The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1953-11-06
GOOD NEWS AND HARMONY
MARKS SOUTH ALBEMARLE
18TH RALLY WEDNESDAY
Some 200 People in Manteo from Six Counties
Hear Senator Alton Lennon Say Fine
Things, and Commissioner WinsIOw Pre-
dict Great Advances Soon.


years of achievement since it was
organized in Columbia in 1885
with a handful in attendance the
Southern Albemarle Association
celebrated birthday and looked
ahead, notably in the vision Of
youthful Senator Alton Lennon
and Highway Commissioner En-
met Winslow to what things are
likely to be like when the organi-
cation comes to its 36th anniver-
sary along in the fall of the year
1871.
Where a handfuI attended in a
corner of the court room in Co
lumbia in 1885 a throng gathered
to virtually fill the Pioneer
theatre in Manteo Wednesday
morning when President Law
renee Swain called the meeting
to order and Melvin Daniels,
miraculously recovering since he
heard there was to be a bridge
over Croatan, arose to proclaim
! Dare county's welcome and
again, little later, to present
Senator Lennon. Between times
| there was Mr.. Winslow.
{ And this present meeting had
| qualities that will lend it re-
membrance for things other
| than looking backward to 1885
and forward to 1871. None who
crowded the theatre will likely
soon forget that this was the
first county appearance of the
youthful Senator Lennon. He had
| no red carnation in his button
hole and he wears almost a crew.
cut for his hair-and he was very
young, very robust-and he talk
ed sound sense very pleasantly
Senator Lennon will be some
thing to remember.
So also will Emmett Winslow
be something to remember. He
stated categorically, on the per-
sonal assurance of Governor
William B. Umstead, that people
in great and increasing numbers
would be driving across Croatan
Sound over a completed bridge
before the end of the Umstead
administration, which still has
three years and two months to
go. Work, Mr.. Winslow assured
the gathering, will be underway
on the bridge by next summer
and it should be complete by
| midsummer of 1856.
Nor was that all. He declared
that negotiations are afoot for
the acquisition of second ferry
to be used as standby at Oregon
Inlet and to be used when traffic
requires it. He declared that it
was his belief, now, that traffic
over Oregon Inlet would be
doubled by next summer and he
divulged, for the first time, &C
tual traffic figures for the Croa-
tan and Oregon Inlet, for the
month of August. The figures:
Croatan Ferry-45,000 passen-
gers.
| Alligator River Ferry-20,00C
passengers.
| Oregon Inlet Ferry-3O,0OC
passengers.
| And here the Southern Abe
marie Association saw new OBJ.
| jective-bridges enough to take
care of all the traffic, ovel
sounds, rivers and inlets. Mr.
Winslow said they would come
because they will have to come
This was also the first public
session of speech-making that Mr.
Winslow has had a hand il
around this section since he was
appointed by Governor Umstead
to be highway commissioner las
May-and it was also the frs
time that most of the counties in
the Albemarle Association are
now, by re-districting-allotte
to the First Division.
| Delegates began assembling fol
the meeting soon after the frs
ferries locked on Roanoke Islanc
and the north side of the Inlet
which was early and they were
still arriving when the meeting
got underway, delayed a little
at the theatre. Senator Lennon
and Mr.. Winslow were among the
early arrivals and if there was {
hand left mistaken or anybody
overlooked with his really amaz
ingly infectious smile, no account
has been made of it.
President Swain presided anc
since Mayor Martin kellogg wa:
off the Island unavoidably, hi
served through the morning SEES
sion in that capacity. Melvir
Daniels, he said, was about deac
and a source of worry to hi
friends everywhere but that will
the announcement that a bridg,
was to be built he had begun t,
recover. Further announcement
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