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The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
oCRACoKERS CONSIDER
LEGAL LIQUOR ISSUE
Many New Homes Being Built On
Island; Travel Wends Its
Way Up the Beach

Ocracokers along with other
citizens of Hyde County will
have the opportunity on Tuesday
March 4th, to vote for or against
the establishment of ABC stores
in Hyde county. Considerable in
terest has been shown, resulting
in increased registration for the
election, which will be held I'M
der the direction of Ansley
O'Neal and others appointed by
the Hyde County Board of Elec-
tions. In 1887 through a petition
to the North Carolina Assembly,
Ocracoke secured from the Hyde
County Commissioners a ruling
prohibiting the sale of Wine and
beer on the Island. Chief reason
given was the lack of proper po-
lice protection, since Ocracoke
suffers from time to time
through the lack of a deputy
sheriff or magistrate. There are
those at this time who sympa-
thize with the County's need for
more revenue; there are those
who feel that Ocracoke should
have legalized liquor instead OF
that brought in legally or other
wise from nearby Carteret; or
that it should be available to the
Islands summer tourist trade;
and there are many others who
will do everything in their power
to keep it off the Island.
A number of homes are under
construction at Ocracoke. Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin Howard are
building an attractive bungalow
on the Lake front; Mrs. Kelly
O'NeaI and her mother are oc-
cupying their new home on the
Navy Highway; three wings are
being added to the former Fulch.
err home, recently purchased by
Mr.. Sam Jones of Norfolk, Va
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Styron are
adding al kitchen wing to then
home.
| More and more Ocracokers are
making use of the new road uI
the Reef to Elizabeth City anc
Norfolk. Capt. and Mrs. Henry
Peele and daughter, Henrietta
drove that way this past week
With them to Norfolk went Mr.
land Mrs. William Garrish ant
Mrs. Clifton Austin, Mrs. Gar
rish will remain in Norfolk dur
ing disqualification of her sister
Mrs. Caddie Overton.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
NEW PLACE FOR
SPORTSMEN AT
OREGON INLET
Capt. Tobey TiIIett to Cater
Fishermen on South Side
of Inlet

Capt. Tobey Tillett of Wanchese,
who for more than % years operat-
ed the ferry business from its be-
ginning over Oregon Inlet, until
he sold out to the State two years
hgo, cannot get the Inlet out of his
system.
Capt, TilIett plans to return to
he Inlet soon. He is obtaining a
concession from the U. S. Fish and
|Wildlife Service to operate a small
looming house and deep sea fish
ng at the Inlet. His house will be
,wo stories high, about 32x32 feet,
With small cafe.
A smart twin motored fishing
craft for deep sea fishing is being
puilt for Capt. Tillett by Allen
Hayman of Point Harbor. He plans
o call his place "Tobey's Place."
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
FERRY SCHEDULES AIM
OF BRIDGE ASSOCIATION

Complaint about the rigging OF
ferry schedules over Alligator Riv-
er and Croatan Sound was voiced
Wednesday in Columbia at meet
ing of the Alligator-Croatan AS
ISOLATION. The complaint was the
travelling public has to submit to
a schedule rugged for the conven-
fence of the operators of the fer
ries-the travelling public be damn
ed.
There will be many more COM
plants before the summer season
begins. For people have the silly
idea that the ferries are run fol
the convenience of the public, and
not for the men hired to run them
and paid for by the taxpayers. II
will be hard to get this ridiculous
idea out of the heads of the travel
ling public.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
LAST EYEWITNESS
OF FIRST FLIGHT
TAKES OWN LIFE
John Thomas Moore, 60,
Blows Head Off With
Shotgun at coIing-
ton Thursday

The only living man in the world
who saw the first airplane flight
killed himself with a 12-gauge
shotgun blast Thursday shortly
after noon. John Thomas Moore,
who as boy of II walked through
the woods at Mays Head in 1903
to see Wilbur and Orville Wright
make their first take-off got tired
of life. Alone in a room in his
home, he killed himself. He was &c
years old.
He had been subject to periods of
dependency and mental vacancy
as the result of illness during the
past several years. Coroner Marvin
Rogers ruled it was a case of sui
eide.
He had been widely advertised,
and three years ago was a special
guest at ceremonies in Washington
when the first airplane was
brought back from England and
placed in the National Museum.
Mrs. Moore accompanied him on
the trip.
In recent years, when able to
work, he had enjoyed a good pa
tronage as a fishing guide.
His suicide occurred while his
wife was planning to attend the
funeral of her uncle, Morris Beas-
ley in Manteo. His wife, the former
Chloe Beasley survives. Also the
following children: Stanley and
Orville of Colington; John, Jr., of
Colington; Dallas of Maryland;
Mrs. Robert Daniels Of Wanchese;
Mrs. Aida Peterson, Kill Devil
Hills; Margaret Moore of Norfolk
and Ella Tillett of Lynhaven, Va.
He was the son of the late King
Solomon and Mavie Moore of Mays
Head.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
DISTRICT MEET
OF REBEKAHS IN
MANTEO THURS.
All Day Sessions With Din
ner; IL From Swan Quar-
ter, New Part Of Dis
trict

Mrs. Vernon (Lessie) Davis of
Manteo was elected District Pres
ident of the Rebekahs at their
seth session in Manteo Thursday,
which was attended by 60 people,
including IL from Swan Quarter
whose lodge will become part of
the District after May. Mrs. Olive
Cahoon of Swan Quarter is State
Vice President and spoke on be-
half of the State President with
an outline of the years program.
Swan Quarter was chosen as the
next meeting place for the District
convention.
The meeting opened at the Man.
teo Hall at IL o'clock, and was
turned over to the District Pres
ident, Mrs. Evelyn Sawyer of
Elizabeth City and other district
officers, including Mrs. Vernon
Davis of Manteo, Vice Prest; Mrs.
Nellie Owens, Treasurer, of Eliz-
abeth City and Mrs. Margaret
White of Manteo, Treasurer.
Mrs. S. G. Basnight gave the
address of Welcome. Mrs. Lois
| Midget is Noble Grand of the
Manteo Lodge. Mrs. Sue Ballowe
reported for the Manteo lodge
Mrs. Susie Bundy, for the Eliz.
abeth City lodge.
The entire party enjoyed a din.
ner at Fearing's Cafe; plates o.
seafood and chicken being served
| Mrs. A. L. lessen reported fol
the Manteo Theta Rho girls. Dis
tinguished visitors included Mrs
May Jennings, PIP, the Stat,
Treasurer of Scotland Neck; Mrs
Laura Johnson, State Marshall O.
Raleigh, Mrs. Alba Albright, Pas
State Prest. of Raleigh; Deput.
District President, Mrs. CATHERINE
Kennedy of Manteo; and Mrs. Au
drey Jordan of Raleigh.
Beside the district president
other district officers elected wer
Mrs. LESSEE Meads of Elizabet
| City, Vice-Prest; Mrs. Eta Pee
See MEET, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29

system in the building. 1t was with
much pride that the citizens of
Wanchese noted that in the report
of the Grand Jury for the Fall
Term of Superior Court that spec
ial mention was made of the good
condition of Wanchese School
House. The present teachers are
Mrs. Royden Tillett, Mrs. Pete
Daniels and Mrs. Milan Meellins.
If the writer is correct the bonds
that were issued to build the pres
ent building amounted to $4,000
and Special Tax rate of soc on
the $1.00 and 90e on each poll in
Wanchese, was set up to take care
of this obligation and it is the
pride of the people of Wanchese
that today none of this is outstand-
ing and that they have sch6ol
plant well worth $4,000.
In closing it might be well to
mention some of those who have
done so much in shaping the fu-
ture of the school children in Wan
cheese by reason of the fact that
they have taught school in this
community and are still remember
ed by every one. To mention few
the writer remembers the follow
ing: C. r. Taylor, Mr.. Farnell, C.
R. Pugh, l. P. Davis, John Hamil-
ton, Mr.. Roe, Mr.. Pearson, Mrs.
Milan Meekins, Mrs. Roydan Til
lett, Mrs. Pete Daniels, Miss Rosa
Langston, Miss Sophorona Langs-
ton, Miss Hattie Taylor (now Lew
isl, Miss Emile Taylor (now Saw
age), Miss Dora Taylor (now Rid
dick).
There were others who helped to
carry on the school work in Wan
cheese and due credit is given them
even though we fail to remember
their names and list them in this
news item.
The folks in Wanchese take
great pride in their churches and
school, knowing them to be insti-
buttons Of spiritual and physical
as well as educational training.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29

on each side and the upper part OF
the building was used as lodge
hall from the year 1908, the year
the late Governor Charles B. Ay-
cock put on a drive in the State
for better and more schools fol-
both races. 1t was his proud ambi-
ton and he did succeed, to build q
school house each day in a year
AS one can see from the record
the directors Of the Wanchese
Academy beat the Governor to il
by about eight years-the building
we are now talking about was
known as Crow Hill College-it got
it's name by reason of the abun-
dance of crows that roasted in a
nearby swamp and each morning,
so the writer has been told, you
could not sleep after sunrise when
these crows would begin their
morning songs. This building serv-
ed the community for a period of
81 years, then the folks demanded
a bigger and better building. In
1921 a movement was started to
build the present building to serve
as Junior High School, and with
six class rooms. As the years went
by and due to changes in the school
system in the State the children in
the 9th grade and up were moved
to Manteo thereby leaving only the
grammar grades at Wanchese. AS
was to be expected this did not
meet with the approval of the par
ents so they started out to stop
this move. Trips were made to
Raleigh, N. c., time after time but
in the end the people had to sub
init to higher authorities. AS time
went by every one seemed to get
pacified and today there is a
stronger and better feeling be-
tween the communities Of Manteo
and Wanchese than ever as a re-
suit Of this consolidation.
At this time there are three
teachers in the school and the
State is installing $1,000 heating
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
GRAVEYARD of ATLANTIC
TITLE OF NEW BOOK
University Press To Publish Vol
ume By David Stick In
June
By AYCOCK BROWN

David Sticks new book "Grave-
yard of the Atlantic" which for
the first time will tell in easy to
read style the stories of hundreds
of shipwrecks along the North
Carolina coast from Currituck to
Cape Fear will be published in
June by University of North Caro-
lima Press
In its current brochure "Books
from Chapel Hill, for Spring
1852, Sticks volume, illustrated
with sketches by his artist father
Frank Stick, gets first mention.
'This is the story of hundreds
of dramatic losses, thrilling res
cues, and violent adventures at this
tempestuous meeting place of
northern and southern winds and
waters. Though carefully docu-
mented, it is written with the pace
of fiction and boasts as exciting a
cast of characters as ever trod or
lived on the edge of the sea-" re-
ports the brochure.
"Here are tales of Bankers who
made. their living on salvage; of
pilots, law officers, and life-sav-
ers; of the horse that waded a.
shore; of the Civil War blockade;
of cannibalism; and of the wilful
wrecking of a ship in good wealth
err. From. the early sailing ships
that foundered on the shoals to the
modern oil tankers that exploded
with Nazi torperoes in their sleek
hulls, these stories span the fate
of 600 or more ships"
To get the facts for his book
Stick, long time resident of Kill
Devil Hills, checked the hearsay
stories with official or printed re-
cords. Therefore the wrecks he has
written about actually happened
and did not develop from legends
in this legendary North Caroline
capes country.
Frank Stick, father of the au-
thor, native of New Jersey, has
also been a resident of Kitty Hawk
area for many years. He is nation
ally known as an artist and is cur
rently painting a series of fishes
in their natural color and habitat
for a Forthcoming volume.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
iROMINENT WOMAN DIES
II CAPE HATTERAS MON.

Mrs. Chloe Midget Barnett, age
3, died Monday afternoon after a
|gering illness. She was a native
i Salvo but has been living in
|uxton most of her life. She was a
|eInber of the Buxton Methodist
|hurch and wife of Capt: Walter
Barnett, both of whom are ex-
optional citizens of the county and
immunity leaders and workers.
er father was the late Oliver
|idgett, of the famed family of
ildren of Bannister Midget, Sr.,
Salvo.
Besides her husband, she is sur
we'd BY A sons: J. D. and Ran
Slph Barnett of Norfolk, Virginia,
rvis Barnett of Buxton and Har-
d K. Barnett of Avon; two
lighters, Mrs. Thelma GRAY and
RS. Irene Midget, both of Bux-
n; two brothers, Mr.. C. c. and
E. N. w. Midget of Nor folk,
sginia; two sisters, Mrs. w. N.
Agett and Mrs. j. L. Lewis, both
Norfolk, Virginia; eight grand
ildren. five great grandchildren,
veral nieces and nephews.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
FATHERS URGED TO
ATTEND PTA MEETING
Special Program and Social Hour
Will Be Features Tuesday
Night

Fathers of pupils attending the
Manteo school are especially urged
to be present Tuesday evening,
March A, when the Parent-Teacher
Association will hold it's monthly
meeting. The attendance prize for
the evening will go to the grade
having the most fathers present.
A three-act play, under the di-
rection of Mrs. G. G. Bonner, will
be feature of the program. A So
cial hour will follow.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29

tables that are high in vitamin c.
Most of our diets are low in this
vitamin. Here are several vege-
tables to put at the head of your
list. Leafy greens such as cab
bage (the greener the better), col
lards, lettuce Especially leaf let
tuce), kale, mustard and other
greens, tomatoes, cantaloupes and
sweet potatoes.
Watermelon
We wondered how Cousin Frank
could always have ripe watermel-
ons ahead of US. Finally one day /
discovered his secret. found him
replanting his patch before the
first seed had chance to come up.
At first, i thought he was crazy,
but when he broke down and told
me his story / knew he was smart.
Here is what he did: about q
See PRICES, Page Eight
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29

In the early 1905 there was a
small building located at Wan
cheese, used as a combined church
and school building, located on the
west side of the old main road lead
ing north from Wanchese. In an
interview with Uncle Lum Midget,
who is now Sc years old, the writ
er finds that he attended this
school when a boy about seven or
eight years, so we are led to be-
lieve that the building must have
been there at least 25 years or
more ahead of that, so 100 years
seems not out of line.
When this building had served
its purpose the people of Wanchese
decided that they wanted more and
better school facilities, SO they
built two buildings, one known as
the Hooker School House, located
on the west side of the Island not
far from the Old Spencer Hooker
Home, and one known as the Mill
Landing School House, located
where the home of Ivey Daniels is
now located. These buildings serv-
ed their time and generation and
as the number of school children
increased there was a demand for
better school facilities so in the
year 1895. according to the records
in the Office of the Register of
Deeds, a group of men, at Wan
cheese, formed what was known as
the Wanchese Academy Associa-
ton with the following as board
of directors:
B. T. Daniels, C. B. Daniels, VIM.
S. C. Pugh, L. N. Midget, G. C.
Daniels, w. L. Meelins and e. r.
Daniels. These men got a deed
from Joseph w. Hnyman, living at
Sk~co at that time.s for one acre
of land out of the Lewis Midget
Tract, the deed is recorded in Book
E, page Ill, and built what is now
thA rFa->~;~ rs-l -'a h1iIdinc was
two stories hsrA. rrish I sn.@ll -oo:.,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
WASHINGTON EDITOR
VISITS CAPE HATTERAS
Convinced That Citrus Fruit Grows
In Cape Iatteras Area; Sees
Plants Set Out

Paul Harmon, predate editor
of Washington D. c. Times Her
aid is at least convinced that cit
rus fruit grows on Cape Hatteras.
On his first trip to the Cape Hat
teras region last week he
saw tire e-ripened grapefruit
on the tree in Mrs. Maud Whites
yard which started from a seed
and grew to a height of 20 feet
or more.
l have published some of
those pictures you sent out show
ing pretty girls under trees laden
with oranges, but still it did not
seem exactly real to a person who
thinks of oranges growing in the
terms of Florida or California"
he told a newspaperman here,
Nov / am convinced"
The Harmons visit(he was ac-
companied by Mrs. HARMONY was
on the weekend that 100 or more
additional orange and grapefruit
plants were being distributed to
the residents of Cape Hateras
by Mrs. White and Ben Dixon
MacNeill. The plants had been
sent by the department of Con-
servation and Development. Fred
Latham of Belhaven, long time
friend of the Outer Banks, and
member of the Conservation
Board had been responsible for
sending the plants here but ILL
ness prevented him from being
present for the distribution, so he
had enlisted the aid of Mrs. White
and MacNeill. About 200 plants
had been sent last year, and
those added to other plants ac-
CURED by residents of lower Hat
teras Island or started from seed
brought the total number of
orange trees, young and old, to
several hundred in the Avon,
Cape Hatteras-B Buxton, Frisco
and Hatteras communities on
lower Hatteras Island.
On their trip to the Outer
Banks last week end, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harmon not only saw the
last grapefruit on Mrs. Whites
tree that had produced several
dozen this year, but others, in
Guiding the orange tree in Mrs.
Loren Barnett's yard which
started itself from table scraps
thrown to a pen filled with pigs
by her late husband back in the
1905.
They were present when Chief
Warrant Officer Cyrus Gray,
group commander of the Halter
as Coast Guard stations set out
a tree in the yard of his new
home close by the famous light
house. They were also present
when MacNeill delivered Mrs.
Rovenia DUDLEY, 90-year Old
Buxton midwife another tree.
She proudly pointed out two cit
rus fruit trees she had set out IN
her yard last year which have
thrived in the rich soil and mod
crate Gulf stream climate 81 the
Cape country.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
OCRACOKE TO HAVE A
JUSTICE OF PEACE

Hyde County's happy island Of
Ocracoke which has little to do
with courts of the law, is going to
have Justice of the Peace. Har-
vey Wahab, who was retired from
the Coast Guard service last Sep
TENDER, has recently been appoint
ed by the Governor, and is due to
qualify before Clerk of the Court
Melvin Swindell at Swan Quarter
soon,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
Oh CRADDOCK HAS NEW
WIFE AND A NEW BOAT

Iugh Craddock of Manns Har-
well known all over the N. c.
st. on George Washington's
|hdav took to wife Miss Mary
e Twiford of East Lake. the
ghter of Mr.. ard Mrs. Lurdv
ford. The conple have settled
m at the old Craddock bone-
e after weddine trim. They
married in Cclumhis nv Rev.
p. Poue. Bantis+ minfs+er.
Rpt. Hugh Craddock is having
tructed lar0e new nartv hca+
Stewart Midget. the ablest
bnildinp expevt in nine conn
The Mary Jane is built for
sea fishing. and will be in
ice about May.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
VARIETY SHOW MARCH 6
AT MANTEO SCHOOL

A Variety Show will be present
ed at Manteo High School on
March 6, at 8 p. m. This show is
sponsored by the Junior Class and
the proceeds will go for the Jun
ior-Senior banquet. The prices are
twenty-five and fifty cents. The
high-light of this program will be
a one-act play entitled Balcony
Scene" and is the one which the
talented Juniors are entering in
the Play Festival at Greenville on
March 9th. This will be the first
time that Manteo will be repre-
sented in the Play Festival.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
VIEW SPONSORS SQUARE
DANCE SAT-, MARCH I

The Lazy River Boys will APP
pear in person at the WV spon-
sored square dance at the Manteo
High School Gymnasium from 9
to l pm. Saturday night, March
1. Admission will be $3.50 per cou-
pie. Stays 81; ladies free. Dare
County WV Post $3.50 is raising
funds for carrying on its work,
and planning for a new home.
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
Wo DARE co. GIRLS
~ THEIR NURSES CAPS

Two Dare County girls this week
We won their nurses caps in cere-
mics in Raleigh and Norfolk.
SIS Betty Krider at Rex Hospital,
leigh. and Miss Mary Helen Best
De Paul Hospital in Norfolk.
SIS Krider is the daughter of Mr..
h Mrs. John Krider of Manteo.
IS Best is the daughter of Mr..
J Mrs. Bob Best of Kitty Hawk.
,arding of the caus signifies the
Is have successfully passed their
it six months of training and
accepted into the school of
+sing.
Mss Elizabeth Sutton of Ayd-
also won a cap at De Paul,
The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1952-02-29
HIGHER PRICES
MAKE GARDENS
NECESSITY NOW
Dare Farm Agent Advises
Planting of Gardens; Ad-
vice on Ornamentals
By r. s. SMITH
Dare County Agent
Eruife and Vegatahlos

A good garden this year is going
to be almost a necessity. Food
prices are high, and even though
vegetables are the cheapest foods
in the store, they still cost money
that most of us need for something
else.
In planning our gardens, let's
give preferences to those vege-
Evening star., 1952-03-17
Negro S Home and Another
Rented 10 One Are Blasted
BY the Assoeioied Press

LOS ANGELES, Mar. 1.-TWO
bomb blasts set off simultaneously
by timing devices heavily dam
aged a home occupied by a Negro
family and another across the
street that is soon to be rented to
Negroes.
The explosions early yesterday
rocked the neighborhood but in
jured no one.
The Negro family. William Bal
ley, 33, a teacher; his wife Villa
30, and their son William. IL. were
asleep when the blast wrecked
their living and dining rooms. Mr.
Bailey said they have lived in the
house since January and have re-
ceived no threats. Police said,
however. the former owner had
been warned not to sell the prop
erty to Negroes.
In the other house were Ralph
Martinez. 20, film studio worker,
and John w. Potts. 80. restaurant
owner. They said they were plan
ming to move out shortly so a
Negro family could move in.
Negro families have been living
in the Dunsmuir avenue area for
a year, police said.