The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-16
Remember When?
Fifteen YER AGO
(From the Times iIles)

| 4FOllOWlng meeting OF the AL
bemarle School Masters associa-
ton in South Mills Monday night
the coaches got together and de-
cided to abandon the remaining
basketball games scheduled. This
action was taken because of the
severe weather that has caused
several of the schools to miss time
and these schools are now teach
ling six days a week. Teams will
be charged no conference fees for
the year and no cups will be a.
warded. At the same time the Goa
ches formed an Albemarle base
ball league for high schools and
the schedule will be announced
shortly. The Manteo team will be
coached by Principal R. ]. Gibson,
assisted by Martin Kellogg, Jr.
F.. A. Mitchell Hedges, explorer,
now living at Frisco, who has ta-
ken lively interest in the welfare
of the Hatteras Banks, paid his
first visit to Raleigh this week.
He met Chairman Waynick of the
State Highway Commission, told
him about the great future of the
Banks, discussed it's road needs,
and invited Mr.. Waynick to visit
him at Frisco. He also called on
the Governor to pay his respects,
and said he was greatly impressed
with the Governor and Mr.. Way
nick.
Mankind is carrying on a uni
que battle at Cape Hatteras. 1t
is one that is as old as the ages,
but has never been undertaken be-
fore in the section we speak of.
The young men in the Diamond
Shoals CCC Camp at Cape Hat
teras are laboring to prevent the
inroads of the sea.\About $50 men
and boys have been in the camp
since its establishment last sum-
mer and they have made notice.
able progress in their work to
save the beaches from further
erosion, which is to be followed
by reforestation, and, in fact,
much planting of grass had al
ready been completed.
At a meeting of the Board of
Aldermen of the Town of Manteo
held yesterday afternoon, Acie
White of Skyco was named as
the special Police Officer for
night duty. The action was taken
after all of the merchants had
signed a petition and agreed to
contribute weekly amounts to
guarantee a salary of at least $50
a month. Mr.. White will start
work Immediately and will patrol
the streets from seven o'clock at
night until about five or six in
the morning.
1t will be only matter of
few weeks before work begins on
construction of the Manns Har-
bor-S tumpy Point road. Chairman
Capus M. Waynick of the State
High lay Commission told Sheriff
Meekins in Raleigh that he will
send about 80 convicts there to
begin clearing the right-of-way
and expects to follow it with a
dragiine machine at once.
"There are quintuplets right
here in this neighborhood," Mrs.
Vernon Davis told her mother-in-
law in an excited tone Wednesday
afternoon, and then the elder Mrs.
Davis became more excited for
she could hardly believe such
story, even from her daughter-in-
law. But sure enough, over at
Mrs. NJ. L. Daniels house, there
were quintuplets-all five of them
in the garage cuddled around
Frances, the little dog of Mr.. and
Mrs. Sheik Afford.
The invasion of HitIer's Nazi
troops into the Rhineland is like
ly to furnish the spark required
to start the next world war. The
noise that the Frenchmen will
make over the movements of the
German soldiers will not be suf-
ficient to start this war, but their
movement is only one of six points
which. Hitler has stated Germany
will follow hereafter. From the
present crisis anything can hap
pen, war, breakdown of the Lea
que of Nations and all the Euro
pean treaties, or the dehorning of
Hitler. The last of these probabili-
ties is the most probable.
Manteo will be represented in
the annual Ahoskie basketball
tournament and will meet the
Rich Square quint this afternoon.
What do you suppose the bridge