The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-26
Remember When?
Fifteen Years Ago
(From the TImes flIesl


sewing projects in Dare county
have done some real work, and
have finished articles valued at
approximately $732.8O, according
to Mrs. Maude White, supervisor
of Women's Works.
A wedding of unusual beauty
was performed Saturday evening,
January 10, at $3.50 in the Buxton
Methodist Episcopal church south,
when Miss Janet Gray became the
bride of William Finnegan. The
church was beautifully decorated
with a color scheme of green and
white. The altar was banked with
pine and palmettos and lighted
with white cathedral candles.
Capt. Ed Daniels, retired boat
swain of the us. Coast Guard,
who lives near Manteo, needs no
barber. Capt. Ed cuts his own
hair and makes a good job Of it.
Alfonso "Fonnie" Hassell of
Manteo has been appointed by the
federal writer's project to assist
in compiling information from
the entire Albemarle area for in
clusion in the national directory
being compiled for the whole
United States.
County Superintendent r. H..
Atkinson has two buses out of
eight in operation in the. county
with a capacity of 60 or over,
without crowding. There is bus
in use at Kitty Hawk with a nine
teen foot body and with four rows
of seats. This gives 76 feet of
seating space. Another used at
Rodanthe has a seventeen foot
body, with 68 feet of seating
space. There is a trailer type bus
in use in Currituck County, Mr..
Atkinson says, which averages
hauling 10 pupils.
One of the most interesting top
les of discussion on the North
Carolina coast today is the agita-
ton for 20 years retirement in
the Coast Guard Service, such as
the Navy men enjoy. Under the
present regulations of the Coast
Guard, a man must serve 80 years
before he may retire. 1t is esti-
mated that if the 20-year retire
men regulation went into effect,
more than so men in Dare County
stations or stations in other sec
lions, who would come to live in
Dare County, would be retired.
On the same basis of pay as in the
Navy, these men would draw more
than $4,000 per month pension A
total of between $4,000 and $4,000
would thus be disbursed in this
county.
The mfdwinter dance of the loc-
al CCC camp will be held tonight
in the camp recreational hall with
Puff's Musical Aces of Elizabeth
City furnishing the music.
81 believe the old times are COM
ing back as sure as / am alive.
Folks have lived so high and
wasted so much money and got
so deeply in debt that they arc
all going to have to come down"
So says Daniel F. Scarborough, a
fine old gentleman of Duck, of the
north end of Dare county, who
will be 73 years old this month.
The good old days he is talking
about are the days of fifty or six
ty years ago when he was a young
man and lived the free and easy
life that the people of that sec
ton then enjoyed. "The folks had
no money then and needed very
little" he says. "They raised corn
enough on their little patches to
supply them with bread. They lab
ored and worked for good gar
dens the year around. Hogs and
cattle ran loose in the woods and
on the beaches, supplying them
with plenty of meat. 1t was easy
to get plenty of ducks, geese end
other game throughout the win
ter. We ground our corn in the
little hand mills then in use in
this section. Every Sunday morn
ing as rule we had -four to eat.
A popular brand of that day was
called Drunken Dick -four, and
after eating a mess of it one felt
giddy in the head. We had school
for only two or three months in
the year, the teachers getting
from $4,000 to $500 a month.
Men who went out to find days
labor were tickled to get SOC a
day, usually working from sunup
to shutdown for that amount of
money +. Of course, Duck is a
good community now and we have
quite a neighborly set of people,
but it is no better and the people
are no happier than when they
ground their corn in a. hand mill,
worked for Soc a day, and wore
canvas shoes. They had no gas
to buy, no lipstick, no cigarettes,
and if they went anywhere, they
travelled in sailboat at no ex-
pense whatever other than their