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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
REGISTRANTS' APPEALS
SHOULD FOLLOW THREE
RULES, BOARDS SAY

Selective Service registrants
should observe few simple rules
in presenting their cases to the
Draft Board. Robert Balance,
Dare County selective service
board chairman, and w. G. Creole,
Chairman of the Hyde County
Board and DR.. w. T. Ralph, Chair
man of the Beaufort County
Board, state that registrants and
interested persons could help the
Draft Board and themselves if
they will observe the following
three suggestions:
~ Present in writing state
ment of all facts which they be-
lieve will entitle the registrant to
deferment. This should be pre-
sented at the time the question
naire is returned. Any subsequent
change in status that might war
rant Redistribution should be re-
ported in writing. ~ File within
ten days after the Notice of Class
ification is mailed, a request for
personal appearance before the
Board, if desired. Such request
will be granted if filed within ten
days, but only one appearance will
be granted after each classified
ton. (3) Should appeal be desir-
ed, give to the local board notice
of appeal in writing within ten
days after the date of mailing of
the Notice of Classification. This
applies to the notice mailed after
either the original classification or
the notice issued after personal
appearance before the board.
The chairmen point out that OBJ
servance of these simple rules
would give everyone assurance
that the local board was fully in
formed of the facts which might
have a bearing upon the regis
trant's classification. They add
that persons who wish to discuss
a case with the Board should re-
quest an appearance at the proper
time and not attempt to discuss
it with individual Board Members
outside of the Local Board Office.
It is pointed out that such prac-
tice would save time and that the
interested parties could then be
sure that all, of the Board Mem
bers had complete knowledge Of
the facts which they wished to
present. Members of the Board
are doing their best to determine
the proper classification of each
registrant and they earnestly
request the cooperation of the
public.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
CITRUS TREES AT BUXTON
SURVIVE COLD WEATHER

Buxton on Cape Hatteras, Mar.
2.-Citrus fruit trees in this area
Jared no worse during the uncom-
monty rough winter than they did
in Florida and in most instances,
not as bad, according to house
toulouse check of Bath native
seeding and nursery-grafted
trees, numbering now about $50
trees.
Native seedlings stood the %
degree temperature somewhat
better than their somewhat PAM
pered grated cousins brought
here from Florida late last spring
and set out, one to each house in
the village. About ten per cent
of the imported stock succumbed
to unusually low temperatures
while not more than two per cent
of the native seedlings showed
any ill effects from the weather
ing they took.
Unfavorable wind rather than
low temperatures hit both hard
est though in number of instan-
ces the sap in the trees froze,
splitting the bark and killing the
tree. Older trees, some among
them as old as fifteen years and
as much as Is feet high, took the
weather in stride and are now, af-
ter a few balmy days, stirring
their buds toward bloom.
Lemons 1000 Lost
Only plants that suffered 1000
loss were lemons that half doz-
en- of the more enterprising villag-
ers had started. None of them
came through the freeze. But the
oranges, grapefruit and kumquats
generally survived with no worse
damage than Drowned leaves. Re-
ports from Florida Indicate that
in that region, even though more
elaborate gains were taken to pro-
tect them, the loss was greater.
Everybody in the community
has one or more trees but num-
Der of householders have, by pur.
chase and by seed-planting, ex.
panded their prospects to as many
as twenty to thirty trees.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02

ELLSWORTH E. BURRUS of
Hatteras was pleasantly surpris-
ed by a group of friends who gave
him a birthday party Friday
night, February %. He was 80
years old.
Games were played and refresh
ments served consisting of a
beautiful birthday cake, jello,
cream pie and coffee.
Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. David Balance, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Gaskill, Mr.. F. B. McCar-
thy, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Peele and
Mr.. and Mrs. Murray Styron.
Mr.. Burrus was born at Halter
as and has lived here nearly all
of his life. He has played an i'm
portant part in the growth Of this
community. Among his many ac-
complishments are included the
first hotel, first pavilion, first au-
tomobile, first bicycle and others.
He has one son Corlette w. Bur-
rus of Norfolk.
He brought to Hatteras the first
bicycle and later the first auto
mobile.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
WANCHESE MAN
DIES WEDNESDAY.
IN TRUCK MISHAP
"BiIIv r." TiIIett Killed Near
Kitty Hawk; Gilbert Til
lett In Hospital.

Leslie Roscoe Tillett, 48, known
to his friends as Billy" died in
stantly Wednesday night when
his 1850 Ford truck driven by
Jack Gilbert Tillett, a cousin, age
10, ran off the road near Kitty
Hawk Coast Guard Station, and
turned over. He was a highly pop
ular citizen, and had been in the
fishing business all his life, and
at the time of his death was en-
gagged in the oyster business and
had returned from a trip selling
oysters.
He was the son of the late Will
bur Mott and Colinda Alice Gallop
Tillett, and the husband of Mrs.
Leona Basnight Tillett, and the
father of two children: Gilbert
Roscoe Tillett and Lois Tillett of
Wanchese. Four brothers also
survive him. Peter, Reggie, Dali
las and Sigsbee of Wanchese,
Prompt aid was rendered by an
ambulance from Twiford's Funer-
al Home in Manteo, and Gilbert
Tillett was taken to the Elizabeth
City hospital for treatment. He
was found to have injuries about
the head and back.
The truck after running off the
road, turned over and damaged a
house belonging to Miss Claudia
Sanderlin of Kitty Hawk.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
FIVE DARE MEN REPORT FOR
INDUCTION NEXT WEDNESDAY:
FOUR GET PHYSICALS FRIDAY
Two Men from Frisco, Three from ManteO
Enter Service Next Week. One 18-Year-O
Registers During Month.

Dare county will provide five
men for induction into the service
on next Wednesday, March z, and
on this Friday, March 2, will send
four others to Raleigh for pre-in-
duction physical examinations, ac-
cording to word from the office of
Robert Balance, Dare SeIective
Service Board Chairman.
: Inductees
The men who will leave Manteo
by bus for the induction station
next Wednesday to begin their
service careers are: BERTHE B. Bar
nette, %, Frisco; Murray L. Far
row, %, Frisco; Major Scarbor-
ough Spencer, 20, Manteo (C);
Percy Leon Daniels, 20, Manteo
(C); and William B. Blackmond,
20, Manteo co..
Dare countians who will catch
the six am. bus to Raleigh on
Friday morning for pre-induction
physicals are: Earl Cunningham
Whidbee, 10, Salvo; Leroy Bow
ser, 25, Manteo (C); and Theo-
dore R. Meekins, 81, Manteo CO..
On other man, Alfrod Smith Pugh,
q, formerly of Salvo, will report
at Raleigh from Reedsville the
same day.
New Registrant
The Board recorded the regis
tration of one 18-year-old during
February. Cecil Lee King of Duck,
student at Kitty Hawk high school
and son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
James King, registered for the
first time.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
MELVIN DANIELS
KITTY HAWK CLUB
SPEAKER MONDAY

Melvin Daniels, Register of
Deeds for Dare County, will out
line the duties and functions of
his Office in talk before the Kit
ty Hawk Civic Club at the Kitty
Hawk School Monday night.
The program, first in a regular
monthly series designed to ac-
quaint the members of the club
with the way in which the county
government is set up and operat-
ed, will begin at 1880 sharp.
Linwood Tillett, chairman of
the committee in charge of the
series of programs, announced
that Mr.. Daniels had agreed to
devote fifteen minutes to a con-
else, factual report on what he
and his staff are supposed to do or
not to do, and then answer ques-
tions from the floor for the bal
ance of the half-hour program
period.
The meeting will be open to all,
and ladies and non-members are
especially invited to attend this
first County Government" pro-
gram. Rules adopted at the last
meeting of the club provide that
the session shall begin promptly
at 7:3O and adjourn at $50, with
at 7:3O and adjourn at 1880, with
an additional half hour being de-
voted to the serving of refresh
ments and a social period.
Other business scheduled to
come before the meeting will be a
presentation of final plans for the
proposed Kitty Hawk Youth Cen
ter, and a discussion of the plan
adopted by the County Board of
Education for improvements to
the school.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
FIRE DEPARTMENT BUSY
TUESDAY AFTERNOON

Fire Chief Ivey Evans and his
men had lively time Tuesday af-
ternoon. First the department was
summoned to put out a grass fire
near the Charley Whidbee home in
Manteo; so quickly thereafter
that many people thought it was
a continuation of the same alarm,
the siren shrieked again and the
truck dashed off to fight a marsh
fire near Mill Landing at Wan
cheese. AS the truck returned to
Manteo it was in time to play tag
with the other fire department
truck and dash OF to put out a
woods fire near the airport. None
of the fires caused much damage;
but the fire department got a lot
Of exercise, and the community
got a lot Of protection. All three
alarms were turned in within an
hour in mid-afternoon.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
DRIVE CHAIRMAN
URGES SUPPORT
OF RED CROSS
Wallace McCoWn, Campaign
Director, Names Local
Directors for 1851

The 1851 Red Cross campaign
opened a drive for IS million dol
lars March 1. These funds are ur-
gently needed to carry out the
program of the Red Cross: assist
ing in disaster, obtaining blood
for use in Korea, cooperating with
Civil Defense, in preparation for
emergencies on the home front;
helping our men and women in
uniform keep in touch with fami-
lies and friends.
Each community in our county
has volunteer workers helping in
this campaign, in an effort to
raise the quota for our county, APP
proximately 100000. Meet these
workers with a smile and give ac-
cording to your ability for this
cause which has served US in the
past and is ready to serve us in
case of emergency.
Community Chairmen
The community chairman Coun-
ty Director McCown asked to help
in this work are: Mrs. Maurice
Meekins, Hatteras; Mrs. Edna
Gray, Buxton; Mrs. Mabel Meek
ms, Avon; Mrs. Charles Gregory,
Rodanthe; Mrs. Emily Smith,
East Lake; Mrs. Myrtle Tillett,
Wanchese; Mrs. Cary Baum, Mays
Head; Mrs. Louis Meekins, Col
ington; Mrs. Jesse Baum, Kitty
, Hawk; Mrs. Cary Whitson, Duck;
Mrs. Hattie Mann, Mashoes; Mrs.
Guy Mann, Manns Harbor; Mrs.
Calvin Payne, Stumpy Point; Mrs.
Lonnie Gray, Colored, people of
Manteo; Mrs. Louise Meekins,
Mrs. Frank Husband, residential
Manteo.
These chairmen or their fellow
workers will contact you for your
membership. Give them your
wholehearted support. If you are
not contacted personally, send
your membership direct to the
1851 Fund Chairman, Wallace HI.
McCown, Manteo.
You, your county. your state,
and your country will benefit by
your joining in this 1851 drive to
support the services of the Red
Cross.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
FOOLISH STUNT

A person or persons unknown to
the authorities burned two cross
es west of the intersection of
Highway 345 and the Airport
Road early last Sunday night. Be-
cause of the alertness of people in
the neighborhood, the stunt failed
to set the woods afire. The reason
for the crossAburning, if anything
reasonable could have prompted
it, is as unknown as the identity
Of the pyrotechnic experimenters.
The Manteo Fire Departments
truck was called to the scene, but
the grass fire along the road had
been put out by persons in the
neighborhood when the truck ar
rived.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
ISLANDERS TRY
FOR PLAY ROLES
HERE MARCH 16

Fryouts for roles in Paul
Green's symphonic drama The
Lost Colony, will be held in Man
teo High School auditorium on
Friday evening, March 16, it has
been announced by General Mana
ager William M. Hardy. In charge
of island casting will be Samuel
Selden, director of the show since
it's premier in Waterside Theatre
here in 1887. The coming season
will be the dramas 18th to be pre-
scented on Roanoke Island.
A local committee will assist
Director Selden with the casting
on March Is. Islanders from all
walks of life try out for parts
each season.
Oldest Cast Member
Oldest member of the cast,
Capt. John Wescott, will again
try out for casting as a colonist
in the show. He has played such
a role for the past several years.
When there is no Lost Colony
underway on the island Captain
Wescott is a commercial fisher
man. Formerly he was a coast
guardsman and at one time was
in charge of Cape Hatteras Coast
Guard Station.
Robert Midget, supervisor of
the ABC Stores in Dare, will
again try out for the part of a
18th Century soldier in the cast.
His assistant in the local store
will try out for a similar role.
Role most coveted by the teen
age girls of the island is that of
milk-maid dancers. Teen-age boys
have hopes of becoming colonist
boys or soldiers or Indians.
Several housewives on the is
land will try out for parts as col
Onist women. At least one island
er, Margalene Midget Thomas,
will probably be a member of the
Lost Colony Choir again this year.
She is the first native born island
er to have such a singing role
with the dramas famous choir.
Most of the Lost Colony roles
to be filled by islanders are nom
speaking parts, although some do
have a chance to demonstrate
their Elizabethan brogue during a
performance.
Half of the cast, and sometimes
more than that, are natives of the
island. Other islanders are mem
bers of the Lost Colony company.
For instance, a local banker is
house manager; the clerk of SUI
perior court is treasurer; land
scape architect is assistant to the
manager and takes tickets at the
gate and the box office manager is
local bookkeeper for a utility
firm. The Lost Colony provides
many jobs and most of the jobs
are given to natives of the island
on which first attempts were made
to coloniZe the New World, the
story that is told in the interna-
tionally famous symphonic dra-
ma.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
N. c. MANN SENTENCED
ON BAD CHECK COUNT

N. c. Mann of Manns Harbor
and Norfolk was on Tuesday
found guilty of issuing a check
for $2280 to E. W. Fields, Manteo
fish dealer, without sufficient
funds in the Norfolk bank in
which the check was drawn to
cover that amount. Judge W. F.
Baum sentenced Mann to serve six
months on the roads, suspended
upon condition that the amount of
the check be paid to Mr.. Fields
by Mr.. Mann at the rate of $500
per month until the total sum had
been repaid; he also assessed
Mann with the costs of court.
Wallace H. McCown, attorney
for Mann, requested appeal to the
superior court, which Judge Baum
granted with the proviso that
Mann supply bond in the amount
of $4,000.
The case was an unusual one
for the reason that the defense
did not put any witnesses on the
stand, nor did it attempt to con-
trovert evidence offered by two
prosecution witnesses. Attorney
McCown asked for dismissal of
the case on the grounds that the
state had entirely failed to prove
its case against Mr.. Mann, and
upon the further grounds that
there was reasonable doubt whe-
Their or not the defendant had
committed any breach of the law,
if indeed any law had been bro
ken by him, at a place within the
See MANN, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
STATE TO LET ROAD
TO OREGON INLET
Highway Commission AbandOns
Hatteras Island People For
Time Being

Rodanthe, N. C.-Hatteras Is
lands new strip of paved road,
though not officially completed,
has done a good job this winter of
easing the task of travelling down
the Outer Banks.
The 17-mile stretch, which
leads from the southern boundary
of the Pea Island National Wild
life Refuge, joins the 17-mile road
between Avon and Hatteras which
was built in 1947. 1t is a wonder
full help to the people, but the go
ing is still bad between Oregon
Inlet and Rodanthe.
Work on the new road was be-
gun last fall, and by the time
cold weather arrived, the con-
tractor had it in shape for use,
although it was not yet up to
State Highway Commission stan
dards, and needs a top surface.
This spring the contractor will
return-probably in mid-March-
and resume the job of chopping
up, turning, and packing the
black top to insure proper drying
While the work is going on, travel
will be rough, but the road will be
passable.
The Highway Commission has
tentatively set March for the OPP
ening of bids for work on paved
road from Whalebone south to
Oregon Inlet, which would put an
See STATE, Page Four
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
MARCH OF DIMES
TOTAL PASSES
$500 IN DARE

Mrs. Balfour Baum, county
March of Dimes chairman, an
nounced this week that 1929. 76
had been turned into the county
treasury in the 1851 anti-polio
Embarrassing drive. Returns from
one or two clubs in Manteo are
as yet incomplete, but most of the
local drives have been completed,
Mrs. Baum said. When permission
was granted to extend the drive in
Dare, state officials asked Mrs.
Baum to make every effort to
raise at least $1,000. The chair
man still hopes that amount can
be raised and asks anyone who
has not yet given to the fund to
send his contribution to the coun-
ty chairman. Last years total
was just over 5000.
The colored March of Dimes
drive in Manteo, under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Agatha Gray, was
more successful than it has ever
been before, according to the
county chairman. A total of $39.
% was collected, of which $50
was contributed by the Disciple
Church, $2.75 by the Baptist
Church, $3.50 by the Roanoke
school, and the rest was collected
by individual contributors. Mrs.
Gray was helped immensely in her
work by Mrs. Emily Mann, who
has been partial invalid for four
years; she gave of her time gen.
erously and, Mrs. Gray said, was
a great factor in making the cam
paign successful.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02
YOUPON TEA MAY BE
IMPORTANT PRODUCT
General Foods Corp. Investigating
Possibilities of Marketing a
YOup0n Beverage
By BEN DIXON MacNEILL


Buxton on Cape Hatteras-Mar
Modern Cherokee Indians,
thespians now instead of warriors,
whose ancestors used to trek 500
miles from their Great Smoky
Mountain homes to quaff coupon
tea on Hatteras Island and so
purge themselves of winters de-
bility, may presently be able to
get the same results at their near
est grocery store or soda foun-
tain. Youpon is about ready to go
commercial.
After months of test and ex-
pertinent, the. laboratories of Gen
eral Foods Corporation, which is
to eating about what General Mo-
tors is to riding, have worked out
a formula, according to reports
in general circulation around here,
and the company is now casting
about for a dependable source of
supply before putting the new
beverage on the market. There is
plenty of coupon hereabouts.
Medicinal Properties
Tests have disclosed that native
coupon tea has only slightly less
caffein than the best tea import
ed from the Orient and about the
same as the best coffee imported
from Brazil and other tropical
sources. Moreover, it has certain
medicinal qualities that offset any
undesirable factor presented by
caffein. In short, the modern lab
oratory technician has discovered
that the Cherokees knew what
they were getting for their 500
mile walk.
Whether the new beverage will
be distributed in packages like tea
or coffee, or in bottles like pepsi
cola-or maybe both-has not
been determined, according to re-
ports current here. Either way,
the corporation appears to believe
that it has found something that
the public will buy and drink and
which can be produced at substan-
TALLY lower cost than the dollar
a pound now charged for coffee in
most stores.
Main question now for the in
vestigators is whether there is
enough raw material to Justify
exploitation, and representatives
of the organization have been as
sured, and have seen for them
selves, that Hatteras Island could
take care of a lot of such new bus
mess. The coupon here is of a Wig
or and flavor not found elsewhere,
though the shrub is found all a.
long the Atlantic seaboard as far
north as the Virginia State line.
Formerly Exported
Time was when coupon tea
ranked along with fish as the ex-
port from this Island, but during
the last half century the art of
drying the leaves has been very
nearly lost. Bales of the tea used
to go out of here on every ship
that went to the markets in Eliz-
abeth City and Norfolk, and ev-
erybody drank it regularly. Now
only the oldest of the old-timers
know how to cure the leaves and
brew the tea.
Thousands of coupon plants
were set out in the Cape Hatteras
area by the C.C.C. Company that
instituted the erosion control pro-
ject here, and there are other
thousands of bushes available in
Buxton Woods. It is a relatively
fast grower in good situations and
hardy. The natives used to cut It
like hay and cure it, calculating
two years between cuttings. Mrs,
Maude Miller White, postmistress
and community leader, says that
the industry would be warmly
welcomed in revival.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02

HANS HAARDT of Hesse, Ger.
many, who is attending Engel-
hard High School and who recent
ly talked to the community's Rot
airy Club. He lives with Mr.. and
Mrs. Columbus Cutrell, and has
become one of the most popular
students. He is 10 years old, and
says he would love to live in the
United States always. Son of a
German farmer, he came to
America in June, one of two Ger
man students who is receiving ed
ucation in North Carolina.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02

LAST WEEKS WEATHER
Figures provided by U. S. Govt.
Meteorological A. w. Drinkwater
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-02

WARREN LEE TERRY, veteran
of many years on stage and in
opera has been re-engaged to play
the role of "Old Tom" Harris in
the cast of Paul Green's symptom
ic drama "The Lost Colony" dur
ing the 1851 season. He was cast
in this comi-tragic role for the
first time during the 1850 season
and won much favorable comment
from patrons Of the show, news
papermen covering the drama and
critics.
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