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proceedings to win his freedom
from the Browns, when Commis-
sioner Chandler called him and
interceded with the then owner,
Bill Dewitt. Widmar got con
siderable raise" and reported 10
the Browns.
Umpire Tells of Firing.
Stewart plunged into his story
after disclaiming any animosity
toward any one in baseball and
thanking the subcommittee for
giving him his first chance to let
the ball players know he had not
been fired for misdeeds.
His troubles, he said, began at
Griffith Stadium on July 20, l945,
when he was called to the UNI
pires' dressing room to talk to the
then Commissioner Chandler.
Son." he quoted Chandler as
telling him, Il want to help the
umpires. AS commissioner OF
baseball. I want to help every
body"
At the Senate Office Building
the next day, he said, Chandler
wrote out for him a proposal to
raise umpires' salaries. He said
Chandler told him to sound out
his colleagues and bring him back
q report.
A few weeks later in Boston, he
said, he got a telegram from
Harridge firing him. No explana-
ton was given in the telegram, he
said, but next day he reached
Harridge and was told he had
been disloyal to the umpires and
to the league.
Chandler, he went on, arranged
for a hearing at which the then
commissioner admitted that So
Letting the umpires was his own
idea and not Stewards. The for
mer umpire said Chandler ZAP
pealed" to Harridge to reinstate
him, but Harridge said. Il just
don't want him." and Stewart was
allowed to say nothing at all.
Are Subject to Pressure.
Stewart said the umpires should
be taken out of the jurisdiction o1
the league presidents because the
latter are chosen by the owner!
and are subject to pressure from
them He said he knew of in.
stances where umpires were pre-
vented from umpiring games
played by certain teams because
the owners Of those teams pro-
tested their decisions.
Block, now an insurance under
writer in New York, testified th'
minor league players are definitel!
dissatisfied. He warned that con
ditions in the minor leagues ar
making baseball crumble at it
foundations, that the development
of players has been retarded ant
that if conditions aren't changed
Gin 10 years bush leaguers will b
playing in the major leagues"
An earlier witness yesterday
Clark Griffith, president of tn
Mats, was beaming by the end o
his testimony when Subcommitte
Counsel E. Ernest Goldstein toll
him the Washington club 'stand
very well" on salaries compare
with other major league clubs.
"Any members of the pres
here?" inquired Griffith. Thel
spying Burton Hawkins, The Star
baseball writer, he added, "Te
that to HawkinS"
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eral other coaches conducted box
ing clinics for American service
men. LaFond and Reynolds. both
of whom also referee for the Dis
trict Boxing Commission. were
impressed by the japanese enthu-
siasrn for sports.
The two Travelled $4,000 miles
in 81 days and participated in
four clinics, the last for the Japa-
|nese. Programs covered all phases
|of boxing from training and
coaching through officiating and
Evening star., 1951-10-16
Fights Lost Night
BY the Assoeiofed Press

HOLYOKE, Mass-Johnny Bratton
159Ea, Chicago. knocked out Wilbur vii.
son. 1857. Poston 90.
BOSToN.-WaIter Cartier. 1872, New
York. knocked out Joe Rindone, 164h
1oiise opiiRsoev11pENeE. R: bob ,l Baker, ;;s 2ss. Z!
I'll. East Orange. N. J; QO.
NEW oRLEANs.--Jackie Graves. 1904
Austin. MINI. outpointed Proctor Helm
NEW YORK.-Jackie oBrien. 14224
Meriden. Conn, outpointed Alfredo il
Grutta, 140a4. Torino,. Italy (Sl.
Havana. Cuba. and Armand savoie
ToSRoNTo.-soliy Cantor, 1851, To
ronto, outpointed Alan McFator. 1854
Toronto ~
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CeQar IT. Light
Sun. The early
birds, off Of
Poplar Isl &
Sharp's Isl did
good too. East
ern Bay was a
big dissap-
p oint m e n t
Sum-, however,
Sat. was just
the opposite.
The a n glers
u ng soft
c r a BIS nd
nh r~ ~S~
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Smith and DeIgert Gain
Women's Tennis Finals

Mildred Smith and Joan Del
CERT will meet Dorothy Heron
and Dore Martin in Saturdays
finals Of the women's doubles ten
mis- tournament at Edgemoor Club.
Miss Smith and Miss Delbert
won their semifinals match yester-
day over Kay Baker and Marge
Hammond, 6-3, 316, 60.
Evening star., 1951-10-16

h ] { { e RS q n q
haven't learned
to get tn ir
bodies behind
their punches. "
The Catholic
University box
ing coach and
director Of ath-
letics returned
recently fro m
Japan where he.
Charley Reyn-
olds, Boys Club
Of washington
director Of ath-
leticsN and sew
Evening star., 1951-10-16

Japanese fighters are good
boxers and they keep busy
from bell to bell," Eddie La
Fond said. "but they're arm
Evening star., 1951-10-16
TACKLE FISHING
BY "Salty" Mile

Most of the party boats in the
Bay over the weekend did pretty
good. I understand, a few big
whoppers were taken off Of the
Evening star., 1951-10-16
Roller Derby
BY the Associated Press

Brooklyn, 20; Jersey Jolters. Is.
tOnly game scheduled.)
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WILDLIFE COMMISSION
STOCKS DARE STREAM
5000 Fihgerling Bass Placed in
Martins PIT Creek Near
East Lake

In accordance with previously
approved plans,t he Wildlife Re-
sources Commission has complet-
ed stocking Of 5000 bass averaging
2 inches in length, in the waters
of Martins PIT. Creek, East Lake.
These fish were produced at the
State Fish Hatchery located near
Fayetteville. District Game & Fish
Protector ]. B. Balance directed
the release of the fish and solicit
ed assistance from members of the
local wildlife club and other inter-
ested sportsmen. Those participat-
ing in the stocking were: Dan Hill
debrand, Portsmouth, Va, B. J.
Cohoon, Elizabeth City, w. M.
Brown, Kill Devil Hills, Mr.. Will
liams of Durham and j. B. Bal
lance.
The Wildlife Resources Commits
sion points out that the cooperative
effort of all those interested in the
States fish and game resources
will be required to bring about bet
ter fishing, the favorite outdoor
recreation of so many Americans.
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ITO AT MACS HEAD
FOR ROTARY MEET
Thirty of 81 District Clubs Rep
resented at Conference Sun
day and Monday

One hundred and seventy people
representing thirty of the thirty
seven Rotary clubs in the district
registered for the Rotary confer
ence held a Mays Head Sunday and
Monday. The chief event of the
convention program was the Fei-
lowship Dinner held at the Caro-
lnian Hotel, featured by a hui
morous speech by Edmund Hard
ing of Washington.
Mr.. Harding was introduced by
John Park of Raleigh. former Dis
trict Governor; other Rotary not
ables presented were retiring dis
trict president H. B. Spruill, in
coming president DIN Broadway
of Henderson and past district
president Sherwood Robertson of
Robersonville. The speech of well
come in behalf of the Manteo Rot
airy club, host for the conference,
was made by Wallace H. McCown.
At the morning session on Mon
day, DIR. c. Sylvester Green of
Chapel Hill was the main speaker;
he addressed the group on the sub
ject TUNED to Fundamentals"
Other speakers were E. Norfieet
Gardner of Henderson, M. J. Bird
Of Wilson and Budd Smith of Wake
Forest.
At the final session. Monday aft
ernOon, J. G. Cooper of Henderson
addressed the representatives on
international Service"
Final event before adjournment
was brief talk by District Gov
Elect OIin H. Broadway.
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THREE YOUTHS REGISTER
WITH DARE BOARD IN MAY

Robert Max Gray of Avon, So
lon Peele Tolson, Jr., Of Frisco
and Burtis Bernard Hooper of Sal
vo were eighteen-year-olds regis
tering for the first time with the
Dare Selective Service Board dur
ing May. Gray is employed as a
machinist at the Naval Air Station
in Norfolk; he is the son of Robert
Watson Gray Of Avon. Hooper is
employed as a fisherman by his
father, E. d. Hooper.
Notice of enlistments of Dare
Countians received by the local
board during the last week were:
Henry Oswald Simmons, 20, Ne
gro, Manteo, Air Force; Garfield
Curles, 10, Kitty Hawk, Coast
Guard; and two Coast Guard en-
listees from Kitty Hawk, both be-
low the registration age, Pernell
JackIin Perry and Wayne Waverly
Perry. The latter three enlistees
were assigned to Cape May, N. ].
Coast Guard Station for boot
training.
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Miss Bessie Catherine Draper
has been Public Health Nurse for
Dare County longer than that po-
sition has been held by any other
person. She came here from Will
liamston in Martin County to be-
gin her work on July 1, 1910.
In the eleven years that she has
served this county, Miss Draper
has become known to as many
Dare citizens as any lifelong resi-
dent could hope to do. It would be
no exaggeration to say that "she
knows practically everybody" ard
it would be close to the literal
truth to say Everybody in Dare
knows Miss Draper" She has to
know almost everyone; that's the
kind Of job a public health nurse
has. calling on people all over the
county and meeting many others
at the Health Office. Certainly no
other woman nj Dare knows as
many people as Bessie Draper.
1000 Miles Per Month
Miss Draper makes at least one
trip to the communities on the
mainland, Mays Head, ColingtOn
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-15
VIRGINIA POWER
GROUP COMING
TO MACS HEAD

A group of employees of the
Appalachian Electric Power Com
pany of the Roanoke, Va, district
have chosen Mays Head for their
summer outing, and have booked
accommodations at the Arlington
Hotel August 5th to 9Th. They
mprise representatives from
Western Virginia and West Vir-
gfnia, and will be headed by Lawr-
ence L. KoOntz, System Rural Sup
ervisor, of Roanoke.
Another interesting group, spon-
sored by the Rocky Mount Chamber
of Commerce, is the Rocky Mount
Choral Society which will sing at
The Lost Colony July 2, and win
spend the period of the end to the
4th at the Arlington. Carl Slough
is director of the group.
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BRIDGES HOTTEST
SUBJECT WEST
OF ALLIGATOR
TYrrelI and w shington
County People Displeased
At Needless Economic

More than any place in the state,
distress is manifest in TyrrelI and
Washington counties at the failure
of the state to bridge Alligator
River and Croatan Sound, and
which situation is believed to be
keeping the people out of huge
economic gains and development.
Travel along US. "a, the "Ocean
to Ocean Highway" in these counl
ties today, and you'll find more
people red hot over this neglect on
the part of the state, than on any
other subject. More than one per-
son says the next group of candi-
dates coming through these coun-
ties will get pinned to the board
and be made to answer some
pointed questions.
The trickle of business that has
been coming through on the mad
equate ferry schedules forced upon
the people of the region, despite
all their pleas, has convinced them
thoroughly that there is serious
need for bridges, and that there
See BRIDGES, Page Eight
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CROATAN SHORE COTTAGE
OWNED BY MRS. MACON

Mrs. Lucy II. Macon, wife of Ma
jor General Robert G. Macon of
Fort Monroe, Va. has recently,
bought the cottage on Croatan
Sound, Roanoke Island, owned by
the late Carl Meekins, and it is be-
ing occupied this summer by the
family of DR.. E. P. Douglass of
Elon College. The Macons plan to
spend some time in it September.
General Macon's father was born
on Roanoke Island, the house
stands on land that was originally
a part of his great-great grand
fathers estate.
Mrs. Macon is native of Missi-
ssippi, and as a good Army wife
has moved about in many parts
of the world. Since the war she
lived for some time in Russia
where General Macon was military
attache. He commanded forces in
North Africa and received the
German surrender at the battle Of
the Bulge,
Last week, Mrs. Macon visited
Roanoke Island for the fourth time
this year, and was accompanied
by the General, and also Major
General and Mrs. Max BeasIey Of
Fort Monroe. They spent time Wis
ting at Mays Head and Southern
Shores.
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BEACH FIRMS
ON THEIR TOES
FOR BUSINESS
Business Really Up to Date
Including a Nursery for
the Little Folks

Noteworthy is the latest adjunct
to business on the beach. 1t is Mrs.
Hal Daniels Kiddie Nursery where
folks who come to the beach to
rest and get out-rOmped by their
kiddies can have them properly
cared for at reasonable rates. This
new venture is located about three
miles south of the Wright Memoir
ial. Mrs. Daniels, a former Dare
County Home Agent, has installed
complete facilities to take care of
children by the hour, day or week.
This goes to show just how far
the beach business people are gO-
ing to provide the Mays Head-hit-
~ Hawk area with the most up
to date advantages. This week,
some 10 firms on the beach are
advertising in these columns.
These include a number of the
best of hotels, the Arlington, the
Croatan, the Edgewater and the
Sportsman; good tourist courts like
the Miramar, the newly opened
Mays Head Motor Court, and
Leary's Motor Court, all providing
the best of accommodations.
There are mighty good stores on
the beach, and these include the
See BEACH, Page Eight
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A party attended by So members
of the Manteo Teen-Age Center
was staged in the Community
Building last Saturday night as
the last event of the organization
which will now be closed for the
summer.
The Teen-Age Center has been
providing a meeting place and
wholesome recreation for the is
land young people since NOvem-
Der 4, 1850, when it was opened
with 40 members. The popular
ity of the recreation center is
demonstrated by a comparison of
the total membership last No
vember with the los teen-agers
who held membership cards
when the center closed on June
9.
The center has been a coopera-
tive project all the way. The Man
teo PTA was the sponsoring or
ganization, and the rent for the
room in the Community Building
was paid by the County Commits
sioners. Interest has been preserv-
ed by the cooperation of parents
who have given their time to serve
as chaperones on Friday and Sat-
urday nights, when the club met.
Perhaps more responsible for the
center's success than any other
persons have been three ladies of
the PTA: Mrs. Balfour Baum,
chairman of the Teen-Age Center
Committee; Mrs. John Allen, hos
tess at the center; and Mrs. Law
renee Swain, treasurer.
These ladies put into the plan
ming and all the plain hard Work
necessary to operate the center
properly a degree of enthusiasm
that rivalled the spirit of the teen
ayers themselves. Parents of teen
age children should be grateful to
Mrs. Baum, Mrs. Allen and Mrs.
Swain for making certain that the
recreation center project worked
out successfully. The project had
been tried before, and it failed
Because of the efforts of all con-
cerned, the present center has op.
Grated, if not without a hitch flor
no doubt, those responsible got
many a headache for their efforts)
at least without a single incident
that could cause anyone to be crit
ical Of what the center achieved
for young people.
Some other individuals should b
mentioned for their special effort,
in behalf of the teen-age center
Mrs. Raymond Wescott laugh
classes in stenciling; Mrs. Elme
". Midget taught sewing; Boz
Smith, square dancing; Normi
Basnight and Nevin Wescott, ball
room dancing.
Refreshments were prepared b,
the members for the Friday an
Saturday meetings sandwiches
popcorn, candy, etc. For one 0
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-15
KITTY HAWK CLUB
TO ERECT BULLETIN
BOARD IN COMMUNITY

Members of the Kitty Hawk Civ
ic Club, at the regular June meet
ing of the organization, voted to
work on two projects of interest
10th to the people of Kitty Hawk
and summer residents on the near
by | caches.
First, the club appropriated
sufficient funds to purchase ma
terial for the erection of cOm-
munity bulletin board, which will
be constructed by a committee
headed by Claude Midget and
Carlos DOwdy and placed in a
conspicuous spot near the cn
trance to Kitty Hawk. The Spe-
rife reason for the bulletin
board is to provide place whese
posters and other announce
ments- for dances, bingO, pUliti-
cal candidates, programs, etc
can be exhibited.
This step was taken since th4re
had beer considerable complaint
about such posters being placed n
telephone po:es and trees along G.. e
atside leading through the vii
lage, bu club members did not feel
they would be justified in asking
business establishments and others
to lcf.ain from putting their pos
!e;s there unless a substitute
pace was provided for them.
The Trash Problem
In addition, the club members
instituted drive to locate and ae-
quise, through gift or purchase, a
centrally located tract os land
which can be used as a general
trash dump for Kitty Hawk and the
beach. This move, like the ether,
was raj en- because the roadside has
been cluttercd with trash in recent
weeks.
Following the custom inaugural.
ed last year, the club adiJarned
for the summer, with the next reg
ular meeting scheduled for the SEE
ond Monday in September.
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and the Lower Banks per month.
That's in the most routine kind of
month; very often, she makes two
or three trips around the whole
county circuit. She averages 900, to
l 600 miles driving each month.
The figure of Miss Draper steer
ing her jeep over all kinds of
roads in all kinds of weather is as
familiar in Dare as the rural mali
carriers are along their routes.
Training
Miss Draper is native of Rocky
Mount. She received her nurses
training at Parkview Hospital in
Rocky Mount. After graduation
she was night supervisor at Park
view for four years. Training in
public health work she received at
William ard Mary College, Exten-
sion Division, in Richmond; and
had field training in Forsyth Coun-
ty. She served at Williamson as
a public health nurse before COM
ing to Dare.
Asked how it happens she has
stayed in Dare County SO much
See NURSE Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-15
HAYMAN CLAN TO
HOLD REUNION AT.
KITTY HAWK JULY
Old CoastIand Family Plans
Big Festival Wednesday,
July 18th

According to announcement of
l.. D. Hayman, president of the
Hayman Clan of North Carolina,
the annual meeting for 1851 will
be held at Kitty Hawk on the
eleventh of July this year, 10 am.
Last year the Clan met for the
first time in more than one hun
dred years at Croatan, Manns
Harbor. Many older members of
the Clan of the direct descend
ants live over in that community.
Captain JEFF Hayman, the oldest
living member of the Clan, resides
at Wanchese on Roanoke Island
The Clan includes kin-folks of the
two brothers Henry and Tedric
Hayman. Last year a brief history
was issued covering all the early
Information possible at that time.
Since the meeting last year, other
items have been obtained, and an
nouncement concerning these adj
ditions will be made when the
Clan meets in July.
Somewhat the general plan of
last year will be followed. The
local kin of Kitty Hawk will make
the necessary preparations for the
meeting such as place and some
of the highlights of the day. Not
only will the direct kin meet on
this occasion, but the invitation is
to all who may care to take off
the day and share the pleasures of
the entire program. People from
all the nearby communities and
from Norfolk and other places
other than eastern North Carolina
See HAYMAN, Page Five
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FORCE USED TO
TAKE CHILDREN
FROM MOTHER

Apparently the six months of
indecisiOn on the part of the
county officials and bouncing in
and out of recorders, juvenile
and superior courts and the Dare
and Perquimans jails finally be-
came more than the Frank De-
FebiOs could stand: on Thurs
day afternoon Mrs. DeFebiO
went to Wanchese where the
welfare department had placed
her three children and brought
them back to ManteO to take up
their post beside her at the
window Of their fathers cell.
She told welfare department
workers and the sheriff and
town policeman that they would
have to kill her before she
would let the children go back.
Before large crowd of
spectators who gathered around
the Jail, Sheriff CahOOn, from
inside DeFebiO's cell, wrested the
two older boys from his grasp
while Policeman Mitchell pulled
them away and put them in the
custody of the welfare depart
ment people. Then CahOon and
Mitchell followed Mrs. DeFebiO
across the street, then back to
the jail, and finally succeeded in
taking the younger child away
from her by force.
Negotiations had been under
way this week to release the
DeFebiOs and restore their
children to them, providing they
would leave the county. They
had been led to believe that this
was to take place on Tuesday
and again on Wednesday. But
nothing happened-until Thurs
day afternoon when Mrs. De-
FebiO forced officials hands.
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their last parties they held a King
and Queen contest, paying one cent
a vote to raise money for the cost
of the party. D. A. Rogers and
Ruby Gallop were chosen to reign
as King and Queen at the party.
What About Next Fall CD
That the center was !!'just what
the doctor ordered" for island
teen-agers can't be doubted by
anyone who takes the trouble to
ask one of the club members about
it. For most of them it is mat
ter of great regret that the center
will close for the summer. They
are much concerned to make sure
that it is reopened in the fall. In
fact, a number of enthusiasts
worked hard on their own hook to
try to keep the meeting place open
for the summer. Robert Williams,
for instance, lined up a group of
parents who agreed to act as chap
erones on Monday nights, when it
was thought it might be possible
to have the club meetings; but the
difficulties-another organization
meets in the community building
on Monday evenings, for instance
were not possible to overcome.
Activities
The young people found the CEN
ter open on Friday and Saturday
nights during the school year from
7:3O to 1880. Membership cards
cost just fifty cents, and each even
ing the members paid five cents
to cover the cost of the refresh
ments and providing juke box mu-
sic for dancing. Many kinds of rec
reation were available at the cen
ter-cards, games, ping pong and
dancing. And, in addition, it was,
as Robert Williams says, "The on
ly place we've ever had where we
could go and be with our friends
and enjoy ourselves" Miss Jackie
Forehand told US substantially the
same thing. There wasn't a fixed
See TEEN AGE, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-06-15
MAINS HARBOR CLUB
RAISES FUND OF $225

Saturday nights prize party to
which tickets were sold at 81 net
ted the sum of 1925 toward i'm
provements to the building of the
Manns Harbor Ruritan Club. Priz-
es said to have a retail value of
$500, donated by Merchants of
Manteo, Elizabeth City, Columbia
and MAINS Harbor were awarded.
The finest one, an electric Mixmas-
ter, was won by w. F. Tillett of
Mays Head. Hugh Craddock got an
electric iron. There were Sc prizes
in all. w. S. White was master of
ceremonies.
A portable drink cooler was
awarded to Bill Spruill, Highway
Engineer.
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THE LOST COLONY
BEGINS REHEARSAL

Rehearsals for the 18th season
showing of Paul's Green's sym
phonic drama THE LOST COLONY
got underway here this week under
the direction of Samuel Selden and
his assistant Clifton Britton. The
cast members will be practicing
day and night between now and
June 80.
Rehearsals are conducted under
the expert direction Of Samuel Sell
den, head of the department of
dramatic art at the University of
North Carolina. His assistant, Cliff
ton Britton, has been stage man.
ager Of the drama for the past
fonr years. In Goldsboro, his home
town, Britton heads the largest
high school dramatic department in
the South.