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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
VANNOTE ANNOUNCES
LEGION FUND DRIVE

j. M. Vannote, active Legion
naire of Manteo, N. c., has been
named chairman for the Legion
Rehabilitation Fund campaign of
Dare County, it is announced by
Louis Parker, E'izabethtown, De-
partment Commander and Chair
man for the fund drive.
The Legion Rehabilitation Fund
is appealing for funds in Dare
County to support the activity of
the American Legion's rehabilita-
ton and service work in North
Carolina.
All funds contributed through
this drive will be used exclusively
in rendering the services required
by disabled veterans, dependent
children, widows, orphans and vet
Grams needing assistance in hand
ling claims with the Veterans Ad-
ministration, Parker said.
Under the Legion's Rehabilita-
tion Program trained men and
women devote full time to hand
ling veterans problems pertaining
to compensation, pension, hospi-
talization, education and training
home sand,s business loans, burial
allowances. insurance and other al.
Iowable benefits. Assistance tc
See DRIVE, Page Eight Al
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
ocRAcoKE PTA
PRESENTS COMEDY
Youngsters Learn Something Of
Old-Time Mischief of Grand
fathers Day

Members of the Ocracoke P.T.A.
presented a play on Friday night
the Village School-proving that
many of the participants have real
dramatic talent. Marvin Howard as
the schoolmaster, Mr.. Fuzzy-Wuz-
", and Theodore Rondthaler, sing
ing teacher, Mr.. HorseGruntle, ex-
hibited professional dignity only
sometimes diminished by the an
ties of their thirty adult school
children. The Ounce stool and the
paddle were in quite constant use,
and doubtlessly present-day school
children in the audience learned
from their parents several new
ways to annoy their teachers. Ap-
propriate recitations, songs, and
costumes added to the success of
the presentation.
The visit of the local school COM
mittee-Capt. Ike O'Neal, Mr.. and
Mrs. Murray Tolson, Mrs. w. Y,
Stewart, and Mrs. Ruby Garrish-
brought out old-fashioned cos
tunes long since forgotten. Moth
ers of three first graders-Mrs,
Sc ma Spencer, Mrs. Calvin
O'Neal, and Mrs. Harvey Wahab-
bringing their reluctant little ones
to school for the time, made big
hit. Scholars were: first graders
Kermit Robinson, Bertha O'Neal
Elizabeth G.. Howard, Calvin
O'Neal, Virginia Esham, Rebecca
Spencer, and Howard Wahad;
third grade-Monford Garrish
Eph Esham, Ellen Robinson;
fourth grade-Thurston Gaskill
Irwin Garrish, Elizabeth O'Neal
Howard, Harvey Wahab, Iva Gar
IRISH; fifth grade-Nora Gaskill
Janice Taylor, Lorena Williams
Virginia Austin, Lucille Garrish
Ben Spencer, and Jesse Garrish.
Following the presentation OF
the play, the group enjoyed an old
time square dance. Proceeds of the
play go to the P. T. A. treasury.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22

With the oceans surf as back
drop, Sara Page Jackson of Eliza
beth City will conduct her first
twirling classes of the 1852 season
here on Mays Head in June, it was
announced this week. And then,
throughout the summer she will be
teaching young majoEettes the art
of baton twirling for one week
classes in this and other states.
She is nationally famous as ba-
ton twirler and has been featured
in magazines and press releases
throughout the nation. This year
will mark her finale at Wake For
est College where she has been
chief majorette of the Demon Dea-
cons Band during her college ca
reer. She learned to twirl in Eliza
beth City while chief majorette of
that city's famous high school
band, and for many summers has
conducted twirling classes on the
beach here and in towns and cities
of the State where there are high
school bands. Already she has
booked several groups of major
cites for her summer classes.
(Aycock Brown Photo)
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22

Marine Private First Class Rog-
er V. Best, II, son of Mr.. Guy V.
Best of Stumpy Point, N. c., was
promoted to his present rank when
he was graduated from "Boot
Camp" Feb. IL. He climaxed his
recruit training by winning the
marksman medal on the rifle range
when he fired a score of 211 out of
a possible $50 during his weapons
training
During the past eight weeks of
recruit training, as result of
field experience and classroom lee
lures, the new Marine has become
versed in such military subjects as
precision drill, first aid, hygiene,
and field tactics. In addition to
firing the famed Garand rifle for
qualification, he fired other infan-
try weapons such as the As cali
bre pistol, carbine and Browning
Automatic Rifle. He also witnessed
demonstration firing of the ma
chine gun, mortar and flame
thrower.
He entered the Marine Corps on
Dec. 5, 1861. He was a recent en-
ploye of Cahoon's ESQ Service
Station as a lubricator. The last
school he attended was Stumpy
Point.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
MANTEO PTA OBSERVES
ANNUAL FOUNDERS DAY
March Meeting To Be Held At
Night; Attendance Prize For
Room With Most Fathers
Present

The Manteo Parent Teacher As
ISOLATION observed Founders Day
at its February meeting in the
school auditorium. A program in
observance of the occasion was
presented by Mrs. H. K. Tugwell,
those participating being Mrs.
Sheldon O'Neal, Mrs. MILFORD
Wise, Mrs. Edwin Midget, Mrs.
Caleb Brickhouse, Mrs. G. G. Bon
ner and Mrs. Robert Balance.
The group voted to hold the
March meeting on the first Tues
day night of next month, which
will be March a, at eight o'clock,
and an effort is to be made to get
a large number of fathers to at
tend. The attendance prize viii go
to the room having the most IA
theirs present. A social hour will be
enjoyed after the meeting.
The social hour following the
Founders Day program featured
birthday cakes with candles, punch,
minis and nuts, served from a
table covered with a white linen
cloth and conferred with an ar
rangement of camellias and fern,
with thanking candelabra holding
lighted white candles. Hostesses
were Mrs. A. @. Bell, Mrs. d. A.
Rogers, Mrs. Allen Mann and Mrs.
Robert Balance.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
WARREN URGES
CLOSER CHECK
ON SPENDING
Economy In Government Es.
sential To Economic
Survival

Statesville.-Belief that "affir-
NATIVE and aggressive action
should be taken to impress upon
those who spend the peoples mon
ey that it is NOT their money" is
asserted by Hon. Lindsay C. War
rem, Comptroller General of the
United States, in an article writ
ten for publication in a special
number of The North Carolina
Economy Advocate to be issued by
State Secretary Paul Leonard of
Statesville in connection with the
Fair Tax Associations campaign
to promote public sentiment favor
ing nomination and election OF
economy-minded candidates to
membership in our State and ma
tional Legislative bodies. A "full-
time course on the subject of The
American Taxpayer wherever the
United States bears the cost OF
educating or training officers and
employees of the Government" is
strongly advocated by Mr.. Warren
in his communication.
Warren, native of North Caro-
lima and an ardent economy advo.
cate, served as a member of the
General Assembly of his home
State and as a member of Con
gress from the first district OF
North Carolina for Is years before
being appointed Comptroller Gen.
eral eleven years ago. Leonard
who has frequently quoted War
rem in speeches, said he asked him
to write the special article ''be.
cause as head of the General Ac.
counting Office there is no man il
Washington who has rendered
more distinctive service to Ameri.
can taxpayers"
The Warren article reads in par
as follows:
with the national debt standing
at over a quarter of a trillion dol
lars, it is essential to our econom,
ic survival that the operation o.
our government be as effective ant
as economical as possible in th'
terms of expenditures. One sof til,
prime factors in achieving this OBJ
jective is the establishment o.
the principle that Congress itseli
must exercise complete contro
1 over public expenditures. The leg
See CHECK, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
FLIERS FINDING
ATTRACTIONS
ON OUR COAST
Florida-Bound Air Travellers
Offer New Business
Prospects

There's a lot of new business
available to many points on the
North Carolina coast by catering
to vacations travelling by private
plane between New York and
Florida, if we get on our toes,
thinks Silvi Speroni, New York
businessman, who was a visitor at
Manteo Airport Monday, and who
with Charles Moebus, his friend
and pilot, stopped over in Belhav-
en-, at River Forest Manor for the
night.
1t was possible for them to stop
in Belhaven because their See Bee
amphibian plane could land in the
river, and tie up on the, shore in
front of the hotel.
They left New York Monday at
10 o'clock. They stopped at Chin
colleague, Va, before arriving at
Manteo where they refueled the
plane. They swung off their course
to visit Manteo for gas because it
had been recommended them by
Carl Evers, operator of a small
seaplane base in Pelham Bay, New
York, who had been impressed with
recent publicity for the Manteo
Airport.
They too, said Manteo had a
wonderful airport. and suggested
that private fliers be informed
about it. Everyone is looking for a
new place to visit, and it would be
possible to attract many of the
North and Southbound private
filters to stop over for day, even
if they do have to swing off their
usual course.
Mondays visitors have been
visiting Florida by plane for the
past six years.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
MUSIC CLUB MEETS
TUESDAY AT MACS HEAD
Mrs. Julian OnetO Hostess to
Group at Her Oceanside
Home

Mrs. Julian Oneto entertained
the Roanoke Island Music Club
Tuesday evening at her oceanside
home at Mays Head, with Mrs. T.
D. Etheridge of Manteo as associ-
ate hostess.
The Hymn of the Month, "The
King of Love My Shepher Is" was
featured on the program, and the
origin of both words and music
was told by Mrs. Rennie William
son. Julian Oneto accompanied the
members of the club on his guitar
in an old-fashioned "sing."
During the social hour the host
esses served cherry pie a la mode,
coffee and nuts.
Guests of the club were Mr..
Oneto, Mrs. Raymond Wescott,
Miss Helen Mann and little Miss
10 Ann Balance.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
STICK OUTLINES
WRIGHT MUSEUM
PLANS PROCESS
By AYCoCK BROWN

Kill Devil Hills, N. CA mu-
scum to depict the life and accom-
plishments of Wilbur and Orville
Wright is the plan of the commit
tee headed by David Stick of Kill
Devil Hills under the sponsorship
of Kill Devil Hills Memorial So
ciety. The museum planned will be
built here at the spot where the
Wrights first flew a heavier than
air, powered aircraft, on Deem
Der II, 1908.
Main discussion at meeting of
the committee held in the offices
of National Park Service at Wash
ington last week was to study
plans for the museum which have
been drawn up by government Of
ficials of the Department of the
Interior. In attendance from Dare
County was Horace Dough, super
intendent of the Wright Memorial
National Monument here who ac-
companied Stick. D. V. Meekins,
Manteo publisher, also a member
of the committee, who has played
a major role in developing plans
for the project over long period,
was unable to attend the meeting.
Ronald Lee, assistant director of
the Department of Interior and a
member of the committee was
represented at the meeting by FL
bert Cox of the National Park
Service. Fred Kelly, authorized
biographer of the Wright brothers
and a member of the committee,
went to Washington from his Ken
sington, Nd, home and he repre-
scented Roy Miller of Dayton, Ohio,
another member and co-executor
of the Orville Wright estate. Other
committee members at the meeting
included Paul CARRIER, curator OF
the Smithsonian Institutions Ma
tional Air Museum and C. C. Crit
tenden, director of the N. C. His
tory and Archives Commission
Charles j. Parker, director of the
State Advertising Division in
Raleigh was there as personal
representative of Governor w
Kerr Scott and Ralph Whitener
who has played an important role
in planning for the museum and
organizing the Kill Devil Hill So.
ciety on national scale, repre-.
scented the Air Force Association.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
FLYING METEOR
SEEN PLAINLY
IN COASTLAND
Seemed Very Near to Every
one Who Saw It; Phe-
nomena Not Unusual
In Region.

The meteor which streaked a
cross the sky Monday like a ball of
fire, and widely reported in East
ern North Carolina and Virginia,
was witnessed by several people
in Hyde and Beaufort Counties.
Mrs. George Riddick of Belhay-
en- and Mrs. Clyde Pilley of Terra
Celia were among those who saw
this strange phenomena plunging
toward earth. The glowing object,
believed meteor, flashed through
a blue MONDAY sky over Eastern
Virginia and North Carolina and
the Coast Guard said it probably
burned itself out over the Great
Dismal Swamp.
A search, started when residents
at Suffolk, Va, reported an Sex
ploding noise" and whooshing
sound, was called off as the Coast
Guard said any further search
efforts would be useless.
The Civil Aeronautics Admins
tration at Raleigh discounted near
ly dozen reports of plane crashes
in North Carolina alone and said
the object probably was a
meteor"
Coast Guard and weather bureau
officials said if any pieces did fall
they probably were buried in the
muck of the swamp.
Reports of the bright, flashing
object, visible only for a few sec
onds, were received from observ-
ers is three states. 1t was sighted
over an area from the Atlantic
coast of Virginia to Winston-Salem
and Charlotte, N. c., and as far
south as Charleston, S. C.
Two observers in the CAA tower
at Raleigh Durham airport were
among hundreds who saw the
strange object and described it.
my first impression was that
some aircraft had fired a rocket,
but it must have been a meteor"
J. M. Bearden, a CAA observer,
said.
phyllis McKeithan, seventh
grade student at Raleigh's Thomp-
son School, reported seeing the
large meteor shortly before noon
Early last night, another meteor
was reported as flashing across the
eastern sky, travelling north to
south over Longview Gardens.)
| CAA Safety Inspector Hamilton
Gown of Richmond, Va, said he
saw a "silvery, cigar-shaped OBJ
ject" hurting toward the earth as
he was flying over Hanover, Va.
about Is miles north Of Richmond
He said he was too far away t.
determine what it was but said i
was travelling at "tremendou'
speed" in an almost vertical line
| Highway Patrolman G. r. Kirk
man of Salisbury, N. c., repOrte,
he chased a trail Of smoke in tn,
vicinity Of High Rock Dam east d
Salisbury thinking It was a burn
ing plane.
Il About 1880 a. M, highway pa
See METEOR, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
WREcKERS BUSY AS SHIP
DECLARED A DERELlcT
BY AYCoCK BROWN

Hatteras.-Best fed birds along
the coast today are those growing
fat off the cargo of unsalvageable
wheat aboard the NV Midget
which broke in two during a recent
storm off Cape Hatteras. The little
ship, flying a Panamanian flag,
finally fetched up on the Outer
Reef of Portsmouth Island after
her crew had abandoned her when
it seemed evident that she would
sink.
Not only the birds but wreckers
too have been busy removing any
thing possible from the craft. 1t
was reported here that Hatteras
fishermen among the first to board
the vessel returned with a general
cargo of articles including paint
hawsers and cigarettes. Much car
go has also been removed by resi-
dents of nearby Ocracoke, accord
ing to reports.
The master of the ship reported
ly went back aboard the Midget
briefly following her stranding to
drop the anchor which according to
maritime law made the vessel still
the property of the owners. If the
first wreckers aboard had thought
of dropping the anchor, the dere-
lict would likewise have become
their property.
Wreckers are after disable sup.
plies mainly and not the cargo OF
wheat which was aboard, it was
stated by a person who had visited
in the vicinity of the ship. AS the
wheat washes ashore, birds, by the
See SHIP, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
ROANOKE ISLAND.
C ARDEN CLUB
PLANS CAMPAIGN
Model Mile Along Highway
To Be Developed; Dump
ing of Waste on Road
side DepIored

The Roanoke Island Garden
Club, holding it's February meeting
at Seatone, spent most of it's bust
ness session in a discussion of its
two big projects, the Elizabethan
Garden and the Model Mile, both
of which are to be carried on for a
period IF several years. A letter
from Mrs. ]. M. Tyler, Editor of
the North Carolina Gardener, was
read to the club. Mrs. Tyler told of
the interest the Elizabethan Gar
den project was developing, not
only in the state of North Carolina,
but throughout the United States,
and in parts of England. The let
ter was written to all of the clubs
in North Carolina, but was of
special interest to the local club.
News that the garden clubs
throughout the state had gone for
ward generously toward raising
$4,000 dollars for the develop
ment of the garden, raised the
question in the Roanoke Island
Club as to what could be done To-
cally toward starting the clean up
of the proposed site. State garden
club members will be visiting The
Lost Colony all summer with side
interest in the site for the Eliza
bethan Garden.
The Model Mile project got it's
beginning through the appointing
of Survey Committee, by the club
president, Mrs. A. w. Drinkwater.
See CAMPAIGN, Page Five
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
VEPCO BEGINS A
NEW PROGRAM OF
HUGE EXPANSION

At meeting OF the Board OF
Directors of the Virginia Electric
and Power Company held in Rich
mond, a construction budget of APP
proved for the current year. Ex-
penditures under this budget will
proximately $50,OOO,OOO was APP
include approximately $9,650,000
for the new 10000 XIV. addition to
the Chesterfield station now under
construction for completion in
August of this year, and $10,-
568,000 for the new 10000 XIV.
Portsmouth station at Portsmouth,
Va, scheduled for completion in
February, 1868, at cost of APP
proximately $20,000,000. Improve
ments and extensions to the trans
mission network will amount to
approx tely $1O,645,Q0O,
of which approximately $5,2O0,0OO
will be spent in the Newport News
area where construction work will
include a ITO XIV. line from Ches-
terfield station to Langley Field.
Three other new 10 XIV. lines will
require the expenditure of approx
mately $2,300,000, one of which
will be built to connect service to
the cities of Greenville and Wash
ington, N. c.; a second will run
from Occoquan to Middleburg in
the Potomac District of the sys-
tenn, and the third will run from
the new Portsmouth station to a
substation near Norfolk.
An expenditure of $9,95O,0OO has
been approved for improvements
to the distribution system and for
extensions to new customers. APP
proximately $1,150,O00 will be
spent for new rural lines to serve
approximately $4,000 new rural
customers. 1t is estimated by Yep
co that as of January first $50
of the active farms in the Vepco
service territory were either be-
ing served, or had electric power
available to them. Vepco is now
serving approximately 100000 ru-
raj customers including farms and
non-farms.
In Norfolk and Newport News,
where the company provides Gas
service also, approximately $780,
900 will be spent for Gas Improve
1 ments and extensions to serve new
customers. t $685.
Other items include over ST.
100000 on the new addition to the
general offices in Richmond and
numerous smaller construction
projects throughout the system.
While the construction budget
totals about $5O,OOO,OO0 Jack G.
Holtzclaw, president Of Vepco,
feels that due to the present re-
strictions on critical materials the
amount which will actually be
spent this year will undoubtedly
be substantially below the budget
authorization.
While the work on the proposed
hydro electric development on the
Roanoke River will continue, Mr.
Holtzclaw said that the Board of
Directors has authorized no spe-
cific amount set aside for this con-
struction during the current year
due to the uncertainty of the con-
struction program.
With the completion of the new
addition to Chesterfield station
during the summer and the con-
struction of the new Portsmouth
station in 1858, the Vepco system
will have an installed capacity OF
nearly 100000 XIV. as compared
with $4,000 XIV. at the close OF
the war.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
CHICAGO VISITORS AT
KILL DEVIL HILLS

Mrs. George Frank and twin
sons, George and Michael, of The
Edgewater at Kill Devil Hills, have
returned from q visit to Chicago.
They were accompanied by Mrs.
Franks father, George Brier, and
her aunt, Miss Anna Bengston,
both of Chicago. Mr.. Frank is re-
cooperating from an attack Of virus
pneumonia which confined him to
his home for several days.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22
THE SAM TILLETTS TAKE
A VACATION IN FLORIDA

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Tillett Of
Mays Head returned Sunday from
q weeks vacation in Florida,
spending good while in Miami.
The trip consumed about $500
miles Of driving.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-22

JOHN H. MEEKINS of Colington,
celebrated his 83rd birthday at his
home on Wednesday, February Is,
with his family and friends. He
has three children, Mrs. Evelyn
Haywood, Mrs. Robanna Toler and
John o. Meekins, all Of Colington,
IL grandchildren, 8 great grand
children. His family and friends
wish him many more Happy Birth
days.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

-. or u pvffs, PalI MolI's greater length Of
fine tobueeos still svavels the smoke further
filters the smoke and mokes Il mild. Thus
PAIL MALL gives you smoothness. mildness
and satisfaction no other Cigarette offers you.
Evening star., 1952-06-22

The further your cigarette filters the smoke
through fine toboccos, the miIder sFot smoke be-
comes. Al the first puff, PAIL MAILS smoke IS
filtered further thon shot Of ony other Ieoding
cigarette.
Evening star., 1952-02-18

|tuoso technique, uncanny facility.
ia fine resilient tone. good health
and abundant fire. Yet he has
not learned for the present to curb
the latter and to release It only
when required. Instead he gets
of the course in most inappro-
pirate places, just for the momen-
Itary satisfaction the use OF. force
gives him.
His playing has only two colors:
loud and soft. Yet his mezzo-
voce can be delightful as heard in
"Rondo" of Schubert's Sonata in
ID Major. op. 53." This movement,
and Bach's Prelude and Fugue
lin A Minor" showed the pianist
at his best. the latter for the re-
markable freedom Of execution
lof the fugue and OF its voicing.