The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-04-13
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(From the Times files)
Fifteen Years Ago


1P. Midget, clerk of Currituck
County, by w. ]. Midget of Bel
haven last Monday, asking $4,000
actual and $4,000 punitive dam
ages and naming John A. Nelson
of New Bern, North Carolina
Fisheries Commissioner, Tom
Basnight of Manteo, Assistant
Fisheries Commissioner, the Ma
tional Surety Company, bonds
man, and Wayland Baum of Wan
cheese as defendants. The COM
plant sets forth the charges that
Thomas Basnight "steered his
boat beside that of the plaintiff
and came aboard the boat of the
| plaintiff in company with his en-
ployee, Romulus Knight, and in
formed the plaintiff that he was
the Assistant Fisheries Commits
sioner and that the plaintiff had
been accused by Waylano Baum
of having fshed his nets and
therefore he would have to take
him (Midgett) under arrest and
search his boat for stolen proper
ty." The plaintiff further charges
that he was compelled to submit
to the humiliation of having his
boat searched and that a cargo of
oysters which he was taking to
Elizabeth City to market spoiled
on his hands when Mr.. Basnight
tCwe6 his boat thirty miles back
t. Manteo and ordered him not to
move it from the dock without
permission. At eleven o'clock on
the light of the day ne was ar
rested, Midget sets out in the
complaint, Mr.. Basnight came to
him and told him there was no ev-
idence against hiG and that he
might proceed with his cargo. Be-
cause it was stormy, Midget had
t. wait until the next morning and
his whole cargo of oysters perish
ed on his hands.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton S. Harrell,
who now live in Honolulu, are for
mer residents of East Lake. Mrs.
Harrell and their two children
have Joined Mr.. Harrell in Hawaii,
where he is a machinist in the
navy.
A banquet will be held at the
Hotel Fort Raleigh here tonight
by the Roanoke Island Historical
| Association and local civic organi-
cations, together with the county
commissioners and county and
town officials, at which discus
sions will be held to complete the
setting for the executive session
of the historical association to be
held following the meeting and at
which time plans will be launched
for the celebration commemorate
ing the 350th anniversary Of the
birth of Virginia Dare.
Paul Green has tentatively
agreed to write a play around the
birth of Virginia Dare and the Sir
Walter Raleigh lost colony that
figured in the first settlement on
Roanoke Island in 1884.
| There is no cessation in the
booming of things around the En-
gelhard section of Hyde County.
The Pamlico Ice & Light Company
| is expanding its service and will
construct Immediately two more
miles of power line along the main
| highway to Swan Quarter and will
run three miles of line to the Mid
dletown section, with other ex-
tensions under consideration
| Superlatives of the senior class
! of Manteo high school were elected
at a recent class meeting. They
are: most athletic girl (tie) Mary
| lin Daniels and Mary Mann Ev-
ans; most athletic boy, Donovan
Thyme; most popular girl, Velma
Sanderlin; most popular boy, Ike
Davis; most attractive girl, Alba
Etheridge; most handsome boy,
Ben Greet; most studious in class
(tie), Melba Midget and Velma
Williams, best sport in class (tie),
Ben Greet and Melba Midget;
quietest in class, Velma Williams;
biggest fiirts, Ike Davis and Mary
Mann Evans; meanest in class,
Alba Etheridge.
| The continued fishing by trawl
boats from Virginia and other
states, too near the shore, in vio-
lation of state fishing laws, con-
tinues to disturb the fishermen.
Seven such vessels fished for sew
eral days recently within mile