The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
Remember When?
(From the Times fiIes)
Fifteen Years Ago

the Hatteras Development Co. by
the State Utilities Commission.
Fishermen in Dare county were
reported as jubilant this week
over the extra good catches made
in the county Saturday and Mon
day. They were also looking on
the fishing season with renewed
optimism as a result of the fish
ing activities, particularly at
Stumpy Point, where three hum
bred boxes of shad were caught
and shipped Monday of this week.
Mays Head, Northeastern North
Cardinals popular and fast grow
ing summer resort, which former
ly was a little area along the
sound shore, later spreading
across to the ocean, and now en-
bracing a distance of ten or fif-
teen miles up and down the high
way, is headed for the biggest sea-
son it has ever known. In fact, in
dications point to twice as much
business this coming season as it
had during 1885, which was the
greatest season it has ever known.
DIR. ]. C. Weeks was reported
to be out of danger at Sarah Leigh
hospital in Norfolk this week,
where he has been for the last
two weeks with pneumonia.
Two negro youths are still at
large after having made their es-
cape from the Dare county jail
Sunday night, where they were
awaiting trial before the May
term of Superior Court for beat
ing and robbing John Huter, Ger
man transient, on February 10.
The Negroes made their escape
from a rear cell on the second
story of the Jail sometime Sunday
night by saving bar and climb
ing down a rope.
The boat line that has operated
for more than forty years to Man
teo, almost without interruption,
and which has for many years
been headed by Capt. Martin
Johnson has signed a contract to
sell out to the Virginia Dare
Transportation Company at good
figure; he will become their ira
yelling agent for a number of
years.
Clamor for improved mail SER
vice will result in Hatteras re-
ceiving it's mail each day from
Manteo about noon when the new
schedules go into effect in July,
according to M. L. Daniels, who
has been awarded a contract to
run all the mail for the banks to
Rodanthe at the rate of $1,865
per annum.
l. P. Davis was recommended
for the position of case worker
succeeding Mrs. Mamie Northam
at the meeting of the county board
Of charities and welfare held here
Wednesday night. Mr.. Davis ap-
plication will be passed on by the
State Board in Raleigh.
At called meeting of the exec
utive committee of the Democrat
ic Party held here Wednesday
night, there were only three of
the fifteen precinct chairmen
present. Tom Etheridge of Manteo
precinct being present and two
others voting by proxy. There was
only one name submitted as sue
cessor to the late Dan E. Mann on
the county board of education and
so without knowing if the action
was legal in that there was no
quorum, Chairman NJ. L. Daniels
polled the votes and found three
votes for Richard Gray of Wan
CHEESE. If the legality of this cleo
ton is not contested, Mr.. Gray
will be sworn in at the meeting of
the education board on April 7.
No clues have been reported as
to the identity of the parties who
Communicated Walter Gaskill's
boat from its mooring at Wan
cheese Sunday night and used it to
fish nets. The boat was found at a
different place Monday and there
was evidence of its being used for
fishing. Most of the fishermen at
Wanchese fished their nets Sun
day and it was not known whose
nets were robbed or how many
fish were caught.
Wilbur C. Primer, for the past
several months desk clerk at the
Hotel Fort Raleigh, has accepted
a position with the Manteo Bot
Ting Co. Edgemere Duvall will
take over Primers job.
The Manteo high school boys
closed the basketball season by
winning the Roanoke howar
tournament at Ahoskie last week
Rich Square was dropped by Man.
teo by a final score of 1916. In
the semi-final game, led by the
superb shooting of Davis anc
Thyme, Manteo defeated Ahoskie
25-16.In the last quarter of the
] final game the local boys put or
the steam to beat Sunbury 1920