The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-02-16
Remember When?
Fifteen Years Ago
(From the TImes fiIesl

"a SJOIIu CtleAt SWOpI Vic OuCOt
Banks last week caused a busy
day and night for Capt. Geo. E.
Pruden and his men of Pea Is
land Station, the only Negro
Coast Guard station in the world,
located in Dare Co. Eleven per-
sons caught in the storm and
headed off by rising waters took
refuge with Capt. Pruden, who is
without a peer as a host. The Ne
groes of Pea Island gave these
men three square meals, COM
Portable place to sleep, and when
the waters subsidized, sent them
on their way rejoicing.
The fishermen of Dare county
will be at least three weeks late
in setting their nets this season,
due to the unusually rough win
ter, ice and rains that have ham
dicapped them almost without
letup from the beginning of the
season.
Elisha Tillett, boatswain in
charge of Ocracoke Station, is be-
ing transferred to the Bodie Is
land Station, where he was for
merly number one man, and Pen
nell Tillett, boatswain's mate, is
being transferred to Ocracoke
Station as officer in charge. Pen
nell Tillett gained promotion re-
Gently, having been until his
transfer to Bodie Island No. 1
man at Kill Devil Hill.
No clues have been found by
officers here that would suggest
the identity of the person or per-
sons who entered Tarkington's
store late Saturday night and
stole groceries amounting in val
ue to approximately $25. En-
trance was gained sometime Sat-
urday night by removing back
window. mong the articles
known to have been taken were
three or four cured hams, about
twenty pounds of meat, a 48-fb
sack of flour, a dozen or more
cakes and some smaller articles.
A hole in the flour bag enabled
Mr.. Harrington to track the rob-
bers down the wharf where the
loot was thought to have been
loaded in car.
The present tendency toward
Capitalization of schools, which
has removed control from the loo
al citizens to Raleigh, and the
consolidation of schools, which has
destroyed their efficiency, and de-
stroyed interest in the rural COM
munities and has done much to
tear down our education system,
are two great evils of present day
education, according to l. P. Day.
is, president of the Manteo Par
ent-Teachers Association. Mr..
Davis, former teacher, news
paperman and politician, was
the principal speaker at meet
ing of the Albemarle JSchoolmas-
| ters' Association held in Manteo
Monday night, and his remarks
were heard by teachers from sew
en- counties in this area.
Misses Helen Duvall and Evelyn
Mann sponsored Valentine
dance given at the Hotel Fort Ra-
leigh on Valentines night.
Another touch of rough wealth
er visited the county last weekend
as winds toppled over a draft tur-
bine at the elementary school
Thursday night and caused the
schools here to close Friday. The
storage garage at the CCC camp,
which faced the north from
whence the gale was blowing, was
completely demolished about noon
Friday, when the wind caught in
the open front and lifted it off
the eight trucks which were shell
tered under it. A small chicken
house of George Halle Quidley's
was also destroyed by the wind.
Dudley had just rebuilt this
house after it had been blown
down two weeks ago.
The strong wind was accompan-
led by dropping temperature and
sleet and snow at intervals, but
Manteo did not get the white
blanket as was the case in other
sections of the state. Several per-
sons reported that eggs froze and
burst in their homes Thursday
night. ]. E. Evans had two chick
ems freeze to death the same night
in closed chicken house. The
ferries, interrupted for four days
in the last cold spell and freeze,
went on uninterrupted last week
end as did the mails to the banks.
Calvin and Ruby Payne, John
and Ed Hooper and Guthrie Fran
els arrived home in Stumpy Point
Saturday to spend the weekend
with their families after being
ice bound at Buxten for the past
two weeks.
Miss Hazel Hooper of Stumpy
Point left Saturday for Norfolk
where she will take a course in
beauty culture.
Northern fish dealers are con-
fident and expecting a big season
and good prices as a result of the
protracted freeze, according to
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