The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-05-04
EVERYONE WANTED 1T
DONE DIFFERENTLY
Catfish Corner Cartwheel Club
Considers Aiding Local Girl
In Publication of Her Song

Finally, after a long while, the
Catfish Corner Cartwheel Club
held a discussion as to whether
they would help a gifted local girl
get her song published. Miss Con-
solena Carter has written a song
poem, entitled, "You Are My
Heartache."
When the Chicago publishers
Douglas Karkas & Co. wrote her
they would, for 500, set it OF mus
ic, send her 100 copies, and try to
get it sung on Broadway, she was
thrilled a-plenty. Everything was
fine, but she didn't have the mon
ey.
Tuboleen Tucker thought the
Cartwheel Club should help, be-
cause of the fame it would bring
a local girl. He brought the mat
ter before the club the other night
to see if the members would raise
the money.
There were 40 different ideas
about this.
81 think we ought to take up a
collection in the club" said Car
demus Cooper.
"But we can't assess the men,
bers," insisted Tidewater Tucker.
eve get calls for money every
meeting, and maybe a lot of us
amt able to pay"
Hoochinoo Horton got up and
said: "Why not get the club to
sponsor a dance, and let the
young people put it on, and raise
the money that way?"
'How does the song go?" asked
Omega O'Neal.
Tuboleen Tucker got up, and
started to read the song. cit goes
like this" he said:
"YOu Are My Heartache."
By Miss COnsOIena Carter
"In Carolina it was the moon,
Like many another place,
That made US talk about next
June"
"Just a minute" said Klaxon
King. 81 am not in favor of this
club giving financial backing to
the publication of this song I'M
less it helps advertise Catfish Cor
ner."
what do you mean by that?"
asked Mr.. Tucker.
81 mean that instead of adver-
Using Carolina, she could just as
well say Catfish Corner" replied
Mr.. King.
Whereupon Cardemus Cooper
rose up and said he didn't see that
it was any of the clubs business
how the song was worded, just SO
it got published.
But" contended Mr.. King, with
some heat: "It's our business if
we're going to raise the money,
and am not in favor of putting a
cent back of it, unless she re-
writes the song to say "Catfsh
Corner" and also puts something
in the song about the Cartwheel
Club"
This brought some outlaws
from one corner of the club, and
one fellow was heard to say, els
that all the sense he's got ?"
The remark did not pass unnot-
iced, and several members Of the
club almost came to blows:
Rev. Essau A. Byrd got up and
tried to appeal to the Club:
Friends" he said, "are we inter-
ested in helping home town girl
get great recognition or are we
not? 1t seems to me if this case
is deserving, we ought to settle it
peacefully and friendly. Why do
we all have to have so many diff
ferent opinions to argue, and then
disagree forever because we can't
agree If this case is worthwhile,
then our community will win a
lot of reflected glory at least"
But nobody seemed to hear him.
The meeting hour had ended, and
the president declared the meeting
over, and loud arguments was
heard for some time even after
the meeting broke up, and the
members had gathered down the
street.
Tuboleen Tucker says he viii
try to bring up the matter at an
other meeting. Miss Pestie Mae
Peele has been sore at Consoleena
ever since Mr.. Tucker showed any
interest in the matter.