The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-01-19

would have struck him on top of
the head.
| Nowhere in the world will you
| find men who are greater exam
pies of party loyalty than the
old rock-ribbed Democrats and
Republicans of Hatteras. They
sometimes wax into vigorous and
even vicious argument, with give
and take as hard hit on one side
as the other. They are as widely
separated as the poles in their
opinions as to the merits of a
Democratic or Republican admin
istration, but this week they are
united in perfect agreement on
one subject. You will find such
rock-ribbed partisans as Wheeler
Austin and Homer Styron, and
milder and younger men like Dan
Oden and Ivy Austin, almost en-
bracing each other in denuncia-
ton of the condition of the roads
at Hatteras. Although 48 per cent
of their property taxes are for
road improvements, they find
their roads impossible, the result
of many months of service with
out any maintenance. Apparently
the highway forces have forgot
ten Hatteras. Broken springs and
other damages to cars are keep
ing one man busy, and he is MAX
ing living doing repairs for the
people of the neighborhood.
At the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Bank of Man
teo held here Tuesday afternoon
the entire board of directors was
reelected as follows: R. C. Evans,
D. B. Fearing, 2. V. Brinkley, w.
B. Fearing, L. D. Harrington, M.
X. Fearing, H. A. Greet, o. J.
Jones and R. Bruce Etheridge. AS
officers the stockholders re-elect-
ed R. C. Evans as president and
D. Bradford Fearing as vice-pres-
ident. C. S. Meekins, who has been
acting cashier since the resigna-
ton of D. E. Evans several
months ago, was elected to con-
tinue as acting cashier with John
Krider being elected as assistant
cashier. a
! Mrs Ollie Belle Mann is a young
woman who has made good. Bless
ed with good looks and a good
personality, she went to work
when her husband died some two
years ago. She didn't go back to
live on her relatives, but went to
Raleigh and took course in beau
ty culture and got a job at once.
When Miss Martha Alexander OPP
ened here beauty shop in Manteo
last summer, she needed someone
to run it who knew the people of
this section. Mrs. Mann left her
job in another part of the state
and came home and has made
great success of the beauty shop,
and is taking care of herself and
small daughter, Shirley. Of course
Mrs. Mann, who was formerly a
teacher in the Dare county
schools, before her marriage to
Bruce Mann, a fine young man of
Manns Harbor, comes honestly by
her energy and business ability.
Hnr mother is Mrs. U. S. Meekins
of Colington, who is merchant
and a woman unusually persona
hle and capable.
Mrs. ]. B. Hooker was the sur
prised honoree at her nome at
Wanchese Monday night when a
bout thirty of her neighbors came
up on her porch singing songs and
carrying a large cake in the form
of Noah's Ark. 1t was Mrs. Hook
er's birthday and the surprise had
been arranged by her daughter.
Elizabeth Hooker, who is teach
ing school at Elm City.
Rehearsals are being held each
nigh this week by the Roanoke
Island Dramatic Club on the play
zone Mad Night" by James Reach
and the tentative date of produc-
ton has been set for next Friday
night at the Manteo school audi
forum. Included in the cast are:
Mrs. Charlie Midget, Martin Kel-
logg, Miss Alice Carter, Mrs. Vic
tor Meekins, Robert Midget,
Marylin Daniels, Gilbert Mister,
Howard Thyme, Frank and Dom
mis- White, Charles Bond, Mary
Dudley and Louise Wescott.
Plans are being formulated by
R. B. Young, principal of the
Kitty Hawk school for a souvenir
shop in connection with a museum
for native Indian relics and Mr..
Young believes that in such an en-
terprise there is a possibility of
a business that will be of inesti-
mable value to the county indi-
rectly, as well as directly to the
one with the ingenuity to start it.
Car owners around Manteo sud-
denly took their cars for which
new licenses have not been bought
to the garages Thursday of last
week, when a state highway pa
trolman dropped into town to
check on the delinquent license