin which during
his lifetime and before Prohibition
had sold for as high as 500 per
dozen. That was back in the days
when terrapin were considered a
delicacy in the famous eating and
drinking restaurants of northern
cities. Sheepshead in those days
brought prices almost as high as
large pompano bring today. But
the demand for them ended and
today when Sheepshead when sold
commercially bring only fraction
of what they once brought.
If the Sheepshead had not been
biting at the old fish factory site
off Casey's Island, Captain Will
liams would probably have taken
the Washington anglers on over to
Shell Castle Rocs. But that was
unnecessary. No sooner had their
fiddler-baited hooks been dropped
overheard than the first Sleeps
head struck. Sermons, telling about
that first fish later said it appeared
that the hook had gotten fouled up
lin a submerged piling at first
Gradually It gave way, and few
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
TOURIST BUREAU
WORKING TOWARD
IT'S $4,000 GOAL
Program to Begin October
IS; Aycock Brown APP
proved for Director

A full-time program of county
wide publicity for Dare will be in
auguarted October 10Th, it was an
nounced following meeting of the
Directors of the newly organized
Dare County Tourist Bureau in the
Courthouse Monday, Secretary
Treasurer, David Stick announces.
The Directors set up an execu-
tive committee composed of Chair
man Lawrence Swain, Mr.. David
Stick, and Director Wallace Nc
Gown, and authorized the commit
tee to offer the post Of News Direc-
tor and Bureau Manager to Aycock
Brown. Later that same day the
executive committee members met
with Mr.. Brown and made arrange
ments for him to ,,egin work for
the new Bureau on q fuil-time bas-
is beginning October 18th. This
date was set because Mr.. Brown
said that it woald take him several
days to sever all of his prior COM
mittments.
Though the Bureaus budget Of
$4,000 for the firstyear of opera
ton had not been completely sub
scribed at the time of the meeting,
seven of the Directors and Officers
present agreed to obligate them
selves to collect the balance need
ed.
According to the Treasurer's re-
port at the meeting a total of 49,
615 had been definitely subscribed
at that time, leaving a balance of
1885 for which the seven men
assumed responsibility. A number
of potential investors in the Tour
list Bureau, including more than 70
business establishments outside Of
Dare County, and others on the
Dare Beaches, Roanoke Island, the
mainland and the Outer Banks, had
not been heard from at the time
this figure was released.
The program set up by the Tour.
list Bureau calls for impartial pub
licity for all of Dare County on q
See BUREAU, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-10-05
: TARPON CAUGHT AND
WOMAN LANDS DRUMFISH
By DAVE WEST

It's a rare event when anyone
fishing in waters north of Florida
lands a tarpon, the fierce fighting
game fish of the deep sea. When
anyone lands two within a few
minutes of each other, IFS even
more unusual. But Raymond Bas-
nett of Buxton went beyond the
merely unusual on Tuesday even
ing of last week by Keeling ir two
large tarps near the point below
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse-and
what's more, he did it ishing from
the beach.
No one in the Buxton area
can recall single case of tar
pom being taken off Aatteras Is
land by anyone who was surf
casting. But doing the exception
al with rod and reel is nothing
new for Basnett. Last year. for
example, he was the only local
angler to catch any striped bass.
After landing the two big fight
ers, Basnett hooked two others and
brought one clear in to the shore
before the whopper snapped the
line and got away. Battling fou1
tarpon in a short space of time is
enough for anybody, and Basnett
said that if he had hooked another
he couldn't possibly have landed it.
he was so nearly exhausted from
the exertion of landing the first
two and fighting the third to the
beach's edge.
The larger of the tarpon measur-
ed 5 fit. 6 inches in length, q
inches in girth and weighed So
lbs; the smaller weighed AZ lbs
Fishermen who long to tangle
with tarpon may be interested il
the details of Basnett's equipment
he used a Calcutta pole, Penn
Squidder reel, 45-lb. tes5 Colder
Dto line, and No. A Hopkins
Squid lure.
EverybOdy's Having Luck
Fishing off Hatteras Island has
been extraordinarily good for the
past few weeks. Many fishermen
have made big catches of bluefsh
and the channel bass have been re.
spending to all the good fisher
mems lures. Later the same even
ing that Basnett hooked the tar
pom, Mrs. Maude White, fishing g
mile OF so north of Basnett
brought in 81 Id. drum, and hel
big channel bass has beell repre-.
sentative of the kind of catches
great numbers of anglers have
been making lately